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...