In the 1960s and ‘70s, as Americans argued over legalizing abortion, supporters of abortion rights sometimes held coat hangers aloft as an eloquent, grisly reminder that desperate women used ...

The deadly coat-hanger abortion: It's an image that has been central to the pro-choice movement for 46 years, ever since Ms. Magazine published the iconic crime scene photo of Geraldine Santoro ...

When Anna Yocca was first arrested for using a coat hanger to induce a “self abortion” in a water-filled bathtub in 2015, Tennessee law enforcement charged her with first-degree attempted murder.