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Earlier 1938: Doctor Joan Malleson recommended a patient,...
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Earlier 1938
Doctor Joan Malleson
recommended a patient, a pregnant fourteen-year-old girl who had been gang-raped by soldiers at Kensington Barracks
, to Aleck Bourne
, an eminent gynaecological surgeon, for an abortion.
Hall, Lesley. “Articulating abortion in interwar Britain”. Women’s History Magazine, No. 70, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 2012, pp. 13-21.