Two Botched Executions, Only One Outcry

Christa Pike

The internet is abuzz over the botched execution of Christa Pike via lethal injection. She was twice injected with pentobarbital, a drug used in veterinary euthanasia and adopted by Tennessee as a replacement for the older sequence of anesthetic, paralytic, and potassium chloride to stop the heart. There had been outcry that insufficient anesthetic might leave the murderer able to feel pain while dying, leading to manufacturers' refusal to sell the drugs for executions. Pentobarbital is expected to quickly cause unconsciousness, respiratory arrest, and death. 

Why Was Christa Slated for Death?

In January of 1995, Christa Pike was 18 years old, living at a Job Corps center. Pike was convinced that a classmate, 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, was trying to steal her boyfriend, 17-year-old Tadaryl Shipp. Pike enlisted the help of Shipp and another Job Corps student, 18-year-old Shadolla Peterson, to kill Colleen.

Colleen Slemmer

The three of them told Colleen that they were going to make peace and get high together. They took her to a remote area of the Job Corps campus. Shadolla Peterson kept watch while Christa Pike and Tadaryl Shipp tortured Christa to death. Over a period of about 30 minutes, they beat her, slammed her head into concrete, cut her with a box cutter and a meat cleaver, and carved a pentagram into her chest while their terrified victim begged them to stop. At one point Colleen was able to break free and run, but they chased her down and resumed the attack. Christa Pike finally finished the job by bashing Colleen's head in with a chunk of asphalt.

Pike took a piece of Colleen's skull as a souvenir and showed it off to classmates, describing what she had done to the teen she had viewed as a rival for Tadaryl Shipp's affections.

This brazenness, of course, led to her arrest, conviction, and death sentence.

But Wait! There's More!

Christa Pike's murderous impulses didn't end with the death of Colleen Slemmer. While on Death Row she tried to strangle another inmate. She chose to remain a danger to the lives of others even while incarcerated.

Another Botched Lethal Injection

The botched execution of Christa Pike made me think of another botched execution -- the execution of Sarah Brown in Kansas during the summer of 1993. Two injections of potassium chloride directly into her brain were unsuccessful in causing death. She was then wrapped in a blanket and left unattended for 24 hours before a nurse intervened and said that Sarah should be provided with care. Severely brain damaged, Sarah lost her vision and would never walk or talk. She died five years later, on September 28, 1998.

What crime had Sarah Brown committed that had ended in her being slated for death?

Sarah Brown

Sarah's crime was the mere fact of her existence. She came into being in the womb of a mother who chose an abortion at 36 weeks. Using Sarah's mother's age -- just 15 years old -- Dr. George Tiller proclaimed the death of Sarah to be vital to preserving the health of her mother.

There was no public outcry over Sarah Brown's botched execution. There were no hearings to determine if it was okay to continue to inject potassium chloride into the brains of healthy, viable unborn babies. In fact, when the Attorney General of Kansas decided to address Tiller's post-viability "health of the mother" abortions, it was he, not Tiller, whose career was destroyed.

That's how we do things in America. Just as abortion-rights activists who had power and authority in Pennsylvania moved to protect the interests of Kermit Gosnell, abortion-rights activists who had power and authority in Kansas moved to protect the interests of George Tiller.

Christa Pike botched execution lead to a huge public outcry, a huge public debate, and political wrangling over when and how and why to execute people who have committed a crime and gone through due process. Would that Sarah Brown's botched execution had gotten even a tenth of that attention.

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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.

October 3, 1977: The Death that Delighted Abortion Enthusiasts

Operational Preparation of the Environment

In 1976, the Hyde Amendment went into effect, banning the use of Federal funds to pay for abortions except to save the mother from an immediate threat to her life. The measure was named for its author, Congressman Henry Hyde. Abortion advocates had been keening from the moment the Hyde Amendment was up for vote. They painted a ghastly picture of coathanger-impaled women littering the streets as poor women were driven to desperation by lack of "access".

When the Hyde Amendment went into effect, abortion advocates ramped up the hysteria and waited for a death, any death, they could hang around Henry Hyde's neck. 

This process of creating a narrative and then either waiting for, facilitating, or creating an event that can push the narrative is called "operational preparation of the environment." 

On October 3, 1977, the abortion advocacy vultures got what they'd been waiting for: a dead woman they could use as leverage in the fight to once again force taxpayers to fund elective abortions. 

Operational Preparation Pays Off

Undated yearbook photo of Rosie

Their triumph started playing out on September 26, 1977, when 27-year-old Rosaura "Rosie" Jimenez had shown up at the emergency room of McAllen General Hospital in the Texas border town of McAllen.

She was overwhelmingly sick with septic shock. However, she denied having had an abortion, instead telling the doctors that her period had just started that day. 

Her uterus was enlarged, but due to guarding (resisting pressing on an area due to pain) the doctors had a hard time determining the size. Her cervix was dilated enough that they could insert a ring forceps. She had a dark bloody discharge. She was clearly suffering from a septic abortion.

She was immediately started on IV penicillin and fluids. Doctors performed a D&C to remove any infected material from her uterus. An examination of the tissue confirmed that she had been pregnant.

Rosie's condition deteriorated. She was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit. She became jaundiced and developed a rash that covered her trunk and upper thighs. Her pulse increased to 160/minute. Her hemoglobin dropped, as did her urine output. 

Doctors performed a hysterectomy during her second day in the hospital, which seemed to improve her condition slightly. However, six hours later she suffered heart failure. She was treated aggressively in efforts to prevent edema, address her clotting problems, and defeat the infection. Eventually doctors performed a tracheotomy and put Rosie on a ventilator.

In spite of these efforts, she died on October 3 from renal and cardiac failure caused by disseminated intravascular coagulopathy (failure of the blood to clot properly) triggered by gas gangrene from a criminal abortion. She left behind a four-year-old daughter.

The initial response of the abortion lobby to news of Rosie's death was little short of euphoric. They had their trophy, their dead woman whose story they could leverage, they hoped, into the restoration of tax money flowing into abortion clinics. They've never stopped using Rosie's death to advocate for cheap, readily available abortions.

A Voice in the Wilderness

One voice stood out from the crowd: Ellen Frankfort, author of Rosie: the investigation of a wrongful death. Frankfort was disgusted with the bulk of the prochoice movement, who seemed content to make note of Rosie's death and then milk it for political gain. She began an investigation into what had led Rosie to her death, and she found a lot that neither the Centers for Disease Control nor abortion advocacy organizations had been willing to look for, since all they'd wanted was political leverage. They weren't looking for the real culprit behind Rosie's death: they'd had a bogeyman in mind even before she'd died, in the form of Henry Hyde.

Off to McAllen Frankfort went, to learn all she could.

The Whole Story

Rosie was one of 12 children of migrant farm workers. A single mother on welfare, she and a friend, Diana Rivera, moved into adjacent apartments to encourage each other to complete schooling and build better lives for themselves and their young children. Rosie planned to become a special education teacher.

Rosie's efforts to better her life, however, did not extend to her choice in men. Her long term boyfriend, Jesse, was in prison. 

Rosie had already undergone two abortions at taxpayer expense, one performed by her private ob/gyn, the second at a facility Rosie had been referred to by a local Planned Parenthood. She had become pregnant prior to both of these abortions after stopping her birth control pills on the advice of a physician.

In September of 1977, she suspected that she was again pregnant, and consulted with a cousin and a friend, who told her that Medicaid would no longer pay for elective abortions.

Rosie had also gone to her family physician, Dr. Homer, for treatment of pain in her sternum on September 19. She mentioned that she might be pregnant. He did not arrange for a pregnancy test or discuss her options with her in any way, but simply informed her that Medicaid would no longer pay for abortions, and let it rest at that. A referral seemed to have been in order, either to a prolife center that would help her with the expenses of continuing the pregnancy, or to the local Planned Parenthood, that could arrange an abortion on a sliding scale and could possibly help her tap into private funds for elective abortions. Dr. Homer effectively abandoned his patient.

The week of September 19, Rosie went to Reynosa, Mexico for some sort of injection to cause an abortion. She had the injection at a pharmacy, and paid $5. When the first injection didn't have the desired effect she returned for a second one. This one left her experiencing nausea, vomiting, dizziness, and fainting but failed to dislodge the fetus.

On September 25, Rosie consulted with her cousin, saying that she wanted to find a cheap abortionist quickly. At 7:00 that evening Rosie's cousin brought her to Maria Pineda, a lay midwife in McAllen, who charged $120 to insert a catheter into Rosie's uterus. Fifteen minutes later, she sent Rosie home.

Rosie had pain and cramping upon returning home. Over the next 12 hours, she developed an increasing fever, and had nausea, vomiting, chills, dizziness, and increasing vaginal bleeding. The next afternoon, Rosie was unable to get out of bed. She asked a friend to take her to the hospital where in spite of heroic efforts, doctors were unable to save her life.

The Reaction

Even the Centers for Disease Control, supposedly politically neutral public servants, were poised to place blame on the Hyde Amendment for whatever ill-advised decisions were made in its wake. Rosie's doctors reported the death to the CDC, the CDC notified their allies in the abortion lobby, and Rosie's death was quickly trumpeted nationwide as proof that Henry Hyde was a murderer and taxpayers should immediately resume funding elective abortions to prevent another such death. 

What is particularly telling in Rosie's death is that prochoice groups had been very successful in spreading the word that public funding for abortion had been cut -- Rosie's friend and cousin, as well as her physician, were well aware of this fact -- but they had pointedly failed to also pass out the word that Planned Parenthood still referred for abortions on a sliding scale, and that private funds were available. It's almost as if the public-relations departments of Planned Parenthood and other abortion-advocacy groups had deliberately increased the odds of a tragedy like Rosie's death in order to provide the corpses needed in order to prop up a drive to restore tax monies to abortion facilities. Again, this is a clear example of operational preparation of the environment.

Frankfort was particularly disgusted with the response of public health officials, who likewise simply announced Rosie's death and began a call to restore abortion funding, but made no effort to close down the illegal abortion practice where Rosie had undergone her fatal abortion. 

Frankfort took it upon herself to orchestrate a sting. She coordinated a dramatic raid, in partnership with Rosie's close friend Diana Rivera, that put the lay abortionist out of business.

The Sting

In June of 1978, nine months after Rosie's death, Diana, accompanied by a friend, went to Pineda's house. The friend was wearing a concealed microphone. Ellen Frankfort and Frances Kissing, then head of the National Abortion Federation, along with a Dallas television crew, listened in from a station wagon parked outside. 

Diana said that she was pregnant, needed to get an abortion quickly before her father found out she was pregnant, and couldn't afford to go to a doctor. Pineda quoted a price of $125 -- $5 more than she'd charged Rosie -- and told Diana to return at 1:30 the following afternoon.

Diana returned the next day, wired with the microphone. She paid the midwife using marked bills.

Pineda took her into a room with a cot and a bed and locked the door. Medical instruments were sitting in a jar of dirty water. Diana later said that she was crying and shaking, thinking of how just nine months ago her dear friend had sat in that same room, looking at those same dirty instruments, and had gone through with the abortion that ended her life.

To stall for time, Diana asked Pineda to describe what she was going to do. Pineda said that she would insert what Diana described as a filthy red rubber hose, which would cause bleeding. Like many safe-and-legal abortionists, Rivera instructed Diana to return to her rather than go to a doctor if she suffered complications. In the event that she did end up seeing a doctor, Rivera told her, make sure she claimed that she'd gotten her illegal abortion in Mexico. She then told Diana to take off her clothes and lie down on the bed.

That was when Kissling, listening from the station wagon, ran to a phone booth to call the police.

When the police arrived, Rivera hid the catheter in her bra and pushed her instruments and patient into a bathroom. Police still arrested her, along with the women who had orchestrated the sting. They were questioned for hours but finally released. Diana later said that when she was sitting in the police station, she cried and cried, saying "Rosie, we got her."

A Disappointing Outcome

Diana's excitement was short-lived. Rivera, who had killed a woman by performing a criminal abortion, was only convicted of practicing medicine without a license. This was a mere Class A misdemeanor. She served three days in jail and paid a $100 fine -- less than she'd charged Rosie for the abortion that had killed her.

"The FIRST!" Of how many?

And what of the hysteria? Had it been justified? Was Rosie's death the first of a new trend of women dead from being "forced" to resort to criminal abortionists?

There was indeed a small spike in reported illegal abortion deaths after the Hyde Amendment (from 2 in 1976 to 4 in 1977 to 7 in 1978). But there was likewise a spike in reported legal abortion deaths as well -- a far larger spike, from 11 in 1976 to 15 in 1977, falling to 8 in 1978. (I don't believe that the CDC's reported death numbers are accurate, but they're all we have to work with, and more to the point, abortion supporters place great faith in them.)

Despite predictions of a surge in carnage from criminal abortions, a study by the Centers for Disease Control, "The Effect of Restricting Public Funds for Legal Abortion," found "no evidence of a statistically significant increase in the number of complications from illegal abortions." In fact, they found that while there was no change in the illegal abortion complications, there was a significant decrease in publicly funded hospitalizations for legal abortion complications in cities where funding was restricted, compared to cities in areas where state or local government picked up the tab for elective abortions.

In other words, cutting funds for elective abortions actually had a measurable positive impact: Fewer women were ending up hospitalized for complications of elective abortions. Which strikes me as a good thing, personally. But the CDC remained adamantly in favor of funding elective abortions, asserting in the 1977 Abortion Surveillance Summary, "For at least 1 woman, the non-availability of public funds led to a situation in which she was forced to choose the less-safe illegal abortion because of financial factors." Like the abortion lobby they serve, they never took into account that Rosie had the money to pay for a legal abortion, available on a sliding scale. They especially never considered the possibility that Rosie could get support to continue both her pregnancy and her education. 

The Verdict

So was Rosie's death a fluke? Probably not. The heavy publicity put out by the prochoice movement about how poor women would be "forced" to resort to dangerous criminal abortions probably left Rosie, and some others like her, with the mistaken impression that criminal abortion (rather than birth or even sliding-scale legal abortion) was their only option. Only after the sting, when Frankfort and Rosie's friends banded together, were abortion funds publicized and new ones started. While I recognize the noble motives of women such as Rosie's friends, I retain cynicism about the motives of abortion-rights organizations, for whom these funds serve to funnel money into the pockets of their major donors -- abortion practitioners.

I agree with abortion advocates that the death of Rosie Jimenez was avoidable. But I disagree with them that lack of public funding was to blame. Prochoice organizations had ample opportunity to tout other resources. Prochoice people all around Rosie had opportunities to steer her toward a "safe and legal" abortion, had they chosen to do so. Not a one of them did. And the bigger problem was that nobody ever seemed to entertain the notion that abortion might not be the answer in the first place.

What's additionally puzzling about this whole turn of events is that the facility to which Planned Parenthood referred abortion patients charged only $130 for an abortion for poor women, just $10 more than Rosie paid for the amateur abortion that took her life. 

It's difficult to believe that a $10 price difference put the legal abortion out of Rosie's reach, especially if we consider that the day before her abortion she'd spent $8 on a cake for a friend's baby shower, and when she died she had a $800 scholarship check in her purse. In spite of her friend Diana's urging, Rosie refused to use any money from that check. Diana said that she'd offered to help Rosie come up with the money for a non-subsidized abortion, perhaps with a bake sale. But Rosie had for some reason rejected this help and had gone to Rivera while Diana was out of town visiting her mother.

Rosie Jimenez remains a poster child of the abortion lobby. Their own role in her death is never acknowledged. Henry Hyde is blamed instead -- in spite of his key role in passing a law that reduced abortion injuries among women like Rosie, and in reducing complications, surely also reduced abortion deaths -- in spite of the abortion lobby's best efforts.

As recently as 2021, the abortion lobby put Rosie's daughter on the front page in an effort to promote the abortion lobby. They claim that their motive is to prevent unsafe abortions, but given their appalling opposition to any efforts to ensure that legal abortions are performed safely, I doubt their motives.

Remember, the abortion lobby ignores the 15 safe-and-legal abortion deaths they counted for 1977. They may or may not include any of the five women whose 1977 deaths I've covered:

• Mary Paredez, who bled to death in the hospital where her abortion had been performed.  The Centers for Disease Control, in reviewing deaths like Mary's, noted that, "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. Mary was in a hospital. What excuse do they have for letting her bleed out?
• Louchrisser Jackson, who bled to death from a safe and legal abortion in Texas. The abortionist dragged his feet in treating the hemorrhage. First, instead of calling EMS and having her taken to the hospital, he ordered blood for a transfusion and waited for it to be delivered. Then, instead of calling EMS and having her taken to a hospital, he tried to give her a transfusion with his own blood, which was not a compatible blood type. Then, instead of calling EMS, he called a private ambulance service that was not designated for emergency calls but rather for routine transfers, and didn't tell them that the call was an emergency. Louchrisser was already in cardiac arrest by the time they arrived, so rather than wait for an EMS ambulance they began providing care and transported her to the hospital immediately, but by that point it was too late to save her. Hers was another totally avoidable hemorrhage death from a legal abortion.

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  NAF Member: Hope Clinic for Women

  Barbaralee Davis, who was sent home from a National Abortion Federation clinic with the face and spine of her dead baby embedded in a tear in her uterus. She was pale and weak, with low blood pressure and other signs of hemorrhage when she was discharged. Like Mary and Louchrisser, Barbaralee needlessly bled to death. The CDC did analyze her death in their 1977 Abortion Surveillance Summary, but did nothing to publicize that a National Abortion Federation clinic was so dangerously slipshod in their patient care. 
• Mary Ann Page, who went into cardiac arrest during a combination abortion and tubal ligation
• Jacqueline Bailey, who lay crying out for help and writhing in pain in a California abortion hospital, where nurses just closed the door to her room instead of attending to her. By the time a nurse decided to take her seriously, she was unresponsive. They called an ambulance to transport her to a fully equipped hospital, but it was too late to save her life. Her cries of agony were because her uterus had torn open, and she was left to bleed out. Like Mary, Louchrisser, and Barbaralee, Jacqueline bled to death needlessly.

They also ignore the seven safe-and-legal deaths they counted for 1978, a death count that may or may not include the ones I know about:

• Minnie Lathan, who died after her bowel was punctured during a combination abortion and tubal ligation
• Marina Deschapell, who died after a safe and legal abortion in a clinic owned and operated by an erstwhile criminal abortionist. She stopped breathing due to a reaction to the anesthetic drugs, and the facility did not have proper equipment to resuscitate her.
• Gail Mazo, who died after an abortion at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York
• Elizabeth Tsuji, who was one of five women to die from botched abortions at Inglewood Women's Hospital
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  Belinda Byrd, who also died from a botched abortion at Inglewood Women's Hospital. Belinda was the 69th of 74 women that Stephen Pine rushed through Inglewood's single procedure room. Afterwards she was weak and reporting that her legs were numb, but Pine had already left the facility so there was no doctor present to look after her. When she stopped breathing, staff performed CPR for two hours before calling an ambulance to take her to a properly equipped hospital. She arrived there already brain dead and remained in a coma until life support was discontinued. She had bled out from a hole in her uterus. Like Mary, Louchrisser, Barbaralee, and Jacqueline, Belinda needlessly bled to death.
• Sherry Emry, who died because of slipshod procedures. After an abortion, the contents of the suction container are supposed to be examined to ensure that all of the fetal parts are accounted for. If there are no fetal parts, this is a sign that the woman actually has an ectopic pregnancy. But clinic owner Arnold Bickham just had his staff throw the contents of the containers away. They failed to diagnose the ectopic pregnancy, which later ruptured, causing Sherry to bleed to death needlessly, just like Mary, Louchrisser, Barbaralee, Jacqueline, and Belinda. Bickham himself later plunked a hemorrhaging teenage abortion patient into a wheelchair and shoved her out the door to bleed to death.
• Gloria Small, who went to an Orlando facility operated by Dr. Ronald Tauber, who besides being a seedy abortionist also turned out to be a dangerous pedophile. Tauber kept patients overnight, so the place looked like a hospital, but it was actually just his private practice, a doctor's office not subject to state oversight. Tauber punctured Gloria's uterus during the abortion. Instead of identifying and addressing the cause of his patient's bleeding, Tauber packed Gloria's uterus with medical gauze and kept her overnight. He did not transfer Gloria to a hospital until 30 hours after she had been injured. She died despite an emergency hysterectomy. Like Mary, Louchrisser, Barbaralee, Jacqueline, Belinda, and Sherry, Gloria bled to death needlessly. 

With the Centers for Disease Control saying that there's no legitimate reason for a woman to bleed to death from a legal abortion, it strikes me as disturbing that of the 12 deaths I know about in a 2-year period, seven of them bled to death. But since those deaths can't be blamed, however tangentially, on abortion laws, we're supposed to turn a blind eye and instead stick with the narrative.

Watch "Rosie: The Creation of a Poster Child" on YouTube.

Sources: 

• Death certificate
• Centers for Disease Control: Abortion Surveillance 1977 Issued September 1979
• "Reckoning With Rosie," Texas Observer, November 3, 2015

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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.

Planned Parenthood's Death Toll vs. "Fake Clinics"

 Abortion-rights supporters continue to attack prolife pregnancy centers. They call them "fake clinics" and claim that they "endanger women." Meanwhile abortion-rights supporters remain blithely indifferent to facilities that actually do endanger -- and even kill -- women. They maintain this indifference even when the facility is a fake clinic -- a doctor's private practice advertising and presenting itself as if it is a licensed and inspected clinic. 

No woman has ended up with a hysterectomy or a colostomy because she visited a CPC. No woman has ended up with her life in a tailspin because she visited a CPC. No woman has ended up in her grave because she trusted a CPC. Many have been helped, a few have been irritated. And that's it.

But terrible fates have met women who trusted abortion facilities. Young girls have had to have hysterectomies before they were out of high school. Women have ended up passing waste through a stoma into a bag for the rest of their lives. They've ended up in mental hospitals, in nursing homes, and in cemeteries. And where is the prochoice movement's concern for these women? There is none. As long as the fetus dies, it's a happy ending. Even if there was no fetus, if the woman only thought she was pregnant, if she gets vacuumed out, mission accomplished. That's all that matters.

And it's not even the fly-by-night fake clinics. It's Planned Parenthood and the prestigious National Abortion Federation.

If even one woman died because she visited a pregnancy center, she would be a poster child for the abortion rights movement, front page news, showing up endlessly on social media streams. But there are none. Zero. Zilch.

When we look at the death toll, it's hard to defend the idea that the prolife centers endanger women and the abortion facilities provide safety.

Key: 
FC = Fake Clinic

PP = Planned Parenthood

NAF = National Abortion Federation clinic or individual member

All of the Women Who Died Because They Visited Prolife Centers

Some of the Women Who Died Because They Visited Abortion Facilities

• Alexis "Lexi" Arguello: Care delayed after complications • Alyona Dixon: Sepsis after abortion pills • Cree Erwin-Sheppard: Sepsis after surgical abortion • Edrica Goode: Sepsis after contra-indicated procedure • Bonnie Hunt: Unspecified fatal complication • Elise Kalat: Grotesquely botched CPR • Diana Lopez: Massive internal injuries, bled to death • Roselle Owens: Delayed transfer after anesthesia mishap • Holly Patterson: Sepsis after abortion pills • Tonya Reaves: Delayed transfer to hospital, bled to death • "Ella" Roe: Given abortion pills after failure to diagnose ectopic pregnancy • "Lucy" Roe: Unspecified death after abortion pills • Irene Stevenson: Unspecified fatal complication

I don't know how to even begin to get the prochoice movement to care about women. I've been trying for over twenty years now. I've seen individuals learn to care more about women than about politics, but they all become converts to the prolife cause. And then, like me, they realize that they're powerless to do anything to protect the women who think that they can trust Planned Parenthood, NAF, and NARAL to look after their best interests.

It's the great paradox of our time.

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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.Sepsis

October 1, 2002: Coerced Abortion Leads to Suicide

Stacy Zallie

Stacy Zallie, then a 20-year-old college student, wanted to become an elementary school teacher. Though she loved children and wanted to become a mother, she went to  Steven Chase Brigham's "American Medical Services" in Cherry Hill, New Jersey on July 6, 2001 for an abortion. According to a post by Stacy's family, she "was the victim of a coerced abortion, which violated her personal, moral and spiritual beliefs."

Please note that abortion advocates frequently boast about abortion clinics selling abortions to women in violation of their core beliefs rather than direct them towards the kind of help that won't damage their identities.

At Brigham's facility, Stacy was provided with a "Fact Sheet on Surgical Abortion" which did not address the risks of major depression or suicide but merely recommended that a patient should talk to a counselor or psychiatrist if she thought she needed help after the abortion.

Stacy kept the abortion a secret from her family, but they noticed behavior changes. Her parents arranged psychiatric care after Stacy took an overdose of pills. Four months later, without saying why, Stacy quit going to therapy and resumed her drinking binges. On October 1, 2002, mere days before she was to serve as a bridesmaid in her brother's wedding, Stacy took her own life after at least three failed prior attempts at suicide.

After learning of the abortion and Stacy's unbearable anguish afterward, her parents started the **Stacy Zallie Foundation** to provide post-abortion care so that nobody else's daughter suffers the fate their daughter did. The Zallie family takes no stand on abortion, seeking to keep their focus on providing desperately-needed aftercare to suffering women, regardless of politics, creed, or religion.

The Foundation also notes that there are known risk factors for a post-abortion mental health crisis:

• Previous mental health issues
  
• Being coerced or forced into the abortion
• Having beliefs that abortion is wrong
• Lack of family support
• Abortion for fetal indications

The saddest thing to me about the Foundation is that -- likely to avoid political hot buttons -- it does not address the problem of high-risk women undergoing abortions without adequate counseling.

Abortion is associated with an increase in all forms of violent death: accident, homicide, and suicide. Other post-abortion suicides include:

• "Sandra Roe," age 18, who killed herself using an unidentified means in April of 1971
• Sandra Kaiser, age 15, who threw herself off an overpass into traffic in November of 1984
• Carol Cunningham, age 21, who shut herself in her garage, ran her car, and died from the exhaust fumes in August of 1986
• Arlin della Cruz, age 19, who hanged herself in the woods near her house in October of 1992
• “Haley Mason”, age 22, who overdosed on pills and alcohol in April of 2001
• Laura Grunas, age 30, who fatally shot her baby's father and then herself in August of 2006

Unfortunately a lot of the discussion about post-abortion suicide turns into a battle between prolifers pointing out the risk and abortion enthusiasts insisting that it doesn't exist. Since abortion enthusiasts also put forth other absurd claims -- such as the claim that 5,000 - 10,000 women were dying from botched abortions prior to legalization, the claim that Kermit Gosnell was "an outlier", and the claim that abortion doesn't impact future childbearing -- we have to look at their assertions with a jaded eye.

There is one aspect to abortion supporters' claims that is valid: When there is a post-abortion suicide, the woman is usually a patient who already had emotional, mental health, or relationship problems. However, instead of trying to steer those women towards mental health support, they blithely assure them that the abortion will be either a non-event or a cause for unmitigated relief, take their money, get them onto the table, then send them home without a single thought to their future well-being.  They're just as oblivious of whether the woman takes her own life as they are of whether she bleeds to death after they shove her out the door.

It's quite likely that the link between abortion and suicide is largely because of a common causality. After all, abortion and suicide are both drastic and irreversible approaches to distressing circumstances. Thus, women actively seeking abortions rather than practical and emotional support when distressed by a pregnancy are probably also more likely to seek suicide rather than practical and emotional support when distressed after the abortion. I would expect this to be especially true when the woman reflects that the problems the abortion was supposed to solve are still troubling her. 

Watch "Coerced Abortion Leads to Suicide" on YouTube.

More resources:

• "The Link Between Abortion and Suicide," Sarah Terzo, December 18, 2020
• "An analysis of those 'medically necessary' Tiller Abortions", RealChoice, June 4, 2009

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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.

October 1, 1989: Severed Blood Vessels, Hemorrhage, and Death

Brenda Banks was 35 years old and 13 weeks pregnant when she went to Hillcrest Women's Surgi-Center in Washington, DC, for an abortion. As a black woman, she was at higher risk of death from abortion than a white woman would have been.

The abortion was performed by Llewelyn Crooks on September 30, 1989.

Brenda went into shock, and was transported to the hospital by ambulance.

Doctors performed an emergency hysterectomy and transfused Brenda with 20 units of red blood cells, to no avail. She died the following day, October 1, 1989.

Brenda's uterus had been perforated and several major blood vessels had been cut or severed entirely.

Her survivors were unable to collect damages from Crooks and Hillcrest because Crooks' insurance company was insolvent, and Hillcrest carried no insurance.

According to Grok, this facility was part of a lose network of clinics all owned by Dr. Michael Jackson in the 1980s, which includes the Hillcrest in Harrisburg, PA where Kelly Morse underwent her fatal abortion.

Crooks was also sued for botching a delivery, resulting in the death of the infant, and for a second obstetric case in which the baby suffered severe brain damage.

Sources: 

• District of Columbia Superior Court
• "Woman died after abortion at Hillcrest in D.C.," Defend Life, March-April 2001

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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 30, 1959: A Doctor's Screw-up in Los Angeles

Viola Go was the 36-year-old second wife of George Go, a wealthy produce dealer in Salinas, California in the late summer and early fall of 1959. The couple had two children: 7-year-old Bradford and 8-year-old Gail. Viola was a native of Hong Kong who came to the United States as an adult to attend UCLA. She had a bother, Frank Chan, who worked as a traveling magician; a brother Larry Chan in Los Angeles; and a sister in Hong Kong.

Viola Seeks Help From an Unusual Source

Viola made three visits to Dr. Norman Andresen in Salinas on August 11, 20, and 25. Dr. Andresen determined that Viola was pregnant and healthy, with no indications that it would be unsafe for her to carry her baby to term. 

Viola told George that she wanted to arrange an abortion. For some reason, she reached out to George's former wife, Jean Dashut, to locate a doctor willing to do the job. Jean called 38-year-old Dr. Joseph Alexander Emory and set up an appointment for Viola to meet him at 5 pm on September 4 

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On the appointed day, George drove Viola to a motel where they met up with Jean. Jean got in the car and they all went to a cocktail lounge on Osborne Avenue in the Van Nuys area of Los Angeles. George waited there while his former and current wives went out the back way to meet with the abortionist.

Jean asked Viola to wait while she went in to find out if it was okay for them to go in. Emory told Jean to come back with Viola in 5 or 10 minutes.

When the women returned, Emory asked Viola if she had eaten for the past six hours. When she said she had, Emory told her that the anesthetic would make her sick if she had eaten that recently so he told her to return the following morning.

The Abortion is Perpetrated

Viola, Jean, and George went to Emory's home the next morning. Emory told George to wait in the living room. Jean accompanied Viola when Emory took her to the procedure room. Viola got on the procedure table and put her feet in the stirrups. Emory gave Viola an injection, and Jean went back to the living room to wait with George.

Since Emory had said that the abortion wouldn't take long, Viola went into the procedure room after about half an hour to see what was happening. Emory was standing at the food of the exam table, looking pale and nervous. At his feet was a bucket or pan on the floor containing tissue and blood that Jean took to be the results of an abortion at about two months -- a sight that, for a reason not detailed in the document, Jean had evidently seen at least once before. 

Jean went back to wait with George again, and another half hour went by before Emory came out and asked George, "How far along did you say your wife was?" George replied that her period had been about June 15. Emory said, "There something real large up there. It seemed like she must be further along."

George said that Emory told him that "he would abort part of it, and that the other part could be the after-birth or something else, but at any rate that is is not going to do no more, let her rest a while, and I understand he gave her some ergot and let nature take his course."

Calling in the Experts

George stayed at Emory's home with Viola until the night of Monday, September 7, leaving only to get something to eat. He went back to Salinas, where on Tuesday morning he spoke to a Dr. Husser about what had happened. Dr. Husser called Dr. William Bradbury, an OB/GYN in Santa Monica, to say that he knew of a woman who was in bad shape after an abortion. He asked Bradbury to take over the woman's care.

Bradbury agreed, and made arrangements for Viola to be admitted to Santa Monica Hospital. Meanwhile George returned to Emory's house, arriving about 11 pm on Tuesday, September 8. He called an ambulance to take his wife to the hospital. George said that Emory told him to say that Viola had already been hemorrhaging when she had arrived at his practice.

Viola arrived at Santa Monica Hospital at 1 am on September 9, already in critical condition. Dr. Bradbury's associate did the admission. Viola told him that her only surgical history was an abortion five years earlier and then another on the previous Saturday. She said that the doctor who had done the abortion knew that he had perforated her uterus so she had remained under his care. Like George, she gave the date of her last period as June 16. 

George met Dr. Bradbury at the hospital and gave him the history of what had happened with his wife. Dr. Bradbury told George to have Emory call him and discuss what he'd done so far so that Dr. Bradbury could plan appropriate treatment.

The next morning, September 10, Emory called Dr. Bradbury and said that he had reached into her uterus with a placental forceps and it went in up to the handle, farther than it should have in a patient that was two months pregnant. When he pulled the forceps out, he saw he had pulled out a loop of intestine. Like safe-and-legal abortionists would do in subsequent decades, Emory pushed the intestine back through the hole and hoped for the best. Uncertain if he had injured her bowel, he gave Viola a transfusion and some intravenous fluids and cared for her in his home.

Futile Efforts

Dr. Bradbury contacted Dr. David Sprong, a bowel surgery specialist, to assist. During the surgery they found a lot of damage. Emory had indeed put a hole in the top of Viola's uterus. He also tore open her small bowel, mangling it and spilling out "quite a bit" of partially-digested bowel contents. The doctors did their best to repair the damage and treat the peritonitis.

In spite of their efforts, Viola's condition continued to deteriorate. Dr. Sprong operated again on September 29 to address an abdominal abscess, but in spite of his efforts, Viola died the next day, September 30.

Upon autopsy the physician found markings in the cervix indicating that sharp instruments had been used in the uterus. Viola had a blood clot and necrotic tissue in her uterus. The conclusion was that the abortion had caused fatal peritonitis.

Emory Self-Snitches

On October 1, Los Angeles Police Department Officer Mitchell went to Emory's home and told him that Viola was dead. Emory admitted to reaching into Viola's uterus with toothed forceps and pulling out "a loop of gut." He described what he had done as "examining" Viola. When Officer Mitchell asked Emory why he was examining Viola, he responded, "I don't think I had better answer that." Mitchell arrested Emory for murder and abortion.

Officer Mitchell asked Emory to tell him and the other officers where the injury to Viola had taken place, and he directed them to a build at the rear of the house. They found it equipped with a gynecological table, medical instruments, and medicines. When asked for records of the treatment he had provided to Viola, Emory said he had made no records, though sometimes his wife made records of his patients.

Officer Mitchell asked Emory why he would jeopardize his practice for the small amount of money he'd make doing abortions. Officer Mitchell said that Emory told him "that he did a lot of things that he knew were wrong and that they were against the law, but that he had a a hard time making enough money to pay for his family expenses, and so forth." He added that Emory told him that "there were many girls who came to him who had done something to themselves, and that he would go ahead and do curettements, clean them up." 

Officer Mitchell said that when he'd asked Emory how much he'd gotten for Viola's abortion, Emory said that he'd actually lost money on it because he'd needed to use expensive medications. Officer Mitchell told Emory he'd been told that Viola had paid between $400 and $600 for the abortion and asked if that was correct. Emory, Mitchell said, responded "I don't think I should answer that question."

Emory's Story in Court

Emory was booked on suspicion of murder on October 1.  He was freed on $20,000 bail.  

Emory took the stand in his own defense and said that Viola and Jean had persuaded him to examine her and he had only reached into her uterus with forceps to remove some afterbirth and determine how large the uterine cavity was. 

Emory's defense brought in his wife and maid to assert that Viola had told them that she'd had an miscarriage and was grateful that Dr. Emory was helping her. This evidence was stricken on the grounds that it was hearsay. 

He was convicted of second-degree murder and abortion in May of 1960. He appealed and was granted a new trial on grounds related to the admissibility of testimony.

His license was revoked by the Board of Osteopathic Examiners after the conviction, but Emory managed to get it reinstated on May 2, 1974.

In July of 1976 Emory was arraigned on a total of 17 counts of murder, 28 counts of child endangering, and 5 counts of conspiracy. These cases appear to have been related to the deaths of infants under his care.

Sources:

• "Osteopath Booked on Suspicion of Murder," Chico Enterprise-Record, October 1, 1959
• "Inquiry Opens In Death Of Salinas Woman," Salinas Californian, October 1, 1959
• "Valley Doctor Jailed After Woman Dies," (Los Angeles) Citizen-News, October 1, 1959
• "Hearing Set for Osteopath In Death Case," Van Nuys News, October 4, 1959
• "Osteopath Faces Murder, Illegal Operation Counts," (Los Angeles) Citizen-News, October 31, 1959
• "Week in Review," Los Angeles Times, May 29, 1960
• People v. Emory, Crim. No. 7434. Second Dist., Div. Three. June 8, 1961
• "License of Doctor Charged With 17 Deaths Reinstated," Los Angeles Times, July 3, 1976

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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 30, 1904: Scanty Information Again From Chicago

On September 30, 1904, Stanislawa Zagonski died in Chicago from an illegal abortion performed that day. Mrs. Alexander Wojtanowski, whose profession is not given, was arrested and held by Coroner's Jury on October 5. She was sentenced to a mere three months in prison.

Watch Possible Lay Abortionist in Chicago on YouTube.

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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 30, 1985: Dead on the Scene in Abortion Clinic

Life Dynamics identified 21-year-old Gaylene Michelle Golden on their “Blackmun Wall” as the woman who died after an abortion by by Dr. Joe Bills Reynolds. 

Reynolds performed the abortion on Gaylene in his Oklahoma City office on September 30, 1985. 

Due to a cervical laceration, Gaylene developed an embolism — both air and amniotic fluid in her bloodstream. This embolism killed her, leaving Gaylene’s son motherless.

The man Gaylene had entrusted with her life was a jack of all trades, doing a variety of elective surgeries, including safe and legal abortions, in his filthy clinic. His primary focus, though, seemed to be liposuction. Perhaps abortion seemed to be an easy way to make money using the same suction machine.

Reynolds’ anesthetist, age 60, had originally been hired as a janitor, and an untrained orderly was acting as his nurse. The operating room was littered with dirty cups and papers.

The quality of care at Reynold's facility was appalling

Reynolds tried to collect $500,000 on his wife’s life insurance after she bled to death after he opened 25-inch incision, ostensibly for liposuction, on September 7, 1989. Reynolds was found guilty of second-degree manslaughter and fined $1. He voluntarily surrendered his Oklahoma license.

ADDENDUM: Reynolds’ daughter, Shelly Reynolds, was charged with performing at least seven abortion without a license at her father’s clinic after he was stripped of his own license. (“District Attorney Seeks Abortion Information, The Oklahoman, July 31, 1991)

Watch Wife-Killer's Forgotten Victim on YouTube.

Sources: 

• "Doctor’s Trial Nears In Liposuction Death,” The Daily Oklahoman, Apr. 22, 1991
• District Court of Oklahoma (OK) County, Case, CJ 87-2991
• Fatal Pulmonary Embolism During Legal Induced Abortion in the United States from 1972-1985,” Lawson, Herschel W., MD, Atrash, Hani K., MD, MPH, Franks, Adele L., MD, American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vol. 162, No. 4, April 1990, p. 986-990

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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 29, 1915: Jilted Teen Procures Fatal Abortion

Rosalla Marie Rockhill, age 19, of Etna Green, Indiana, died September 29, 1915 at Ravenswood Hospital in Chicago from an abortion. Rosalla went by her middle name, so news coverage identifies her as Marie.

She was a popular young woman at the tiny town of 1,000. Marie was a clerk at the post office and secretary of the Sunday School at the Methodist Episcopal church, a senior at the tiny town's red brick schoolhouse. She attended church regularly with her parents, Warren and Lena, and her three siblings.

The October 7, 1915 Bremen Enquirer described the situation as "a singularly sad story."  The reporter lamented that "the young man said to be responsible for the girl's shame is the son of respected parents long residents of this community, whose grey heads are bowed in shame because of his conduct." The parents reportedly raised him better than to get a girl pregnant and abandon her.

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The young man in question was 27-year-old Wilbur Swank. He and Marie were engaged and had set a wedding date for August 10. It was postponed until September 9. But the morning of her wedding day, Marie "learned by telephone that her promised husband had left home the night before secretly, leaving no word for her, and realized that she must meet her approaching shame alone or in some manner escape it," said the Bremen Enquirer. 

Wilbur's reason for taking off was, he said, because in all of his travels he had already married another woman and had not obtained a divorce. 

At some point Marie told her mother about the pregnancy, insisting that she had not consented to sex with her betrothed. "Mamma, after I ate the candy he gave me I was helpless." 

Lena later admitted that upon learning that Wilbur had jilted the girl, they went to Chicago looking for an abortionist. They walked around the city, Lena said, and saw a sign in a window reading "Midwife." They consulted with the woman there and arranged for the abortion. Marie remained at the midwife's practice while Lena returned to Etna Green.

Marie sickened during her stay. On September 22 she went into convulsions and was admitted to Ravenswood Hospital. Warren and Lena were summoned to the hospital and were there for her death a week later. 

The bereaved couple returned home with their daughter's body for the funeral and burial. Nearly the entire town greeted them at the train station. A large crowd attended the funeral. The Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel said, "Practically every business house in the town was closed during the services out of respect for the little secretary of the church. She was buried in the private cemetery on her family's farm.

While the townsfolk turned out to support the dead teenager, they held no cordial feelings towards Wilbur Swank. 

Watch Tiny Town Mourns Jilted Teen on YouTube.

Sources:

• "Sunday School Class to Bury Rockhill Girl," Chicago Tribune, October 1, 1915
• "Rockhill Girl is Not to Blame for Plight; Said she was Drugged," Fort Wayne (IN) Journal-Gazette, October 2, 1915
• "But Marie is Dead," South Bend (IN) Tribune, October 4, 1915
• "Marie Rockwell Buried," Fort Wayne (IN) Weekly Sentinel, October 6, 1915
• "Tragedy at Etna Green," Bremen (IN) Enquirer, October 7, 1915

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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.