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Abortion and family planning in the Soviet Union: public policies and private behaviour *

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Henry P. David
Henry P. David
Affiliation:
Transnational Family Research Institute, American Institutes for Research, Washington, DC, Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 6 , Issue 4 , October 1974 , pp. 417 - 426
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1974

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