Friday, February 06, 2026

February 6, 1986: Coma and Sudden Death at Family Planning Associates

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Seventeen-year-old Laniece Dorsey underwent a safe and legal abortion at a Family Planning Associates Medical Group facility in Orange County, California, on February 6, 1986. FPA is a National Abortion Federation member facility.

Laniece lapsed into a coma, was transferred to a nearby hospital, and died later that day.

The Orange County Sheriff's Department medical examiner blamed the young black woman's death on cardiorespiratory arrest due to the anesthesia, although he also found "a thick adherent layer of fibrinous material containing moderate numbers of inflammatory infiltrates" in Laniece's uterus.

Other deaths at FPA and/or affiliated facilities include:

Sources:

  • Orange County Sheriff-Coroner Case No. 86-0682-AK
  • Orange County Superior Court Case No. 51-04-15


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