“Abigail Roe” was a Massachusetts resident, but she traveled to New York City at 22 weeks pregnant for an abortion that was advertised to her as safe and legal. She had no idea that she would never make it home.
When a toxic concentration of hypertonic saline was injected into Abigail’s uterus, blood was aspirated. She became comatose almost immediately. The abortionist had made a fatal mistake and injected the saline fluid directly into her vascular system.
Eight and a half hours after Abigail became comatose, she went into convulsions. Fourteen hours after the abortion, she was declared dead. Because of a preventable mistake with a highly dangerous (yet “safe and legal”) procedure, this healthy young woman suffered hypernatremia, cerebral edema, coma and convulsions in her final day of life. She died on December 29, 1971.
Abigail was 23 and perfectly healthy. She had no history of any significant medical problems and by all accounts she and her baby should have enjoyed a long life. Sadly, New York’s pre-Roe legalization led to both of their deaths.
"Maternal Mortality Associated With Legal Abortion in New York State: July 1, 1970 - June 30, 1972," Berger, Tietze, Pakter, Katz, Obstetrics and Gynecology, 43:3, March 1974, 325 (See above image for her section of the chart)
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