Thursday, March 20, 2008

Anniversary: Criminal abortion kills woman

On March 20, 1906, Anna Gosch died from complications of a criminal abortion evidently performed by her boyfriend with a catheter of some sort. The boyfriend, a Mr. Edwards, had consulted a physician to treat Anna after the abortion, to no avail. Edwards was convicted of homicide.

Anna's death is similar to the death of "Daisy" Roe, a systems analyst who died in 1990 after allowing her boyfriend to attempt to perform an abortion on her with a piece of aquarium tubing. It was also unusual in that it was performed by an amateur, rather than by a doctor, as was the case with perhaps 90% of criminal abortions

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