- Title: UK: MRS FINKBINE AT LONDON AIRPORT - ON WAY HOME AFTER THALIDOMIDE ABORTION.
- Date: 26th August 1962
- Summary: 1. LV PAN.. AIRCRAFT TAXIES IN 0.05 2. SV MRS. FINKBINE AND HUSBAND DOWN STEPS FROM AIRCRAFT 0.14 3. SV MRS. FINKBINE AND HUSBAND INTO CAR 0.19 4. LV CAR TOWARDS RECEPTION BUILDING 0.23 5. LV PASSENGERS IN RECEPTION BUILDING 0.27 6. LV MRS. FINKBINE AND HUSBAND WALK THROUGH RECEPTION BUILDING 0.34 7. SV PHOTOGRAPHERS 0.37 8. SCU PAN.. MRS. FINKBINE AND HUSBAND 0.41 9. LV TO SCU.. MRS FINKBINE AND HUSBAND LEAVE AIRPORT BUILDING 0.47 Initials KJ/V/WS/EEH Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: LONDON AIRPORT, UK
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- Country: United Kingdom
- Reuters ID: LVA8GSXNE64PTUCKOYV5ZU4SEM1U
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- Story Text: MRS. SHERRI FINKBINE FLEW INTO LONDON AIRPORT TODAY (SUNDAY) ON HER WAY BACK TO ARIZONA AFTER A LEGAL ABORTION IN SWEDEN. SHE IS THE 30-YEAR-OLD AMERICAN MOTHER WHO TOOK THE DRUG THALIDOMIDE DURING PREGNANCY. THALIDOMIDE IS KNOWN TO HAVE PRODUCED DEFORMITIES IN NEWBORN BABIES, AND MRS. FINKBINE CAME TO EUROPE WHEN SHE WAS UNABLE TO OBTAIN A LEGAL ABORTION IN THE UNITED STATES.
(IN AN INTERVIEW AT THE AIRPORT, MRS. FINKBINE SAID SHE "COULD NOT FEEL BETTER OR MORE AT EASE NOW THAT IT'S OVER AND THAT WE'VE AVERTED A LIFETIME TRAGEDY FOR A HUMAN BEING". HER ONLY REGRET WAS "THAT IT WAS MADE SUCH A PUBLIC SPECTACLE". MRS. FINKBINE WAS NOT IN FAVOUR OF LEGALISING ABORTION EVERYWHERE, BUT SHE THOUGHT THAT ABORTION LAWS COULD PERHAPS BE MADE MORE ELASTIC. SHE HAD NO INTENTION OF TAKING ANY ACTION AGAINST THALIDOMIDE MANUFACTURERS.)
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