After Legalization of Abortion
The Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision made abortion legal in 1973. After that, menstrual extraction was practiced much less, though it did not disappear. It did begin to gain in popularity again in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Webster v. Reproductive Health Services, which limited access to abortion for some women by state of residence and type of medical insurance. Self-helpers even reprised the 1971 tour, travelling around the U.S. sharing self-examination and menstrual extraction techniques with groups of women; however it never reached the heights of the early 1970s.
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