On December 2, 1901, the body of
Rose Lefebre was found in the Chicago apartment of
Mary Volberding. It appeared that Rose had died from internal hemorrhage caused by an abortion. Volberding was
arrested, but she was later exonerated by a Coroner's Jury. However, the
coroner's jury recommended that the Board of Health investigate Mrs.
Volberding for advertising as a midwife without a license.
On December 5, 1948, Dr.
Cyril B. Babb pleaded guilty to performing a fatal abortion on
Doris Becker the
previous Wednesday in his office. Doris died 20 hours later at the apartment of a friend, Anne Martin.
Anne and a bartender, George Kutrones, were held as material witnesses.
Babb also admitted to performing 30 other abortions. He was sentenced to
6 1/2 to 12 years in prison for manslaughter and abortion.
Rudy Alston, stage name Floss, got the page as he sat in the waiting room of
Brooklyn Women's Medical Pavilion
on December 1, 1998. Tommy Boy Records had just signed the young rapper
to a contract. Alston never got to share the news with his fiance,
22-year-old
Tamika Dowdy. But he would never have a chance.
Alston told the
New York Post that a doctor
had kept walking in and out of the waiting room, "sweating real fierce
and pacing. He did that several times, and then he finally came up to me
and said that her heart had stopped. Alston rode by her side to the
hospital, where she was pronounced dead the following day. According to the NAF
web site, Brooklyn Women's Medical Pavilion was a member facility at the time of Tamika's death.
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