Matches in Harvard for { ?s ?p An advocate of family planning and legal abortion, Smith began her career in 1946 as a field worker for the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts where she later served as executive secretary. Moving to New York, she administered the family planning service at Mount Sinai Hospital (1953-55), and was executive director of the Human Betterment Association for Voluntary Sterilization (1955-64) and the Association for the Study of Abortion (1964-66). In 1967 she helped organize the National Association for Repeal of Abortion Laws (now the National Abortion Rights Action League), and in 1970, as a member of the Abortion Rights Association of New York, Smith worked to implement a new state law legalizing abortion.. }
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- catalog description "An advocate of family planning and legal abortion, Smith began her career in 1946 as a field worker for the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts where she later served as executive secretary. Moving to New York, she administered the family planning service at Mount Sinai Hospital (1953-55), and was executive director of the Human Betterment Association for Voluntary Sterilization (1955-64) and the Association for the Study of Abortion (1964-66). In 1967 she helped organize the National Association for Repeal of Abortion Laws (now the National Abortion Rights Action League), and in 1970, as a member of the Abortion Rights Association of New York, Smith worked to implement a new state law legalizing abortion.".