{"id":13356,"date":"1997-02-01T16:15:00","date_gmt":"1997-02-02T00:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=13356"},"modified":"2023-01-27T16:20:50","modified_gmt":"2023-01-28T00:20:50","slug":"abortion-and-our-changing-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=13356","title":{"rendered":"Abortion and our changing society"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Douglas Waugh<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"171\" height=\"230\" src=\"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/cmaj.jpg\" alt=\"Canadian Medical Association Journal, CMAJ\" class=\"wp-image-11269\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Canadian Medical Association Journal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Extract<\/strong><br> When I was a medical student in the early \u201840s, and for a considerable time after that, the artificial termination of pregnancy was considered an unspeakable crime. . . . No one knew for certain how widespread the practice was, but enough patients turned up in emergency departments or in the morgue for us to know it was going on, and to arouse the ire and indignation of society\u2019s moralists. . . . The credit for bringing the revolution about certainly belongs to Dr. Henry Morgentaler, but it is clear that Canada\u2019s social climate had been changing slowly for several years before he defied the law by opening his first abortion clinic in Montreal . . . True, the anti-abortion campaign is not yet dead, but its force has become so attenuated the impact is limited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Waugh D. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC1226967\/pdf\/cmaj_156_3_408.pdf\">Abortion and our changing society<\/a>. Can Med Assoc J. 1997 Feb 01;156(3):408. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Douglas Waugh Extract When I was a medical student in the early \u201840s, and for a considerable time after that, the artificial termination of pregnancy was considered an unspeakable crime. . . . 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