Five Equally Dead

I have very scanty information about the January 20, 1846 death of Mary Ackerly of White Plains, New York. Mary was the illiterate, uneduca...

1880: Scanty information on abortion death

At the very beginning of 1880, Mary McCarty , wife of C.H. McCarty of New Haven, was the "unsuspecting and unfortunate victim of the cr...

1912: Doc's Efforts Kill Chicago Homemaker

On January 17, 1912, 38-year-old homemaker Minnie Miller died from an abortion perpetrated that day by Dr. C.W. Klinetop . Klintop was ident...

Five Tragic Anniversaries

There are so many anniversaries today that I can only provide brief snippets. Click on each woman's name to learn more about how abortio...

Three Equally Dead

On January 15, 1907, 24-year-old housekeeper Sarah M. Cushing died in Wesley Hospital in Chicago, from complications of a criminal abortio...

Two More Beneficiaries of Safe, Legal Abortion

Today's anniversaries mark the benefits of safe, legal abortion to a teenage girl and a young woman. Christella Marie Forte , age 16, sc...

Fruits of "Abortion Care" -- 1911, 1915, and 2005

On January 13, 1911, 27-year-old homemaker Rauha Wilen died at the scene of an abortion . Midwife Mary Rominel was arrested and indicted b...