Chicago Doctors and Midwives, 1910-1923

Many physicians and midwives plied their trade as abortionists in early 20th century Chicago. On April 22, 1923, 30-year-old Daisy Singerlan...

Doctors and a Pharmacy Clerk

One of Three Deaths at Chicago Abortion Mill Dr. Dusan Zivkovic Brenda Benton's survivors sued Biogenetics after her death, claiming t...

Dr. Thacker's Bad Month and Other Cases

Safe and Legal in Texas, 1997 Sixteen-year-old Maureen Espinoza underwent a safe, legal abortion at a doctor's office in San Antonio on...

A String of Deaths in Oklahoma, and Possible Corruption in Chicago

The Beginning of a Tragic Series of Deaths Dr. Richard Thacker On April 14, 1932, 21-year-old Mrs. Isabelle Ferguson died of suspected ab...

Two Different Stellas, Two Different Decades

Safe and Legal in California, 1968 Stella Saenz , age 42, was one of the growing number of safe-and-legal abortion deaths that were to soon ...

A Mystery Abortion in Chicago, 1912

In the morning of April 10, 1912, 38-year-old Mrs. Grace Peters died at Columbus Hospital in Chicago. She had been taken to the hospital a...

Mystery Abortion, Chicago, 1928

On April 8, 1928, 26-year-old Mildred Jakobsen , a Chicago native, "took sick" at work. She died there before she could be taken t...

Three Abortions, Over a Century Ago

Mystery Abortion in Chicago, 1915 Katherine McFarland , a 25-year-old homemaker in Chicago, died on April 7, 1915 from peritonitis caused by...

Another Chicago Doctor's Abortion Business, 1927

On the morning of April 5, 1927, Arhne Reynolds died at the Chicago office of Dr. Louis Ginsburg from an abortion performed on her there th...

Safe and Legal, an Abortion Ring, and Other Cases

The First of Two Deaths in Two Years Mary Bradley , a 41-year-old mother of four, underwent a safe, legal 20-week abortion performed Dr. Ge...

Two Busy Abortionists and Other Sad Cases

Safe and Legal in Texas Sixteen-year-old Maureen Espinoza underwent a safe, legal abortion at a doctor's office in San Antonio on March...

Typical Chicago Abortion Deaths

Ellen Haro , a 31-year-old domestic servant, died at Illinois Masonic Hospital on April 2, 1943 from abortion complications.  Prior to her d...

Deaths in the First Third of the 20th Century

One of Six Clustered Victims of Dr. Guy E. Brewer  Dr. Guy E. Brewer Ruby Ford , a 26-year-old homemaker, died on April 1, 1934, 11 days af...

Patterns of Abortion Deaths and a Girl on a Train

Early 20th Century Illinois Two Deaths in Two Days Linked to Dr. Thomas Eade  Gladys Anderson During an inquest into the March 30, 1930 d...

From a Risky Legal Procedure to Chicago Criminal Abortionists

Saline Abortion Proves Fatal, as Warned Lynn McNair , age 24, was 23 weeks pregnant when she went to Jewish Memorial Hospital in New York f...

Accidental Poisoning, 1926

Ida Bosen , age 35, died in Chicago March 22, 1926. The mother of six had accidentally poisoned herself while trying to induce an abortion w...

A High Risk Abortion and Four Other Deaths

Lack of Due Diligence  Tyrone Maloy  On March 21, 2008, 23 year old Sherika Mayo went to Summit Medical Associates in Atlanta, Georgia f...

Early 20th Century Deaths

Professionals in Chicago in the Early 20th Century On March 20, 1926, 19-year-old Alice Annalora died at the County Hospital in Chicago fr...

Scant Info in the Early 20th Century, Abundant Witnesses in the 19th

Another Victim of Eisiminger or Thacker? Geraldine Easley , age 19, admitted before her death on March 19, 1932, that she had undergone a cr...

Over a Century of Abortion Deaths

1981: A Fatal Embolism Norma Greene , a 34-year-old divorcee, went into cardio-respiratory arrest and died in a Winston-Salem hospital on M...