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Friday, July 27, 2007

Two anniversaries: One illegal, one safe and legal

Charisse Ards is one of the women Life Dynamics lists on the Blackmun Wall of women killed by legal abortion. Life Dynamics indicates that Charisse was 20 years old, single, and a mother of one. According to Life Dynamics, Charisse died July 28, 1989, from a pelvic infection after a legal abortion.

On July 28, 1928, 21-year-old Maud Thurmond died in Chicago from sepsis from a criminal abortion performed that day. Nobody was ever held accountable for Maud's death.

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