An illegal abortion killed her classmate. More than 60 years later, this grandmother fears more deaths

Joyce Johnstone is old enough to remember when abortions were illegal. She was teenager in England when a fellow student died from a botched abortion. Johnstone worries if abortions are banned, other young girls could find themselves suffering the same fate.

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