Update on Planned Parenthood's Latest Victim

The latest patient to die from the care at Planned Parenthood has been identified. Tonya Reaves, age 24, was rushed to Northwest Memorial Ho...

Woman Bled to Death on Friday from Abortion at Chicago PP

An unidentified 24-year-old woman I'll call "Bella" Roe was rushed to Northwest Memorial Hospital in Chicago and pronounced d...

Two Chicago Deaths from the Early 20th Century

On July 21, 1907, homemaker Madeline Paffrath died at German American Hospital in Chicago. She was approximately 21 years old. The coroner...

Two Pre-Roe Abortion Deaths

On July 18, 1918, 18-year-old Margaret Smith , an unmarried clerk, died at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh.  The coroner determined...

Abortion Deaths -- Prevented by Legalization?

Very little is on record about the death of 17-year-old Gertrude Wynants . According to the   New York Times , Gertrude died on July 19, 192...

A Typical Death, 1921

On July 14, 1921, 23-year-old Mrs. Edna Rohner died at Illinois Masonic Hospital in Chicago from an abortion perpetrated by Dr. Otto Klemmi...

1921: A Typical Abortion Death

On July 14, 1921, 23-year-old Mrs. Edna Rohner died at Illinois Masonic Hospital in Chicago from an abortion perpetrated by Dr. Otto Klemmi...

Three Tragedies, 1926, 1934, 1998

On July 13, 1926, a laborer on his way to work stumbled across a grisly find: the dismembered remains of a young woman, tossed along the si...

One Illegal, Two Legal, and an Unusual Prosecution

On July 9, 1916, 27-year-old homemaker Mina Malletti died at Chicago's Washington Park Hospital from complications of a abortion perfo...

Legalization No Help at All

On July 8, 1929, 26-year-old Frances Rogers died from a criminal abortion. The source summary says that the abortion was done in an unknown...

1950 & 1982: Equally Dead, Not Equally Remembered

I was originally very skeptical about the story told on the National Organization for Women web site. They said that Vivian Campbell was a...

Abortion Deaths, 1930 & 1970

On July 6, 1930, Mary Tulis , age 34, died in Chicago from complications of an abortion performed that day. Marie La Montagne, who lived at ...

A Typical Early 20th Century Death

Homemaker Rosa May Swope of Canton, Illinois, died in mid-July of 1901 of complications of a botched abortion. Both her husband, George W....

Historic Deaths, Perps Professions Unknown

"The community around Oyster Bay are greatly excited over an abortion case that has been brought to light." The woman, Miss Bertra...

Midwife in 1917, Doctor in 1929

On July 3, 1917, 31-year-old homemaker Helen Skoza died at Chicago's Henroten Hospital from an abortion perpetrated by Elizabeth Schade...

1900 Abortion Kills Patient, Midwife

On July 2, 1900, Mrs. Sarah Bonda , age 20, died at her home as a result of a criminal abortion performed on her there that day. When police...

Four Abortion Deaths, 1882 - 1981

On Saturday, July 1, 1882, Gussie Ellergood of Carlisle, Illinois, died in a St. Louis hospital. She had been admitted the previous Wedne...