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A sick woman in a squalid rear tenement, so wretched and so pitiful that, in all the years since, I have not seen anything more appealing, determined me, within half an hour, to live on the East…
Contributor:
Lillian Wald
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1915
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This excerpt from Kate Simon’s Bronx Primitive: Portraits in Childhood explores the controversial and secretive decision many immigrant women made to get an abortions, and the means of obtaining one.
Contributor:
Kate Simon
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1982