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Nancy Howell Lee, better known as Nancy Howell, is a sociologist and demographer. Educated at Michigan State, University of Michigan, and Brandeis University, she obtained her PhD from the Harvard University Department of Social Relations in 1968. Her dissertation was based on the research reported in The Search for an Abortionist. She taught in the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto for thirty years, after brief stints at Wellesley College and Princeton University. She is a fellow of the anthropology section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, based on her demographic studies of the !Kung bushmen of the Kalahari Desert. She is retired from teaching, but continues research and writing.

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“Approximately ten thousand of these women succeed in having their abortions performed legally in a hospital;7 the rest go to illegal practitioners in the United States or leave the country to seek abortion where it is more readily available.”
― Nancy Howell Lee, The Search for an Abortionist: The Classic Study of How American Women Coped with Unwanted Pregnancy before Roe v. Wade
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“while the abortion rate is higher for unmarried women, married women, especially those who have had all the children they choose to have, probably obtain the majority of all abortions.12 Estimates of the proportion of married women among abortion seekers vary from 40 to 90 percent.13 Nor is abortion exclusively or even primarily an activity of one social class or another. Substantial numbers of both rich and poor women are known to obtain abortions.”
― Nancy Howell Lee, The Search for an Abortionist: The Classic Study of How American Women Coped with Unwanted Pregnancy before Roe v. Wade
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“The pill” was first approved for prescription use in the United States in June 1960. By 1967, an estimated five million American women were taking the pills every month.4”
― Nancy Howell Lee, The Search for an Abortionist: The Classic Study of How American Women Coped with Unwanted Pregnancy before Roe v. Wade
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