October 20, 1971: Emboldened Quack Kills Second Woman in Six Months

Carole Schaner was 37 years old when she traveled from Ohio to Buffalo, New York, for a safe and legal abortion. to be performed by Dr, Jesse Ketchum. She had been referred by a local abortion advocacy organization, West Shore Center. Carole was divorced and caring for her four children.

Dr. Jesse Ketchum

Ketchum was a former criminal abortionist from Ypsilanti, Michigan who had relocated to New York specifically to open an abortion practice. He had allowed another abortion patient, Margaret Smith, to bleed to death in his office from a hysterotomy abortion just four months earlier. 

Ketchum performed a vaginal hysterotomy on Carole on October 20, 1971. This is a procedure where the doctor cuts the uterus open just above the cervix to remove the living unborn baby and allow it to die of extreme prematurity. Carole was 14 weeks pregnant.

After the abortion, Carole went into shock, and was taken to Deaconess Hospital. Despite all efforts, Carole died before doctors could even fully assess the extent of her injuries. She left behind four children.

The autopsy found that Carole's cervix and uterus had been cut open, and an artery outside her uterus had been cut. It also noted sutures that had evidently been put in by Ketchum in an attempt to repair the damage. The sutures, however, completely closed Carole's cervix, allowing her to continue bleeding from the injured uterus and artery.

Another former criminal abortionist, Milan Vuitch, also had kept his nose clean as a criminal abortionist, then went on to kill two legal abortion patients. Wilma Harris and Georgianna English both died under Vuitch's care. Benjamin Munson, likewise, had a clean record in his criminal abortionist then went on to kill two women in his supposedly safer legal practice -- Linda Padfield and Yvonne Mesteth.

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Sources:

• Maternal Mortality Associated With Legal Abortion in New York State: July 1, 1970 - June 30, 1972, Berger, Tietze, Pakter, Katz, Obstetrics and Gynecology, 43:3, March 1974, 324;
• "Doctor convicted in N.Y. practicing in Detroit area," Robert L. Pisor, The Detroit News, Apr. 26, 1974, 1A, 10A.
• "Doctor Charged In Deaths of Two After Abortions," (Jacksonville) Florida Times-Union, January 29, 1972
• "Dr. Ketchum Offers Innocent Plea In Woman's Death After Abortion," Buffalo Evening News, January 28, 1972
• "MD, Indicted in Abortions, Linked Here," Cleveland Plain Dealer, January 30, 1972
• "Doctor's Wife Is Material Witness In Abortion Case," Buffalo Evening News, April 8, 1972
• "Grand Jury Drops One Death Case Against Ketchum," Buffalo Evening News, July 1, 1972

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