Three Doctors' Fatal Handiwork: 1927, 1926, 1874

On November 30, 1874, Mrs. Mary Dix died at her Chicago home from complications of a criminal abortion performed there. Dr. W. F. Aiken was...

Chicago, 1930

Seventeen-year-old Miss Dorothy Jasinski was brought to St. Mary's Hospital in Chicago by two unidentified women on November 17, 1930....

1888 in the Dakota territories

Mrs. George Libby , age 18, died November 28, 1888, in Wahpeton in the Dakota territories. Before her death she admitted that she had bought...

Two Deaths Nearly 50 Years Apart

On November 26, 1923, 23-year-old Alice S. Johnson died at Chicago's West End Hospital from a criminal abortion performed there that d...

2003: Alabama Woman Sent Home to Bleed to Death

Leigh Ann Stephens Alford , age 34, underwent a safe and legal abortion at the hands of Dr. Malachy DeHenre (pictured) at Summit Medical C...

Three Family Tragedies

On November 24, 1907, Lizzie Paulseu , age 38, died at County Hospital in Chicago from an abortion performed that day. John and Minnie Nelso...

1909, Anna Pozatevich and the "Abortion Provider"

On November 23, 1909, Anna Pozajevich , age 24, died in Chicago home from an abortion performed on November 7. Julia Adamovitch was indict...

Two Chicago Deaths from the Early 20th Century

On November 22, 1913, 33-year-old Hulda Tubbin died in Chicago, at the scene of an abortion perpetrated that day by Dr. Olaf Olson. Though...

1924: Unknown Perp in Chicago

On November 21, 1924, 24-year-old Mildred Bleschke died at Chicago's Grant Hospital from complications of an abortion performed earlie...

Three Deaths and the Dubious "Benefits" of Legalization

On November 20, 1925, 29-year-old Anna Kick died in Chicago's Washington Park Hospital from an abortion performed that day at an undis...

Three Pre-Roe Tragedies

Today's first sad story, which transpired in the autumn of 1862, is one about which I found bountiful sources and poignant information. ...

Two coasts and in between

Since abortion was illegal for far longer than it was legal, of course I have more illegal than legal abortion deaths in the Cemetery of Cho...

1935: Known Abortionist Gets Away With Killing Patient

On November 17, 1935, Georgia Marie McGil l, 21-year-old daughter of oil company superintendent George McGill, died from an apparent crimin...

Two Very Different Responses to Docs Killing Patients

I have found a lot of information on both women whose deaths we commemorate today. Click on each woman's name to learn more about her st...

Three Deaths from Early 20th Century Chicago

On November 15, 1901, 22-year-old Irma Brown of Garden City, Kansas, died at Chicago's County Hospital from complications of an aborti...

One Illegal, One Legal, Both Dead

On November 14, 1928, 21-year-old Eunice McElroy died in Chicago from complications of a criminal abortion. On July 24, 1931, Dr. Thomas J....

Two Criminal Deaths

On November 12, 1917, 22-year-old Mrs. M. Linstrom died at Chicago's American Hospital from an abortion perpetrated by Dr. Anna Sorens...

Four criminal anniversaries

The first tragic anniversary today actually began on November 8, 1875, when 19-year-old Mary Alice Foorman suddenly disappeared from her h...

Two Safe and Legal Deaths

Demetrice Andrews , age 22, underwent an abortion on October 17, 1988. She became progressively ill, and was finally admitted to Grady Memor...

"High Standards" and Death

Eighteen-year-old Christine Mora underwent a safe, legal abortion at Doctors' Surgical Center in Cypress, California -- an FPA (Family...

Two deaths from pre-Roe Chicago

On November 6, 1914, 25-year-old Genevive Tatar died at Cook County Hospital in Chicago from complications of an abortion performed by an ...

Few details on 1928 death, clear culpability in 1977 death

On November 4, 1928, 22-year-old Anna Borndal died at the office of Dr. Lou E. Davis of Chicago, from complications of an abortion perform...

1983: Trying to treat a perforated bowel with a laxative

Twenty-six-year-old Moris Helen Herron went to Bakersfield, California abortionist William D. Stanley for a tubal ligation in October of ...

The Invisible Death

Legend has it that the Centers for Disease Control keep track of abortion deaths. The case of Latachie Veal should lay that legend to res...

Safe and Legal Hemorrhage Death

Life Dynamics lists 24-year-old Karretu Jabbie on their " Blackmun Wall " of women killed by legal abortions. According to LDI, K...

"Health of the Mother" and a Mystery Death

On November 1, 1991, 21-year-old Anjelica Duarte underwent an abortion by Dr. Larry Thompson at Women's Place Clinic in Las Vegas, Neva...