This image is from the January 1982 publication of a newspaper called New Women’s Times. This specific section is titled “Abortion Briefs” and it contains six statements of varying severity on the limited access that women had to abortion clinics. It depicts the measures some women took in order to ensure that they would not have to have children. Many of the separate statements articulate how “anti-abortion bills [were] passed” or how there were bans on “state-funded abortions” – all indicating that people other than those who are pregnant were dictating the rules and regulations that must be followed.
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[Image courtesy of UR’s River Campus Libraries Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation]
-MF