Other February Deaths, All Historic

On this, the last day of February, let's take a moment to remember the women who died in February on dates I've been unable to narro...

From 1914 and an Unknown Perp to 2002 at Planned Parenthood, a Half-Dozen Abortion Deaths

On February 28, 1914, 23-year-old homemaker Martha Kwasek died in Chicago from septicemia caused by an abortion performed by an unknown p...

Three Equally Dead

On February 27, 1920, 28-year-old Sophie Krawczyk died in her Chicago home from an abortion perpetrated by Mary Simka, whose profession i...

One Midwife, Two Doctors, Many Deaths

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

Two Professional and One Self-Induced

Jennie P. Clark's body was found stuffed into a trunk in Lynn, Massachusetts on February 27, 1879. The trunk, lodged in shallow, icy ...

Four Criminal Deaths

Twenty-six-year-old doctor Lester C. Long married Helen Turner , daughter of Circuit Judge C. M. Turner of Cambridge, Illinois, in December...

KS Medical Board Decides Rubber Stamping Late Abortions is Bad After All

‘Professionally incompetent’: Abortionist stripped of license over late-term abortion referrals Life Site News reports that erstwhile aborti...

Woman Attributes Heart Attack Symptoms to Recent Abortion, Dies

Shirley Hollis, a 30-year-old mother of two, had an abortion performed by Bruce Lucero on February 22, 1991. Shortly after she went home, s...

1929: Virginia Clark

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 ...

Five From the Dark Ages and One From Our Days of Enlightenment

An inquest was held in the February 20, 1856 death of Catharine DeBreuxal . A witness testified that Catharine suffered "a violent hemo...

Two deaths in 1916

On February 19, 1916, homemaker Mary Peckman , age 24, died in Chicago from complications of a criminal abortion . She refused to name her ...

Two 19th Century Deaths

In mid-February of 1860, 18-year-old Cordelia Calkins was living with her 16-year-old sister in a Brooklyn boarding house. They worked inte...

The Carnage Carries On

Before her death on February 17, 1917, 20-year-old stenographer Edna May Lamb reported that Dr. Charles Klinetop had packed her cervix wi...

The World of the "Abortion Doula"

This gruesome little article goes straight into the realm of inadvertent honesty in its subtitle, saying, "Pro-Choice Activists Esc...

Four Deaths From the Bad Old Days

Today's anniversaries are all pre-legalization deaths , including two unusual deaths: one by a perpetrator whose profession I've bee...

Putting "Kitchen Table Abortions" into Context

As I've said before, tales of kitchen-table abortions in the "bad old days" need to be placed in the context of their times, w...

Doctors, Husbands, Friends, and Death

On February 15, 1917, 28-year-old Marie Benzing died at Chicago Union Hospital from an abortion perpetrated that day by Dr. Helen Dugdale ...

Safe and Legal in Illinois: Deaths in 1998, 2001, and 2009

I'd contacted the Pro Life Action League about the deaths Meghan Twohey wrote about in the Chicago Tribune . John Jansen really came thr...

Rich and poor, black and white, the end was the same

Today's abortion victims couldn't have been more different. One was white, the daughter of privilege, a globe-trotting society girl ...

One Down, Four to Go

On the 10th, I blogged that the Fatality Fairy had failed me regarding five abortion deaths in Illinois. Well, thanks to AbortionDocs.org ,...

Promised Marriage, Delivered to Death, and A Midwife's Fatal Handiwork

Jemima Beneway's finance, John Olmstead, told Jemima's parents that he wanted to take her to his parents' home in Connecticut...

Two Illegal and Two "Therapeutic" Abortions, All Fatal

On February 11, 1907, housemaid Nellie Walsh , a 28-year-old Irish immigrant, was brought to National Emergency Hospital in Chicago in gra...

"While you're here," and three other fatal abortion cases

During early 1861, Caroline Malinken , age 35, approached Dr. John H. Joecken , who was caring for her ailing husband in their Brooklyn home...

The Fatality Fairy has Failed me Again

Supporters of legal abortion sometimes snark at me based on the assumption that the post-Roe deaths on the Cemetery of Choice somehow inclu...

1957: You can't explain away a bloody woman in the front seat of your car

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

The Abortion Rate Among Planned Parenthood's Clients: 7X the National Average

A recap of what Jennie so eloquently puts forth: The number of abortions in America has remained stable for over a decade, but since 1996, P...

Another Chicago Midwife's Fatal Work

On February 9, 1911, homemaker Elizabeth Martin died in Chicago from complications of an abortion . Mrs. Schutner , identified as a midwif...

Which one was typical?

On February 8, 1919, Ruth Fragale , a 20-year-old clerk, died at her home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.The coroner found that she had died ...

Two Criminal, Two Safe and Legal, all Fatal

On February 6, 1919, 22-year-old homemaker Edna Griffith died at Chicago's Passavant Hospital from complications of an abortion perpe...