1923: Chicago Doc Kills Teen Patient

On October 16, 1923, 19-year-old Lydia Nelson died at Chicago's Englewood Hospital from an abortion performed there that day, evidently...

1972: Saline Abortion Kills California Teen

Sixteen-year-old Natalie Meyers was brought to San Vicente Hospital in Los Angeles by her mother for a safe and legal abortion on October...

1929: Doc Indicted for Abortion Death

On October 12, 1929, 33-year-old homemaker Agnes Johnson , a native of Tours, France, underwent a criminal abortion at the Chicago office o...

1922: Fatal Handiwork of a Chicago Abortionist/Midwife

On October 25, 1922, 24-year-old homemaker Lillian Hulbert  died at Chicago's St. Anne's Hospital from complications of a criminal...

Two Deaths: Illeval vs. Safe and Legal

On October 24, 1917, 24-year-old homemaker Stella Ahern died at her Chicago home from an abortion performed by an unknown perpetrator. Note...

Planned Parenthood: Pre-Natal Care? Or Something Else?

Check out the Planned Parenthood page about prenatal care : *What is prenatal care? *What will happen during my first prenatal care visit? ...

A Range of Abortion Deaths, 1913 - 1981

Emma Bickel, a 59-year-old midwife , was charged with second-degree manslaugher in the death of 19-year-old Emily Nohavec of St. Louis. O...

Doc's Fatal Work in 1914

Dr. F. Waldo Whitney , age 61, was convicted of manslaughter in the October 22, 1914 abortion death of Mrs. Margaret Buetelman . He was sen...

Abortion Deaths: 1877, 1921, 1971

On October 20, 1877, Nellie Ryan , an unmarried 21-year-old white woman from Turner Junction, Illinois, died in Chicago during a criminal ...

Fatal Abortions by "Provider," Naturopath, and Ob/Gyn

On October 19, 1910, Pelagia Usorowski , age 32, died in a Chicago residence from an abortion that had been performed on October 13. Rosali...

Four Pre-Legalization Abortion Deaths

In early October of 1883, a widow only identified as  Mrs. O'Connor died from a criminal abortion in Halifax. "Dr. Archibald Lawso...

Doctor's Fatal Work in 1927 Chicago

On October 5, 1927, 31-year-old Auna Arola underwent a criminal abortion in Chicago. She died on October 18. On October 29, Dr. Vincent Tona...

Three Pre-Roe Abortion Deaths: 1936, 1939, 1971

On October 11, 1936, 18-year-old Margie Fraser died in a hospital in her hometown of Helena, Montana from complications of a botched abor...

Biden's Planned Parenthood Gaffe

At a recent campaign stop in Wisconsin, Vice-President Joe Biden told supporters that Planned Parenthood "under law cannot perform any ...

Abortion Deaths: 1913, 1926, 1981, and 2000

On October 11, 1913, 28-year-old Frances Odochowski died in Chicago at the scene of an abortion perpetrated that day by Dr. Arthur L. Blun...

1916: Chicago Doctor's Fatal Handiwork

Earnest Projahn answered the questions put to him by the deputy coroner during the inquest into the death of his 33-year-old wife, Emily P...

1904 & 1937: Illegal Abortion Deaths

On October 6, 1904, Mrs. Mary Lawson died at Passavant Hospital in Chicago, from complications of a criminal abortion. Dr. Alois Rassmusse...

The Twat Patrol (profanity alert)

You just can't make this shit up. Abortion-rights activist K. Travis Ballie tweeted this afternoon: “.@NARAL & @NARALColorado as w...

October 3, 1977: The Death of Rosie Jimenez

In 1976, the Hyde Amendment went into effect, banning the use of Federal funds to pay for abortions except to save the mother from an imme...

PP's "Ask Mitt"

The Planned Parenthood Action Fund has an " Ask Mitt " page purportedly allowing visitors to vote on which question they think Mit...

I Learn of Two More RU-486 Deaths

Some time in 2008, 29-year-old "Carmen" Roe began a regimen for an RU-486 abortion. She was a Hispanic woman with diabetes. She ...

Five Deaths Over a Century

On October 1, 1908, 21-year-old Mary Rahn died in Chicago from complications of an abortion performed that day. Mrs. Frida Trappe was arr...