Under Din of Abortion Debate, an Experience Shared Quietly. John Leland.
by Leland, John; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 20Human Relations. Publisher: New York Times, 2005ISSN: 1522-3248;.Subject(s): Abortion | Abortion -- Law and legislation | Abortion -- Moral and ethical aspects | Abortion -- Religious aspects | Abortion services | Women -- AttitudesDDC classification: 050 Summary: "More than 25 million Americans have had abortions since the Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton in 1973. Often kept secret, even from close friends or family members, the experience cuts across all income levels, religions, races, lifestyles, political parties and marital circumstances. Though abortion rates have been falling since 1990, to their lowest level since the mid-1970's, abortion remains one of the most common surgical procedures for women in America. More than one in five pregnancies end in abortion." (NEW YORK TIMES) This article profiles how "in Little Rock (Arkansas) on an August [2005] weekend, 26 women from as far away as Oklahoma joined the more than one million American women who will probably have abortions this year. Their experiences, at one of only two clinics in the state, offer a ground-level view of abortion in 2005, a landscape altered by shifts in technology, law, demographics and the political climate."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Under Din of Abortion Debate, an Experience Shared Quietly, Sept. 18, 2005; pp. 1+.
"More than 25 million Americans have had abortions since the Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton in 1973. Often kept secret, even from close friends or family members, the experience cuts across all income levels, religions, races, lifestyles, political parties and marital circumstances. Though abortion rates have been falling since 1990, to their lowest level since the mid-1970's, abortion remains one of the most common surgical procedures for women in America. More than one in five pregnancies end in abortion." (NEW YORK TIMES) This article profiles how "in Little Rock (Arkansas) on an August [2005] weekend, 26 women from as far away as Oklahoma joined the more than one million American women who will probably have abortions this year. Their experiences, at one of only two clinics in the state, offer a ground-level view of abortion in 2005, a landscape altered by shifts in technology, law, demographics and the political climate."
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