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Sunday, June 01, 2008

1925: Abortion by midwife proves fatal

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.

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  1. In 1925, 5,697 women died of puerperal (childbirth-related) septicemia and 9,618 women died of "other puerperal causes."

    http://www2.census.gov/prod2/statcomp/documents/1926-02.pdf

    That's 15,315 women (in 1925 alone) with no place in your "Cemetery of Choice" because they died doing what you think all women should have to do.

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  2. Sorry, here's that source:

    http://tinyurl.com/6gds32

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