Biography
Rowena Gurner was arrested in a San Mateo challenge to restrictions on abortion information.
The February 25, 1967 Berkeley Barb reports that Rowena Gurner and Pat Maginnis were arrested in San Mateo after teaching a class explaining abortion techniques. It says the arrest concerned the State Business and Professions Code prohibition on distributing abortion information and describes their deliberate challenge to the law. A preliminary hearing was being planned; the report establishes an arrest but supplies no complete custody duration or jail-admission and release endpoints.
