Margaret Marts asked her family physician to do an abortion. He made an ineffectual attempt to divert her from this plan. She instead found another physician who left her with a fatal infection.
Sylvia Sawdy died in 1885, two days before Christmas, after her paramour performed an abortion on her.
For more on pre-legalization abortion, see The Bad Old Days of Abortion
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