Ruth was the first of four women to die at Women's Care Center in addition to multiple women who sued the clinic alleging that they suffered potentially fatal injuries. One woman suffered undiagnosed punctures to her uterus and bowels in 1980. Maura Morales died in 1980. A woman suffered a ruptured uterus in 1981. Another woman needed a hysterectomy due to a large laceration in her uterus in 1982. Myrtha Baptiste died December 18, 1982, and Shirley Payne died on January 4, 1983.
The clinic was owned by Hipolito Barreiro, trained in Argentina and West Africa, but not licensed in U.S. Barreiro was accused of practicing without a license and tampering with witness. (See new sources below)
Safe and Legal in Connecticut, 1983
Mary Ives was 28 when she had an abortion 19 weeks into her pregnancy. She was admitted to W.W. Backus Hospital in Norwich, Connecticut, for treatment of complications of the abortion, but her heart and lungs failed due to amniotic fluid embolism (amniotic fluid that got into Mary's bloodstream). Mary was pronounced dead on August 7, 1983.
Safe and Legal in Mississippi, 1988
Teresa Smith was 31 years of age when she submitted to a D&C abortion in Mississippi. She went into cardio-respiratory arrest from a pulmonary embolism and was pronounced dead at a local hospital on August 7, 1988.
Ruth Montero sources:
- "Woman, 23, Dies After Abortion," Miami Herald, August 8, 1979
- "Death Traced to Heart Valve," Miami Herald, August 9, 1979
- "Chronology of Claims Against Women's Care Center," Miami Herald, January 7, 1983
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