Lives at risk Women who battled for right to abortion in 70s prepare to fight again
May 13, 2022
2 minutes
By Miranda Bryant
t was over the Thanksgiving holiday, catching up with old high school friends, that Frances Beal heard that Cordelia had died. Just like the now 82-year-old Black feminist and activist, her friend had gone to college, but she didn’t make it through her first year because, like anybody who wanted to terminate a pregnancy in the US in 1958, she had to undergo a backstreet
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