Abortion Wishes and Abortion Prevention - Women Seeking Legal Termination of Pregnancy During the 1950s and 1960s in Finland

This article studies Finnish abortion-seeking women in the 1950s and 1960s by investigating the life situations of the abortion-seeking women and their possibilities to regulate childbearing under the 1950 Abortion Act. During the 1950s and 1960s, abortion was legal in Finland only on medical, ethic...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Miina Keski-Petäjä
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Population Research Institute of Väestöliitto 2012-01-01
Series:Finnish Yearbook of Population Research
Online Access:https://journal.fi/fypr/article/view/45077