January 9, 1983: Teen Dies Lingering Death

Seventeen-year-old Sharon Davis was a high school student, 14 weeks pregnant, when she submitted to an abortion at a hospital in Tucumcari, New Mexico on September 20, 1982. Her uterus and bowel were perforated, and she developed an infection. 

For over three months, she was treated for her infection before she died on January 9, 1983.

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Sources: New Mexico Certificate of Death 034180; OMI # 1047-183-10Q