Monday, May 12, 2025

May 12, 1971: Sent Home to Bleed to Death

"Anita" was a 23-year-old mother of two when she chose safe and legal abortion in 1971.

She traveled from Massachusetts to New York for her abortion. She had not told her husband that she was planning on the abortion. She used a fictitious name at the facility.

On May 11, the doctor estimated that Anita was 22 weeks pregnant and initiated a saline abortion, extracting as much amniotic fluid as he could from Anita's womb and replacing it with a strong, sterile salt solution that would cause the baby to die a slow, painful death. The abortionist then sent Anita home to expel the fetus on her own with no medical supervision or arrangements for safe follow-up. 

The next day, Anita was found unresponsive at her home. She was rushed to a local hospital, where she was pronounced dead on arrival. 

A post-mortem examination found the lower half of a 650-gram fetus (1 lb 7 oz) protruding from Anita's uterus, more consistent with a baby between 24 and 25 weeks of gestation. A quarter off the placenta was still firmly attached to the uterus. The puncture wound from the saline injection was noted.

Anita had bled to death.

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