She was in her first trimester of pregnancy when she underwent the abortion on July 11, 1970 at Harlem Hospital. The abortion had been recommended by hospital staff because Barbara had a history of sickle cell disease. The abortion would probably have been recommended as beneficial to Barbara's health, under New York's old abortion law, and so would have been legal even if the new abortion-on-demand law hadn't been passed earlier in the year.
But instead of improving, Barbara's health deteriorated. Her blood started to break down. Nine days after the abortion, July 20, Barbara died of sickle cell crisis triggered by the abortion.
The other women I've identified as dying from sickle cell crisis triggered by an abortion are Margaret Davis and Betty Hines.
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And of course you have no idea what may have happened if she had proceeded with the pregnancy?
ReplyDeleteThere were a number of trained medical people involved in the decision, were they fools or liars?
Would the risk factors for what did take place greater for abortion than for full-term gestation?
Half a story does not deliver the truth GG.