ABSTRACT
In the 1960s the Army of Three included Patricia Maginnis, a medical technician, Rowena Gurner, a Bay area activist, and Lana Clarke Phelan, a Long Beach, California secretary and housewife, hoped to eliminate abortion laws altogether. In 1967 an abortion reform bill had been passed in California yet legal abortions were still difficult to procure. If a hospital Therapeutic Abortion Committee (TAC) could not be convinced to grant permission to a woman seeking an abortion, she would have to find one illegally. This chapter deals another important case study was a group in Chicago officially known as The Abortion Counseling Service of Women's Liberation, but more informally referred to as Jane. Organized in 1969. A contemporary case study is Women on Waves, a non-profit organization founded by Dr. Rebecca Gomperts in the Netherlands in 1999. Their website declares: Every 8 minutes somewhere in the world a woman die needless as a result of illegal, unsafe abortion.
