Controversy
The matter of unsafe abortions in America received public attention leading up to the legal proceedings of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 United States Supreme Court decision which legalized abortion in America. Since then, it has become a central argument on the part of some prominent legal abortion advocates. The publication in Ms. magazine of a photo of Gerri Santoro, who died of blood loss following an unsafe abortion, was used extensively to illustrate the dangers of illegal abortions.
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