Santoro's sister and her surviving daughters — who were initially told their mother had died in a car accident — have spent decades grappling with the effects of the world sharing in Gerri's ...

In the image, which was taken by a police officer, 28-year-old Gerri Santoro can be seen lying naked, slumped facedown on the ground with her torso lying over her bent legs, her lower half covered ...

Her name was Gerri Santoro. Santoro’s death was one of many — all too many — which activists and healthcare workers sought to avoid by legalizing abortions and abortion care in the United ...

In 1964, Gerri Santoro died by self-induced abortion, and the distressing photo taken of her body, surrounded by the blood that killed her, would become a catalyst for the pro-choice movement.

Video from the scene showed protesters lying in a pool of fake blood, with one demonstrator posing in their underwear to reenact the death of Gerri Santoro, an American woman who died from an ...

According to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Gerri Santoro made headlines, as she was on the cover page of a national magazine. In 1964, 28-year-old Gerri Santoro died as a result of a failed ...

It was the publication of a photo of Gerri Santoro’s body, posed as though prostrating herself before an altar, that brought the abortion debate to the forefront following its publication in Ms ...