On December 5, 1905, 19-year-old laborer Annie Killhoff died at her home on Ashland Avenue in Chicago from an abortion.
Two physicians, Joseph Vassumpaur
and Charles Boddiger, were arrested, Vassumpaur as the principle and
Boddiger as an accessory. Patrick Dillon was also held as an accessory.
The case, however, never went to trial.
Seventeen-year-old Janice Gumm of Beach Park, Illinois, went to
Dimensions Medical Center in Des Plaines, Illionis,
for an abortion on December 5, 1998, to be performed under anesthesia.
Her abortionist was Dr. Jesse Chandler, and the anesthesiologist was Dr. Murray Rosenberg of Hospital Anesthesia Group.
The suit by Janice's survivors held that Dimensions failed to perform an
adequate physical examination prior to the abortion, particularly in
that they did not properly assess her increased risks due to the fact
that she had asthma. As a result, Janice suffered an anesthesia-related
complication that resulted in her death that day.
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