On August 6, 1920, 35-year-old Christina Anderson died at Chicago's County Hospital from a criminal abortion. Midwife Emelia Schaffer
was arrested for murder, and a woman named Pearl Freese as an
accessory. Schaffer was indicted on August 14, but the case never went
to trial.
In late July of 1988, 30-year-old Laura Sorrels underwent an abortion at a facility in Lancaster, California.
Two weeks later, on August 6th, she was found dead in a motel room. Her one-year-old daughter was found in the room with her. Whoever had performed Laura's abortion had failed to notice that the
embryo was not in her uterus, but was in her fallopian tube. The tube
ruptured, and Laura died of blood loss and shock, her baby daughter by
her side. Even though, in theory, women who choose abortion should be less likely
to die of ectopic pregnancy complications, experiences shows that
they're actually //more// likely to die, due to sloppy practices by abortion practitioners.
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