October 29, 2021
MATT OZUG, SARAH HANDEL, AILSA CHANG
Even in feminist history, Pat Maginnis does not quite command name recognition. "She was not Gloria Steinem," says writer Lili Loofbourow, who profiled the early abortion-rights advocate in 2018. "She was not an attention seeker or a credit seeker."
Maginnis may have lacked a nose for the spotlight. She wasn't one for glamour — she was known to dress in clothes from thrift stores or even those she found on the street. And she employed confrontational tactics that forced the issue into the public eye.