One Illegal Abortion and Extensive Legal Quackery

On May 8, 1928, 27-year-old Margaret Barnts died from a criminal abortion perpetrated by Pauline Zickerman or Nickelman. (The name is give...

Did Mom Let Doc off the Hook?

On May 7, 1905, Mrs. Hannah Calhoun died in Peoria, Illinois, from fever and blood poisoning attributed to an abortion. At first, Dr. J. W....

Three Criminal Deaths

Rosa Device was taken to Chambers Street Hospital in New York on Friday night, May 3, 1878. She was "in a hopeless condition" wh...

Fatal Abortions Across Over a Century

The evening of Sunday, May 4, 1865, Mrs. Mary Cressin went to the Eleventh Precinct station house and reported a suspicious death  in the ...

Safe and Legal in 1985

The survivors of 29-year-old Kathleen Gilbert sued David Turow and Women's Aid Clinic when she bled to death after her safe and lega...

"Unite Against the War on Women" (profanity alert)

Zombie has graciously shared some of the pictures set to go up on Ringo's Blog later today. I figured I'd respond to a few. I'l...

Two Deaths from the Pre Roe Era

I have scant information on the May 1, 1925 abortion death of 26-year-old Mary Sayers . She died at a Chicago residence from a criminal abor...