An autopsy report tells the story of the seventeenth young woman I know of now to have died after an abortion at that National Abortion Federation flagship: Family Planning Associates Medical Group.
To preserve her confidentiality, I have given her the pseudonym "Kyla Ellis."
The day after the abortion, Kyla suffered agonizing abdominal pain. Her partner, whom I will call "Benjamin," called an ambulance, which rushed her to Centinela Hospital. She arrived at around 3:30 that afternoon. Kyla rated her pain at 10 on a scale of 10. Bright, fresh blood was flowing from her vagina. She couldn't pass urine at all. Hospital staff used a catheter to drain her bladder of about 200 cc of bloody urine.
Doctors decided that Kyla needed more intensive care than Centinela was able to provide. Kyla rode by ambulance to Kaiser West Los Angeles. She arrived shortly after midnight on May 16. At first she was awake, but at around 1:40 a.m. her gaze turned glassy and she became unresponsive. Staff took her to the lab for a CT scan, but on arrival Kyla went into cardio respiratory arrest. All efforts to revive her failed and she was pronounced dead at 2:45 a.m.
The autopsy found her uterus boggy and enlarged. The endometrium (lining) had been scraped away.
Kyla had bled to death.
She's the seventeenth woman I'm aware of to have died after abortions at FPA. The others are:
- 1970: Denise Holmes
- 1984: Patricia Chacon and Mary Pena
- 1985: Josefina Garcia
- 1986: Laniece Dorsey
- 1988: Joyce Ortenzio and Tami Suematsu
- 1992: Deanna Bell and Susan Levy
- 1994: Christina Mora
- 1995: TaTanisha Wesson
- 1998: Nakia Jorden
- 1999: Maria Leho
- 2000: Kimberly Neil and Maria Rodriguez
- 2004: Chanelle Bryant
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