 It was a serious allegation to make against a physician . Reich wrote in his diary that the mother had been attracted to him and had made the allegation to damage him . She later committed suicide and Reich blamed himself . If Kahn did have an abortion , Turner wrote , she was the first of four of Reich 's partners to do so : his first wife had several , and his long @-@ term partners Elsa Lindenberg and Ilse Ollendorf ( his second wife ) each had one at Reich 's insistence . 
