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| Dorothy Kirkland yearbook photo |
Dorothy Kirkland Brown, age 37, underwent an abortion at Friendship Medical Clinic in Chicago on August 16, 1974.
According to public records, this married Black woman had led a sad life. Her mother had died when she was only a year old. The 1940 census has 2-year-old Dorothy living with her maternal grandparents along with many of their other grandchildren. Dorothy was the youngest. The others were ages 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 15, and 18. Neither grandparent is listed as having an occupation in the census documents.
In spite of this rough start, Dorothy was determined to make her life better. She graduated from Dunbar Vocational High School in 1955 with primary studies in office practice. She had been active in the Literary Guild, Junior Red Cross, and Mixed Chorus.
Dorothy had a 15-year old daughter and another daughter whose information is not available in public records. Dorothy worked as a teacher's aide in a high school in the Chicago area.
Julia Rogers and Evelyn Dudley also died after abortions at Friendship Medical Center.
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Sources:
- Death certificate
- Friendship Medical Center, Ltd. and T.r.m. Howard, plaintiffs-appellants, v. the Chicago Board of Health et al., Defendants-appellees, 505 F.2d 1141 (7th Cir. 1975)
- "12 dead after abortions in state's walk-in clinics," Chicago Sun-Times, November 19, 1978
- "T.R.M. Howard: Civil Rights Rabble-Rouser, Abortion Provider," Dissent, May 16, 2013
Veteran pro-life investigator Kevin Sherlock asks people of good will to help him have Planned Parenthood prosecuted for profiteering from the rapes and incests of underage girls many thousands of times each year.
Sherlock has pulled the police records of hundreds of cities and has pulled the child protective services records of multiple states to prove Planned Parenthood staffers are violating mandated reporting laws designed to protect girl victims. But there is more to be done. Sherlock will make sure more and more evidence gets to federal and state prosecutors who care about protecting girls from abusers and profiteers.
Sherlock has talked to many girls and young women who trust him. Their stories and the forensic evidence shows most of them undergo pill abortions or humiliating invasive surgical abortions due to fear or ignorance or pressure or coercion. He treats the girls or women carrying children or devastated from their abortions as friends and neighbors in his home town, not afterthoughts.
Thank you for doing what you can to help girls and fight sexual predators and rape profiteers.
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