From The Vault: We Have Had Abortions (Spring 1972)

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From The Vault: We Have Had Abortions (Spring 1972)
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Ms. published 'We Have Had Abortions' in its first issue, with 53 American women signing an abortion petition and telling abortion stories.

50 YEARS OF Ms.: THE BEST OF THE PATHFINDING MAGAZINE THAT IGNITED A REVOLUTION. has been at the forefront in tackling some of the biggest challenges in the fight for gender equality. In what. published “We Have Had Abortions” in its first issue, featuring the signatures of 53 prominent American women.of a woman covered in blood on a motel room floor, dead from a back-alley abortion, as a memorial to the countless numbers who died or suffered because of illegal and unsafe abortions ..

To many American women and men it seems absurd, in this allegedly enlightened age, that we should still be arguing for a simple principle: that a woman has the right to sovereignty over her own body. Still, there are tragically few places in the country where a woman can obtain an abortion without the expense and deception of conforming to inhuman laws, or the expense and physical danger of going outside the law.

To save lives and to spare other women the pain of socially-imposed guilt, 53 respected women residents in the United States have volunteered to begin the American Women’s Petition by signing the statement below. Our purpose is not to alienate or to ask for sympathy, but to repeal archaic and inhuman laws. Because of the social stigma still wrongly attached to abortion, many women in public life, or with husbands in public life, have felt unable to join us.

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