October 29, 1990: Safe and Legal Death in Puerto Rico

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Deborah Rivera Gotay was a 17-year-old girl living in Puerto Rico. According to public records, though she was so young, she already had a child.

Deborah went to a private doctor's office on October 25, 1990 for a safe, legal abortion.

Two days later she was admitted to Centro Medico hospital in Arecibo. She was treated there for sepsis triggered by the abortion. 

Deborah lost her fight for life and was pronounced dead at 10:00 pm on October 29.

The International Right to Life Foundation's Summer, 1991 newsletter commented that "her death is the latest incident at the clinic which has remained open with the backing of the police and a local court in spite of its documented violations of local health ordinances."

Sources:

• Death certificate
• International Right to Life Foundation Newsletter, Summer, 1991

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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.

If you would like to help, please click the following link:

https://www.givesendgo.com/stop-pp-from-profiteering-from-the-rapes

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.

Thank you for doing what you can to help girls and fight sexual predators and rape profiteers.