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Major Problems Ch. 15: Key Organizations - Coggle Diagram
Major Problems Ch. 15: Key Organizations
Association to Appeal Abortion Laws (ARAL)
created by Patricia Maginnis and her comrades
helped to make women aware of their options for relatively safe illegal abortion providers in the US and overseas
confidential, no records were kept
by 1970 they had helped 12,000+ women obtain illegal abortions outside the US
Society for Humane Abortion (SHA)
decriminalization of abortion in medical practice, destigmatize abortion, make it a common medical procedure
women's rights and healthcare are synonymous
Citizen's Committee for Humane Abortion Laws (Society for Humane Abortion)
founded in 1962 by Maginnis
supported mostly by white working women in San Francisco Bay Area
Clergy Consultation Service (CCS)
similar to Jane in Chicago, provided an underground, secret network for women to obtain safe abortions
used a religious base to assert the legitimacy of abortion and the need for legislation, recommended that women speak to a clergy member before obtaining an abortion (seen as patronizing)
Planned Parenthood, Young Woman's Christian Association, National Organization for Women followed in making abortion referrals
National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO)
coordinated a protest to amendments to the SS act that would raise eligibility standards and lessen benefits to low-income mothers
mobilized to change the effects of poverty
Etta Horn, first vice chairwoman
battled through the 1970s, on the doorstep of the White House in DC