1983: Safe, legal abortion in hospital kills New Mexico teen

Life Dynamics lists 17-year-old Sharon Davis on their "Blackmun Wall" of women killed by legal abortions. Life Dynamics says that Sharon was a 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 she died on January 9, 1983.

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