40 Years, 40 Faces of Choice (1983-1992)

1983: Dr. Judith Comeau-Samuel Comeau-Samuel and her husband, Dr. Maxen Samuel, ran a scam in New York. She and her husband would charge $75...

40 Years, 40 Faces of Choice (1973-1982)

1973: Theodore Roosevelt Mason Howard TR Mason Howard had impressive credentials as a civil rights activist.. He had opened Friendship Medic...

Two Each, Illegal and Legal; All Equally Dead

On January 26, 1920, 24-year-old Lydia Swanson died at Chicago's Post Graduate Hospital from an abortion perpetrated by Dr. Rosa Golln...

Four Criminal Abortion Deaths

On January 23, 1913, 33-year-old homemaker. Margaret Wagner died at Post Graduate Hospital in Chicago from an abortion perpetrated that da...

Roe Anniversaries: Barbara Shelgren, Jean Cohen, Kathryn Strong, and Vanessa Preston

On January 22, 1900, Mrs. Barbara Shelgren , age 25, died at Augustana Hospital in Chicago of an abortion performed that day. Paulina Bechte...

Three Pre-Legalization Deaths

On January 21, 1919, 26-year-old Wanda Skrzypzak died at Chicago's St. Elizabeth's Hospital from an abortion perpetrated by Dr. Mi...

Legal and Illegal, Abortion Kills

Mary Ackerly of White Plains, New York, was the uneducated daughter of a poor family. So it was only natural that she would be won by the ...

Two Beneficiaries of Safe and Legal Abortion

The two deaths we commemorate today were of beneficiaries of the legalization of abortion. Glenna Jean Fox, age 17,  underwent a second trim...

1912: The First of Three Deaths Attirbuted to Chicago Doctor

On January 17, 1912, 38-year-old homemaker Minnie Miller died at Columbus Hospital in Chicago from septicemia caused by an abortion perpe...

Five Deaths Raise Question: Who Did Legalization Help?

On January 16, 1901, Jennie Mallard died at Alexian Brothers Hospital in Chicago from an abortion performed that day. Mrs. Margaret Simmon...

1907, 1915, 1989: Three Equally Dead

On January 15, 1907, 24-year-old housekeeper Sarah Cushing died in Wesley Hospital in Chicago, from complications of a criminal abortion p...

An Antiquated Method and a Den of Quackery

Christella Forte , age 16, screamed, convulsed, and went into cardiac arrest 27 hours after instillation of saline for an abortion. at New ...

Deaths From Both Eras

Minnie Wittenborn died Thursday evening, January 13, 1880 from an abortion perpetrated by an unidentified person. Though Dr. Charles H. M...

Women Die When Vigilance Fails

On January 12, 1900, Mrs. Ida Henry , age 26, died at the home she shared with Dr. Paulina Bechtel , from complications of an abortion Becht...

Another Seedy NAF Member: Delta Clinic of Baton Rouge

Operation Rescue is covering the latest brouhaha over Delta Clinic of Baton Rouge , Louisiana. CP For Life gives us a chronology of Delta...