Way Before Zika, Rubella Changed Minds on Abortion
Thursday, February 25, 2016 - 09:32
in Health & Medicine
In the 1960s, an outbreak of rubella virus expanded women’s access to abortion in the United States. Could Zika do the same in Latin America?
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