The Gamut of Illegal Abortions

A Doctor's Work, 1929 On February 16, 1929, Ruth Weir, of East Orange, New Jersey, died at Orange Memorial Hospital of sepsis contract...

The Spectrum of Illegal Abortion Deaths

Self-Induced in Pittsburgh, 1919 On February 8, 1919,  Ruth Fragale , a 20-year-old clerk, died at her home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her...

A 1915 Abortion Death I Just Learned About

I stumbled across information about the following abortion death while looking for additional information on the death of Rose Kulamer. In ...

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...

From Self-Induced to Safe and Legal

Chicago, 1918 and 1927 On August 29, 1918, 23-year-old homemaker Mabel Johnston died at Chicago's Cook County Hospital of blood poison...

From Boston in 1858 to Pittsburgh in 1989

Ugly Rumors in Boston, 1858 On Monday, August 16, 1858, Dr. David R. Brown went to an undertaker asking for the removal from is home of a ...