According to her death certificate, 34-year-old Inez Harpham, wife of George Harphan, lived in Rowlins, Carbon County, Wyoming and worked as a housekeeper. She was born in Lyons, Colorado in 1906.
On April 4, 1940 she was admitted to Carbon County Memorial Hospital. She was treated there by Dr. Myron L. Crandall until her death shortly after midnight the morning of April 7.
Her death was attributed to self-induced abortion with infection. She had been about 6 weeks pregnant.
There is no record of why Inez chose to abort her baby, what resources would have been available to her, or what advice she could have obtained from family or friends. I've been unable to find evidence of abortion rings in Wyoming at the time of Inez's death. It's unknown if she asked a doctor to falsely claim that the pregnancy was life-threatening in order to perform an abortion under false pretenses. However, even had she found a physician, the lack of available antibiotics at the time would have made it difficult to save her once an infection started regardless of who had perpetrated the abortion.
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