Search: Abortion, 1940s

Here's what I have for abortion deaths in the 1940s:

Pauline Shirley, died 1940

Agnes Pearson, died 1941

Helen Clark, died 1941

Harriet Lichtenberg, died 1942

Madeline McGeehan, died 1942

Cleo Moore, died 1942

Florence Schnoor, grand-niece of Andrew Carnegie, died 1942

Amelia Cardito, died 1944

Beatrice Fisher, died 1945

Jane Ward, heiress to the Drake Bakery fortune, died 1947

Ilene Eagen, died 1947

Doris Becker, died 1948

Dorothy Martin, died 1949

Kerneda Bennett, died between 1942 and 1949

Also, in 1942, Frederick Taussig admitted that his estimates of 5,000 to 10,000 maternal deaths a year from abortion were wild guesses and not even remotely accurate. Dr. Robert B. Nelson reported to the Planned Parenthood Conference on Abortion in the United States that from 1940 to 1943, the District of Columbia saw zero to five abortion deaths per year. From 1940 to 1945, there was roughly a 50% drop in abortion deaths, thanks to the development of antibiotics. Then from 1945 to 1950 came a tremendous drop, with abortion mortality falling to roughly a third of the previous tally.