On December 2, 1977, 29-year-old Jacqueline Bailey was injected with saline by Dr. Eboreime for an instillation abortion at Pacific Glen Hospital in Los Angeles County. Five
hours after Jackie expelled the dead baby, her condition appeared
grave. Shortly after midnight, she was transferred to Memorial Hospital
of Glendale. Doctors
at Memorial suspected a uterine laceration, so they performed
exploratory surgery. The bleeding was so profuse that they then
performed a hysterectomy in a last-ditch attempt to save her life.
Jackie died just before sunrise on December 3. The autopsy report found that Jackie's uterus had ruptured during the abortion, and that her uterine artery had been lacerated. She had bled to death from her injuries. Two years earlier, Cheryl Tubbs had also bled to death from a ruptured uterus caused by a saline abortion at Pacific Glen.
Cora Lewis is one of six abortion deaths currently attributed to Inglewood Women's Hospital (aka Inglewood Women's Clinic) in Los Angeles County. Twenty-three-year-old Cora had her safe and legal abortion
at Inglewood on November 4, 1983. She had gonorrhea at the time of the
abortion, which led to inflammation of the cervix and uterus. Cora
developed fever and chills after her abortion, and was finally admitted
to a hospital on November 11. She was aggressively treated for
pneumonia, including surgery, but died December 3. The coroner
attributed her death to pneumonia and lung abscess contributed to by the
uterine and cervical inflammation. Other abortion deaths at Inglewood include Yvonne Tanner, Kathy Murphy, Belinda Byrd, Lynette Wallace, and Elizabeth Tsuji.
Abortionist Andre Nehorayoff was disciplined over the 1983 abortion death of 18-year-old "Ellen."Nehorayoff performed a second-trimester safe and legal abortion on November 29, 1983. She was 18 years old and in the second trimester
of pregnancy. Nehorayoff left the medical history section of her chart blank.Nehorayoff
entered the following note in Ellen's chart: "Pt. is advised that she
might pass some tissue, contact me at any time or if she bleeds
heavily." So evidently he was aware that he'd preformed an incomplete
abortion.Two
days later, Nehorayoff recieved a lab report that detected only
placental tissue in the specimen from Ellen's abortion, indicating that
there was still a lot of fetal tissue in Ellen's body. He noted no attempt to notify Ellen of the incomplete abortion.At
5:10 AM on December 3, Ellen was rushed to an emergency room. She was
already in a coma upon admission. An hour and 10 minutes later, she was
pronounced dead. At autopsy there was a portion of the fetal left leg
protruding from the uterus, and the cause of death was determined to be
from hemorrhaging due to the incomplete abortion. Nehorayoff was also disciplined regarding Patient F,
whom he left in a recovery room following her abortion on December 15,
1979, without any monitoring. She turned blue and no pulse could be
detected. She was pronounced dead at a hospital.
Teresa Causey clutched her mother's hand during her safe and legal abortion by Joe Wesley McDaniel
on December 3, 1988. Her mother later said that 17-year-old Teresa's
last words were, "Oh, mama, mama, it hurts so much!" Then she lost
consciousness on the abortion table. When McDaniel was
unable to awaken her, he tried smelling salts, slapped her face, then
tried to reach another doctor before finally calling an ambulance. Teresa had two perforations of her uterus and two lacerated veins. She died of massive hemorrhage the day of her abortion. An investigation
found that McDaniel had been operating in an unlicensed facility, and
that he had broken the law requiring abortions after 13 weeks be done in
a hospital; Teresa had been 15 weeks pregnant with a little boy. No charges were
pressed against McDaniel for Teresa's death, the illegal abortion, or
the unlicensed facility. Teresa left behind two children.
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