Abortion Homicides, 1917 & 1986

On December 31, 1917, 40-year-old homemaker Victoria Chmileuski died in her Chicago home from an abortion perpetrated by Wilhemena Benn , ...

Two Criminal Deaths: 1904 & 1924

In late December of 1904, Stella Murgatroyd lay ailing at the home of her parents just outside Jacksonville, Illinois. At first her illnes...

Resculpting the Unconscious Violinist

Judith Jarvis Thompson's famous "Unconscious Violinist" argument in favor of abortion is posited thus: You wake up in the morn...

From Criminal in 1907 to Safe and Legal in 2003: All Equally Fatal

On December 29, 1907, 19-year-old Marcie Mayer (or Mamie Meyer) died in St. Elizabeth's hospital in Chicago from complications of a cr...

Unsolved Abortion Death from 1921

On December 28, 1921, Belle Keehn died at the Chicago Lying-In Hospital from an abortion perpetrated by an unknown doctor on or about Nove...

Mystery Woman Perpetrates Fatal Abortion

Rose Kulamer's husband, John, said that on Saturday, November 30, she'd told him that she'd been to see “a woman in the West E...

Four Christmas Eve Deaths

All of the women whose deaths we commemorate today died from criminal abortions, three of them at the hands of physicians and one at the han...

Late 19th Century Abortion Death, Chicago

On December 22, 1891, a Swedish girl named Tillie Thom was found dead at the office of Dr. Franklin Brooks in Chicago. Tillie had died of ...

Two Deaths Each Before and After Legalization

On December 21, 1915, 34-year-old Mrs. Anna Hunt died at Chicago's Rhodes Avenue Hospital from complications of an abortion perpetrate...

1926: Chicago Midwife's Fatal Handiwork

On December 13, 1926, 23-year-old Chicago native Mary Paradowski underwent a criminal abortion. She died on December 20 at Chicago Hospital...

The Non-Connection Between School Shootings and Abortion

While yes, the slaughter of 3,000 innocent unborn children a day is by far a tragedy of greater magnitude than any school shooting, I take e...

Two Criminal Deaths and One Illegal Safe and Legal Death

On December 28, 1871, an Illinois coroner's jury was called to investigate the December 18th death of Mrs. Amanda McCoy . Amanda had di...

Chicago 1914: Fatal Abortion By Unknown Perp

On December 17, 1914, 24-year-old Emma Fertig died at Chicago's West Side Hospital from an abortion performed by an unknown perpetrato...

Quacks, both Before and After Roe, Killed Multiple Women

On December 6, 1874, midwife Mrs. Johanna White perpetrated an abortion on Mrs. Christine Seifred . Christine had been unfaithful to her h...

One Criminal, Two Safe-n-Legal, All Dead

At around 9:10 p.m. On December 15, 1891, Dr. J. M. Ryall was called to the Pittsburgh home of 32-year-old Nancy Hildinger . He found her ...

Four 20th Century Abortion Deaths

On December 14, 1911, 34-year-old mother-of-four Mrs. Ella Kettler died from an abortion that Dr. Robert H. Foster had perpetrated at his ...

1996: Bled to Death With her Son in her Arms

First, a little background. In one session of a National Abortion Federation Risk Management Seminar, a participant indicated that when he ...

Two Incorrigible Criminal Abortionists and a Flukey Post-Roe Death

On Monday, December 12, 1892, Emily Anderson, a Chicago widow who kept a boarding house, died of peritonitis from a criminal abortion. Emil...

1927: The Infamous Rongetti Case

The first man sentenced to die in Illinois's electric chair was not a typical death row inmate: he was a physician whose patient died ...

Two Dead Chicago Teens, Nearly a Century Apart

On December 10, 1914, 13-year-old schoolgirl Ida Kaufman died in a Chicago home after an abortion performed by an unknown perpetrator. Not...

1956: The Deadly "Angel of Ashland"

On Saturday, December 8, 1956, 26-year-old Mary Davies of New York City arrived in the Ashland, Pennsylvania office of abortionist Dr. Rob...

Bring Out Your Dead (Part 1: The Narrative)

Images are powerful, particularly images of tragedy. This fact makes images a favorite tool of activists. A picture, as the saying goes, pai...