On January 16, 1901,
Jennie Mallard died at Alexian Brothers Hospital in Chicago from an abortion performed there that day. Mrs. Margaret Simmons, whose profession was listed as "
nurse or midwife", was arrested and held in the death.
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more about abortion deaths at the beginning of the 20th Century.

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