forces have taken their case to the streets, employing tactics of civil disruption to inhibit access to birth control clinics and in some cases physically assaulting (and even killing) physicians who practice abortion on demand. While these violent tactics may have an impact upon individual women seeking abortions, they have not been successful in changing the overwhelming societal acceptance of the right of women to an abortion.
At the heart of the abortion controversy, in addition to the question of a woman's right to privacy and autonomy with respect to decisions concerning how her
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