found: Washington post WWW site, viewed Dec. 20, 2017(Janet Benshoof, a human rights lawyer who campaigned to expand access to contraceptives and abortion, leading organizations that advocated on behalf of women from the mainland United States to Burma, Iraq and Guam, died Dec. 18 [2017] at her home in Manhattan; she was 70; began her legal career just before the 1973 Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade established a woman's right to an abortion; spent the next four decades fighting to uphold the case's legacy in the United States and to expand women's reproductive freedom around the world, founding the New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights and Global Justice Center to defend clients that included abortion providers facing bomb threats as well as rape victims in war zones; Janet Lee Benshoof was born in Detroit Lakes, Minn., on May 10, 1947; co-founded the Harvard Women's Law Association; worked for South Brooklyn Legal Services, filing class-action lawsuits on behalf of low-income clients in New York, before joining the ACLU in 1977; left the organization 15 years later, during the "year of the woman")
