September 6, 1989: Self-Induced With an Air Compressor

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Legalization was supposed to eliminate dangerous self-induced abortions. Evidently there is something other than illegality driving women to these grisly acts. 

At around 10:30 pm on September 6, 1989, the husband of 33-year-old Laura France came home from work only to find her dead in the garage of their Mansfield, Ohio home.

Laura, a mother of four, had been part-owner of a bicycle repair shop. She had been an active parent volunteer at Stingel Elementary School and a volunteer in religious instruction at St. Peter's Church. 

Respondents to the scene found a portable air compressor set to 90 psi and an 18-inch length of tubing. The autopsy concluded that Laura, who had been about 12 weeks pregnant, had used the air compressor to attempt to dislodge the unwanted fetus. This caused air to get into her blood stream, resulting in her death. 

According to the Ohio Death Index, Laura had died at about 3:00 p.m.  

Other women who died from attempted self-induced abortions in the safe-and-legal era include:

• Kris Humphrey, homemade abortifacient, 1994
• "Sharon," pennyroyal oil, 1978

In 1982, CDC staffers published "Illegal-Abortion Deaths in the United States: Why Are They Still Occurring?" in Family Planning Perspectives. They noted that illegal abortions ranged from "self-help" abortions done by women who reject the medical establishment, to the stereotypical "coat hanger" abortions. They concluded that women seek illegal abortions for "idiosyncratic" reasons, and dropped the issue.

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Sources: 

• Ohio death record
• "Abortion try blamed in death of Mansfielder," (Mansfield, OH) News Journal, September 8, 1989
• "Woman dies attempting to do at-home abortion," (Cleveland, OH) Plain Dealer, September 9, 1989
• "Be sensitive," (Mansfield, OH) News Journal, September 23, 1989

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Veteran pro-life investigator Kevin Sherlock asks people of good will to help him have Planned Parenthood prosecuted for profiteering from the rapes and incests of underage girls many thousands of times each year.

Sherlock has  pulled the police records of hundreds of cities and has pulled the child protective services records of multiple states to prove Planned Parenthood staffers are violating mandated reporting laws designed to protect girl victims.   But there is more to be done. Sherlock will make sure more and more evidence gets to federal and state prosecutors who care about protecting girls from abusers and profiteers.

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Sherlock has talked to many girls and young women who trust him. Their stories and the forensic evidence shows most of them undergo pill abortions or humiliating invasive surgical abortions due to fear or ignorance or pressure or coercion. He treats the girls or women carrying children or devastated from their abortions as friends and neighbors in his home town, not afterthoughts.

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