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Families: in abortion investigations, 125 , 126 -28, 302 nn48, 49;

contraceptive use in, 40 -41;

role of medical practice in, 68 ;

size of, 58 , 273 n94;

state intervention in, 115 ;

support for abortion within, 27 . See also Fathers; Mothers

Families, working-class: birth control for, 36 ;

effect of abortion on, 39 -40, 144 .

Family planning: by working-class women, 35 -36, 230 . See also Birth control

Fatherhood, as expectation, 115 , 129

Fathers: attitude toward daughter's abortions, 28 , 108 ;

newspaper warnings to, 125 ;

physicians as father figures, 59 -60, 84 , 234 ;

power over daughters, 237 , 248 ;

state as, 115

Federal Bureau of Investigation, 318 n39

Fee for service, 49


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Fees, abortion: of clinics, 150 ;

compared to childbirth, 74 , 154 , 313 n101, 315 n106;

at Gabler-Martin clinic, 154 -55, 197 , 311 n82, 313 nn107, 108;

at Keemer clinic, 157 ;

of midwives, 74 , 96 , 283 n98 negotiation of, 154 -55, 225 ;

physicians', 47 , 76 , 96 , 154 , 196 , 197 , 282 n86;

in postwar era, 197 , 325 n11;

at Timanus clinic, 158

Feminine mystique, 163 , 315 n10

Feminists: abortion activism of, 217 -18, 223 -34, 238 , 252 ;

on abortion law reform, 331 n21;

in abortion rights movement, 222 -34;

African American, 207 , 232 , 334 n50;

and birth control movement, 141 ;

English, 220 ;

on medical profession, 3 , 260 n6;

and poor people's movements, 236 ;

second-wave, 227 , 228 -29;

smear campaigns against, 172 ;

tactics of, 229 ;

"third-world," 228 , 232

Feminists, nineteenth-century, 12 ;

on birth control, 36 ;

views on abortion, 32 -33, 35 , 36 , 76 , 278 n44;

views on medicine, 260 n6. See also Women's movements

Fetus: defects of, 203 , 204 , 221 , 240 , 327 n383

images of, 84 -85, 287 n18;

medical opinion on, 60 , 80 ;

primacy over woman, 250 ;

viability of, 245 , 248

Fibroids, in therapeutic abortion, 326 n27

Fields, Dr. Charles, 238 , 239

Findley, Dr. Palmer, 109 , 110

Finkbine, Sherri, 203

Fish, Dr. E. F., 67

Fitzbutler, Dr. Henry, 269 n38

Florence Crittendon Hospital (Detroit), 174 -75, 176 , 177 ;

sterilization at, 329 n54

Folk remedies, for abortion. See Abortifacients; Abortion, self-induced

Foucault, Michel, 5 , 7 , 262 n21

Frank, Dr. Jacob, 56

Frank, Dr. Louis, 124

Freedmen's Hospital (Washington, D.C.), 147

Freedom, sexual, 220 ;

feminists on, 16 , 217 , 229 ;

in nineteenth century, 32 ;

in sex reform drives, 92 . See also Sexuality

Friedan, Betty, 315 n10

Friedman, Lawrence, 167 , 317 n33, 318 n39

Friendship, women's, 27 , 29 -31, 45

Fritzsche, Sybille, 235 -38, 239 , 335 nn66, 67, 336 n69;

on Cook County attorney, 242 ;

on religious opposition, 338 n98

Furniss, Dr. Henry, 123


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