On December 28, 1921, Belle Keehn died at the Chicago Lying-In Hospital
from an abortion perpetrated by an unknown doctor on or about November
27. Documents are unclear as to how it was determined that the
perpetrator was a doctor. The hospital was a reputable facility, not a
seedy abortionarium, so Belle would have received superior care as
doctors tried to save her life.
Keep in mind that things that things we take for granted, like
antibiotics and blood banks, were still in the future. For more about
abortion in this era, see Abortion in the 1920s.
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