'She went on to be one of the most remarkable women I've ever met.'
The late former New York City mayor Ed Koch wrote in 1989, 'My mother told me that she tried to induce a miscarriage by jumping off chairs and trunks.' He explained that she had told him she had several abortions in her life. 'We were very poor. The prospect of another mouth to feed posed serious problems,' he wrote.
Her desperate attempts to end the pregnancy didn't work. When she finally accepted…