“The present war has fanned the abortion racket from a flame to a blaze. Now it’s a nation-wide problem. Every large city knows precisely whats going on. Some cities appear apathetic, but others are waging a grim campaign to smoke out the wartime abortionists and send them to prison. In most states, the patients, too, can be imprisoned and a woman undergoing an illegal abortion, or awaiting her turn in the anteroom, risks a sudden raid by police – or else having her name discovered, months later, in the abortionist’s office records.”


Additional primary source articles concerning abortion can be read here…

Read The Growing Popularity of Abortions<br>(Collier’s Magazine, 1944) for Free

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