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Race: in criminalization of abortion, 11 , 15 ;
differences among women, 16 ;
as factor in abortion, 16 , 135 -38, 193 , 213 -14, 252 , fig. 6;
in infant mortality, 213 , 329 n61;
in Keemer trial, 188 ;
in maternal mortality, 211 , 213 , 232 , 329 nn60, 61 fig. 6 ;
and therapeutic abortion, 205 , 206 , fig. 3;
and welfare, 249 . See also African Americans; Puerto Ricans; Whites
"Race suicide," 92 , 102 , 104
Raids: on abortion clinics, 160 -62, 164 -68, 181 , 243 , 249 , 316 n16, 316 n19;
newspaper coverage of, 192 ;
testimony on, 164 -66, 168 , 170 -71;
use of force in, 167 , 318 n41
Rape: abortion following, 33 -34, 65 , 175 , 199 , 221 , 251 , 340 n19;
in hypothetical abortion requests, 240 ;
marital, 59 ;
pregnancy following, 64 ;
of unmarried women, 33 , 270 n61
Reformers: in anti-midwife campaign, 96 ;
on maternal health, 111 ;
medical, 217 ;
in public health, 138 ;
views on abortion, 99 - 100
Regulars (physicians), 10 -11, 48 , 263 n32;
abortions performed by, 72 , 282 n92;
in Chicago Times exposé, 55 , 56 , 276 n29;
consolidation of, 282 n92
"Relief babies," 134
Religion, organized: in abortion rights movement, 221 , 244 ;
fundamentalism in, 248 ;
leadership in abortion issues, 13 ;
response to birth control movement, 6 -7, 262 n18;
teaching on abortion, 6 , 7 , 262 nn17, 18, 19
Religious belief, and abortion rates, 23 , 137 , 242
Reproduction: centrality to society, 266 n50;
economic factors in, 133 ;
medical profession's control over policy, 3 , 208 , 214 ;
shame in regulation of, 5 , 28 , 125 , 126 -28, 171 , 200
Reproductive rights, 18 , 204 , 253 -54;
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ter Roe v. Wade , 245 ;
under ALI model law, 221 ;
in backlash against abortion, 252 ;
birth control movement in, 111 ;
Catholic Church on, 7 ,180 -81, 248 ;
in challenges to abortion law, 237 ;
in Chicago abortion trade, 48 ;
choice in, 133 ;
in coroners' inquests, 45 ;
in Doe v. Scott , 239 -40;
feminist interest in, 190 , 224 ;
Jewish tradition of, 7 ;
mass movements for, 217 ;
in McCarthy era, 1643 nineteenth-century, 229 ;
and patients' rights, 247 -48, 251 ;
and population control programs, 231 ;
in postwar era, 194 ;
in private sphere, 254 ;
in public policy, 110 ;
public support for, 321 n84;
resentment against, 102 , 104 ;
in therapeutic abortion, 66 , 67 , 146 , 279 n64;
of unmarried women, 108 ;
without physician's approval, 220 ;
women's discourse on, 44 ;
and women's goals, 195
Restell, Madam, 10
Right to decide. See Reproductive rights
Right to die, 247
Ripczynski, Veronica, 75
Robinson, Dr. 'William J., The Law against Abortion , 139 ;
Rockefeller, Nelson, 234
Roe v. Wade , 198 , 244 , 245 ;
coalitions supporting, 248 ;
right to privacy in, 244 .
Rolick, Marie, 98 -99
Romania, 250
Rongetti, Dr. Amante, 72 , 128
Rongy, Dr. A.-J., Abortion: Legal or Illegal , 139 -40;
on fatal abortion, 146 -47
Root, Dr. Eliza H., 92 -93
Rosen, Dr. Harold, 328 n47
Rosner, Dr. Marvin, 240
Royston, Dr. G. D., 43
Rural areas, abortion in, 17 , 43 , 69
Ryder, Dr. George H., 181