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...

Pro-Choice Icon's Forgotton Victim

Self-styled "Doctor" Harvey Karman Nearly two decades before the " Mothers Day Massacre " pulled off with Kermit "H...

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 ...

Deadly Doctors, 1991, 1984, and 1935

Safe and Legal in New Jersey, 1991 On April 6, 1991, " Terri ," age 34, had an abortion at a doctor's office in the 1100 blo...

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...

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...

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...

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...