Getting it Right: Savita Halappanavar Never Requested an Abortion

One of the most deplorable things that's happening in the scandal over the death of Savita Halappanavar is the media complicity in misre...

Three Chicago Docs' Fatal Work over Half a Century

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

Two Lethal Abortionists, Identified and Unidentified

On November 29, 1926, 25-year-old stenographer Mary Moorehead died from a criminal abortion in the Chicago office of Dr. Lucy Hagenow . Ha...

Historic Case From Dakota Territory.

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, Roughly 50 Years Apart. Did Legalization Bring Improvement?

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

Three Thanksgiving Season Family Tragedies

On November 24, 1907, homemaker Lizzie Paulson , age 38, died at County Hospital in Chicago from an abortion performed that day. John and M...

An Early 20th Century Death

On November 18, 1909, Anna Pozajevich , age 24, died in Chicago home from an abortion performed on November 7. Julia Adamovitch was indict...

Two Early 20th Century Abortion Deaths

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...

Deaths Back to the Civil War Era

James Anderson had already suffered much as autumn of 1862 passed. His eldest son, a soldier, had been killed in the line of duty in Augus...

1935: Oklahoma Doc's Fatal Efforts

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

Two Deaths Roughly 100 Years Apart

On November 16, 1905, 18-year-old Dorothy Spuhr died in County Hospital in Chicago from an abortion performed on November 13. A woman na...

Three Pre-Legal Deaths in Chicago

On November 15, 1901, 22-year-old Erma Brown of Garden City, Kansas, died at County Hospital from complications of an abortion performed t...

"Woman 'denied a termination' dies in hospital"

Woman 'denied a termination' dies in hospital This article is currently making the rounds. The movement to remove all protection fro...

1910: Chicago Midwife's "Help" Proves Fatal

On November 13, 1910, 32-year-old Norwegian immigrant Pauline Braasch died in her Chicago home from an abortion performed there, possibly ...

Pre and Post Legalization Deaths: Any Improvement?

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...

Two Pre-Legalization Deaths

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

Four Crimal Abortion Deaths, 1875 - 1929

On November 8, 1875, 19-year-old Mary Foorman suddenly disappeared from her home. "No traces could be found of her, and grave suspici...

Two Safe and Legal Deaths: Would More Die if Not For Legalization?

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

What's the point of an abortion?

In anything a doctor does to/for a patient, there is a desired effect, and there are possible side effects, which might or not be unwelcome....

Two Abortion Deaths: 19th Century and 20th Century

Mr. and Mrs. William J.F. Bullerman ran "a rather mysterious sort of rookery" in Chicago on November 8, 1879. There, police disc...

1914: Unknown Perp Leaves Chicago Woman Dead

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

Abortion Deaths Before and After Roe

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

1983: Doc Pokes Hole in Woman's Bowel, Prescribes Laxative

Twenty-six-year-old Moris Helen Herron went to Bakersfield, California abortionist William D. Stanley for a tubal ligation in October of 1...

It's Not Hard to Fly Under the CDC's Radar

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

Two Safe-n-Legal Deaths from the Early 1990s

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