Four anniversaries

Mary L. Stone , a 26-year-old native of England, was living in New York City with her husband, George, in 1854. Some time in late August, ...

1908: Mystery death in Chicago

On October 14, 1908, Olga Anderson , age 23, died in Chicago from complications of an abortion. There is no record of who was the guilty par...

Two women "endangered," two "protected," all four dead.

On October 11, 1913, 28-year-old Frances Odochowski , a married woman, died in Chicago at the scene of an abortion perpetrated that day by ...

1916: Victim of laws, or of lack of antibiotics and blood transfusions?

On October 9, 1916, Emily Projahn died at the Chicago office of Dr. Clarence W. Merceraue from complications of an abortion he had perpet...

Why not ask the people who REALLY know abortion from experience?

My FaceBook friend Kathy Peterson points out that abortion supporters often insist that unless you've been the one on the abortion table...

A midwife's work, and a beneficiary of New York's abortion law

On October 5, 1911, 38-year-old Mrs. Mary Bambrick died from an abortion perpetrated that day by midwife Emma Schultz. Schultz was held by...

A 19th century abortion death

Mary Jacquay Doyle , wife of P.M. Doyle, died in Buffalo, NY, on October 2, 1867, from "convulsions produced by an abortion within the...