The Blackmun Wall by Life Dynamics had a memorial entry for “Jaime”, who they only noted was a Black woman between the ages of 20 and 24 who died from legal abortion in New York.
Kevin Sherlock’s book, The Scarlet Survey, contained a matching case with more information. Jaime was 20 and from Manhattan, and she died of her legal abortion in New York City on May 20, 1983.
Women of color like Jaime are disproportionately targeted by the abortion industry— especially in New York, where more Black babies are aborted than born.
The little information known about Jaime was obtained through New York State Health Department records. The records on her death were run in 1995, and today the relevant data cannot be found on the NY Health Department’s website.
New York State Department Of Health, Bureau of Biometrics, Abortion Related Deaths, Resident Data (archived data, run on July 19, 1995)
The Scarlet Survey, page 221, citing New York Health Department (Jaime is Jane Roe of Manhattan 1983)
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