"The custom of procuring abortions has reached such appalling proportions in America as to be beyond belief... So great is the misery of the working classes that seventeen abortions are committed in every one hundred pregnancies."
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Atheists from the United StatesAnti-war activistsAnti-Stalinist leftWomen activists from the United StatesAnarcho-communists
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"Mother Earth" (1911)
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Emma Goldman
1869 β 1940
US-amerikanische Friedensaktivistin, Feministin und Anarchistin
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