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Tuesday, May 01, 2007

Anniversary: Illegal death, midwife arrested

On May 1, 1925, 26-year-old Mary Sayers died at a Chicago residence from a criminal abortion performed on her that day. Midwife Edna Marie Dietrich was arrested the following day.



For more on pre-legalization abortion, see The Bad Old Days of Abortion

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