All I originally had was a single card to commemorate the April 10, 1924 death of 34-year-old Mrs. Katherina Mueller. She died in Rock Springs, Sweetwater County, Wyoming of septicemia following a self-induced abortion.
I have since obtained Katherina's death certificate. Her doctor had cared for her from April 2 through April 9. She died at 5:00 the following morning.
Locust Street Surgical Center – Planned Parenthood wasn't exactly a grade-A facility, according to an inspection report from August 20, 2015.
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| Dr. Guy E. Brewer |
On May 4, the Cook County coroner concluded that Mildred had died from complications of a criminal abortion, and recommended the identification and arrest of the person or persons responsible.
Nobody was ever held accountable for Mildred's death, according to the Homicide in Chicago Interactive Database.
Watch Woman Collapses and Dies at Work on YouTube.
Abortion advocates like to assert that an abortion decision should be "between a woman and her doctor." This, of course, ignores the fact that no doctor-patient relationship actually exists in an assembly-line abortion clinic. If the woman is fortunate, the doctor might introduce himself or ask if she's ready for him to start.
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| Planned Parenthood, York, PA |
Based on a review of medical records, (MR) and interview with staff (EMP), it was determined the facility failed to ensure patients were properly identified by the operating surgeon prior to the start of a procedure for six of six medical records reviewed, (MR1, MR2, MR4, MR4, MR6, and MR6).
If he didn't even bother to determine the identity of the patient, did he review her chart first so that he'd know how far advanced she was in the pregnancy, if she was allergic to any medications, or any of the other things he would need to know?
Evidently a lot of potential information wasn't reviewed:
Based on a review of medical records (MR) and interview with staff (EMP), it was determined that the facility failed to assign a Physical Status Classification (an evaluation of the patient's overall health as it would influence the conduct and outcome of anesthesia or surgery or both) for patients who received local anesthesia in six of six medical records reviewed (MR1, MR2, MR3, MR4, MR5 and MR6).
They evidently weren't too fussy about assessing the women after the abortions either:
Based on review of medical records (MR), and interview with staff (EMP), it was determined that the facility failed to ensure that post operative surgical report was written or dictated for six of six medical records reviewed (MR1, MR2, MR3, MR4, MR5 and MR6).
It wasn't clear who did what, or when:
Based on review of medical records (MR), and interview with staff (EMP), it was determined the facility failed to ensure that each entry in each medical record was dated, and authenticated by the person making the entries for six of six medical records reviewed (MR1, MR2, MR3, MR4, MR5, and MR6).
It doesn't look they were too diligent about vital staff training, either:
Based on review of personnel files (PF), and interview with staff (EMP), it was determined that the facility failed to assure Infection Control training or education was provided for three of three personnel files reviewed (PF1, PF2, and PF3).
They weren't too concerned about being able to quickly summon help in case of an emergency during a procedure:
Based on observation and interview with staff (EMP), it was determined the facility failed to adequately equip the operating room and recovery area with an emergency call system.
There were also no emergency call bells for patients inside the patient restrooms.
If this is what you're seeing the most reputable of abortion facilities, what's happening at fly-by-nights?
On April 4, 1940 she was admitted to Carbon County Memorial Hospital. She was treated there by Dr. Myron L. Crandall until her death shortly after midnight the morning of April 7.
Her death was attributed to self-induced abortion with infection. She had been about 6 weeks pregnant.
Watch Self-Induced in Wyoming on YouTube.
Watch Self-Induced in Wyoming on Rumble.
On the evening of Monday, April 6, 1896, Tillie Karcher heard moaning in the flat of seamstress Millie Meyers, just upstairs of her at 415 Bushwick Avenue in Brooklyn. She listened again and heard a young female voice crying out, "Oh, let me go home to my mama!"
Alarmed, Mrs. Karchner sought out a policeman on his rounds, who went to the apartment and found a young woman there, ailing and alone. The girl gave her name as Mrs. Emily Scott and said that her husband, Ollie Scott, was a fireman on a Fulton ferry.
The policeman found prescription bottles in the room, so he copied the information from them and went to the pharmacy that had prepared them. The pharmacist said that the medicines were common ones used in treating fevers.
The policeman considered all these goings-on to be fishy, so he reported the situation to the precinct captain, who began an investigation to identify and round up everybody involved in the young woman's suspicious illness.
Around 5:30 on Tuesday afternoon, April 7, the young woman said that she was going to die soon, told the police that her real name was Emily Binney and gave them her address on Rutledge Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Emily's turn for the worse sent the police rushing for the coroner, leaving the ailing girl in the care of Minnie Meyer. The coroner arrived to find that Miss Meyer had abandoned Emily, leaving her to die alone in the intervening half hour.
Meyer was eventually apprehended and admitted that she'd helped 20-year-old Emily to seek out the abortion services of 33-year-old midwife Mary Schott and had herself been engaged to look after the patient.
A police officer went to the Fulton ferry house and managed to identify "Ollie Scott" as Arthur Robbins, who was arrested when he showed up at Meyer's flat to look for Emily at 10:00 that evening.
While the suspects were being questioned, Minnie said that Emily's baby had been born alive on March 21. Upon hearing that, Robbins burst into tears and told police that about four hours after the child's birth he had wrapped the baby in newspapers weighted down with a piece of iron and thrown it out a porthole in the ferry. He couldn't say if the baby had still been alive when it was tossed into the river.
Arthur Robbins then admitted that he had gone with Emily and Minnie to arrange for Mrs. Schott to perform an abortion.
Minnie Meyer was found guilty of manslaughter. I've been unable to determine the outcome of the case against the midwife.
Watch A Cry in the Night on YouTube.
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On April 5, 1977, a 17-year-old girl entered a Los Angeles Planned Parenthood. Though she was just a few days shy of 30 weeks pregnant, she wanted the viable baby in her womb to emerge dead, not alive. Thus, this unnamed teen chose to submit to a risky saline abortion.
In a saline abortion, the abortionist uses an amniocentesis syringe to remove as much amniotic fluid as possible, then replace it with a strong sterile saline solution. The unborn child breathes and swallows this caustic fluid. It gets in the child's eyes. It eats away at the child's internal organs and the child's skin. The baby might bleed to death internally or die from the injuries the high saline levels cause to her internal organs.
Sometimes the saline gets into the mother's bloodstream and she dies along with her baby.
This was a girl who very much wanted her unborn baby dead.
As planned, the teen went into labor. But the plans went awry 18 hours after the saline was injected. The baby, a red and scalded little girl came out alive at 6:00 the following morning.
The abortionist hadn't arrived at work yet, so he wasn't there to remind everybody that abortions must always result in a dead baby, even if death needs to be achieved after the baby emerges. A nurse called 911. The baby was transported to a hospital.
That baby was Gianna Jessen.
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| Gianna Jessen |
The brain damage from the abortion had left Gianna with cerebral palsy (CP). She often asked her mother why she had CP but wouldn't get a clear answer. Finally, at the age of 12, Gianna replied to one of the vague answers with, "I was aborted, wasn't I?"
That's when she learned the truth.
Two years later, Gianna went public with her story to a group of only 10 people at a Mexican restaurant. One of those people was a reporter for the Orange County Register. The paper published the story, and Gianna has been speaking about her story ever since.
Happy 48th Birthday, Gianna.
Watch Slated for Death. Speaking for Life. on YouTube.
Watch Slated for Death. Speaking for Life. on Rumble.
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SUMMARY: On April 6, 1906, 22-year-old homemaker Bessie Braun died in Chicago from an abortion perpetrated by midwife Julia Gibson.
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| Michael Reese Hospital |
Were there really wards full of women dying from botched septic abortions in the days before legalization? Dr. Julius Lackner of Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago reflected on what he saw there from 1900 to 1914. Five hundred women were treated at this charity hospital for septic abortions — both criminal abortions and miscarriages — during those fifteen years. Of those 500 women, there were only four deaths.
I have verified that two of them were indeed criminal abortion patients: Lizzie Orenstein and Bessie Braun.
Bessie's Death
Bessie, a 22-year-old homemaker, mother of two, and immigrant from Austria, died at Michael Reese on April 6, 1906. Both verbally and in writing, Bessie named midwife Julia Gibson as the person who had perpetrated the abortion, for a $5 fee, on March 20. It was hardly surprising that Bessie’s abortion had been perpetrated by somebody with medical training, since the majority of Chicago abortions in that era were done by either doctors or midwives, who ran thinly veiled advertisements in the newspapers.
Bessie’s husband, Abraham, testified at the inquest. He said that he had not known anything about an abortion until Bessie became seriously ill on Sunday, though she remained at home until Thursday, when she finally was hospitalized.
He also said that prior to her death, Bessie told him that she had written the guilty midwife’s name and address on a piece of paper which was in the bed at their home. Abraham found the paper and turned it over to authorities during the inquest.
Attempted Suicide
Gibson, who had been at Bessie’s bedside during the declaration, was being escorted out of the hospital by police when she asked to go to the women’s dressing room in the hospital basement. She was permitted to go in while a police officer stood guard outside the door.The officer soon heard a shot, then forced the door and found Gibson lying on the floor suffering from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest. She was admitted to the hospital for treatment and was kept both under arrest and under suicide watch. As she lay near death, Gibson confessed her guilt. She later recovered.
Not Her First Dead Patient
Gibson had previously been indicted for the November, 1905 abortion death of 18-year-old Dorothy Spuhr, who had died at County Hospital.
Watch Midwife Attempts Suicide, Admits Guilt on YouTube.
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SUMMARY: Anna Clemens, age 26, died April 6, 1880 after an abortion perpetrated in or near Detroit, reportedly by Dr. William G. Cox.
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| Central Massachusetts Planned Parenthood |
Both Planned Parenthood and Celina agree that she went to Planned Parenthood in Worcester on March 12, 2015 for the first part of a two-day abortion procedure.
Celina said that she was never warned that she might expel an intact, recognizable fetus.
The next day, March 13, Celina said that she called Planned Parenthood to report severe pain as if she was in labor. She said that she was told to take her prescribed pain medications but was not instructed to seek further care, nor was she warned that she was at risk of expelling a recognizable fetus.
That night, Celina delivered the 16-week fetus in her bathroom, and suffered "physical pain and severe emotional and mental trauma" as a result. (The suit does not specify if the baby came out alive or already dead.)
Dr. Kumaraswami agreed that she did indeed insert the dilators for Celina's abortion but denies any lack of informed consent, asserting that Celina signed a detailed informed consent form.
Likely Informed Consent According to Grok3
I've been unable to find any copies of a standard Planned Parenthood D&E consent form online, but I did ask Grok if expulsion of an intact, recognizable fetus is one of the risks covered and got the following answer:
For the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts (PPLM), the informed consent process for a dilation and evacuation (D&E) procedure does not explicitly warn patients that they might expel an intact, recognizable fetus as a standard part of the consent discussion. This aligns with the broader practices of Planned Parenthood affiliates, where the focus is on medical risks and procedural details rather than specific outcomes like the appearance of fetal tissue, unless directly relevant to a listed complication.
PPLM’s approach to informed consent for D&E, based on their general patient care model and available documentation, emphasizes:
Procedure Overview: Patients are told that cervical dilation (using osmotic dilators like laminaria or misoprostol) prepares the cervix for evacuation with suction and instruments, typically in the second trimester. The goal is to remove pregnancy tissue, not to deliver an intact fetus.
Complications: They inform patients about risks like bleeding, infection, cervical injury, uterine perforation, and incomplete abortion, as these are the most common and medically significant concerns. For example, excessive bleeding or incomplete dilation might require additional intervention, but spontaneous expulsion of an intact fetus isn’t framed as a typical risk.
Patient Experience: They cover what to expect (e.g., cramping, sedation options) and post-procedure care, but the consent process avoids graphic descriptions of fetal tissue unless a patient asks specific questions.
No public PPLM-specific consent form for D&E explicitly mentions the possibility of expelling an intact, recognizable fetus. This is consistent with the procedure’s design: D&E involves removing tissue in fragments, unlike induction abortions, where intact expulsion is more likely and might be discussed. However, in rare cases—such as if osmotic dilators or misoprostol trigger unexpected contractions before the evacuation step—an unintended expulsion could occur. PPLM doesn’t highlight this in standard consent materials, likely because it’s not a common outcome and isn’t a procedural goal.
Massachusetts law (MGL c. 112, § 12S) requires parental consent or judicial bypass for minors seeking abortions, but it doesn’t mandate specific warnings about fetal appearance. PPLM’s counseling, often paired with their judicial bypass navigation program, focuses on ensuring informed choice and emotional support rather than mandating such a disclosure. Their website and patient resources (e.g., abortion care pages) describe D&E as a safe, routine procedure without mentioning intact expulsion as a risk.
Thus I have a hard time believing that Celina was warned that she might see her dead baby.
Kumaraswami's Description of Unfolding Events
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| Dr. Tara Kumaraswami |
There is no mention that the baby was injected with digoxin -- which would be almost unheard of at 16 weeks anyway -- which increases the likelihood that the baby was still alive when Celina delivered it at home.
According to Kumaraswami, Celina called at around 4:25 that evening to report "10/10 pelvic pain, reduced to 6-7/10 with the one tab of percocet. Records indicate that she was advised by nursing staff to take another tab of percocet, to rest at home, to call the on-call nurse if symptoms worsened overnight, and to go to the emergency room if necessary before her scheduled appointment the next morning."
Kumaraswami went on to say that she got a call from the hospital at around 9:30 the following morning that Celina had "passed the pregnancy at home" and was receiving treatment for a retained placenta.
Again, Was the Informed Consent Adequate?
She again asserts that Celina was given adequate informed consent by saying "The thirteen-page consent form adequately describes the risks of the procedure, including potential injuries and complications, such as bleeding and leaking of fluid. The consent form is regularly reviewed and updated by the national Planned Parenthood organization. The proper Massachusetts state required mid-trimester abortion consent was also signed by the patient prior to her procedure."
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It seems that if the consent form included the possibility of expelling an intact, recognizable fetus, Kumaraswami would have mentioned it in the letter defending herself. There is also nothing in Massachusetts law requiring warning an abortion patient about the possibility of expelling an intact, recognizable fetus.
Her letter defending herself includes her entire nine-page curriculum vitae but does not include any of the consent forms Celina signed that supposedly warned her that she might end up giving birth to a dead baby.
What are your thoughts?
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Dear Lord,
I sit here alone with my thoughts wondering if you will ever forgive me. Why do I continue to fail you? I'm failing you because I‘m turning away from the precious gift of having a child. A child. A breathing, living, beautiful life that I created but too selfish to accept from you. Will you still love me as a child of yours? Will I still love me after today?
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| LeRoy Carhart's clinic in Belleview, Nebraska |
Haley, in her fog of medication, tried to make a joke. "Don‘t hurt me down there?" she said. Background
In the summer of 1992, Dr. Delhi Elmore Thweatt, Jr., was preparing to perform an abortion on 32-year-old Kelly Morse. Kelly had indicated on her intake forms that she was allergic to the "cain" medications, but Thweatt administered Lidocaine anyway, resulting in Kelly's death.
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| Delhi Thweatt |
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| Baltimore Planned Parenthood |
Mary Bradley, an Alabama resident, was 41 and a mother of four when she underwent a 20-week abortion at the hands of Dr. George Wayne Patterson in March of 1985.
Soon after, Mary was losing blood. She was admitted to the University of South Alabama Medical Center in Mobile and her bleeding was described as “abnormal” and “uncontrollable”. Doctors performed a hysterectomy on March 28, 1985 in an attempt to save Mary, but she had developed a blood clotting disorder and respiratory problems as a result of the abortion. She died on April 4, 1985.
Like a disproportionate number of women who die in safe and legal abortions, Mary was black.
Less than a year after he killed Mary and her baby, Patterson perpetrated a fatal abortion on Janyth Caldwell.
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| George Wayne Patterson |
Patterson was shot to death in 1993 near his car outside of an X-rated movie theater. At first, abortion-rights groups treated Patterson's death as martyrdom for one who provided "vital reproductive health care." They never mentioned the two dead women. Police confirmed later that the killer, Winston McCoy, was a violent felon who was on parole after serving time for a violent home robbery and sexual assault. Patterson's killing had been a botched robbery attempt. News coverage revealed that Patterson was a rather unsavory character who had accumulated tens of thousands of dollars in debts to illegal bookies. His name gradually vanished from the Rolls of the Holy Martyrs among the prochoice.
Watch Deadly Doc Dies Deplorably on YouTube.
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A young girl whose name was redacted on the police report alleged being sexually abused by her middle school principal. Referring to her simply as "the girl" feels dehumanizing, so I'll call her "Mia." The principal's name was Mr. Downey.
The abuse, Mia said, started when she was 16 years old It started with Downey hugging her in his office and kissing her on the lips. He took her to various locations for sexual intercourse: motels, his mother's house, his own house, and the school.
Mia was able to give the police substantiating documentation, including datebooks and paperwork from the Planned Parenthood showing that both she and Downy attended her abortion appointment. Police interviewed Downey's wife, who had since divorced him, and Mia's friend, both of whom related information that supports Mia's allegations.
Downey entered a guilty plea and was sentenced to 3 years for two counts of felony Child Seduction after Mia made a statement to the court that she suffered mental trauma from the experience.
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| Mayra Rodriguez |
The sources are a mix of secular and prolife sources, but since Mayra won her lawsuit and the main differences among the sources are how things are worded, I'm pulling together my summary from all of them.
Mayra decided to work at Planned Parenthood because she believed that she would be able to help women, especially Hispanic women such as herself. During the interview she was asked her views on abortion and gave the response she believed appropriate as what might be called a "personally opposed" Christina: "I wouldn't have one, but if someone else does, who am I to judge?"
She was hired. She worked for Planned Parenthood for 17 years.
At first, Mayra worked at a center that didn't do abortions, but she rose through the ranks and became Director of Planned Parenthood facilities in Phoenix and Flagstaff. Still, she wasn't involved in abortions.
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| Planned Parenthood Tempe AZ |
Speaking to the Culture of Life podcast, Mayra said that everything at the abortion facility was about fast turnaround and abortion sales. She was to see as many patients as possible, as many as 50, and to get them all processed by 4 pm so the abortionist wouldn't have to work late. She was dismayed by the rush and lack of personalized care.
Mayra also became concerned about malpractice, One doctor, only identified as "Dr. X,'" left a lot of his patients with complications. Mayra brought this to the attention to the lead clinician and was assured that the problem would be addressed, but it wasn't. After one 19-year-old patient underwent a second-trimester D&E at 14 weeks, which involves dilating the cervix then removing the fetus in pieces using forceps. Dr. X told an assistant to account for all of the baby's body parts while he inserted an IUD. The aide told Dr. X that the baby's head was not accounted for. The aide told Mayra, who went to the doctor and he told her "Go find one in the trash." This shocked and angered Mayra, but she stood her ground. The doctor removed the IUD and used ultrasound to find and remove the baby's head.
She also said that she saw doctors falsifying medical records by incorrectly reporting complications, or not reporting them at all. She reported that often the surgical abortion documentation was completed at the beginning of the day, noting no complications, all fetal parts accounted for, and so on, and would then just sign them at the end of the day regardless of what had actually happened during the procedure.
Mayra also said that she questioned the way Planned Parenthood was shifting money around so that though on paper they were not using tax money to fund abortions, the way things were shifted around, the money was indirectly subsidizing abortions.
Mayra said that as she continued to point out problems, she was treated like a bad employee. She got a memo accusing her of not adhering to Planned Parenthood policies. Mayra told HR that she thought the memo was intended to silence her. She also reported being cited for having narcotics in her desk when she actually had non-narcotic clinic medications that she was storing until passing it on the the proper department. Nevertheless, in October of 2017 she was fired on the grounds of violating a controlled substance policy.
When Mayra sued for wrongful termination, Planned Parenthood used the fact that she had been in the country illegally since the age of 18 and had used falsified documents to get her job in order to discredit her. However, Mayra won $3 million in her wrongful termination suit in a trial that took two weeks. She did not return to Planned Parenthood. She now works with And Then There Were None, an organization that helps abortion workers find jobs where they aren't involved in abortion.
Mayra tells her story here.
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