Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement
An On-line Archival Collection
Special Collections Library, Duke University
Brooklyn, NY: Health Organizing Collective of Women's Health & Abortion
Project, [1973].
Images from this item:
Page 1 includes a diagram
of women's reproductive system and a chart outlining the common methods of
abortion.
Page 2 covers knowing
you're pregnant & where to go; also defines menstrual extraction and
vacuum aspiration abortion methods.
Page 3 discusses before the
abortion procedure, getting couseling, and routine tests.
Page 4 describes the abortion
procedure with illustrations of medical instruments used.
Page 5 continues a description of
the procedure and outlines possible complications.
Page 6 continues possible
complications and describes aftercare.
Page 7 discusses social and politcal issues to be considered in relation to the medical aspects.
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