Postcard: No Return to Backstreet Abortion, Keep it legal! Keep it Safe!
date: label: date made
content: ca 1980
notes: label: Description
content: Paper postcard with graphic and print in red, green, black, and white showing a streetscape with a woman under a streetlight. In the background above the streetscape looms a bottle of pills and a bottle of gin and two knitting needles. Original drawing 1979 by Catriona Sinclair for a card sponsored by the Leeds National Abortion Campaign. Published by Leeds Postcards. Caption on back refers to the 1967 British Abortion Act and attempts to restrict access to abortion since then.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, Leeds
topic: label: Subject
content: Women's Health
label: Subject
content: Abortion
label: Subject
content: Activism
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of William H. Helfand
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.3152.009
label: nonaccession number
content: 1988.3152
label: catalog number
content: 1988.3152.009
objectType: label: Object Name
content: postcard
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 14.9 cm x 10.6 cm; 5 7/8 in x 4 3/16 in