November 7, 1953: Doc Arrested When About to Repeat Crime

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Joyce Helen Ross, an unmarried 25-year-old woman from Spindale, South Carolina, lay dying in Shelby General Hospital in November of 1953. The young five-and-dime-store clerk told police that she had gone to Dr. Albert L. Ballenger in Aiken County for an abortion which had been perpetrated on November 6. She died on November 7 from hemolytic streptococcus and gas bacillus due to attempted abortion. Extensive uterine lacerations had given the infection easy access to her blood stream.

Police went to the home and office of 73-year-old Dr. Albert L. Ballenger to arrest him. They found "a beautiful 17-year-old girl on the operating table" when they made the arrest.

Watch Whatever Happened to Dr. Ballenger? on YouTube.

Sources:

• Death certificate
• "S.C. Doctor Held in Death Of NC Woman," Columbia (NC) Record, November 10, 1953
• "73-Year Doctor Is Charged With Performing Abortion," Greenville (SC) News, November 11, 1953
• "Aiken Doctor Jailed For NC On Abortion Charge," Charlotte (NC) News, November 11, 1953

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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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