Fatal Teen Abortions and Other Cases

High Risk Abortion in a Low-Risk Setting, 1992 DaNette Pergusson , a 19-year-old medical assistant, submitted to a safe, legal abortion on F...

Care Delayed in 2013, Rumors Reveal Truth in 1871

She Needed Medical Care, not Equestrian Supplies Jennifer McKenna-Morbelli , a 29-year-old kindergarten teacher, and her husband, Timothy Ja...

Strings of Abortion Deaths, Legal and Illegal

1998: A Lingering Death Venus Ortiz died in a nursing from lingering abortion complications at age 29 on December 16, 1998. The abortion h...

From Chicago Doctors to The Butcher of Avenue A

Early 20th Century Chicago Deaths Mrs. Annie Heaney , age 28, died at Post Graduate Hospital in Chicago on September 26, 1906, from complic...

The Gamut of Abortion Deaths, 1908 - 1988

Two Typical Chicago Abortions On August 14, 1908, 23-year-old homemaker Bertha Isserstadt  died at Chicago's Evangelical Deconesses'...