Maginnis, Patricia Therese
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Women’s abortion coalition.
A panel discussion on abortion with members of the Women’s Abortion Coalition (WAC), a Bay Area group composed of women from various women’s groups. The group discusses their efforts to liberalize abortion laws, the implications of the People v. Barksdale decision, the putative effects of abortion law repeal, abortion techniques, contraception, sterilization, and the WAC’s…
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The New woman / introduced by George Frankenstein.
A panel discussion on the subject of “the new woman,” with Stephanie Mills of Planned Parenthood, Mimi Kaprolat of the National Organization for Women (NOW), Patricia “Pat” Maginnis of the Association to Repeal Aborton Laws, and Alvin Duskin, San Francisco manufacturer of women’s clothing. The evening was moderated by Eugene Schoenfeld, otherwise known in his…
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The Abortion handbook / Pat Maginnis ; interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson.
Author Pat Maginnis, joint author with Lana Clark Phelan of The Abortion Handbook (Contact Books, 1969), discusses her book with Elsa Knight Thompson. They discuss the declining practice of midwifery, the religious and political forces driving anti-abortion sentiment, and how to change public perception of the practice of abortion.
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Abortion and the law.
A panel discussion sponsored by the Citizens’ Committee for Humane Abortion Laws in San Jose in September 1962. Participants include David Newman, clinical psychologist and associate professor of psychology at San Jose State College; Emmanuel Silver, psychiatrist and neurologist in Palo Alto; the Reverend Sidney Peterman, minister of the First Unitarian Church in San Jose;…