“A man who assisted in autopsies in a big urban hospital, starting in the mid-1950s, describes the many deaths from botched abortions that he saw. ‘The deaths stopped overnight in 1973.’ He never saw another in the 18 years before he retired. ‘That,’ he says, ‘ought to tell people something about keeping abortion legal.’”

— Sunday was the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade (via motherjones)

  11:47 pm  |   January 23 2012   |  1,352 notes   |  View comments