Friday, October 30, 2026

October 30, 1991: Doctor-Recommended Abortion Kills Young Woman

SUMMARY: Anjelica Duarte, age 21, died October 30, 1991 after an abortion performed by Larry Thompson at Women's Place Clinic in Las Vegas, NV.

On October 30, 1991, 21-year-old Anjelica R. Duarte, a married Mexican immigrant, underwent an abortion by Dr. Larry Thompson at Women's Place Clinic in Las Vegas, Nevada. She was five months pregnant, according to her friend, Sandra Santiago.

According to Sandra, Anjelica had sought an abortion because a doctor had recommended that she delay having another baby for five years due to health problems. Anjelica already had a three-year-old daughter and a one-year-old daughter.

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After the abortion, Anjelica was kept under observation for several hours, but was not given any care. Sandra, who had accompanied Anjelica to the clinic, said that the first she knew that anything was wrong when, several hours after the abortion, she saw clinic staff performing CPR on her friend.

Anjelica was rushed to Lake Mead Hospital by paramedics at 7:30 that evening. When she arrived, "She was comatose and her eyes were dilated," hospital spokesman Jack London told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. "The emergency room physicians immediately went to work, and every attempt was made to revive her, but it was not successful. She was shortly pronounced dead. A hospital spokesman said that she had lost 90 percent of her blood; her uterus had been perforated.

In reviewing the case, the medical board noted that Thompson did not have adequate equipment for post-operative care, and demonstrated "an entire disregard for and indifference to the safety" of his patient. They revoked his license. No charges were filed against him.

According to Grok AI, Thompson moved to California after losing his Nevada license and attempted to regain privileges, but he was denied. He died some time in the early 2000s.

Anjelica's was not the only tragic death caused by doctors who recommended (or excused) abortion as a life-saving or health-preserving option for the mother:

  • Allegra Roseberry was pushed into an abortion in order to obtain experimental cancer treatment.
  • Barbara Hoppert died after an abortion recommended due to a congenital heart problem.
  • Christin Gilbert died after an abortion George Tiller held was justified on grounds of maternal health.
  • Erika Peterson died in 1961 when her doctors obtained her husband's permission to perform a "therapeutic" abortion.
  • "Molly" Roe died in 1975 when her doctors made the dubious decision to perform a saline abortion to improve her chances of surviving a lupus crisis.

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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:


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.

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Thursday, October 29, 2026

October 29, 1990: Safe and Legal Death in Puerto Rico

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Deborah Rivera Gotay was a 17-year-old girl living in Puerto Rico. According to public records, though she was so young, she already had a child.

Deborah went to a private doctor's office on October 25, 1990 for a safe, legal abortion.

Two days later she was admitted to Centro Medico hospital in Arecibo. She was treated there for sepsis triggered by the abortion. 

Deborah lost her fight for life and was pronounced dead at 10:00 pm on October 29.

The International Right to Life Foundation's Summer, 1991 newsletter commented that "her death is the latest incident at the clinic which has remained open with the backing of the police and a local court in spite of its documented violations of local health ordinances."

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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:


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.



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Wednesday, October 28, 2026

October 28, 1993: Lack of Monitoring Leave Haitian Immigrant Dead

On October 9, 1993, 25-year-old Haitian guest worker Giselene Lafontant underwent an abortion by Dr. Irwin Scher at his Gynecare in Monsey, New York. The abortion 9 or 10 week abortion was started at 10:59 AM and completed at 11:05.

Giseline was brought to the recovery room but no pulse oximeter was used to monitor her pulse and blood oxygen. Thirteen minutes later a nurse tried to awaken Giseline and found her unresponsive. Then her faint heartbeat stopped. 

The staff started resuscitation and were able to get Giseline's heart started again after about two minutes. She was taken to Good Samaritan Hospital and placed on a respirator. Efforts to save her life failed; Giselene died on October 28, leaving behind a two-year-old son. Her family took her body to her native Haiti for burial.

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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:


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.

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Tuesday, October 27, 2026

October 27, 1991: Happy Birthday, Ana Rosa

 How The Story Began

Ana Rosa and her mother
How Ana Rosa Ridriguez wound up as front-page news, and featured on Phil Donohue, began on October 25, 1991 when Rosa Rodriguez, 20 years old, went to National Abortion Federation member Abu Hayat's Avenue A abortion practice on New York's lower East Side.

A single mother with a 2-year-old daughter, Rosa had found Hayat's practice, Women's Medical Clinic, by reading his ad in a Spanish-language newspaper, El Diario.

Hayat charged $1,500 for the procedure, for which Rosa produced $1,000 cash and her passport, green card, and her watch as collateral for the remaining $500. 

On this first visit, Hayat sedated Rosa, inserted laminaria to dilate her cervix, and gave her some sort of abdominal injection. When she awoke he sent her home, instructing her to return the following day.

Second Thoughts and a Routine Lie

Abu Hayat in court
Rosa returned as instructed at about 9 a.m., but she expressed misgivings about proceeding with the abortion, since she had felt fetal movement. She said that she had changed her mind. 

Hayat told her that it was too late to stop the abortion. This isn't true at all. It's safe to remove the laminaria and for the woman to continue with the pregnancy. She should just have some close medical supervision to prevent infection and ensure that her cervix does not continue dilating. 

Hayat, however, must have been insistent about continuing with the abortion. Rosa said that two assistants held her down and clamped her feet into the stirrups while Hayat again sedated her. 

When she awoke, Hayat told her that he had changed the laminaria, and again instructed her to return the following day. Hayat gave Rosa specific instructions that if she had any problems, she was to call his facility and no one else.

Fortune Favors Rosa and her Baby

Nobody asks,
"What happened to
Baby Ana?"
That night, Rosa was in pain, so she called as instructed. Hayat's assistant, who took the call, paged him and then told Rosa that this was normal, that Hayat had said she "wasn't ready" for "further treatment".

This is fortunate for both Rosa and her baby, because had he agreed to see her, Hayat would have certainly ensured that the baby came out dead. His unwillingness to see his patient saved a life that night.

Rosa called the clinic again when the pain would not abate, but again nobody was willing to see her. After several hours, she finally told her mother about the abortion. A family friend called an ambulance to take Rosa to Jamaica Hospital in Queens. There, at about 8 a.m. on October 27, Rosa gave birth to a 3 lb. 1 oz. baby girl of approximately 32 weeks of gestation. The little girl was healthy except for a traumatically amputated right arm. Doctors at the hospital performed a D&C, an abdominal X-ray, and an ultrasound on the young mother, trying to find the baby's arm. Evidently Hayat had removed it in the abortion attempt and disposed of it.

Fallout for Hayat

Somehow the story got out, and all hell broke loose.

The medical board took action, faulting Hayat with lack of informed consent,  failure to perform a complete examination,  having inadequate facility and staff, having medical records that were "not credible and are incomplete", and for performing an illegal third-trimester abortion. They revoked his license.

Hayat's receptionist, Marjorie Andrade, testified before the medical board that Hayat did any number of dubious things, including keeping a 6-month fetus in his freezer for two weeks in spite of the law requiring that fetuses be sent to a pathology lab. She testified that she never saw him sterilize any instrument, that he re-used them when they had dried blood on them. She also was interviewed on WNBC-TV, saying, "I've never seen any instruments sterilized. He used to rinse them out with water and soap."

More than thirty additional women stepped forward to complain that he had botched their abortions. Though he had been sued numerous times, none of the women had been able to collect because he did not have malpractice insurance and had declared bankruptcy.

More Comes to Light

While the circus was at its peak, National Right to Life seized onto the story in its attack on the newly-reborn late term abortion method they dubbed "Partial-Birth Abortion", even though Hayat had evidently been using an established variation of the more common Dilation and Evacuation procedure. Strangely, National Right to Life never took note of one particularly telling fact: Hayat was a dues-paying member in good standing of the prestigious National Abortion Federation.

Newspapers investigating "The Butcher of Avenue A" also learned from the medical board that the previous year Hayat had botched an abortion resulting in the death of 17-year-old Sophie McCoy.

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Hayat was prosecuted for assault against both Rosa and her unborn daughter, as well as for other cases, and sentenced to a total of 29 years in prison. Hayat remained unrepentant, and told the judge who sentenced him, "I am in a very difficult situation. I know I am not guilty. .... I compare myself the best of any of the witnesses. I could teach them."

Rosa Rodriguez, noting the lack of success other patients had in seeking redress, didn't sue. "There really very little point," her attorney said.

It's hard for me to conjecture that Ana is thriving. The day before every birthday is the anniversary of the day that her arm was torn off during an attempt to kill her. And that attempt to kill her was something her mother had sought out and paid for. But it's also likely that Rosa moved away from New York, away from the publicity, and never told her daughter the truth of why she was born missing her arm. 

The human spirit is strong. Gianna Jessen, who has cerebral palsy as a result of a prenatal attempt on her life, is thriving and happy. Here's wishing the same to Ana Rodriguez. Wherever you are: Happy Birthday.


Sources include: "Butcher of Avenue A gets 29 Years," NY Daily News, January 15, 1993


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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:


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.

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October 27, 1972: Second of at least 18 Deaths at Allred-Founded Facilities

 SUMMARY: Natalie Meyers, age 16, died October 27, 1972 after an abortion performed by Milton Gotlib at San Vicente Hospital in Los Angeles, CA.

Natalie Meyers
Sixteen-year-old Natalie Fay Meyers had led a difficult life. She had run away from home in July of 1971 at the age of 15, and had experienced a miscarriage in November of 1971. She went to LA County Harbor General, likely under an assumed name, for treatment for the miscarriage. She didn't return to her family home until July of 1972.

On October 9, she was examined by her family doctor, who confirmed that she was pregnant. Her family doctor referred her to a gynecologist, who referred Natalie to Cedars of Lebanon Hospital for an abortion. Cedars of Lebanon did not have any openings for abortion appointments in the near future, so they referred Natalie to San Vicente Hospital.

Natalie's mother contacted San Vicente on October 16 and was able to schedule an appointment. She brought Natalie to San Vicente Hospital on October 21, 1972. Natalie was admitted and examined and found to be in excellent health and about 16 weeks pregnant.

The Risky Procedure

Dr. Milton Gotlib initiated a saline abortion the following day by injecting a strong sterile salt solution into Natalie's uterus. The idea was that the fetus would inhale and swallow the fluid, which would cause massive internal hemorrhaging and death. this would then trigger labor. 

Saline abortion was hardly a pleasant experience. The abortionist would remove as much amniotic fluid as he could using a needle and syringe. He would then replace the amniotic fluid with a concentrated saline (salt) solution that would poison and kill the fetus. The woman would then go into labor and expel the fetus.

Saline abortions became very popular in Japan following WWII. Within the Japanese medical community, however, word quickly spread: this method was unsatisfactory. Too many women were being injured and killed. Over 70 papers were published in the Japanese medical community reporting hazards of saline abortions, including at least 60 maternal deaths. The Japanese Obstetrical and Gynecological Society condemned the technique, and it was quickly abandoned. But the Japanese abortionists kept news of the trouble among themselves -- until Western nations discovered instillation abortions and embraced them with great enthusiasm.

Two Japanese doctors, Takashi Wagatsuma and Yukio Manabe, broke the silence. Wagatsuma wrote, "It is, I think, worthwhile to report its rather disastrous consequences which we experienced in Japan." Manabe wrote, "It is now known that any solution placed within the uterus can be absorbed rather rapidly into the general circulation through the vascular system of the uterus and placenta. Thus any solution used in the uterus for abortion must be absolutely safe even if given by direct intravenous injection. ... A solution deadly to the fetus may be equally toxic and dangerous to the mother. ... In spite of the accumulating undesirable reports, the use of hypertonic saline for abortion is still advocated and used ... in the United States and Great Britain. I would like to call attention to the danger of the method and would predict the further occurrence of deaths until this method is entirely forgotten in these countries."

As western abortionists gained experience with saline abortions, other grim reports arose. A British study published in 1966 found that the saline would enter the mother's bloodstream and cause brain damage. Swedish researchers noticed an unacceptably high rate of complications and deaths. Sweden and the Soviet Union abandoned saline abortion as too dangerous for women in the late 1960s.

For whatever reasons, American abortionists were deaf to these warnings. When New York had completely repealed its abortion law, doctors had tremendous leeway in abortion practice. In New York City in particular, it became popular to inject the woman with the saline in the office, then send her home with instructions to report to a hospital when she went into labor. This was, to say the least, a highly irresponsible way to use an abortion technique that was risky even when performed in a hospital under close medical supervision. Women started dying from these reckless saline abortions.

The Consequences for Natalie

On October 22, Natalie expelled the dead baby but retained the placenta. However, Natalie had trouble breathing and suffered abdominal pain, so San Vicente staff transferred Natalie to County-USC Medical Center at about 10:45 pm.

Natalie was in shock and suffering apparent clotting problems when she arrived at County-USC. She underwent a D&C there, but remained in shock from infection in her uterus. On October 26, a hysterectomy was performed to try to control the infection, to no avail. Natalie was pronounced dead at 9:35AM on October 27.

The autopsy found most of Natalie's internal organs swollen and hemorrhagic. Her lungs were about twice their normal weight, collapsed, and oozing frothy bloody fluid. Many of the air sacs were lined with dense paink fibrin-like material -- hyaline membrane. Natalie's lungs were simply unable to allow oxygen exchange. These changes to the lungs were due to septic shock from the abortion. (Source: LA County Coroner Report 72-11445)

Natalie is one of many women to die at one of Edward Allred's facilities. Others known to have died after abortion at Allred's facilities include:

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Monday, October 26, 2026

October 26, 1929: When Killing Your Patient was Still a Big Deal

Agnes Johnson

On a mid-October day, October 12, to be specific, 33-year-old homemaker Agnes Johnson went to the Chicago office of Dr. Joseph Stern for an abortion.

After leaving Stern's office at 435 West 19th Street, Agnes took ill. She died on October 26 at Jackson Park Hospital.

Had the year been 2022, Stern could have expected prolifers to take to the internet with pictures from Agnes's Facebook page and to pester the Illinois medical board to investigate the circumstances of Agnes' death. And unless the board found something Gosnellesque -- say, a high school student administering massive amounts of powerful drugs or rows of severed fetal feet in specimen containers or a room full of soiled recliners upon which women writhed and moaned while waiting for their abortions to be completed -- that would probably be the end of it. The board would declare that Stern had done no wrong and as long as Stern didn't Google his dead patient's name, he'd probably never have to give Agnes another thought.
 
The absolute worst case scenario for Stern had the year been 2019, 2009, or 1999 or 1989 or even 1979, would have been that Agnes' survivors would have sued him. Again, unless there was some Gosnellesque behavior, the insurance company would take care of all that and it would all blow over. Stern could go about his business unimpeded. 

But the year was 1929, and an abortion patient's death wasn't something that could be shrugged off as one of those things that just happen and only weirdo right-to-lifers could possibly get their knickers into a twist over. This was 1929, and a woman's abortion death was homicide. Stern was arrested that day, and on November 1, he was indicted for felony murder by a grand jury.

I've been unable to find out what repercussions there were for Stern beyond the indictment. One thing is safe to say, though: His life would have been a lot easier had abortion been legal.

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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:


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.

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October 26, 1970: Empty Nester Dies in From Legal Abortion

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“Dolores Hendricks” was 45, Caucasian and pregnant with her third child. She had a medical history of borderline essential hypertension. She and her husband had two grown children, the younger of whom was 18 years old. She worked as a secretary and lived in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

Dolores checked into Presbyterian Hospital in Pittsburgh for a safe, legal abortion. The reason for the abortion is not noted on either her death certificate or the medical journal article. At the time abortion was not broadly legal in Pennsylvania, but it was not being aggressively prosecuted and many were declared legal by doctors who would interpret the "health exception" as broadly as they pleased.  

Dolores was put under general anesthesia for a hysterotomy abortion and bilateral tubal ligation performed on October 20, 1970. She was 17 weeks pregnant, meaning that her unborn baby was 15 weeks past conception.

A hysterotomy is just a C-section with the intention of allowing the baby to die of extreme prematurity. A viable baby might be killed by the doctor before being removed to avoid legal problems caused by dismayed staff reporting a baby's death, as would later happen with the Edelin case. Realistically, though, at only 17 weeks of gestation, with the neonatal care available at the time, there was no risk that Dolores's baby would survive. When asked about live births during abortions, Dr. Ronald Bolognese of Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia, said, "At the time of delivery, it has been our policy to wrap the fetus in a towel. The fetus is then moved to another room while our attention is turned to the care of [the woman]. ..... Once we are sure that her condition is stable, the fetus is evaluated. Almost invariably all signs of life have ceased."

Initially, the abortion was believed to have been uneventful. About an hour after the baby was delivered and left to die while the doctor stitched his patient back up, hospital staff noticed that Dolores's incision was bleeding.

Blood tests found that Dolores's blood was very low of fibrogen, a factor that allows clots to form properly. Despite blood transfusions, Dolores deteriorated and was still critically ill after 24 hours of intensive care. She was suffering abnormally low blood pressure, low urine output, and a generalized excessive bleeding. By this time, Dolores had been given 23 units of blood just to keep her vitals going. Her abdomen was severely distended from all the bleeding and a laparotomy removed 10 liters of blood.

Dolores's kidneys began to fail, so she was put on dialysis. On the third day after the abortion she had to have a tracheostomy to keep her airway open.

Further testing revealed gram-negative sepsis. Despite all efforts to save Dolores, she did not respond to treatment and died on October 26 (the death certificate lists her date of death as this even though a medical journal stated it was the eight postoperative day). Among other damage to her internal organs, her kidneys had gone necrotic.

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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:


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.

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Sunday, October 25, 2026

October 25, 1922: A Midwife's Fatal Work in Chicago

On October 25, 1922, 24-year-old homemaker Lillian Hulbert died at Chicago's St. Anne's Hospital from septicemia as a result of a criminal abortion performed on her there that day. 

According to public records, Lillian was the daughter of Norwegian immigrants Sam and Karoline Colberg and the wife of Frank C. Hulbert. The 1920 census shows them living with their daughters Francis C (age 4 -- born 1916) and Lois M. (age 2 -- born 1918), and Dorothy H., an infant.

The coroner identified a Mrs. M.C. Anderson as responsible for Lillian's death. Anderson's profession is given as nurse or midwife.

Abortion rights groups will blame the deaths of women like Lillian on the legal status of abortion at the time. Seeking out a midwife, ad Lillian did, rather than a doctor, wasn't because of abortion's illegality but because women of that era often went to midwives rather than doctors for all of their obstetric and gynecological issues.

Graph showing abortion deaths in the US since 1940. The graph falls sharply from 1940 to 1950, levels off a bit in the 1050s, then resumes a downward trend unchanged by Roe vs. Wade, which is marked with a vertical line at 1073.Abortion-rights activists also forget that all surgery, including induced abortion, was riskier in the pre-legalization days. As the 20th century progressed, all maternal mortality, including abortion mortality, fell as medical care improved. Antibiotics and blood transfusions -- along with overall better health due to increasing prosperity -- deserve the credit for falling mortality, which was hardly caused retroactively by the 1973 Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court ruling striking down all the nation's abortion laws.

No doubt there was quackery prior to legalization -- but such quackery persists today. Removing the threat of jail for any but the most egregious behavior does not provide motivation to run a tight ship. Three erstwhile criminal abortionists that I know of -- Benjamin Munson, Milan Vuitch, and Jesse Ketchum -- didn't lose a single abortion patient until after legalization made them less fearful of repercussions and thus far more careless. Each went on to kill two legal abortion patients, not out of simple surgical complications, but due to appalling quackery.

It's time we got real about how little is different between illegal and legal abortion practice: the main difference is how much risk of being shut down or sent to prison the safe-and-legal abortionist faces.

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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:


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.

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Saturday, October 24, 2026

October 24, 1979: One Negative Pregnancy Test, Two Dead Teens

Summary: Delores Jean Smith was the second of two teens to die of nearly simultaneous injuries at a National Abortion Federation member clinic.

In the era of safe, legal abortion, we find a case of striking ineptitude. 

On June 2 of 1979. National Abortion Federation member Atlanta Women's Pavillion rose to new levels of incompetence when staff there managed to fatally injure two teenage abortion patients in less than an hour.

Recovery Room at Atlanta Women's Pavilion

Dr. Jacob Adams was a co-owner of the clinic, along with Dr. Otis Hammonds and Dr. Olly C. Duckett. Adams performed an abortion under general anesthesia on 19-year-old Angela Scott. He sent her to the recovery room then began performing an abortion on 14-year-old Delores Jean Smith.

Angela went into cardio-respiratory arrest in the recovery room due to what was reported as an "idiosyncratic reaction" to anesthesia. 

Nurse Teresa Stearns, who was not certified as an anesthetist, was administering anesthesia to Delores while Adams was performing her abortion. Stearns ran to assist in efforts to revive Angela, leaving Delores with her intravenous anesthesia drip still running while Adams continued with the abortion.

There was a 25-minute delay in getting an ambulance to the clinic because staff didn't tell the ambulance service that the call was for an emergency. 

After the staff had resuscitated Angela and loaded her into an ambulance, they returned their attention to Delores , who had gone into cardio-respiratory arrest. 

Dr. Jacob Adams

Adams had accompanied Angela to the Grady Memorial Hospital, and even though the ambulance could have transported both patients, staff refused to release Delores until the physician had returned to discharge her. This resulted in a 30-minute delay, during which the ambulance crew was unable to attend to Delores or begin transporting her.

Angela lingered for a week in a coma before dying at 2:35 a.m. on June 9. 

Delores remained comatose in an intensive-care unit at Grady.

Fulton County District Attorney Lewis Slaton launched an investigation. Atlanta homicide chief Lieutenant W. K. Perry said, "We've had everybody, including the CDC, calling to see what happened and why." 

State legislators held hearings about regulating abortion clinics. The medical board held formal hearings. The Food and Drug Administration examined the anesthesia drugs used on the patients.

Delores never regained consciousness. She was admitted to a nursing home in August, where she died of adult respiratory distress syndrome on October 24, 1979. Her 15th birthday had come and gone while she was in her coma. 

Delores's mother, Nancy Smith, filed a $12.3 million suit against the clinic after learning that her daughter's pregnancy test performed at the clinic had come up negative.

State legislators proposed a regulation to require that pregnancy tests be done at licensed laboratories prior to abortions to ensure that abortions would not be performed on women and girls who were not actually pregnant. However, Lynn Thorgensen and Lynne Randall, co-directors of Feminist Women's Health Center opposed the measure, saying that it would delay abortions and increase costs. 

Both young women were Black -- a fact that made them at higher risk of abortion death for reasons that, to my knowledge, have never been investigated.

Watch the YouTube video.

Other women who have died after abortions at National Abortion Federation members include: Leigh Ann Alford, Gloria Aponte, Keisha Marie Atkins, Deanna Bell, Diane Boyd, Chanelle Bryant, Patricia Chacon, Geneva Colton, Barbaralee Davis, Laniece Dorsey, "Kyla Ellis", Josefina Garcia, Christin Gilbert, Sheila Hebert, Regina Johnson, Sandra Kaiser, "Imelda Laurence", Maria Leho, Susan Levy, Dawn Mack, "Haley Mason", Sophie McCoy, Jennifer McKenna-Morbelli, Denise Montoya, Kimberly Neil, Joyce Ortenzio,Venus Ortiz, Mary Pena, Catherine Pierce, Vanessa Preston, Dawn Ravenelle, Maria Rodriguez, Tamiia Russell, Oriene Shevin, Christi Stile, Latachie Veal, Chivon Williams, Diamond Williams, and Nichole Williams.

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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.

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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.

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October 24, 1981: Mentally Disabled Teen Dies from Abortion

SUMMARY: Dianne Boyd, age 19, died on October 24, 1981 after a drug error made during an abortion performed by Robert Crist at Reproductive Health Services in St. Louis, MO.

Dianne's Disability

naflogo.jpgNineteen-year-old Dianne Alicia Boyd had the mental capacity of a 14-month-old child. She was cared for by her mother, Barbara Bates, until she was ten years old, then was placed in various facilities until finally being moved into St. Louis State Hospital's Developmental Disabilities training Center when she was around 18 years old. She lived on an all-female ward. 

Dianne's Pregnancy

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Dianne was beaten and raped some time in July of 1981, and was later discovered to be pregnant. Dianne's mother was notified of the rape and pregnancy on September 25.

The rapist was never identified. Staff were questioned and polygraphed. Other patients couldn't be interviewed because, like Dianne, they were severely intellectually disabled. Walter Sloan, president of a patient advocacy group, said, "I doubt if anyone on that hall has the mental capacity of even a 5-year-old."

Dianne did not spend all of her time in the facility. She had attended two movies, four dances, three picnics, three swimming outings, one bowling outing, and two other unspecified field trips during the period in question. It was never determined if the rape took place at the facility or while Dianne was on an outing. 

The Decision is Made for Diane and her Unborn Baby

Dianne's mother and a court-appointed guardian went before a judge to get permission for an abortion, which they held would be in Dianne's "best health interests." The judge gave approval on October 13.

As a black woman, Diane was at higher risk than a white woman for fatal abortion complications.

Dianne was 16 weeks pregnant when she was taken to Reproductive Health Services in St. Louis, Missouri. Dianne's mother signed the consent form and the abortion was performed October 22, 1981 by Dr. Robert Crist. 

Dianne stopped breathing, went into shock and was taken to the intensive Care Unit at Barnes Hospital. She was placed on a respirator. Her EEG showed flat brain waves, so Dianne was kept on life support until organ donation surgery could be arranged. She was removed from life support and pronounced dead at 1:30 pm on October 24.

The Allegations

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According to suits later filed by Dianne's mother, RHS staff and abortionist Robert Crist did not check for possible drug interactions before giving Dianne valium and sublimaze. Dr. Mary Case of the St. Louis Medical Examiner's Office said that sublimaze could depress a patient's respiration. "This was a severely brain-damaged individual," Dr. Case told the United Press. "She could not tolerate any respiratory depressant. The reaction was totally unpredictable."

It's unclear how it would be unpredictable that a drug known to cause respiratory depression could have caused Dianne's respiratory depression, especially if given to a patient who was already taking thorazine. The drug combination is likely what caused Dianne to stop breathing. 

Clinic staff told the Associated Press that they would never have administered the drugs they did to Dianne had they known that her disability had been caused by brain damage. But again, she was already taking a medication that could cause respiratory depression and gave her additional respiration-suppressing drugs.

Dianne's mother also said that the clinic lacked heart monitoring equipment or resuscitation equipment.

Dianne was not the last woman to die after abortion by Crist. Seventeen-year-old Latatchie Veal bled to death after an abortion by Crist in 1991. Twenty-two-year-old Nichole Williams died of DIC (disseminated intravascular coagulopathy) after an abortion by Crist in 1997.

Fourteen-year-old Sandra Kaiser committed suicide after a 1984 abortion at RHS, performed without her mother's knowledge or consent.

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