Letter to Alan Guttmacher from Leo J. Holmsten

Letter to Alan Guttmacher from Leo J. Holmsten

Holmsten, Leo J.

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Guttmacher, Alan F. (Alan Frank), 1898-1974

Abortion

Before the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision in 1973 legalizing abortion in the United States, many physicians wrote to Guttmacher pleading for increased advocacy and education of birth control and abortions in the United States. Physicians and medical professionals were among Guttmacher’s most vocal supporters.

Letter to Alan Guttmacher from obstetrician gynecologist Leo J. Holmsten asking for information on helping patients get abortions

Holmsten, Leo J.

1968 November 11

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Alan Frank Guttmacher papers, 1860s, 1898-1974. H MS c155. Box 1, folder 12.

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The Alan F. Guttmacher Papers were donated to the Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine in 1975 by Mrs. Leonore Guttmacher.