A 1923 death. The proper response?

On October 30, 1923, 19-year-old Mrs. Lydia Nelson died at Chicago's Englewood Hospital from an abortion performed there that day, evid...

All Equally Dead

Fifteen-year-old Sarah Jane Beaver disappeared from her Indiana home in April of 1876, and remained at large until late July, though there...

One of many to die at Fast Eddie's mills

Sixteen-year-old Natalie was brought to San Vicente Hospital in Los Angeles by her mother for a safe and legal abortion on October 21, 197...

Did laws kill Stella or save Deloris?

On October 24, 1917, 24-year-old Stella Ahern died at her Chicago home from an abortion performed by an unknown perpetrator. Lest we move t...

Doc goes to Sing Sing for killing abortion patient

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

Legal and illegal deaths, and lessons learned or left unlearned

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

Free Abortions!

Mighty generous, that Dr. Brandeis. He's giving away free abortions! Just in case the fact that it's FREE! is lost on the prospectiv...

A brief summary, a confession, and a medical board investigation

I know very little about the first woman featured today. On October 19, 1910, Pelagia Usorowski , age 32, died in a Chicago residence from ...

Four pre-legalization anniversaries

All four of today's anniversaries date back to pre-legalization days. In early October of 1883, Mrs. O'Connor , a widow, died from a...

Two abortions, half a century apart

On October 2, 1923, 16-year-old Lauretta Schranz underwent a criminal abortion somewhere in Chicago. On October 16, Lauretta died at Chicag...

Four anniversaries

Mary L. Stone , a 26-year-old native of England, was living in New York City with her husband, George, in 1854. Some time in late August, ...

1908: Mystery death in Chicago

On October 14, 1908, Olga Anderson , age 23, died in Chicago from complications of an abortion. There is no record of who was the guilty par...

Two women "endangered," two "protected," all four dead.

On October 11, 1913, 28-year-old Frances Odochowski , a married woman, died in Chicago at the scene of an abortion perpetrated that day by ...

1916: Victim of laws, or of lack of antibiotics and blood transfusions?

On October 9, 1916, Emily Projahn died at the Chicago office of Dr. Clarence W. Merceraue from complications of an abortion he had perpet...

Why not ask the people who REALLY know abortion from experience?

My FaceBook friend Kathy Peterson points out that abortion supporters often insist that unless you've been the one on the abortion table...

A midwife's work, and a beneficiary of New York's abortion law

On October 5, 1911, 38-year-old Mrs. Mary Bambrick died from an abortion perpetrated that day by midwife Emma Schultz. Schultz was held by...

A 19th century abortion death

Mary Jacquay Doyle , wife of P.M. Doyle, died in Buffalo, NY, on October 2, 1867, from "convulsions produced by an abortion within the...