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Also Known As pregnancy termination • induced abortion
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Harry A. Blackmun
Harry A. Blackmun
United States jurist
Norma McCorvey and Gloria Allred
Norma McCorvey
American activist
Warren E. Burger
Warren E. Burger
chief justice of United States
Madame Restell
American abortionist

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