1972: Doc Chooses Risky Approach, Kills Teen

Fifteen-year-old Gwendolyn M. Drummer was a student at Harry Ellis High in Richmond, California, when she was admitted to Doctor's Hosp...

Other January Deaths

I've been unable to pinpoint the date on which these women lost their lives to abortion, but I still want their lives and deaths to be r...

Two Midwives's Fatal Work

A coroner's inquest into the January 30, 1893 death of Bertha Kern at St. Mark's Hospital in New York concluded that she had died ...

Three Historic Deaths

Rose Lipner , age 32, mother of 2, died at Riverdale Hospital on January 29, 1936. Dr. Maxwell C. Katz, who lived at Riverdale (maternity)...

Tragedies from the 19th and 20th Centuries

Today's anniversaries run the full gamut of abortion deaths, from the self-induced and lay abortion to abortions performed by doctors bo...

"I cry every day when think of how horrible her death was."

On January 24, 1987, 37-year-old Belinda Ann Byrd had a safe and legal abortion performed by Stephen Pine at Inglewood Women's Hospit...

1920, 1956, 1990 -- All Equally Dead

On January 26, 1920, 23-year-old Lydia Swanson , daughter of Swedish immigrants, died at Chicago's Post Graduate Hospital from an abort...

One Year Later, No Action On Woman's Death

Police and health officials announced an intention to investigate the death of 37-year-old Alexandra Nunez after an abortion performed at ...

I missed two days

I've been so wrapped up in my research that I've totally forgotten to post for the past two days. There are no anniversaries in the ...

Three Criminal Deaths

On January 21, 1919, 26-year-old Wanda Skrzypzak died at Chicago's St. Elizabeth's Hospital Michael Rozumski and Dr. John P. Wojta...

Five Equally Dead

I have very scanty information about the January 20, 1846 death of Mary Ackerly of White Plains, New York. Mary was the illiterate, uneduca...

1880: Scanty information on abortion death

At the very beginning of 1880, Mary McCarty , wife of C.H. McCarty of New Haven, was the "unsuspecting and unfortunate victim of the cr...

1912: Doc's Efforts Kill Chicago Homemaker

On January 17, 1912, 38-year-old homemaker Minnie Miller died from an abortion perpetrated that day by Dr. C.W. Klinetop . Klintop was ident...

Five Tragic Anniversaries

There are so many anniversaries today that I can only provide brief snippets. Click on each woman's name to learn more about how abortio...

Three Equally Dead

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

Two More Beneficiaries of Safe, Legal Abortion

Today's anniversaries mark the benefits of safe, legal abortion to a teenage girl and a young woman. Christella Marie Forte , age 16, sc...

Fruits of "Abortion Care" -- 1911, 1915, and 2005

On January 13, 1911, 27-year-old homemaker Rauha Wilen died at the scene of an abortion . Midwife Mary Rominel was arrested and indicted b...

Four Victims of Abortionists

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...

Two Equally Dead

Today's first death is one of the illegal kind the abortion lobby gets upset about. The second is of the safe and legal kind that are di...

Three Equally Dead

On January 8, 1918, 20-year-old homemaker Margaret Marie Balch , nee Farnsworth, died in a Chicago home from an abortion perpetrated by a ...

Two Doctors' Fatal Handiwork

On January 7, 1901, 21-year-old Juliet K. Pottinger (alt. Julia K. Pettinger) died in her home at 520 Wood St., Chicago, from an abortion...

Two Chicago Deaths, Two Decades Apart

Twenty-eight-year-old Ida Vierow was found dead in a ditch near Dunning, Illinois. It was determined that she had died January 6, 1905, fr...

1930: Russian immigrant dies at unknown perp's hands

On January 5, 1930, bookkeeper Sonia Ragins , age 26, died from an illegal abortion performed at an unknown location by an unknown person. ...

Two Criminal, Two Legal, All Lethal

Margaret Crowe , age 25, died from Dr. Anna Sorenson's dubious care at Chicago's Norwegian Deaconnes Hospital on January 2, 1918....