In the 1970s, many women and girls died from legal abortion in America. One of them was “Blaire Roe,” whose death was reported in a medical journal years later.
Blaire’s story is sad. She had a heart condition known as Eisenmerger’s syndrome. It is highly likely that she was pressured to undergo an abortion because of this. She was eight weeks pregnant when she was put through a sharp curettage (D&C) abortion and surgically sterilized.
Instead of stabilizing Blaire’s condition and preserving her health, the abortion directly killed her. She bled to death internally from her injuries.
The same study documenting Blaire’s death also recorded the death of “Evie Roe,” another Eisenmerger’s patient whose “life-preserving” abortion killed her instead. Even in the 1960s, medical journals reported Eisenmerger’s patients who were pressured to abort but refused and had positive outcomes for both mother and baby. Although Eisenmerger’s and other health conditions warrant additional concern, today’s medical advances make it possible to provide better care to both. Patients with health conditions deserve better than abortion.
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