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Shannon Stettner

Shannon Stettner lectures in the Department of Women’s Studies at the University of Waterloo. She edited Without Apology: Writings on Abortion in Canada.

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Shannon Stettner

Pushing Boundaries

The past and present of abortion travel December 2019
For many of us, what we know about so-­called abortion travel dates from the story of Sherri Finkbine (now Chessen), which is where Abortion across Borders begins. Finkbine was an Arizona woman who hosted a local version of the children’s television show Romper Room. In 1961, early in her fifth pregnancy, she used sedatives that her…