On January 6, 1905, a young woman was found dead in a ditch near
Dunning, Illinois. The body was taken to an undertaking establishment,
where it remained until nearly a month later, when the dead woman was
identified by her siblings as 28-year-old
Ida Vierow.
It was determined that she had died January 6, 1905, from an abortion performed in Chicago.
Two midwives,
Amella Maichrowicz and
Anna Becker,
were arrested, along with Maichrowicz's husband, Joseph. The
Maichrowiczs, who ran an unlicensed hospital in Melrose Park, were
arrested near the end of February.
On January 6, 1924, 26-year-old
Helen Koss died at
Norwegian American Hospital of complications from an abortion perpetrated in Chicago on December 30, 1923, by midwife
Emma Morch, who was arrested, and indicted for homicide by a grand jury.
Keep in mind that things that things we take for granted, like
antibiotics and blood banks, were still in the future.
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