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Abortion as a “Medical Problem Br
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Table of Contents Acknowledgements
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Abbreviations ACCL - American Citiz
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this first neighborhood grassroots
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in New York, California, and Colora
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is a unique and important one to te
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major factors led to MCCL’s victo
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Well before Blackmun’s 1972 Mayo
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Chapter 1: The Pre-History of the C
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practice. The law as it stands is t
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would have functioned independently
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instances also increased awareness
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threat of abortion criminalization
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the actions of new twentieth-centur
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of the MCLTP. 3 In the early 1970s,
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from the Great Depression in its se
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underestimated his opponents, as MC
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who shared a “communitarian ethic
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However, the Council did not offer
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issue-based and activist politics f
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Blake and Fred Mecklenburg and lobb
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yet united front against abortion l
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anti-abortion movement, but also be
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emerging organizations across the c
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the 1970s, and an additional thirte
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When news of Roe and Doe broke, MCC
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their efforts prior to the decision
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the part of state groups and create
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physical space in Minneapolis and r
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58 of them were enacted. 37 Even fo
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looms as a menace to all mankind an
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War.” 56 President Gerald Ford di
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the 1976 Republican Party Platform,
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