40 years ago: KUMC abortion policy to remain unchanged in face of Boston manslaughter case

From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Feb. 19, 1975:

The recent manslaughter conviction of a Boston physician in connection with a legal abortion he had performed would not alter procedures used in abortions at the Kansas University Medical Center, according to a KUMC professor. Dr. William J. Cameron, KUMC obstetrics and gynecology professor, said about 50 abortions were performed weekly at the center. “The Boston verdict will not affect our standard of medicine at the university,” Dr. Cameron said. “At the medical center we’ll just continue to do what we have the right to do under Kansas law.” Abortions in Kansas in 1975 could be legally performed if there was a threat to the mental or physical health of the mother, if it appeared a “defective child” would be born if the pregnancy were not terminated, or in cases of pregnancy resulting from rape, incest, or other felonious intercourse, Dr. Cameron said.