August 22, 1971: Another Fatal Saline Abortion in New York

"April" Roe was 17 years old when she underwent a saline abortion in New York City on August 20, 1971. The next day she was admitted to the hospital -- indicating that this risky abortion was being performed on an outpatient basis. She was in shock, with a high fever. She was treated there until her death on August 22. 

What is a Saline Abortion?

Saline abortion was hardly a pleasant experience. The abortionist would remove as much amniotic fluid as he could using a needle and syringe. He would then replace the amniotic fluid with a concentrated saline (salt) solution that would poison and kill the fetus. The woman would then go into labor and expel the fetus.

Saline abortions became very popular in Japan following WWII. Within the Japanese medical community, however, word quickly spread: this method was unsatisfactory. Too many women were being injured and killed. Over 70 papers were published in the Japanese medical community reporting hazards of saline abortions, including at least 60 maternal deaths. The Japanese Obstetrical and Gynecological Society condemned the technique, and it was quickly abandoned. But the Japanese abortionists kept news of the trouble among themselves -- until Western nations discovered instillation abortions and embraced them with great enthusiasm.

Two Japanese doctors, Takashi Wagatsuma and Yukio Manabe, broke the silence. Wagatsuma wrote, "It is, I think, worthwhile to report its rather disastrous consequences which we experienced in Japan." Manabe wrote, "It is now known that any solution placed within the uterus can be absorbed rather rapidly into the general circulation through the vascular system of the uterus and placenta. Thus any solution used in the uterus for abortion must be absolutely safe even if given by direct intravenous injection. ... A solution deadly to the fetus may be equally toxic and dangerous to the mother. ... In spite of the accumulating undesirable reports, the use of hypertonic saline for abortion is still advocated and used ... in the United States and Great Britain. I would like to call attention to the danger of the method and would predict the further occurrence of deaths until this method is entirely forgotten in these countries."

As western abortionists gained experience with saline abortions, other grim reports arose. A British study published in 1966 found that the saline would enter the mother's bloodstream and cause brain damage. Swedish researchers noticed an unacceptably high rate of complications and deaths. Sweden and the Soviet Union abandoned saline abortion as too dangerous for women in the late 1960s.

For whatever reasons, American abortionists were deaf to these warnings. When New York had completely repealed its abortion law, doctors had tremendous leeway in abortion practice. In New York City in particular, it became popular to inject the woman with the saline in the office, then send her home with instructions to report to a hospital when she went into labor. This was, to say the least, a highly irresponsible way to use an abortion technique that was risky even when performed in a hospital under close medical supervision. Women started dying from these reckless saline abortions.

The Dubious Benefits of New York Law

"April" was one of many women who died in the window of opportunity between limited legalization and Roe's free-for-all. The Supreme Court could have looked at these deaths and decided enough was enough. They chose instead to trust in bogus reports -- such as the review of patient records from C.R.A.S.H. -- and pretend that legalization would magically make everything okay.

In addition to “April,” these are the women I know of who had the dubious benefit of dying from the newfangled safe-and-legal kind of abortion in pre-Roe New York:

• Carmen Rodriguez, July, 1970, salt solution intended to kill the fetus accidentally injected into her bloodstream
• Barbara Riley, July, 1970, sickle-cell crisis triggered by abortion recommended by doctor due to her sickle cell disease
• Pearl Schwier, July, 1970, anesthesia complications
• "Amanda" Roe, September, 1970, sent back to her home in Indiana with an untreated hole poked in her uterus
• Maria Ortega, October, 1970, fetus shoved through her uterus into her pelvic cavity then left there
• "Kimberly" Roe, December, 1970, cardiac arrest during abortion
• "Amy" Roe, January, 1971, massive pulmonary embolism
• "Andrea" Roe, January, 1971, overwhelming infection
• "Sandra" Roe, April, 1971, committed suicide due to post-abortion remorse
• "Anita" Roe, May, 1971, bled to death in her home during process of outpatient saline abortion
• Margaret Smith, June 1971, hemorrhage from multiple lacerations during outpatient hysterotomy abortion
• "Annie" Roe, June, 1971, cardiac arrest during anesthesia
• "Audrey" Roe, July, 1971, cardiac arrest during abortion
• "Vicki" Roe, August, 1971, post-abortion infection
• "Barbara" Roe, September, 1971, cardiac arrest after saline injection for abortion
• "Tammy" Roe, October, 1971, massive post-abortion infection
• Carole Schaner, October, 1971, hemorrhage from multiple lacerations during outpatient hysterotomy abortion
• "Beth" Roe, December, 1971, saline injection meant to kill fetus accidentally injected into her bloodstream
• "Roseann" Roe, February, 1971, vomiting with seizures causing pneumonia after saline abortion
• "Connie" Roe, March, 1972, cardiac arrest during abortion
• "Julie" Roe, April, 1972, holes torn in her uterus and bowel
• "Roxanne," May, 1972, convulsions and death at start of abortion
• "Robin" Roe, May, 1972, lingering abortion complications
• Pamela Modugno, May, 1972, air in her bloodstream

Watch When "Safe and Legal" Means "Antiquated and Deadly" on YouTube.

Sources: 

• "Maternal Mortality Associated With Legal Abortion in New York State: July 1, 1970 - June 30, 1972," Berger, Tietze, Pakter, Katz, Obstetrics and Gynecology, 43:3, March 1974, 321
• Wagatsuma, "Intraamniotic Injection of Saline for Therapeutic Abortion," Am. Journ. Ob Gyn 11/1/65
• Manabe, "Danger of Hypertonic Saline Induced Abortion," JAMA 12/15/69
• Cameron, "Association of Brain Damage with Therapeutic Abortion Induced by Amniotic Fluid Replacement: Report of Two Cases," British Medical Journal, 4/23/66

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Veteran pro-life investigator Kevin Sherlock asks people of good will to help him have Planned Parenthood prosecuted for profiteering from the rapes and incests of underage girls many thousands of times each year.

Sherlock has  pulled the police records of hundreds of cities and has pulled the child protective services records of multiple states to prove Planned Parenthood staffers are violating mandated reporting laws designed to protect girl victims.   But there is more to be done. Sherlock will make sure more and more evidence gets to federal and state prosecutors who care about protecting girls from abusers and profiteers.

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August 22, 1986: An abortion-related suicide anniversary

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Carol Cunningham was 21 years old when she underwent an abortion in the late summer of 1986. On August 22, she shut herself up in her garage at her home in Albuquerque, and started her car. She died from breathing the exhaust fumes. Her body was discovered on August 25, 1986.

It's been documented that suicide is more common after abortion than after childbirth, or in the woman who has not experienced pregnancy. (Actually, all forms of violent death are more common in post-abortion women.) A few of the women and girls who took their lives following abortions include:

• Arlin della Cruz, age 19, who hanged herself in the woods near her house in October of 1992
• Laura Grunas, age 30, who shot her baby’s father and then herself in August of 2006
• “Sandra Roe,” age 18, who killed herself using an unidentified means in April of 1971
• Sandra Kaiser, age 15, who threw herself off an overpass into traffic in November of 1984
• Stacy Zallie, age 20, who committed suicide in October of 2002
• "Haley Mason," age 22, who overdosed on pills in April of 2001

The Centers for Disease Control also stumbled across some post-abortion suicide cases in their study of post-abortion mortality. Their stories and others are told on tumblr:

• "Sheila Roe," age unknown, died 1970 or 1971
• "Cathy Roe," age 19, died during the period 1972-1978
• "Jade Roe," age unknown, died during the period 1972-1981, most likely 1973
• "Sylvie Roe," age 22, died 1975

Source: New Mexico Death Certificate #092443

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Sherlock has  pulled the police records of hundreds of cities and has pulled the child protective services records of multiple states to prove Planned Parenthood staffers are violating mandated reporting laws designed to protect girl victims.   But there is more to be done. Sherlock will make sure more and more evidence gets to federal and state prosecutors who care about protecting girls from abusers and profiteers.

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August 22, 1937: A Delayed Exhumation

Dr. Ernest C. Martin was convicted in murder in the abortion death of 42-year-old Anna Bilinski, and was sentenced to 15 years in the penitentiary. The abortion had been perpetrated on August 10, 1937. The indictment was not handed down until over two years later, November 10, 1939.

John's Story

Anna's husband, John Bilinski, testified in the trial. He did not speak English fluently and sometimes did not seem to understand the questions or instructions. 

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He said that Anna did not have a period in April or May of 1937. On about July 15 or 16, he said, he went to Dr. Martin's office and told him that Anna was pregnant, that she was no longer a young woman, and they already had five children. He asked Martin what he could do to remedy the situation. He testified that Dr. Martin told him, "I will give you a prescription to the druggist for a certain kind of capsules." John said that he filled the prescription and Anna took the capsules but they did not have the desired effect. 

On August 10, John said, he went to Martin's office to report the lack of success. He said that Martin told him to bring Anna to him that afternoon and he would "open her womb." 

John said that he and Anna went to Dr. Martin's office at about 4 pm. Martin put some instruments in a sterilizer and told John not to watch. Martin reportedly took a tool about 10 or 12 inches long, round, about 3/8 inch thick, and resembling scissors or clippers, and put it into Anna's body. John said that Martin also wiped out Anna's body with gauze. He then asked Anna to sign a slip of paper but when she was unable to do so, John signed it. Afterwards they discussed the price. Martin said that he wanted $35. John said he gave Martin $20 and told him, "If my wife be healthy I will give you the rest of this."

John said that Martin took a quart bottle of Seagram's 7 whiskey from a drawer and filled two glasses. He gave one of them to John and said, "Let's have a drink to the murder." John's eyes flowed with tears as he drank with the doctor.

John said he took Anna home. She prepared supper for the family, then went to bed at about 6:00.

In the morning, John said, he noticed a lot of blood in the bed. Anna continued to bleed vaginally so John phoned Dr. Martin, who came to the house at around 11:00 that morning. He examined Anna and said, "That's the way it should be. Don't be worried." John said that Martin gave him a prescription which he filled and gave to Anna. 

Anna passed the fetus, which John put into a quart jar which he filled with alcohol. 

On August 12, John called Martin again to say that Anna was still bleeding. Martin came to the house, examined Anna, and left some pills for her.

John said that Martin came back to the home on the 13th, 14th, 15th, and 16th to attend to Anna. On the 16th he treated Anna with an injection into her arm. 

From then on, John said, he called Martin two or three times a day. At some point on August 20, John said, Martin packed Anna's uterus with gauze and cotton. 

On Friday, August 20, John said, Dr. Martin summoned Dr. Warren Blim to consult with him. John said that Dr. Blim removed the packing from Anna's uterus, along with a quantity of clotted blood. 

John said that at about 5:00 that evening Anna grabbed him around the neck, kissed him, and said, "I got to die."

John said that it wasn't until Sunday, August 22, that Dr. Martin finally called an ambulance for Anna. She died before it arrived.

Dr. Warren Blim's Involvement

Dr. Warren Blim and John gave similar testimony about his treatment of Anna. 

Blim said that on August 20, Dr. Martin asked him to consult about a woman having a miscarriage. He found Anna to be bleeding vaginally. He massaged Anna's uterus through her abdomen, which enabled her to pass a clot. This reduced the bleeding. He instructed Dr. Martin to administer an intramuscular ergotrate injection to further control the bleeding. He did not believe that Anna was in critical condition and left her in Martin's care.

Dr. Martin's Version of Events

Martin's story was that Anna had been a patient of his for about eight years when, in mid-July of 1937, John had consulted him about Anna. Martin had prescribed something to treat symptoms of menopause. He next saw John on the 8th or 10th of August. He said that John told him that Anna was still suffering aches and pains, so he instructed John to bring Anna to his office.

They arrived between 3 and 5 pm, Martin said. He did a routine examination including a bi-manual pelvic exam. He said that Anna had a crooked uterus and her cervix was widely dilated. He said he hadn't known if she was about to miscarry -- which seems an odd assertion if she was pregnant and her cervix was widely dilated. Surely she'd have been in the middle of a miscarriage if that had been the case.

Martin said that Anna called him the next day so he went to her home to see her. Martin said that Anna told him she'd begun menstruating, and that John told him Anna had passed a baby. Martin said that he took the baby with him and left some pills and instructions for the couple to call him if Anna felt worse.

A day or two later, he said, Anna reported coughing, chest pains, and a headache along with continued menstrual bleeding. He left a prescription.

Martin said that he had called Dr. Blim in for a consult, and Blim had massaged Anna's abdomen, helping her to expel a clot. He said that Blim recommended elevating the foot of the bed and administering an ergotrate injection.

Martin said that he returned the next day and found Anna's condition to be satisfactory, with no further bleeding.

Martin said that on the day of Anna's death he had gone to a neighbor's house to call an ambulance. It arrived accompanied by a Chicago Heights police squad car. John had not complained to the police at that time that anybody had perpetrated an abortion on his wife.

Martin said that he had filled out a death certificate attributing Anna's death to "influenza and bronchial pneumonia." 

He denied requesting a $35 fee, dilating Anna's uterus, or asking the husband or wife to sign a paper.

A Delayed Autopsy

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Dr. Jerry J. Kearns performed the autopsy, which for some reason did not take place until November 3, 1939. John was first called in to identify his wife's body as it lay in a white metal casket. The autopsy found uterine infection and recent pregnancy. Dr. Kearns concluded that Anna had died from septicemia or blood poisoning from an infection affecting only the uterus. The cervix was dilated, most likely by an instrument. 

The fetus John had put in the bottle had been of about 2 1/2 months gestation. 

Between the condition of Anna's body, and the fetus in the bottle, authorities concluded that Anna had indeed died from a septic abortion, and Martin was convicted of murder by abortion.  His attorney appealed his conviction on this and multiple other issues, but the court upheld the conviction.

Watch Exhumed Two Years Later on YouTube.

Source: 

• People v Martin

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Veteran pro-life investigator Kevin Sherlock asks people of good will to help him have Planned Parenthood prosecuted for profiteering from the rapes and incests of underage girls many thousands of times each year.

Sherlock has  pulled the police records of hundreds of cities and has pulled the child protective services records of multiple states to prove Planned Parenthood staffers are violating mandated reporting laws designed to protect girl victims.   But there is more to be done. Sherlock will make sure more and more evidence gets to federal and state prosecutors who care about protecting girls from abusers and profiteers.

If you would like to help, please click the following link:

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Thank you for doing what you can to help girls and fight sexual predators and rape profiteers.

August 22, 1929: More Scanty Information From Chicago

According to the Homicide in Chicago Interactive Database, on August 22, 1929, 34-year-old Marjorie Johnson died in her home from complications of a criminal abortion performed that day. 

I can find no evidence that the perpetrator was ever identified or apprehended.

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Veteran pro-life investigator Kevin Sherlock asks people of good will to help him have Planned Parenthood prosecuted for profiteering from the rapes and incests of underage girls many thousands of times each year.

Sherlock has  pulled the police records of hundreds of cities and has pulled the child protective services records of multiple states to prove Planned Parenthood staffers are violating mandated reporting laws designed to protect girl victims.   But there is more to be done. Sherlock will make sure more and more evidence gets to federal and state prosecutors who care about protecting girls from abusers and profiteers.

If you would like to help, please click the following link:

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Thank you for doing what you can to help girls and fight sexual predators and rape profiteers.

August 21, 1923: Doctor on City Council Implicated in Fatal Abortion

On August 21, 1923, 32-year-old Mrs. Catherine Stange died in Denver of septicemia due to an abortion blamed on Dr. Daniel R. Lucy. The coroner's inquest determined that the abortion had been perpetrated using some sort of medical instrument.

This was quite the scandal, since in addition to being a doctor, Lucy was a city councilman. His high position also meant that he was given warning of his pending arrest for second degree murder, to give him time to arrange to pay his $7,500 bond (just over $141,000 in 2025).

Lucy's only comment to the press after being told of the charge against him was to note that he was not surprised, that this was what he had expected from the coroner's jury. He admitted to having treated Catherine but denied using surgical instruments of any kind. 

In October of that year, judge George F. Dunklee instructed the jury to acquit Lucy after he had ruled Catherine's deathbed statement inadmissible. 

Sources: 

• "Denver Physician and Member of Council to Face a Murder Charge," Daily Sentinel, August 23, 1923
• "Doctor Held as Murderer," Fort Collins (CO) Express-Courier, August 23, 1923
• "Jury Frees Denver Physician Held For Death Of Woman," Fort Collins (CO) Express-Courier, October 23, 1923
• "Abortion in Colorado Part Two," Denver Public Library Special Collections and Archives, August 23, 2023

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Veteran pro-life investigator Kevin Sherlock asks people of good will to help him have Planned Parenthood prosecuted for profiteering from the rapes and incests of underage girls many thousands of times each year.

Sherlock has  pulled the police records of hundreds of cities and has pulled the child protective services records of multiple states to prove Planned Parenthood staffers are violating mandated reporting laws designed to protect girl victims.   But there is more to be done. Sherlock will make sure more and more evidence gets to federal and state prosecutors who care about protecting girls from abusers and profiteers.

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Thank you for doing what you can to help girls and fight sexual predators and rape profiteers.

1975: Abortion = Death for young, healthy Black woman

“Charlotte” was a 23-year-old Black woman who had already given birth twice and been completely fine. But the first and only time she underwent an abortion would be her death sentence.

At about 8 weeks pregnant (as of LMP calculations), Charlotte underwent a legal D&C (suction curettage) abortion under general anesthesia. She had a tubal ligation done at the same time and was discharged afterwards. She was under the impression that everything had gone well.

Eight days later, Charlotte collapsed. She was rushed to the hospital, but was declared dead on arrival.

An autopsy revealed how the first-trimester surgical abortion killed Charlotte. She had suffered a fatal pulmonary embolism, a well-documented side effect of abortion. Until eight days before her death, she’d had no preexisting risk factor for thromboembolic problems in addition to pregnancy. The abortion alone was what killed her.

Charlotte underwent an elective operation that was she was told was safe, but it killed her in just over a week. There was absolutely no reason she had to die at 23.

Am J. Obstet Gynecol 1978:

Deaths caused by pulmonary thromboembolism after legally induced abortion

(Charlotte had a memorial on the Blackmun Wall as “Mindy”)

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Veteran pro-life investigator Kevin Sherlock asks people of good will to help him have Planned Parenthood prosecuted for profiteering from the rapes and incests of underage girls many thousands of times each year.

Sherlock has  pulled the police records of hundreds of cities and has pulled the child protective services records of multiple states to prove Planned Parenthood staffers are violating mandated reporting laws designed to protect girl victims.   But there is more to be done. Sherlock will make sure more and more evidence gets to federal and state prosecutors who care about protecting girls from abusers and profiteers.

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Thank you for doing what you can to help girls and fight sexual predators and rape profiteers.

August 21, 1929: An Abortion-Advocacy Poster Child

According to abortion-rights organizations such as Peoplesworld.org, Ruth Friedl was a married, 27-year-old mother of two living in Denver in 1929. Those sources say that pregnancy was life-threatening for Ruth, but they don't specify why, nor do they say why she was denied an abortion, since there were always exceptions made for abortions deemed necessary to save the mother's life. 

Abortion-rights organizations say that Ruth drank ergot apiol, an herbal abortifacient, on August 21, 1929. That night, according to NOW, Ruth collapsed at the dinner table in front of her husband and children, and died on the spot. 

The only verification I can find of Ruth's death is a Find-a-Grave memorial for Ruth I. Freidl, 1901-1929, buried in Colorado, and a FaceBook post that has a bit more information and some photos: 

Ruth Irene Friedl (Aug. 24, 1901 - Aug. 21, 1929) After having her daughter, Ruth Friedl was told that another pregnancy would be medically dangerous. When she became pregnant, her uncle, a doctor, said he would not perform an abortion, since he could lose his license and be imprisoned. She did not tell her husband she was pregnant and attempted to self-abort by drinking a plant poison, ergot apiol. She died that night in front of her husband and two small children.

In 1967, Colorado legalized abortion for rape, incest, suspected fetal anomaly, and threat to the mother's health. However, even before then, doctors were allowed to take steps they thought were necessary to save the mother's life. There's no clarification of what risks there were to Ruth, but whatever the risks were, they weren't serious enough that Ruth's physician uncle thought he could do the abortion legally or legally refer her for an abortion. I'd welcome any verifying information on Ruth's death. After all, abortion rights groups also claim that Becky Bell died from complications of an illegal abortion, when in fact she died of pneumonia concurrent with a miscarriage, and they claim that Pauline Shirley died from an illegal abortion when her death certificate indicates a miscarriage. Their claim that Clara Duvall died from a self-induced abortion is based on what she purportedly told her 12-year-old daughter shortly before her death, which was attributed to pneumonia. It's therefore hardly surprising that I can't find anything to verify that Ruth died from an abortion.

Watch A Fruitless Search for Sources on YouTube.

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Veteran pro-life investigator Kevin Sherlock asks people of good will to help him have Planned Parenthood prosecuted for profiteering from the rapes and incests of underage girls many thousands of times each year.

Sherlock has  pulled the police records of hundreds of cities and has pulled the child protective services records of multiple states to prove Planned Parenthood staffers are violating mandated reporting laws designed to protect girl victims.   But there is more to be done. Sherlock will make sure more and more evidence gets to federal and state prosecutors who care about protecting girls from abusers and profiteers.

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Sherlock has talked to many girls and young women who trust him. Their stories and the forensic evidence shows most of them undergo pill abortions or humiliating invasive surgical abortions due to fear or ignorance or pressure or coercion. He treats the girls or women carrying children or devastated from their abortions as friends and neighbors in his home town, not afterthoughts.

Thank you for doing what you can to help girls and fight sexual predators and rape profiteers.

August 21, 1887: The First Known Victim of Dr. Hagenow

Louise Derchow, age 23, is the first known victim of notorious criminal abortionist Dr. Louisa "Lucy" Hagenow. 

Louise had been born in a village near Hamburg, Germany. Some time in the mid 1880s she moved to San Francisco and took work as a domestic servant in the home of Mrs. Steinhart at 1090 Post Street. She was courted by another German immigrant, a barkeep named Henry Peckelhoff. Those who knew the couple anticipated that they'd marry soon.

In early August of 1887, Louise moved in with Henry and began using his surname. 

On August 9, 1887 Louise told Peckelhoff that she was pregnant, and he told her to go to Dr. Hagenow's “maternity hospital” at 19 Twelfth Street in San Francisco to be examined. She was admitted, and Peckelhoff later said that she seemed well when he visited her there until but something went wrong. Louise died at about 1 a.m. on Monday, August 21.

Peckelhoff went to an undertaker named Suhr at about 2 a.m., saying that he needed a burial for his wife. The undertaker's assistant removed Louise's body from Hagenow's establishment at about 3 a.m., then went to get a death certificate from Hagenow. The Assistant Secretary of the Health Department refused to issue a burial permit with a death certificate signed by Hagenow because she was on a list of "illegal practitioners." The clerk said that Dr. S. S. Kahn was authorized to examine the body and issue a death certificate if no qualified doctor could sign one. Mr. Suhr said that he could get a new certificate signed by a properly qualified physician.

The undertaker's assistant and Hagenow went looking for Dr. F. F. DeDerky, who had also attended Louise. They couldn't find him, so Hagenow's cook forged DeDerky's signature on a death certificate identifying the woman as Louise I. Peckelshoff  in order to get the health department to accept the death certificate and issue the burial permit, which was finally released at 3 p.m. 

The funeral was held an hour later. 

Because of the suspicious circumstances surrounding Louise's death, the City Physician disinterred Louise's remains and performed an autopsy at the Odd Fellow's Cemetery on September 1. He found what was termed “conclusive evidence” of an abortion, with inflammation caused by an instrument. 

Hagenow insisted that Louise had shown up at her door already seriously ill and bleeding heavily. Prior to her death, Hagenow admitted, Louise was delivered of a four-month fetus. She also admitted that the young woman had died of peritonitis.

All told, Hagenow was tried three times in Louise's death, and acquitted in the third trial, just around the time she was being investigated in the abortion deaths of Annie Dorris and Abbia Richards, as well as for the suspicious death of Emma Dep shortly after discharge from Hagenow's maternity home. The third acquittal was largely attributed to the death of the state's star witness, a journalist who had originally broken the story. 

One of Peckelhoff's friends helped him to go through the young woman's possessions and found the necessary addresses to write to her friends back home in Germany about her death.

Hagenow relocated to Chicago and began piling up dead bodies there as well. She was implicated in numerous abortion deaths, including Minnie Deering, Sophia Kuhn , Emily Anderson, Hannah Carlson, Marie Hecht, May Putnam, Lola Madison, Annie Horvatich, Lottie Lowy, Nina Pierce, Jean Cohen, Bridget Masterson, Elizabeth Welter, and Mary Moorehead.

Watch Hagenow's First Known Victim on YouTube.

Sources:

• "Louise Derchow. Her Suspicious Death Calls for an Investigation," San Francisco Examiner, September 1, 1887
• "The Case of Louise Derchow," San Francisco Examiner, September 2, 1887

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Veteran pro-life investigator Kevin Sherlock asks people of good will to help him have Planned Parenthood prosecuted for profiteering from the rapes and incests of underage girls many thousands of times each year.

Sherlock has  pulled the police records of hundreds of cities and has pulled the child protective services records of multiple states to prove Planned Parenthood staffers are violating mandated reporting laws designed to protect girl victims.   But there is more to be done. Sherlock will make sure more and more evidence gets to federal and state prosecutors who care about protecting girls from abusers and profiteers.

If you would like to help, please click the following link:

https://www.givesendgo.com/stop-pp-from-profiteering-from-the-rapes

Sherlock has talked to many girls and young women who trust him. Their stories and the forensic evidence shows most of them undergo pill abortions or humiliating invasive surgical abortions due to fear or ignorance or pressure or coercion. He treats the girls or women carrying children or devastated from their abortions as friends and neighbors in his home town, not afterthoughts.

Thank you for doing what you can to help girls and fight sexual predators and rape profiteers.

August 20, 1918: Dead in Chicago, not Vacationing in Milwaukee

The phone call came as a terrible shock. 

Grok AI illustration

John Heidenway* of Forest Park, Illinois, and his wife, Elizabeth,  had seen their 28-year-old daughter, Alma Heidenway, off on Sunday, August 18, 1918. Mrs. Heidenway had helped her to pack her bags for a two-week vacation in Milwaukee with a friend. 

Alma, their eldest of their seven children, worked in a mail-order office and had seemed happy about the trip. So why was Dr. James A. Stough of Chicago calling in the evening of August 20, telling them that Alma had just died in his office? Mr. and Mrs. Heidenway contacted the police.

The Heidenway family had already experienced tragedy with the death of Alma's younger sister, Hulda, at the age of 6 in 1899.

A police ambulance surgeon, Dr. Isaac H. Holloway, went to pick up Alma's body at Stough's office  at 329 South Ashland Avenue. He noted slight discolorations of Alma's head, face, arms, and legs but didn't think they necessarily were the result of violence.

Police questioned Stough, who told Lieutenant Ira McDowell that Alma had come to his office on the afternoon of Monday, August 19, very ill and in a lot of pain. He'd diagnosed her with neuralgia, given her an injection of morphine, and put her to bed. He said that she'd been in pain again on the afternoon of Tuesday the 20th so he'd given her another quarter grain of morphine. He gave her another 8 grains at 4:00. He said that when he'd gone to check on her at 6:00 he'd been alarmed at how close to death she'd seemed so he sent for Dr. J. J. Stoll, at 1103 Ashland Avenue. Alma was dead by the time Dr. Stoll arrived, Stough said. She had died at 6:30 p.m., Stough told police, likely due to morphine poisoning and high blood pressure.

Stough said that before dying, Alma had whispered her phone number to him so that he could notify her parents.

Alma's mother said, "Alma had $68 when she left home last Sunday. She had received her two weeks' vacation pay in advance. When I found her purse in Dr. Stough's office it contained only 75 cents," Alma's mother told reporters. "I know she didn't spent the balance. Alma was a good girl."

An autopsy indicated that Alma had died of a post-abortion infection. Two detectives arrested Stough, then released him on bond pending an inquest. Alma's mother said that though Alma had been treated in the past for high blood pressure, she had been otherwise healthy.

Alma had worked as a private secretary for Albert G. Hodge, Jr., who headed the restaurant department of Sears, Roebuck & Co.. She had worked at Sears for 13 years. Another Sears employee, Fred Courdroy, was at some point identified as the man responsible for Alma's pregnancy. Fred, who worked at the express department, was identified in one source as around 24 years old and as 38 years old in another. He was also a married man. Alma's brother, Walter, testified that Alma and Fred had been romantically involved and that Fred had visited Alma at home and had taken her out on the town. Evidently Alma's parents hadn't known about the relationship, for they said that she'd had no sweetheart.

Alice J. Kennedy and Eunice Magill were also questioned in Alma's death. Stough, Cordray, and Kennedy went to trial but were acquitted on May 29, 1919. 

*The surname is also sometimes spelled Heidenweg in public records.

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Newly Added Sources:

• "Girl's Death in Doctor's Office Starts Inquiry," The Chicago Daily Tribune, August 21, 1918
• "Physician Held After Probe of Girl's Death," Chicago Tribune, August 22, 1918
• "Married Man Arrested in Girl's Death Case," Chicago Tribune, August 23, 1918
• "Doctor Held On Death of Pretty Girl In Offices," Buffalo Times, September 1, 1918 
• "Doctor And Two Acquitted," Chicago Tribune, May 30, 1919

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Veteran pro-life investigator Kevin Sherlock asks people of good will to help him have Planned Parenthood prosecuted for profiteering from the rapes and incests of underage girls many thousands of times each year.

Sherlock has  pulled the police records of hundreds of cities and has pulled the child protective services records of multiple states to prove Planned Parenthood staffers are violating mandated reporting laws designed to protect girl victims.   But there is more to be done. Sherlock will make sure more and more evidence gets to federal and state prosecutors who care about protecting girls from abusers and profiteers.

If you would like to help, please click the following link:

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Sherlock has talked to many girls and young women who trust him. Their stories and the forensic evidence shows most of them undergo pill abortions or humiliating invasive surgical abortions due to fear or ignorance or pressure or coercion. He treats the girls or women carrying children or devastated from their abortions as friends and neighbors in his home town, not afterthoughts.

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August 20, 2013: “Unknown” Infection Death After Chemical Abortion

"Sadie" was 24 and had no known health problems. Her death was counted in the FDA Adverse Event Summary for the mifepristone/misoprostol abortion regimen, but despite investigation, it is still unknown which of her complications caused her death.

On or about August 15, 2013, she underwent the abortion. She began to feel sick afterwards and went to a doctor, who prescribed an antibiotic. It is unknown what kind of infection the doctor had diagnosed.

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On August 20, someone found Sadie’s dead body. An autopsy was conducted to try to find out how a young woman went from healthy to dead in five days.

The autopsy results came back with a mystery. Although traces of cannabinoids and ibuprofen (most likely Sadie’s attempt to treat her pain) were detected, both were so inconsequential that the toxicology report cleared her as negative. Neither drug was in a concentration that could have killed her. Many people had already died of sepsis caused by Clostridium bacteria, so tissue samples were sent to the CDC for testing. The samples came back negative for the species tested.

However, several life-threatening abortion complications were found at Sadie’s autopsy. She had retained part of the placenta from the abortion, which is a serious complication that risks infection. Her organs were damaged; she suffered “acute visceral and pulmonary congestion and edema.” Microbiology testing had come back negative for the Clostridium strain that had been investigated, but after less than a day the cultures grew streptococcus viridans.

So which of these killed Sadie? The coroner initially listed “unspecified natural causes,” but the CDC analyzed her case and tried to determine what the cause of death was. They finally concluded that the cause of death was undetermined, but included her in the count of pregnant people who died after chemical abortion.

Years later, six doctors reviewed Sadie’s case. They found the confirmation of retained placenta, her symptoms and the Streptococcal species in her lab cultures to be indicative of sepsis and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome. Viridans group streptococci can cause life-threatening infections and had been reported to have antibiotic-resistant strains, so this is also consistent with the Azithromycin prescription.

While we still do not have a definite answer on the precise cause of Sadie’s death (and sadly, we may never be sure), it can be assumed beyond reasonable doubt that side effects of the abortion played a highly significant role.

Individual Case Safety Report number 9587011-03-00-01, Danco Laboratories, LLC. Office of Post-marketing Drug Risk Assessment, Food and Drug Administration.

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Veteran pro-life investigator Kevin Sherlock asks people of good will to help him have Planned Parenthood prosecuted for profiteering from the rapes and incests of underage girls many thousands of times each year.

Sherlock has  pulled the police records of hundreds of cities and has pulled the child protective services records of multiple states to prove Planned Parenthood staffers are violating mandated reporting laws designed to protect girl victims.   But there is more to be done. Sherlock will make sure more and more evidence gets to federal and state prosecutors who care about protecting girls from abusers and profiteers.

If you would like to help, please click the following link:

https://www.givesendgo.com/stop-pp-from-profiteering-from-the-rapes

Sherlock has talked to many girls and young women who trust him. Their stories and the forensic evidence shows most of them undergo pill abortions or humiliating invasive surgical abortions due to fear or ignorance or pressure or coercion. He treats the girls or women carrying children or devastated from their abortions as friends and neighbors in his home town, not afterthoughts.

Thank you for doing what you can to help girls and fight sexual predators and rape profiteers.

August 20, 1880: Budding Serial Murderer Implicated in Fatal Abortion

Dr. Thomas Neill Cream

There's a lot of he-said-she-said regarding the August 20, 1880 abortion death of Mary Ann Matilda Faulkner. Rather than try to sort out which people were telling the truth, I'll just tell you what's known for sure and then provide different people's sides of the story, taken from news coverage, primarily of the coroner's inquest and subsequent trial. 

The case involves Dr. Thomas Neill Cream, a dapper and very vain man, who, while in prison awaiting the outcome of his trial, kept copies of his documents to show off to reporters who came to interview him: his medical school diploma from McGill College in Montreal, his Canadian physician's license, his diploma and license of midwifery (obstetrics) from the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh, an award he'd received as an Intern at St. Thomas Hospital in London, and his Illinois physician's license.

What We Know For Sure

Late in the evening of Saturday, August 21, 1880 a woman named Elizabeth Green approached Lieutenant Steele at the West Lake Street police station in Chicago to report a terrible smell coming from the home of her upstairs neighbor, Mrs. Hattie Mack aka Hattie Mackey.  Elizabeth said that she'd knocked on the door and gotten no response. It was close to midnight when Steele broke in the door of the flat and found the decomposing remains of a young woman lying on a bed. The overwhelming odor sent Lt. Steel outside for air.

A search of the premises found her belongings and positively identified her as Mary Ann Matilda Faulkner of Ottawa, Canada.

"A recipe of vile character" (likely an abortifacient recipe) was found in Mary Ann's trunk. Two stilettos were found in Hattie Mack's home.

The police questioned Mack's neighbors and got a description from the doctor they had seen coming and going. It matched the description of Dr. Thomas Neill Cream.

Cream slept behind White Brothers' drug store at the corner of Hoyne and Madison and kept offices at 434 West Madison Street. When police came to arrest Cream, the druggist, George White, had at first denied that anybody was in the back bedroom, justifying this lie by saying, "Dr. Cream said to let nobody in." The police arrested Cream and searched the premises, finding a note from Hattie Mack reading, "Dr. Cream: I'll not be home to-night. I've tried to see you. I got the key. I can't take the children home till she is moved. I not told any one. Please let me see you as quick as you can. I under great strain. I am at my sister's." It was signed "H.M." and included the post-script, "The window is up; be careful of the woman upstairs."

Dr. Cream had been implicated in another abortion case which, according to the August 22, 1880 Tribune Sun, "he managed to elude by leaving town until the excitement had blown over."

The case raised so much public interest that police had to clear spectators away from the inquest.

What Witnesses Said 

Two young women, Mrs. Annie Beam and Mrs. Sarah Cook, of East Fourteenth Street, said that they'd known Mary Ann for about four years. She had lived in the same house with them for a while when working for a family named Gransfield. She moved out in the middle of May, going to live with the Fairman family in Woodlawn. At that time she was keeping company with a young man named Tommy Burns. Mary Ann had a good reputation. About six weeks prior to her death, Annie and Sarah said, Mary Ann had moved out of the Fairman home, telling her employers that she was going to get married. That was the last they'd heard of her until her death.

Testimony From Doctors 

County Physician Bluthard certified that an autopsy had shown that Mary Ann had certainly been about three months into pregnancy and had likely died from an abortion perpetrated with pointed instruments. In his opinion, an unskilled person had wielded the instruments. 

Dr. M. Fitch and Dr. D. Frazer said that the care Cream had provided to Mary Ann after the abortion was appropriate given her injuries.

Dr. Donald Fraser, who had known Cream from Montreal, said that he had spoken to Cream on the phone and given him advice the Wednesday before Mary Ann's death. Cream had told him that the patient was improving. On Thursday, at Cream's request, he had accompanied Cream to Mack's home, where he found Mary Ann in a lot of pain. He had treated her for inflammation then left. Cream later called him to tell him that Mary Ann was dead.

Hattie's Downstairs Neighbor 

Elizabeth Green, who lived with her husband and children downstairs of Hattie Mack, testified that Cream had visited the dwelling upstairs from her two or three times a day for the previous week. She'd asked Cream who was sick and he's told her that one of the children was ill. She heard groans from upstairs early Friday morning, ending at around 4:00. Curious about the goings-on, she looked out and saw Hattie Mack and her children leaving. She found it a bit fishy that a dainty-looking, pretty young white woman was staying at Hattie Mack's home and that Dr. Cream was coming by so often, sometimes with parcels. 

Hattie's Upstairs Neighbor

Ellen Hackley, an elderly Black woman who lived in the loft apartment above Mack, said that the odor on Friday evening was dreadful. She identified Cream as the man she had seen coming and going from Mack's place. Ellen had heard groaning on early Friday the 20th before she'd left for work. Mack had not taken in boarders previously as far as Ellen knew. She suspected that something untoward was afoot with the white woman staying with Hattie Mack and Dr. Cream's frequent comings and goings.

Hattie's Sometimes Boarder 

Thomas Brady testified that he knew Mack very well and had often boarded with her. He described Mack as "one of the best women that ever lived." He said that once in a while he saw a sick woman there but not often since Mack had stopped letting him stay at her home due to his drunkenness.

Hattie Mack's Testimony 

Hattie was a Black woman that Dr. Cream referred to as a midwife. Mack gave the police the impression that she was illiterate, unable to even sign her name, but it came out later that she was able to read and write. Mack and her three children lived on the second floor of a two-story, multi-family dwelling. A native of Kentucky, she had lived in Missouri before moving to Chicago.

Some time around the end of February, Cream told her to expect a married woman whose husband had abandoned her. Mack was not told the woman's name. Cream said that he was going to "treat" the woman and pay Mack to care for her during the process and the woman's convalescence. He would Mack $12.50 (about $375 in 2023) for providing care to the woman and would pay for the woman's room and board: $5 (c. $150) for the first week and $4 (c. $120) for each subsequent week. Since she owed Cream $15 (c. $450) for previous medical care, this gave her an opportunity to work off her debt.

Cream reassured Mack that all would go well, that he had done more than 500 cases at St. John's or St. Thomas' hospital. 

The young woman arrived on August 11, and Cream performed some sort of operation on her. Mack had seen the instruments and could describe them clearly enough to convince doctors reviewing the case that they were abortion instruments. She didn't go into the room with Cream and his patient, but heard the young woman moaning.

The woman told Mack that she had been deserted by her husband and had gone to work to earn her living. When she'd learned that she was pregnant she sought out an abortionist and had been given the card of a Dr. Geer. Geer advised her to visit Dr. Cream, who was in that line of work. The young woman hadn't had the $5 to pay Geer for the consult so she gave him her gold watch to hold as security until she could pay him. She had followed Geer's advice and visited Cream, who said that he always had comfortable and safe places to keep his patients because he could pressure patients who owed him money to provide lodging.

Cream came by several times a day to check on his patient, who had expelled the baby but was becoming very ill. He told Mack to keep everything "secret as death," never to call any other doctor in to attend to the woman, and to just keep administering the medicine he provided. Mack begged Cream to remove the woman from her premises so that she'd not be implicated, reminding him that she'd only gotten involved to pay off her debt. Cream refused, but did supply Mack with whiskey, which made her enable to continue caring for the patient whose deteriorating condition was causing a foul odor.

Lieutenant Steele produced a pocketbook belonging to Mary Ann that had been found in Cream's office. He showed Hattie Mack the jewelry that had been in the pocketbook. She said that the jewelry had not been there when she'd given the pocketbook to Cream. She said that the young woman had told her that she'd pawned some jewelry over to Cream to cover the $25 (c. $750) fee for his services.

On the evening of August 19, Cream brought in another doctor, unfamiliar to Mack, to try to save the ailing woman. 

During her stay, the patient often bewailed her fate. The woman had moaned piteously the last day of her life and at this point told Hattie Mack her name and the name and address of her mother in Ottawa. Mary Ann fell into unconsciousness some hours before she died at around 6:00 in the morning on Friday, August 20. 

Once the young woman was dead, Mack went to tell Cream what had happened. Cream told her to take her children with her to her sister's home, leaving the house locked up. He offered to buy the furniture from her for $30. Cream's plan was to throw tar over the contents and "burn the whole damned place." Mack said she wanted no part of an arson plan and threatened to contact the police. Cream then told Mack to stay at the house in order to avoid causing suspicion, and he'd he'd get a wagon and come by at 2:00 Saturday morning in his stocking feet to take away the body and would "shoot anyone" who tried to interfere.

Mack told Cream that there was no way anybody would be able to remain at the home due to the terrible smell, which was sure to gain the attention of the neighbors.

Dr. Thomas Cream's Version of Events 

Cream had graduated from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons in Edinburgh, Scotland and was licensed to practice in Illinois. He first met Hattie Mack in April of 1880, when he'd treated one of her children.

Cream had testified, "A week ago last night (Friday, August 12), after 12:00 at night, the colored woman Mackey came to the drug-store where I was sleeping, and was let in by the druggist. She asked for me, and the druggist called me. I got up, and the woman wanted me to go to her house, where she said she had a very sick woman. I dressed and went with her. I found the young woman in bed. She had just been confined, and I found a 3-months child lying on the bed. Knowing the character of the negress to be that of an abortionist, she having confessed to me before that she was such, and had committed abortions upon herself and other women, I saw that something wrong had been done. They were both unwilling to speak on the subject at first, but I pressed them, and finally they admitted that the sick woman had been taking oil of cotton-root and ergot. I told them I knew of no medicine that could be relied upon for such a thing, and said that something else had been done. They denied this for some time, but afterwards the negress told me that she had operated upon the woman with an instrument, which she produced."

Cream testified in detail about the care he had provided to Mary Ann. He said that on Thursday, August 19, he found Mary Ann desperately ill, which he attributed to concoctions that Mack had administered on her own initiative. Cream testified that the records of the prescriptions he'd ordered from the drug store would show that he had provided appropriate care to his patient.

Cream said that he'd never performed an abortion in his life, but had assisted in "necessary cases" when a medical student. 

When Mary Ann died, he'd told Mack, "You have killed the woman, and the best thing you can do is throw yourself on the mercy of the police" He denied offering to buy Mack's possessions and torch the building, instead saying that he'd not even been willing to complete a death certificate because he didn't think that Mary Ann should be buried until the police cleared the case.

The Outcome

The Coroner's Jury returned the following verdict: "Mary A. M. Faulkner came to her death on the 20th day of August, 1880, by reason of peritonitis and metritis follow on an abortion, committed with her knowledge, and assistance of Dr. Thomas N. Cream and Mrs. Hattie Mackey." Both Cream and Hattie were held without bail pending a Grand Jury hearing. 

Mack and Cream originally had been slated to be tried together but Cream managed to get the cases severed. On November 20, 1880 Cream's jury was sent to deliberate at 3:30 p.m. They returned at 4:30 p.m. with a verdict of  not guilty. The Inter Ocean reported that Cream, "who had been sitting in court in very apparent suspense and anxiety during the absence of the jury, when the foreman announced the verdict, jumped to his feet and shook Counsellor Trude violently by the hand, and then went through the same process with each member of the jury in rotation. Judge Gary informed Dr. Cream that it would be necessary for him to go through the jail and be discharged in the usual manner."

As for Hattie Mack, the charges against her were dismissed the day after Cream's trial ended, evidently because she had turned state's evidence against Cream.

Guilty or not, it's really a shame that Cream was acquitted and released. He was later sentenced to life in prison for the death of his lover's husband, who died after taking poison Cream provided. A letter writing campaign -- and a promise to leave the country -- got him released. He moved to London and gained infamy as a serial murderer, killing young women with poison. He was hanged in Newgate Prison in 1892.

Sources: 

• "Double Murder," Chicago Tribune, August 22, 1880
• "The Faulkner Inquest," The Daily Inter Ocean, August 24, 1880
• "The Cream abortion case," Montreal Gazette, November 17, 1880
• "Earle and Cream," Chicago Tribune, November 17, 1880
• "'Dr.' Cream," The Inter Ocean, November 17, 1880
• "Cream's Crime," The Inter Ocean, November 18, 1880
• "Dr. Cream," Chicago Tribune, November 19, 1880
• "Who Did It?" The Inter Ocean, November 20, 1880
• "The Turf," Chicago Tribune, November 21, 1880

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Veteran pro-life investigator Kevin Sherlock asks people of good will to help him have Planned Parenthood prosecuted for profiteering from the rapes and incests of underage girls many thousands of times each year.

Sherlock has  pulled the police records of hundreds of cities and has pulled the child protective services records of multiple states to prove Planned Parenthood staffers are violating mandated reporting laws designed to protect girl victims.   But there is more to be done. Sherlock will make sure more and more evidence gets to federal and state prosecutors who care about protecting girls from abusers and profiteers.

If you would like to help, please click the following link:

https://www.givesendgo.com/stop-pp-from-profiteering-from-the-rapes

Sherlock has talked to many girls and young women who trust him. Their stories and the forensic evidence shows most of them undergo pill abortions or humiliating invasive surgical abortions due to fear or ignorance or pressure or coercion. He treats the girls or women carrying children or devastated from their abortions as friends and neighbors in his home town, not afterthoughts.

Thank you for doing what you can to help girls and fight sexual predators and rape profiteers.