Finding Aid for the California Committee on Therapeutic Abortion records, 1966-1974
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Descriptive Summary
Title: California Committee on Therapeutic Abortion records,
Date (inclusive): 1966-1974
Collection number: 1195
Creator: California Committee on Therapeutic Abortion
Extent: 11 boxes (5.5 linear ft.)
Abstract: Ruth Roemer (b.1916) is an activist and advocate on such issues as women's reproductive rights, tobacco laws, health manpower,
AIDS, and national health insurance. Before Roe
vs. Wade, she helped establish and served as vice-chair of the California Committee on Therapeutic Abortion to help legalize
abortion. She influenced California to become the second state to pass a law allowing abortion on certain categorical grounds.
The collection consists of correspondence, papers and printed materials of the California Committee on Therapeutic Abortion,
including files, articles, pamphlets, legal briefs, speeches, photographs, press releases, clippings, and other materials,
including those from vice-chair Ruth Roemer.
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library Special
Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Administrative Information
Restrictions on Access
Open for research. STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library
Special Collections for paging information.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright,
are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright
and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Ruth Roemer, 1976 and 1979.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], California Committee on Therapeutic Abortion Records (Collection 1195). UCLA Library Special Collections,
Charles E. Young Research Library.
UCLA Catalog Record ID
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
709548
Biography
Ruth Roemer earned a JD from Cornell Law School in 1939; as a research associate at Cornell in the late 1950s, she worked
on a study of mental hospital admission laws in New York; her group's research was published under the title,
Mental illness and due process, and the New York state legislature enacted many of its recommendations into law; Roemer became an activist and advocate
on such issues as women's reproductive rights, tobacco laws, health manpower, AIDS, and national health insurance; before
Roe
vs. Wade, she helped establish and served as vice-chair of the California Committee on Therapeutic Abortion to help legalize
abortion; influenced California to become the second state to pass a law allowing abortion on certain categorical grounds;
wrote second edition of a monograph for the World Health Organization, reviewing worldwide legislation to control the tobacco
epidemic; she also fought for the implementation of a national health insurance program for the U.S.
Scope and Content
Collection consists of correspondence, papers and printed materials of the California Committee on Therapeutic Abortion, including
files, articles, pamphlets, legal briefs, speeches, photographs, press releases, clippings, and other materials, including
those from vice-chair Ruth Roemer.
Organization and Arrangement
Arranged in the following series:
- Correspondence files (Boxes 1-2).
- Printed materials, mostly articles (Boxes 2-3).
- Ruth Roemer files (Boxes 4-11).
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Subjects
Roemer, Ruth, 1916- --Archives.
California Committee on Therapeutic Abortion--Archives.
Abortion--Government policy--Citizen participation.
Pro-choice movement--California--Archival resources.
Related Material
Frances Noel Papers
(Collection 814) . Available at the UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library.
Note
The California Committee on Therapeutic Abortion was formed in 1966 “to inform and educate the public concerning abortion
and family welfare and increase understanding of present practices of therapeutic abortion.” The records here listed comprise
correspondence, papers and printed materials.
Box 1, Folder 2
Belous Case.
1969
Note
[See also folder 5 below]
Box 1, Folder 4
CCTA correspondence.
1971-1974
Box 1, Folder 5
California Supreme Court -- Belous Case.
1969
Note
[See also folder 2 above]
Box 1, Folder 6
Constitutional Defense Project.
1974
Box 1, Folder 7
Iles report.
1974
Scope and Content Note
[
re investigative trip to Washington, New York and Boston for CCTA, made by Rev. Robert H. Iles.]
Box 1, Folder 8
James Madison Consitutional Law Institute.
1970
Box 1, Folder 9
Kinsolving, Rev. Lester.
1966-1967
Box 1, Folder 10
Legal Documents
re founding of CCTA.
1966-1967
Box 1, Folder 11
NARAL (National Association for Repeal of Abortion Laws].
Box 1, Folder 12
New York legal case.
1969
Scope and Content Note
[Robert E. Hall, M.D., and others
vs. the Honorable Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney General of New York and others, 69 Civ. 4284, in the U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York.]
Box 1, Folder 14
Religious coalition, Southern California.
1974
Box 1, Folder 15
Society for Humane Abortion, San Francisco.
1966-1968
Correspondence and Printed Materials
Box 2, Folder 2
Spanish translations of publicity material.
1970
Box 2, Folder 3
Statement on proposed humane abortion act.
1965
Box 2, Folder 4
UCLA-CCTA Conference.
January 1971
Box 2, Folders 6-10
Various printed materials.
Box 2, Folder 11
Photocopies of letter to Elizabeth Canfield and others
re family planning.
1962-1965
Box 3
Various printed materials, mostly offprints of articles.
Scope and Content Note
Includes two copies of a report on the California Conference on abortion, Santa Barbara, California, February 10-11, 1968.
Boxes 4-11
Files of Mrs. Ruth Roemer.
1960s-1970s
Note
[Added to collection, July, 1979]
This concludes the end of the UCLA catalogued index. The following list is of the files as they appear in the rest of the
collection.
Box 4, Folder 1
California Committee on Therapeutic Abortion, Correspondence.
1969-1970
Scope and Content Note
[Includes minutes of meetings]
Box 4, Folder 2
Correspondence.
1969-1970
Scope and Content Note
re action outside California.
Box 4, Folder 3
California Conference on Abortion, Santa Barbara.
1968
Box 4, Folder 5
Clergy Counseling Service.
Box 5, Folder 1
Post-legislation CCTA activities [clarification of what is now legal...].
Box 5, Folder 2
Post-Belous Legal Actions.
Box 5, Folder 3
Abortion Materials [clippings and lectures].
Box 6, Folder 5
National Association for Repeal of Abortion Laws.
Box 6, Folder 7
Association for the Study of Abortion, Conference.
Box 6, Folder 8
Abortion, Europe [articles and papers].
Box 7, Folder 1
British Abortion Act.
1967
Box 7, Folder 2
New Zealand--Abortion and Child Welfare.
Box 7, Folder 3
Abortion--South American.
Box 7, Folder 5
CCTA [lists of people endorsing repeal].
1966
Box 9, Folder 1
Abortion back-up materials.
Box 9, Folder 2
Recent Foreign Materials -- Abortion Law.
Box 9, Folder 3
Los Angeles Times series -- “Abortion 4 years later.”
Box 9, Folder 4
Pro-Choice... The fight Back [NARAL newsletters].
1977-1979
Box 9, Folder 5
CCTA, Publicity Committee.
1966
Box 9, Folder 6
Abortion Statements and signers.
Box 9, Folder 7
CCTA, Therapeutic Abortion Symposium.
1971
Box 9, Folder 8
[No further description available]
1974
Box 10, Folder 1
Materials from Roy Lucus.
Scope and Content Note
[Opnions and briefs in numerous Abortion cases around the country.]
Box 10, Folder 3
Abortion Laws of the World.
Box 10, Folder 5
Application to the Sunnen Foundation
re public funding of abortion services.
Box 10, Folder 6
Abortion, California.
Scope and Content Note
[annual reports on implementation of California Therapeutic Abortion Act]
Box 10, Folder 7
Dr. Edelin.
Note
[Performed legal abortion, convicted of manslaughter.]
Box 10, Folder 10
San Francisco Doctors [Shively].
Box 11, Folder 1
Abortion, Holding the Line.
Box 11, Folder 5
Medicaid Abortions (Citizens for Free Choice).
Box 11, Folder 6
Doctor's Brief--Barksdale.
