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| Michelle Madden |
Eighteen year old Michelle "Shelly" Madden, a freshman at Mobile College, sought a safe and legal abortion from O.B. Evans at Family Planning Medical Center of Mobile, Alabama. It was performed on November 18, 1986. According to the friend who had accompanied Michelle to the abortion facility, Shelly had chosen abortion because a doctor had told her that her baby would have birth defects due to Michelle's epilepsy medication.
This issue was likely not explored during pre-abortion counseling, since Shelly was taken to the procedure room only 15 minutes after she arrived at the facility.
That very day, Shelly's parents were preparing to go to Mississippi to spend Thanksgiving with Mrs. Madden's brother. They got a call from Shelly's roommate telling them that their daughter was sick."We didn't think anything of it. We told her we were going to come the next day to pick her up," Shelly's mother told the Mobile Press Register. But before they could leave home the next day, the house mother at the dorm called, asking if Shelly had gynecological problems. Again, the parents weren't particularly concerned. At that point, they weren't even aware that their daughter had been pregnant.
When they arrived at the dorm, they were told that Shelly was in the hospital. "We called the hospital and they said she was in surgery." They were at the hospital for an hour until the doctor finally came to them and told them that Shelly had undergone an abortion. When they were operating on Shelly, doctors told her parents, they found a leg bone, two pieces of skull, and some placenta still in Shelly's uterus.
"From what he told me at that point," said Mrs. Madden, a nurse, "I knew that for her to live would be a miracle, on the order of the Lord raising Lazarus from the dead. She was in such bad shape I didn't see how she could make it."
Shelly's mother was sadly right. Sepsis had already set in, and Shelly remained on life support dying on November 24. Her parents sued Evans and the facility, mostly because nobody would give them answers about how and why her daughter died. In 1991 a jury awarded them $10 million in damages.
When they arrived at the dorm, they were told that Shelly was in the hospital. "We called the hospital and they said she was in surgery." They were at the hospital for an hour until the doctor finally came to them and told them that Shelly had undergone an abortion. When they were operating on Shelly, doctors told her parents, they found a leg bone, two pieces of skull, and some placenta still in Shelly's uterus.
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| Angie and Thomas Madden |
Shelly's mother was sadly right. Sepsis had already set in, and Shelly remained on life support dying on November 24. Her parents sued Evans and the facility, mostly because nobody would give them answers about how and why her daughter died. In 1991 a jury awarded them $10 million in damages.
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Sources:
- "Lawsuit is filed against abortion clinic," Mobile Press Register 6/6/91,
- "Parents Finally get to tell daughter's story," Mobile Press Register, 6/16/91;
- FindLaw, Evans vs. Mutual Assurance
- A Friend to the End? (This story purports to be about how Michelle went with a friend for the fatal abortion.)
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