A Refugee and a Diplomat's Daughter

She Lost Her Legs and Then Her Life Carolina Guitierrez Carolina Gutierrez , a part-time waitress who had come to the United States as a re...

Safe and Legal in the 1970s

New York's Legal Abortion Free-For-All, 1971 " Vicki " was 23 years old when she underwent an abortion in New York state, taki...

Typical Criminal Abortions and a Murder-Suicide

A Chicago Nurse or Midwife, 1900 On August 4, 1900, 20-year-old newlywed Mary Borglum died in her home from complications of an abortion ...

Three "Back Alley Butchers" and a Safe and Legal Provider

A Shady Doctor in 1884 Twenty-five-year-old Lizzie Cook , a domestic servant, died suddenly on July 27, 1884, in Lockport, New York.Dr. Ira...