With abortion access in jeopardy, advocates worry about a return to dangerous underground procedures. A family matriarch died in one such procedure generations ago. Her family is still grieving.
PORTLAND, Ore. — Leana McClellan never got a chance to meet her grandmother. But she knows the story of her grandmother's abortion. It was 1925, and Elizabeth Apotheker Kannerstein had just married.
A couple days after her abortion, Elizabeth Apotheker Kannerstein died of complications. She left behind three kids from her first marriage. Her granddaughter says Elizabeth's kids' lives were shattered. "People would come in before the show for dinner and then after the shows ended, they would come back in for a drink," explains Marisa McClellan, Elizabeth's great-granddaughter
"All three of those children from that family just hurt their own children because of this event," Liana McClellan said.A few decades before Elizabeth died, there were abortion tools and medications sold in catalogues."Female hospitals" quietly offered surgical abortions. But by the 1900s, many of these options were gone.targeting obscenity outlawed the mailing of contraception and abortifacients — or even information about them.
Nobody knows how many people died from illegal abortions. These traumas were often kept secret. Leana McClellan says that was the case for their family.
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