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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
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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