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Feb 15, 2012
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Jane Hodgson

Age: 91

abortion-rights activist and subject of a 1970 test case in which she became the only doctor in the United States to be convicted of illegally performing an abortion in a hospital. The conviction was overturned after the Roe v. Wade decision, and she served no jail time.

Died: Rochester, Minn., Oct. 23, 2006

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