Biography
Pat Maginnis was arrested in California challenges to restrictions on abortion information.
The February 25, 1967 Berkeley Barb reports that Pat Maginnis and Rowena Gurner were arrested in San Mateo after teaching a class explaining abortion techniques, in a deliberate challenge to the State Business and Professions Code prohibition on distributing abortion information. The same article separately reports that Maginnis had been arrested in San Francisco “last July” under a city ordinance along the same lines; it says that case was thrown out within a month and the ordinance declared unconstitutional. These are two reported arrest episodes. Relative dates are retained in this source account rather than converted to precise structured dates; jail-admission, release endpoints and complete custody durations are unknown.
