“Reanne” from the Blackmun Wall was Black, 15–19 and died from a legal abortion. Life Dynamics states that Reanne’s race confirms that she is not Jan Simmons, which probably means she died in the same year as Jan did, which was1978.
The CDC did count Reanne’s death as a death from legal abortion. I could not find matching cases where enough data was available to be positive that the year and age were consistent. However, at some point between 1972 and 1978, the CDC counted the death of “Carly Roe”, a 16-year-old Black girl who died of septic shock and respiratory distress from amnionitis and endometritis. There is not enough information to tell if Reanne is Carly, but it is possible.
There were no matches for Reanne’s age range in the 1978 CDC data on abortion deaths from embolism (in a study published much later) so her primary cause of death was probably not listed as embolism-related or the CDC did not have that information.
Source: Life Dynamics Blackmun Wall
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