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.
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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:
- Denise Holmes, age 24, who died from fetal bone marrow getting into her lungs in 1970
- Patricia Chacon, age 16, who bled to death in 1984
- Mary Pena, age 43, who also bled to death in1984
- Josefina Garcia, age 37, who bled to death from an undiagnosed ectopic pregnancy in an FPA recovery room in 1985
- Joyce Ortenzio, age 32, 1988
- Tami Suematsu, age 19, 1988
- Susan Levy, age 30, 1992
- Deanna Bell, age 13, 1992
- Christina Mora, age 18, 1994
- Ta Tanisha Wesson, age 24, 1995
- Nakia Jorden, who died of anesthesia complication sin 1998
- Maria Leho, 1999
- Kimberly Neil, 2000
- Maria Rodriguez, age 22, 2000
- Emmeko Reed, age 29, whose undiagnosed uterine damage caused fatal uterine rupture in a subsequent pregnancy in 2002
- Chanelle Bryant, age 22, 2004
- "Kyla Ellis," age 23, 2014
Sources:
- Orange County Sheriff-Coroner Case No. 86-0682-AK
- Orange County Superior Court Case No. 51-04-15
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