Refusing to pass on the pain

Ashli was once one of the magnanimous prochoicers throwing the bone of abortion to desperate, frightened women, then patting herself on the back for her compassion and generosity of spirit:

I reflect on the times friends or people I knew got pregnant in college. If it was someone I barely knew, I'd offer to drive her to the clinic myself. (Thank God no one ever took me up on it.) But curiously, if the person was a friend I had known for years and genuinely cared about, abortion was the last thing I wanted for her. I desperately tried to talk her out of it and then agonized when she wouldn't listen. I knew I must be contradicting myself somehow, but I didn't want to explore that. Abortion was good enough for all the uncaring faceless women of the world, but not for me, and not for anyone I cared about. What that says, what it really says about me is that I didn't care about all those other women for whom I advocated abortion. I didn't care about them or their children. Abortion was just a solution for people who, outside of my own little world of acquaintances, existed to me as much as individuals that pass by in cars on the interstate.

I don't think anything ever would have changed my mind, because to evolve would have required genuine thought, and it never occurred to me to think at all about it. It was abortion for crying out loud, the big solution. What was there to think about? Besides, it was always someone else's problem. It would never effect me, because I was smarter and nicer and made better choices. It was settled, and there was nothing anyone could say to cause me to reexamine my hollow beliefs. But one person did come and grow with me for a time, and I learned everything I needed to know without any words at all.

She learned the hard way. But she did learn. And she refuses to grease the skids into the mill for the next woman.

Abused children, when they become parents, have the choice to break the cycle of abuse. Aborted women, likewise, can also choose to break the cycle.

Thank God, many are saying "Enough is enough. We're not passing on the pain any more."

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Anniversary: Antiquated abortion method leaves teen dead

Fifteen-year-old Gwendolyn Drummer was a student at Harry Ellis High in Richmond, California, when she was admitted to Doctor’s Hospital of Pinole for a legal abortion, to be performed January 28, 1972. Her doctor chose the saline abortion method.

These abortions are performed by replacing amniotic fluid with a strong salt solution. In the decades after WWII, saline was being abandoned in countires where abortion was legal, in favor of safer methods. But as laws loosened up in the US, American docors adopted the method. A British study published in 1966 found that the saline would enter the mother's bloodstream and cause brain damage. Swedish researchers noticed an unacceptably high rate of complications and deaths. Sweden and the Soviet Union followed Japan in abandoning saline abortion as too dangerous by the late 1960s.

Gwendolyn's doctor injected the saline into her utuerus. It got into Gwendolyn's blood stream, just as British, Japanese, Soviet, and Swedish doctors had repeatedly warned it could do. Gwendolyn suffered organ damage. She developed pneumonia, and died on January 31.

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Searches: Murder, malpractice, and mortality

John Baxter Hamilton (pictured) was convicted of the 2001 Valentine's Day murder of his wife in her home. Another abortionist convicted of murdering his wife, this one by botching a liposuction, was Joe Bills Reynolds. Reynolds has since died. He, like Hamilton, was an Oklahoma City resident. And currently, Alabama abortionist Malachy DeHenre is on trial for the shooting death of his wife. Wife-killing abortionist trifecta complete?

Somebody wants to know whatever happened to abortionist C. J. Labenz. He closed down his Omaha abortion business in 2006, but I don't know if he's resurfaced. Anybody?

Anesthesia deaths

Richard Cunningham, MD performed the fatal abortion on Shiela Watley in 1987.

Someone was looking for infection after abortion. I have 73 cases listed here, all fatal. If you go to the main RealChoice site, there's a search box and you can find non-fatal cases. There are far too many of them to list individually.

Did abortionist Dehenre shoot his wife dead? Trial in progress

Abortion Practitioner Malachy DeHenre's Trial on Murder Charge Continues. Dr. Mysha Rose DeHenre died ten years ago from a gunshot wound to the head in the couple's home.

Dehenre (pictured) worked at the seedy Summit Medical Center of Birmingham in Alabama. He performed the fatal abortion on Leigh Ann Alford in 2003. Dehenre had perforated her uterus and sent her home to bleed to death.

Dehenre does have his fan club, but they're standing behind him on racial grounds and not because he's an abortionist.

While we're mentioning Summit, that's the same facility where nurse Janet Onthank King diagnosed a woman as being six weeks pregnant, gave her RU-486, and sent her home to abort rather than sending her to a hospital to have her dangerously high blood pressure addressed. Within days she was in the hospital expelling a dead near-term infant. King is currently on trial for practicing medicine without a license.

Imagine if a prolife center had two of its staff facing criminal charges at the same time! And one of them facing murder charges! It'd be blasted on the front page headlines across all the MSM.

Anniversary: NAF abortion leads to hysterectomy, colostomy

Aretta H. sued after being admitted to Midtown Hospital in Atlanta for a second-trimester abortion to be performed by Dr. Edwarm M. Portman January 30, 1993. Aretta faulted Portman with failure to dilate her cervix sufficiently. He then "failed to immediately stop the procedure and initiate a new course of action once the considerable amount of scar tissue and resistance was encountered upon entrance into the uterine cavity." Aretta suffered uterine and bowel perforations. The fetal head was pushed into her abdominal cavity. She had to have a hysterectomy and colostomy. Even her appendix was so badly damaged it had to be removed. She required additional hospitalization to have her bowel function restored, to have adhesions in her pelvis sofetned and removed, and to have a bladder laceration repaired. The suit also faulted Portman with failure to take appropriate precautions necessitated by Aretta's history of previous C-sections and no vaginal deliveries. Midtown was a member of the National Abortion Federation. (Fulton County State Court Civil Action File No. 94VS94495E)

Anniversary: Abortionist obstetrician tells mom baby is dead, aborts healthy fetus

Patricia T. went to Dr. Ulrich Klopfer for routine obstetric care on January 29, 1981. According to the suit she later filed, Klopfer told Patricia that her 10-week fetus was dead. She consented to a suction procedure to remove what she believed was a dead fetus. Her uterus was punctured in two places during the procedure. Patricia hemorrhaged and went into shock. She was rushed to the hospital by ambulance. Doctors there had to remove her uterus, fallopian tube, and ovary. Patricia was hospitalized for a week. Only after her ordeal did she learn that the fetus had not been dead until Klopfer's interference killed it. (Cook County Circuit Court Case No. 83L 1941)

Other January 29 anniversaries include:

Elizabeth P., age 28, sued after an abortion by Dr. Daniel C. Ludwig at Midwest Population Center January 29, 1974.Elizabeth faulted Ludwig and other MPC staff with failure to inform of her of the risks of abortion, failure to perform a complete pre-op physical exam, and lack of post-operative advice. Elizabeth suffered perforation of her fallopian tube and was hospitalized February 14 - 22 for care, including surgical removal of the injured tube. (Cook County Circuit Court Case No. 75L 692)

Nancy S. underwent a traumatic abortion at the Fargo, North Dakota Women's Health Organization abortion clinic. The next day, Nancy expelled tissue while she was in the shower. "I thought it would be a blood clot, and I found in my hand the face, shoulders and arms of my baby."

Donna S. sued after an abortion performed by Dr. Michael Ross January 29, 1982. Her vaginal wall was lacerated. Thomas Gresinger performed three separate repair procedures at Fairfax Hospital, but was unable to stop Donna's bleeding. He further performed exploratory surgery which resulted in loss of Donna's fallopian tube. (Arlington County Circuit Court At Law No. 25571)

January 29 is also the anniversary of the death of abortionist George Kabacy's patient Tamara L. Willis due to failure to diagnose her cancer. (Multnomah Circuit Court Case No. A8908-04425)

Seedy criminal abortionist arrested in California

So much for the idea that legalization would just put these folks out of business:

California Abortion Center Owner Charged With Unlicensed Medical Practice

Clinica Medica Para La Mujer De Hoy is a small chain of abortion mills that has been in trouble since (off the top of my head) about 1999, with ownership seeming to change hands and management a bit squirrely, to say the least. Facing an abortionist shortage, the owner just started doing the abortions herself. Well, thank God, she got arrested before she managed to kill any patients. Though she may have actually have been an improvement over her previous, more "qualified" abortionists, Lawrence Reich, Nicholas Braemer, and Phillip Rand.

Here's a more thorough report from Operation Rescue West. They say that Braemer had a dead patient to his discredit, but my site doesn't have anything connecting him to a patient death. So I don't know if there's another death I don't know about, or if he is the guilty party in one of the cases I've already documented.

The whole mess puts me in mind of Clinica Feminina de la Comunidad, another seedy California abortion mill that catered primarily to poor Hispanic women. When they couldn't replace their "qualified" abortionist, the owner, Alician Hannah, simply started doing abortions herself. She ended up killing Angela Sanchez and trying to dump her body to escape legal repercussions.

Stay tuned.

Who are we to judge?

The following letter (edited to disguise the identity of the writer and details about the situation) was penned after what was clearly a very difficult choice:

I wasn't earning anywhere near enough to support us. Everything I had seemed to fall to pieces. True we could have gone bankrupt and maybe gone on welfare.

But that brings me to my second point. Knowing the type of location that one would have to live in plus the environment for the child plus the effect on them knowing they were on welfare was just more than I thought they could and should endure.

So that is the sum of it. If any one of these had been the condition we might have pulled through but this was just too much. At least I'm certain that they have gone to heaven now. If things had gone on who knows if that would be the case.

After it was all over I said some prayers from the hymn book. That was the least that I could do.

I leave myself in the hand of Gods justice and mercy. I don't doubt that he is a able to help us, but apparently he saw fit not to answer my prayers they way I had hoped that they would be answered. This make me think that perhaps it was for the best.

Also, I'm sure many will say "How could anyone do such a horrible thing?" - my only answer is it isn't easy and was only done after much thought.

After making and implementing the "horrible" choice, the author of the letter started life afresh -- a new community, a new job, and eventually a new spouse. A very happy life.

Who are we to judge what went on between this person and God? Who are we to judge how another person decides to deal with an intensely stressful situation, facing bankruptcy and/or the welfare rolls? Surely the rightness of the decision is evident in how life played out after the choice, right? Not great wealth, but a solid job, a comfortable home life with a loving spouse. Looking at the end results, surely this person did the right thing, even though it involved a really tough choice.

Who made the difficult choice that nevertheless proved worth it?

John List.

I'm sick of the argument that since abortion gives some women the oportunity to have "the good life" it must be okay. If you can argue backward from how much it benefits a particular woman, then you can also argue backward from the happy life John List had -- right up until the killjoys at America's Most Wanted spoiled it.

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Anniversary: Safe, legal abortion proves fatal

Evangeline McKenna was 38 years old when she checked into Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles for an abortion and tubal ligation. Two days after the procedure, she had a seizure. She stopped breathing and went into cardiac arrest. Doctors told the family that Evanegline was brain dead, but they held out hope and asked that she be put on life support.

On January 28, 1974, after twelve days on life support, Evangeline was pronounced dead.

Evangeline's death, in addition to being a tragedy for her family and loved ones, also highlights the disproportionate damage that legal abortion causes among Blacks in the United States.
Though black women are only 13% of the female population in the US, and though they are more likely than white women to oppose abortion, they account for a full 35% of legal abortions reported. Black women, like Evangeline, also account for fully 50% of reported legal abortion deaths.

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Anniversary: Olive Ash, killed by criminal abortion

Olive Ash worked for a farmer, Mr. Beckwith, in Vermont, in the summer and fall of 1857. She was about 20 years old, and she lived with the family during her employment. In the autumn of that year, Olive returned to her family home in Sutton.

On December 28, 1857, Olive and her twin sister, Olivia, left their home and went by rail to the home of their cousin, Levi M. Aldrich, in Bradford, ostensibly to visit his widowed mother. During the visit, Olive seemed to her family to be in normal health. The sisters remained at Aldrich's home about two weeks, then said that they were going to meet some friends at the Fairlee depot for an excursion into New York or Massachusetts. Instead, when they arrived at Fairlee depot they took a wagon to the home and office of Dr. William Howard, about six miles north of the depot and three miles south of Bradford.

On Friday, January 29, 1858, Olive's mother got a telegram telling her to come to Howard's home. She quickly complied, and was there when her daughter died at about 6 in the evening. Dr. Howard got a coffin for Olive, and the twins' mother took her daughter's body by train to Sutton.

On February 3, Olive's body was exhumed for an autopsy, which was performed by Dr. Frost and witnessed by Dr. Bliss, Dr. Carpenter, and others unnamed. Frost found evidence of recent pregnancy as well as signs of instrumentation and damage to the cervix. Dr. Frost believed that Olive had hemorrhaged due to the damage to her cervix. He removed and preserved her uterus. Another physician examined the uterus and concluded that the placenta had been retained for some time after the abortion, and that this retained placenta would also cause hemorrhage.

In the trial of Dr. Howard, Olivia testified that she knew her sister was pregnant and had accompanied her on the journey knowing that Olive was planning to get an abortion. Olivia said that Daniel Beckwith, the grown son of the farmer Olive had worked for, met them at their cousin's house, and he gave them the information on where to go and who to see for the abortion.

From Olivia's testimony, the sisters arrived at Dr. Howard's house and informed him that Olive was about six months pregnant. He spoke to the sisters and indicated that he wanted to consult with Daniel Beckwith before deciding if he was going to proceed with an abortion. The sisters remained at Dr. Howard's house for a few days until Olive got a letter from Beckwith, and she read part of it to Dr. Howard. He then agreed to perform the abortion for a sum of $100.

Dr. Howard told the sisters that the process would take three or four weeks. He gave Olive a concoction to drink two or three times. On the Friday the week after the sisters' arrival, Dr. Howard performed some sort of procedure on Olive as she lay on the bed in the room the twins shared. Olivia was permitted to remain with her sister during this procedure. She said that Dr. Howard used two or three of the three or four instruments he had at hand. Olive was in pain during the procedure, which took two or more hours, and resulted in a gush of fluid.

The following day, Dr. Howard performed another, similar, procedure on Olive, who clutched her sister's hand and reported great pain. Olive bled profusely. After this second operation, Olive kept to her bed.

That night, Dr. Howard performed yet another procedure, very painful for Olive to endure. This time he used instruments then reached in with his hand and pulled out a fetus, which Olivia reported as being about two-thirds the size of a newborn. Dr. Howard removed the fetus from the room, and Olivia never saw it again.

Olive bled after this, but not profusely. Afterward her behavior struck Olivia as violent and irrational. A girl named Margaret Kelley, who lived at Dr. Howard's house, also testified that Olivia had laundered her sister's bloody clothing while at the doctor's house. Bloody clothing were introduced into evidence, including two chemises and a small quilt or pad. The witness, Mrs. Wilson, who produced the evidence indicated that she'd found these things hidden in the rafters of the house when she was cleaning in the fall of 1858.

Mrs. Wilson also said that about two weeks after Dr. Howard's arrest, she saw one of Dr. Howard's dogs come out from underneath the office privvy with something in its mouth. She made the dog drop what it was carrying and discovered it to be a fetus of about four or five months, in a state of decomposition. While she was looking at the fetus, another of the doctor's dogs snatched the fetus up and ran off with it. The dogs, she testified, had been digging at the privvy for some time before retrieving the fetus. Mrs. Wilson's description of the fetus she'd seen the dogs with was similar in size to the fetus Olivia had described taken from her sister. Olivia had also testified to having seen a number of fetuses of various sizes preserved in containers in Dr. Howard's premises.

The defense presented a witness named Susan Squires, who was staying at Dr. Howard's place from January 23 until after Olive's death. She said that the Thursday before Olive's death, she had spoken with Olive while Olivia was eating lunch. Susan said that Olive told her that she didn't expect to live, that she'd taken poisons before coming to Dr. Howard, that Dr. Howard was not to blame in her death but had done everything in his power to help her. Susan said that Olive seemed rational at the time, but that by Friday morning Olive seemed to have lost her reason.

On cross examination, Susan indicated that she had stayed at Dr. Howard's off and on for two years, to do sewing and to receive medications. She indicated that on Thursday afternoon, at about 4:00 Friday morning Olive managed to kick the footboard off the bed, prompting Olivia to summon Susan and a Mrs. Green into the room. Olive complained of being tired and continued to thrash and kick for a short time before settling down.

Mrs. Green was brought as a witness. She said that she had gone to Dr. Howard's on Tuesday afternoon and remained there a week visiting the doctor's wife. She first saw Olive on Wednesday morning, when Olivia had summoned her to help attend to Olive, who was trembling, delierious, and bleeding from the nose. Mrs. Green also went to Olive during the episode when she'd kicked the footboard off the bed. She'd helped the others restrain Olive. Mrs. Green testified that Olive never revived enough to speak after that.

Dr. Howard's witnessed attempted to show that Howard was treating Olive for a miscarriage. Dr. Howard was nevertheless convicted.



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Anniversary: Rush job at abortion hospital leaves three children motherless

On January 24, 1987, 37-year-old Belinda Byrd had an abortion performed by Stephen Pine at Inglewood Women's Hospital in Los Angeles, California. Belinda was left unattended for three hours after the abortion, and was found unresponsive. Staff at Inglewood delayed an additional two hours before transferring her to a hospital with appropriate emergency services.

Belinda was one of 74 women who had abortions performed in Inglewood's single operating room that day, and one of 24 whose abortions were performed in the final two hours of the day. Belinda remained comatose until her death on January 27.

Belinda's mother wrote to a Los Angeles district attorney:

I am the mother of Belinda Byrd, victim of abortionists at [Inglewood]. I am also the grandmother of her three young children who are left behind and motherless. I cry every day when I think how horrible her death was. She was slashed by them and then she bled to death ... and nobody cares. I know that other young black women are now dead after abortion at that address. ... Where is [the abortionist] now? Has he been stopped? Has anything happened to him because of what he did to my Belinda? Has he served jail time for any of these cruel deaths? People tell me nothing has happened, that nothing ever happens to white abortionists who leave young black women dead. I'm hurting real bad and want some justice for Belinda and all other women who go like sheep to slaughter.

In the wake of the series of abortion deaths at Inglewood, the authorities inspected the place. Among other things, they caught an abortionist writing post-operative examination notes without even examining the patients. When the state closed Inglewood for numerous violations, the facility simply re-opened as Inglewood Women's Clinic; as a clinic rather than a hospital they were no longer subject to the same intense scrutiny and were able to remain in business.

Other women known to have died after abortions at the Inglewood facility include Kathy Murphy, Cora Lewis, Lynette Wallace, and Elizabeth Tsuji.

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Searches: the usual quacks and mayhem

Sherri Finkbine was the Arizona Romper-Room lady who probably did more than anybody else -- even Norma "Jane Roe" McCorvey -- to unleash abortion on America. Finkbine did it by being cute, perky, non-threatening, a mom and a preschool teacher, who made getting a legal abortion a public crusade. Finkbine had illegally taken Thalidomide, and decided that a baby with missing or deformed limbs was better off dead. Which I'd love to have seen her say to Johnny Eck, Jeannie Tomaini, Frieda Pushnik, or Randian.

Somebody was searching for "abortion uterus scars". I clicked on her search and found Uterine Rupture during Second Trimester Abortion with Misoprostol (Izmir, Turkey). And Uterine Rupture During Second-Trimester Abortion Associated With Misoprostol (Madison, Wisconsin). And Rupture of the cervix in a sulprostone induced abortion in the second trimester (Messina, Italy). Ain't we got fun?

EMW abortion clinic in Louisville, Kentucky: Here is info on a lawsuit filed against them on behalf on an underage girl that they performed an abortion on against her mother's express wishes, against medical advice, and against a restraining order -- resulting in the girl being hospitalized for sepsis. Their security guard got caught raping women on the premises after hours. And of course, EMW is a member of the National Abortion Federation.

Atlanta Surgi Center. Oh, yeah, they're members of the National Abortion Federation. Though what this says about them or about NAF is pretty debatable. Look what they did to Catherine Pierce.

Anesthesia deaths associated with induced abortion.

Home abortion takes various forms, such as the herbal teas embraced by some women as natural and safe and gentle. These safe and natural abortions are how Kris Humphrey and Penny Roe ended up killing themselves. There are also what are the more stereotypical "home abortions", such as Laura France doing herself in with an air compressor, or "Daisy", who despite being well-educated and experienced in legal abortion, let her boyfriend ream her out with a plastic tube. "Home abortion" is also the new name given to chemical abortions, like the ones that killed "Wanda", Holly Patterson, Chanelle Bryant, "Cherish", "Tara", Oriane Shevin, Vivian Tran, and Brenda Vise. I think that somebody came up with the idea of calling them "home abortions" instead of "chemical abortions" or even "medical abortions" to try to make them seem "natural", sort of a variation of homeschooling or home birth. Ya know, wholesome and earthmom-ish, like quilting or canning or making your own soap. Are you buying into this?

"Ulrich George Klopfer" Ding! Ding! Ding! You've picked a WINNER!

Harvey Lothringer is the abortionist who chopped up Barbara Lofrumento in 1962 and put her down the garbage disposal and the toilet after she died in the middle of a back-alley abortion he was performing in his New York office. Lothringer eventually got his license back, became a prison psychatrist, and took Nancy Blumenthal off her antidepressants. She killed herself.

Alabama abortion clinic shut down. Thank God.

Anniversary: Louisiana abortion death

Ingar Lee Whittington Weber died January 26, 1990, in a Louisiana hospital. She had been treated for acute kidney failure after an abortion performed at Delta Women's Clinic in Baton Rouge on January 20, 1990.

Ingar's family sued the clinic and its doctors, Richardson P. Glidden and Thomas Booker. They faulted the doctors with failing to diagnose Ingar's kidney problems, or her deteriorating physical condition, before, during, or after the abortion.

Delta had also been sued following the death of another abortion patient. This woman was most likely 27-year-old Sheila Hebert, who died after an abortion on June 6, 1984.

Delta was sued for an abortion performed in 1984 which left the patient with a uterine laceration and a retained fetal leg. She had to be hospitalizcd. Delta was sued after an abortion in 1974 that so badly damaged the patient's uterus that she needed a hysterectomy.

Another patient reported that after surgery at Delta in 1998, she had to have a colostomy.

Delta shut down in 2001 after an electrical problem caused a fire which gutted the facility, but later reopened in another building.

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Legal deaths now on separate page, audio being added

By popular demand, I have put all the safe and legal abortion deaths I have on file on a single page at RealChoice.

I am also building an audio library of one-minute clips about each woman's death. As I create them, I will add them to the list.

Here, for example, is the one-minute clip for Belinda Byrd:

I'll be building the audio library in calendar order, then adding deaths for which I don't have specific dates.

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Yet another sign of the coming apocolypse

The Washington Post ran straigtforward, albeit brief, coverage of March for Life. Without terse snarkiness. Without perpetuating stereotypes. Without hunting down the few counter-protesters and giving them equal word count and a bigger and better picture.

The times, they are a-changin'.

HT: Mother May I ... Be Born

Another fan of Planned Parenthood

Somebody came to my site searching for Erin Bendle. Ms. Bendle was one of the people who signed a Planned Parenthood petition using a fraudulent story to try to drum up opposition to prolife pregnancy centers. Ms. Bendle added her own comment: "Women deserve truth and respect when making choices about their bodies and health... not deceit."

When I look at comments from supporters of PP's petition, I get the feeling that if these people ever find out about the way PP actually operates, there's gonna be such a backlash that there won't be a PP left standing anywhere in America, because angry people are gonna tear them down brick by brick.

I think that the majority of the people signing that petition wouldn't want to be supporting an organization that sent a young mother home to bleed to death from a treatable injury. I don't think they'd knowingly get behind an organization that allowed a nurse-practitioner to insert laminaria into a woman's body in spite of obvious signs of infection, resulting in her death. I don't think they'd back an organization that referred a teenage rape victim to a facility that lacked proper resuscitation equipment and left her permanently incapacitated. I don't think they'd think highly of a place that routinely referred women to a seedy abortion mill that had at least four women die under their dubious care, or to a string of abortion mills with at least a dozen patient deaths to their discredit.

But I could be wrong. It could be that Ms. Bendle and other Planned Parenthood supporters would consider these women and girls just so much grist for the mill.

Good neighbors: Pregnancy center next to killing center

Abortion facility’s neighbor is a Catholic clinic that educates moms, saves babies

Wouldn't it be lovely if every abortion facility in America had a pregnancy care center right next door?

Two back alley annivesaries

On January 23, 1925, 34-year-old Kate Radochouski died at Chicago's Lakeside Hospital from complications of an abortion performed that day. The Homicide in Chicago database says that she died at the scene of the crime, and that there was an arrest on February 11. But there is no name given for the person arrested.

On January 23, 1929, 22-year-old Edna Vargo died in Chicago from an abortion performed that day by Katherine Bajda. Bajda was identified as a homemaker. She was held by the Coroner on February 14. On March 15, she was indicted for felony murder in Edna's death. Abortions like Edna's -- performed by a layman -- were rare, accounting for probably between 6 and 9 percent of criminal abortions.



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More proof that they just don't get it

On the anniversary of Roe, Frances Kissling, founder of Catholics [sic] for Free Choice, and Kate Michelman of NARAL published a letter in the Los Angeles Times: Abortion's battle of messages.

It's refreshing that Kissling and Michelman at least recognize their own movement's shortcomings. The problem is that they view them as strategic shortcomings, as failures to properly frame their support of abortion. They never look at the fact that maybe the reason they're losing ground is that there are inherent flaws in the stand they take.

I'd like to address just a couple of points where Kissling's and Michelman's analysis falls short:

In recent years, the antiabortion movement successfully put the nitty-gritty details of abortion procedures on public display, increasing the belief that abortion is serious business and that some societal involvement is appropriate.

Note that to Kissling and Michelman, it's not a matter of people recognizing that abortion is "serious business". It's the development of "the belief" that it is.

Those who are pro-choice have not convinced America that we support a public discussion of the moral dimensions of abortion.

That's because the moment you move to the "moral dimensions of abortion", the prochoice argument crashes and burns. Any child on the playgrounds can grasp "Pick on somebody your own size." And with ultrasounds now a routine part of prenatal care, it gets harder and harder for abortion advocates to cling to their claim that abortion doesn't involve attacking and killing a very small, defenseless somebody. The idea that mothers should protect their children, not kill them, is also a no-brainer. Staying away from abortion's moral aspects and sticking to slogans is a wise stategic move.

Likewise, we haven't convinced people that we are the ones actually doing things to make it possible for women to avoid needing abortions.

The "need" for abortion exists in women's heads, not their wombs. Going around promoting abortion as a cure all for anything that ails you isn't going to accomplish squat to reduce reliance on abortion.

Let's face it: Disapproval of women's sexuality is a historical constant.

Where the heck did that come from? How do you look at people pleading for a baby's life, and get, "They just are upset that his mother had sex in the first place"? This makes as much sense as looking at a program to stop domestic violence and saying, "These people just disapprove of marriage!"

So our claim that women can be trusted still falls on deaf ears.

The reason your "Trust Women" slogan "falls on deaf ears" is that you're presenting women as untrustworthy. You hold up an inherently abhorrent behavior -- a mother killing her own child -- as some sort of proof that women can be trusted. Why not hold up Ted Bundy and Ed Kemper as proof that we should "trust men"?

I hope Michelman and Kissling continue to slog it out with other abortion advocates. They're the best friends women and children can have within the prochoice movement: people saying, "Let's really look at what abortion is, does, and means." You can't do that for long and still have a movement embracing the practice.

HT: Threshing Grain

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Enough with the coathangers already

Legalization let the "back alley butchers" hang up their shingles on Main Street. To what end?

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Cui bono?

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Roe anniversary: Pastor's wife dies in Dallas

On January 22, 1980, Vanessa Preston, the 22-year-old wife of a local minister, went with her husband and small son to Fairmount Clinic in Dallas. There, National Abortion Federation member Curtis Boyd performed a dilaton and extraction abortion on her. During the abortion, Vanessa went into a grand mal siezure and then into cardiac arrest.

To the credit of Boyd and the Fairmount staff, emergency procedures were immediately instituted. An ambulance was summoned, and Boyd and a nurse performed CPR and got Vanessa's heart to beat again. Before the ambulance arrived, Vanessa again went into cardiac arrest. Again, staff at Fairmount performed CPR. Paramedics and staff stabilized Vanessa for transport to the hospital.

About 40 minutes into exploratory surgery, trying to address a retained placenta and multiple vaginal punctures, Vanessa again went into cardiac arrest. She was given a total of 24 units of blood to try to keep her circulation entact despite her massive, unstoppable blood loss. For an hour and a half, hospital staff tried in vain to resuscitate Vanessa before finally pronouncing her dead.

An autopsy revealed that she had developed amniotic fluid embolism (AFE - amniotic fluid in the mother's bloodstream) and disseminated intravascular coagulopathy (DIC - a blood clotting disorder) during the abortion. This is what caused her cardiac arrest. When Boyd's staff resuscitated Vanessa, they caused a small laceration of her liver. This is typical in even properly performed CPR, and is not usually life-threatening. However, because of the DIC, Vanessa's blood couldn't clot, and she bled to death from the liver laceration. Since second-trimester evacuation abortions were still new (read "experimental") at the time, Boyd and his staff didn't realize that there was a risk of DIC.

Boyd, to his credit, reported Vanessa's death to the Centers for Disease Control. He also wrote a medical journal article about her death, warning other abortionists that DIC could occur during second-trimester evacuation abortions.

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Three pre-Roe abortion deaths on January 22

On January 22, 1900, Mrs. Barbara Shelgren, age 25, died at Augustana Hospital in Chicago of an abortion performed there that day. Paulina Bechtel, identified as a midwife, was arrested and held by Coroner's Jury and indicted of homicide by a grand jury, but the case was thrown out by Judge Holdom. Bechtel had been implicated in the abortion death of Ida Henry in 1899, but was identified as a physician in that case. According to Leslie Reagan in When Abortion Was a Crime, female physicians were often misidentified as midwives by the press when they were arrested for abortion charges, so I think it likely Bechtel was actually a physician.

On January 22, 1925, 17-year-old Jean Cohen died at Chicago's Montrose Hospital from an abortion performed earlier that day. On January 31, Louise Hagenow was arrested in Jean's death. Howover, Hagenow, though a known abortionist, was cleared in Jean's death. There were a number of deaths in Chicago attributed to either a Lucy Hagenow or a Louise Hagenow. I believe these to be the same woman. The deaths include Lottie Lowy, Bridget Masterson, Nina H. Pierce, Mary Moorehead, Elizabeth Welter, and Marie Hicht.

The last pre-Roe abortion death I have on this date in my files is actually a safe and legal abortion death. On January 22, 1972, 26-year-old Kathryn Strong died from hemorrhage and shock due to a uterine perforation she'd suffered during an abortion performed the day before at Civic Center Hospital in Oakland California. The abortion was performed by Dr. Harold Van Maren. Kathryn left a three-year-old son motherless.

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A Sign of the Coming Apocolypse

A fairly balanced story about the West Coast Walk for Life -- in the San Francisco Chronicle!

Ringing true

HT: JJ.

Kate shares her experience with abortion and the moment when her efforts to suppress her feelings collapsed:

When I was 30, I had a quasi-nervous breakdown about the abortion. I had no idea that it bothered me so much. I uncontrollably heaved waves of tears, and in between sobs blabbered about having an abortion, and how I murdered my unborn child. I went on to say that I felt such guilt at having a good life and that after the abortion, I went on to have fun and finish college and do all of the things I'd always hoped to do and that I didn't deserve my life.

Oh, I know that there are plenty of skeptics who will say, "Yeah, you just suddenly realized that it was the abortion that troubled you so much!" and want to claim that it's just bogus guilt. I have to say Kate's story reminds me of my own.

I was coming unglued and had no idea why. I thought it was ordinary stress piling up. Certain things were making me shake and cry, and after work I'd just get in my car and scream. I was wrestling something inside, but I had no idea what.

I went for professional counselling, and was in a group "wind down" relaxation session at the end of the day, where they just played what was supposed to be soothing music. One of the songs was "Somewhere Out There." A song I could never stand to listen to, but I never knew why. I would leave the room or turn off the radio or do anything to avoid that song. It just made me hurt. And now they were playing it when I was supposed to relax and get soothed and comfortable. That wasn't gonna happen.



My first urge was to just buck up, ignore the feelings, not let myself listen to the song but just grit my teeth and get through it. Then I thought, "I'm going to all this trouble to arrange counseling in a safe environment to find out why all these things are stressing me so much. I need to go with this."

I went down the hall, grabbed my counsellor, and just pleaded "Help me!" She took me into a private room and the minute I felt I was safe I just let go.

I sat there crying and screaming, "DON'T LEAVE ME! DON'T LEAVE ME!" over and over and over again. And I suddenly knew exactly what was wrong. I was screaming for my brother, who had died in a freak accident when we'd been playing in the yard when I was just a little girl.

Of course a song about a brother and sister trying desperately to find each other would make me come unglued.

Suddenly everything clicked into place. I could see exactly why each of the things that had set me off had been setting me off. I could see exactly where each of those things had reminded me of the day my brother died. But I hadn't wanted to go there, to visit something that painful, so I'd tried to play the "It's just stress" card and hope I could hold on by my fingernails.

So I've had the experience of not knowing why things were triggering such an extreme emotional response, then suddenly having it come like a flash of lightning. Kate's story rings so true.

BTW, it still makes me cry. But at least now I know why, and it doesn't cripple me any more.

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Anniversary: Doc tries to hide criminal abortion death

On January 21, 1961, Dr. Mandel M. Friedman contacted a Queens undertaker, asking him to arrange burial for 23-year-old Vivian Grant of New York. Friedman told the undertaker that Vivian had died of a heart ailment. The undertaker notified authorities, who determined that although Vivian had not been pregnant, Friedman had attempted to perform an abortion on her, causing her death. Friedman was charged with homicide and falsifying a death certificate.



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Same date, three safe, legal anniversaries

"Andrea" was 26 years old when she underwent a legal abortion at a New York City abortion facility on January 12, 1971. After her abortion, Andrea contracted an infection. Her system was unable to fight the infection, and she died on January 20, 1971, leaving behind six children.

Linda Fondren, age 21, had an abortion performed by Mohammad Pourtabib at Pre-Birth in Chicago on New Years Day, 1974. She suffered bleeding, but Pourtabib did not provide follow-up care. Linda was taken by ambulance to Michael Reese Hospital, in shock and needing emergency care. They would not admit her, but instead sent her to Cook County Hospital, where doctors performed an emergency hysterectomy. Linda remained hospitalized at Cook County. On January 16, doctors tried to drain fluids from Linda's chest and inadvertently punctured her spleen. Linda died on January 20 from "hemoperitoneum with splenic rupture following hysterectomy and earlier dilatation and curettage." She left behind a small child.

Mary Tennyson was 20 years old when she developed septic shock from an incomplete abortion performed in Georgia. She died on January 20, 1982.

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From Feminists for Life: Weddington's Betrayal of Women

Weddington's Betrayal of Women
Serrin M. Foster
President
Feminists for Life of America

On the thirty-fifth anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion, many will focus on the undeniable humanity of the unborn child now seen clearly by millions through sophisticated sonograms on Oprah as well as in Life and Newsweek cover stories.

Meanwhile, I will be reflecting on the impact of the choice made by attorney Sarah Weddington in 1973.

As her arguments for abortion before the Supreme Court made clear, Weddington saw the discrimination and other injustices faced by pregnant women. But she did not demand that these injustices be remedied. Instead, she demanded for women the “right” to submit to these injustices by destroying their pregnancies.

Weddington rightly pointed out the unmet needs of students: “…there are many schools where a woman is forced to quit if she becomes pregnant.” But Weddington didn’t argue against pregnancy discrimination or even for alternate solutions for a pregnant student.

Weddington did no better for women in the workplace. “In the matter of employment, she often is forced to quit at an early point in her pregnancy. She has no provision for maternity leave… She cannot get unemployment compensation under our laws, because the laws hold that she is not eligible for employment, being pregnant, and therefore is eligible for no unemployment compensation.”

For women with serious medical needs, she further noted: “There is no duty for employers to rehire women if they must drop out to carry a pregnancy to term. And, of course, this is especially hard on the many women in Texas who are heads of their own households and must provide for their already existing children.”

Weddington clearly saw the bind low-income women face when experiencing unplanned pregnancy: “At the same time, she can get no welfare to help her at a time when she has no unemployment compensation and she's not eligible for any help in getting a job to provide for herself.”

Weddington repeatedly said that women need “relief” from pregnancy, instead of arguing that women need relief from these injustices.

What if Weddington had used her legal acumen to challenge the system and address women’s needs?

By accepting pregnancy discrimination in school and workplace and the lack of support in society for pregnant women and parents, especially the poor, Weddington and the Supreme Court betrayed women and undermined the support women need and deserve.

Since then, millions of women have paid the price, struggling in school and the workplace without societal support. After all, when “it’s her body, it’s her choice,” it’s her problem.

According to the Guttmacher Institute, the research arm of Planned Parenthood, the largest provider of abortion in America, half of all abortions are performed on college-age women.

Since 1994, Feminists for Life has worked to address the unmet needs of pregnant and parenting students and staff on college campuses. For the past decade FFL’s Pregnancy Resource Forums on campuses across the country have revealed the still-unmet needs of pregnant and parenting students — especially a lack of housing, child care, telecommuting options, maternity coverage and medical riders for additional children. FFL found there is rarely a central place on campus for pregnancy and parenting resources. Even when resources are available, they are often not publicized. For pregnant and parenting students kept in the dark about the help they need and deserve, perception is their reality.

This March, which is Women’s History Month, Feminists for Life is helping college students make history for women by hosting Rallies for Resources on campuses across the country — so that women don’t feel driven to choose between sacrificing their children or their education and career plans.

The proposed Elizabeth Cady Stanton Pregnant and Parenting Student Services Act, a bipartisan effort led by Senators Elizabeth Dole and Ben Nelson and Representatives Marcy Kaptur and Sue Myrick, would make grants available for up to 200 colleges and universities to host pregnancy resource forums, create resource centers on campus, and communicate available support on and off campus.

There was one thing Weddington got right. “Whether she's unmarried; whether she's pursuing an education; whether she's pursuing a career; whether she has family problems; all of the problems of personal and family life, for a woman, are bound up in the problem of abortion.”

Abortion is a reflection that we have not met the needs of women.

Thirty-five years after Weddington capitulated to inherently unfair practices against pregnant and parenting women, those on both sides of the abortion debate should unite and say “no” to the status quo. Clearly women deserve better.

© 2008, Feminists for Life of America. This article may be reprinted in its entirety, including the author’s name and title, the organization name, and a link to www.feministsforlife.org.

The Guitierrez Abortion: Time for desperate measures

Carolina Gutierrez had turned 21 on January 17 of 1996, but she hadn't spent her birthday going out and getting her first legal drink. She hadn't been in a bar or a club with her friends. She hadn't been at home with her husband and kids. She had spent her birthday critically ill in an intensive care unit of a Miami hospital,where she had been since December 21, when her family had called an ambulance in their alarm over her difficulty breathing.

Carolina had tried for two days to contact Maber Medical Center, where whe had undergone an abortion on the 19th, over her husband's objections. Her calls had yielded nothing. The voice mails she left had gone unanswered. When somebody finally did pick up the phone, whoever it was had hung up on her. The young mother, who had no medical insurance, had been suffering from fever and pain since the evening of the 19th.

Carolina had arrived at the emergency room already in septic shock. Doctors had performed an emergency hysterectomy, trying to halt the spread of infection from her perforated uterus, but the sepsis raged on. By her birthday, her fingers and toes were going black with gangrene. Two days later it was clear that her feet were going to have to be amputated if she was to have any hope at all of surviving. But first they had to get her stable enough to survive the surgery.

While Carolina lay unconscious in the intentisve care unit, her two children from a previous relationship spent most of their time in the care of relatives as her husband, Jose Linarte, spent as much time as he could by her side, waiting and praying.

The kids had been without their mother for nearly a month. How much longer they'd be without her remained to be seen.

Searches: Assorted death and mayhem

Brevital complications. Fatal, during abortions: Suzanne Logan, Debra Gray, Tanya Williamson, Deanna Bell, and Venus Ortiz. That I know of.

Legal abortion clinics in Kentucky. Some winners: EMW Women's Surgical Center, a National Abortion Federation member that hired a security guard who turned out to be a rapist. There was Ronachai Banchongmanie, who wasn't too seedy a quack for the ACLU to go to bat for. Ralph Robinson worked at Chattanooga Women's Center -- a winning combination.

Abortion in 1940 remains a popular search. Let's look at the whole decade: While abortion was still illegal, there was a massive drop in maternal mortality from abortion. The death toll fell from 1,407 in 1940, to 744 in 1945, to 263 in 1950. Most researches attribute this plunge to the development of blood transfusion techniques and the introduction of antibiotics. The death I know of is Pauline Shirley, 1940, but we're taking NOW's word for it, and remember they claim that Becky Bell died from an illegal or self-induced abortion.

Valentine's Day murder: Well, I have John Baxter Hamilton (pictured), that compassionate provider of vital reproductive health care services, champion of women's lives, who bludgeoned his wife to death in their bathroom on Valentine's Day of 2001.

Abortion video. There's one here. And here (GRAPHIC! CLICK AT YOUR OWN RISK!):

Dr. Benjamin Munson was the South Dakota back-alley butcher who was magically converted to a provider of safe and legal abortion services by the Supreme Court in 1973. He promptly demonstrated how much better off women were by sending Linda Padfield home to die of a septic abortion. For an encore, he did the same thing to Yvonne Mesteth. I know of two other criminal abortionists whose practices were legalized by courts or legislators, and who thanked their benefactors by turning around and killing two abortion patients: Milan Vuitch did the fatal safe and legal abortions on Georgianna English and Wilma Harris, and Jesse Ketchum safely and legally performed fatal abortions on Margaret Smith and Carole Schaner.

Roundup: News in Kansas

Kansas Governor Sebelius chose somebody who doesn't have a huge financial connection to abortionist George Tiller as the new state Attorney General. The former AG, Paul Morrison, who got a huge financial and logistical campaign boost thanks to Tiller, was forced to resign in the wake of a sex scandal. Chris Biggs, who looked like a shoe-in for the empty post, found his own campaign coffers roughly $250,000 to the richer thanks to Tiller's influence with Kansas abortion-advocacy PACS. So Sebelius is learning to avoid at least the appearance of brazen corruption. Only time will tell if she has leanrned to shun the corruption itself.

Speaking of corruption:

From the Paging Captain Obvious files: Judge testifies Planned Parenthood records were falsified. The records were part of an investigation into whether or not PP was performing illegal third-trimester abortions: "... Judge Richard D. Anderson testified ... that he believed that medical records supplied to him by Planned Parenthood had been altered. Anderson further testified that he sought the opinion of a police handwriting expert, who confirmed his suspicions that information regarding the gestational age of pregnancies had been tampered with."

And while we're in Kansas, keep in mind when viewing this that Sebelius vetoed an abortion clinic clean-up bill:

Click here to see Troy Neuman taking Mark Crutcher on a tour of the vacated abortion clinic Operation Rescue bought. Mind you, this was a National Abortion Federation member facility. Photos from before OR removed the furnishings and abandoned medical records are here.

Searches: 18 weeks and Andre Nehorayoff

18-week fetus

Andre Nehorayoff is the legalized back-alley butcher who was responsible for the deaths of two patients, dubbed "Ellen" and "Faye". During a hearing about whether or not to yank his license, the medical board noted, "When asked about the cases where he was found negligent for not using laminaria, Dr. Nehorayoff said this was basically a result of his lack of knowledge of the proper use of this procedure, which was relatively new at that time. He explained that he subsequently worked as a volunteer for Planned Parenthood for a three month period (emphesis mine) and learned about the appropriate use of laminaria." What the heck was PP doing, letting this quack volunteer for them in a setting where he'd be evidently doing patient care, after he'd already killed two patients and nearly killed several others? Evidently he did manage to get his license back, because he seems to be practicing in New York. On the one hand, he seems to be following up on his promise to the medical board that he'd stop doing abortions. That's nice. But on the other hand, he's practicing obstetrics. I'd not trust him with my health or life or especially with my unborn baby. Can't this guy do hair transplants or something, where nobody's life is hanging in the balance?

And my on-site search engine is acting up again, so that's all for now. More later!

The Gutierrez Abortion: Not a happy birthday

On this date in 1996, Carolina Gutierrez's 21st birthday came and went as she remained critically ill in an intensive care unit of a Miami hospital. She had been hospitalized since December 21 of 1995, when her family had called an ambulance in their alarm over her difficulty breathing. Two days of trying to contact Maber Medical Center, where Carolina had undergone an abortion on the 19th, over her husband's objections, had yielded no help. The voice mails she left had gone unanswered. When somebody finally did pick up the phone, whoever it was had hung up on her. The young mother, who had no medical insurance, had been suffering from fever and pain since the evening of the 19th.

She had arrived at the emergency room already in septic shock. Doctors had performed an emergency hysterectomy, trying to halt the spread of infection from her perforated uterus, but the sepsis raged on.

Carolina spent her birthday as she had spent Christmas and New Year's: on a respirator, sepsis raging through her body. Her two children from a previous relationship spent most of their time in the care of relatives as her husband, Jose Linarte, spent as much time as he could by Carolina's side, waiting and praying.

The sepsis was getting worse. Carolina's fingers and toes were turning black with gangrene. But she was still hanging on, fighting for her life. The staff weren't going to give up on her.

Cincinnati City Beat still beating the Becky Bell drum

Abortion Advocates Still Peddle Misleading Story on Becky Bell's Death

Here's the email I sent:

Dear Mr. Fox:

I am highly disappointed to see that people are still believing the lies that the abortion lobby has generated about Becky Bell.

I have abstracted thousands of abortion malpractice cases and over a hundred autopsy reports on women and girls who have died from abortion complications. Becky Bell's autopsy report, which I have also read, clearly shows no signs whatsoever of post-abortion infection. What it shows is pneumonia, the same strain that killed Muppets creator Jim Henson.

Even Becky's parents admitted that she was still pregnant when they brought her to the hospital: the doctor told them he wasn't sure the baby would survive. Becky's best friend told a Reuter's reporter that Becky was still considering running away to a home for unwed mothers in California shortly before her death. Becky had brochures for that home in her purse when she died.

Becky's grief-stricken parents latched onto the word "abortion" on her autopsy report, evidently not realizing that this is the medical term for a miscarriage. Their confusion is understandable. That the abortion lobby decided to capitalize on their confusion is deplorable. That the news media never question the abortion lobby is inexcusable.

Meanwhile you continue to ignore teens who died of secret abortions. Dawn Ravenelle was 13 years old when her mother got a call to come to St. Luke's hospital, where Dawn was "fighting for her life". Erica Richardson's aunt arranged a secret abortion that left the girl dead from an embolism. Jammie Garcia probably would have survived the complications of her abortion had she not kept it a secret, thus delaying medical care until it was too late. Sandra Kaiser went into a terrible depression after her clandestine abortion and ended up committing suicide by throwing herself off an overpass into traffic. Tamiia Russell was brought for a secret abortion by the sister of the 24-year-old man who had been sexually abusing her. Why are these girls' deaths not newsworthy?

Becky Bell, who Planned Parenthood still drags out periodically, died in 1988 from an abortion that only took place in the heads of abortion profiteers. That same year, 17-year-old Teresa Causey died of an actual abortion that really did take place -- legally. Denise Montoya, age 15, met the same fate. As did Katrina Poole, age 16. And since then, safe and legal abortion has claimed the lives of other underage girls, including these that I know of:

1989: Glenna Jean Fox, age 17; Erica Richardson, age 16
1990: Sophie McCoy, age 17
1991: Latachie Veal, age 17
1992: Deanna Bell, age 13
1994: Jammie Garcia, age 15; Sara Niebel, age 15
1997: Maureen Espinoza, age 16
2004: Tamiia Russell, age 15

Why is it totally unacceptable for an underage girl to die from an illegal abortion that never happened, but a big fat yawn when girls die from abortions that they'd been told were perfectly safe?

Why the double standard?

I can understand why the abortion lobby has the attitude that Teresa, Denise, Katrina, Glenna, and the other girls are just so much grist for the abortion mill. But what excuse does City Beat have?

Christina Dunigan

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A joyful anniversary for a happy mommy

MommyLife shares an email:

One year ago today I got the phone call. The phone call that I was praying would be good news, and never thought in a million years would be bad. My Amino results were in "I'm sorry, your baby has Down syndrome."

One year ago today I was being held in my husband's arms, crying my heart out. Crying like I never cried before.

One year ago today I heard the dreaded offer "Have you considered terminating the pregnancy?" I felt ill.

One year ago today was the worse day of my life.

Today I woke up hearing "Coo, ah goo, baaaaaaaaaa" and looked over and saw an adorable baby grinning at me through the crib bars.

Today I got kisses and laughs and smiles and snuggles.

Today I felt more proud than I ever had before, seeing this little baby getting up on his hands and knees, getting stronger sitting unsupported and bursting with pride.

Today I wondered why I was so sad one year ago, as one year ago I received news that God has chosen me to receive the biggest blessing He could possibly give.

Searches: Abortion video, survivors, and some quacks

National Abortion Federation Hotline. These guys, who promise safety but simply give you a referral to a member, along with heartfelt assurances that all their members are top notch. Yeah, including the places that killed these women.

Dr. Kristin Neuhaus is the esrtwhile abortionist who rubber-stamps post-viability abortions for George Tiller.

Abortion survivors

Abortion video. There's one here. And here (GRAPHIC! CLICK AT YOUR OWN RISK!):

Philip Rand San Diego wife murdered. I hope not! But just for reference sake, here is who Rand is.

cheap abortion clinics in the new orleans area. Well, there was A. James Whitmore III, who got his license suspended for quackery. There was Sydney Knight, who killed Janet Blaum. As much as I don't recommend abortion in general, I'd have to specifically say to avoid the cut-rate fly-by-nights.

True-life abortion stories. Here every day. Keep coming back.

Anniversary: Doctor performs fatal abortion

On January 16, 1937, Dr. Samuel Roth performed an abortion in his office on a woman who then died. I have been unable to uncover her name. Roth's license was suspended at the time. He pleaded guilty to manslaughter on December 23, 1941, and was sentenced to a year in prison.



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Good news is always nice

There is one less seedy abortionist practicing in Michigan. The medical board yanked the license of Pornpichit Sethavarangura after a TV station's sting operation caught him on film offering illegal abortions for $150 a pop in his filthy, run-down Detroit abortion mill. The abortions in question were illegal because he violated state laws for informed consent and parental notification. He could possibly also face prison time for his crimes.

Sethavarangura, of course, treated this as a terrible blow for the women of Detroit. "They will miss me," he said.

Only if they have bad aim.

HT: Students for Life of Michigan

Searches: Quacks, deaths, etc.

Dr. Lou E. Davis of Chicago was arrested for the November 4, 1928, criminal abortion death of 22-year-old Anna Borndal.

"Malachi Dehenre killed wife". It certainly appears that he did, though he devoted his life to killing people much younger and managed in the process to kill Leigh Ann Stephens Alford.

Laura Hope Smith (pictured) died in September of 2007 of apparent anesthesia complications during an abortion performed by Dr. Rapin Osathanondh at his Massachusets practice, which he called Woman Health Center, probably to make it seem to be a clinic rather than an ordinary doctor's office.

"Dr. sella abortion"? Sella is one of Teflon Tiller's staff of "No Fetus Can Beat Us!" abortionists at his Wichita late term abortion mill. Michelle Armesto reports that it was Sella who did her abortion, an abortion she was only doing under intense and unrelenting pressure from her family, an abortion in the third trimester. Armesto also reports that Sella falsely charted her fetus as "non-viable," evidenly in a so-far-successful ploy to go through a loophole in the Kansas law violating post-viability abortions.

Anniversary: Unsafe abortion kills Ghanan immigrant

Eurice Agbagaa, a 26-year-old immigrant from Ghana, went to Abram Zelikman for an abortion on January 7, 1989. Zelikman estimated the pregnancy as 11 to 12 1/2 weeks. He performed the abortion at about 1PM, then sent Eurice to the recovery room.

Over the next 2 1/2 hours, Eurice bled so heavily that the receptionist, Yolanda Penalzer, became alarmed and asked Zelikman to do something. Zelikman told her that the bleeding was normal and that she should put an ice bag on the patient. He then left the facility, leaving Yolada to care for the patients in recovery.

Yolanda continued to be concerned about Eurice's bleeding, and tried repeatedly to reach Zelikman at his home, but couldn't contact him. Finally she called an ambulance. The ambulance crew found Yolanda performing CPR on Eurice, who was in shock. They were able to restore her breathing and transport her to a hospital, where an emergency hysterectomy was done. It was determined that Eurice had actually been at least 19 weeks pregnant. Eurice had a perforated uterus and severed abdominal artery.

Eurice survived the surgery and was put on life support, but remained in a coma until her death in the early morning of January 15.

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Searches: quacks, deaths, saline, etc.

Christine Mora died of overwhelming infection brought on by her safe and legal abortion at a Family Planning Associates Medical Group clinic.

Illegal abortion deaths.

Babies survive ectopics

""eve surgical center" abortion life -oriane" -- I assume this searcher wants information about Oriane Shevin, who died of sepsis after being given RU-486 by a member of the National Abortion Federation.

"Infection from abortion" -- Fatal.

Daniel McBrayer performed the abortion on Catherine Pierce, who languished from anesthesia complications in a nursing home before finally dying, leaving an 11-year-old girl without a mother.

18 week fetus

Malcom Knarr, an example of your basic seedy back alley abortionist practicing legally thanks to Roe vs. Wade

George Kabacy is the Planned Parenthood abortion doctor who pleaded guilty to possession of child porn involving bestiality and B&D. Charming man.

Saline abortions. Should be filed under "unsafe abortion" but gets treated with kid gloves because it's legal, don't you know, and therefore by definition "safe". Even if the woman dies.

Catherine Mau died in 1921 after an abortion at the hands of Chicago midwife Anna Heisler.

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Anniversary: Antiquated abortion technique proves fatal for teen

Christella Marie Forte, age 16, screamed, convulsed, and went into cardiac arrest 27 hours after instillation of saline for an abortion. at New Centre Hospital on January 14, 1986. She died without ever expelling the 23-week fetus.

The concentrated salt solution that had been injected into Christella's uterus to kill the fetus got into her bloodstream, poisoning her and causing cardiac arrest. Strangely, her death certificate lists her manner of death as "natural," rather than "accidental."

A medical journal article that appears to be about Cristella's death says that she was an obese Black girl experiencing her first pregnancy. The article gives the gestational age as 21.5 weeks. Nothing seemed to have gone wrong with the injection, until 26 hours afterward when she "complained of severe abdominal cramps with projectile expulsion of amniotic fluid. Generalized convulsions and shaking followed and the patient went into shock. Death occurred within 2 hours."

"At autopsy, microscopic examination of lungs revealed pulmonary edema with marked vascular congestion..... Positive test results ... confirmed a diagnosis of amniotic fluid embolism. There was marked congestion of the blood vessels of the kidneys, liver, brain, and spleen."

What is particularly disgusting about Christella's death is how utterly needless it was: saline abortions had been discredited as far too dangerous for over a decade. The documents surrounding her death do not explain why her abortionist chose an outdated, high-risk procedure for his young patient.

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Anniversary: RU-486 from NAF member proves fatal for young woman

Twenty-two-year-old Chanelle Bryant was given the drugs for a chemical abortion at a Family Planning Associates Medical Group facility in California. She was instructed to use the prostaglandin as a suppository, rather than take an oral prostaglandin. This off-label use is being investigated by the CDC and FDA after Chanelle and four other US women died of infection after RU-486 abortions.

Chanelle suffered terrible pain four days after self-administering the medication. She sought emergency care at Huntington Memorial Hospital. Her condition deteriorated, and she wtas transferred to the intensive care unit at 1:20 PM. At 4:11 she went into cardiac arrest. She was taken into surgery at 5:27 to try to identify the source of her problems. Ten minutes into surgery she went into cardiac arrest again. She was pronounced dead at 5:51.

Chanelle had been perfectly healthy before her abortion, according to her mother, Lynn Bryant. She told reporters that it was vital for medical professionals to be educated about the dangers of chemical abortions to prevent further maternal deaths.

Chanelle was about nine weeks pregnant when she went to the Glendale FPA owned by the infamous Edward "Fast Eddie" Allred. The coroner;s report attributed her death, January 14, 2004, to "sepsis and pneumonia due to Endomyometritis with abcess formation due to Termination of Pregnancy."

Thus Chanelle joined the sad ranks of women known to have died after FPA abortions: Denise Holmes, Mary Pena, Josefina Garcia, Lanice Dorsey, Joyce Ortenzio, Tami Suematsu, Christina Mora, Susan Levy, Patricia Chacon, Kimberly Neil, and Deanna Bell.

FPA is a member of the National Abortion Federation, an organization that ostensibly ensures that abortions are done safely.



Other women who have died after using the abortion cocktail include Holly Patterson, Cherish Roe, Tara Roe, Wanda Roe, Oriane Shevin
, Vivian Tran, and Brenda Vise.

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God's own acid trip

More evidence that the whole "monkeys and typewriters" thing makes as much sense as "The earth is carried on the back of a giant turtle." SOMEBDODY had to have come up with this. And whatever He was smoking, I want some:

Anniversary: Disabled teen dies from abortion at Teflon Tiller's facility

Christin Gilbert, a 19-year-old developmentally disabled woman, was brought from Texas to George Tiller‘s Wichita abortion facility for a late abortion. Christin had Down Syndrome and was legally incompetent, unable to give her consent.

Christin had been raised by her family in a small Texas town, according to Operation Rescue West. She was mainstreamed into her local high school, where she served as a bat girl for the softball team. She graduated in 2004.

During the abortion, something went wrong. Tiller employee Marguerite Reed called 911. From the ambulance dispatch sheet, obtained by Operation Rescue West:

• CP VERY EVASIVE; PUT ON HOLD
  
• CP REFUSED TO GIVE ANY INFORMATION, JUST SAYING NEED EMS
  
• The caller is with the patient. She does not have chest pain. She is completely awake (alert). She has not fainted. She has pain above the belly button (navel).
  

Remember, these quotes are from the dispatch sheet. It was the caller, Marguerite Reed, who reported that Christin had no chest pain, abdominal pain above the navel, that Christin was alert and had not fainted. The investigation revealed that Christin was in fact in cardiac arrest when the call was made. LeRoy Carhart was performing CPR on a clinically dead patient, and the EMS services are being misled, told that she's alert.

Giving false information about a patient's condition to 911 can jeopardize the patient's life, because it can lead to inadequate help being sent. In a life-threatening situation, the patient needs the care of a medic. If the caller leads 911 staff to believe that the call is a routine transfer, only EMTs may be sent, meaning that there will be nobody on the ambulance crew qualified to perform intubations or to use a defibrillator.

Operation Rescue West documented Christin's transport by ambulance from Tiller's facility to Wesley Medical Center on January 13, 2005, and verified that she died of abortion complications later that day. Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline also confirmed this.

Tiller is a member of the National Abortion Federation.



Tiller allegedly justified performing an abortion on Christin on the grounds that it was necessary to preserve her health or life. I find this claim to be highly dubious. Had the pregnancy posed a threat to Christin‘s life or health, it could have been terminated within an hour by performing an emergency c-section in any properly-equipped obstetric ward. How it was supposed to preserve Christin‘s life or health to instead drive her past any number of hospitals into another state, and to perform a three-day procedure with the patient spending the bulk of her time in a motel room under the supervision of only her parents is a mystery.

Operation Rescue West has confirmed that Tiller has an arrangement with erstwhile abortionist Kristin Neuhaus, who is no longer permitted to perpetrate abortion in Kansas due to gross irregularities in her practice. Tiller provides a space in his facility for Neuhaus to meet with the patients, who pay her with a separate check. Neuhaus then rubber-stamps their "need" for an abortion.

Christin's was not the only tragic death caused by doctors who recommended (or excused) abortion as a life-saving or health-preserving option for the mother:

• Allegra Roseberry was pushed into an abortion in order to obtain experimental cancer treatment.
  
• Anjelica Duarte sought an abortion on the advice of her physician, and ended up dying under the care of a quack.
  
• Barbara Hoppert died after an abortion recommended due to a congenital heart problem.
  
• Erika Peterson died in 1961 when her doctors obtained her husband‘s permission to perform a &quo;therapeutic&quo; abortion.
  
• "Molly" Roe died in 1975 when her doctors made the dubious decision to perform a saline abortion to improve her chances of surviving a lupus crisis.

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Search: Delta Women's Center, New Orleans

Delta Women's Center, New Orleans, is one of three independently-operated abortion centers owned by Richardson P. Glidden.

Delta of Baton Rouge was gutted by fire in 2001. The fire was ruled accidental, due to an electrical problem. The owner of the building had filed suit alleging that the performance of abortions on the premises resulted in the loss of fire and hazard insurance, threatening the owner's mortgage; Delta and Glidden were informed of such but failed to cease performing abortions, in violation of the lease. (Baton Rouge Parish Case No. 299277)

Ingar Weber died after an abortion at Delta in 1990. Sheila Hebert died after an abortion there in 1984.

Delta's abortionist, James Whitmore III, lost his license to practice medicine in 2002. The board had found Whitmore guilty of disregarding basic santitation, being rude to patients, and failing to provide proper care to a woman whose uterus he had perforated during an abortion. The woman ended up needing a hysterectomy. The board found that Whitmore used improperly sterilized equipment, reused single-use items, and let tissue float in the sterilizing solution. Whitmore had previously been on probation for three years beginning in 1992, after his actions led to the death of one post-term infant and the permanent injury of a pre-term infant.

To learn more about this fairly seedy abortion mill -- excuse me, provider of vital women's reproductive health care services -- read this.

Anniversary: Bled to death from safe and legal abortion

Shirley Williams was 30 years old when she underwent a safe, legal abortion in Louisiana in January of 1980. She suffered from infection and hemorrhage afterward. On January 12, 1980, she was pronounced dead, from hemorrhage.

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Anniversary: Criminal abortionist kills patient after legalization

Former criminal abortionist Milan Vuitch had been operating his clinic without a license for two years when 32-year-old Georgianna "Jeannie" English came to him for an abortion on January 12, 1980.

Vuitch administered general anesthsia for Jeannie, and she never woke up. She was transported to a nearby hospital where she died. Vuitch settled with Jeannie's family for $150,000. When Vuitch was investigated, it was discovered that he kept patients overnight in his home (an unlicensed facility) which he designated "The Annexe." Inspectors also noted repeated violations of medical standards regarding sanitation and anesthesia. Vuitch also admitted during another case that he had lacked hospital admitting privileges since 1963.

Vuitch was also responsible for the 1974 abortion death of 17-year-old Wilma Harris.

Vuitch is one of three abortionists I know of who started out as criminal abortionists with clean records -- no patient deaths attributed to them -- who went on to kill two patient by performing the supposedly safer legal abortions. They are Jesse Ketchum (Margaret Smith and Carole Schaner) and Benjamin Munson (Linda Padfield and Yvonne Mesteth).

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While you're at March for Life

Let's remember the women for whom abortion was the final choice, often in a lifetime of tragic choices.

You can help drive home the message that the abortion lobby isn't about saving women's lives. Choose a woman or girl from the list below, perhaps choosing one from near your home, or who died when she was your age or your daughter's age, or who would be the same age as you had she not trusted the abortion lobby when she was feeling frightened and alone. Pick somebody you relate to, whose story you can learn and be ready to share.

Make a simple tombstone-style sign with a piece of foam board from an office supply store. Just use a razor knife to cut the top off in a semi-circle. Print out the woman's name, age, place and date of death, and cause of death -- Safe and Legal Abortion -- to glue on the front. (I recommend the expensive artists' spray adhesive, also available at office supply stores; it prevents wrinkling and holds in damp weather.) Print out her story to put on the back. If she's a local woman, check the library for old articles from newspapers that you can also include on the back. It always gives you more credibility, and makes your witness more powerful, when you have lots of documentation. Some coverage includes photos of the unfortunate women and/or their devastated families to drive the point home that these were real women and girls and that their lives mattered, and that their deaths should matter as well.

If this is a bit more than you have the time, energy, or artistic talent for, you can order a Tombstone Project Poster from Life Dynamics. I recommend mounting it on a piece of foam board for the March. Print out one of the women's stories (available here) for the back.

These signs are a powerful witness to the destruction of abortion. It bears repeating: The abortion lobby isn't about saving women's lives. It's about a political agenda.

Laws don't kill women. Abortionists do.

1. Diane Adams, 28, died 1992
   
2. Eurice Agbagaa, 26, died 1989
   
3. Leigh Ann Alford, 34, died 2003
   
4. Demitrice Andews, 22, died 1988
   
5. Mickey Apodaca, 28, died 1984
   
6. Gloria Aponte, 20, died 1986
   
7. Charisse Ards, 20, died 1989
   
8. Barbara Auerbach, 38, died 1981
   
   
9. KB, age 19, died 1988
   
10. Jacqueline Bailey, 29, died 1977
    
11. Brenda Banks, 35, died 1989
    
12. Myrta Baptiste, 26, died 1989
    
13. Lisa Bardsley, 26, died 1995
    
14. Junette Barnes, 27, died 1988
    
15. Deanna Bell, 13, died 1992
    
16. Brenda Benton, 35, died 1987
    
17. Rosario Bermeo, 30, died 1983
    
18. Janet Blaum, 37, died 1974
    
19. Cassandra Bleavins, 20, died 1971
    
20. Linda Boom, 35, died 1995
    
21. Diane Boyd, 19, died 1981
    
22. Mary Bradley, 41, died 1985
    
23. Dorothy Brown, 37, died 1974
    
24. Chanelle Bryant, 22, died 2004
    
25. Dorothy Bryant, 22, died 1986
    
26. Belinda Byrd, 37, died 1987
    
    
27. Janeth Caldwell, 36, died 1987
    
28. Geneva Calton, 21, died 1979
    
29. Joan Camp, 22, died 1985
    
30. Marla Cardamone, 18, died 1989
    
31. Teresa Causey, 17, died 1988
    
32. Claudia Caventou, 33, died 1988
    
33. Patricia Chacon, 16, died 1984
    
34. Colleen Chambers, 34, died 1984
    
35. Sandra Chmiel, 35, died 1975
    
36. Gwendolyn Cliett, 29, died 1980
    
37. Margaret Clodfelter, 19, died 1980
    
38. Pamela Colson, 31, died 1994
    
39. Geneva Colton, 21, died 1979
    
40. Andrea Corey, 31, died 1993
    
41. Liliana Cortez, 22, died 1986
    
42. Edith Cote, 38, died 1991
    
43. Sheryl Cottone, 23, died 1981
    
44. Twila Coulter, 21, died 1972
    
45. Carol Cunningham, 21, died 1986
    
    
46. Betty Damato, 26, died 1980
    
47. Mary Ann Dancy, 32, died 1990
    
48. Angel Dardie, 22, died 1982
    
49. Barbaralee Davis, 18, died 1977
    
50. Glenda Davis, 31, died 1989
    
51. Kathy Davis, 26, died 1987
    
52. Margaret Davis, 33, died 1971
    
53. Sharon Davis, 17, died 1983
    
54. Marina DeChapel, 34, died 1978
    
55. Arlin dela Cruz, age 19, died 1992
    
56. Synthia Dennard, 24, died 1989
    
57. Alerte Desanges, 36, died 1994
    
58. Barbara Dillon, 22, died 1981
    
59. Jane Doe of Newark, 20, died 1993
    
60. Laniece Dorsey, 17, died 1986
    
61. Tamika Dowdy, 22, died 1998
    
62. Gwendolyn Drummer, 15, died 1972
    
63. Duarte, Anjelica, 21, died 1991
    
64. Evelyn Dudley, 38, died 1973
    
    
65. Sherry Emry, 26, died 1978
    
66. Georgianna English, 32, died 1980
    
67. Maureen Espinoza, 16, died 1997
    
68. Gladyss Estanlisao, 28, died 1989
    
    
69. Erna Fisher, 18, died 1988
    
70. Bonnie Fix, 38, died 1974
    
71. Sharon Floyd, 18, died 1975
    
72. Linda Fondren, 21, died 1974
    
73. Janet Forster, 18, died 1971
    
74. Cristella Forte, 16, died 1986
    
75. Glenna Jean Fox, 17, died 1989
    
    
76. Jammie Garcia, 14, died 1994
    
77. Josefina Garcia, died 1985
    
78. Marie Gibson, 34, died 1980
    
79. Christen Gilbert, 19, died 2005
    
80. Kathleen Gilbert, 29, died 1985
    
81. Christina Goesswein, 19, died 1990
    
82. Gaylene Golden, 21, died 1985
    
83. Maria Gomez, 39, died 1976
    
84. Edrica Goode, 21, died 2007
    
85. Shary Graham, 34, died 1982
    
86. Doris Grant, 32, died 1971
    
87. Debra Gray, 34, died 1989
    
88. Laura Grunas, 30, died 2006
    
89. Carolina Gutierrez, 21, died 1996
    
    
90. Angela Hall, 27, died 1991
    
91. Sharon Hamplton, 27, died 1996
    
92. Arneta Hardaway, 18, died 1985
    
93. Gracalynn "Tammy" Harris, 19, died 1997
    
94. Wilma Harris, 17, died 1974
    
95. L'Echelle Head, 21, died 2000
    
96. Sheila Hebert, 27, died 1984
    
97. Donna Heim, 20, died 1986
    
98. Lou Ann Herron, 33, died 1998
    
99. Moris Helen Herron, 26, died 1983
    
100. Rhonda Hess, 20, died 1982
     
101. Betty Hines, 21, died 1971
     
102. Shirley Hollis, 30, died 1991
     
103. Denise Holmes, 24, died 1970
     
104. Barbara Hoppert, 16, died 1983
     
     
105. Mary Ives, 28, died 1983
     
     
106. Karretu Jabbie, 24, died 1989
     
107. Louchrisser Jackson, 23, died 1977
     
     
108. Sandra Kaiser, 14, died 1984
     
109. Patricia King, 24, died 1987
     
     
110. Giselene Lafontant, 25, died 1993
     
111. Minnie Lathan, 41, died 1978
     
112. Barbara Lerner, 30, died 1981
     
113. Susan Levy, 30, died 1992
     
114. Cora Lewis, 23, died 1992
     
115. Sara Lint, 22, died 1970
     
116. Maria Lira, 19, ded 1974
     
117. Suzanne Logan, 34, died 1992
     
118. Diana Lopez, 25, died 2002
     
119. Linda Lovelace, 21, died 1980
     
120. Elva Lozada, died 1964
     
121. Deborah Lozinski, 17, died 1985
     
     
122. Dawn Mack, 21, died 1991
     
123. Michelle Madden, 18, died 1986
     
124. Sharon Margrove, 25, died 1970
     
125. Haley Mason, 22, died 2001
     
126. Gail Mazo, 27, died 1979
     
127. Sophie McCoy, 17, died 1990
     
128. Rita McDowell, 16, died 1975
     
129. Myria McFadden, 28, died 1987
     
130. Evangeline McKenna, 38, died 1974
     
131. Kathy McKnight, 36, died 1993
     
132. Kendra McLeod, 22, died 1998
     
133. Lynn McNair, 24, died 1979
     
134. Dawn Mendoza, 28, died 1988
     
135. Yvonne Mesteth, 18, died 1985
     
136. Natalie Meyers, 16, died 1972
     
137. Sandra Milton, 23, died 1990
     
138. Mitsue Mohar, 31, died 1975
     
139. Ruth Montero, 23, died 1979
     
140. Denise Montoya, 15, died 1988
     
141. Beverly Moore, 15, died 1975
     
142. Sylvia Moore, 18, died 1986
     
143. Christine Mora, 18, died 1994
     
144. Maura Morales, 25, died 1981
     
145. Shelby Moran, 60, died 1999
     
146. Katherine Morse, 20, died 1970
     
147. Kelly Morse, 32, died 1992
     
148. Loretta Morton, 16, died 1984
     
149. Kathy Murphy, 17, died 1973
     
150. Dorothy Muzorewa, 25, died 1974
     
     
151. Guadalupe Negron, 33, died 1993
     
152. Kimberly Neil, died 2000
     
153. Germaine Newman, 14, died 1984
     
154. Sara Niebel, 15, died 1994
     
     
155. Maria Ortega, 23, died 1970
     
156. Joyce Ortenzio, 32, died 1988
     
157. Venus Ortiz, 29, died 1998
     
     
158. Linda Padfield, 28, died 1973
     
159. Mary Ann Page, 36, died 1977
     
160. Mary Paredez, 26, died 1977
     
161. Holly Patterson, 18, died 2003
     
162. Shirley Payne, 33, died 1983
     
163. Mary Pena, 43, died 1984
     
164. DaNette Pergusson, 19, died 1992
     
165. Erika Peterson, 28, died 1961
     
166. Katherine Pierce, 27, died 1989
     
167. Katrina Poole, 16, died 1988
     
168. Yvette Poteat, 26, died 1985
     
169. Vanessa Preston, 22, died 1980
     
     
170. Dawn Ravenell, 13, died 1985
     
171. Jacqueline Reynolds, 22, died 1986
     
172. Erica Richardson, 16, died 1989
     
173. Luz Rodriguez, 40, died 1986
     
174. Magdalena Rodriguez, 23, died 1994
     
175. Rosael Rodriguez, 21, died 1986
     
     
176. Adelle Roe, age 26, died 2002
     
177. Amanda Roe, 19, died 1970
     
178. Alice Roe, 31, died 1970
     
179. Amy Roe, 35, died 1971
     
180. Annie Roe, 29, died 1971
     
181. Andrea Roe, 26, died 1971
     
182. Anita Roe, 23, died 1971
     
183. April Roe, 17, died 1971
     
184. Audrey Roe, 44, died 1971
     
     
185. Barbara Roe, 35, died 1971
     
186. Becky Roe, 18, died 1971
     
187. Beth Roe, 35, died 1971
     
188. Betty Roe, 29, died 1974
     
189. Beverly Roe, 21, died 1978
     
190. Brenda Roe, 31, died 1974
     
     
191. Cherish Roe, died 2005
     
192. Christi Roe, 29, died 1972
     
193. Cindy Roe, 25, died 1972
     
194. Colleen Roe, 31, died 1972
     
195. Connie Roe, 31, died 1972
     
     
196. Danielle Roe, 18, died 1972
     
197. Dawn Roe, 29, died 1972
     
198. Denise Roe, 27, died 1977
     
199. Donna Roe, 18, died 1973
     
200. Dorothy Roe, 44, died 1973
     
     
201. Eleanor Roe, 20, died 1973
     
202. Ellen Roe #1, 22, died 1974
     
203. Ellen Roe #2, 18, died 1983
     
204. Erica Roe, 20, died 1974
     
     
205. Faith Roe, 21, died 1974
     
206. Faye Roe, 18, died 1979
     
     
207. Gail Roe, 23, died 1975
     
208. Gloria Roe, 35, died 1976
     
     
209. Isabel Roe, died 1981
     
     
210. Judy Roe, 42, died 1970
     
211. Julie Roe, 14, died 1972
     
     
212. Kimberly Roe, 25, died 1970
     
     
213. Lori Roe, 17, died 1970
     
     
214. Malorie Roe, 35, died 1974
     
215. Mary Roe, 19, died 1971
     
216. Melissa Roe, 27, died 1992
     
217. Molly Roe, 21, died 1975
     
218. Monica Roe, 31, died 1971
     
     
219. Nadine Roe, 32, died 1978
     
220. Nancy Roe, 16, died 1972
     
     
221. Pamela Roe, 38, died 1974
     
222. Patricia Roe, 16, died 1975
     
     
223. Robin Roe, 21, died 1972
     
224. Roseanne Roe, 37, died 1971
     
225. Roxanne Roe, 17, died 1972
     
     
226. Sandra Roe, 18, died 1971
     
227. Sara Roe, 22, died 1972
     
228. Serena Roe, 22, died 1980
     
229. Sherri Roe, 20, died 1975
     
230. Sheryl Roe, 23, died 1970
     
231. Susan Roe, 21, died 1992
     
     
232. Tammy Roe, 33, died 1971
     
233. Tara Roe, died 2005
     
234. Teresa Roe, 19, died 1974
     
235. Terri Roe, 43, died 1991
     
     
236. Vanessa Roe, 35, died 1973
     
237. Vicki Roe, 23, died 1971
     
     
238. Wanda Roe, died 2006
     
239. Wendy Roe, 23, died 1972
     
     
240. Yvonne Roe, 19, died 1999
     
     
241. Julia Rogers, 20, died 1973
     
242. Rhonda Rollinson, 32, died 1992
     
243. Allegra Roseberry, 41, died 1988
     
244. Sharonda Rowe, 17, died 1981
     
245. Rhonda Ruggiero, 29, died 1982
     
246. Stacy Ruckman, 23, died 1988
     
247. LaSandra Russ, 20, died 1971
     
248. Tamia Russell, 15, doed 2004
     
     
249. F.S., 16, died 1970
     
250. Stella Saenz, 42, died 1968
     
251. Angela Sanchez, 27, died 1993
     
252. Angela Satterfield, 23, died 1990
     
253. Carole Schaner, 37, died 1971
     
254. Angela Scott, 19, died 1979
     
255. Oriene Shevin, 34, died 2005
     
256. Gloria Small, 43, died 1978
     
257. Deloris Smith, 15, died 1979
     
258. Diane Smith, 23, died 1976
     
259. Laura Hope Smith, 22, died 2007
     
260. Margaret Smith, 24, died 1971
     
261. Teresa Smith, 31, died 1988
     
262. Laura Sorrels, 30, died 1988
     
263. Kathryn Strong, 26, died 1972
     
264. Jennifer Suddeth, 17, died 1982
     
265. Tami Suematsu, 19, died 1988
     
     
266. Yvonne Tanner, 22, died 1984
     
267. Michelle Thames, 18, died 1987
     
268. Ingrid Thomas, 28, died 1994
     
269. Magnolia Thomas, 36, died 1986
     
270. Hoa Thuy "Vivian" Tran, 22, died 2003
     
271. Elizabeth Tsuji, 21, died 1978
     
272. Cheryl Tubbs, 29, died 1975
     
     
273. Iris Valazquez, 20, died 1987
     
274. Cycloria Vangates, 32, died 1976
     
275. Veal, Latachie, 17, died 1991
     
276. Brenda Vise, 38, died 2002
     
277. Cheryl Vosseler, 17, died 1969
     
278. Gail Vroman, 20, died 1979
     
     
279. Pamela Wainwright, 37, died 1987
     
280. Lynette Wallace, 22, died 1975
     
281. Debra Walton, 35, died 1989
     
282. Nicey Washington, 26, died 2000
     
283. Sheila Watley, 31, died 1987
     
284. Diane Watson, 27, died 1987
     
285. Ingar Weber, 28, died 1991
     
286. Robin Wells, 27, died 1981
     
287. Chivon Williams, died 1996
     
288. Ellen Williams, 38, died 1985
     
289. Nichole Williams, 22, died 1997
     
290. Sandra Williams, 30, died 1984
     
291. Shirley Williams, 30, died 1980
     
292. Tanya Williamson, 28, died 1996
     
293. Carole Wingo, 22, died 1974
     
294. Virginia Wolfe, 33, died 1998
     
295. Darlene Wood, 23, died 1982
     
296. Gail Wright, 29, died 1986
     
     
297. Stacy Zallie, 20, died 2002

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FoxNews trying to generate abortion revenue

FOXSexpert: Five Ways to Get Her Into Bed

In a nutshell: Get her drunk then act like Bill Murry in "Groundhog Day" BEFORE he learned to be a decent human being.

Just what we need. One more media outlet sending the message that women are ambulatory sex toys that exist purely to gratify men.

Interesting anniversary

On this day in 1989, then Surgeon-General C. Everett Koop told his staff to drop the research on abortion's health impact on women he'd had them initiate in order to go though the motions he thought would satisfy President Reagan. Reagan had instructed Koop to perpare a report on the effects of abortion on women, a task Koop felt was morally problematic because it shifted the focus off the fact that abortion kills babies.

Koop's staffer, George Walter, drafted and relased a report anyway, hence the abortion lobby's claims that there is a "Koop report" that touts how safe abortion is.

Things we do for love redux

The "Please, let me have a man, any man" mentality has cost four more children their lives, as their drug-addicted scumbag of a father hurled them off a bridge, evidently to get back at his wife after an argument:

Police: Man Throws 4 Kids Off Bridge

Yes, what he did was absolutely deplorable. But he'd not have had access to the kids to toss them off a bridge if his wife hadn't been willing to put up with him just to have a man in her life.

I collect other teachers' cast-off magazines for the kids to make collages. And the magazines in question make me sick: It's all fashion and makeup and how to get a man. This is equally true of the Korean and the English magazines, though frankly the Korean magazines are worse in that they devote entire sections to the latest plastic surgery trends. Including -- I'm not making this up -- how shop for a surgeon to provide you with perkier nipples.

Where is there diddly-squat about having a life that doesn't revolve around getting sexual attention from somebody with a penis?

Career? It all relates to how to attract a man. Health? Look better, get a buffer man! Travel? How to meet men while globe-trotting. Education? Will it impress him?

And there's nothing about the quality of the man in question, though of course a rich, handsome one is preferred. The most anybody seems to ask is that he doesn't cheat on you.

We have got to offset this poison somehow.

Searches: 20 week abortions, air embolism, and P. Scott Ricke

Abortion 20 week fetus

Actual abortion video. Two abortions, actually, in the late second trimester. Think of it as a companion piece to the 20-week abortion information above.

18 week fetus

Self-induced fatal air embolism -- performing a home abortion in the garage with an air compressor.

P. Scott Ricke -- the abortionist who got his hand stuck in a patient.

Anniversary: Septic legal abortion kills New Mexico teen

Sharon Davis was a 17-year-old high school student, 14 weeks pregnant, when she submitted to an abortion at a hospital in Tucumcari, New Mexico on September 20, 1982. Her uterus and bowel were perforated, and she developed an infection. For over three months, she was treated for her infection before it finally killed her on January 9, 1983.

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Searches: infection, Josepha Seletz, Diane Watson, adaptation in pregnancy

Infection after abortion

Josepha Seletz

Diane Watson, Chicago

Normal adaptation in pregnancy

The Spanish abortion video, with English subtitles

WARNING: EXTREMELY GRAPHIC! This video shows the woman expelling the fetus and the dead baby being examined by the undercover investigator.



Every place I know of in the US has the woman go alone into the bathroom and expel the dead baby in the toilet. Other than that, the process seems pretty much the same, right down to rubber-stamping the paperwork if the state has a requirement that there be some pretext of a health reason.

HT: Bold Truth

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Anniversary: Safe and lethal abortion in Rhode Island

Twenty-five-year-old Rita Goncalves took ill after her safe and legal abortion in late 1983. At some point after her abortion, she was taken to Roger Williams General Hospital in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. There, she died on January 8, 1984, from abortion complications.

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Anniversary: "Licence to Lie" doc Hodari's care kills 15-year-old statutory rape victim

As 2004 got started, 15-year-old Tamiia Russell was pregnant as a result of statutory rape. Her "boyfriend" was 24 years old. He recruited his sister to get rid of his problem. She took Tamiia to five different Detroit area abortion facilities, which turned her away because of how advanced the pregnancy was. One even offered the girl prenatal care and vitamins. But the abuser's sister hit pay dirt on January 7 at Womancare Clinic in Lanthrup Village, a National Abortion Federation member.



Staff at Womancare Clinic inserted laminaria to dilate Tamiia's cervix and prepare her for the actual abortion to be performed the following day.

Upon returning home, Tamiia told her mother and aunt what was happening. They contacted WomanCare, asking to have the laminaria removed because Tamiia did not want the abortion. Staff lied, telling the family that removing the laminaria would kill the girl. So, the next day, Tamiia went through with the procedure, performed by Dr. Alberto Hodari (pictured).

Tamiia bled heavily after coming home froom the abortion on January 8. She bled so heavily that the blood soaked a mattress. Her family called WomanCare, and were reassured that Tamiia's bleeding was normal. But rather than take their advice and do nothing, Tamiia's family called an ambulance. She was dead on arrival at the hospital despite paramedics' attempts to save her.

Dr. Leigh Hlavaty, who performed the autopsy on Tamiia, attributed her death to "uterine infarction with sepsis due to status second trimester abortion." Hlavaty said, "I ruled it normal because these complications are expected with this type of abortion."

Hodari was also implicated in the death of Chivon Williams. Dr. Miller, director of Citizens for a Pro-life Society, reports that there have been 23 lawsuits in the past 20 years against WomanCare facilities and Alberto Hodari, for abortion injuries including complications resuting on hysterectomies on 19, 22, and 23-year-old women. All were dismissed, with many referring to undisclosed settlements.

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Anniversary: Doctor performs fatal criminal abortion

On January 7, 1901, Mrs. Julia K. Pettinger died in her home from an abortion performed there that day. Dr. Maggie Becker was arrested April 24, based on a coroner's verdict that same day. Becker was held to grand jury, tried, convicted, and sentenced to 14 years in Joilet Penitentiary.

Julia's abortion was typical of the back-alley abortion in that it was performed by a physician.



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Searches: 18 weeks, 20 weeks, quacks, teens, and anesthesia deaths

There were searches for "20 week pregnancy" and "20 week fetus". Here's where abortion fits into the picture.

"Home abortion". My, doesn't that sound... cozy. Like "home birth" or "homeschooling" or "home sweet home". Not!

"Teen abortion stories": My collection of stories. And these from TeenBreaks.

"Ulrich George Klopfer" Ding! Ding! Ding! You've picked a WINNER!

"18 week fetus"

"anesthesia deaths"

"Robert F. Meger" Charming man.

Too cruel for killers, just right for babies

Supreme Court to Hear Case on Constitutionality of Lethal Injection:

There's been an effective moratorium on executions since a court held that the potassium chloride -- used to stop the inmate's heart after he's been anesthetized and paralyzed -- is far too painful. The so-far successful argument against using this drug on ciminals is "if the intended dose of thiopental [to anesthetize the condemned prisoner] is not injected successfully, or does not bring about general anesthesia, the inmate will experience both the terror and agony of conscious suffocation and the excruciating pain caused by the potassium, but will appear peaceful and unconscious to observers."

Most late term abortionists use this same drug, potassium chloride, to perform the injection that kills a fetus whose only crime is to be alive at what his mother considers a bad time, or perhaps whose crime is that she has a disability. The fetuses in question are old enough that if they were outside the uterus, they'd be in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, in an incubator, being provided with care and comfort. That's why they're given the lethal injection in the first place: to make sure that they come out dead, lest the mother be stuck with a live baby in a NICU when she paid good money for a dead fetus in a pathology bucket. Because mom's choice is death, not life, these babies get a death considered too cruel for a man who chose to kill, who had a battery of attorneys appealing his case, who had due process for a decade or more.

Where's the effective moratorium against this cruel and unusual practice?

We're told that the death penalty is necessary for fetuses because of the distress their existence causes their mothers. Why does the distress of one woman trump the child's life, when the distress of all the families and friends of all the victims does not trump the murderer's life?

Prolifers are pretty effectively split on the death penalty. Personally, you could either describe me as "opposed except in certain specific instances" or "favoring but only in certain specific instances". I think it should be a last resort used only if the criminal in question chooses to remain a threat to other people's lives even when incarcerated, either by remaining violent, by being an escape risk, or by being violent toward others while in prison.

I can understand total opposition to the death penalty, though I can only really respect the total opposition when it comes from a "seamless garment" prolifer.

For anybody to look at somebody who cold-bloodedly slaughters his fellow human beings and say that he is entitled to a million times more compassion than a disabled child is staggering.

If it's too cruel for a murderer, why is it "compassionate" to do it to a child?

If society has no right to kill predators who threaten the lives of innocent citizens, why does anybody have the right to demand the death of a child whose only crime is to be disabled or to be the son or dauther of a mother who decides she doesn't want to parent right now?

How can anybody justify that double standard, where what's a public service when you do it to a baby is a hideous outrage against humanity when you do it to somebody who makes a habit of taking other people's lives?

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Search: Delta Women's Clinic of Baton Rouge

Another search was for Delta Women's Clinic of Baton Rouge. This clinic was one of three independently operated facilities under same ownership. The others were in Gulfport, MS and New Orleans LA. The Baton Rouge facility was gutted by fire in 2001. The fire was ruled accidental, due to an electrical problem. The owner of the building had filed suit alleging that the performance of abortions on the premises resulted in the loss of fire and hazard insurance, threatening the owner's mortgage; Delta and Glidden were informed of such but failed to cease performing abortions, in violation of the lease. (Baton Rouge Parish Case No. 299277)

Ingar Weber died after an abortion at Delta in 1990. Sheila Hebert died after an abortion there in 1984.

News coverage also has been ignoring the fact that Planned Parenthood stopped referring women to Baton Rouge Delta after a teen-ager said the doctor walked out of the room during her abortion, and that the clinic had run out of sterilized gloves and pain medication. The health department also recommended revoking Delta's laboratory license due to the possibility of inadequate testing. (Dallas Morning News 9-5-93; AP 10-4-97 in The Advocate, Baton Rouge)

Michelle P. alleged that she went to Delta for the abortion of her 20 week pregnancy. The abortion was performed by Richardson Glidden at Delta March 28, 1984. Glidden failed to determine the position of the fetus, was unable to retrieve fetal leg, and sent Michelle home with assurance that she would expel the leg. Michelle was bedridden with pain for six days, then returned to Delta. Glidden then informed Michelle of a laceration of her uterine wall in addition to the retained leg. Glidden's attempt to remove the fetal leg was unsuccessful. Michelle was transported to a hospital, where the fetal leg was removed through a surgical incision. (Baton Rouge Parish District Court Case No. 281159)

Kathleen R. alleged that she underwent an abortion of her 6-8 week pregnancy performed by Calvin Jackson at Delta July 16, 1974. Upon arriving home, Kathleen was weak and bleeding. Her neighbor called Delta; Jackson was spoken to and informed of the heavy bleeding, which was a serious situation. Jackson prescribed Methergine. Kathleen's husband filled the prescription, and Kathleen's bleeding abated for 5 days. However, Kathleen had to be hospitalized one week following the abortion. There, she underwent a transfusion. Surgeons found a large hematoma and a perforated uterus. Kathleen had to have a hysterectomy to treat her injury. Her lawsuit also alleged that staff at Delta had failed to inform her of the risks of the abortion. (4th Circuit Louisiana Court of Appeals No. 9083)

WAFB-TV in Baton Rouge broke ranks in the coverage after the fire, delving into some of Delta's unsavory past. A patient, Roxy D., had come forward saying that "a 1998 operation at Delta forced her to wear a colostomy bag for eight months." WAFB-TV investigated the clinic, and clinic workers spoke to WAFB, confirming Roxy's story. This is the story that, according to WAFB, prompted a spring 1999 vote of the Louisiana Legislature to include abortion facilities in outpatient surgical centers' regulations. Abortionists claimed that this was an attack on their practice and that following the regulations would drive up the cost of abortions. The abortionists sued, blocking enforcement of the law. In response, Louisiana legislators drafted a law requiring regulations just for abortion clinics.

WAFB's coverage also noted that state prosecutors have received detailed affidavits from former Delta workers about the conditions and practices at the clinic. WAFB's coverage of the fire concluded with noting that Delta heating up even before the fire -- the Roxy D's suit was about to enter into preliminary hearings, the former employees were stepping forward with allegations about conditions within the clinic, workers indicated that Delta's debts were mounting... and then the place burned to the ground.

Delta's abortionist, James Whitmore III, lost his license to practice medicine in 2002. The board had found Whitmore guilty of disregarding basic santitation, being rude to patients, and failing to provide proper care to a woman whose uterus he had perforated during an abortion. The woman ended up needing a hysterectomy. The board found that Whitmore used improperly sterilized equipment, reused single-use items, and let tissue float in the sterilizing solution. Whitmore had previously been on probation for three years beginning in 1992, after his actions led to the death of one post-term infant and the permanent injury of a pre-term infant.

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Anniversary: Abortion by midwife proves fatal

On January 6, 1924, 26-year-old Helen Koss died at Norwegian American Hospital in Chicago of complications from an illegal abortion performed on December 30, 1929. A midwife, Mrs. Emma Morch, was arrested and indicted for homicide in Helen's death.



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Per request: Legal abortion deaths all in one place

Per request, I have put all the legal abortion deaths on one list and linked to each woman's story. I did that on an existing post, here. I will also build a page at RealChoice. Eventually.

If you want to put the list on your own page, shoot me an email and I will send you the code. I will not facilitate building any pages that use my research to try to maintain the status quo of treating it as if it's no big deal when some quack kills a woman.

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Anniversary: Mysterious death in 1930

On January 5, 1930, Sonia Ragins, age 26, died from an illegal abortion performed at an unknown location by an unknown person. On January 6 the coroner recommended identification and arrest of the guilty party.



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New in the Sidebar: Babies Needing Prayer

Babies Needing Prayer links to the prayer page for My Child, My Gift. These prayer requests are submitted by and on behalf of families facing difficult maternal or fetal diagnoses.

Hope trumps despair, even if life ends up being short.

Anniversaries: More of the same as time goes by

On January 4, 1921, 21-year-old Jennie Chubb died in her Chicago home from complications of an abortion performed that day. The coroner identified Veronica Rypcznski as the person responsible for Jennie's death. Her profession was not mentioned in the source document.

On January 4, 1924, Elizabeth Strobel, age 28, died in Chicago's Columbus Hospital from complications of an illegal abortion performed that day. Mrs. Anna Wenzig, whose profession is not given, was arrested January 15 for Elizabeth's death. On June 15 she was indicted for felony murder by the grand jury.

Shirley Payne, age 33, underwent an abortion January 4, 1983 at Woman's Care Center in Miami. She was 16-18 weeks pregnant. Shirley suffered a perforated uterus. When paramedics arrived on the scene, they reportedly found Shirley lying on a couch, bleeding heavily. Shirley arrived at the hospital in critical condition due to delay of transfer. An emergency hysterectomy was performed to try to save Shirley's life, but she bled to death in surgery. Clinic documents were unclear as to who did Shirley's abortion. Shirley, along with Ruth Montero, Myrta Baptiste, Maura Morales, and Shirley Payne, died in a clinic owned by Hipolito Barreiro, trained in Argentina and West Africa, but not licensed in U.S. Barreiro was accused of practicing without a license and tampering with witness.



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Contrasting anniversaries

January 3 marks two anniversaries from the Cemetery of Choice. Though both women are equally dead, only one woman's death was treated as problematic.

On January 3, 1984, 16-year-old Loretta Morton was at home, having difficulty breathing. Her mother called an ambulance. The crew assessed Loretta, decided that she was stable, and left. They were called back ten minutes later because Loretta had lost consciouness. The crew rushed her to the hospital, but attempts to resuscitate her were in vain. Within an hour of losing consciousness, Loretta was dead. An autopsy showed that she had died from a pulmonary embolism from an abortion performed in December of 1983. Now charges were filed against anybody in her death. It was purely a civil matter, since her abortion had been one of the safe-n-legal variety.

Contrast that with what happened when Maggie Gibbons died on January 3 of 1878. She had been ill, languishing since an abortion performed on her in St. Louis, Missouri on December 30, 1877. A Charles P. Emerich had used instruments on her. A grand jury indicted him, he was found guilty of first-degree manslaughter, and he was sentenced to five years in prison. I do not know what Emerich's profession was, but his actions that ended Maggie's life were taken very seriously indeed.

My, how the times have changed!

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Anniversaries: Equally dead

Mary Strugnall, age 17, died January 2, 1929 from an abortion performed that day by Dr. Joseph A. Harter. Harter was held by the coroner on February 28. His brother, a student named Irving Harter, and Vernon Keyser, the baby's father, were arrested as accessories. Dr. Harter was indicted for homicide, but was acquitted on June 26.

"Amy" was 35 years old when she had a legal abortion December 24, 1970. She was 14 weeks pregnant. During the abortion, Amy suffered from a massive pulmonary embolism. Efforts to save her life finally failed, and she died on January 2, 1971, leaving behind two children. Though Amy was the first woman identified as an abortion victim in 1971, she wasn't the last. Other women to die that year include Cassandra Bleavins, Janet Forster, Doris Grant, Betty Hines, "Annie" Roe, "Andrea" Roe, "Anita" Roe, "April" Roe, "Audrey" Roe, "Barbara" Roe, "Beth" Roe, "Monica" Roe, "Roseann" Roe, "Sandra" Roe, "Tammy" Roe, "Vicki" Roe, LaSandra Russ, Carole Schaner, Margaret Smith, and Kathryn Strong.

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Anniversary: Discount abortion leaves woman dead

As 1978 got started, 26-year-old Sherry Emry's friends were worried about her. She had been in a lot of pain since New Years Eve. She slept fitfully that night, with chills and sweating. New Years Day had found her quite ill, very pale and unable to rise from bed. Her friends had wanted her to seek medical help, but she had consulted with the instruction sheet she'd been given after her abortion on December 28, 1977. The instruction sheet said that her pain was normal. She told her friends she probably just had the flu. She told them she just needed rest, and went to bed.

So on January 2, her worried friends went to her home to check on her. They found her dead in her bed.

Sherry's friends called the police, who searched the apartment for clues in her death, and sent her body to the coroner's office for an autopsy.

The coroner found that Sherry had bled to death from a ruptured ectopic pregnancy. He faulted Water Tower Reproductive Center in Chicago with throwing away the tissues from Sherry's abortion without ordering a pathology report, which might have told them that there had been no fetus in the specimen. This would have been a clear red flag for ectopic pregnancy, and would have let Sherry know that her life was in danger. When the CDC, which still investigated abortion deaths in the 1970s, investigated, they found that, "At this clinic the physicians did not routinely examine the products of conception except through the wall of the transparent suction tubing as tissue was aspirated.... The tissue was neither weighed nor examined.... The aspirated material from all patients was collected together in a single bottle." "Autopsy revealed 4,000 ml of blood in the peritoneal cavity and a ruptured ectopic pregnancy.... fetal size was consistent with a 10 weeks gestation."

This supports the theory that either abortionist/clinic owner Arnold Bickham (pictured) or his staff simply failed to even notice the lack of sufficient tissue. However, the receipt that the police found in Sherry's apartment indicated that Water Tower had given Sherry a $50 refund on her abortion. The police believed that Sherry's abortionist had realized that there hadn't been enough tissue in the specimen, and had simply concluded that she hadn't been pregnant, rather than go to the trouble of diagnosing the underlying reason for the scant tissue.

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 like those at Water Tower.

When Sherry's family filed suit, Water Tower's owner, Arnold Bickham, refused to turn over her medical records, first saying that they were privileged, then by claiming that they were his personal property and that Sherry's family had no right to them. Bickham was held in contempt of court for his refusal to cooperate with the courts in the matter.

Sherry wasn't the only woman to die over the holidays after abortion in a Bickham facility. Sylvia Moore, age 18, died after Bickham shoved her out the door of his clinic New Years Eve of 1986.

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Another ringing endorsement

Shawn's Story. From a site that says it's about "Celebrating the right to choose with women's personal abortion stories".

The first time, I was 18. .... My parents said it would be the best thing... an abortion. So I shut down all my emotions, and did it. .... I was devastated. I cried for months, mourned for at least a year.

A few years later, I married someone else and we had a son. .... Considering the legal issues I was facing and the fact that I could not imagine having another child with such an immature jerk... I did it again... and had an abortion. The only opportunity my son would ever have to have a real sibling. It took me 10 years to mourn and regret what I did that 2nd time!

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But I'm with someone else now. ....

Now I was faced with the hardest decision of my life. I have a 4 year college education. I make good money, own 2 homes. The one I live in has an extra room for a child. I have a beautiful yard for a child to play in and 2 great dogs that love children. My job would allow me to work from home a day or two a week. But having a child goes against everything I planned for my new future. ....

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I was so confused... .... I said I would go to the abortion clinic but didn't know for sure what I would do. I went there... shut off many feelings. Broke down and cried several times. ....

.... I was screaming inside to God... please drop a bomb or something to convince me to go home. Don't let me do this... I don't have the strength to walk away on my own.

.... The nurse asked if I was sure I wanted to do this. I said, "NO!"

They never sent a counselor in with me. They didn't make me leave and come another day! I still had 5 weeks before they considered me at 13 weeks. I had plenty of time. Why didn't they help me? Why did they let me do it that day, in that state of mind?

I'm so sad... I'm so regretful for what could have been. .... I want to undo what I did but he doesn't want that. .... Will I ever get over my regret? I want my baby back.

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I believe in Pro-Choice... but why aren't those clinics given more counseling requirements. Why couldn't they be forced to make me wait another day or week? Perhaps I would be a very happy expecting mother... Now I'll never know whether or not I made the right choice. I'm still so sad. ....

Anybody who reads Shawn's story and finds cause for celebration is missing either a heart or some key brain lobes.

Abortion at 37

Somebody was searching for "37 yrs old abortion"

I went through the Cemetery of Choice and these are the women I know of whose abortions ended their lives at the age of 37:

Janet Blaum

Dorothy Brown

Belinda Byrd

Josefina Garcia

Roseanne Roe

Carole Schaner

Pamela Wainwright

There also was Mrs. Lehrer, whose abortionist husband handcuffed her in the bathroom and forced an abortion on her because morning sickness had caused her to rebuff his sexual advances.

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Another one bites the dust

Out of business: Hygeia, an abortion clinic in Poway, an affluent suburb of San Diego, has closed. The clinic, located inside a medical building at 15725 Pomerado Road, was operated by Dr. Michael Easter.

(What kind of creepy name is Hygeia?)

Since Hygeia wasn't listed on the Life Dynamics "Death Camps" list, that's one down and still at least 752 to go.

Get some perspective, buddy.

Driver Charged With Vehicular Homicide After Pickup Hits Minivan, Killing Mom and 4 Kids

A drunk driver cruised the wrong way on the interstate, slamming head-on into a minivan, killing a woman and four young children, including a baby. A man and two other children in the minivan are still hospitalized with life-threatening injuries. And then to add ironic injustice to the whole thing, the perpetrator, Michael Gagnon, was the least-injured person in the entire crash.

Gagnon's brother Samuel told a newspaper reporter, "Everyone's in shock. We're supposed to be celebrating the New Year, but now I got to look forward to my brother in jail the rest of his life."

Samuel, your brother is alive. A six month old baby is dead because of him. Three other kids, ages 10, 10, and 7, are dead. A young mother is dead. A man and two other children might yet die from their injuries. Two families have been devastated far beyond what your family is going through.

Enough with the pity party. Two families are going to be visiting their loved ones at a cemetery from now on. Going to a prison to see your brother is a tiny inconvenience compared to what those other two familes are facing.

Get some perspective, buddy. You should be counting your blessings, not complaining. Your family's only legitimate beef is with your brother for what he did. Your family got off light.

Selective Outrage

Campaign for free, safe, legal abortion visited my Cemetery of Choice and hand-picked illegal abortion deaths:

Mary Kirkpatrick, New Jersey, US 1859
Maggie Gibbons, St Louis, US 1877
Sylvia Sawdy (21), Michigan, US 1885
Mary Keegan, Chicago, US 1890
Hughretta Binkley, Illinois, US 1898

Cora Burke, Illinois, US 1899
Sarah Messinger, Chicago, US 1899
Antoine Vacicek, Chicago, US 1899
Alice Koester, Chicago, US 1900
Harriet Larocque, New York, US 1902
Irene Wengel, Florida, US 1902
Margaret McCarthy, Chicago, US 1904

Anna Gosch, Nebraska, US 1906
Anna Anderson (25), Oregon, US 1915
Anna Johnson, Chicago, US 1915
Viola Parr, Georgia, US 1919
Margaret Marts, Missouri, US 1920
Iva Triplett, Ohio, US 1921
Mildred Bleschke (24), Chicago,US 1924
“Patsy” Roe, Massachusetts, US 1924

Gertrude Wynants(17), New York, US 1925
Loretta Enders (19), Chicago, US 1928
Arretta Hardesty, New York, US 1928
Violet Diancalana (25), Chicago, US 1929
Clara Bell Duvall, Pittsburgh, US 1929. Tried to self-abort with a knitting needle on discovering she was pregnant for a sixth time. The family were living with her parents at the time, due to severe financial difficulties.
Ruth Irene Friedl (28), Denver, US 1929. Even though Ruth’s pregnancy had been diagnosed as life-threatening, she was refused an abortion. She drank ergot apiol, a plant poison, in an effort to self-abort, and died later on that day as a result.

Dorothy Schultz (19), Wisconsin, US 1929
Edna Vargo (22), Chicago, US 1929
Virginia Clark, Georgia, US 1930
Nina Roe (22), Washington, US 1933
Annette Camorato (19), US 1934
Katherine DiDonato (26), New York, US 1936
Asunta La Rosa, New York, US 1938

Alice Corbet, New York, US 1939
Barbara Hanson, New York, US 1939
Jane Roe, California, US 1939
Pauline Roberson Shirley(20), Arizona, US 1940. Died after suffering a massive haemorrhage after an illegal abortion.

Helen Clark, New York, US 1941
Madeline McGeehan, New York, US 1942
Cleo Moor(19), New York, US 1942
Florence Schnoor (24), New York, US 1942
Beatrice Fisher (36), Seattle, US 1945
Ilene Eagan, Minnesota, US 1947

Jane Ward(22), New York, US 1947
Kerneda Bennett, Virginia, US ?1949
Dorothy Martin, Georgia, US 1949
Joy Joy, Kansas, US 1950
“Helen” Roe, Kansas, US ?1951

Vivian Campbell(25), US 1950
Isabell Cuda, Illinois, US 1952
Betty Ladel, Texas, US 1954
Gertrude Pinsk (35), New York, US 1954
Joyce Johnson, California, US 1955
Jacqueline Smith (20), Pennsylvania, US 1955
Alice Kimberley, Kansas, US 1957
Barbara Covington (35), Florida, US 1962

But this compassionate poster was not moved by the legal abortion deaths. So much grist for the mills? What is it, O Campaign for Free, Safe, Legal Abortion, that renders these women beneath your notice?

I posted a response. (I have since started formatting it as an ordered list and putting in the links, by popular request):

Gosh, you went carefully through the Cemetery of Choice, and exercised choice, did you not? Would you care to explain to your readers why you considered the following women's deaths to be not worth mentioning?

1. Diane Adams, 28, died 1992
   
2. Eurice Agbagaa, 26, died 1989
   
3. Leigh Ann Alford, 34, died 2003
   
4. Demitrice Andews, 22, died 1988
   
5. Mickey Apodaca, 28, died 1984
   
6. Gloria Aponte, 20, died 1986
   
7. Charisse Ards, 20, died 1989
   
8. Barbara Auerbach, 38, died 1981
   
   
9. KB, age 19, died 1988
   
10. Jacqueline Bailey, 29, died 1977
    
11. Brenda Banks, 35, died 1989
    
12. Myrta Baptiste, 26, died 1989
    
13. Lisa Bardsley, 26, died 1995
    
14. Junette Barnes, 27, died 1988
    
15. Deanna Bell, 13, died 1992
    
16. Brenda Benton, 35, died 1987
    
17. Rosario Bermeo, 30, died 1983
    
18. Janet Blaum, 37, died 1974
    
19. Cassandra Bleavins, 20, died 1971
    
20. Linda Boom, 35, died 1995
    
21. Diane Boyd, 19, died 1981
    
22. Mary Bradley, 41, died 1985
    
23. Dorothy Brown, 37, died 1974
    
24. Chanelle Bryant, 22, died 2004
    
25. Dorothy Bryant, 22, died 1986
    
26. Belinda Byrd, 37, died 1987
    
    
27. Janeth Caldwell, 36, died 1987
    
28. Geneva Calton, 21, died 1979
    
29. Joan Camp, 22, died 1985
    
30. Marla Cardamone (pictured), 18, died 1989
    
31. Teresa Causey, 17, died 1988
    
32. Claudia Caventou, 33, died 1988
    
33. Patricia Chacon, 16, died 1984
    
34. Colleen Chambers, 34, died 1984
    
35. Sandra Chmiel, 35, died 1975
    
36. Gwendolyn Cliett, 29, died 1980
    
37. Margaret Clodfelter, 19, died 1980
    
38. Pamela Colson, 31, died 1994
    
39. Geneva Colton, 21, died 1979
    
40. Andrea Corey, 31, died 1993
    
41. Liliana Cortez, 22, died 1986
    
42. Edith Cote, 38, died 1991
    
43. Sheryl Cottone, 23, died 1981
    
44. Twila Coulter, 21, died 1972
    
45. Carol Cunningham, 21, died 1986
    
    
46. Betty Damato, 26, died 1980
    
47. Mary Ann Dancy, 32, died 1990
    
48. Angel Dardie, 22, died 1982
    
49. Barbaralee Davis, 18, died 1977
    
50. Glenda Davis, 31, died 1989
    
51. Kathy Davis, 26, died 1987
    
52. Margaret Davis, 33, died 1971
    
53. Sharon Davis, 17, died 1983
    
54. Marina DeChapel, 34, died 1978
    
55. Arlin dela Cruz, age 19, died 1992
    
56. Synthia Dennard, 24, died 1989
    
57. Alerte Desanges, 36, died 1994
    
58. Barbara Dillon, 22, died 1981
    
59. Jane Doe of Newark, 20, died 1993
    
60. Laniece Dorsey, 17, died 1986
    
61. Tamika Dowdy, 22, died 1998
    
62. Gwendolyn Drummer, 15, died 1972
    
63. Duarte, Anjelica, 21, died 1991
    
64. Evelyn Dudley, 38, died 1973
    
    
65. Sherry Emry, 26, died 1978
    
66. Georgianna English, 32, died 1980
    
67. Maureen Espinoza, 16, died 1997
    
68. Gladyss Estanlisao, 28, died 1989
    
    
69. Erna Fisher, 18, died 1988
    
70. Bonnie Fix, 38, died 1974
    
71. Sharon Floyd, 18, died 1975
    
72. Linda Fondren, 21, died 1974
    
73. Janet Forster, 18, died 1971
    
74. Cristella Forte, 16, died 1986
    
75. Glenna Jean Fox, 17, died 1989
    
    
76. Jammie Garcia, 14, died 1994
    
77. Josefina Garcia, died 1985
    
78. Marie Gibson, 34, died 1980
    
79. Christen Gilbert (pictured), 19, died 2005
    
80. Kathleen Gilbert, 29, died 1985
    
81. Christina Goesswein, 19, died 1990
    
82. Gaylene Golden, 21, died 1985
    
83. Maria Gomez, 39, died 1976
    
84. Edrica Goode (pictured), 21, died 2007
    
85. Shary Graham, 34, died 1982
    
86. Doris Grant, 32, died 1971
    
87. Debra Gray, 34, died 1989
    
88. Laura Grunas, 30, died 2006
    
89. Carolina Gutierrez (pictured), 21, died 1996
    
    
90. Angela Hall, 27, died 1991
    
91. Sharon Hamplton (pictured), 27, died 1996
    
92. Arneta Hardaway, 18, died 1985
    
93. Gracalynn "Tammy" Harris, 19, died 1997
    
94. Wilma Harris, 17, died 1974
    
95. L'Echelle Head, 21, died 2000
    
96. Sheila Hebert, 27, died 1984
    
97. Donna Heim, 20, died 1986
    
98. Lou Ann Herron, 33, died 1998
    
99. Moris Helen Herron, 26, died 1983
    
100. Rhonda Hess, 20, died 1982
     
101. Betty Hines, 21, died 1971
     
102. Shirley Hollis, 30, died 1991
     
103. Denise Holmes, 24, died 1970
     
104. Barbara Hoppert, 16, died 1983
     
     
105. Mary Ives, 28, died 1983
     
     
106. Karretu Jabbie, 24, died 1989
     
107. Louchrisser Jackson, 23, died 1977
     
     
108. Sandra Kaiser, 14, died 1984
     
109. Patricia King, 24, died 1987
     
     
110. Giselene Lafontant, 25, died 1993
     
111. Minnie Lathan, 41, died 1978
     
112. Barbara Lerner, 30, died 1981
     
113. Susan Levy, 30, died 1992
     
114. Cora Lewis, 23, died 1992
     
115. Sara Lint, 22, died 1970
     
116. Maria Lira, 19, ded 1974
     
117. Suzanne Logan, 34, died 1992
     
118. Diana Lopez, 25, died 2002
     
119. Linda Lovelace, 21, died 1980
     
120. Elva Lozada, died 1964
     
121. Deborah Lozinski, 17, died 1985
     
     
122. Dawn Mack, 21, died 1991
     
123. Michelle Madden, 18, died 1986
     
124. Sharon Margrove, 25, died 1970
     
125. Haley Mason, 22, died 2001
     
126. Gail Mazo, 27, died 1979
     
127. Sophie McCoy, 17, died 1990
     
128. Rita McDowell, 16, died 1975
     
129. Myria McFadden, 28, died 1987
     
130. Evangeline McKenna, 38, died 1974
     
131. Kathy McKnight, 36, died 1993
     
132. Kendra McLeod, 22, died 1998
     
133. Lynn McNair, 24, died 1979
     
134. Dawn Mendoza, 28, died 1988
     
135. Yvonne Mesteth, 18, died 1985
     
136. Natalie Meyers, 16, died 1972
     
137. Sandra Milton, 23, died 1990
     
138. Mitsue Mohar, 31, died 1975
     
139. Ruth Montero, 23, died 1979
     
140. Denise Montoya, 15, died 1988
     
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143. Christine Mora, 18, died 1994
     
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145. Shelby Moran, 60, died 1999
     
146. Katherine Morse, 20, died 1970
     
147. Kelly Morse, 32, died 1992
     
148. Loretta Morton, 16, died 1984
     
149. Kathy Murphy, 17, died 1973
     
150. Dorothy Muzorewa, 25, died 1974
     
     
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152. Kimberly Neil, died 2000
     
153. Germaine Newman, 14, died 1984
     
154. Sara Niebel, 15, died 1994
     
     
155. Maria Ortega, 23, died 1970
     
156. Joyce Ortenzio, 32, died 1988
     
157. Venus Ortiz, 29, died 1998
     
     
158. Linda Padfield, 28, died 1973
     
159. Mary Ann Page, 36, died 1977
     
160. Mary Paredez, 26, died 1977
     
161. Holly Patterson (pictured), 18, died 2003
     
162. Shirley Payne, 33, died 1983
     
163. Mary Pena, 43, died 1984
     
164. DaNette Pergusson, 19, died 1992
     
165. Erika Peterson, 28, died 1961
     
166. Katherine Pierce, 27, died 1989
     
167. Katrina Poole, 16, died 1988
     
168. Yvette Poteat, 26, died 1985
     
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171. Jacqueline Reynolds, 22, died 1986
     
172. Erica Richardson, 16, died 1989
     
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174. Magdalena Rodriguez, 23, died 1994
     
175. Rosael Rodriguez, 21, died 1986
     
     
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177. Amanda Roe, 19, died 1970
     
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187. Beth Roe, 35, died 1971
     
188. Betty Roe, 29, died 1974
     
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191. Cherish Roe, died 2005
     
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234. Teresa Roe, 19, died 1974
     
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237. Vicki Roe, 23, died 1971
     
     
238. Wanda Roe, died 2006
     
239. Wendy Roe, 23, died 1972
     
     
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242. Rhonda Rollinson, 32, died 1992
     
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247. LaSandra Russ, 20, died 1971
     
248. Tamia Russell (pictured), 15, doed 2004
     
     
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250. Stella Saenz, 42, died 1968
     
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255. Oriene Shevin, 34, died 2005
     
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259. Laura Hope Smith (pictured), 22, died 2007
     
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276. Brenda Vise, 38, died 2002
     
277. Cheryl Vosseler, 17, died 1969
     
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280. Lynette Wallace, 22, died 1975
     
281. Debra Walton, 35, died 1989
     
282. Nicey Washington, 26, died 2000
     
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284. Diane Watson, 27, died 1987
     
285. Ingar Weber, 28, died 1991
     
286. Robin Wells, 27, died 1981
     
287. Chivon Williams, died 1996
     
288. Ellen Williams, 38, died 1985
     
289. Nichole Williams, 22, died 1997
     
290. Sandra Williams, 30, died 1984
     
291. Shirley Williams, 30, died 1980
     
292. Tanya Williamson, 28, died 1996
     
293. Carole Wingo, 22, died 1974
     
294. Virginia Wolfe, 33, died 1998
     
295. Darlene Wood, 23, died 1982
     
296. Gail Wright, 29, died 1986
     
     
297. Stacy Zallie (pictured), 20, died 2002

Twenty bucks says my comment will get nuked within the week, if not within 24 hours.

The Gutierrez Abortion: A New Year

1995 turned over into 1996, and Carolina Gutierrez, only twenty years old, remained critically ill in an intensive care unit of a Miami hospital. She had been hospitalized since December 21, when her family had called an ambulance in their alarm over her difficulty breathing. Two days of trying to contact Maber Medical Center, where Carolina had undergone an abortion on the 19th, over her husband's objections, had yielded no help. The voice mails she left had gone unanswered. When somebody finally did pick up the phone, whoever it was had hung up on her. The young mother, who had no medical insurance, had been suffering from fever and pain since the evening of the 19th.

She had arrived at the emergency room already in septic shock. Doctors had performed an emergency hysterectomy, trying to halt the spread of infection from her perforated uterus, but the sepsis raged on.

Carolina spent the holidays on a respirator, sepsis raging through her body. Her two children from a previous relationship spent most of their time in the care of relatives as her husband, Jose Linarte, spent as much time as he could by Carolina's side, waiting and praying.

The sepsis was getting worse. Carolina's fingers and toes were starting to show signs of gangrene. But she was still hanging on, fighting for her life. The staff weren't going to give up on her.