1983: "Medically Indicated" Abortion Kills Teen

Barbara May Hoppert was a sixteen-year-old high school sophomore when she checked into Loma Linda University Hospital for an abortion. Barb...

Abortion Deaths, 1920s and 1971

Safe and Legal in 1971 Doris Grant , age 32, was admitted by W. W. Williams to Doctor's Hospital in Los Angeles for a safe and legal ab...

Oregon in 1985, Missouri in 1966

Safe and Legal in Oregon, 1984 Loretta Morton was 16 years old when she underwent a legal abortion in December of 1983. She was sent home ...

Second Deaths Each for a Doctor and a Midwife

A Doctor's Second Dead Patient, 1932 In late December of 1932, 20-year-old schoolteacher Myrtle Gardner of Four Oaks, North Carolina ch...

One of Many Victims of New York's Abortion Law

Carole and the New York Abortion Law, 1971 Carole Schaner was 37 years old when she traveled from Ohio to Buffalo, New York, for a safe and...

Strange Discoveries and Inexplicable Endangerment

Chicago, 1899: A Funeral Interrupted On Sunday, September 24, 1899, police stopped the funeral procession of 29-year-old Mary Kakacek . Her...