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Friday, December 19, 2008
1926: Abortion by midwife proves fatal for Chicago woman
On December 20, 1926, 23-year-old Mary Paradowski died in a Chicago hospital of complications of a criminal abortion that had been performed on December 13. An investigation lead to the indictment of midwife Josephine Petrova for felony murder in Mary's death.
For more on pre-legalization abortion, see The Bad Old Days of Abortion
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