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...group of Boston area women will open a center for rape victims March...
...Rape Crisis Center will provide detailed medical, legal, and psychological information as well as referrals for rape victims. In a statement yesterday, the group said that, "the center is a response by women to the intolerable incidence of rape and to the lack of real aid for women who have been raped...
...women who staff the Center have undergone training for several months to gain a thorough understanding of the problems associated with rape, the statement said...
Laws are more restrictive, but increasingly flexible, in Scandinavia and Great Britain. In 1938, Sweden became the first of the Scandinavian countries to moderate its statutes, and the law has become increasingly permissive over the years. In addition to allowing abortion for medical, eugenic and ethical (in cases of rape or incest) reasons, Sweden now permits it to protect "mental health," a term that can be broadly interpreted to justify abortion for almost any reason. However, the country requires a detailed investigation before permission is granted, and until 1965 permission was in fact denied...
...days after the manifesto appeared, 206 well-known French citizens -including four Nobel prizewinners -added their voices to the demand for reform. They issued a "charter" calling for abortion on several grounds, among them poor health, rape, incest and "grave social conditions...