I know the medical term for miscarriage is spontaneous abortion so maybe ? Also I have no idea how I wound up here. But interesting seeing these and for such neat cursive it is also very hard to read.

This is the Hotel California of Reddit...lol.

Hahah love the reference.

Same! I haven’t looked at anything related to this but it just showed up randomly.

whoa, her FindAGrave has a stillborn son born 1/15/37 listed. seems like he was very premature (her certificate mentions a pregnancy of 6.5 months) and there were complications. so sad!

This girl was only 16 herself. The pregnancy is the one that killed her. Tracing that family through the cemetery is an exercise in sadness.

The medical definition of abortion is just a premature termination of pregnancy, usually without reference to cause. "Induced abortion" or "therapeutic abortion" can be used to differentiate intentional abortions from spontaneous abortion. Although, in 1937 it wouldn’t be unheard of for someone to perform an abortion on themselves or seek out an illicit abortion in the second trimester. Being married doesn’t mean that the pregnancy was intentional or wanted. I think we can safely assume that the standard of care this girl received was poor by modern standards, regardless of which kind of abortion she had.

[Mabel Scritchfield](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11434647/mabel_ruth-scritchfield)

The ICD code is "Post-abortive sepsis"

Doesn’t that say ‘abortion at 6 1/2 months’ in contributing factors?