Maria Robledo had immigrated to the US in her early 20s looking for a better life, but thanks to America’s abortion-permissive laws, she would lose her life at 42.
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| Southern California abortion clinic catering to Hispanic women |
At the hospital, doctors discovered the extreme damage. The abortionist had managed to twist and pinch her bowel (likely by ripping a hole in her uterus, catching part of her intestines and shoving it back through the site of the injury), causing a condition called bowel volvulus. A loop of the large intestine was now twisted around itself, causing intestinal obstruction and cutting off circulation to part of the organ.
The abortion was also incomplete, meaning part of Maria’s dead baby was decaying inside of her. Either injury would have been life-threatening alone, but with the deadly combination, sepsis and gangrene quickly set in. Maria died one day after the fatal abortion. Her body was transported back to Mexico for burial, as she had family there. She apparently did not receive an autopsy.
The horrific injuries that killed Maria are far from unheard of in the abortion industry. During a National Abortion Federation “risk management” seminar, a horrified moderator stepped in when an abortionist told others at the convention that when he “pulled bowel” (as he called it), his preferred response was to shove it back through the perforation and send the client home without telling her. The appalled moderator immediately pointed out how reckless and dangerous this was, and reminded the audience that any confirmed or suspected injury of this nature required immediate hospitalization. The moderator then asked the audience of abortionists how many of them did this to their clients. Six openly admitted that they did.
The CDC did not count Maria’s death in their 1989 tally of maternal deaths from legal abortion. In fact, they did not count anyone in her age group in that list at all.
Others who died after receiving similar uterine and bowel injuries include Sharon Hamptlon and Magdalena Rodriguez-Ortega.
California Office of the State Registrar
The Scarlet Survey, Kevin Sherlock (see 1989 abortion death data, “Maria AKA Jane Roe of Compton”)
"California Death Index, 1940-1997," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VGPX-194 : 26 November 2014), Maria I Robledo, 03 Jun 1989; Department of Public Health Services, Sacramento.
"United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J5D8-G29 : 11 January 2021), M I Robledo, Jun 1989; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
"California, Divorce Index, 1966-1984", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VP54-M5F : Tue Feb 25 17:14:00 UTC 2025), Entry for Maria Robledo and Arnold, 10 Sep 1982.
Maria’s medical and death records
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