Fran Avallone (1937–2003), born Frances Janet Weinstein, was an American abortion rights advocate.
[2] A high school graduate,[2] she married novelist Michael Avallone and at 26, miscarried while five months pregnant.
[2] In 1973, she joined the Middlesex County (New Jersey) Planned Parenthood, in 1974 becoming president of the board and later serving as staff director of fundraising (1984-1989).
[1] Alarmed by continued restrictions on abortion access despite the Supreme Court mandate in Roe v. Wade in 1973,[4] Avallone founded New Jersey Right to Choose in 1975.
In 1982 the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled in favor of the lawsuit, overturning the ban in Right to Choose v.