A study of maternal deaths in North Carolina attempted to count and analyze all the maternal deaths (including abortion fatalities) in the state from 1981 to 1985. One of them was “Ava Roe,” whose death was undoubtedly preventable.
Two weeks after an elective first-trimester abortion procedure, Ava went to a doctor suffering from a low-grade fever and abdominal pain. The doctor treated her for a pelvic infection. Ten hours later, Ava was dead.
The autopsy found something that both Ava’s doctor and the abortion facility had missed. Her pregnancy was ectopic. The abortion facility apparently hadn’t examined her adequately and had sent her home to bleed to death.
Despite being rightfully counted as an abortion-related death in the study, Ava would have been excluded from any CDC statistics on maternal deaths from abortion. No matter how negligent the abortionist was, deaths from ectopic pregnancy after attempted abortion are not counted in the CDC’s abortion data.
Sadly, Ava’s death wasn’t an anomaly. A few other examples are the deaths of Tia Parks, Brenda Vise, Angela Satterfield, Magnolia Thomas, Gladyss Estanislao, Laura Sorrels, Janyth Caldwell, Yvette Poteat, Nancy Hopper, Sherry Emry, Josefina Garcia, Lynette Wallace, Claudia Caventou, Barbara Dillon, Doris Grant, “Denise Roe,” “Ella Roe,” “Kristy Roe,” “Shayna Roe,” “Skye Roe,” "Evelyn Roe," "Tess Roe” and “Tanya Roe.”
It’s important to note that although the study tried to perform a comprehensive count of all maternal deaths (including those that were abortion-related) in the state between 1981 and 1985, they did not successfully do so. No case was recorded matching Norma Jean Greene, who died from a legal abortion in 1981. It is unknown how many others may have also been missed.
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