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Elizabeth Pirruccello Newhall

  • “No one likes abortions. Our ultimate ideal is a health care system so evolved and a society so enlightened that abortions are prevented. But abortion will not go away until birth control always works, sex is always consensual, and human beings never make mistakes.”

    • Elizabeth Pirruccello Newhall,
    • in Katherine Martin, Women of Courage ()

Elizabeth Pirruccello Newhall, U.S. gynecologist

(1953)