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Author: Virginia Cornue

Dr. Virginia Cornue was Executive Director of NOW-NYC during the fights for passage of Roe v. Wade and the ERA Extension Drive. She earned her doctorate in 2001 from Rutgers University studying new women’s organizations in post-Mao China. She is an author and part time professor of Anthropology and Sociology.
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Daring to Remember: The Four Illegal Abortions That Compelled Me to Fight for Roe

Virginia Cornue

Four illegal, life-threatening abortions touched my life—and informed my fight for Roe as Executive Director of NOW-NYC in the 1970s. We cannot return to those bloody, damaging, deadly days.

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