On December 19, 1921, 18-year-old housekeeper Marie Pickle died in
Chicago after an abortion perpetrated by Clarence Shoere, who was
identified as a nurse or midwife. Shoere was held by the coroner but not
tried.
Keep in mind that things that things we take for granted, like
antibiotics and blood banks, were still in the future. For more about
abortion in this era, see Abortion in the 1920s.
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