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This is a piece by Jeannine Mitchell about a meeting organized by the Vancouver Women’s Caucus in the spring of 1970. The featured speaker was a doctor from a New Westminster hospital who spoke about the defects of the existing law and why it should be repealed, leaving abortion a matter between a woman and her doctor. The article notes that, in Canada, about 2000 women died from botched abortions, and 20,000 women were admitted to hospital in 1969 as a result of complications from butcher abortions.