Women must be able to defend abortion as a sex-based right Sonia Sodha
To mark the supreme court judgment that guaranteed American women a right to abortion in 1973, the feminist magazine Ms. published a graphic photo of a dead 27-year-old woman kneeling over, surrounded by bloody towels. Her name was Gerri Santoro and she died alone in a motel room during a botched abortion in 1964, a mother to two daughters who had left her violently abusive husband.
That is the image the United States will now again have to confront as a result of
