That's the number of women who died annually from botched abortions in the 1930s, when birth control and abortion were both illegal. 

I'm still here in Cambridge at the Women, Action, Media! conference, and I'm watching a screening of "I Had an Abortion," a documentary that features 10 women, 21 to 85, who've had an abortion. The first woman to tell her story in the film had an underground abortion in 1938. When she contracted an infection in the following days and sought care at a hospital, the nurses shunned her because she refused to reveal who had performed her abortion.

Another woman was hauled in front of a New York City grand jury in the 1950s and asked to testify against the kind doctor who had performed her abortion.

Never forget.