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“Approximately ten thousand of these women succeed in having their abortions performed legally in a hospital;7 the rest go to illegal practitioners in the United States or leave the country to seek abortion where it is more readily available.”
― Nancy Howell Lee, The Search for an Abortionist: The Classic Study of How American Women Coped with Unwanted Pregnancy before Roe v. Wade

“while the abortion rate is higher for unmarried women, married women, especially those who have had all the children they choose to have, probably obtain the majority of all abortions.12 Estimates of the proportion of married women among abortion seekers vary from 40 to 90 percent.13 Nor is abortion exclusively or even primarily an activity of one social class or another. Substantial numbers of both rich and poor women are known to obtain abortions.”
― Nancy Howell Lee, The Search for an Abortionist: The Classic Study of How American Women Coped with Unwanted Pregnancy before Roe v. Wade

“The pill” was first approved for prescription use in the United States in June 1960. By 1967, an estimated five million American women were taking the pills every month.4”
― Nancy Howell Lee, The Search for an Abortionist: The Classic Study of How American Women Coped with Unwanted Pregnancy before Roe v. Wade

“The vast majority of women, however, have to locate a specialist in abortion, an illegal practitioner who is willing to take the risks of breaking the law.”
― Nancy Howell Lee, The Search for an Abortionist: The Classic Study of How American Women Coped with Unwanted Pregnancy before Roe v. Wade