Rosie Jimenez

Rosie Jimenez (1950 - 1977), also known as Rosaura Jimenez, is the first woman known to have died in the United States due to an illegal abortion after the Hyde Amendment was passed.[1][2][3] Jimenez died at age 27 in 1977 from an illegal abortion in McAllen, Texas.[4] At the time she was a student who would have earned a teaching credential in six months, as well as the single mother of a five-year-old daughter.[3][5]

The book ROSIE: The Investigation of a Wrongful Death (1979), by Ellen Frankfort, with Frances Kissling, is about Jimenez.[2][6] Five percent of the royalties of that book were planned to be contributed to the Rosie Jimenez Fund of financial assistance to poor people wishing to have abortions in Texas.[2]

A 1995 compilation album issued by 550 Music/Epic Records called Spirit of '73: Rock For Choice was put together by the activist group Feminist Majority, and the liner notes state that the proceeds of the album went to supporting the Becky Bell/Rosie Jimenez Campaign "to lift consent laws and federal funding restrictions that are forcing young women to turn to back-alley abortions".

Since 1995, the Abortion Access Project has organized Rosie Jimenez Day every October 3, as well as sponsored speak-outs and other events every year that month to remember her.[5]

Activism of the Socialist Party of Massachusetts includes, among other things, annual demonstrations to mark Rosie Jimenez Day.

See also

References
  1. "Hyde Amendment". Newpol.org. Retrieved 2017-10-07.
  2. "Books: Rosie,' a Death". New York Times. October 12, 1979.
  3. Lawrence Lader (1995). A Private Matter: RU 486 and the Abortion Crisis. Prometheus Books. p. 132. ISBN 978-1-57392-012-4.
  4. Grant, Rebecca (September 13, 2017). "Does Your Insurance Cover Abortion?". The New Republic.
  5. Bloom, Marcy (October 3, 2007). "Remembering Rosie: We Will Not Forget You". Rewire.
  6. Ellen Frankfort; Frances Kissling (1979). Rosie: The Investigation of a Wrongful Death. Dial Press. ISBN 978-0-8037-7504-6.
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