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11-04-2009, 08:54 AM
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The REAL Reason Abortion Is Legal
Geraldine "Gerri" Santoro (August 16, 1935 - June 8, 1964) was an American woman who died of a back-alley abortion in 1964. A photograph of her after death, published in 1973, became a symbol of the pro-choice movement. In 1963, domestic violence prompted Santoro to leave her husband, and she and her daughters returned to her childhood home. She took a job at Mansfield State Training School, where she met another employee, Clyde Dixon. The two began an extramarital affair — Dixon was also married — and Santoro became pregnant as a result. When Sam Santoro announced he was coming from California to visit his daughters, Gerri Santoro feared for her life. On June 8, 1964, six-and-a-half months into her pregnancy, she and Dixon checked into a motel in Norwich, Connecticut under aliases. Their intent was to perform a self-induced abortion, using surgical instruments and a textbook, which Dixon had obtained from a co-worker at the Mansfield school. However, when Santoro began to hemorrhage, Dixon fled the motel. She died, at age 28, and her body was found the following morning by a maid. Dixon was apprehended three days later. He was charged with manslaughter and "conspiracy to commit abortion" and sentenced to a year-and-a-day in prison. Police officers who worked the case called this term "negligible". Police took a photograph of Santoro's body as it was found: naked, kneeling, collapsed upon the floor, with a bloody towel between her legs. This picture was published in Ms. magazine in April 1973. It has since become a pro-choice symbol, used to illustrate the belief that access to legal, professionally-performed abortion reduces deaths from unsafe abortion.  ·  · |
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11-04-2009, 09:15 AM
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 Seriously? Poster Rank:642 Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 1,364 Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Quoted: 8 Post(s)
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Re: The REAL Reason Abortion Is Legal
Abortion is not a subject I like to discuss because it usually ends in an ugly debate because everyone believes their opinion is the "right" opinion. It's sad that woman had to die that way though.  |
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11-04-2009, 09:38 AM
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 Kelly's slave Poster Rank:692 Female Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 1,236 Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Quoted: 47 Post(s)
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Re: The REAL Reason Abortion Is Legal
only her fault?? did you not have sex ed classes? Cos the last time i looked it took 2 ppl to make a baby. Yes it is a shame that she had to die for this, luckily it is not like that now  |
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11-04-2009, 11:07 AM
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Re: The REAL Reason Abortion Is Legal
I'm pro-choice and this is a blant reason why... outlawing something doesn't make it stop it just makes it more dangerous
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11-04-2009, 11:17 AM
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Re: The REAL Reason Abortion Is Legal
Contraception was not nearly as common back then. Besides, that's not the point. It's not always the woman's fault when she gets pregnant. What about rape?
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11-04-2009, 12:19 PM
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Re: The REAL Reason Abortion Is Legal
Mr. Bubblegum..... her fault she got pregnant why feel sorry for her?......................WHAT A STUPID THING 2 SAY....AND U BEING A MAN......THAT'S JUST STUPID.......
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