Two Deaths 80 Years Apart

On September 30, 1904, Stanislawa Zagonski died in Chicago from an illegal abortion performed that day. Mrs. Alexander Wojtanowski, whose p...

The Viral Tay-Sachs Story

I wish I could have had an abortion… — Paula’s Story I've tried googling Paula's story for more information, but all I get is re-re-...

Two Pre-Legal, Two Post-Legal, All Equally Dead

Mrs. Annie Heaney , age 50, died at Post Graduate Hospital in Chicago on September 26, 1906, from complications of a criminal abortion perf...

Safe and Legal Two Years Before Roe

Cassandra Bleavins , a 20-year-old clerk, had a safe and legal abortion performed on her at John Wesley Hospital , owned by Los Angeles Co...

Two Stories and Some Questions

We have plentiful information about today's anniversaries. Click on each woman's name to learn more about her story. A boarding-hou...

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

On September 15, 1925, Mary Williams , a 25-year-old woman born in Mississippi, died at Chicago's County Hospital from an abortion per...

Abortion Deaths from the 18th Century to the 20th

In one of the three Pomfret, Connecticut, colonial-era cemeteries leans a headstone reading, "Here Lyes Ye Body of M. Sarah Grosvenor ...

Scant Info From 1917, and Quackery from 2001

On September 12, 1917, 20-year-old Genevieve Popjoy of Momence, Illinois, died at Chicago's Northwest Side Hospital from a criminal a...

Safe and Legal in California, 1975

Thirty-one-year-old Mitsue Mohar went to Pacolma Lutheran Hospital in Los Angeles County for a safe and legal abortion on August 5, 1975....

Two Deaths and a Ruined Life

On September 9, 1913, 27-year-old Anna Adler , a homemaker, died in Chicago, on the scene of an abortion performed by Dr. Lou. E. Davis tha...

Two Dead Teens, 50 Years Apart

On September 8, 1923, 16-year-old Madge Bowman died at Chicago's Garfield Park Hospital from an abortion performed there that day. Mid...

Two Safe-n-Legal Abortion Deaths: One Wasn't Resuscitated; the Other Wasn't Pregnant

Twenty-four-year-old Synthia Dennard went to Biogenetics in Chicago for a safe, legal abortion and tubal ligation on September 7, 1989. T...

1871: Abandoned by Lover While Dying from Abortion

On Wednesday, August 23, 1871, 22-year-old Mary Russell , who worked at an envelope factory, went to the home of her brother-in-law, Willia...