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THE other night a rather frail lady in a wheelchair told a group of us how she became a nurse. It was after the war. I was a tall girl and stacked. She had gone to a hospital and the matron had looked her in the eyes: You are 17? Yes, said the girl, who was in fact 14, and her nursing career began.
That girl was the indomitable agony aunt Clare Rayner and the reason she was telling the story was that we were at the House of Commons to celebrate 40 years of womens access to safe, legal abortion.See the full content of this document
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Sherry,Biscuits...And Salvation for Women
One of Rayners first jobs was to learn how to lay out bodies and one of the first corpses she laid out was a 16-year-old girl who had died of a septic abort...
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