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Abortions have risen threefold in Ontario hospitals within a year
Abortions have risen threefold in Ontario hospitals within a year

Abortions have risen threefold in Ontario hospitals within a year

Date3/17/1972
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Original Toronto Star caption: Abortions have risen threefold in Ontario hospitals within a year. At the Toronto office of the Association for the Repeal of Canadian Abortion Laws. Mrs. Ruth Evans (left) and Nurse Phyllis Curry report 60 per cent of the women coming to them did not practise contraception.
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