In 1972 the MS magazine premier issue did an historic thing: they published a petition in which 53 women declared they had abortions. At this time abortion was neither safe nor legal. And it certainly was not rare. It was frequently painful, since anesthesia and pain medicine may or may not have been available.
The woman having an abortion may have been blindfolded and taken to a location where someone, hopefully a sympathetic doctor, would perform the "procedure". After a very short recovery time, haven been given a few illegal pain meds, she might have been blindfolded and taken close to her home where she had to walk in and pretend, "Gee, Mom and Dad I'm just having a very bad period." At least that's what my friend "Jeannie" had to do in her freshman year of high school.
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