2017: Abortion of “nonviable” baby kills mother too

“Taylor Roe” was 33 and six weeks pregnant and in good health when she was told that her baby was not viable. It is unknown what condition her child was actually diagnosed with or what tests may have been done to reach this conclusion. Many parents report being pressured into abortion after receiving a fetal diagnosis. Had Taylor been referred to resources for neonatal palliative care (or possibly a second opinion), she might still be alive.

Instead, she underwent a chemical abortion with vaginally administered misoprostol. This medication is supposed to be administered inside the cheek because if it's administered vaginally it can trigger rapid-onset fatal toxic shock syndrome. That's exactly what happened to Taylor.

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After the abortion, Taylor bled heavily for four days and suffered from abdominal pain, which became worse over the course of the week. She was in so much pain that she had to go to the emergency room. The ER gave her medicine and sent her home, but she became even worse and returned to the ER with nausea, vomiting and a fever of 101.6 F.

This time, ER staff noted that Taylor was now tachycardic, with her heart racing at 142 beats per minute. She had severely abnormal results on her blood work. A CT scan detected free fluid in her pelvic cavity and multiple pleural effusions. 

Taylor underwent a D&C and then was admitted to the ICU in an attempt to save her life. Despite the best efforts of the hospital, Taylor continued to decline. Her heart was racing at 160 to 170 beats per minute. Her blood pressure and urine output steadily declined. She was given more antibiotics and fluids to try to head off the infection.

Her condition worsened. She had to be intubated because she could not maintain an open airway.

Plans were made for an emergency hysterectomy, but she went into cardiac arrest and died before the surgery could be carried out.

The autopsy showed the extent of the damage Taylor suffered. The results showed “a large volume of cloudy serosanguineous fluid, fibropurulent exudates, and mesenteric and pelvic lymphadenopathy, demonstrating infection and peritonitis, along with a hemorrhagic and necrotic uterus, right ovary, and right fallopian tube.” Tissue cultures were positive for clostridium sordellii. Her organs were too severely damaged for her to survive.

Like too many others, Taylor died of Toxic Shock Syndrome from her legal chemical abortion. Her baby may have had no way to survive, but there was no reason for both of them to die.

Alyona Dixon, Holly Patterson, Oriane Shevin, Amber Thurman, Chanelle Bryant, Vivian Tran, “Wanda Roe,” “Mandy Roe,” “Alina Roe,” “Bridget Roe,” “Chelsea Roe,” “Sadie Roe,” "Toni Roe", "Tina Roe", "Dove Roe", “Carmen Roe,” “Belle Roe,” “Corrie Roe,” “Sabrina Roe,” "Jayden Roe," and more women in the United States were also killed by post-abortion pill sepsis.

Source: "A Classic Case of Toxic Shock Syndrome Due to a Not So Classic Organism," Clostridium sordellii," Proceedings of UCLA Health, Volume 22, 2018