September 11, 1976: Journalists Uncover Abortion Death

Diane Smith, age 23, was one of the women mentioned in the Chicago Sun-Times expose, "The Abortion Profiteers." 

According to the report and her death certificate, Diane was admitted to Englewood Hospital in Chicago due to hemorrhaging. She told staff that she'd had a legal abortion in a Chicago-area clinic. 

Diane was treated for a perforated uterus and sepsis, to no avail. She died on September 11, 1976.

According to my research department, K, death records show that, like a disproportionate number of women who die from safe-and-legal abortions, Diane Smith was black.

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Source: "12 die after abortions at walk-in clinics," Chicago Sun-Times, November 19, 1978