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Monday, January 09, 2023

January 9, 1918: Doctor Implicated in Widow's Fatal Abortion

On January 9, 1918, 39-year-old Mary Cusack, a widowed homemaker, died at Chicago's West Side Hospital from septicemia caused by an abortion perpetrated that day by Dr. William A. McFarlane. He was indicted on January 15, 1918, but the case never went to trial.

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