March 16, 1973 Collapses at Home After Safe, Legal Abortion

Dr. T.R. Mason Howard

Reports on death of Evelyn Dudley, age 38, alleged that she was treated at Friendship Medical Center in Chicago on March 16, 1973. Later, at home in Benton Harbor, MI, she collapsed in the driveway. She was taken to a hospital in Chicago, where attempts to save her failed.

Her death was due to shock, hemorrhage from a ruptured cervix and vagina, from "remote abortion." 

Civil rights leader Dr. T.R. Mason Howard (pictured) stated that Evelyn was treated at Friendship for infection sustained in an abortion in Detroit. Evelyn's brother, however, stated that Evelyn had traveled to Chicago specifically to have the abortion.

Julia Rogers and Dorothy Brown also died after abortions at Friendship Medical Center.

Watch One of Three Fatal Abortions at Friendship Medical Center on YouTube. 
Watch One of Three Fatal Abortions at Friendship Medical Center on YouTube

Sources: 

• Death Certificate No. 608195
• "12 dead after abortions in state's walk-in clinics," Chicago Sunday Sun-Times, November 19, 1978