CDC 1986

Today I'll look at deaths in 1986. They count 11 legal and 2 "unknown."

Legal:

They have 18 plus one more report I can't verify yet.

Gloria Aponte went to a National Abortion Federation member who let his receptionist administer general anesthesia. (20)

Dorothy Bryant bled to death. (37 B Match 479)

Janyth Caldwell was certainly not counted by the CDC, because her abortionist failed to diagnose her ectopic pregnancy, allowing her to die.

Claudia Caventou likewise went uncounted, because of her abortionist's failure to diagnose her ectopic pregnancy.

Liliana Cortez went into cardiac arrest during her abortion. (22 H— Match 478/482/486 OR 481 if reported as white)

Carol Cunningham shut herself up in her garage with the car engine running after her abortion. (Match 481– unlikely because sui)

Laniece Dorsey lapsed into a fatal coma after her abortion at a Family Planning Associates Medical Group clinic. (Match 483/488?)

16-year-old Christella Forte screamed, convulsed, and died without ever expelling her dead baby. (Match 483/488?)

Donna Heim wasn't properly resuscitated when she stopped breathing. (20)

18-year-old Michelle Madden had sought an abortion because her doctor told her that her epilepsy medication could cause birth defects. (Match 484?)

18-year-old Sylvia Moore was shoved out the door to bleed to death on New Years Eve. (Match 483/488?)

Jacqueline Reynolds wasn't given adequate oxygen during her abortion. (22 B Match 480)

Luz Rodriguez turned blue and bled to death from an incomplete abortion. She is JR of Manhattan 1986 in The Scarlet Survey. (40 H/W Match 485)

Rosael Rodriguez is one of two women killed by the same abortionist— Angel Acevado in Puerto Rico. Probably not counted because American government official projects tend to overlook the Virgin Islands (26, no match)

Magnolia Thomas is another ectopic death, thus another death the CDC deliberately failed to count.
 

Gail Wright developed sepsis with ARDS and died. (Note: she is included in The Scarlet Survey under her name and as a Jane Roe case. This is probably because a newspaper coverage of a lawsuit over her death that did not give her name incorrectly listed her age as 30 instead of 29. She was killed by the same) man who killed 14-year-old Germaine Newman.

Adrienne Williams, 24, suffered infection that turned her uterus necrotic. She died of cardiovascular collapse secondary to septic shock. (Match 480)

Marcia Dowty, 25, died of a pulmonary artery embolism and vaginal laceration. The CDC didn’t count any women her race and age dying from legal abortion that year. Either some broken regulation made it count as illegal on paper, there was not enough of the right information to move her out of the “unknown” category or they missed her entirely (fairly likely since she was in California).

Notes: Priests For Life reports a Black woman named Kendra Walker died in Los Angeles County after an abortion by Emmanuel N. Mba, who I confirmed had “OB/GYN with family planning” practice. I was not able to find further references. PFL cites LA County Coroner’s Report #C-263-987, but despite contacting the Coroner’s Office I have not been able to confirm that this report exists. I can’t find any references to Kendra outside the Priests For Life list. (Data: Kendra Walker, 28, Black, LA County, 1986)