Staff at the clinic summoned emergency care for a woman with difficulty breathing. Police arrived first, followed by paramedics at 6 P.M. The medics worked to save Tamika, performing CPR, as Altson waited. He'd been waiting since noon. Alston, age 22, reportedly told the New York Post that a doctor had kept walking in and out of the waiting room, "sweating real fierce and pacing. He did that several times, and then he finally came up to me and said that her heart had stopped. Alston rode by her side to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead the following day.
Alston and Dowdy had lived a floor apart, planning to be married in January or February of 1999. They'd decided on abortion because Dowdy wanted to go to a two-year school to learn accounting so she could handle the finances of Alston's band, Council. Dowdy had been four months pregnant.
The facility had been in trouble earlier, after an incident on November 14 in which a woman suffered a perforated uterus. The Health Department lost that woman to follow up after she left the hospital. Dowdy's death was under investigation as of the publication of the New York Post story.
According to the National Abortion Federation web site, Brooklyn Women's Medical Pavilion was a member facility.
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