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...

A 1973 Death I Learned of Recently

About December 14, 1973, 21-year-old Rockland Community College student Beverly Agnes went to a Monsey, New York doctor's office for a...

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...

Safe and Legal in the 1970s

New York's Legal Abortion Free-For-All, 1971 " Vicki " was 23 years old when she underwent an abortion in New York state, taki...