Madeleine Ware

Madeleine Ware

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Madeleine Ware is currently finishing her MA at the College of Charleston, where she serves as a graduate assistant to the Women’s Health Research Team. She will be attending Yale University starting this fall to begin her PhD in the History of Science and Medicine. Her research interests include twentieth-century women’s health in the United States and British Isles.

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“Our Moral Obligation:” The Pastors That Counseled in Pre-Roe South Carolina

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On December 8, 1971, a Presbyterian pastor in Greenville, SC counseled three women on their “problem pregnancies,” ultimately connecting them with clinical abortion providers. The first woman was a white, 21-year-old university student. Her relationship with her boyfriend had ended that October, and she believed abortion was, to use her words, a “last ditch contraception.”… Read more →