CDC 1987

Today I'll look at CDC deaths in 1987. They count 7 legal and 2 illegal.

Their 7:

Case number       Age   Race    Possible Match

496:                    15–19    Black   Michelle Thames*

497:                    35–39    Black    Belinda Byrd

498:                    25–29    Black    Myria McFadden, Kathy Davis

499:                    20–24    White    Elise Kalat

500:                    20–24     Black    Patricia King

501:                    20–24     Black    Patricia King

502:                    35–39     Black     Brenda Benton, “”

* possible match but unlikely due to data reporting issues

Of course Patricia King is not on there twice, so at least one of those cases is someone else.

(Thank you Kevin Sherlock from The Scarlet Survey for providing this data)

I have 12: 12 legal and 1 possibly illegal, which means that I counted at least four that the CDC missed, but I likely missed an illegal death.

Brenda Benton died from hepatic necrosis due to toxicity reaction to abortion anesthesia.

Belinda Byrd was left unattended for three hours after her five-minute “life of the mother” abortion.

Kathy Davis died of heart failure after her safe, legal abortion.

Elise Kalat went into bronchospasms and died two days after her abortion.

Patricia King died in an abortion facility that her sister described as looking "like a haunted house".

Myria McFadden suffered heart and lung failure after her abortion.

Michelle Thames was one of four women I know of who died at Her Medical Clinic. Kevin Sherlock finds it unlikely that she was counted by the CDC because NCHS data didn’t record her death as abortion-related.

Iris Velazquez's survivors sued after her abortion, which they said was allegedly illegal. I was unable to confirm if any aspect was ruled illegal or not.

Pamela Wainwright left two children, one of them with Down syndrome, motherless after her abortionist accidentally pumped carbon dioxide into her bloodstream. The CDC didn’t count any white women her age that year as legal abortion fatalities.

Sheila Watley went into cardiorespiratory arrest after her abortion and died, leaving her son Desmond without a mother before he was even one year old. The CDC didn’t count anyone her age in the list that year.

Diane Watson died when four doctors at the abortion facility all failed to resuscitate her. She matches case 498 but was not counted by the CDC because her death certificate was filled out incorrectly.

 Rosalyn Joy died of septic shock. The CDC didn’t count anyone 31 for that year.

A 37-year-old single Black woman died in New York City on May 4, 1987 from an abortion. (Cross-checking the Blackmun Wall for an existing pseudonym or I’ll give her one)

The Scarlet Survey also recorded:

Monica Dee Johnston, 22 W (“septic abortion with complications” but was ruled died of natural causes. Her body was found roughly 200 miles from her home on October 15 in Portland. Need to investigate more and see Oregon death certificate 87-19149)

Teresa or Jane Roe of Mississippi was a 16-year-old married (!) white girl who died in a Memphis hospital from septic shock and hepatitis. The doctor who examined her listed abortion as the contributing cause of her death (Teresa Gayden—need documents)