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Saturday, October 10, 2026

October 10, 1989: Post-Abortion Coma and Death Leave 11-Year-Old Motherless

SUMMARY: Catherine Pierce, age 27, died on October 10, 1989. She had lingered for seven months in a coma after an abortion performed by Daniel McBrayer at Atlanta Surgi-Center in Atlanta, GA.

Catherine's Lingering Death

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October 10, 1989, 27-year-old Catherine Pierce died in a nursing home in Tennessee from abortion complications that had left her comatose since March 11. Her 11-year-old daughter had spent seven months in a futile wait for her mother to recover and return to her.

As a black woman, Catherine had been at higher risk of death from an abortion than a white woman. There is no record of why Catherine, an unmarried licensed practical nurse, made this choice.

Catherine's 19-week fetus had been aborted at Atlanta Surgi-Center, which had at one time also done business as "Northside Women's Clinic." Dr. Daniel McBrayer is the one who took instruments in hand to pull Catherine's unborn baby out in pieces.

Catherine, a licensed practical nurse from Chattanooga, had gone into cardiac arrest while left unattended in recovery after her abortion. Staff didn't notice that she was unresponsive until 30 minutes after the abortion was completed. She was rushed to Crawford Long Hospital in a comatose state.

Catherine was first transferred to Erlanger Hospital in Chattanooga before being admitted to a nursing home in Hamilton County, Tennessee.

What Investigators Found

State officials investigated the case while Catherine was still clinging to life. In an affidavit for a raid on the facility, officials cited Surgi-Center for failing to file a report to the state within ten days.

1979 Kirkman yearbook

They cited this National Abortion Federation facility -- supposedly among the safest facilities in the world -- for administering the same anesthesia dosages to patients whose weights ranges from 107 to 167 pounds. Catherine and another patient had been administered the same amount of anesthesia that day even though one patient weighed 52 pounds more than the other. I found a photo of a young Chattanooga woman also named Catherine Pierce in the 1979 Kirkman Technical High School yearbook. She was slender, leading me to believe that this was the fatally injured Catherine Pierce and that she was the lighter of the two patients given the same dose of anesthesia.

State investigators indicated that they'd been turned away the first time they'd tried to inspect the facility, and were forced to stage a raid in order to obtain the records needed to investigate the mishap that later killed Catherine. The clinic complained that they'd only turned the state investigators away because they'd failed to display badges and a subpoena. They also complained to the press that the raid was "political harassment" due to the fact that an anti-abortion activist had complained to the state about the facility.

Among the patient care problems cited, the investigators also said that they found discrepancies between the number of fetuses sent to the disposal lab and the number of abortions performed. In 1989 Atlanta Surgi-Center had logged 1,748 abortions, but had only sent 155 fetuses for disposal. In 1988 they had logged 2,774 abortions, but only sent 155 fetuses for disposal. In 1987 they logged 1,104 abortions but only sent 306 fetuses for disposal. The investigation into fetus disposal was prompted by local prolifers reporting that they had seen hundreds of fetuses in the clinic's dumpsters. Dr. Gay, the clinic director, denied the allegations, but the numbers backed the prolifers.

The evidence of slovenliness was convincing enough that the top-notch facility had its permit revoked until it made corrections. To reiterate, among the deficiencies that this top-notch National Abortion Federation member clinic had been cited for were:

Inadequate supervision of anesthesia
Inadequate supervision of patients while under anesthesia
Inadequate record keeping
Administering the same dosage of anesthesia to patients regardless of how much the patient weighed

The clinic's administrator, Beth Petzelt, said that they would fight the revocation. "I don't believe that patients are in danger here," she told the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, "This facility has always delivered quality health care, and I see no reason that will not continue. We feel we can make the necessary corrections to satisfy DHR and our own internal administration." Petzelt also said, "I feel that the anesthesia provided in this facility is very safe and complies with the standard of care for a facility of this type."

If they'd been able to make the necessary corrections on their own, why hadn't they done it already just as part of being part of the prestigious National Abortion Federation? And by "a facility of this type," what exactly did she mean? One that leaves patients unattended in recovery and gives the same dose of anesthesia to a 107-pound patient as they'd give to a patient who weighs 56% more?

She also claimed that Catherine's case was the only anesthesia complication in 40,000 cases. But they hadn't reported Catherine's case to the state as required and they had gotten caught giving the same anesthesia doses to patients over a wide weight range. And, most damning of all, even though Catherine had left the facility unresponsive and in an ambulance, her medical record said, "I have examined the patient and state that she is fully recovered from anesthesia and ready for discharge from the Atlanta Surgi-Center."

A lawsuit on behalf of Catherine's daughter resulted in a $2 million wrongful death verdict.The award was to consist of a $400,000 up-front payment and $2,000 a month for life.

Atlanta Surgi-Center is the same facility operating as "Atlanta Northside" when Geneva Colton had undergone her fatal abortion in 1979.

Sources:

Estate of Catherine Pierce vs. Dr. Daniel McBrayer, PHysician, and Kenneth Hodge, Nurse Anesthetist and Atlanta Surgi-Center
"Prosecutors Seize Records in Raid on Abortion Clinic," Atlanta Journal-Constitution, May 12, 1989
"Fulton Prosecutor Says Raid on Abortion Clinic Not Political," Atlanta Journal-Constitution, May 13, 1989
"Abortion Clinic Faces Revocation Of Permit," Atlanta Journal-Constitution, July 28, 1989
"Child Wins $2 Million In Abortion Death Case," Chattanooga News-Free Press, January 4, 1990
"Abortion clinic settles suit over death for $2 million," Atlanta Journal-Constitution, January 5, 1990
"Abortion Clinic to Pay $2 Million Settlement in Woman's Death," The Georgia Bulletin, January 11, 1990
"Abortion Death Brings $2 Million Settlement," Abortion Injury Report, May, 1990

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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 10, 1975: Hispanic Teen Dies of Incomplete Abortion

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"Inez Martinez" was a 16-year-old high school living in Texas when she underwent a legal abortion.

However, the abortionist did not remove all of the tissue from Inez's uterus. She developed an infection and died of septicemia and shock at Corpus Christi Osteopathic Hospital on October 10, 1975.

Inez might have already had a child at the time of the fatal abortion, because her occupation on her death certificate is listed as "housewife."

Source: Death certificate

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October 10, 1970: Fetus Shoved Through Hole in Uterus

Twenty-three-year-old Maria Hernandez Ortega, a citizen of Guatemala, had been living in the United States with her husband, Luis, for eight months in October of 1970. They'd lived in Queens until mid-August, when they had relocated to Boston.

Maria and Luis traveled back to New York and stayed with a friend, Alfonso Paniagua-Garcia, in Queens. so that Maria could take advantage of New York's new law legalizing abortion on demand.

The abortion, a dilation and curettage, was performed by Dr. Armida Zepeda in her New York office, 1440 York Avenue, at about 5 p.m. on October 10.

Zepeda had estimated the pregnancy to be two months. After trying for about 20 minutes, she was unable to extract the fetus. She concluded that Maria had not been pregnant after all, and sent her home. Maria and Luis returned to the friend's apartment.

At 10:00 that night, Maria died in her friend's home. It turned out that she had actually been at least four months pregnant, not two months. Zepeda had pushed the fetus through the uterine wall into Maria's abdominal cavity. Maria had bled to death.

Maria's death was the tenth known abortion death in New York City since abortion had been legalized on July 1. City officials said that four of those abortions were performed in hospitals and the other six were started outpatient. Public health officials reviewing the situation decided to forbid any more abortions to be performed in doctors' offices, though they could still be performed in outpatient clinics. According to the New York Times, "A few doctors have announced they intend to defy the regulations."

Sources:

"First Abortion Death Here Under New Law Reported," NY Daily News, October 17, 1970
"Testimony Is Taken in Abortion Case," Greely (CO) Daily Tribune, Oct. 17, 1970
"Boston Woman, 23, Dies After Abortion Performed in Office of Physician Here," New York Times, October 17, 1970
"Office Abortions Ruled Out," Palm Beach (FL) Post-Times, October 18, 1970
"Nonhospital abortions out on Monday," Omaha World Herald, Oct. 18, 1970
"Death laid to abortion," Portland Oregonian, Oct. 18, 1970
Obstetrics and Gynecology March 1974

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October 10, 1917: "Murdered by Human Wolves"

SUMMARY: Katherine Cross, age 18, died October 10, 1917 after an abortion perpetrated in Seminole County, OK by Dr. Abraham H. Yates.

The Seminole County News in Oklahoma reported that Katherine died October 10, 1917, from a "criminal operation" performed by Dr. A. H. Yates and his assistant, a schoolteacher named Frederick O‘Neal.

Katherine, who had been born in August of 1899, was 18 years old. She was about 3 months into her pregnancy.

Katherine was the second victim Yates was charged with murdering by abortion in as many months. Elise Stone had died in August.

Katherine was the oldest of the eight children of John T. and Mary Cross, who had moved to Oklahoma from Arkansas with their large farming family. Katherine was, according to public records, the oldest of eight children. Her siblings ranged in age from 13 months to 15 years at the time of her death.

The day after Katherine's funeral, the case made the front page of the Shawnee Daily News-Herald under the headline, “Under Bond, Dr. Yates to Face Murder Charge; Konawa Physician Arrested Following Death of Katherine Cross; Charge Death Result Criminal Operation; Doctor Is Brought to This County for Safe Keeping.”

Katherine's parents told officials about the entire tragic turn of events. Yates reportedly bullied Katherine's mother into consenting to the abortion by saying that Katherine was threatening to kill herself.

Eleven years after Katherine's death, her parents were approached by political rivals of the county sheriff, Fred Bowles, convincing them to sign an affidavit accusing him of complicity in the abortion that took their daughter's life. Bowles's rivals were found guilty of libel and slander and were jailed for a year and fined $1,000 each.

After their daughter's death, Katherine's family moved away from the area to a farm about 100 miles southwest of Konawa, Yates died at the age of 64 in 1931, and is buried in the same cemetery as Katherine, within sight of the maker inscribed, "Murdered by human wolves."

Sources:

Find-a-Grave
"Under Bond, Dr. Yates to Face Murder Charge," The Shawnee (OK) Daily News-Herald, October 18, 1917
"Konawa Physician Faces New Charge," The (Oklahoma City) Daily Oklahoman, October 18, 1917
"Doctor Faced by Charge," The Erick (OK) Democrat, October 25, 1917
"The Human Wolves of Konawa," M. J. Alexander, Slice: The Magazine of Central Oklahoma, October, 2013

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October 10, 1939: Death at a New York Hospital

According to New York death records, a 21-year-old waitress named Eileen Lowney Creitz died on October 10, 1939 at Norwegian Hospital in Brooklyn. Her death was attributed to "septic endometritis, peritonitis & septicemia" from a criminal abortion.

Eileen has been born around 1918 to Edward and Anna Lowney. According to New York marriage records, she had married her husband, Herbert, only late the previous summer. They had been married less than three months.

Eileen was buried at St. Charles Cemetery.

I've been unable to find any other information about Eileen.

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Friday, October 09, 2026

Execution Survivors vs. Abortion Survivors

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.

The Response

When the drugs failed to kill Christa Pike, she was rushed to the hospital and provided with emergency care. As of this writing, October 9, 2026, she is awake and alert and people are complaining that she's being treated cruelly because she's still being treated like a prisoner rather than a victim.

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 Colleen 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.

Other Botched Executions

The botched execution of Christa Pike made me think of other botched executions: those of babies whose only crime was being in the womb of an unwelcoming mother. Let's look at how those botched executions were handled.

Baby Rowan. Rowan's mother, Angele, was pressured into an unwanted abortion. She went to EPOC Clinic of Orlando Women's Center. The lethal injection that was supposed to kill Rowan failed, and he was born alive in the clinic toilet. Upon seeing that her baby was alive, Angele begged staff to call an ambulance for her baby. They refused, so she called a friend and asked her to send an ambulance while she tended to her son. When the ambulance crew came, staff said that there was no live baby, just a patient who was hysterical, and sent them away. Once they were certain that Rowan had died, they demanded that Angle give them his body. She refused, so they called police to expel her from the facility.

Sarah Brown. In the summer of 1993, Dr. George Tiller twice injected potassium chloride directly into her brain. When Sarah was born alive at 36 weeks of gestation, she was not rushed to a hospital. She was 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.

Shanice Osbourne. Shanice's mother went to an abortion clinic in Hialeah, Florida on the second day of her two-day abortion. She delivered Shanice alive. According to a police affidavit, the baby's mother "observed the baby moving and gasping for air for approximately five (5) minutes. The staff began screaming that the baby was alive; at which time, Ms. Belkis Gonzalez cut the umbilical cord, threw it into a red bag with black printing. Ms. Gonzalez then swept the baby, with her hands, into the same red bag along with the gauze used during the procedure." Gonzales then tossed the bag, with Shanice inside it, onto the clinic roof to conceal her body from the police. A clinic worker informed the police, who recovered the child's body. An autopsy found that Shanice's lungs contained gas bubbles and floated, proving that she was alive and breathing before being stuffed into a biohazard bag and tossed onto the roof to die in the hot Florida sun.

Unnamed West Penn Baby Boy. A woman was turned down for an abortion at a Pittsburgh hospital because they estimated her pregnancy to be 26 - 31 weeks. She went to West Penn Hospital, where Dr. Leonard Laufe diagnosed her as 20 to 22 weeks pregnant and charged ahead. "The abortion, induced by an injection of prostaglandin, a substance that stimulates muscle contraction and delivery of the fetus, was filmed for use as an instructional film. The film showed the three-pound infant moving and gasping." The baby was not cared for and, of course, died. ("The Dreaded Complication," Philadelphia Inquirer, August 2, 1981)

Baby W. This little girl weighed 2 lb 8 oz when she was born on March 2, 1977 during a botched saline abortion at Westminster Community Hospital. She was about 30 to 32 weeks of gestation. A nurse brought her to the hospital nursery, then summoned Dr. William Baxter Waddill, who had initiated the abortion. He strangled the baby in the hospital nursery in front of multiple witnesses.

Vanessa S. On October 3, 1984, Dr. Enrique Gerbi tried to kill Vanessa by replacing the amniotic fluid protecting her with a strong sterile salt solution. The following day Vanessa was born alive at around 12:30 am. She was put in a bucket and left crying, cold, and alone. At some point a nurse noticed that Vanessa was still alive and started to provide the baby with care. She was left with severe disabilities.

Unnamed Philadelphia Baby. An August 2, 1981 story in the Philadelphia Inquirer said that in July of 1979, Dr. Boyd Cooper performed an abortion at 23 weeks at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. The 1 lb 2 oz infant boy gasped and tried to breathe. No efforts were made to revive the infant due to the parents' wishes and the infant's size. The baby was placed in a utility room used as an infant morgue. Cooper instructed nurse, "Leave the baby there -- it will die." The nurse testified that the baby was still gasping in the closet when she returned to work 12 hours later. Cooper then finally agreed to allow the baby to be transferred to intensive care, where he died 4 days later.

Ximena Renaerts. On December 12, 1985, Ximena's biological mother went to a Planned Parenthood in Bellingham, Washington. She was told that she was 16 weeks pregnant. Planned Parenthood's doctor performed an abortion. Ximena's mother returned to her home in Vancouver, Canada. On December 17, she gave birth to a living baby in a toilet in the hospital. The baby weighed around three pounds. A nurse put Ximena in a bedpan and put the bedpan in a room where dead fetuses were stored after abortions. About 40 minutes later the nurse noticed that Ximena was still alive and called a nursing supervisor, who cleared Ximena's airway and provided warmth. She asked for oxygen for the baby. Ximena was then placed on a metal counter while various staff discussed what to do about her. She was finally sent to a hospital nursery for care. She was left with permanent brain damage, quadriplegia, and the mental capacity of a 3-year-old.

Unnamed Omaha Baby Boy. An unnamed woman was at the University of Nebraska Medical Center for a saline abortion in September of 1979. She screamed when her baby emerged alive instead of dead, weighing 2 1/2 pounds and moving and crying. A nurse put the baby on the stainless steel drainboard of a sink in the dirty utility room. The head nurse called Dr. C.J. LaBenz, who had initiated the abortion, asking for instructions. He said to leave the baby alone and it would probably die in a few minutes. It took the child 2 hours and 15 minutes to die. ("The Dreaded Complication," Philadelphia Inquirer, August 2, 1981)

There are more stories of abortion survivors in the following posts:

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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 9, 1916: Chicago Firefighter Left to Raise Four Children Alone

Earnest Projahn answered the questions put to him by the Cook County deputy coroner during the inquest into the death of his 33-year-old wife, Emily. The Projahns had four living children; two others had died.

In August and September of 1916 Emily's period did not come. She told her husband of the pregnancy and her plans to get an abortion, since she didn't think they could afford another child on her husband's salary as a firefighter.

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Ernest testified that he opposed the abortion and "spoke against it all the time." Though he may have made this statement in the hopes of avoiding further legal trouble for his role in the abortion, his remark, "That's the way the wife figured it," suggests that he followed her lead in this matter, however reluctantly. Mr. Projahn eventually came around to his wife's way of thinking and performed the male role of locating the abortionist and accompanying her to the doctor's office on a Friday night in September of 1916.

Emily visited a doctor whom her husband had seen previously, Dr. Clarence W. Mercereau, at 4954 Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago. Dr. Mercereau, a graduate of Bennett Medical College in Chicago, agreed to do the operation and told them the fee would be $10 and $2 for calling on her afterwards. They paid half the fee that night.

Earnest later explained that the doctor "asked me to be quiet and not say anything more about it. I said I would." The doctor then shut the door and prepared to perform the operation. He had his patient lie in a surgical chair and used an instrument. Earnest called the instrument a "womb opener." He described it as "nickel-plated, silver-like" and "ten or twelve inches long." The doctor told her to "stay on her feet until she got sick enough to go to bed."

When they got home that evening, Emily was bleeding. A week later she called Dr. Mercereau, who came to their home and prescribed medicine. He visited her at home twice. After three weeks of chills and fever, she called in a second doctor, who admitted her to Albert Burns Hospital. While at the hospital she told an intern, "My husband and my self came to the conclusion that we had enough children and wanted something done so we would not have to support another."

Emily finally died on October 9.

Though Mercerau was held by the coroner and indicted, the case was stricken off on December 16.

Note, please, that with overall public health issues such as doctors not using proper aseptic techniques, lack of access to blood transfusions and antibiotics, and overall poor health to begin with, there was likely little difference between the performance of a legal abortion and illegal practice, and the aftercare for either type of abortion was probably equally unlikely to do the woman much, if any, good.

In fact, due to improvements in addressing these problems, maternal mortality in general (and abortion mortality with it) fell dramatically in the 20th Century, decades before Roe vs. Wade legalized abortion across America.

Watch How Was This Different From a Legal Abortion? on YouTube.

Sources:

Homicide in Chicago Interactive Database
Death certificate
When Abortion was a Crime, Lesley Reagan, University of California Press, 1997

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Thursday, October 08, 2026

CPCs vs NAF

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.

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. Let's look at the National Abortion Federation -- the supposed cream of the crop.

All of the Women Who Died Because They Visited Prolife Centers

Some of the Women Who Died Because They Visited National Abortion Federation Facilities

• Leigh Ann Alford: Sent home to bleed to death from a hole in her uterus
• Gloria Aponte: Bled to death after abortion in a clinic where a receptionist with no medical training was performing general anesthesia
• Keisha Marie Atkins: Dead from sepsis
• Deanna Bell: Massively overdosed with Brevitol by doctor who had been scolded by the Medical Director of Planned Parenthood for "playing Russian roulette" with patient's lives
• Diane Boyd: Given drugs that interacted with her routine medications
• Chanelle Bryant: Instructed to use abortion drugs in an unapproved way linked with sudden-onset fatal toxic shock syndrome, then died of sepsis.
• Patricia Chacon: Bled to death after an abortion at Family Planning Associates Medical group -- the largest for-profit chain of abortion facilities in the world.
• Geneva Colton: NAF clinic gave the same amount of anesthesia to women weighing from 107 to 167 pounds. She languished in a coma for seven months before her death.
• Barbaralee Davis: Sent home to bleed to death with the face and spine of her fetus lodged in a tear in her uterus
• Laniece Dorsey: Went into cardiac arrest during abortion at flagship Family Planning Associates.
• "Kyla Ellis": Bled to death after abortion at NAF flagship Family Planning Associates.
• Josefina Garcia: Hemorrhaged from an undiagnosed ectopic pregnancy while in the recovery room after an abortion.
• Christin Gilbert: Collapsed in a motel during a multi-day late abortion; her parents took her to the clinic, where medics finally arrived to find Leroy Carhart performing CPR so ineptly that they didn't realize he was a doctor.
• Sheila Hebert: Went into cardiac arrest and died.
• Regina Johnson: Investigators found falsified documentation, an underequipped recovery room, and a delay in calling emergency medical services at the NAF clinic owned by Alberto "License to Lie" Hodari
• Nakia Jorden: Improperly monitored during anesthesia for her abortion at a Family Planning Associates facility.
• Sandra Kaiser: Leapt off an overpass into traffic after a secret abortion at a NAF clinic.
• "Imelda Laurence": Dead from sepsis.
• Maria Leho: NAF member staff delayed calling 911 after they noticed that she wasn't breathing.
• Susan Levy: Homeless woman found dead in her car from sepsis due to an incomplete abortion at a FPA clinic.
• Dawn Mack: Delayed response when she stopped breathing
• "Haley Mason": Suicide after abortion at hero Leroy Carhart's clinic.
• Sophie McCoy: Died of septic shock after abortion by NAF member Abu "The Butcher of Avenue A" Hayat
• Jennifer McKenna-Morbelli: When she had complications in her hotel room, her family discovered that the emergency contact number for NAF hero Leroy Carhart rang to Carhart's wife's equestrian supply business.
• Denise Montoya: Died after abortion by Douglas "The Texas Gosnell" Karpen
• Christine Mora: Died of septicemia
• Kimberly Neil: Slipped into a coma and died after abortion at NAF flagship Family Planning Associates.
• Joyce Ortenzio: Found dead after being sent home with retained fetal parts.
• Venus Ortiz: Lingered in a coma for five years after botched anesthesia at NAF the same NAF clinic that fatally injured Dawn Mack and Dawn Ravenell.
• Mary Pena: Slipped through the morgue without an autopsy until a records clerk noticed that women don't just bleed to death from natural causes.
• Catherine Pierce: Lingered in a coma for months after her NAF abortion.
• Vanessa Preston: Developed a fatal clotting disorder
• Dawn Ravenelle: Left unattended to lapse into a coma during secret abortion
• Emmeko Reed: Damage to uterus from an abortion at an FPA caused her uterus to fatally rupture during a subsequent pregnancy
• Maria Rodriguez: Bled to death after NAF member Steve Lichtenberg decided to treat her complications in his clinic instead of sending her to a hospital.
• Tamiia Russell: Bled to death after secret abortion arranged by her abuser's sister
• Angela Scott: One of two teens fatally injured nearly simultaneously at NAF clinic
• Oriene Shevin: Given abortion pills with instructions to use them in a non-recommended way, leading to fatal sepsis.
• Delores Smith: One of two teens fatally injured almost simultaneously at a NAF clinic. Delores might not have even been pregnant; her pregnancy test had been negative.
• Christi Stile: Lingered in a vegetative state for nearly 22 years after abortion in inadequately-equipped clinic
• Latachie Veal: Hemorrhage death discussed at meeting where CDC staff were present but they never counted her.
• Ta Tanisha Wesson: Another anesthesia death at a Family Planning Associates facility
• Chivon Williams: Died after abortion by Alberto "License to Lie" Hodari
• Diamond Williams: Mysterious behavior by clinic staff
• Nichole Williams: Third death associated with Dr. Robert Dale Crist

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.

Wednesday, October 07, 2026

October 7, 1963: Politically Useful Abortion Death

On October 7, 1963, 21-year-old Ann Hartman Keenan died at Wyandotte General Hospital near Detroit. Her cause of death is identified on her death certificate as as "Subarachnoid hemorrhage (a brain bleed) following septic (massively infected) criminal recent abortion with septic thromboembolism pneumonia (a clot getting into her lungs and causing septic pneumonia) and hepatitis with focal necrosis (spots of dead tissue) of liver."

Ann Keenan was the sister of Mitt Romney's brother-in-law, Loren Keenan. During the 2012 Presidential election, Obama supporters dug into the past, and the story of Ann's tragic death went viral. The meme was that Romney's current pro-life stand would "let [her] die again." His change of stand to one of opposition to abortion was painted as opportunistic and based entirely on polling, not personal conviction. Romney's opponents, clearly, can not grasp that a mature adult can come to very different conclusions than he might have as a 16-year-old boy.

The coverage was pretty thorough, including quotes from Ann's friends and relatives and an image of part of her death certificate.

Much was also made of the fact that her parents had requested that memorial funds be given to Planned Parenthood. Never mind the women who died after abortions at Planned Parenthood. Never mind that Alexis Arguello, Roselle Owens, "Lucy" Roe, Tonya Reaves, Vivian Tran, "Ella" Roe, Diana Lopez, Elise Kalat, Holly Patterson, Cree Erwin-Sheppard, "Luna" Roe, Bonnie Hunt, Edrica Good, Irene Stevenson, and Alyona Dixon (and no doubt others that I haven't learned about) ended up dead after trusting Planned Parenthood. Go ahead and give your money to a place where women die the same kinds of death Ann died. It's legal. So it's okay.

Exactly who perpetrated the fatal abortion doesn't seem to pique the interest of those who want to hang her death around her distant-relative-by-marriage's neck. There was a lot of speculation but no facts were offered. For all the Keenan keeners know, Ann could have had an abortion performed by a reputable doctor in a clean office. Around 90% of women who sought abortions before legalizations did. At some level I think they don't want to know, precisely because of that possibility. The abortion was illegal, and that's why she died. Full stop as far as the abortion lobby cares.

Watch When the Prochoice Care and Comparing Unacceptable vs. Unacceptable Abortion Deaths on YouTube.

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Tuesday, October 06, 2026

October 6, 1904: Chicago Allopath Convicted then Acquitted

On October 6, 1904, Mrs. Mary Lawson, age 33, died at Passavant Hospital in Chicago, from complications of a criminal abortion.

Dr. Alois Rassmussen, being held without bail, attempted suicide in jail by taking an overdose of morphine he had smuggled into his cell by hiding it under his collar. He had been unconscious when found, but recovered at Passavant Hospital, the same hospital where Mary died.

Three witnesses had testified against Rassmussen at the inquest.

Dr. J. J. Muldoon testified that he had attended Mary after the abortion. Two other witnesses, Mary Golden and Mary Duffer, gave what the Chicago Tribune called "damaging testimony."

Rassmussen was sentenced to fifteen years at Joliet for the murder, but was able to get a new trial. In this second trial, he was acquitted.

Note, please, that with issues such as doctors not using proper aseptic techniques, lack of access to blood transfusions and antibiotics, and overall poor health to begin with, there was likely little difference between the performance of a legal abortion and illegal practice, and the aftercare for either type of abortion was probably equally unlikely to do the woman much, if any, good.

Sources:

Homicide in Chicago Interactive Database
"Physician Tries Suicide in Cell," Chicago Daily Tribune, Oct. 15, 1904

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Monday, October 05, 2026

October 5, 1911: Would Today's Technology Have Saved Her?

On October 5, 1911, 38-year-old homemaker May Davis Bambrick died from an ectopic pregnancy, evidently after an abortion perpetrated that day by midwife Emma Schultz.

Schultz was held by the Coroner's Jury and indicted on October 12, but the case never went to trial.

Since at the time there were no easy means to detect ectopic pregnancy, May's death can not really be attributed to either Schultz or the abortion.

In the post-Roe era, however, access to ultrasound and serial HCG testing (checking how pregnancy hormones are changing over time), there really is no excuse for an abortion doctor failing to determine an ectopic pregnancy. Still, they fail to diagnose ectopic pregnancies and women thus attribute symptoms of a pending rupture to post-abortion pain and don't seek prompt care, leading to their deaths.

Women who died because abortionists failed to diagnose ectopic pregnancies include Janyth Caldwell, Claudia Caventou, Barbara Dillon, Sherry Emry, Gladyss Estalislao, Josefina Garcia, Doris Grant, Yvette Poteat, "Denise" Roe, Angela Satterfield, Laura Sorrels, Magnolia Thomas, Brenda Vise, and Lynette Wallace.

Watch Lack of Technology Leaves Woman Dead and Ultimately It Wasn't Her Fault on YouTube.

Source:

Homicide in Chicago Interactive Database

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October 5, 1937: Deathbed Statement Implicates Prominent Physician

On the afternoon of Monday, October 3, 1937, a doctor whose name the authorities would not divulge admitted 22-year-old Eleanor Haynes to Hackensack Hospital. She was suffering from peritonitis.

In a dying statement, Eleanor said that 55-year-old Dr. P. Ralph McFeely had performed an abortion on her in his office at 242 Palisade Avenue in Bogota on September 25.

Eleanor died at 4:30 on the afternoon of October 5.

Eleanor's fiancé, 22-year-old Eugene King, claimed no knowledge of an abortion.

McFeely, a school and police physician who was also president of the local PTA, was arrested. He said that although he was treating Eleanor for a "minor ailment," he had not performed an abortion. He was released on $5,000 bail. (c. $103,000 in 2022)

In a statement to the press, McFeely said, "The accusation against me is outrageous. All I ask is that judgment be suspended until I have the opportunity to disprove it thoroughly. The girl did visit my office for an examination and I treated her for an ovarian condition, but nothing more. I have been a resident of Bogota for 25 years, 22 of which I have spent in practice there, as well as being active in community affairs."

He added, "My reputation in private life and professional practice has never been questioned. Revelation of the facts in this case will clearly demonstrate my innocence and I hope that they will be disclosed as speedily as possible."

A grand jury met in December and heard evidence for two days. Among the witnesses were the county physician who had performed the autopsy, the assistant prosecutor who had taken Eleanor's dying declaration, and Eleanor's fiancé.

After hearing only from the prosecution, the grand jury declared that there was no evidence beyond Eleanor's deathbed claims that McFeely had been the one to cause the fatal injuries. The community clearly believed in his innocence, since he resumed his practice and civic duties after the charges were dropped.

Watch Why Did She Implicate Dr. McFeely? on YouTube.

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