In Remembrance: Women Who Died from Illegal and Unsafe Abortions

 

reprinting from Monday, January 22, 2007 Roe v. Wade at 34: A Pillar of Reproductive Freedom My Choice, My Body - 34th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade by awakening "When my Mother was a teenager in the 1950s, she knew personally and through the teenage grapevine, knew of other teenage girls who had back alley abortions. The bloody symbolic weapon used for botched back alley abortions was the wire hanger."

from TheZoo January 22, 2008 Legal Abortion in America: 35 Years by David Crary / AP via International Herald Tribune. "Proper sex education and effective, available birth control are key. Abortion should be safe, legal, available and rare."