Jane Roe of 19371930s, newyork, illegaldoctorOn December 23, 1941, Dr. Samuel Roth was sentenced to a year in prison after pleading guilty to manslaughter in the illegal abortion death of a woman I identify as Jane Roe of 1937. Roth, whose license was suspended at the time, performed the abortion in his office on January 16, 1937. (Source: New York Times 12-24-41)
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 here.
For more on pre-legalization abortion, see The Bad Old Days of Abortion
born 1907 + – 10
died January 16, 1937 New York
Possible identities:
Wilma Bruckner
Carmela Alascia
Margaret Calderwood
Helen Czukor
Antoinette Garbo
Ida Gewirtz
Neino Haapola
Viola King
Lenore Kress
Rosina D. MacArthur
Anna Miglioe
Helen T. Quinn
Lillian Reynolds
Mary Rose
Lorenzina Tarallo
Fredrina Wilson
Marie K. Zimmerman
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