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....