Anniversary: Death in Dallas

The survivors of Dorothy Brant (or Bryant; source documents use both spellings) filed suit against Dr. Robert Prince in her death.

The suit claims that Prince failed to perform a proper pre-operative evaluation before performing an abortion on Dorothy at Dallas Medical Ladies Clinic on May 27, 1986.

Dorothy hemorrhaged during the procedure. In the lawsuit, her family said that Prince was negligent in his administration of drugs, anesthesia, and in his administration of a blood transfusion.

Dorothy was transferred to a hospital, where she died four days later of pulmonary fibrosis.

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Anniversary: Too sick for surgery, aborted anyway

Maureen Lynne Tyke, a 21-year-old Pennsylvania resident, was in Florida visiting relatives when she went to Aware Woman Clinic in Melbourne for a safe and legal abortion. (Please send me links about Aware Woman. I've lost mine.)

The abortion was performed by Dr. John Bayard Britton on May 27, 1983. The clinic records indicate that Britton noted that Maureen had a complete double uterus and cervix. Nobody noted anything else unusual.

About 24 hours after her abortion, Maureen developed nausea, vomiting, and chills. She felt extremely ill.

The next day, she was admitted to the hospital. She had fever and chills, and was extremely weak. Her blood pressure was very low and her skin had turned an unhealthy blue-gray from lack of oxygen to her tissues. Her autopsy later noted that she was "in extreme septic shock."

Doctors at the hospital performed a complete hysterectomy on Maureen to try to remove what seemed to be the source of the infection. But their efforts were in vain. The raging infection and heart failure Maureen suffered took their toll on her body. Maureen died early on the morning of May 31.

The autopsy found that Maureen had "florid myocarditis, probably of viral etiology [a serious viral infection of the heart]."

The medical examiner added, "The intensity of this myocarditis should indicate that the young woman was very ill and there should have been some signs or symptoms of serious illness at the time she was being prepared for the abortion."

However, as the autopsy had noted, nobody at the clinic had noticed that Maureen was very ill and in no condition for elective surgery.

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China forced-abortion policy costs adults their lives now, too

China Arrests Forced Abortion Protesters, Family Planning Officials Killed

The officials were in a bad position, facing coercion just like the families. They're in a similar position to Jews under the Nazis, trying to placate the dictatorship and keep themselves above water.

It's just a horrible situation all around. Occasionally a prochoicer will get up in arms about it for a moment (as Hillary Clinton did briefly) but until we're united, this sort of thing will continue.

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Abort or lose your scholarship

NCAA Will Review Pregnancy Policy After Student Athletes Get Abortions

I just wonder how physical conditions that temporarily keep male athletes from competing are handled.

Anniversary: One of a dozen

Family Planning Associates Medical Group and abortionist Kenneth Wright were sued by the family of a woman who died after Wright performed an abortion on her on May 5, 2000. To the best of my knowledge, this makes at least 12 dead abortion patients for this National Abortion Federation member chain. Other FPA abortion deaths I know of are:

Denise Holmes, age 24, 1970

Patricia Chacon, age 16, 1984

Mary Pena, age 43, 1984

Josefina Garcia, age 37, 1985

Lanice Dorsey, age 17, 1986

Joyce Ortenzio, age 32, 1988

Tami Suematsu, age 19, 1988

Deanna Bell, age 13, 1992

Susan Levy, age 30, 1992

Christina Mora, age 18, 1994

Chanelle Bryant, age 22, 2004

The family of the woman, Kimberly K. Neil, is alleging that FPA staff failed to properly monitor Kimberly, and failed to treat her properly when she stopped breathing during the abortion. Kimberly died May 22, 2000.

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Anniversary: Death little noted

Little is known about Sharon Margove, but on May 21, 1970, she died following a legal abortion in Los Angeles County, California. She was 25 years old.

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Anniversary: Hero to the cause lets teen die

Milan Vuitch was a hero among abortion advocates. He had deliberately been arrested performing criminal abortions so that he could challenge the Washington, DC abortion law, and he succeeded in changing the way the law was enforced, effectively nulifying it.

On June 15, 1974, seventeen-year-old Wilma Harris of West Virginia went to Vuitch's Laurel Clinic for an abortion. Five days later, she was dead.

During interrogatories, Vuitch said that anesthesiologist Strahil Nacev described Wilma as "so quiet" during the abortion. Although he had begun a vacuum abortion, Vuitch said that the fetus had been too big to pass through the suction tube. He said he used instruments to remove the remaining fetal parts.

Although the abortion was done at around 2:00 PM, Vuitch didn't trasfer Wilma to a properly equipped hospital until after midnight. Wilma's family sued, claiming that Vuitch and his staff had allowed Wilma to lapse into a coma and lie unattended for 12 hours before transferring her to the hospital. The suit also claimed that Vuitch and his staff falsified records to cover their tracks.

The family won a judgment on December 23, 1976, but the settlement was sealed by court order.

Georgianna English also died after an abortion by Milan Vuitch.

Vuitch isn't the only aborionist who kept his nose clean as a criminal abortionist, only to kill two patiens after legalization. Even before Roe, Jesse Ketchum had managed to kill Margaret Smith and Carole Schaner in a four-month period after New York put out a welcome mat for carpetbagging abortionists.

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This is Love

God bless Ashli for sharing this with us. He has already blessed Elliot's family. And if you don't understand that, nobody can explain it to you. But you can pray that your eyes will be opened and you will be able to see. I'll be praying for you, that you may experience the kind of awakening I experienced the day I looked at M., one of the men at the institution where I worked, and saw that he was a masterpiece of God's handiwork exactly as he was. My life was changed. And I wish that kind of change for everybody, as you would wish the sweetest gifts on those you love the most.


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Anniversary: Homeless woman found dead in car

Susan Levy was 30 years old when she underwent an abortion at the Family Planning Associates in Mission Hills, California on April 9, 1992. FPA is a member of the National Abortion Federation.

Susan was homeless and was living in a car owned by a friend. On May 19, 1992, she was found dead in that car. The cause of death was determined to be from an infection that developed from fetal tissue that was not removed during her abortion.

Susan is one of many women to die at this NAF facility after the National Abortion Federation was founded. Others known to have died after abortion at Allred's facilities include:

Denise Holmes, age 24, 1970

Patricia Chacon, age 16, 1984

Mary Pena, age 43, 1984

Josefina Garcia, age 37, 1985

Lanice Dorsey, age 17, 1986

Joyce Ortenzio, age 32, 1988

Tami Suematsu, age 19, 1988

Deanna Bell, age 13, 1992

Christina Mora, age 18, 1994

Kimberly Neil, 2000

Chanelle Bryant, age 22, 2004

I suspect that the reason the deaths appear in clusters is because those are years that researchers checked for lawsuits, rather than that these are all the women and girls who died at Allred facilities. Anybody with the time and resources to do so could probably uncover other deaths Allred and his staff have managed to sweep under the carpet.

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Safe, legal anniversary: Ruled "unknown" by CDC

The autopsy report for 22-year-old Joan Camp attributed her death to "complications apparently as a result of a recent termination of pregnancy." Joan had been found unconscious in the morning on May 18, 1985. She was rushed to Memorial Hospital in San Leandro, California, where doctors tried to save her life. Their efforts were futile. Joan died the next morning, May 19, 1985, from clots in her lungs.

The CDC classified Joan's death as "unknown" abortion, because they could not find out where the abortion was done. The CDC does not count an abortion death as a legal abortion death unless they can verify that the person who performed the abortion was a licensed physician, or another legally qualified medical professional in states that allow non-physician abortions.

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So much for the idea that nobody is "pro-abortion"

Mother Ought to Have Aborted Conjoined Twins Says Columnist Dr. W. Gifford-Jones

If people like this have their way, the "right" to abort will become a duty to abort.

Student who exposed PP sex abuse cover-up coaching to appear on O'Reilly

UCLA Student Who Exposed Planned Parenthood Child Sex Cover-up To Appear On O’Reilly Factor Tonight

With the YouTube video. I've not had time to check it out myself. But, God willing, I'll be getting a laptop this weekend and internet at home sometime next week. Yay!

Today's anniversaries

On May 17, 1904, Miss Margaret McCarthy died in Chicago's Mary Thompson Hospital from an illegal abortion performed some days earlier at an unknown location. Mrs. Gertrude Plenz was arrested on May 21 for the death, and Benjamin Frederick, a boiler inspector, arrested for complicity.

Both Plenz and Frederick were held by Coroner's Jury. Plenz is listed as an unskilled laborer.

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"Danielle", age 18, had traveled from Massachusetts to New York for a safe and legal abortion. On May 17, 1972, the abortion was performed. Minutes after the abortion was completed, Danielle was dead. She'd developed arterial and veous air emboli.

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Another abortion mill bought out by prolifers

Former Rescue Leader Buys Ft. Wayne Abortion Clinic

It's great to see these places changing hands....

Parents beg docs to see their children as people, not diagnoses

Prenatal Test Puts Down Syndrome in Hard Focus

But as prenatal tests become available for a range of other perceived genetic imperfections, they may also be heralding a broader cultural skirmish over where to draw the line between preventing disability and accepting human diversity.

Finally we're starting to see this framed as what it is! It's about whether or not people are welcome when they're different.

One mom sells a t-shirt that says it all: "Love doesn't count chromosomes."

"Our Little Extras"

A Mothers' Day celebration of moms and their kids with Down Syndrome

Anniversary: Failure to diagnose ectopic causes death

Claudia Caventou, age 33, underwent a first-trimester abortion at Mercy Medical Clinic in Los Angeles on May 8, 1986, performed by H. N. Fahmy.

Claudia's boyfriend was in the waiting room during the procedure. Staff told him that everything was okay, and suggested that he leave and get something to eat. Since he'd heard Claudia screaming earlier, he decided to stay.

Several hours later, he heard the doctor come out and tell his staff to call 911. Claudia was taken to a hospital where she underwent emergency surgery for what doctors thought was a perforated uterus. It turned out that Claudia's pregnancy had been in her fallopian tube, which had ruptured during the abortion. Efforts to save Claudia were futile, and she died later that day.

Even though, in theory, women who choose abortion should be less likely to die of ectopic pregnancy complications, experiences shows that they're actually more likely to die, due to sloppy practices by abortion practitioners.

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Safe, legal anniversary: One of four at the same facility

Twenty-four-year-old Maura Morales was eight weeks pregnant when she went to Woman's Care Center for an abortion on May 8, 1981. When she was in the recovery room, her heart went into spontaneous ventricular fibrillation -- irregular heartbeats not capable of effectively pumping blood. Maura was taken to a hospital, but died that day.

Maura was the fourth woman to die at the same facility. The others were Shirley Payne, Myrta Baptiste, and Ruth Montero.

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Anniversary: Illegal abortion death in Chicago

On May 8, 1928, 27-year-old Margaret Barnts died from a criminal abortion performed by Pauline Zickerman or Nickelman. (The name is given two different ways in the source, perhaps due to illegible handwriting on their original source documents.) The defendant was indicted for felony murder on May 15, 1928.



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Anniversary: Anesthesia death

Gwendolyn Cliett, age 29, was about to undergo an elective abortion and tubal ligation at Presbyterian Hospital in Philadelphia on March 5, 1980. She was 8 to 10 weeks pregnant.

Before the proecdure could be done, Gwendolen reacted to the anesthesia and died.

Abortion lobby: No shame

Disgusted Beyond Belief blogged about his wife's miscarriage, and the emergency surgery he had to consent to to save her life.

But because he's always been "prochoice," he believes the prochoice lie that prolifers are opposed to life-saving emergency obstetrical surgery.

The people he should hate are the abortion lobby stooges who lied to him all his life about how other people were judging him.

There is not a place in Hell hot enough for the people who stop at nothing to demonize other people, purely on the grounds that we happen to disagree with their stand that fetuses are pieces of worthless shit, to be flushed at will down a toilet.

Look at the needless grief that they caused this man and his wife.

I hate, hate, hate with the white-hot intensity of a thousand suns the way the abortion lobby lies, lies, lies, lies all the time to further their life-hating, woman-hating, family-hating agenda of death.

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Slate, Ultrasound, and Life

Sex, Life, and Videotape

HT: LTI Blog

Partial-birth abortions, the court reasoned, could be banned because they occur outside the woman's body. Other abortions need not be outlawed, since the womb conceals them.

It's not about concealment. It's about maintaining the fiction that abortion is about "controlling" the woman's body, rather than about killing a fetus. Once the fetus is 3/4 of the way out, past the shoulders, it's clear that stopping to kill it -- when it could, after all, be delivered live -- is purely done to achieve its death. PBA destroys the illusion that abortion merely intends to end a pregnancy.

"[T]he notion that either of these two equally gruesome procedures … is more akin to infanticide than the other, or that the State furthers any legitimate interest by banning one but not the other, is simply irrational," [Ginsburg] wrote.

On the one hand, she's right. The fetus is just as dead either way. And, frankly, I'd rather be stabbed in the skull and have my brains quickly sucked out than be dismembered and disemboweled, unanesthetized. But on the other hand, she misses the point -- Killing the fetus while still in the womb maintains the illusion that it's only the pregnancy, rather than the life of the fetus, that abortion is intended to end. By stopping three quarters of the way through an induced breach delivery to kill the fetus, both the mother and the doctor make it 100% clear and indisputable that the death of the fetus is the goal, since the pregnancy would be just as "terminated" with a live baby in the NICU.

Pro-lifers are often caricatured as stupid creationists who just want to put women back in their place. Science and free inquiry are supposed to help them get over their "love affair with the fetus." But science hasn't cooperated. Ultrasound has exposed the life in the womb to those of us who didn't want to see what abortion kills. The fetus is squirming, and so are we.

As you ought to be.

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Anniversary: Slowly bled to death from undiagnosed perforation

The survivors of 29-year-old Kathleen Gilbert sued David Turow and Women's Aid Clinic when she died after her abortion.

The family accused Turow of performing an incomplete abortion, lacerating Kathleen's uterus, and failing to detect her injuries. She was sent home and continued to bleed and pass clots for a month before her death on May 2, 1985.

Kathleen's death certificate attributes the death to hemorrhage from a perforated uterus.

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Anniversary: Illegal death, midwife arrested

On May 1, 1925, 26-year-old Mary Sayers died at a Chicago residence from a criminal abortion performed on her that day. Midwife Edna Marie Dietrich was arrested the following day.



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