Smith, Ruth Proskauer, 1907-

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An advocate of family planning and legal abortion, Smith began her career in 1946 as a field worker for the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts where she later served as executive secretary. Moving to New York, she administered the family planning service at Mount Sinai Hospital (1953-55), and was executive director of the Human Betterment Association for Voluntary Sterilization (1955-64) and the Association for the Study of Abortion (1964-66). In 1967 she helped organize the National Association for Repeal of Abortion Laws (now the National Abortion Rights Action League), and in 1970, as a member of the Abortion Rights Association of New York, Smith worked to implement a new state law legalizing abortion.

From the description of Papers, 1959-1975 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232006976

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associatedWith Abortion Law Reform Association. corporateBody
associatedWith Abortion Rights Association. corporateBody
associatedWith Association for the Study of Abortion. corporateBody
associatedWith Burns, James MacGregor. person
associatedWith Committee for the Cook-Leichter Bill. corporateBody
associatedWith Human Betterment Association for Voluntary Sterilization. corporateBody
associatedWith Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978. person
associatedWith Javits, Jacob K. (Jacob Kopper), 1904- person
associatedWith Kennedy, Edward M. (Edward Moore), 1932-2009. person
associatedWith Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963. person
associatedWith Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968. person
associatedWith McCarthy, Eugene J., 1916-2005. person
associatedWith McGovern, George S. (George Stanley), 1922- person
associatedWith Means, Cyril C., Jr. person
associatedWith Moore, Emily. person
associatedWith Muskie, Edmund S., 1914-1996. person
associatedWith Myers, Lonny, 1922- person
associatedWith Nathanson, Bernard N., 1926-2011. person
associatedWith National Abortion Rights Action League. corporateBody
associatedWith National Conference on Social Welfare. corporateBody
associatedWith New Yorkers for Abortion Law Repeal. corporateBody
associatedWith Planned Parenthood Federation of America. corporateBody
associatedWith Radcliffe College corporateBody
associatedWith State Communities Aid Association. corporateBody
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United States
New York (State)
Great Britain
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Abortion
Abortion
Abortion services
Birth control
Contraception
Jews
Sterilization (Birth control)
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Birth 1907

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