October 11, 1981: Fatal Abortion in a DC Doctor's Office

Life Dynamics lists 17-year-old Sharonda Rowe on their "Blackmun Wall" of women who died from safe and legal abortions. 

According to LDI, Sharonda had an abortion done in a doctor's office in Washington, DC on October 11, 1981. 

She suffered lacerations in her vagina and uterus, causing a massive, fatal air embolism. 

LDI Source: District of Columbia Certificate of Death, File, 81-6576