Constance E. Cook
Constance E . Cook ( August 17 , 1919 – January 20 , 2009 ) was an American Republican Party politician who served in the New York State Assembly , where she co-authored a bill signed into law that legalized abortion in New York three years before the "Roe v . Wade" decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1973 legalized the practice nationwide . 
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