tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83956462024-03-18T22:32:58.345-04:00RealChoicePreparing for a Post-<i>Roe</i> AmericaChristina Duniganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04785550737493692252noreply@blogger.comBlogger7607125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395646.post-68955873619287868382024-02-26T00:00:00.001-05:002024-02-26T00:00:00.128-05:00February 26, 1943: Woman's Death Gets One Sentence of News Coverage<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-JMsvApj_LMlzGeIlmvHwrmd0jDVJb3OkSq_oPNM2R4eZzFM4pTLd4HDAsShJwkL9Rguw-Cs2qQxUe8NR6qlFKEcw5Fkj---6hXf6ikAa_3l2a6-KnatdHd7VNB3_2G_J7GYh50ZCRQP5_TxpUrenVO59wy66qFxhSIKXHAZ9XAC_Z2dHAO0/s534/Lavern%20Perez%20Chicago_Tribune_Sat__Oct_23__1943_.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="534" data-original-width="313" height="388" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-JMsvApj_LMlzGeIlmvHwrmd0jDVJb3OkSq_oPNM2R4eZzFM4pTLd4HDAsShJwkL9Rguw-Cs2qQxUe8NR6qlFKEcw5Fkj---6hXf6ikAa_3l2a6-KnatdHd7VNB3_2G_J7GYh50ZCRQP5_TxpUrenVO59wy66qFxhSIKXHAZ9XAC_Z2dHAO0/w228-h388/Lavern%20Perez%20Chicago_Tribune_Sat__Oct_23__1943_.jpg" width="228" /></a></div><div>Dr. Henry Gross, age 56, had a reputable medical practice at 843 Belmont Avenue in Chicago in the 1940s. However, after a Dr. Ira Willits died, Gross purchased the dead man's office and set up an abortion practice there under Willits's name.</div><div><br /></div>On January 28, 1943, 22-year-old Lavern Perez died in her Chicago home. Gross was convicted in her death but won a new trial.<p>Buried in the coverage of Lavern's death is a mention of the February 26, 1943 abortion death of 20-year-old waitress <b>Dorothy Weber</b>.</p><p>After Gross was granted a new trial, he and both the women vanish from the records.</p><p>Watch <i><a href="https://youtu.be/U3dLnxfnD4E">One-Sentence Coverage of Abortion Death</a></i> on YouTube.</p><p>Sources:</p><p></p><ul><li>"<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixa5gndFRj3Jjjve-MFl3XsPsPX1z1-VIXGrakfB7lYKHo85crIj1jsddb3JpPSPXIvmJmE0_XUGaqNxoqeAmMdw2CXADwrpX8jCyz-yROCnu7KYsFTKXrtH_WGaTiSxu5nyNl9QAnRaKH5Z0eX70u57dqvqYLCYxRuAsDQZ3u7X6T8lwjYQQ/s16000/Lavern%20Perez%20Chicago_Tribune_Sat__Jul_3__1943_.png">Jurors Convict Physician of Abortion Death</a>," <i>Chicago Tribune</i>, July 3, 1943</li><li>"<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-JMsvApj_LMlzGeIlmvHwrmd0jDVJb3OkSq_oPNM2R4eZzFM4pTLd4HDAsShJwkL9Rguw-Cs2qQxUe8NR6qlFKEcw5Fkj---6hXf6ikAa_3l2a6-KnatdHd7VNB3_2G_J7GYh50ZCRQP5_TxpUrenVO59wy66qFxhSIKXHAZ9XAC_Z2dHAO0/s16000/Lavern%20Perez%20Chicago_Tribune_Sat__Oct_23__1943_.jpg">Dr. Gross Wins New Trial in Abortion Case</a>," <i>Chicago Tribune</i>, October 23, 1943</li></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Christina Duniganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04785550737493692252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395646.post-21479419813078479322024-02-17T00:00:00.001-05:002024-02-17T00:00:00.150-05:00February 17, 1995: First of Biskind's Two Dead Patients<img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5710252189284636562" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5tdo_30G0i1TUKuR_mblp1QpyNa__Esd6BKnPmF5UbV1TsScOGhOXwg2_hnFZ3cbsRBrxpctsPblQJK5h9wKKq73ehkqbuWBBOaAH8fTdbCF5ZpnfIZtlvvAvbQkIIlJFJsSSlg/s320/john-biskind.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 183px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 199px;" /><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: normal;"></span><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Lisa Bardsley</span><span> </span><span>was 26 years old and at least 20 weeks pregnant when she had a</span><span> </span>safe and legal abortion<span> </span><span>done by Dr. John Biskind (pictured)</span><span> </span><span style="line-height: normal;">at A to Z Women's Clinic in Phoenix, Arizona on February 16, 1995.</span><span> She was discharged an hour later.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>On the way home to Flagstaff, Arizona, she </span><span style="line-height: normal;">took ill, so she and her boyfriend, who had accompanied her, stopped at a motel at Camp Verde. Lisa hoped that if she rested a while she'd feel better. However, her pain worsened and she began suffering shortness of breath. Her boyfriend called 911. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: normal;">Lisa was taken to a hospital in Cottonwood, where she died of blood loss from a uterine laceration on February 17.</span><span> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: normal;">Biskind went on to get into further trouble for delivering a live, nearly term infant during an abortion performed on a teenager, and for the abortion death of Lou Ann Herron, for which he was convicted of manslaughter. The clinic where Lisa was fatally injured was owned by abortionist Moshe Hachamovitch, who was implicated in the abortion deaths of Christina Goesswein, Tanya Williamson, Luz Rodriguez, and Jammie Garcia.</span></span></p>Christina Duniganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04785550737493692252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395646.post-31772242755414321312024-02-01T19:58:00.001-05:002024-02-01T19:58:00.149-05:00February Stella Lickerman needs rewrite<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtiW4Q84RpfESCH8pN2HTd4pnAJNghh-DI1HSOmKA7pegIsa0ixWYzwwLfsPQvvJ36foCm13kwfi4YkeXhjSWk9zWnlxeUM3RtlknzlIl59pyg1UoH2rdGrXesvpU6RzXdruxExg/s1600/Chicago_Tribune_Tue__Sep_25__1928_+%25281%2529.jpg" style="clear: right; display: inline !important; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="615" data-original-width="450" height="388" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtiW4Q84RpfESCH8pN2HTd4pnAJNghh-DI1HSOmKA7pegIsa0ixWYzwwLfsPQvvJ36foCm13kwfi4YkeXhjSWk9zWnlxeUM3RtlknzlIl59pyg1UoH2rdGrXesvpU6RzXdruxExg/w284-h388/Chicago_Tribune_Tue__Sep_25__1928_+%25281%2529.jpg" width="284" /></a>Stella: born Chicago to Charles and Celia Stifter. Family moved to Detroit between 1910 and 1920. Married Abner Lickerman in Detroit. Everybody returned to Chicago some time between 1920 and 1930. Abner had been born in Poland and lived in Chicago but married stella in Detroit on 31 May 1925. </p><div>Dr. William Eugene Shelton, who went by his first initial and middle name, was charged with murder in the February 6, 1927 abortion death of 23-year-old homemaker Stella Stifter Lickerman and five other women whose names I've been unable to determine.<br /><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />Shelton wasn't arrested until October of 1928.<br /><br />Shelton ran two "hospital flats" in Chicago, one on 6343 Halsted St. and one at 6341 Halsted St.<br /><br />Two nurses were also arrested and charged with conspiracy. Nurse Sylvia Atcherly was arrested at the 6343 address while nurse Ophelia Roper Griffith worked at the 6341 address.<br /><br /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Two other women were arrested and released after three days of questioning: Mrs. Gertrude Vollert, who was a cook at one of the flats, and Pearl Hawkins, a maid. Mrs. Vollert had been arrested because, clad in her white cook's uniform, she had been mistaken at first for another nurse. She indicated that she was only a substitute cook, filling in for the regular cook on occasion. </span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br /><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />The raid took place based on a lead provided by a barber named Elmer Duval. Duval had married Sylvia Atcherly, the nurse, in 1924 and lived with her at the hospital until the couple split up. His evident motive for spilling the beans was that he hated Shelton.<br /><br /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px;">Duval said that Shelton had fired one of his nurses, Helen Goode, blaming her for Stella's death and saying that it would cost him $5,000 to "square that case."</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px;">Police found indications that Shelton would perpetrate the abortions, and if the women suffered complications he would transport them in his car to a hospital on Chicago's west side. </div><br />Based on Duval's statements, police began an investigation that led to the raid. They found two young women in hospital beds in a front room of the flat. Both had recently undergone abortions. After giving statements they were transferred to the county hospital for care. Shelton had charged each woman $200.<br /><br />Duval said that the first woman to die at Shelton's hands had died in December of 1926.<br /><br />Duval said that Stella Lickerman was the second abortion patient to die. He provided information that led police to her family. They indicated that she had been treated by Shelton, and that another doctor who examined her later found evidence of an abortion.<br /><br />The only other information I've been able to obtain is that Duval said that one of the victims was 18 years old. Strangely enough, all mention of Shelton seems to vanish from the records after his indictment.<div><br /></div><div>Recently added sources:</div><div><ul><li><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs1DO04o9q0Ljcwsm6xrbe-OWGJ0DzKTbeCv3WppuXrVXrSJW__6nV2Zn1WPE1r6FURQwiRgXQu82v_7ltYMu3V7INMK-kwMCp9zvTthFhlhRkIbqSWVES7WGbcnvdjmGhlx-7pQ/s1600/Chicago_Tribune_Tue__Sep_25__1928_.jpg">"Physician Held as Suspect in Death of Girl,"</a> <i>Chicago Daily Tribune</i>, September 25, 1928</li><li><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDiaRVOoOBaV3xK6nfsHshOhS2LSlK3mhv0wYuXhNXwHsvb1chTjoYpHjxGT4vPuFsYa8E3mhfup8fHv3atEBgyUDsNF5qo73UDZ4y5kZF68crAZuuQhdLsIroFF3Q6VD-tl3L_Q/s1600/Belvidere_Daily_Republican_Tue__Sep_25__1928_.jpg">"Murder Charge Placed Against Chicago Doctor,"</a> <i>Belvidere Daily Republican</i>, September 25, 1928</li><li><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDXg4gn4N7XMdzJVpSJwCGw5R__mDc45-snCHJDmBEJGIvKzTvTVYXmoMvV_E_ue_sM4BeQPXEe4R3DD2pKa3jHQIJmXoeAPkJ_XZ6IQcmNVmUHkh6IztMpqNhwTjSdW66iy95yg/s1600/The_Times_Wed__Sep_26__1928_.jpg">"Book Doctor on Murder Charge for Operations,"</a> <i>New York Times</i>, September 26, 1928</li><li><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW-_3HciUwgEgtfEG-mnZp5oFElPkyjMBoBS6OgJc2SBlO-36o9tevcR3PcLeLtpNLiJ51-aE6YwmQA1xepgQtmxEpPO4zNVMKv_NqVkSC_AqMF8vlk35S_hhLfxIWhETdVQUwWA/s640/Chicago_Tribune_Wed__Sep_26__1928_.jpg">"Quiz on Girl's Death May Hit 2 Young Women," </a> <i>Chicago Daily Tribune</i>, September 26, 1928</li><li>"<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTY8h1iBaKIATZ4-Hu5g5OAtZr5-6mqKBHNqfWwkEHQpAN9fs6Mq2FF_rAdnkjSjJ6M4MljF0k-BZxJjrjNP23Vs7m_tk-CslHG9OkUsAhvEeLOiyt_KEbOVLZqxADYSHVy9G5UNySHTN_YLcrXfWe1YYq6hQcUN0xjnddFLX26P-yH2zvrPo/s16000/StellaLeichtermanDixonILEveningTelegraph27September1928.png">Indict Dr. Shelton For Abortion Death</a>," <i>Dixon (IL) Evening Telegraph</i>, September 27, 1928</li><li><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEganz_cS1jXuRYdHBd978jdeoJkcYhQGmviVMw73ZZsYLuKhDuClivUxTH3Wxg9pb6DO9laBT7QZSsqmkNgBUsTPkA3rwPQmWzzxebn6OiicvRJhHKMMuRMm_YHwMQ1pTRsnNb2Ww/s1600/Suburbanite_Economist_Tue__Oct_2__1928_.jpg">"Dr. Shelton Free on Bonds of $50,000," </a> <i>Southtown Economist</i>, October 2, 1928</li></ul><br /><div><br /></div></div></div>Christina Duniganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04785550737493692252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395646.post-69689236672937461812024-02-01T00:00:00.001-05:002024-02-01T00:00:00.141-05:00February 1, 1977: Happy Birthday, Cecelia's Baby<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Suction abortion performed after misdiagnosed fetal age, baby born partially scalped but survived:</span> <a href="http://realchoice.0catch.com/library/century/aahxpt2c.htm">Dr. Joseph Rucker</a> reportedly examined 14-year-old Cecelia G., estimated her pregnancy as 14 weeks, and tried to perform a suction abortion on her on January 26, 1977. Cecelia began to hemorrhage, and was transported to a hospital by car. There, a doctor examined her, and discovered she was 7 months pregnant. She was released, but returned days later. Her infant girl was born February 1, with a 2-inch piece of her scalp missing.</p>Christina Duniganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04785550737493692252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395646.post-54424384046317624862024-01-21T00:00:00.001-05:002024-01-21T00:00:00.310-05:00January 21, 1982: Scant Information on Georgia Death<p>I put out a call for information on the following abortion death:</p><p>Mary Tennyson, age 20, Black, Richmond County, Georgia; January 21, 1982</p><p>My research arm, Keely, found some additional information -- she was born on October 15, 1961. Her death certificate number is 005646. She is buried next to a baby's gravestone with no name on it. This enabled me to look up genealogy records and find that she lived in Roberta, Georgia.</p><p>This gave me a lead to her obituary, which indicated that she died in a hospital in Augusta, Georgia and was a graduate of Crawford County High School and had attended Macon Vocational Technical School. </p><p>How Mary came to her death remains unknown to me.</p>Christina Duniganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04785550737493692252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395646.post-22663851148057111012023-12-26T00:00:00.001-05:002023-12-26T00:00:00.254-05:00December 26, 1989: Happy Brithday, Taranda's Baby<p> <span style="font-weight: bold;">First-trimester abortion after misdiagnosed fetal age, infant survived:</span> <a href="http://realchoice.0catch.com/library/weekly/aa081400a.htm">"Taranda,"</a> age 17, went to Family Planning Clinic for Reproductive Health for an abortion on December 22, 1989. Dr. Karen J. Smiley estimated the pregnancy at 6 weeks and performed an abortion. Four days later, Taranda gave birth to a one pound, critically ill infant girl in a hospital corridor. Taranda's lawyer said, "She's devastated, obviously. She would never have dreamed of having an abortion had she known it was 26 weeks old." Taranda needed psychiatric care after her ordeal.</p>Christina Duniganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04785550737493692252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395646.post-18780250013886452222023-12-17T00:00:00.001-05:002023-12-17T00:00:00.249-05:00December 17, 1985: The Attempted Murder of Ximenia Renaerts<p>On December 16, 1985, 22-year-old Nadine Bourne arrived at the emergency room of Vancouver General Hospital, seeking care for complications of an abortion she'd undergone four days earlier at a Bellingham, Washington Planned Parenthood. She had fever and a rapid pulse. She said that she'd been 14 to 16 weeks pregnant.</p><p>Dr. Jaroudi, a resident, was summoned by the ER physian. He examined Nadine but failed to notice that she was still pregnant. Nadine was admitted to the hospital.</p><p>At 3:20 a.m. the next morning, December 17, Nadine gave birth to her baby while seatedon the toilet. The little girl weighed about three pounds -- more consistent with an infant much closer to term, well into the third trimester.</p><p>A nurse, Vera Wood, did not call a resuscitation team or an infant transport team to take the shivering, whimpering, gasping infant to Children's hospital. Instead, according to court records, "She took the baby into the service room where dead fetuses are stored, and left it there [in a bedpan] for 40 minutes."</p><p>Thomas Berger, an attorney representing the child and her adoptive family noted, "We could prove that Vera Wood and other nurses did nothing to suction the baby or to provide warmth or oxygen for the child. Our case was that the baby suffered severe [trauma] as a result of these acts or omissions by VGH and its employees, resulting in brain damage in the form of mental retardation and cerebral palsy." After 40 minutes, nurse Wood called the night nursing supervisor, Joyce Hatherall, who cleared the baby's air passages, provided warmth and called for oxygen.</p><p>Mr. Berger also said, "We also had evidence that Dr. Jaroudi, called up to the ward, realized the baby had been delivered by Nadine Bourne, and realized it was viable, but nevertheless told the nurses not to resuscitate the baby ('...let it go'). He was ignored by Joyce Hatherall."</p><p>But even after Hatherall's intervention, the baby was placed on a metal counter, where she likely suffered further hyperthermia. And when Jaroudi finally contacted the transport team for Children's Hospital, he gave them insufficient information, causing an additional half-hour delay in providing care to the baby.</p><img align="left" alt="Ximenia" border="1" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20171014134646im_/http://realchoice.0catch.com/images/xeina.jpg" title="Ximenia Renearts, Aborted Alive" /><p>That neglected baby, left to die, has since been adopted. And she has a name: Ximenia Renearts. But thanks to the attempts on her life both before and after her birth, she suffered permanent brain damage. She is quadriplegic and has the mental capacity of a three-year-old.</p><p>BC police made two abortive (how appropriate!) investigations of the case, with spokesman Sergeant Bob Cooper calling the case "bullshit", comparing it to cases where children die when being delivered by midwives. Which leaves me wondering if BC midwives routinely leave premature infants in metal bedpans in the closet for over half an hour at a time before somebody else comes along and provides care over the midwives' objections.</p><p>Part of the reason for the callous attitude of the police may be that the spokesman for the BC Minister of Health's Office, Michelle Stewart, is dismissive of the issue of infants born live during abortions, commenting, "As you know, this Ministry is very much in favor of giving women choices about their reproductive health." British Columbia's Chief Coroner Larry Campbell included a letter in a report on such live births, and dismissed them as to be expected in abortion and therefore outside the purview of BC coroners, who only get involved if a death is "unexpected". In other words, at least in British Columbia, abortion is 100% about achieving the death of the infant, even if the infant is born alive. Which leaves me to wonder if a perpetrator who shot Ximenia dead tomorrow would face charges at all. Is she still, legally, only an aborted fetus?</p><p>The family filed suit against the hospital, the doctor, and the nurse, settling out of court for over $8 million, which will be used to build an accessible hosue for Ximena and to provide her with the care she will need for the rest of her life.</p><p>The hospital never conducted an internal review of how a live-born infant was treated like a pathology specimen on their premises, in violation of the law forbidding anyone to abandon or expose a child under the age of ten "so that its life is or is likely to be endangered or its health is or is likely to be permanently injured." Under Canadian law, having been born alive, Ximenia was a living human being entitled to full protection under the law. Prolife activists hold that chareges of attempted murder might be more appropriate, since nurse Wood's intent in putting the child in the bedpan aside in a room for dead fetuses was to allow the baby to die and be sent to the pathology lab with the other results of recent abortions.</p><p>Ximena's adoptive mother, Margaret, says, "How can you ever bring justice when all the damage is done? I guess my big hope that what happened to Ximena won't be in vain. It could be you in the hospital and what if they feel that you're not worthy of life. We have to stop somewhere."</p><p><small>Sources: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20171014134646/http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/1999/aug/990826a.html" target="_new">"Did Someone Try to Murder Ximena?"</a>, Terry O'Neill, B.C. Report, August 30, 1999; <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20171014134646/http://www.justicejunction.com/innocence_lost_ximena.htm" target="_new">The Attempted Infanticide of Ximena</a>; <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20171014134646/http://www.theinterim.com/sept98/10safeandlegal.html" target="_new">Safe and Legal?</a>, Ted Gerk, The Interim, September 1988; <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20171014134646/http://www.lifeadvocate.org/5_99/nation4.htm" target="_new">"Canadian babies born alive after abortion"</a>, Marnie Ko, reprinted from BC Catholic Newspaper; <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20171014134646/http://studentorgs.vanderbilt.edu/sfl/renaerts.htm" target="_new">Ximenia Renaerts</a></small></p>Christina Duniganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04785550737493692252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395646.post-57786307013218696602023-11-29T00:00:00.001-05:002023-11-29T00:00:00.140-05:00November 29, 1926: Dr. Lucy Hagenow's Last Known Victim<div class="separator"><p style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"> <img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoJeQ4dAedtYwxTCd9mJY1ICiCF0rytyOKYnghA0uLmYMvmWZhYaoNblw3jpEMDVjCUAUOa5LpM3_jzi9WFSDlXqJPt6YbRhLirAf9wwzhqA1j-WSmgB5n3ez02VYmKCdOW7UBCA/s200/Hagenow.jpg" style="font-family: inherit;" width="197" /></p></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">On November 29, 1926, 25-year-old stenographer <b>Mary Moorehead</b> died from a criminal abortion perpetrated in the Chicago office of Dr. Lucy Hagenow. </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b></b>Hagenow (pictured) wasn't arrested until November 13 of the following year. </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hagenow told the court that Mary had come to her office on November 5, giving her name as Margaret Sullivan. Hagenow said that she examined Mary, who had a foul-smelling vaginal discharge. Hagenow said that she concluded that Mary's unborn baby had died.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hagenow said that she packed Mary's vagina with an antiseptic-soaked cotton ball and sent her home. She said that she told Mary that she would come by the next day with another doctor. If that doctor concurred that the baby was dead, Hagenow would get yet another doctor to come and perform an operation to remove the dead baby. </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hagenow said that Mary paid her $50 in advance for the promised care and left, but when she went to the address "Margaret Sullivan" had provided she found only a vacant lot. That was the last she'd known of the woman, she said, until she was arrested for Mary's death.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The prosecution, however, asserted that several police officers had been present when Mary was about to go surgery in an attempt to save her life. With Hagenow present, Mary told the police that Hagenow had used instruments on her to perpetrate an abortion on November 5.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dr. Charles H. Phifer testified that on November 7 he saw Mary at her home. She was in a lot of pain and told him that she had been to see Hagenow. Dr. Phifer concluded that Mary was in labor, though he could not determine if the unborn child was alive or dead. He said that he told Mary to consult with Dr. Hagenow.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The next time Dr. Phifer saw Mary it was at Illinois Central Hospital on November 12. She was no longer pregnant and was suffering from septicemia. </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hagenow was convicted of murder by abortion for Mary's death. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">She was sentenced to 14 years at Joliet Penitentiary, but was able to get her conviction overturned by the Illinois Supreme Court, which ordered a new trial in 1929.</span><b style="font-family: inherit;"> </b><span style="font-family: inherit;">The judge, noting that there was no new evidence, dismissed the case, telling Hagenow, "You had better make your peace with God, Lucy Hagenow. I do not think your months on earth are many."</span><b style="font-family: inherit;"> </b></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hagenow, who also went by the name of Louise or Louisa Hagenow, had a long and unsavory history of being involved in women's abortion deaths. The first were in San Francisco before Hagenow relocated to Chicago around 1890.<b> </b>The abortion deaths Hagenow was linked to include:</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;" /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.5;"></span></span></div><ul style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 3em;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">1886: <a class="wiki_link" href="https://realchoice.blogspot.com/2021/08/louise-derchow-needs-rewrite.html">Louise Derchow</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">1888: <a class="wiki_link" href="http://cemeteryofchoice.com/Annie%20Dories.html">Annie Dories,</a> <a class="wiki_link" href="http://cemeteryofchoice.com/Abbie%20Richards.html">Abbie Richards</a>., and <a class="wiki_link" href="http://cemeteryofchoice.com/Emma%20Dep.html">Emma Dep</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">1892: <a class="wiki_link" href="http://cemeteryofchoice.com/Sophia%20Kuhn.html">Sophia Kuhn</a> and <a class="wiki_link" href="http://cemeteryofchoice.com/Emily%20Anderson.html">Emily Anderson</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">1896: <a class="wiki_link" href="http://cemeteryofchoice.com/Hannah%20Carlson.html">Hannah Carlson</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">1899: <a class="wiki_link" href="http://cemeteryofchoice.com/Marie%20Hicht.html">Marie Hecht</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">1905: <a class="wiki_link" href="http://cemeteryofchoice.com/May%20Putnam.html">May Putnam</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">1906: <a class="wiki_link" href="http://cemeteryofchoice.com/Lola%20Madison.html">Lola Madison</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">1907: <a class="wiki_link" href="http://cemeteryofchoice.com/Annie%20Horvatich.html">Annie Horvatich</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">1925: <a class="wiki_link" href="http://cemeteryofchoice.com/Lottie%20Lowy.html">Lottie Lowy</a>, <a class="wiki_link" href="http://cemeteryofchoice.com/Nina%20Pierce.html">Nina H. Pierce</a>, <a class="wiki_link" href="http://cemeteryofchoice.com/Jean%20Cohen.html">Jean Cohen</a>, <a class="wiki_link" href="http://cemeteryofchoice.com/Bridget%20Masterson.html">Bridget Masterson</a>, and <a class="wiki_link" href="http://cemeteryofchoice.com/Elizabeth%20Welter.html">Elizabeth Welter</a></span></li></ul><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.casemine.com/judgement/us/5914a6bbadd7b049346dff66#p543">People v Hagenow</a></span></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK_tjoKaX7qwUPcshu-3-gyYMPxk7egm-qZjS4WAwNuYG3wD8gB-piolxpowl5cAsKaZBv07Gl7kcCxEbsDAgzINvwxlDvWwpfrabeqDWu4yN2MZ7r_v5mcGmC0GUkBNErs1hd_g/s600/Mary+Moorehead+Homicide+Note.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="600" height="163" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK_tjoKaX7qwUPcshu-3-gyYMPxk7egm-qZjS4WAwNuYG3wD8gB-piolxpowl5cAsKaZBv07Gl7kcCxEbsDAgzINvwxlDvWwpfrabeqDWu4yN2MZ7r_v5mcGmC0GUkBNErs1hd_g/w581-h163/Mary+Moorehead+Homicide+Note.jpg" width="581" /></a></span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK_tjoKaX7qwUPcshu-3-gyYMPxk7egm-qZjS4WAwNuYG3wD8gB-piolxpowl5cAsKaZBv07Gl7kcCxEbsDAgzINvwxlDvWwpfrabeqDWu4yN2MZ7r_v5mcGmC0GUkBNErs1hd_g/s600/Mary+Moorehead+Homicide+Note.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Original YouTube video I did on Mary's death</span></a></div>Christina Duniganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04785550737493692252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395646.post-83314536680085359692023-11-14T00:00:00.001-05:002023-11-14T00:00:00.147-05:00November 14, 1979: Happy Birthday, Christelle Morrison<p> From <a href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/2000/01-17-2000/vo16no02_survivors.htm">The Survivors</a>, and others linked to below.</p>On the night of <a href="http://www.smartessay.com/essay/000508.html">November 14, 1979</a>, a two-pound baby girl of 28 weeks gestation was found in a Nevada field, wrapped in an old, wet, dirty shirt. Her umbilical cord was still attached. The baby was blue and unresponsive, which is hardly surprising since the temperature that night was only 15 degrees. The baby was rushed to a rural emergency clinic, where a doctor immersed her in warm water. She revived and was transferred to Medical Center in Reno. Registered Nurse Susan Walker was among the staff that tenderly cared for the little girl. When she was three months old, weighing in at three pounds, the baby underwent heart surgery.<br /><br />Susan Walker and her husband adopted the discarded miracle baby, who they named <a href="http://www.gravityteen.com/pregnancy/kickin.cfm?StoryID=51&Text=Yes">Christelle</a>. According to Mrs. Walker, Christelle is "bright, beautiful, strong and healthy, and probably the most loving person you could ever meet! She is a living testimony of God’s tremendous power and love and of the value of each and every unborn child."Christina Duniganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04785550737493692252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395646.post-74434610495338437322023-11-07T00:00:00.000-05:002023-11-07T00:00:00.144-05:00November 7, 1979: Happy Birthday to "Kimala's" Baby<p> John Roe 481 performed an abortion on "<b>Kimala</b>" in March of 1979. On November 7 she gave birth to an infant daughter born disfigured and with cerebral palsy. (Cook County Illinois Circuit Court Case No. 81L 26210)</p>Christina Duniganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04785550737493692252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395646.post-39836307837455517062023-11-03T00:00:00.000-04:002023-11-03T00:00:00.170-04:00November 3, 1979: The Murder of "Creepy Kenny"<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxyKBCWsoXHKP4IO9SMiYp96_s2bcvZt47R9vrIX6F1DEvXHX7U6QYvEtPQJgNKEem1OPpAqL-woxCscJjp2Av8cQRpTK-YT_EUEv4xU0lg87GhSY6JejcFfiyH7KK5j31ykop6zIGhLJVV_V7LQHcCmIGUNAGeBo_dvSZ1e1Lakz7UfuN47k/s361/Creepy%20Kenny.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="361" data-original-width="199" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxyKBCWsoXHKP4IO9SMiYp96_s2bcvZt47R9vrIX6F1DEvXHX7U6QYvEtPQJgNKEem1OPpAqL-woxCscJjp2Av8cQRpTK-YT_EUEv4xU0lg87GhSY6JejcFfiyH7KK5j31ykop6zIGhLJVV_V7LQHcCmIGUNAGeBo_dvSZ1e1Lakz7UfuN47k/s320/Creepy%20Kenny.jpg" width="176" /></a></div><br />Use articles on Google Drive.<p></p>Christina Duniganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04785550737493692252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395646.post-2529231238870498372023-11-02T00:00:00.003-04:002023-11-02T00:00:00.177-04:00November 2, 2010: Family Alleges Improper Monotoring<p>The family of 32-year-old <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/prolife/comments/vwr3hy/saytheirnames_lisa_marie_fusco/">Lisa Marie Fusco</a> sued on behalf of her surviving child after she died from abortion complications.</p><p>Lisa went to Ambulatory Surgery Center in Brooklyn on October 27, 2010. Staff inserted laminaria for an abortion and packed her vagina with gauze. The next day she returned for the abortion procedure. She suffered complications and died on November 2.</p><p>A Reddit post about Lisa's death links to the New York Law Journal, but since I'm not a subscriber I can't access it.</p><p><br /></p>Christina Duniganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04785550737493692252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395646.post-88973609481594834192023-11-02T00:00:00.001-04:002023-11-02T00:00:00.177-04:00November 2, 2010: Lack of Diligence Proves Fatal in Brooklyn<p>Lisa Marie Fusco died on November 2, 2010 after an abortion performed at Ambulatory Surgery Center of Brooklyn.</p>Lisa went to Ambulatory Surgery Center on October 27, 2010 to begin a multi-day abortion with the insertion of laminaria to dilate her cervix. The practitioner also packed Lisa's vagina with gauze. Lisa returned the next day for the abortion. The allegations in the lawsuit are fairly vague, just noting that due diligence was not followed, the procedure performed on Lisa was contraindicated, and Lisa was not properly monitored during the procedure.<br /><br />The lawsuit filed on behalf of Lisa's surviving child also named Dr. George McMillan, presumably the abortionist.Christina Duniganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04785550737493692252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395646.post-37022612785801493052023-10-31T00:00:00.001-04:002023-10-31T00:00:00.139-04:00October 31, 1921: Abortionist Accused by Dead Woman's Mother<p> During the inquest into the 1923 abortion death of <a href="https://realchoice.blogspot.com/2022/10/october-16-1923-second-or-third-dead.html">Lydia Nelson</a>, Emma Sales of South Morgan Street, Chicago, jumped to her feet and struck Dr. Charles Klinetop in the face. Mrs. Sales said that the death of her daughter, <a href="https://slimwiki.com/cemeteryofchoice/harriet-grimm">Harriet Grimm</a>, was due to an abortion Klinetop had perpetrated.</p><p>Harriet Ida Grimm, wife of Edward Grimm, had died at Chicago's Lakeside Hospital on October 31, 1921.</p><p>I've been unable to find any documentation on the cause of Harriet's death. She doesn't even show up on the Homicide in Chicago Interactive Database. All I can find is confirmation of her death at age 20.</p><p>Watch <i><a href="https://youtu.be/sPBcH3r7En8">Did Dr. Klinetop Kill Harriet Grimm?</a></i> on YouTube.</p><ul><li>"<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0236Ne0ixLgJNAaJgWkyDFZ5WNj6iJ82niQ_hIsrTGUjFIWqqrZP-I_relch2VVs8wEaW3tQ4LSDsd7Zim08v2GuhC61o0V6tvAKZqF6mVekvf8CxR5qzrhd7JJcdlV7hwCpzsQ/w252-h366/Lydia+Nelson+Chicago_Tribune_Thu__Nov_1__1923_.png">Woman Attacks Doctor Accused of Operations</a>," <i>Chicago Daily Tribune</i>, November 1, 1923</li></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaP0fGXnP9cxYKzp2Qik_NE1Xtjj_B0CksSSLxumtAryXer_d8CdOQJ3xw1eA8OiYcrnbh9jKifHgO_vl243Sh0VVdRWfkwO2eJBgEuZWIZ8vXLf50p2SVSjbkifBnjxilqjfuH6MYlLII3bd__bNF-doJ4405voDHFBCgBtq3uu3RW4DqHIE/s810/lakeside-hospital-2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="523" data-original-width="810" height="294" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaP0fGXnP9cxYKzp2Qik_NE1Xtjj_B0CksSSLxumtAryXer_d8CdOQJ3xw1eA8OiYcrnbh9jKifHgO_vl243Sh0VVdRWfkwO2eJBgEuZWIZ8vXLf50p2SVSjbkifBnjxilqjfuH6MYlLII3bd__bNF-doJ4405voDHFBCgBtq3uu3RW4DqHIE/w454-h294/lakeside-hospital-2.jpg" width="454" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div>Christina Duniganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04785550737493692252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395646.post-2889401397777838032023-10-28T00:00:00.002-04:002023-10-28T00:00:00.157-04:00October 28, 1876: Sarah Jane's "Interesting Condition"<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGYrBVJulDD0m3xDz6baXBo0QJteHR6EGYgv9KMG3H4Cu2ZHovka0nk5pTmvyIhUorAAXUo8ShsHH31A4KhwAd_xfc3OW5VYcTSZOnR3kwfYdcag1SwdPX6VdVXZ_n8F8gydqmuH4UqbI1f3dOrkOaRJcBukGW2uHNVrOfT2LEMJvAGv5viMA/s335/Sarah%20Jane%20Beaver%20The%20Daily%20Quincy%20Herald,%20Page3,%201877-05-24.jpg" style="clear: right; display: inline !important; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="335" data-original-width="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGYrBVJulDD0m3xDz6baXBo0QJteHR6EGYgv9KMG3H4Cu2ZHovka0nk5pTmvyIhUorAAXUo8ShsHH31A4KhwAd_xfc3OW5VYcTSZOnR3kwfYdcag1SwdPX6VdVXZ_n8F8gydqmuH4UqbI1f3dOrkOaRJcBukGW2uHNVrOfT2LEMJvAGv5viMA/s16000/Sarah%20Jane%20Beaver%20The%20Daily%20Quincy%20Herald,%20Page3,%201877-05-24.jpg" /></a> <b>Sarah Jane and her Family</b></p>Fifteen-year-old <a href="https://slimwiki.com/cemeteryofchoice/sarah-jane-beaver">Sarah Jane Beaver</a> lived with her mother, Mrs. Sarah Beaver Spencer, and her two brothers, Andrew and William, on a farm owned by Shepherd Cox in Ursa Township, near Quincy, Indiana.<br /><br />Sarah Jane and her brothers were the children of their mother's first marriage, prior to the Civil War. Sarah Jane's father was a soldier who died at Vicksburg. The family went north after the war. They were poor and illiterate.<br /><br /><div id="toc1"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="What to Do About Sarah's "Interesting Condition""></a><b>What to Do About Sarah's "Interesting Condition"</b></div><div id="toc1"><br /></div>In April of 1876, Mrs. Spencer sent Sarah Jane and one of her brothers into town for some medicine. The two parted ways in town, and the boy was unable to find Sarah Jane. He went home to his mother alone. Though there were sightings of her with Cox in Texas, Sarah Jane remained at large until late July.<br /><br />About four weeks after her return, Mrs. Spencer "discovered that the daughter was in an interesting condition".<br /><br /><div id="toc2"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="What to Do About Sarah's "Interesting Condition"-Oil of Tansy Found"></a><b>Oil of Tansy Found</b></div><div id="toc2"><br /></div>Sarah Jane named Cox, who was there during the conversation, as the responsible party. Shortly after this conversation, Mrs. Spencer said, she discovered a bottle with a few drops of oil of tansy -- a popular abortifacient -- in it. When confronted, Cox reportedly admitted that he had bought it for Sarah Jane.<br /><br /><div id="toc3"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="What to Do About Sarah's "Interesting Condition"-A Mother's Objection"></a><b>A Mother's Objection</b></div><div id="toc3"><br /></div>Shortly after this confrontation, Cox reportedly came to the house indicating that he had two tickets to the Centellian, and he wanted to take Sarah Jane with him so that he could "take her to a doctor who would make things all right". Mrs. Spencer said that she objected to the plan. Sarah Jane did not go with Cox.<br /><br /><div id="toc4"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="What to Do About Sarah's "Interesting Condition"-A Mysterious Parcel"></a><b>A Mysterious Parcel</b></div><div id="toc4"><br /></div>On about Tuesday, October 17, Mrs. Spencer said, Cox came to the house with something rolled up in a small parcel. Mrs. Spencer said that she went outside to do chores for about 20 minutes, and that when she returned she found her daughter with a broom in her hands and a flushed face. She denied that Cox had said anything to offend her. She was taken sick that night, and the next night expelled her dead baby.<br /><br /><div id="toc5"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="What to Do About Sarah's "Interesting Condition"-Condition Grave"></a><b>Condition Grave</b></div><div id="toc5"><br /></div>Mrs. Spencer said she sent for Dr. Duncan, who could not come until the next Wednesday, October 25. Duncan said that Sarah Jane had not miscarried but had undergone an abortion caused by instruments of some sort, used with force. Mrs. Spencer was able to show the fetus to Duncan. It was about three and a half months old.<br /><br />When Cox came to the house, Mrs. Spencer told him that he had killed her daughter. Cox pointed out that Sarah Jane wasn't dead, and said he expected her to survive her illness.<br /><br />Dr. Duncan continued to provide care to Sarah Jane, at first expecting her to recover, but her condition deteriorated. He asked her repeatedly to tell him who had gotten her pregnant and who had injured her. She made a statement to him that was not admissible in court because she didn't then believe she was dying.<br /><br /><div id="toc6"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="What to Do About Sarah's "Interestin<div class=" separator=""></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfddSPSteBnHFEzlgOmeLSRbHk-GyR_SsLdTIYSv5iSTfC813ACKxYwLP3m_Q5Y2Rd4IMK_dSWqH-Ev1fqsIDIJF38hxgE3wRRAFVzOvpnPvjEcL6RywRUwab6ULk5yLyuPQ6p3Bqm3_bw32Ei9Mz3MVCG55vMBTn7J34K2F5xI7O33GVV_T8/s686/Sarah%20Jane%20Beaver%20The%20Quincy%20Daily%20Herald,%20December%2017,%201876.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="686" data-original-width="293" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfddSPSteBnHFEzlgOmeLSRbHk-GyR_SsLdTIYSv5iSTfC813ACKxYwLP3m_Q5Y2Rd4IMK_dSWqH-Ev1fqsIDIJF38hxgE3wRRAFVzOvpnPvjEcL6RywRUwab6ULk5yLyuPQ6p3Bqm3_bw32Ei9Mz3MVCG55vMBTn7J34K2F5xI7O33GVV_T8/s16000/Sarah%20Jane%20Beaver%20The%20Quincy%20Daily%20Herald,%20December%2017,%201876.png" /></a></div><b>Deathbed Statements</b><div id="toc6"><br /></div>On the evening of Friday, October 27, Sarah Jane called her brothers to her bedside, told them she was dying, and asked their forgiveness.<br /><br />She then spoke again to Dr. Duncan, telling him that she knew she was dying. He asked her again who had injured her. Mrs. Spencer was there, telling Sarah Jane to tell Dr. Duncan who had done the deed, but shaking her head all the while as if to warn Sarah Jane not to speak. Sarah Jane told Dr. Duncan, "I did it." After her mother left the room, Duncan again asked Sarah Jane to name the guilty party.<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Dr. Duncan: Who did it?<br />Sarah Jane: I did.<br />Dr. Duncan: But who helped you?<br />Sarah Jane: My God, I have done wrong.<br />Dr. Duncan: Tell me who helped you?<br />Sarah Jane: I did.<br />Dr. Duncan: You could not have done it alone. Who helped you?<br />Sarah Jane: He did it, with instruments.</blockquote>Sarah Jane died the following morning.<br /><br /><div id="toc7"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="Covering Up"></a><b>Covering Up</b></div><div id="toc7"><br /></div>On Sunday, Cox came to the house, crying and lamenting Sarah Jane's death. Mrs. Spencer said Cox told her to keep quiet about the death, since if she said anything about it she would get into trouble. He pointed out that she had no money, but he had money and would help the family and pay the doctor's bills.<br /><br />Dr. Duncan corroborated that Cox promised to pay the $56 medical bill, although he quibbled about the price.<br /><br />Andrew and William corroborated their mother's testimony about Sarah Jane's April disappearance, her return, seeing Cox at the house the night before Sarah Jane took ill, and his visiting twice during her illness. The boys also testified that they'd heard Cox say he'd help with the medical bills. They also testified to Sarah Jane's deathbed plea for their forgiveness.<br /><br /><div id="toc8"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="Indictment, Trial, and Acquittal"></a><b>Indictment, Trial, and Acquittal</b></div><div id="toc8"><br /></div>Cox was indicted for murder in December, 1876. He fled to avoid prosecution. Eventually his attorney negotiated a deal for him to return for the trial but remain free on bail of $3,000. He was also able to negotiate a change of venue, so that the trial took place in Hancock County.<br /><br />During the trial, several witnesses placed Cox at a distance from the farm on October 17 -- the day the abortion allegedly was performed.<br /><br />Dr. Parks, another area physician, testified that Mrs. Spencer had showed him a catheter and a probe asking if they could be used to cause an abortion and lamenting that her daughter was pregnant. Parks told Mrs. Spencer that the instruments would not produce an abortion. Afterward, he testified, he saw the instruments in the possession of Dr. Springer. Springer said he'd bought them from Mrs. Spencer.<br /><br />Another witness, Mrs. Arnez, stated that while she and Mrs. Spencer were in jail together, Mrs. Spencer had told her that Shep Cox had nothing to do with her daughter's death.<br /><br />It took the jury a full day of sparring to come back with a verdict of not guilty.<div><br /></div><div>Watch <i><a href="https://youtu.be/-8lXQOeR9Es">Who Killed Sarah Jane?</a></i> on YouTube.<br /><div><br /></div><div><div>Sources:</div><div><ul><li>“<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfddSPSteBnHFEzlgOmeLSRbHk-GyR_SsLdTIYSv5iSTfC813ACKxYwLP3m_Q5Y2Rd4IMK_dSWqH-Ev1fqsIDIJF38hxgE3wRRAFVzOvpnPvjEcL6RywRUwab6ULk5yLyuPQ6p3Bqm3_bw32Ei9Mz3MVCG55vMBTn7J34K2F5xI7O33GVV_T8/s16000/Sarah%20Jane%20Beaver%20The%20Quincy%20Daily%20Herald,%20December%2017,%201876.png">Shepherd Cox Indicted for Murder and for Abortion</a>,” <i>The Quincy Daily Herald</i>, December 17, 1876</li><li>"<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGYrBVJulDD0m3xDz6baXBo0QJteHR6EGYgv9KMG3H4Cu2ZHovka0nk5pTmvyIhUorAAXUo8ShsHH31A4KhwAd_xfc3OW5VYcTSZOnR3kwfYdcag1SwdPX6VdVXZ_n8F8gydqmuH4UqbI1f3dOrkOaRJcBukGW2uHNVrOfT2LEMJvAGv5viMA/s16000/Sarah%20Jane%20Beaver%20The%20Daily%20Quincy%20Herald,%20Page3,%201877-05-24.jpg">Criminal Court</a>," <i>The Quincy Daily Herald</i>, May 24 1877</li><li>“<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXGrZaS6EnLQSsES0bcGLIcviW9GwMn9psXjpjmwsLI1KTMRsXZKkwLiWfv0oA_KAfig05P5fNhfUUq15q_H9fe5H5jGV8ws24PsObEoS77XM660csK6V81PHv0wo5RV3qJjkRyLryuBjU-dAno0Turb2tSaDXE8441_i0zyiVX7rS3EkaanE/s16000/Sara%20Jane%20Beaver%20Quincy%20Daily%20Herald%20October%2026%201879.png">Not Guilty</a>,” <i>The Quincy Daily Herald</i>, October 26, 1879</li></ul></div></div></div>Christina Duniganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04785550737493692252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395646.post-75090942884970935432023-10-28T00:00:00.001-04:002023-10-28T00:00:00.157-04:00October 28, 1993: Lack of Monitoring Leave Haitian Immigrant Dead<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXgwBg70hqK-9DOWRFysP9Qis5SkqhZ5zOYvxyhiROvWvJKjAG621rL893KlgVIC3DEH1KXfjC75zOmoOMDo5ihx3tsctCa1sfGHm6mNw3KIZrAXZDlJ41fQqQcHBJT4dDvVHAJw/s295/Irwin+Scher.jpg" style="clear: right; display: inline !important; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="295" data-original-width="188" height="397" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXgwBg70hqK-9DOWRFysP9Qis5SkqhZ5zOYvxyhiROvWvJKjAG621rL893KlgVIC3DEH1KXfjC75zOmoOMDo5ihx3tsctCa1sfGHm6mNw3KIZrAXZDlJ41fQqQcHBJT4dDvVHAJw/w252-h397/Irwin+Scher.jpg" width="252" /></a></p>On October 9, 1993, 25-year-old Haitian guest worker <b><a href="https://slimwiki.com/cemeteryofchoice/giseline-lafontant">Giselene Lafontant</a></b> underwent an abortion by Dr. Irwin Scher at his Gynecare in Monsey, New York. The abortion 9 or 10 week abortion was started at 10:59 AM and completed at 11:05.<p></p><p>Giseline was brought to the recovery room but no pulse oximeter was used to monitor her pulse and blood oxygen. Thirteen minutes later a nurse tried to awaken Giseline and found her unresponsive. Then her faint heartbeat stopped. </p><p>The staff started resuscitation and were able to get Giseline's heart started again after about two minutes. She was taken to Good Samaritan Hospital and placed on a respirator. Efforts to save her life failed; Giselene died on October 28, leaving behind a two-year-old son. Her family took her body to her native Haiti for burial.</p><p>Watch the <a href="https://youtu.be/AY-c_dZvMcc">YouTube video</a>.</p><p>Newly added sources:<br /></p><ul><li>"<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIs_WJOlRW8xPVxBPnFNmL1zp3mPHgnh4BczPSCD9NSDATiqgxoPaqemFR2yYPxCGI4-cR3u1RbpMIKbfC6oqe8CqZclKGE84QvpVFckEvdlQ1UMq_tMp-lR_XvCH_x32GjOTNfA/s16000/Giseline+Lafontant_Journal_News_Sat__Nov_6__1993_.png">Spring Valley woman dies after abortion</a>," <i>Journal News,</i> November 6, 1993</li><li>"<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHO6tis85r_KWfDh27D_Q7S2BVh0MHzO0humTSWpbbC6_eDtO_6HPyuC7ZQzEYq2qp_QmBLE6C9CW27B-t_lsS_C_rTozkqHpfeJDvRR1gL2I5H7DsOejGxKXX9_R-48P52g2iiA/s16000/Giseline+Lafontant_Journal_News_Sat__Nov_20__1993_.jpg">M.E. disputes clinic over abortion death</a>," <i>Journal News,</i> November 20, 1993</li><li>"<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWMFEFf83qgu8ErEbC2RJs9DyAxyQMtp2Ktpj_VK59aVQAGN_8PJLTc5fOgCVKuvGQ9HI1T7a4AqbyyU8g2uDdZdKjsZx7MbeK23CrzAA_lFPE0Md634qgHGqxxCCj2oImMXlvEQ/s16000/Giseline+Lafontant_Journal_News_Sun__Nov_28__1993_.jpg">Doctors tighten rules on anesthesia</a>," <i>Rockland News,</i> November 28, 1993</li></ul>Christina Duniganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04785550737493692252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395646.post-76611485626343185002023-10-27T00:00:00.014-04:002023-10-27T00:00:00.140-04:00October 27, 1991: Happy Birthday, Ana Rosa<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpFB47LSXDzBgrOY__Uh9HwFoUT9qBrsBGxXltjrtZQwDQdhruKiyL3o2To9TTjwQmsr0lmBDyyGykZb6VNxBB-35Qc9-ZT0MheL0crEG6BEg8ppO1dqOnGamB5d8EIQqvuRiHl9AQp4jkqSPf92pATHN3ca2LEq8FflRQLEsIhlIywdHGs6g/s338/Ana%20Rosa%20and%20Mom.png" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="338" data-original-width="267" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpFB47LSXDzBgrOY__Uh9HwFoUT9qBrsBGxXltjrtZQwDQdhruKiyL3o2To9TTjwQmsr0lmBDyyGykZb6VNxBB-35Qc9-ZT0MheL0crEG6BEg8ppO1dqOnGamB5d8EIQqvuRiHl9AQp4jkqSPf92pATHN3ca2LEq8FflRQLEsIhlIywdHGs6g/w215-h271/Ana%20Rosa%20and%20Mom.png" width="215" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Ana Rosa and her mother</i></td></tr></tbody></table><p>How Ana Rosa Ridriguez wound up as front-page news, and featured on Phil Donohue, began on October 25, 1991 when Rosa Rodriguez, 20 years old, went to National Abortion Federation member Abu Hayat's Avenue A abortion practice on New York's lower East Side.</p><p>A single mother with a 2-year-old daughter, Rosa had found Hayat's practice, Women's Medical Clinic, by reading his ad in a Spanish-language newspaper, <i>El Diario</i>.</p>Hayat charged $1,500 for the procedure, for which Rosa produced $1,000 cash and her passport, green card, and her watch as collateral for the remaining $500. <div><br /></div><div>On this first visit, Hayat sedated Rosa, inserted laminaria to dilate her cervix, and gave her some sort of abdominal injection. When she awoke he sent her home, instructing her to return the following day.<br /><br />Rosa returned as instructed at about 9 a.m., but she expressed misgivings about proceeding with the abortion, since she had felt fetal movement. She said that she had changed her mind. Hayat told her that it was too late to stop the abortion. Rosa said that two assistants held her down and clamped her feet into the stirrups while Hayat again sedated her. When she awoke, he told her that he had changed the laminaria, and again instructed her to return the following day. Hayat gave Rosa specific instructions that if she had any problems, she was to call his facility and no one else.<br /><br />That night, Rosa was in pain, so she called as instructed. Hayat's assistant, who took the call, paged Hayat and then told Rosa that this was normal, that Hayat had said she "wasn't ready" for "further treatment".<br /><br />Rosa called again when the pain would not abate. After several hours, she finally told her mother about the abortion. A family friend called an ambulance to take Rosa to Jamaica Hospital in Queens. There, at about 8 a.m. on October 27, Rosa gave birth to a 3 lb. 1 oz. baby girl of approximately 32 weeks of gestation. The little girl was healthy except for a traumatically amputated right arm. Doctors at the hospital performed a D&C, an abdominal X-ray, and an ultrasound on the young mother, trying to find the baby's arm. Evidently Hayat had removed it in the abortion attempt and disposed of it.<br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXzBkH2nb7XjwlgWV9oagkJj-dhIOTLdLYttM7YEEIGNYBr2EP3Zi9fb0LTu_xeRC4tVYn7Ok5G_KgnOkSMJOLGELom8k5ARewd18qyYrd4MQz-YkAks_sMTkOxQTWYolwwLgOjw/s1600/ana_rosa.gif" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXzBkH2nb7XjwlgWV9oagkJj-dhIOTLdLYttM7YEEIGNYBr2EP3Zi9fb0LTu_xeRC4tVYn7Ok5G_KgnOkSMJOLGELom8k5ARewd18qyYrd4MQz-YkAks_sMTkOxQTWYolwwLgOjw/s1600/ana_rosa.gif" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Nobody asks,<br />"What happened to<br />Baby Ana?"</span></i></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDDGuCUxzp-3nqitXig9hKX-BvKD_M3kTzrhsf1bpyPEKAA5YUIIrIKy6HyT7A_bya8UMZ-0wGIiJFKCs6m8Kzs3ZFxYFXKRUW8LJXVoe-I4ck3QrsNEnM5ffx7PpQSEefMSSO9w/s1600/hayat.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><br /> Somehow the story got out, and all hell broke loose.<br /><br />The medical board took action, faulting Hayat with lack of informed consent, failure to perform a complete examination, having inadequate facility and staff, having medical records that were "not credible and are incomplete", and for performing an illegal third-trimester abortion. They revoked his license.<br /><br />Hayat's receptionist, Marjorie Andrade, testified before the medical board that Hayat did any number of dubious things, including keeping a 6-month fetus in his freezer for two weeks in spite of the law requiring that fetuses be sent to a pathology lab. She testified that she never saw him sterilize any instrument, that he re-used them when they had dried blood on them. She also was interviewed on WNBC-TV, saying, "I've never seen any instruments sterilized. He used to rinse them out with water and soap."<br /><br />More than thirty additional women stepped forward to complain that he had botched their abortions. Though he had been sued numerous times, none of the women had been able to collect because he did not have malpractice insurance and had declared bankruptcy.<br /><br /><span id="goog_1662884420"></span><span id="goog_1662884421"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigNOWcQFL4L8EFJDxf9InttzlTH-DHEgN_I2_Ei8eTCj6MZBx5OcpWa0N80sBy6b_poOxbjiTomVwvmQG5xap83leaYEPbKHjx_ZllEtEoMF6bxbBcZZJ6L-ILzYJgbkZlI1XzuQ/s1600/NAF.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigNOWcQFL4L8EFJDxf9InttzlTH-DHEgN_I2_Ei8eTCj6MZBx5OcpWa0N80sBy6b_poOxbjiTomVwvmQG5xap83leaYEPbKHjx_ZllEtEoMF6bxbBcZZJ6L-ILzYJgbkZlI1XzuQ/s1600/NAF.jpg" /></a>While the circus was at its peak, National Right to Life seized onto the story in its attack on the newly-reborn late term abortion method they dubbed "Partial-Birth Abortion", even though Hayat had evidently been using an established variation of the more common Dilation and Evacuation procedure. And, interestingly, National Right to Life never took note of one particularly telling fact: Hayat was a dues-paying member in good standing of the prestigious National Abortion Federation.<br /><br />Newspapers investigating "The Butcher of Avenue A" also learned from the medical board that the previous year Hayat had botched an abortion resulting in the death of 17-year-old Sophie McCoy.<br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDDGuCUxzp-3nqitXig9hKX-BvKD_M3kTzrhsf1bpyPEKAA5YUIIrIKy6HyT7A_bya8UMZ-0wGIiJFKCs6m8Kzs3ZFxYFXKRUW8LJXVoe-I4ck3QrsNEnM5ffx7PpQSEefMSSO9w/s1600/hayat.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDDGuCUxzp-3nqitXig9hKX-BvKD_M3kTzrhsf1bpyPEKAA5YUIIrIKy6HyT7A_bya8UMZ-0wGIiJFKCs6m8Kzs3ZFxYFXKRUW8LJXVoe-I4ck3QrsNEnM5ffx7PpQSEefMSSO9w/s1600/hayat.jpg" width="154" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Abu Hayat in court</td></tr></tbody></table>Hayat was prosecuted for assault against both Rosa and her unborn daughter, as well as for other cases, and sentenced to a total of 29 years in prison. Hayat remained unrepentant, and told the judge who sentenced him, "I am in a very difficult situation. I know I am not guilty. .... I compare myself the best of any of the witnesses. I could teach them."<br /><br />Rosa Rodriguez, noting the lack of success other patients had in seeking redress, didn't sue. "There really very little point," her attorney said.<br /><br />It's hard for me to conjecture that Ana is thriving. The day before every birthday is the anniversary of the day that her arm was torn off during an attempt to kill her. And that attempt to kill her was something her mother had sought out and paid for.<br /><br />Still, the human spirit is strong. Gianna Jessen, who has cerebral palsy as a result of a prenatal attempt on her life, is thriving and happy. Here's wishing the same to Ana Rodriguez. Wherever you are: Happy Birthday.</div><div><br /></div><div>Sources include: "<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjILsLjfmlOBcqd1COl3OP_SNKuIbL-OURFYnY6IKysyP-bFgp6wX-kVuvRdcDt63BchnrWrrVmLPzCp0DFDEnFXJr_n354dfwRrPcaxYt12ThLymvlLBkR6HMA8MrBTM8D4WkPAqawnIycqXNCyXTOjYCPaETM0624ttO4SpXwQmLoblw5xMHRrQ/s16000/27%20october%20Ana%20Rosa%20Rodriguez%20Daily_News_Tue__Jun_15__1993_.png">Butcher of Avenue A gets 29 Years</a>," <i>NY Daily News</i>, January 15, 1993<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx1uV5CU4hgq_YQ8CX-qvwKUAdeX1BMxHh4ktbDyotUnqTNx5G8WOeFH869WKFEN5OeLq71hHlXF-YP3_4gNMPwluCvXUp7Rp-DDRojxVLrXbrD0UBlZFEEC0wNEOmAEOkml0v2A/s1600/NAF+Hayat.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="327" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx1uV5CU4hgq_YQ8CX-qvwKUAdeX1BMxHh4ktbDyotUnqTNx5G8WOeFH869WKFEN5OeLq71hHlXF-YP3_4gNMPwluCvXUp7Rp-DDRojxVLrXbrD0UBlZFEEC0wNEOmAEOkml0v2A/s1600/NAF+Hayat.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div></div>Christina Duniganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04785550737493692252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395646.post-45569796777908540162023-10-27T00:00:00.005-04:002023-10-27T00:00:00.139-04:00October 27, 1972: The Second of Eighteen. That I Know Of.<p> <span style="font-family: Times;">Sixteen-year-old</span><span style="font-family: Times;"> </span><b><a href="https://slimwiki.com/cemeteryofchoice/natalie-meyers">Natalie Meyers</a></b><span style="font-family: Times;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times;">was brought to</span><span style="font-family: Times;"> </span>San Vicente Hospital<span style="font-family: Times;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times;">in Los Angeles by her mother for a</span><span style="font-family: Times;"> </span>safe and legal abortion<span style="font-family: Times;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times;">on October 21, 1972.</span><span style="font-family: Times;"> </span>Milton Gotlib<span style="font-family: Times;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times;">injected</span><span style="font-family: Times;"> </span>saline<span style="font-family: Times;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times;">into Natalie's uterus on the 21st.</span></p><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">On October 22, Natalie expelled the dead baby but retained the placenta. She had trouble breathing and suffered abdominal pain, so San Vicente staff transferred Natalie to County-USC Medical Center at around 10:45 PM.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">Natalie was in shock when she arrived at County-USC. She underwent a D&C there, but remained in shock from infection in her uterus. On October 26, a hysterectomy was performed to try to control the infection, to no avail. Natalie was pronounced dead at 9:35AM on October 27.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">The autopsy found most of Natalie's internal organs swollen and hemorrhagic. Death was attributed to <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.echt.chm.msu.edu/courseware/blockII/Pathology/Lung-Atelectasis_10.html" rel="nofollow">hyaline membrane disease</a> brought on by the abortion.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">Natalie is one of many women to die at one of Edward Allred's facilities. Others known to have died after abortion at Allred's facilities include: </span><a href="https://realchoice.blogspot.com/2021/12/december-21-fatal-christmas-stopover.html">Denise Holmes</a> in 1970, <a href="https://realchoice.blogspot.com/2021/03/march-3-patricia-chacon.html">Patricia Chacon</a> and <a href="http://realchoice.blogspot.com/2006/12/safe-and-legal-mary-pena.html">Mary Pena</a> in 1984, <a href="http://realchoice.blogspot.com/2010/05/1985-another-victim-of-naf-flagship.html">Josefina Garcia</a> in 1985, <a href="https://clinicquotes.com/legal-abortion-death-laniece-dorsey-17/">Lanice Dorsey</a> in 1986, <a href="http://realchoice.blogspot.com/2005/06/safe-n-legal-joyce-ortenzio.html">Joyce Ortenzio</a> and <a href="http://realchoice.blogspot.com/2006/08/safe-n-legal-anniversary-tami-suematsu.html">Tami Suematsu</a> in 1988, <a href="https://realchoice.blogspot.com/2022/09/september-5-1992-uneventful-death-of.html">Deanna Bell</a> and <span class="wiki_link_ext" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16px;"><a href="https://clinicquotes.com/legal-abortion-death-susan-levy-30/">Susan Levy</a> in</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16px;"> 1992, </span><a href="http://realchoice.blogspot.com/2015/11/one-of-fifteen-known-patient-deaths-at.html">Christina Mora</a> in 1994, <a href="http://realchoice.blogspot.com/2013/02/a-1995-death-i-only-just-learned-about.html">Ta Tanisha Wesson</a> in 1995, <a href="https://realchoice.blogspot.com/2020/12/december10-one-of-sixteen-patients-to.html">Nakia Jorden</a> in 1998, <a href="http://realchoice.blogspot.com/2011/05/decade-old-death-that-i-just-learned.html">Maria Leho</a> in 1999, <a href="http://realchoice.blogspot.com/2016/05/2000-one-of-16-deaths-at-prestigious.html">Kimberly Neil</a> and <a href="http://realchoice.blogspot.com/2011/05/and-another-old-lichtenberg-death.html">Maria Rodriguez</a> in 2000, <a href="http://realchoice.blogspot.com/2005/08/chanelle-bryant-plot-thickens.html">Chanelle Bryant</a> in 2004, and "<a href="https://realchoice.blogspot.com/2021/05/family-planning-associates-death-count.html">Kyla Ellis</a>" in 2014.<div><br /></div><div>Watch <i><a href="https://youtu.be/UmJc0EIXEEw">Second of 18</a></i> on YouTube.<br /><div><br /></div><div>Newly added source: "Inquest Ordered in L.A. Abortion Death," <i>Los Angeles Times</i>, November 16, 1972</div><br /><div><br /></div></div>Christina Duniganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04785550737493692252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395646.post-40279883212360756812023-10-27T00:00:00.003-04:002023-10-27T00:00:00.139-04:00October 27, 1947: An Heiress Trusts the Wrong Men<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTpyCACo-Gvj73cP_Ihid-P5CgE-QDuMEOFOnwhuGO0eUhHyuYJmguTYDWhQoyUUxAiVeeF9ZLzitbO9ORveU80PVYogTBPKK4hEitrg-PyNI0uQhblr7v3XNd5zAEOewg2k9c1A/s313/Jane+Ward+Nice+Photo.png" style="clear: right; display: inline !important; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="313" data-original-width="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTpyCACo-Gvj73cP_Ihid-P5CgE-QDuMEOFOnwhuGO0eUhHyuYJmguTYDWhQoyUUxAiVeeF9ZLzitbO9ORveU80PVYogTBPKK4hEitrg-PyNI0uQhblr7v3XNd5zAEOewg2k9c1A/s0/Jane+Ward+Nice+Photo.png" /></a> <span style="text-align: justify;">At 11 PM on October 17, 1947, Dr. Paul Singer, a Park Avenue gynecologist, called police and reported that a woman had come to his office suffering from an incomplete abortion. She reportedly had staggered in, "slumped over with her head down on her chest." Singer said she lapsed into a coma while he was beginning his examination.</span></p><span style="text-align: justify;"><div><br /></div><div>He said that he had taken 22-year-old <b><a href="https://slimwiki.com/cemeteryofchoice/jane-ward">Jane Ward</a></b>, heir to the Drake Bakeries fortune, to Park East Hospital, "almost pulseless -- lifeless -- she was almost dead." </div><div><br /></div><div>Dr. Oswald Glasberg, a plastic surgeon, had helped him to perform emergency surgery. Singer had to remove 1.5 quarts of blood and three parts of a 5-month fetus from Jane's abdomen and the body of Jane's ruptured uterus. Her bowel had also been injured, but Jane's condition was so fragile that Singer decided to close Jane up and hope for the best with transfusions and antibiotics.</div><div><br /></div><div>Jane died on October 27, and the autopsy confirmed the cause of death as criminal abortion. What's more, Singer had left more fetal parts inside Jane's body.</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiJKGwmA3pBW4TDr3Pdg0dbPeuonI5ObVrFTVts7ExfrtV6Jp98tRZ0Y5pk3CaDYErPSy0UtQUxcC6MpkHH-KdMZLR26KVe7pXPNXbeBs4_VcSXtCA_5pKpevX9m5Wok6N00MKCA/s223/Paul+Singer.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="223" data-original-width="150" height="136" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiJKGwmA3pBW4TDr3Pdg0dbPeuonI5ObVrFTVts7ExfrtV6Jp98tRZ0Y5pk3CaDYErPSy0UtQUxcC6MpkHH-KdMZLR26KVe7pXPNXbeBs4_VcSXtCA_5pKpevX9m5Wok6N00MKCA/w91-h136/Paul+Singer.png" width="91" /></a></div>After the death, Singer and Glasberg were arrested and released on bail. The baby's father, Eduardo Schneidewind, a trade promotion executive for a South American government, was questioned as a material witness but was never indicted. He said that he had arranged the abortion through Alejandro Ovalle, who was posing as a doctor, paying $2,000. Ovalle then gave Glasberg $900, and Glasberg gave $500 to Singer.</div><div><br /></div><div>Ovalle was sentenced to one year after pleading guilty as an accessory, having profited from abortion referrals.</div><div><br /></div><div>Singer's first trial ended in a mistrial when one juror fainted during testimony regarding Jane's injuries. A second trial ended with a hung jury. Singer and Glasberg were eventually convicted of manslaughter in Jane's death, and sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison. The judge, Francis L. Valente, said that Jane had been subjected to "surgical mayhem," and that Singer and Glasberg were "completely devoid of human feeling and decency."</div><div><br /></div><div>Glasberg was never sentenced because six hours after the verdict on June 14, 1948, he committed suicide in his cell, having poisoned himself. Singer appealed his conviction, which was upheld.</div><div><br /></div><div>As for Eduardo Schneidewind, not only was he not prosecuted, as far as I can determine he wasn't even deported.</div><div><br /></div><span id="goog_1007309292"></span><span id="goog_1007309293"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTnVcSnYOonT9xxohxKMRu-V_Fg_LwTrCLVrYIIGxmDfuESSkbR2zDarWtDxqVdQFI2n9PlpROeAW4P1NuMzqbhwFSSLRcKnTSuJZF7ifdHb7M6dMQwgf_zPViZfmKCRWyWBFFBg/s1600/chapter27_1.gif" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTnVcSnYOonT9xxohxKMRu-V_Fg_LwTrCLVrYIIGxmDfuESSkbR2zDarWtDxqVdQFI2n9PlpROeAW4P1NuMzqbhwFSSLRcKnTSuJZF7ifdHb7M6dMQwgf_zPViZfmKCRWyWBFFBg/s1600/chapter27_1.gif" width="296" /></a>During the 1940s, while abortion was still illegal, there was a massive drop in maternal mortality from abortion. The death toll fell from 1,407 in 1940, to 744 in 1945, to 263 in 1950. Most researches attribute this plunge to the development of blood transfusion techniques and the introduction of antibiotics. Learn more <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://realchoice.blogspot.com/2006/02/abortion-in-1940s.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>.</span><p></p><div><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="text-align: justify;">Watch the <a href="https://youtu.be/szgUSr962cE">YouTube video </a>covering how much additional information I've found this year.</span></div>Christina Duniganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04785550737493692252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395646.post-40691537021000343712023-10-26T00:00:00.001-04:002023-10-26T00:00:00.140-04:00October 26, 1929: When Killing Your Patient was Still a Big Deal<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiesLFEUuXH-PdFGa9t6Y3YeXt8By4n75pfx_5p4ZRzt7vN464WPwS0UF8wb-hjbmOmSxjM-vwfXCWvHZ3jDAyKFnvpqdVgr_cnwXCo4ykQe2puh8bhMhiuIdfd1_8mloVMulqo9w/s1600/AgnesMaryJohnsonTN.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiesLFEUuXH-PdFGa9t6Y3YeXt8By4n75pfx_5p4ZRzt7vN464WPwS0UF8wb-hjbmOmSxjM-vwfXCWvHZ3jDAyKFnvpqdVgr_cnwXCo4ykQe2puh8bhMhiuIdfd1_8mloVMulqo9w/s1600/AgnesMaryJohnsonTN.png" width="167" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Agnes Johnson</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="text-align: justify;">On a mid-October day, October 12, to be specific, 33-year-old homemaker </span><strong style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://slimwiki.com/cemeteryofchoice/agnes-johnson">Agnes Johnson</a></strong><span style="text-align: justify;"> went to the Chicago office of Dr. </span>Joseph Stern<span style="text-align: justify;"> for an abortion.</span></p><div><span style="text-align: justify;">After leaving Stern's office at 435 West 19th Street, Agnes took ill. She died on October 26 at Jackson Park Hospital.</span></div><div><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="text-align: justify;">Had the year been 2022, Stern could have expected prolifers to take to the internet with pictures from Agnes's Facebook page and to pester the Illinois medical board to investigate the circumstances of Agnes' death. And unless the board found something Gosnellesque -- say, a high school student administering massive amounts of powerful drugs or rows of severed fetal feet in specimen containers or a room full of soiled recliners upon which women writhed and moaned while waiting for their abortions to be completed -- that would probably be the end of it. The board would declare that Stern had done no wrong and as long as Stern didn't Google his dead patient's name, he'd probably never have to give Agnes another thought.</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXsdjET2RRMnALj_Z5ev0qwR-JPODegqfWnXTQ5eEENsdDtuTJInoGvw7DA6lz217y885E8aHyIySNMFCwSMyD_VisVJ952KNOijkEzMx6sERWHkIgKbWHtvI-hHNRV0W0hSyB9nX2iKAi1gL0l93gxUekfoOXCNfwMSUzw1bNx2Gv9H8dA3o/s350/Agnes%20Johnson%20Chicago_Tribune_Sun__Oct_27__1929_.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="286" data-original-width="350" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXsdjET2RRMnALj_Z5ev0qwR-JPODegqfWnXTQ5eEENsdDtuTJInoGvw7DA6lz217y885E8aHyIySNMFCwSMyD_VisVJ952KNOijkEzMx6sERWHkIgKbWHtvI-hHNRV0W0hSyB9nX2iKAi1gL0l93gxUekfoOXCNfwMSUzw1bNx2Gv9H8dA3o/s320/Agnes%20Johnson%20Chicago_Tribune_Sun__Oct_27__1929_.png" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">The absolute worst case scenario for Stern had the year been 2019, 2009, or 1999 or 1989 or even 1979, would have been that Agnes' survivors would have sued him. Again, unless there was some Gosnellesque behavior, the insurance company would take care of all that and it would all blow over. Stern could go about his business unimpeded. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">But the year was 1929, and an abortion patient's death wasn't something that could be shrugged off as one of those things that just happen and only weirdo right-to-lifers could possibly get their knickers into a twist over. This was 1929, and a woman's abortion death was homicide. Stern was arrested that day, and on November 1, he was indicted for felony murder by a grand jury.</div></div></div><div><br />I've been unable to find out what repercussions there were for Stern beyond the indictment. One thing is safe to say, though: His life would have been a lot easier had abortion been legal.<br /><br />Whether Agnes would have benefitted is another matter.</div><div><br /></div><div>Watch <i><a href="https://youtu.be/rHDKm1EjRww">The Difference Legalization Would Have Made</a></i> on YouTube.</div><div><br /></div><div>Sources: </div><div><ul><li><a href="http://homicide.northwestern.edu/database/9876/?page=1">Homicide in Chicago Interactive Database</a></li><li>"<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXsdjET2RRMnALj_Z5ev0qwR-JPODegqfWnXTQ5eEENsdDtuTJInoGvw7DA6lz217y885E8aHyIySNMFCwSMyD_VisVJ952KNOijkEzMx6sERWHkIgKbWHtvI-hHNRV0W0hSyB9nX2iKAi1gL0l93gxUekfoOXCNfwMSUzw1bNx2Gv9H8dA3o/s350/Agnes%20Johnson%20Chicago_Tribune_Sun__Oct_27__1929_.png">Woman Dies After Illegal Operation; Doctor Is Held</a>,"<i> Chicago Tribune</i>, October 27, 1929</li></ul></div>Christina Duniganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04785550737493692252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395646.post-24416709287890133782023-10-25T00:00:00.001-04:002023-10-25T00:00:00.152-04:00October 25, 1922: A Midwife's Fatal Work in Chicago<p>On October 25, 1922, 24-year-old homemaker <b><a href="https://slimwiki.com/cemeteryofchoice/lillian-hulbert">Lillian Hulbert</a> </b>died at Chicago's St. Anne's Hospital from complications of a criminal abortion performed on her there that day. The coroner identified a Mrs. M.C. Anderson as responsible for Lillian's death. Anderson's profession is given as nurse or midwife.</p><p>Abortion rights groups will blame the deaths of women like Lillian on the legal status of abortion at the time. Seeking out a midwife, ad Lillian did, rather than a doctor, wasn't because of abortion's illegality but because women of that era often went to midwives rather than doctors for all of their obstetric and gynecological issues.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj-B5JSXomZQC3A9ULIlS9aZ-Y60U_XlxMwZbr290xOmEBM1G70ELgf7pVBxzAWg4NJc4nsVbCVaDGSJGPQc9qIZhQH9FYn5qloxSJF2Fdy_Nv2iTSK_qESzSqYvOW3R71OAQmrQ/s1600/StealingCredit.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="Graph showing abortion deaths in the US since 1940. The graph falls sharply from 1940 to 1950, levels off a bit in the 1050s, then resumes a downward trend unchanged by Roe vs. Wade, which is marked with a vertical line at 1073." border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj-B5JSXomZQC3A9ULIlS9aZ-Y60U_XlxMwZbr290xOmEBM1G70ELgf7pVBxzAWg4NJc4nsVbCVaDGSJGPQc9qIZhQH9FYn5qloxSJF2Fdy_Nv2iTSK_qESzSqYvOW3R71OAQmrQ/s1600/StealingCredit.jpg" title="Legal abortion supporters steal credit for other people's accomplishments" width="287" /></a>Abortion-rights activists also forget that all surgery, including induced abortion, was riskier in the pre-legalization days. As the 20th century progressed, all maternal mortality, including abortion mortality, fell as medical care improved. <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://realchoice.blogspot.kr/2008/12/unmistakable-undeniable-clear-impact-of.html" rel="nofollow">Antibiotics and blood transfusions -- along with overall better health due to increasing prosperity -- deserve the credit for falling mortality</a>, which was hardly caused retroactively by the 1973 <em>Roe vs. Wade</em> Supreme Court ruling striking down all the nation's abortion laws.<br /><br />No doubt there was quackery prior to legalization -- but <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://realchoice.blogspot.kr/2005/06/back-alley-butchers-vs-main-street.html" rel="nofollow">such quackery persists today</a>. Removing the threat of jail for any but the most egregious behavior does not provide motivation to run a tight ship. Three erstwhile criminal abortionists that I know of -- Benjamin Munson, Milan Vuitch, and Jesse Ketchum -- didn't lose a single abortion patient until after legalization made them less fearful of repercussions and thus far more careless. Each went on to kill two legal abortion patients, not out of simple surgical complications, but due to appalling quackery.<br /><br />It's time we got real about how little is different between illegal and legal abortion practice: the main difference is how much risk of being shut down or sent to prison the safe-and-legal abortionist faces.</p>Christina Duniganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04785550737493692252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395646.post-36641360177644695102023-10-24T00:00:00.005-04:002023-10-24T00:00:00.159-04:00October 24, 1917: An Unknown Chicago Perpetrator<p> On October 24, 1917, 24-year-old homemaker <strong><a href="https://slimwiki.com/cemeteryofchoice/stella-ahern">Stella Ahern</a></strong> died at her Chicago home from an abortion performed by an unknown perpetrator.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj-B5JSXomZQC3A9ULIlS9aZ-Y60U_XlxMwZbr290xOmEBM1G70ELgf7pVBxzAWg4NJc4nsVbCVaDGSJGPQc9qIZhQH9FYn5qloxSJF2Fdy_Nv2iTSK_qESzSqYvOW3R71OAQmrQ/s1600/StealingCredit.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj-B5JSXomZQC3A9ULIlS9aZ-Y60U_XlxMwZbr290xOmEBM1G70ELgf7pVBxzAWg4NJc4nsVbCVaDGSJGPQc9qIZhQH9FYn5qloxSJF2Fdy_Nv2iTSK_qESzSqYvOW3R71OAQmrQ/w249-h278/StealingCredit.jpg" width="249" /></a></div>Note, please, that with overall public health issues such as doctors not using proper aseptic techniques, lack of access to blood transfusions and antibiotics, and overall poor health to begin with, there was likely little difference between the performance of a legal abortion and illegal practice, and the aftercare for either type of abortion was probably equally unlikely to do the woman much, if any, good.<br /><br />In fact, due to improvements in addressing these problems, maternal mortality in general (and abortion mortality with it) fell dramatically in the 20th Century, decades before <em>Roe vs. Wade</em> legalized abortion across America. The fact that abortion-rights organizations claim credit for what others accomplished in public health and medical care speaks volumes about their character.Christina Duniganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04785550737493692252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395646.post-65723491164445798372023-10-24T00:00:00.003-04:002023-10-24T00:00:00.159-04:00October 24, 1979: One Negative Pregnancy Test, Two Dead Teens<p>Today is the anniversary of the day schoolgirl <a href="https://slimwiki.com/cemeteryofchoice/delores-smith">Delores Jean Smith</a> died a lingering death. She was the second of <a href="http://realchoice.0catch.com/library/deaths/bl79ascott.htm">two teens to be fatally injured on June 2 of 1979, at </a><a href="http://realchoice.0catch.com/naf.htm">National Abortion Federation</a> member Atlanta Women's Pavilion in less than an hour. To add to the tragedy, Delores's mother found out that her daughter's pregnancy test performed at the clinic had been negative.</p><p>It all began when 19-year-old Angela Scott stopped breathing in the recovery room. Nurse-anesthetist Theresa Sterns was administering Brevital anesthesia to 15-year-old Delores while Dr. Jacob Adams was performing her abortion. Neither Sterns nor Adams was certified to administer this drug.</p><p>Sterns and Adams rushed off to assist in efforts to revive Angela, leaving Delores under the care of an untrained technician with her anesthesia drip still running. After staff had resuscitated Angela and loaded her into an ambulance, Sterns returned her attention to Delores, who had gone into cardio-respiratory arrest. </p><p>Adams had accompanied Angela to the Grady Memorial Hospital, and staff at the clinic refused to release Dolores to an ambulance until the physician had returned to discharge her. This resulted in a 30-minute delay, during which the ambulance crew was unable to attend to Delores. </p><p>Angela lingered for a week in a coma before dying on June 11. Delores never regained consciousness and eventually was admitted to a nursing home, where she died of adult respiratory distress syndrome on October 24, 1979.</p><p>Watch the <a href="https://youtu.be/zxuMvyNhP-o">YouTube video</a>.</p><p>Newly added sources:<br /></p><ul><li>"<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJdSTLQEnL9DRbCxVFJ6NQv5vun7yg_iky6jCL_uFdVYRacK_jd_Yxy0S_1O-gtfOeGsaJNvNEjPBuRQmRigaL-M8M-e3UpZM1Z7L4HidqXbQ-2bJX0QYQoGgcqJ8sOo0IYO4PMA/w441-h1030/Delores+Smith_Atlanta_Constitution_Fri__Aug_17__1979_.jpg">Sessions Likely On Abortions</a>," <i>The Atlanta Journal-Constitution</i>, August 17, 1979</li><li>"<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ5UjwcZWzAxZDoIAsK1IOccF1WhdQV2GpxaAPb12MZhhBmtvH6N4cjek51hUGYmDV13YWWI_AlEOAxSOTZnPZF60I2uY5lqFrtfU9gz0k_QxCpLlcVMvuarlMAOSHJqpyJzglAg/w569-h474/Delores+Smith_Atlanta_Constitution_Sat__Aug_25__1979_.png">Suit Against Abortion Clinic Says Pregnancy Test Negative</a>,"<i> Atlanta Journal Constitution</i>, August 25, 1979</li><li>"<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWUbCtzJ98-pOKpyN31BETpDcyUhR-YvTI07SiiTppAYCrSygEXrwaHtk1exR3nAn5r8C7rdEZtVOI6pYvVwlyFh1E-zR1yOi61ThvTnLNJcOFp33JXF_aaZ4A0DvkEvgy_rkZJA/w341-h1376/Delores+Smith_Atlanta_Constitution_Thu__Nov_8__1979_.png">Pregnancy Test Controls Urged</a>,"<i> The Atlanta Constitution</i>, November 8, 1979</li></ul>Christina Duniganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04785550737493692252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395646.post-33558551023201536312023-10-24T00:00:00.001-04:002023-10-24T00:00:00.158-04:00October 24, 1981: Rape, Abortion, and Death for Disabled Teen<p><span style="font-family: Times;">Trusting your child to a National Abortion Federation clinic might not be as good an idea as you think. Problematic practices have plagued them since the beginning.</span></p><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">Nineteen-year-old <strong><a href="https://slimwiki.com/cemeteryofchoice/diane-boyd">Dianne Boyd</a></strong>, who had the mental capacity of a 14-month-old child, lived in a state institution for the mentally disabled. Though she was on an all-female ward, she was beaten and raped in July of 1981, and was later discovered to be pregnant, though officials were unable to determine if the rape had taken place inside the facility or while Dianne was on one of her many outings. The perpetrator was never identified.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">When she was four months pregnant, a safe, legal abortion was arranged for Diane by her mother, with court approval, at <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://realchoice.0catch.com/naf.htm" rel="nofollow">National Abortion Federation</a> member <a href="https://abortiondocs.org/clinics/reproductive-health-services-planned-parenthood-pp-of-the-st-louis-region-and-southwest-missouri/">Reproductive Health Services</a> in St. Louis.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">Diane's mother signed a consent form. The abortion was performed October 22, 1981. Diane went into a coma and was declared dead after being removed from life support the on the 24th. </span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAybN-rPnGWuyNStvFMX-xZ_-nEE8ae73KValECqtJ63cJ2ANrW0O0bZoaC4fJluAL2QHTHeOO2XNn6KP-kF5euk6DP2Doz5ZIo0xKe_l2TEuerfFAuWsu36gAVrxVs95ip7VN5w/s1600/NAF+Access+DianeBoyd.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="262" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAybN-rPnGWuyNStvFMX-xZ_-nEE8ae73KValECqtJ63cJ2ANrW0O0bZoaC4fJluAL2QHTHeOO2XNn6KP-kF5euk6DP2Doz5ZIo0xKe_l2TEuerfFAuWsu36gAVrxVs95ip7VN5w/s1600/NAF+Access+DianeBoyd.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>According to suits later filed by Diane's mother, RHS staff and abortionist <a href="https://abortiondocs.org/abortionists/robert-crist/">Robert Crist</a> did not check for possible drug interactions before giving Diane valium and sublimaze. These drugs evidently reacted with Diane's usual medication, thorazine, causing her to stop breathing. Diane's mother said that the clinic lacked heart monitoring equipment or resuscitation equipment.<br /><br /><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">Diane was not the last woman to die after abortion by Crist. Seventeen-year-old Latatchie Veal bled to death after an abortion by Crist in 1991. Twenty-two-year-old Nichole Williams died of DIC (disseminated intravascular coagulopathy) after an abortion by Crist in 1997.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">Fourteen-year-old Sandra Kaiser committed suicide after a 1984 abortion at RHS, performed without her mother's knowledge or consent.</span><div><span style="font-family: Times;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Times;">Watch the <a href="https://youtu.be/-Br1HlnxD3U">YouTube video</a>.<br /></span><div><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">Newly added source: "<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghuvZH8bwzirKm3f2cAxgEQDCBuTyED1gG1HbXEvuatZRFdhzrbGmAxHmXmJIC73D_xXi9dYQiq8e3VfSNvdSdG6En0KBeI1APuswgi-W9H3IV5FCR-gUxCKjbtFh1htUjnxR3Sw/w559-h775/Dianne+Boyd_Kansas_City_Times_Tue__Nov_10__1981_+%25281%2529.png">Report gives little detail on events behind death of retarded woman</a>," <i>Kansas City Star, </i>November 10, 1981</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></div></div>Christina Duniganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04785550737493692252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395646.post-66011585570875945102023-10-23T00:00:00.006-04:002023-10-23T00:00:00.148-04:00October 23, 1913: Why Did the Midwife Confess?<p> Emma Bickel, a 59-year-old St. Louis midwife, was charged with second-degree manslaughter in the death of 19-year-old <b><a href="https://slimwiki.com/cemeteryofchoice/emily-nohavec">Emily Nohavec</a></b> of St. Louis. Bickel had been a midwife for 28 years, and had a reputation for "uprightness" and honesty.</p>Emily, age 19, was single, and had been living with her sister in St. Louis, where she worked as a clerk in her sister‘s vegetable store. On October 18, 1913, she first reported feeling ill. On Monday, October 20, a Dr. Reber was summoned to see her. He diagnosed her with septic peritonitis. The next day, her condition was critical and she was admitted to Rebekah Hospital. There, Dr. Garcia was called in for consultation. Drs. Reber and Garcia agreed that an immediate laparotomy was needed to try to save Emily‘s life.<br /><br />The doctors found Emily‘s abdominal cavity inflamed. A cyst about the size of a pear surrounded her left ovary, her right ovary was surrounded by pus, and there was pus in her fallopian tubes. The doctors removed these purulent organs and inserted drainage tubes.<br /><br />Dr. Reber also curetted Emily‘s uterus and packed it with iodoform gauze. Emily‘s uterus noted an ulceration about the size of a hazelnut inside the cervix. The edges of this ulceration were ragged and torn, and Reber concluded that this was caused by instrumentation. Reber also believed that swelling near where the fallopian tube entered the uterus was caused by instrumentation. Reber believed that an abortion had been performed a week to ten days before he was first called to examine Emily.<br /><br />Dr. Garcia, on the other hand, agreed that Emily had recently been pregnant, and that the pregnancy had ended at about two months, but noted "there were no direct punctures or cuts, scratches, or anything of that kind in the uterus, or in the abdomen." He agreed with Dr. Reber that the sepsis was caused by an abortion, but he disagreed about the abortion having been induced. Dr. Garcia concluded that Emily might merely have miscarried.<br /><br />Despite the efforts of both doctors, Emily died the following day, October 23.<br /><br />That same day, Dr. Hockdoerfer performed an autopsy. He made the same findings as Drs. Garcia and Reber, except that he also found a section of placental implantation about the size of a quarter. He agreed that retained placental tissue had caused the sepsis, but did not find any signs of damage from instruments. Emily had been in good health prior to her final, fatal illness.<br /><br />While Emily was hospitalized, police officer William H. Coates arrested St. Louis midwife Emma Bickel and brought her to Emily‘s bedside. Coates testified that he asked Bickel if she knew the girl, and Bickel said yes, she did know her. Coates testified that he then said, "You performed an abortion on her, didn‘t you?" To which, he testified, Bickel replied, "Yes."<br /><br />Coates took Bickel to the police station where she made a statement. Coates wrote out the statement as follows:<br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Department of Police, City of St. Louis.<br />7:16 P. M., Oct. 22, 1913.<br /><br />To whom it may concern I herein state that on or about October 13th, 1913, Emily Nohavec came to my house in the evening and said she was in trouble and wanted me to help her out. I told her it was dangerous for to do a thing like that, and she said, ‘You need not be afraid,‘ that ‘I won't tell on you.‘ I then inserted a catheter into the private parts and opened her womb. She then paid me about five or seven dollars; I don‘t remember which. She came back in two days, and I again put the catheter into the womb. She left, and I never saw her until I saw her this evening at the hospital.<br /><br />The above statement was made of my own free will, and not by any threats or promises or violence to me.<br /><br />[Signed] Emma Bickel.<br />Witnesses: Off. W. H. Coates; Off. David J. O‘Connor.</blockquote><br />When called upon to testify in court, however, Bickel denied having performed an abortion on Emily. She said that she never knew Emily until the girl came to her house, saying that she was "in trouble." Bickel said that she asked Emily, "How far along?" To which Emily replied that her period was two weeks late. Bickel said that Emily told her that she was married, and that she had taken some medicine to cause an abortion, and had also taken a box of pills. Bickel said that she told Emily, "Well, if you are only two weeks gone they ought to bring you by your next monthlies." Bickel said that she then sent Emily away.<br /><br />Bickel said that about two weeks later Emily, who had still not given her name, returned, saying that she was ill, and willing to pay $7 for an examination. Bickel said that she used a speculum to examine Emily, and found her cervix open and exuding a foul discharge. Bickel testified that she told Emily to consult a doctor. She said that this took place about two weeks prior to Emily‘s death, and that she‘d not seen the girl between the examination and being brought to the hospital by Officer Coates.<br /><br />Bickel testified that she had confirmed that she knew Emily, and that the girl had come to her house, but that Coates did not ask her at the hospital if she had performed an abortion. She said that she was taken to the police station, that Coates had written out the statement and told her to sign it, so she‘d complied.<br /><br />Bickel said that she‘d never told Coates that she‘d inserted a catheter, that she‘d tried to discourage abortion, telling Emily "that it was a dangerous thing to do a thing like that." She said that she‘d only signed the statement because she was excited and confused and was merely doing what she was told.<br /><br />Despite her protestations of innocence, Bickel was convicted of second degree manslaughter. She was sentenced to three years in prison. She unsuccessfully appealed her conviction and was paroled in June of 1915.<div><br /></div><div>View the video on YouTube: <a href="https://youtu.be/ixEIuwgKoZ4">The Midwife's Confession</a><br /><div><br /></div><div>Newly added sources:</div><div><ul><li><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz4xmJFf4t0SfVHgaViT0JplItKr3kLwkV9qnizflPclJoPE4us3zvV3-0rDXrwFa9IW2IdMzRoMoJCBsAlmqbGJEl8cp7WPyjvrYhV4WmJf72Ja4dGLWGZtFv5rZ9Xi8AiAB0tw/s16000/Emily+Nohavec+Death+Certificate.jpg">Death certificate</a></li><li>"<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiMiByBLkObgZoIUQIHyhXoPPJ97p2Sy62XgYCz8Wvb5U0ABpGXooix66G0Y1MBzzfT4sszTjLJKbCE3s1PJAAyEWxHUmfMn4rAaAqqHDdB4nEzGeUfu7cWXygV-2tW_sx1gwCeQ/s16000/Emily+Nohavec+Two+Articles.jpg">Woman Gets 3 Years for Girl's Death</a>," <i>St. Louis Post-Dispatch</i>, March 25, 1914</li><li>"<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiMiByBLkObgZoIUQIHyhXoPPJ97p2Sy62XgYCz8Wvb5U0ABpGXooix66G0Y1MBzzfT4sszTjLJKbCE3s1PJAAyEWxHUmfMn4rAaAqqHDdB4nEzGeUfu7cWXygV-2tW_sx1gwCeQ/s16000/Emily+Nohavec+Two+Articles.jpg">Emma Bickel Paroled</a>," <i>King County (MO) Democrat</i>, June 25, 1915</li></ul></div></div>Christina Duniganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04785550737493692252noreply@blogger.com0