DANGER TO LIFE
Drugs Causing Abortion (N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, April 26. Evidence that no drug, or combination of drugs, taken by the mouth, would cause an abortion without endangering the life of the woman who takes them, was given by Dr. P. P. Lynch in the Magistrate’s Court at Wellington today. He was testifying in a charge against Malcolm Walter Swanson, aged 19. an apprentice carpenter, of attempting to supply pills to a woman knowing that the pills were intended to be unlawfully used to procure a miscarriage. Swanson, who pleaded not guilty, was committed to the Supreme Court for trial.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29498, 27 April 1961, Page 16
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102DANGER TO LIFE Press, Volume C, Issue 29498, 27 April 1961, Page 16
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