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Endnotes
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Introduction
1. Cynthia Gorney, Articles of Faith: A Frontline History of the Abortion Wars (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998), 278.
2. Suzanne Staggenborg, The Pro-Choice Movement: Organization and Activism in the Abortion Conflict (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991), 57.
3. Gorney, Articles of Faith, 246.
4. Gorney, Articles of Faith, 278.
5. See Document 12.
6. See Document 12.
7. David J. Garrow, Liberty and Sexuality: The Right to Privacy and the Making of Roe v. Wade (New York: MacMillan Publishing Company, 1994), 617.
8. Gorney, Articles of Faith, 107.
9. Gorney, Articles of Faith, 335.
10. Gorney, Articles of Faith, 334.
11. Gorney, Articles of Faith, 177.
12. Garrow, Liberty and Sexuality, 624-626.
13. See Document 4.
14. The Alan Guttmacher Institute, Abortion: Need, Services and Policies, Missouri (New York: The Alan Guttmacher Institute, 1979), 29.
15. Mulhauser, Karen, "Congressional Activities" in Abortion in the Seventies: Proceedings of the Western Regional Conference on Abortion, ed. Warren M. Hern and Bonnie Andrikopoulos (New York: National Abortion Federation, 1977), 225.
16. See Document 11.
17. Garrow, Liberty and Sexuality, 629.
18. See Document 21.
19. Staggenborg, The Pro-Choice Movement, 72.
20. See Document 7.
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21. As a young lawyer in St. Louis, Frank Susman took Rogers v. Danforth, the case that challenged Missouri's abortion laws in 1970 (see Document 12). Following 1970, Susman immediately became involved in the abortion rights campaign in St. Louis, and on a national level. Eventually, he defended Reproductive Health Services, the lead plaintiff in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services, the landmark 1989 U.S. Supreme Court case that threatened legal abortion rights.
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22. The comparison of abortion to the medical violence of Nazi Germany was also a theme of the national anti-abortion movement. At the annual March for Life in Washington D.C., signs read Innocents Slain by Abortion or Nazis Killed Jews. In Gorney, Articles of Faith, 246.
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23. Gorney, Articles of Faith, 120.
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24. Samuel Lee began his anti-abortion activism as a Theology student at St. Louis University. Lee became impassioned with the right-to-life movement and found himself in jail for committing acts of civil disobedience against legal abortion. Upon his release, he has lobbied legislators in Jefferson City, Missouri's state capitol. Ultimately, Lee was responsible for the abortion bill which was the center of the U.S. Supreme Court case, Webster v. Reproductive Health Services, in 1989.
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25. Prior to legal abortion, Judith (Judy) Widdicombe utilized her nursing background to facilitate underground abortions in Missouri. She set up Reproductive Health Services (RHS), the first abortion clinic in Missouri following Roe v. Wade. RHS was the centerpiece of the 1989 U.S. Supreme Court case, Webster v. Reproductive Health Services. Widdicombe also co-founded the National Abortion Federation.
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