On November 1, 1991, 21-year-old
Anjelica Duarte underwent an abortion
by Dr. Larry Thompson at Women's Place Clinic in Las Vegas, Nevada. According to one of Anjelica's friends, Anjelica had sought an abortion
because a doctor had recommended that she delay having another baby for
five years due to health problems. Anjelica already had a three-year-old
daughter and a one-year-old daughter. After the abortion, Anjelica was kept under observation for several hours, but was not given any care. She was rushed to the hospital by paramedics at 7:30 that evening, but she was dead on arrival. A hospital spokesman said that she had lost 90 percent of her blood; her uterus had been perforated. In reviewing the case, the medical board noted that Thompson did not
have adequate equipment for post-operative care, and revoked his
license.
Anjelica'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.
- Barbara Hoppert died after an abortion recommended due to a congenital heart problem.
- Christin Gilbert died after an abortion George Tiller holds was justified on grounds of maternal health.
- Erika Peterson died in 1961 when her doctors obtained her husband's permission to perform a "therapeutic" 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.
"Susan" Roe is one of the women Life Dynamics notes on their "Blackmun Wall" of women killed by legalized abortion. According
to Life Dynamics, they obtained confidential information from the CDC
and state health officials about this 21-year-old Caucasian woman who
died November 1, 1992, after a safe and legal abortion performed in
Maine.
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