CDC 1985

Today I'll look at deaths in 1985. They count 11 legal, 1 illegal, and 1 "unknown". Keep in mind that an "illegal" death, by the CDC's definitions, can seem like a safe and legal abortion to the woman in question. If the doctor's license has been suspended or revoked but he keeps working at an apparently legal clinic anyway, the CDC counts the woman's death as illegal because it wasn't performed by somebody legally permitted to perform abortions in that state. Myrta Baptiste is an example of this trick to disguise the deaths from legalized abortion. That said, we can look at the deaths I know of. I have 15 deaths(plus 4 from TSS I’m still working on—see notes), including 2 that were definitely not counted by the CDC:

Mary Bradley, 41, was one of two women who died under the dubious care of abortionist George Wayne Patterson, treated as a martyr by the abortion lobby because he was gunned down outside a porn theater in an apparent gangland slaying that police confirmed had nothing to do with his career as an abortionist.

Joan Camp, 22, is the death classified as "unknown" by the CDC because it could not be determined who performed the fatal abortion.

Josefina Garcia, 37, wasn't counted as an abortion death by the CDC because her abortionist let her die by failing to diagnose her ectopic pregnancy. The CDC refuses to place the blame for these deaths on abortionists, even slovenly abortionists like Family Planning Associates Medical Group, the chain of seedy NAF-affiliated abortion mills that killed Josephina and at least 11 other young women.

Kathleen Gilbert bled to death at 29 years old from internal injuries.

Gaylene Golden, 21, died of an embolism caused by a tear in her uterus. Her killer was later convicted of the homicide of his wife. The CDC actually did count a case that appears to match hers.

Arnetta Hardaway, 18, hemorrhaged and developed infection that killed her after her safe, legal abortion.

Debra Ann “Debbi” Lozinski went into a fatal coma after her abortion and died of her injuries 12 days after her 17th birthday.

Yvonne Mesteth, 18, was the second of two women to die of septic, incomplete abortions performed by erstwhile criminal abortionist Benjamin Munson.

26-year-old Yvette Poteat was also not counted by the CDC because she died when her abortionist failed to diagnose her ectopic pregnancy.

Dawndalea Ravenell was only 13 years old when she was left unattended to drown in her own vomit with pieces of her dead baby still inside her from an abortion arranged without parental knowledge or consent.

Ellen Williams, 38, returned to the abortion facility seeking care for raging peritonitis after her abortion; they gave her tea and sympathy, a bottle of oral antibiotics and a blood test that they contaminated to the point of being worthless.

Maria Soto, 32, was the first of at least four maternal deaths at Her Medical Clinic in California. After being heavily drugged and left alone, she fell from a table, had a seizure, vomited, hyperventilated, passed out, suffered an aneurysm with severe cerebral hemorrhage and went into a coma— all before anyone noticed. She died that same day.

38 Black February 19 (TSS JR of Brooklyn 1985A)

 “Patty Roe” (no real name/first name/initials given) was 13 years old and died in New York on March 17. She was white, so she’s NOT Dawndalea Ravenell. I don’t know if Patty died without knowing no baby had been killed— what she actually had was a blighted ovum or molar pregnancy. (TSS JR of Brooklyn 1985B)

20 Black September 6 (TSS JR of Brooklyn 1985C)

The Scarlet Survey:

Cheryl Edgar, 39, died in California from sepsis and shock after a septic abortion that was specified by the coroner as induced.

Linda Parlin, 30, died in Boston from sepsis. (Working on independent confirmation—need certificate)

Marcela Gallardo, 30, died of meningitis from a septic abortion on December 18 (note: death certificate confirms this but I couldn’t find anything to specify induced or miscarriage)

20-year-old Sonya Hardeman died in Georgia on December 10 (working on independent confirmation)

(Note: The New York deaths come directly from New York Health City Department data and were fully confirmed. The other TSS deaths are in different stages of ongoing confirmation.)