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This is the same tape as BB3770.02, broadcast as the second episode of the WBAI produced Abortion (1969) series.  James Clapp and Lucinda Cisler, members of the Abortion Committee of the New York chapter of the National Organization for Women, host the program. Their guest in-studio is Bernard Nathanson, M.D., assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Cornell Medical School, associate attending obstetrician and gynecologist at New York Hospital and at St. Luke's Hospital, and Director of gynecology at the Hospital for Joint Diseases in New York. They begin by asking Dr. Nathanson for the definition of an abortion, to which he provides detailed and step-by-step descriptions of different types of abortions and how they are performed. They also discuss the risks and costs, and the results of illegal abortions as seen in hospitals. There is also discussion of the implications for doctors and hospitals as a result of the increasing pressure to reform or repeal present abortion laws. At 00:36:20 the hosts play a previously recorded interview with retired abortionist, Dr. W. J. Bryan Henrie of Grove, Oklahoma. This series of five programs on abortion was produced by Kay Lindsey. Originally cataloged as having guests Susan Brownmiller, Jean Blair Billie, and William Baird.

Leslie Corsa, Jr., M.D., Director of the Center for Population Planning at the University of Michigan, speaks at the Conference on Abortion and Human Rights in San Francisco January 9, 1966, discussing the need for liberalized abortion laws. The conference was held under the auspices of the Society for Humane Abortion. Technical production by Dan McClosky.

This is the third in a series of discussions about abortion. Guests in this program are Arlene Carmen, Courage and Consultation Service on Abortion; Reverend Howard Moody of Judson Memorial Church and is a spokesmen for the Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion; Bill Baird, director of the Parents' Aid Society in Hempstead, Long Island. Second part of the program has an interview conducted by Jacqui Ceballos at the National Organization for Women national conference with Lana Clarke Phelan, Southern California representative for the Society for Humane Abortion. Lucinda Cisler and James Clapp of the Abortion Committee of New York NOW moderate. The series is produced by Kay Lindsey. BROADCAST: WBAI, 15 Jan. 1969

Introduced as the fifth in a series of five programs. Hosts are Lucinda Cisler and James Clapp, both members of the Abortion Committee of New York NOW, and of the Public Education Committee of the Parents' Aid Society of Hempstead-Long Island. Guests are Ruth Cusak, former chairman of the NOW Abortion Committee; and Roy Lucas, a civil liberties attorney from New York, whose study of the constitutionality of abortion laws was published in the June 1968 North Carolina Law Review. The panel discusses past, present, and future legal aspects of abortion. Lucas talks about the constitutional legality of any special legislation limiting access to abortion and the prospect for test cases and civil disobedience. Cusack discusses the prospects for passage of the NY State repeal bill. The series is produced by Kay Lindsey. SERIES: Abortion BROADCAST: WBAI, 2 Jan. 1969. Previously BB3770.01.