Typical illegal abortion annivesary

Joyce Chorney, age 25, died Wednesday, November 18, 1953. An autopsy was performed at Bellevue Hospital. It showed that she had died of an induced abortion. A doctor, Alfred Joseph, was charged with criminal abortion in her death.



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

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