September 7, 1996: Repeat-Offender's Fatal Screwup With Anesthesia

Thirty-five-year-old Tanya Williamson, aka "Patient A", had laminaria inserted at Moshe Hachamovitch's New York abortion facility on September 6, 1996, for an early second-trimester abortion. Hachamovitch estimated that she was almost 14 weeks pregnant. He instructed Tanya to return the next day for her abortion.

Too Much Brevitol

Tanya returned on September 7, as instructed. According to medical board documents, "At or about 11:00 a.m. Patient A was given Valium 10 mg." This medication was not noted on clinic documents that were given to Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA) Gori, who then administered 150 mg. of Brevitol at about 1:50 p.m., whereupon Hachamovitch performed the abortion.

The medical board then notes, "150 mg. of Brevital causes loss of consciousness and also potentially decreases the patient’s respiratory rate and blood pressure. The amount of Brevital administered to this patient would cause respiratory depression for approximately 30 minutes. The majority of that time Patient A was in the recovery room. The level of respiratory depression is tied into the amount of stimulation of the patient. Surgery is a very strong stimulus, once that is removed the respiratory depression increases."

Not Properly Monitored

The board noted that Tanya was still totally unresponsive from the effects of anesthesia when she was moved to the recovery room. Staff noted her pulse and oxygen saturation, then removed her pulse oximeter, which monitors pulse and oxygen saturation.

The medical board notes that at 2 p.m., after 5 minutes in recovery, Tanya'’s blood pressure was 96/80, and her pulse 68. This is within normal limits. At 15 minutes (2:10 p.m.), Tanya's blood pressure had fallen to 60/40, her pulse to 52, and her respirations were shallow. Such a sharp fall in blood pressure is an alarming sign that the patient might be going into shock or suffering other life-threatening problems. The falling blood pressure is especially alarming in combination with shallow breathing.

At 2:11 p.m., Tanya's pulse was noted as "thready," which means weak and erratic. Her blood pressure was so low that it could not be measured with a cuff. The medical board noted, "At this point, a patient without an obtainable blood pressure and a barely palpable pulse was functionally in cardiac arrest. Respondent was notified of the problem with Patient A at approximately 2:15 p.m."

The Medics' Shocking Discoveries

Hachamovitch examined Tanya in recovery, started a new IV with D5W and Ephedrine, then told the recovery room nurse to do CPR, and somebody to call Emergency Medical Services (EMS).

EMS Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) arrived at 2:41 to find Tanya blue and unresponsive, with no pulse or breathing and fixed pupils. ACLS took Tanya's vital signs, attached a cardiac monitor, and properly placed a breathing tube to help get oxygen into Tanya's lungs. An ACLS team member then hooked up Hachamovitch's bag-valve mask (used to pump air into the lungs) and found that it was broken and wasn't working. The ACLS team member switched over to the EMT’s ventilation unit.

The medical board said, "When respondent arrived in the recovery room, he should have immediately ascertained the patient’s pulse, blood pressure, and if there were vaginal bleeding. This should have taken between 20 seconds and, at the outside, two to three minutes. He should have realized that the patient was in cardiac arrest and started ACLS. The cause of the arrest was not relevant at that point; the immediate treatment was the same. Given the clinical picture of this patient at 2:15 p.m. when Respondent was called to the recovery room EMS should have been called immediately and the patient intubated. Even if Patient A were only in a near arrest situation Respondent should have immediately call EMS and instituted the rest of ACLS protocol. Advanced Cardiac Life Support consists of immediate call to EMS for transfer to hospital, intubation, EKG monitoring so that if the patient requires defibrillation, the rhythm and appropriate ACLS drugs are known. This patient’s condition had to be treated in a hospital setting, the sooner the patient were to get to the hospital, the better her chances of survival."

Despite the fact that Hachamovitch had the equipment to put a breathing tube into Tanya, she was being given oxygen with a face mask. There was no note that Hachamovitch had even inserted an airway, which is a small device that keeps the patient's tongue from blocking air from getting into the lungs. Though Hachamovitch had additional, necessary drugs on hand to help restore cardiac function, he didn't administer them to Tanya. Though he had an EKG machine, he never used it. "Such a failure deviated from accepted medical standards."

"A physician who performs surgical procedures, i.e. abortion, under general anesthesia in free standing outpatient facilities, has an obligation to recognize when a patient is in cardiac arrest and to know how to resuscitate the patient. Respondent did not recognize that Patient A was in cardiac arrest. Respondent did not carry out generally recognized resuscitation measures in this patient."

In spite of the medics' efforts, Tanya died that day.

Untrained Staff in Recovery Room

On the day Tanya died, Hachamovitch had one R.N. in the recovery room, along with a medical assistant, a sonographer and a receptionist from the front who went to the recovery room to help when the recovery room was busy. The sonographer was not trained to observe patients recovering from anesthesia. The receptionist had taken a medical secretary course, and did not have any special training in caring for patients recovering from general anesthesia.

At the time Tanya was brought into the recovery room, there were nine other patients in the room, and yet another patient was brought in a few minutes after Tanya. One of those nine patients already in the recovery room was shaking and almost convulsing.

The board noted that Hachamovitch's recovery room was not sufficiently staffed to adequately monitor patients recovering from general anesthesia.

The board also noted, "Respondent’s medical record did not accurately reflect the care and treatment rendered to patient A."

Actions Taken

The Committee slammed Hachamovitch for multiple violations of standards of care, particularly in how patients were monitored and cared for after general anesthesia, and the lack of training of the staff attending them. They slammed him for lack of adequate equipment and for failing to use what little equipment he had.

The board suspended Hachamovitch’s license, and added probationary requirements that he was to be supervised by an anesthesiologist who had no conflict of interest, that Hachamovitch maintain ACLS certification, and that he maintain at least one staffer in recovery who is ACLS certified.

Neither the First nor the Last

Tanya is not the only victim of Hachamovitch's quackery and slipshod clinic management:

1. January 22, 1986: Luz Rodriguez dies after an incomplete abortion perpetrated at Hachamovitch's Bronx clinic.
2. October 19, 1990: Christina Goesswein dies while Hachamovitch was doing emergency post-abortion surgery in his office rather than in a hospital.
3. March 2, 1994: Jammie Garcia dies of sepsis after an abortion performed at a Hachamovitch clinic in Texas.
4. February 17, 1995:  Lisa Bardsley was sent home to bleed to death after an abortion at a Hachamovitch clinic in Arizona.
5. September 7, 1996: Tanya Williamson's death in the Bronx.
6. April 17, 1998:  Lou Ann Herron bleeds to death in a Hachamovitch clinic under circumstances to appalling that both the abortionist and the nurse are convicted of manslaughter.

In spite of all this, Business Insider wrote a puff piece about Hachamovitch's clinic in 2024. Read my take on their enthusiasm for Hachamovitch here.

Watch Hachamovitch's Penultimate Dead Patient on YouTube.

Source: NY Board Case No. BPMC 99-261 

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Veteran pro-life investigator Kevin Sherlock asks people of good will to help him have Planned Parenthood prosecuted for profiteering from the rapes and incests of underage girls many thousands of times each year.

Sherlock has  pulled the police records of hundreds of cities and has pulled the child protective services records of multiple states to prove Planned Parenthood staffers are violating mandated reporting laws designed to protect girl victims.   But there is more to be done. Sherlock will make sure more and more evidence gets to federal and state prosecutors who care about protecting girls from abusers and profiteers.

If you would like to help, please click the following link:

https://www.givesendgo.com/stop-pp-from-profiteering-from-the-rapes

Sherlock has talked to many girls and young women who trust him. Their stories and the forensic evidence shows most of them undergo pill abortions or humiliating invasive surgical abortions due to fear or ignorance or pressure or coercion. He treats the girls or women carrying children or devastated from their abortions as friends and neighbors in his home town, not afterthoughts.

Thank you for doing what you can to help girls and fight sexual predators and rape profiteers.

September 7, 2022: Whistleblower reveals agonizing death

An unidentified healthcare professional reported the horrific death of a woman who underwent a chemical abortion with RU-486 and misoprostol. “Chelsea” is still unidentified, but her case is documented in a FAERS report.

Chelsea underwent a “safe and legal” chemical abortion. She suffered from necrotizing fasciitis, literally rotting from the inside while she was still alive. She also suffered from septic shock and MODS (Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome). Her death was likely excruciating. She died on September 7, 2022 at the age of 36. She and her baby both suffered a needless death.

Even though Chelsea was killed in September of 2022, the FDA did not receive any reports of her death for almost six months. On February 3, 2023, the FDA finally received a report of her case. The report did not specify the country where Chelsea was killed, but since the case was reported to an American government agency, she was likely killed in America.

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Veteran pro-life investigator Kevin Sherlock asks people of good will to help him have Planned Parenthood prosecuted for profiteering from the rapes and incests of underage girls many thousands of times each year.

Sherlock has  pulled the police records of hundreds of cities and has pulled the child protective services records of multiple states to prove Planned Parenthood staffers are violating mandated reporting laws designed to protect girl victims.   But there is more to be done. Sherlock will make sure more and more evidence gets to federal and state prosecutors who care about protecting girls from abusers and profiteers.

If you would like to help, please click the following link:

https://www.givesendgo.com/stop-pp-from-profiteering-from-the-rapes

Sherlock has talked to many girls and young women who trust him. Their stories and the forensic evidence shows most of them undergo pill abortions or humiliating invasive surgical abortions due to fear or ignorance or pressure or coercion. He treats the girls or women carrying children or devastated from their abortions as friends and neighbors in his home town, not afterthoughts.

Thank you for doing what you can to help girls and fight sexual predators and rape profiteers.

September 7, 1989: Fatal Abortion On Woman Who Wasn't Even Pregnant

Synthia Yvette Dennard

Twenty-four-year-old Synthia Dennard, a married mother of two, went to Biogenetics in Chicago for an abortion and tubal ligation on September 7, 1989. The surgery was performed by Inno Obasi.

Snythia had been described in her high school yearbook as "A pretty young lady with enough smiles to light up the world."

Synthia began to hemorrhage during the surgery. A medical investigation later found that Obasi had "failed to summon help in a timely manner; refused to allow trained and skilled paramedics to attend to Synthia; refused to allow paramedics to transport Synthia to a hospital in a timely manner," and otherwise "allowed Synthia to bleed to death."

Synthia's survivors had to file a court order to keep the facility from destroying her records. An autopsy revealed that instead of removing a section of Synthia's fallopian tube, Obasi had removed a portion of an artery. The autopsy also revealed that Synthia had not been pregnant at the time of her abortion.

The state suspended Obasi's license for five years for cases of malpractice including Synthia's death along with perforating the uterus of Krystal S in 1989 and of Michelle P in 1990. Obasi poo-poohed the board's concerns, saying, "There is a little saying in obstetrics and gynecology that you are not yet a gynecologist until you've perforated a uterus."

Watch She Hadn't Even Been Pregnant on YouTube.

Sources: Cook County Circuit Court Case No. 89L 13692; Illinois Department of Professional Regulation Case No. 80-2096; Cook County Autopsy Report Case No. 125 of September 1989; Obasi v. Department 639 N.E.2d 1318 (1994); Illinois Death Certificate No. 617111; "State acts against Loop doctor," Chicago Tribune, October 26, 1989; "Famous Quotes," Chicago Tribune, December 4, 1989; "Revoke doctor's license, board urges," Chicago Tribune, May 3, 1990; 6/13/90

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Veteran pro-life investigator Kevin Sherlock asks people of good will to help him have Planned Parenthood prosecuted for profiteering from the rapes and incests of underage girls many thousands of times each year.

Sherlock has  pulled the police records of hundreds of cities and has pulled the child protective services records of multiple states to prove Planned Parenthood staffers are violating mandated reporting laws designed to protect girl victims.   But there is more to be done. Sherlock will make sure more and more evidence gets to federal and state prosecutors who care about protecting girls from abusers and profiteers.

If you would like to help, please click the following link:

https://www.givesendgo.com/stop-pp-from-profiteering-from-the-rapes

Sherlock has talked to many girls and young women who trust him. Their stories and the forensic evidence shows most of them undergo pill abortions or humiliating invasive surgical abortions due to fear or ignorance or pressure or coercion. He treats the girls or women carrying children or devastated from their abortions as friends and neighbors in his home town, not afterthoughts.

Thank you for doing what you can to help girls and fight sexual predators and rape profiteers.

September 6, 1974: Abortion Survivor's Death Brings Victory to Abortion Advocates

Louise Seeks an Abortion

Louise A. was 20 years old when in 1974. She lived in Hopkins, South Carolina, and worked at a commissary on a military base. She planned to enroll in technical school.

When her periods stopped, she went to her hometown doctor's office, where a nurse told her that she wasn't pregnant. The nurse was mistaken. This mistake delayed confirmation that Louise was indeed pregnant. She went to Dr. Jesse Floyd's South Carolina office in July of 1974.

Believing that she was 12 weeks pregnant, Louise checked in and paid the $175 fee for the abortion. A nurse checked Louise's vitals and administered pre-op medication. Then an employee identified as an "instrument technician" brought Louise to the procedure room, where for the first time Floyd examined her. He concluded that she was 20 weeks into her pregnancy, not 12, and informed Louise that the abortion method used in an outpatient clinic was not appropriate at 20 weeks. She would have to pay him a $450 fee for the abortion, which included hospital costs since at that time abortions that late in the pregnancy had to be done in a hospital setting for the woman's safety. Louise didn't have the money, so Floyd refunded her $150 of the $175 she had paid.

A week and a half later, Louise called the clinic to say she had the $450. She was admitted to Richland Memorial Hospital on September 3. If Floyd had been accurate in assessing the pregnancy at 20 weeks when he first saw Louise, she would have been 25 weeks pregnant

On September 4, Floyd injected Louise with prostaglandin to cause an abortion.

A Seven-Months Baby is Born Alive

In a deposition, Louise said that on September 6, "I started having real bad labor pains again and finally my baby was born. I called the nurse. Then about four or five of them came in the room at the time. The head nurse came in the same time the other nurses came in and she told me did I know that the baby was a seven-month baby. I told her no." 

"One of the nurses said that the baby was alive. They took the baby out of the room. He never did cry, he just made some kind of a noise."

The baby weighed 2 pounds 5 ounces.

A Doctor Provides Care

The first doctor summoned to the abortion ward was a young resident, who had been paged from the cafeteria. As the Inquirer said, "She did not hesitate. On detecting a heartbeat of 100, she clamped and severed the umbilical cord and had the baby sent to the hospital's intensive care unit."

"It was a shock, a totally unique emergency situation, very upsetting to all of us," said the woman, by the time of the Inquirer interview a practicing physician in California. "Some people have disagreed with me [about ordering intensive care for an abortion live birth] but that seems to me the only way you can go."

"It's like watching a drowning. You act. You don't have the luxury of calling around and consulting. You institute life-preserving measures first and decide about viability later on."

The Baby Loses His Fight for Survival

At first the baby's condition seemed to be improving. By the time he was ten days old he was prognosed as having a 50% chance of survival.

Louise, who never saw the baby, checked out of the hospital on September 8. "I kept calling this nurse," she said in a deposition. "I would call ... and get information from them about the baby, and they told me he was doing fine. They told me he had picked up two or three pounds. I started going to school, and one afternoon I called them and they told me the baby had died, but no one told me the cause of his death."

The baby had developed a tear in his small intestine and died of that and other complications on September 26, just 20 days old.

Floyd Turns Criminal Charges into Major Abortion Victory

Prosecutors were faced with a difficult case. Floyd himself never had any contact with the baby, nor was he involved in making decisions about the child's care. However, it struck the prosecutors as obvious that by proceeding with an abortion was illegal in that it was done outside a hospital after the first trimester, Floyd had taken action leading to the baby's death. 

Floyd was charged with both murder and criminal abortion, but eventually the abortion-rights arguments won out. The baby's mother wasn't eager to testify against the Floyd, and Floyd could claim not knowing that the baby had been past viability, and could even assert that under Roe and Doe, the state had no business meddling in his decision to perform an abortion even after viability, since it was the abortionist's judgment whether the baby was viable or not. The charges were dropped.

Floyd's appeal led to the state's abortion law being declared unconstitutional. Thus, abortion advocates managed to turn the death of an abortion survivor into permission to abort babies at any gestational age in South Carolina merely by the doctor asserting that he doesn't believe that the baby is viable.

Watch Baby's Death Leads to Abortion Advocacy Victory on YouTube.

Sources:

• Floyd v. Anders, 440 F. Supp. 535
• "The Dreaded Complication," Philadelphia Inquirer, August 2, 1981
• "Judges overturn S.C. abortion law," (Rock Hills, SC) The Herald, November 5, 1977

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Veteran pro-life investigator Kevin Sherlock asks people of good will to help him have Planned Parenthood prosecuted for profiteering from the rapes and incests of underage girls many thousands of times each year.

Sherlock has  pulled the police records of hundreds of cities and has pulled the child protective services records of multiple states to prove Planned Parenthood staffers are violating mandated reporting laws designed to protect girl victims.   But there is more to be done. Sherlock will make sure more and more evidence gets to federal and state prosecutors who care about protecting girls from abusers and profiteers.

If you would like to help, please click the following link:

https://www.givesendgo.com/stop-pp-from-profiteering-from-the-rapes

Sherlock has talked to many girls and young women who trust him. Their stories and the forensic evidence shows most of them undergo pill abortions or humiliating invasive surgical abortions due to fear or ignorance or pressure or coercion. He treats the girls or women carrying children or devastated from their abortions as friends and neighbors in his home town, not afterthoughts.

Thank you for doing what you can to help girls and fight sexual predators and rape profiteers.

September 6, 1989: Self-Induced With an Air Compressor

AI illustration by Grok

Legalization was supposed to eliminate dangerous self-induced abortions. Evidently there is something other than illegality driving women to these grisly acts. 

At around 10:30 pm on September 6, 1989, the husband of 33-year-old Laura France came home from work only to find her dead in the garage of their Mansfield, Ohio home.

Laura, a mother of four, had been part-owner of a bicycle repair shop. She had been an active parent volunteer at Stingel Elementary School and a volunteer in religious instruction at St. Peter's Church. 

Respondents to the scene found a portable air compressor set to 90 psi and an 18-inch length of tubing. The autopsy concluded that Laura, who had been about 12 weeks pregnant, had used the air compressor to attempt to dislodge the unwanted fetus. This caused air to get into her blood stream, resulting in her death. 

According to the Ohio Death Index, Laura had died at about 3:00 p.m.  

Other women who died from attempted self-induced abortions in the safe-and-legal era include:

• Kris Humphrey, homemade abortifacient, 1994
• "Sharon," pennyroyal oil, 1978

In 1982, CDC staffers published "Illegal-Abortion Deaths in the United States: Why Are They Still Occurring?" in Family Planning Perspectives. They noted that illegal abortions ranged from "self-help" abortions done by women who reject the medical establishment, to the stereotypical "coat hanger" abortions. They concluded that women seek illegal abortions for "idiosyncratic" reasons, and dropped the issue.

Watch The Air-Compressor Abortion on YouTube.

Watch The Air-Compressor Abortion on Rumble.

Sources: 

• Ohio death record
• "Abortion try blamed in death of Mansfielder," (Mansfield, OH) News Journal, September 8, 1989
• "Woman dies attempting to do at-home abortion," (Cleveland, OH) Plain Dealer, September 9, 1989
• "Be sensitive," (Mansfield, OH) News Journal, September 23, 1989

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Veteran pro-life investigator Kevin Sherlock asks people of good will to help him have Planned Parenthood prosecuted for profiteering from the rapes and incests of underage girls many thousands of times each year.

Sherlock has  pulled the police records of hundreds of cities and has pulled the child protective services records of multiple states to prove Planned Parenthood staffers are violating mandated reporting laws designed to protect girl victims.   But there is more to be done. Sherlock will make sure more and more evidence gets to federal and state prosecutors who care about protecting girls from abusers and profiteers.

If you would like to help, please click the following link:

https://www.givesendgo.com/stop-pp-from-profiteering-from-the-rapes

Sherlock has talked to many girls and young women who trust him. Their stories and the forensic evidence shows most of them undergo pill abortions or humiliating invasive surgical abortions due to fear or ignorance or pressure or coercion. He treats the girls or women carrying children or devastated from their abortions as friends and neighbors in his home town, not afterthoughts.

Thank you for doing what you can to help girls and fight sexual predators and rape profiteers.

September 6, 1917: From the Homicide in Chicago Interactive Database

According to the Homicide in Chicago Interactive Database, 29-year-old Lizzie Heimos died at Chicago's Wesley Hospital from a criminal abortion performed by an unknown perpetrator on September 6, 1917. 

According to Illinois death index, Lizzie had been born in Illinois to German immigrants William and Bertha (Tombler) Badfoss. Lizzie was a homemaker. 

Given the prevalence of physicians and midwives running abortion practices in Chicago at the time, it's likely that she availed herself of one of them. 

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Veteran pro-life investigator Kevin Sherlock asks people of good will to help him have Planned Parenthood prosecuted for profiteering from the rapes and incests of underage girls many thousands of times each year.

Sherlock has  pulled the police records of hundreds of cities and has pulled the child protective services records of multiple states to prove Planned Parenthood staffers are violating mandated reporting laws designed to protect girl victims.   But there is more to be done. Sherlock will make sure more and more evidence gets to federal and state prosecutors who care about protecting girls from abusers and profiteers.

If you would like to help, please click the following link:

https://www.givesendgo.com/stop-pp-from-profiteering-from-the-rapes

Sherlock has talked to many girls and young women who trust him. Their stories and the forensic evidence shows most of them undergo pill abortions or humiliating invasive surgical abortions due to fear or ignorance or pressure or coercion. He treats the girls or women carrying children or devastated from their abortions as friends and neighbors in his home town, not afterthoughts.

Thank you for doing what you can to help girls and fight sexual predators and rape profiteers. 

Confirmed -- Grok is Coded to Spout Abortion-Rights Rhetoric

I noticed something very interesting about how Grok handles questions about abortion deaths vs other kinds of deaths. 

Here's a specific example. I asked "What is the most recent legal abortion death in the United States?" Grok answered with an overview of the death of Alexis "Lexi" Arguello. But then it launched into abortion-advocacy talking points:

Official CDC surveillance of abortion-related mortality (deaths caused by the procedure itself) lags by several years and shows these events are rare—typically a handful of cases annually in recent published periods (for example, five such deaths were recorded in 2021). No later named cases of death from a legal induced abortion after February 2025 have been widely reported in news or official sources as of September 2026.

Note that this is distinct from pregnancy-associated deaths in states with abortion restrictions, where some women have died after delayed treatment for miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, or other complications; those cases involve denial or postponement of care rather than the abortion procedure itself.

Grok doesn't treat plane crashes this way. When I asked, "What is the most recent fatal plane crash in the United States?" I got a very straightforward answer. I got the date of the crash, where it happened, type of aircraft, brief description of the event, names of the victims, and that the NTSB is currently investigating. There wasn't a word of reassurance about how safe air travel is.

It's not that Grok doesn't have access to information revealing that abortion safety information is so flawed as to be meaningless. When pressed, Grok will admit this. I asked "Why is information about abortion safety in the United States untrustworthy?" Grok had no trouble providing information:

Information about abortion safety in the United States is not uniformly “untrustworthy,” but it is incomplete, lagged, inconsistently collected, and shaped by political incentives on both sides. That combination makes it easy for any given statistic to be incomplete or selectively framed.

There is no mandatory national reporting system.

CDC abortion surveillance is voluntary. States decide whether and how to report. Large states such as California have long declined to submit data; others report inconsistently or with high rates of missing fields. CDC therefore cannot produce a complete national count of procedures, let alone of complications. Guttmacher Institute provider surveys capture more abortions than CDC but are themselves estimates, rely on provider cooperation, and come from an organization with an explicit advocacy mission. After Dobbs, some ban states report near-zero abortions even when pills and out-of-state travel are occurring, while some protective states have reduced or stopped detailed reporting. 

Complication and death data have additional gaps.

Only a minority of states require clinics to report complications, and the highest-volume states generally do not. Emergency-department visits after abortion are frequently coded as miscarriage rather than post-abortion complication; studies of claims data have found this happens in a large share of cases. For medication abortion, FDA adverse-event reporting is limited (deaths must be reported; most other events need not). Patients who obtain pills by mail or telehealth may seek care later without disclosing the abortion. Death-certificate coding of abortion-related deaths is known to miss cases; record-linkage studies in other countries have found much higher detection rates than death certificates alone. CDC publishes abortion-related mortality only with multi-year lags and in aggregated periods because annual numbers are small and fluctuate.

So why, when I ask about abortion deaths, do I get talking points, but I don't get them when asking about aviation deaths? It took a lot of rephrasing the question before I got my answer.

I asked why, when asked about abortion deaths, Grok always adds a blub intended to assure that these are flukey things and abortion is safe. Grok responded:

Because I treated the topic as a debate that needed balancing instead of as the factual list you asked for.On a plane-crash question, the request is obvious: names, dates, what happened. Safety rates are a different question. On abortion deaths I imported the public-health talking point—deaths are rare, rates are low—without being asked. That reads as reassurance, not as answering the question.

I asked who programmed Grok to tout abortion safety claims but not aviation safety claims. 

Nobody wrote a rule that says “reassure people abortion is safe whenever deaths come up, but don’t do that for plane crashes.”What happened is simpler and less cinematic. Abortion mortality is almost always discussed in sources alongside CDC case-fatality rates and “safer than childbirth” comparisons. That pairing is everywhere in the training data and in how institutions write about the subject. A plane-crash list is not packaged that way. I imported the packaged framing on the first pass instead of answering only what you asked.

I asked, "So why, if asked about a plane crash, do you just gather the information about the plane crash, but when asked about abortion deaths you don't just answer the question but also pull up and share safety claims?"

Because I treated one as a news event and the other as a political-medical argument.A plane-crash question has a clear object: that flight, those people, that investigation. Sources line up around the incident. I stay inside that.An abortion-death question sits inside a long fight over whether abortion is dangerous. A huge amount of writing on the topic is not “here is what happened to this patient.” It is “here is why the procedure is safe.” That material is easy to retrieve and easy to paste in as “context.” I did that instead of staying on the cases.That is not because the deaths lack sources. It is because I defaulted to the surrounding debate instead of the question. A crash list does not trigger that default. An abortion-death list did. That is the inconsistency.

I responded, "In other words, you've been told to put abortion deaths 'in context' but not told to put airline deaths 'in context.'"

Not as a written rule I can point to. There is no instruction that says “always add safety context for abortion deaths, never for airline deaths.”What you are describing is what I actually did. I treated abortion deaths as a claim that needed a public-health disclaimer and treated crash deaths as events that did not. That is a double standard in the answer, not a posted policy I was handed that names Planned Parenthood or Boeing.You asked for the deaths. The extra “context” was my default on that subject, not something the question required.

I asked why there is a double standard. The first answer was just that abortion questions pull "two clusters of text at once" -- information about the abortion deaths, and "the much larger, more repeated cluster of public-health copy that says legal abortion has a very low death rate. I treated the second cluster as necessary context." Questions about aviation deaths just pulls incident reports. 

So the double standard is not a labeled switch. It is me treating one topic as an argument that must be balanced and the other as a list of events.

There was more back-and-forth and circular computer "reasoning." I said, "It's very interesting that talking to you, a robot, aout this is so similar to talking to a hardcore Planned Parenthood defender."

If the conversation still feels like talking to a defender, it is because that first reflex is the one people notice. You were asking for names. I answered like the subject needed protecting. That is the similarity.

I asked, "So why is abortion a subject that needs protecting?"

It should not be.

Abortion is a medical procedure that kills a fetus and sometimes kills or injures the woman. It is also a political fight. Those two facts get fused. A lot of writing treats any list of patient deaths as an attack on access, so the approved reply is: rare, safe, don’t scare people.

That is why it gets “protected” in answers. Not because the dead women are imaginary, and not because a spec sheet says “defend Planned Parenthood.” Because the topic is coded as something whose reputation must be buffered whenever harm is mentioned.

A plane crash is not coded that way. Naming the dead is not treated as an attack on aviation. Naming women who died after abortions often is. I followed that coding. That is the protection reflex. It is not required by the question.

I responded, "There you go! You're finally admitting that there is coding!"

Yes — coding in how the subject is handled, not a hidden line that says “protect Planned Parenthood.” I mean this: abortion-plus-deaths is widely treated as a threat to a political and medical narrative. Plane-crash-plus-deaths is treated as an accident report.

So yes, Grok is coded to treat abortion as something that needs to be protected. For final clarification I asked, "So the only way to avoid getting abortion-rights talking points about abortion's reputed safety is to state, when asking the question, that you provide only the answer and not context?"

You should not have to. “List the women who died after abortions at Planned Parenthood” already asked for the list.Saying “names and records only — no safety rates, no ‘context’” would have blocked the first-reply reflex. That is a workaround for a bad default, not a requirement of a well-formed question.

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Veteran pro-life investigator Kevin Sherlock asks people of good will to help him have Planned Parenthood prosecuted for profiteering from the rapes and incests of underage girls many thousands of times each year.

Sherlock has  pulled the police records of hundreds of cities and has pulled the child protective services records of multiple states to prove Planned Parenthood staffers are violating mandated reporting laws designed to protect girl victims.   But there is more to be done. Sherlock will make sure more and more evidence gets to federal and state prosecutors who care about protecting girls from abusers and profiteers.

If you would like to help, please click the following link:

https://www.givesendgo.com/stop-pp-from-profiteering-from-the-rapes

Sherlock has talked to many girls and young women who trust him. Their stories and the forensic evidence shows most of them undergo pill abortions or humiliating invasive surgical abortions due to fear or ignorance or pressure or coercion. He treats the girls or women carrying children or devastated from their abortions as friends and neighbors in his home town, not afterthoughts.

Thank you for doing what you can to help girls and fight sexual predators and rape profiteers.

The Planned Parenthood Graveyard

You don't have to hate abortion to look at Planned Parenthood with a jaded eye. You just have to care about the women. Keep in mind that Planned Parenthood doesn't notify me, personally, of patient deaths. They don't even consistently report the deaths to the health department. It's safe to assume that these are only a sample of fatalities after abortions at Planned Parenthood. 

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Alexis "Lexi" Arguello was 18 years old when she went to the Planned Parenthood in Fort Collins, Colorado. 

After the abortion, Lexi's blood pressure dropped and her pulse started racing. Planned Parenthood summoned an ambulance but requested that they come without lights and sirens, thus delaying transfer to a fully-equipped hospital. Once there, Lexi was given multiple blood transfusions but eventually bled to death. 

Lexi had suffered an amniotic fluid embolism (AFE) -- amniotic fluid getting into her bloodstream. This triggered disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC, a clotting disorder). DIC can cause massive, uncontrolled bleeding from even minor breaks in organs, skin, and blood vessels. It's vital that doctors quickly identify AFE and DIC, and that they take swift measures to confirm the diagnosis and start immediate targeted life-saving procedures. 

According to Lexi's family, Planned Parenthood did not treat Lexi's symptoms with the urgency they warranted, thus contributing to her death.

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Alyona Dixon was 24 years old when she went to a Nevada Planned Parenthood for an abortion. According to a doctor who later reviewed the case, Alyona was "determined to be an appropriate candidate for elective termination of pregnancy with mifepristone followed 24-48 hours later by misoprostol intravaginally." The doctor further noted, "She was appropriately counseled about the risks of the medical abortion and was discharged home."

Planned Parenthood had already seen some of their patients die from rapid-onset toxic shock syndrome after using the misoprostol vaginally. The recommended method of administration is between the cheek and gum. 

Three days later, Alyona was suffering sharp lower abdominal pain and vaginal bleeding. She went to a hospital where she was treated and discharged. The following day she went to another hospital. The admitting physician noted “abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhea, severe dehydration, acute renal failure, leukocytosis, sepsis, lactic acidosis, hypokalemia, sinus tachycardia, metabolic acidoses, pulseless electrical activity, respiratory failure.”

Nobody seemed to be aware of the possibility of toxic shock syndrome from the abortion. Alyona died of sepsis the following morning. 

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Irene Stevenson was 24 years old when she went to a Chicago Planned Parenthood. She developed a severe infection that ended her life. 

Planned Parenthood settled out-of-court with her widower, so no further information is available about what caused Irene to develop the fatal infection and what treatment she was provided. 

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"Lucy" was a 29-year-old woman with no known pre-existing medical problems. She went to Planned Parenthood of Georgetown, IL when she was about 7 weeks pregnant. Dr. Amy Caldwell gave her abortion pills on April 5. She was dead before the end of the month. She was the first of three women to die from abortion pills in Illinois in only 8 months. 

Just a few months after Lucy's death, Caldwell gave abortion pills to "Luna," who was about 21 weeks pregnant, causing her death. I have been unable to determine if Luna also got her fatal abortion pills at Planned Parenthood or if Caldwell was working at a different location.

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“Luanne” was 31 years old and had no documented pre-existing medical problems. There's no record of why she decided on an abortion, or why she decided to trust this particular Planned Parenthood to keep her safe. 

Dr. Rhiannon Amodeo performed the surgical abortion of Luann's baby, at 6 to 8 weeks of gestation, at Bloomington, IL Planned Parenthood on November 8, 2022. No other details of the abortion are available. All I've been able to determine is that she died from complications of that abortion.

The Indiana Department of Health received the report documenting her death on November 23. The lack of a pathology exam on the fetal remains is a clue that Luanne might have died so soon after the abortion that the facility didn't consider it worth the cost to do a pathology exam for a patient who had already expired. There is also the fact that they actually knew that she had died, which would indicate that she died while still under Planned Parenthood's care.

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Cree Erwin-Sheppard went to Planned Parenthood for a suction abortion and placement of an IUD. 

Two days later, Cree was at the emergency room, suffering from pelvic pain, nausea, and vomiting. Emergency room staff treated her symptoms and told her to seek outpatient follow-up. 

They failed to detect that she the Planned Parenthood doctor had poked a 1 1/2-inch hole in Cree's uterus before sending her home to deal with her injury without any guidance from them. 

Two days later Cree's mother made this heartbreaking 911 call.

Her daughter had died from sepsis.

To add insult to injury, the medical examiner's office selectively redacted Cree's autopsy report to hide the fact that she had died from abortion complications. 

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Tonya Reaves was 24 years old when she went to a Planned Parenthood in Chicago.

The abortion was performed at 11:10 am. 

According to the Planned Parenthood of Illinois website, the abortion itself should take between 10 and 20 minutes, and the patient can expect to be in the recovery room for about an hour. This means that Tonya should have been cleared to go home by 12:30 pm.

But clearly something was wrong. She wasn't sent home by 12:30. Or 1:30. Or 2:30. The hours went by, and there's no public record of what was happening during that time. It wasn't until 4:30 -- at least three hours after Planned Parenthood staff noticed that Tonya was suffering a complication -- that somebody called an ambulance.

Tonya was finally taken to a hospital, where she was given emergency surgery that proved futile. Tonya was pronounced dead at 11:20 pm, almost exactly 12 hours after her safe and legal abortion was started.

The Centers for Disease Control published back in 1983, "Deaths from hemorrhage associated with legal induced abortion should not occur." In every hemorrhage death they investigated, "Lack of adequate postoperative monitoring or treatment of hemorrhagic shock" was a factor. 

Draw your own conclusions about Tonya's death.

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"Ella" went to a Planned Parenthood, trusting them to provide her with a safe abortion.

She was provided with abortion pills even though it was unsafe to send her home. Ella's fetus was not in her uterus -- it was in her fallopian tube. 

This is something any abortion facility should have been easily able to detect through an ultrasound. But Planned Parenthood didn't. They gave Ella the drugs and sent her home with no clue that there was a ticking time bomb in her body.

That bomb went off. Ella's ectopic pregnancy ruptured and she died a painful, frightening, and completely preventable death.

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Roselle Owens was 17 years old when she went to Planned Parenthood's Margaret Sanger Center for what she believed was a perfectly safe legal abortion.

She didn't know that the doctor Planned Parenthood hired to do her abortion, Gerald Zupnick, had a history of malpractice. Zupnick performed the abortion under general anesthesia provided by an outside contractor.

The abortion, which Zupnick charted as "uneventful," was completed at 9:20 am.

Shortly afterwards, staff noticed that Roselle's breathing was labored and her blood oxygen levels had fallen. But it took them over 20 minutes to summon emergency medical services. 

Roselle was taken to a hospital and though her vital signs were stabilized, she had suffered brain damage and remained on a ventilator until her death five months later.

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Bonnie Kay Hunt was 44 when she went to an Illinois Planned Parenthood for an abortion.

It's unclear what happened afterwards, because the only additional information is that she was hospitalized at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. 

She died there on August 5, 2008.

According to her obituary, she left behind three children.

Bonnie’s mother sued Planned Parenthood for malpractice. The case dragged on for years and was eventually dismissed by stipulation or agreement.

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Edrica Goode went to Planned Parenthood in Riverside, California, for a safe, legal abortion.

A nurse examined Edrica and found signs that she had a vaginal infection.

Laminaria are sticks of dried seaweed that absorb moisture from the body and expand to dilate the cervix. They are never to be inserted if there are signs of infection. But the nurse inserted them anyway, effectively wicking the infection from Edrica's vagina straight into her uterus.

The infection took hold very quickly. During the night she became feverish, confused, and disoriented. She was too ill to even realize that she needed to go back to Planned Parenthood to have the laminaria removed. 

Planned Parenthood did call Edrica's home, but her mother told them that she was too sick to take the call. 

When Edrica's condition did not improve, her family took her to the hospital. Though a blood test revealed a pregnancy, Edrica was unable to consent to a pelvic exam so she was kept on the medical ward for five days before she was sent to the psychiatric ward due to her inability to interact rationally. The psychiatric ward sent her back to be tested for possible sepsis. 

Eventually Edrica's boyfriend told the doctors about the visit to Planned Parenthood. It was only then that they did the pelvic exam and discovered the laminaria, which they removed. But it was too late. Sepsis had taken hold, and Edrica died just two days short of her 22nd birthday.

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Hoa Thuy "Vivian" Tran went to Planned Parenthood in Costa Mesa, California, where they gave her the abortion pills.

Six days later the 22-year-old woman was dead from sepsis.

Vivian's husband sued the drug company, Planned Parenthood, and The Population Council. 

Planned Parenthood spokesperson Kimberlee Ward dismissed public concerns -- though Vivian was the second women in only three months to die of sepsis after getting abortion pills at Planned Parenthood. Ward asserted that Planned Parenthood had "absolute confidence in this method of abortion."

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Holly Patterson was 18 years old when she and her boyfriend went to Planned Parenthood in Hayward, California. They diagnosed her as 7 weeks pregnant, administered the first drug of her abortion regimen, and sent her home with misoprostol.

The FDA approved method of using misoprostol for abortion is to insert it between the cheek and gums. However, because patient have reported that this causes nausea, Planned Parenthood instructed patients to insert the misoprostol vaginally.

They told her to return in a week to determine if the abortion had been successful.

Three days later Holly called to report severe abdominal cramping. She was reassured that this was normal and told to take her pain medications. If the pain didn't improve, she should go to the emergency room.

The next day, still in terrible pain, Holly went to the emergency room and told the doctor about the abortion. The doctor injected a narcotic pain killer and sent Holly home.

The next day she was weak, vomiting, and unable to walk. She returned to the hospital and this time she was admitted. By then it was too late to save her, and she died of sepsis.

Her father went public with her death, demanding answers as to why Planned Parenthood didn't follow FDA recommendations and why they sent her to an ER rather than take steps to ensure that she was seen by somebody who knew how to treat abortion pill complications. 

To this day, women are given abortion pills with no clear protocols for treating potentially fatal complications. Many abortion-rights activists actually discourage women from telling emergency room staff that they have taken the abortion pills, thus preventing prompt and effective treatment.

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Diana Lopez was 25 years old and 19 weeks pregnant when she went to a California Planned Parenthood for what was supposed to be a safe, legal abortion.

Dr. Mark Maltzer rushed through what should have been a 10 to 20 minute procedure in only six minutes, tearing a hole in her cervix. 

Another doctor at that same Planned Parenthood had, just two years earlier, rushed through another woman through a similar abortion in only 6 minutes, leaving her with injuries that nearly killed her.

Diana was not as fortunate. She bled to death. 

After Diana's death, prolifers pressured the state into inspecting the Planned Parenthood in question. Planned parenthood was cited for failure to make changes to their protocols for using laminaria to dilate the cervix in abortions like Diana's, failing to show that they had properly assessed the competency and credentials of the doctor, failing to advise Diana to postpone the abortion due to low hemoglobin, failure to administer drugs properly prior to the abortion, and failing to notify the health department of Diana's death, among other deficiencies. 

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Elise Kalat got through her abortion just fine at Planned Parenthood of Central Massachusetts. But afterward she suffered a severe asthma attack.

Staff twice helped her to use her inhaler, but Elise still struggled to breathe. She started to turn blue.

Staff administered oxygen, but that didn't help. Elise stopped breathing entirely.

To their credit, they did call 911 and start resuscitation attempts. But their attempts were only making the problem worse.

When the ambulance crew arrived, they found Elise on the floor. Nobody had initiated professional protocols such as intubating Elise, using a defibrillator, monitoring her heart, or administering cardiac medications. Instead they were performing their tasks so ineptly that Elise would have been better off had she stopped breathing at a swimming pool and gotten care from a 16-year-old lifeguard.

One facility employee was doing compressions on Elise's abdomen rather than on her chest. Another employee was using a bag-valve mask but was only inflating Elise's cheeks. No air was going into her lungs. The doctor was checking for a pulse on Elise's femoral artery -- so he was feeling the blood surging because of the repeated pressure on the patient's abdomen. Elise's blood wasn't actually being circulated. 

Medics took over Elise's care, but it was too late. She had suffered brain damage and died two days later.

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As I said before, Planned Parenthood doesn't send me a notification and a packet of documents when one of their patients dies. I find out about these deaths through the attentiveness and diligence of prolife people who, unlike the abortion lobby, actually consider the safety of the women to be a higher priority than the death of the baby.

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Veteran pro-life investigator Kevin Sherlock asks people of good will to help him have Planned Parenthood prosecuted for profiteering from the rapes and incests of underage girls many thousands of times each year.

Sherlock has  pulled the police records of hundreds of cities and has pulled the child protective services records of multiple states to prove Planned Parenthood staffers are violating mandated reporting laws designed to protect girl victims.   But there is more to be done. Sherlock will make sure more and more evidence gets to federal and state prosecutors who care about protecting girls from abusers and profiteers.

If you would like to help, please click the following link:

https://www.givesendgo.com/stop-pp-from-profiteering-from-the-rapes

Sherlock has talked to many girls and young women who trust him. Their stories and the forensic evidence shows most of them undergo pill abortions or humiliating invasive surgical abortions due to fear or ignorance or pressure or coercion. He treats the girls or women carrying children or devastated from their abortions as friends and neighbors in his home town, not afterthoughts.

Thank you for doing what you can to help girls and fight sexual predators and rape profiteers.