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Wendy Wolfson's avatar

Chessen was astute and more courageous than many people. It may take another epidemic like Zika to get these laws restored. I would hope not. But our public health infrastructures have been eviscerated. Those women who can will go underground, just like the respectable midwestern ladies of my mothers time, aided by their ministers and rabbis.

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This seems a bit sanctimonious to me. Ablest language or not, about 50 percent of babies exposed to thalidomide during a critical period of gestation simply died of heart defects. Rubella caused heartbreaking neurological damage as well.

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