Obituary: Mildred Jefferson

[Perd Hapley]

First black woman to graduate from Harvard Medical, and "the greatest orator of [the anti-abortion] movement."

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/19/us/19jefferson.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries

[roo_ster]

“I am at once a physician, a citizen and a woman, and I am not willing to stand aside and allow this concept of expendable human lives to turn this great land of ours into just another exclusive reservation where only the perfect, the privileged and the planned have the right to live.”