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as an as an office procedure was for two reasons. One is to challenge the California law on abortion. And now with the I appeared yesterday in U. S. District court in the clerk's office and with my lawyer. Mr moses berman from santa ana. We are challenging

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the district attorney, the santa ana police and we're taking the California abortion law directly to the federal courts and trying to get it ruled unconstitutional. And this is the main purpose of my endeavor in the clinic in West L. A. And uh in my stand that

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doctors should be able to do abortions as an office procedure. Uh The the other point and the point of the speakers that was made here today is is that all economics aside doing abortions in a doctor's office. If the dr is qualified and using the latest

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techniques, it's a perfectly safe it's a perfectly safe medical procedure. The hospitals now there just aren't enough beds and surgery facilities available to do all of the abortions on demand that should be done by doctors Up until and it's been my experience up until at least

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10 weeks and with good training and a lot of experience probably up 12-14 weeks. A doctor can terminate these pregnancies safely in his office. Dr Henry The atmosphere in this area is a bit different I would suspect than it is in your area. Oklahoma. What's what's

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your feeling about this whole dispute. Well I have been doing abortions illegally in Oklahoma for years, about eight years ago is when they busted me. And since then I have been working for what is happening here today attempting to get rid of these laws so that

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other doctors I'm not able to but other doctors will be able to perform abortions when a woman wants it done. I worked that way on my own all the time. And we hear today is the first time that I know of Mrs Fallon has said where

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doctors got together and publicly discussed how to do abortions. I think we're progressing rapidly. Well this is the oldest method of birth control in the world. And still the communist, even though we don't like to talk about it, abortion is a status crime. Well to do

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women have always had abortions when they needed them. Any woman with 500 to $1000 can get A. D. N. C. Which is an abortion in this area between 95 o'clock. The woman who dies or the woman who suffers is the underprivileged woman. This is where the

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mortality and morbidity lie with a woman that already has five or six Children and perhaps a sick husband or his head of household and cannot tolerate another pregnancy. And she has no money. That is the purpose of this meeting is public education to prove medically uh

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substantiated by medical men talking to other medical men that the thing that has been built up into a great monstrous procedure that is required to be in hospital. That is supposed to be sort of a junior heart transplant is, in fact, a minimal surgery.