In the years before Roe v. Wade, she helped shift the debate away from the rules governing abortion providers to women’s right to control their bodies.
By Katharine Q. Seelye
Sept. 4, 2021
Patricia Maginnis, one of the nation’s earliest and fiercest proponents of a woman’s right to safe, legal abortions, who crusaded for that right on her own before the formation of an organized reproductive-rights movement, died on Aug. 30 in Oakland, Calif. She was 93.
Her niece Semberlyn Crossley said the cause of her death, in a hospital, was chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
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