June 8, 1988: FPA Patient Sent Home With Retained Fetal parts

Dr. Ruben Marmet

The survivors of 32-year-old Joyce Ortenzio filed suit against Edward Allred, his Family Planning Associates Medical Group (FPA), the San Vicente Hospital FPA facility, and abortionist Ruben Marmet.

Joyce, a native of Hawaii, went to San Vicente for laminaria insertion by Marmet on June 7, 1988. Later, Marmet performed an abortion, but did not remove all of the fetal parts from Joyce's uterus.

The next day, June 8, Joyce was found dead in her home.

The cause of death was an overdose of the drug amitriptyline, infection from fetal parts that were not removed during the abortion, and septic shock.

Joyce left three children motherless.

Joyce is one of many women to die at this NAF facility after the National Abortion Federation was founded. The abortion conglomerate later known as Family Planning Associates Medical Group started its string of maternal abortion deaths with 24-year-old Denise Holmes in 1970. Somehow Allred and his colleagues managed to have no more women's abortion deaths attributed to them until they started stacking up the bodies beginning in 1984:

Patricia Chacon, age 16, March 3, 1984

Mary Pena, age 43, December 16, 1984

Josefina Garcia, age 37, May 23, 1985

Laniece Dorsey, age 17, February 6, 1986

Tami Suematsu, age 19, August 19, 1988

Susan Levy, age 30, April 9, 1992

Deanna Bell, age 13, September 5, 1992

Christine Mora, age 18, November 8, 1994

Ta Tanisha Wesson, age 24, January 24, 1995

Nakia Jorden, age 16, December 10, 1998

Maria Leho, age 26, June 11, 1999

Maria Rodriguez, age 22, March 25, 2000

Kimberly Neil, age 38, May 22, 2000

"Imelda Laurence," age 19, November 20, 2003

Chanelle Bryant, age 22, January 14, 2004

"Kyla Ellis," age 23, May 16, 2014

I suspect that the reason the deaths appear in clusters is because those are years that researchers checked for lawsuits, rather than that these are all the women and girls who died at Allred facilities. Anybody with the time and resources to do so could probably uncover other deaths Allred and his staff have managed to sweep under the carpet.

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Sources: Los Angeles County (CA) Superior Court Case No. WEC139590; California Death Certificate No. 88-127625