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Dennis Boom is the widower of Linda Boom, who died in 1995 from a saline abortion performed at Sinai Samaritan Medical Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

News coverage of the case does not indicate why fourth-year resident Karen S. Watson and her supervising physician, Daniel Gilman, chose the antiquated instillation technique for Linda's abortion. Since the late 1960s, nations such as Sweden, Japan, and the Soviet Union had abandoned instillation abortions as being far too dangerous for the mother. US abortionists began abandoning the technique in the mid-1980s.

Linda had chosen abortion because her baby had been diagnosed with Down syndrome.