All Equally Dead

On August 29, 1918, 23-year-old homemaker Mabel Johnston died at Chicago's Cook County Hospital from an abortion perpetrated by Dr. Na...

Two Criminal Abortion Deaths: 1926 and 1943

On August 28, 1926, 44-year-old Margaret Muscia died from a criminal abortion performed that day in Chicago. Mrs. Minnie Miller, alias Moli...

Chicago Death: 1909

On August 27, 1909, homemaker and Cook County native Anna M. Dennin , age 23, died in Chicago from an abortion. Dr. E. Mayeke held by the c...

Five Fatal Abortions Over More Than a Century

Mrs. Lafavor , the 15-year-old wife of Frank Lafavor, was "the victim of ... inhuman outrage".  Frank had married his young bride...

Two Denver Deaths, 1923 & 1929

According to the National Organization for Women web site, Ruth Friedl was a married, 27-year-old mother of two. NOW's site said that...

Chicago: Three Typical Pre-Roe Deaths

On August 20, 1880, Miss Mary Faulkner , a white woman formerly of Ottawa, Canada, died at the office of Dr. Thomas J. Cream during the com...

Five 20th Century Abortion Deaths

Cook County Hospital, 1914 On August 19, 1917, 31-year-old seamstress Anna Lindquist died at Chicago's County Hospital from a criminal...

1901: Chicago Doc's Fatal Effort

Homemaker Annie Robinson , age 28, died at her Chicago home on August 18, 1901, from an abortion performed there that day. She left her hus...

Abortion Deaths: New York, 1971; Miami, 1978

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

1909:Doc's Work Kills Chicago Teen

On August 15, 1909, Lillian Swing , age 15, died in Chicago from an abortion performed on August 9. Dr. Hamilton Shaver and his wife were h...

1970: One of Five Patient Deaths at California Abortion Hospital

Sara Franki Lint , a 22-year-old coed, submitted to a safe and legal abortion at San Vicente Hospital in Los Angeles, California, on Augus...

Incorrigible Quacks, Pre and Post Roe

On August 10, 1917, 29-year-old Emelia Gorman died at Chicago's St. Mary's Hospital from a criminal abortion perpetrated that day ...

The CDC's Abortion Death Numbers, and What They Mean

The 2008 CDC Abortion Surveillance Summary has been released. The most recent year for which they present abortion deaths is 2007. Some vis...

1975: Antiquated, Needlessly Risky Abortion Kills California Woman

On August 6, 1975, 29-year-old Cheryl Tubbs underwent a saline abortion at Pacific Glen Hospital in Los Angeles County. She experienced he...

Why I'm Not Trying to Convert ProChoicers

I realize that saying this makes me sound like a heretic, but what I do with this blog is not intended to convert prochoicers to the prolife...