A Doctor's Deadly Work in Georgia, 1929

On February 21, 1929, 26-year-old Virginia Clark died of complications of a botched, illegal abortion perpetrated in Georgia. G. W. Wilbank...

A Pentacostal Preacher, Life of the Mother, and Other Abortion Deaths

Chicago Doctors, 1922 Beulah Pickerill , a Texas native, was 21 years old and living with her parents in the Louisville, Kentucky area. She...

The 1940s and 1980s

Two Doctors Arrested, 1941 On July 29, 1941, 34-year-old Agnes Pearson of White Plains, New York died at Grasslands Hospital in New York ...