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  • The early radical abortion rights activist whose positions are now common

    Nov 1, 2021 11:00 am by National Public RadioIllinois in the News
    Patricia Maginnis holds her Abortees' Songbook and stands next to a bulletin board full of abortion information. The early abortion rights advocate, pictured here in 1970, died earlier this year. Bettmann/Bettmann Archive

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    NPR (Oct. 29) U. of I. historian Leslie Reagan says Pat Maginnis was 'the first person to publicly talk about her own illegal abortions and to provide information to anyone who wanted it.'

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