Your Tax Dollars at Work and Other Abortion Deaths

Diana and her children Diana Lopez , age 25, was 19 weeks pregnant when she went to a Planned Parenthood for a safe and legal abortion on ...

Two Deaths Before Roe

" Roseanne " is one of the women Life Dynamics identifies on their " Blackmun Wall " as having been killed by a safe and...

Deaths from the 1920s

On February 6, 1924, Ida Cantor performed an abortion on Wanda Szidzewicz . Wanda developed septicemia after the abortion, and went to a M...

A "Trunk Mystery" and Two Other Criminal Deaths

On February 25, 1918, 34-year-old homemaker Mary Mayer died at Presbyterian Hospital in Pittsburgh. The coroner found that she had died of ...

Two Early 20th Century Chicago Deaths

Today's anniversaries have this much in common: They died in Chicago hospitals, and very little information is available regarding these...

New Bride Dead at Doctor Husband's Hands and Three Other Pre-Legalization Deaths

On February 14, 1943, Amelia Cardito , 34-year-old mother of 4, underwent an illegal abortion at the office of Dr. Anthony Renda . Amelia di...

A Typical Pre-Legalization Death

On February 21, 1929, 26-year-old Virginia Clark died of complications of a botched, illegal abortion. G. W. Wilbanks and W. A. N. Jones w...

A Confession about Carhart and Jennifer Morbelli

I had a conversation with a friend many years ago. He said he wasn't going to be able to leave town for a while because he had jury du...

Abortion Deaths: What Has Changed?

When 23-year-old Stacy Ruckman had just gotten a new job when she went to Scott Barrett for a safe and legal abortion on February 20, 1988...

Legal and Illegal, Sixty Years Apart

Magnolia Thomas was a 35-year-old mother of two when she went to Hedd Surgi-Center in Chicago for a safe, legal abortion , performed by Ru...

Three Historic Criminal Deaths

On February 18, 1916, Mrs. Beulah Hatch , age 24, died at Mercy Hospital in Denver. Dr. Bennett Graff , already out on bond while awaiting t...

Four Criminal Deaths, 1890 - 1239

On February 16, 1929, Mrs. Ruth Weir , of East Orange, New Jersey, died at Orange Memorial Hospital of sepsis contracted through a criminal...

Four Deaths Over the Decades

Doris Grant , age 32, was admitted by W. W. Williams to Doctor's Hospital in Los Angeles for a safe and legal abortion February 11, 19...

Two Valentine's Day Tragedies for Social Opposites

On February 14, 1942, socialite Florence Nimick Schnoor , age 24, died at St. Joseph's Hospital in New York of what the coroner called ...

Three Historic Deaths: 1858, 1897, and 1929

When Jemima Beneway's family and friends saw her off at the Poughkeepsie train station on February 4, 1858, they thought she was going ...

Seven Abortion Deaths, 1861 - 1992

During early 1861, Dr. John H. Joecken was caring for Mr. Malinken, who was ailing in his Brooklyn home. On one of his visits, Malinken...

A 1995 Death I Only Just Learned About

When 24-year-old Ta Tanisha Wesson went to Family Planning Associates Medical Group in the Los Angeles area on January 26, 1995 for a safe...

An Unusual Case from 1957: Veterinarian Perpetrates Fatal Abortion

On February 10, 1957, veterinarian Ira Ledbetter performed an abortion on 38-year-old Alice Kimberly . Ledbetter used a veterinary instrum...

1911: Midwife's Fatal Work in Chicago

On February 9, 1911, 47-year-old homemaker Elizabeth Martin died at German American Hospital in Chicago from sepsis caused by of an aborti...

NAF Member LeRoy Carhart Just Killed Patient in Maryland

Jennifer UPDATE: Carhart's victims have been identified as Jennifer McKenna-Morbelli and her unborn daughter, Madison Leigh. The Center...

Both Ends of the Pre-Legal Spectrum: Self-Induced and Doctor's Work

On February 8, 1919, Ruth Fragale , a 20-year-old clerk, died at her home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her mother, Clesta M. Cochran, and ...

Historic death from 1871. How Have Things Changed?

On February 11, 1871, Dr. C. C. O'Donnell was arrested for murder in the death of 20-year-old mother and homemaker. Addie Hand of Clem...