NARAL Co-Founder Proskauer Smith Dies

Ruth Proskauer Smith, a longtime abortion-rights advocate and one of the founding members of NARAL Pro-Choice America, died Friday in Manhattan at age 102, the New York Times reports. Smith’s work in the reproductive rights field began as a field worker for the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts in the 1940s, and she later worked as the group’s executive secretary…

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