Abortion Trivia

1. In 1991, 17-year-old Latachie Veal bled to death after an abortion at a Houston clinic. Her death made headlines not only in the Houston area, but in Kansas City, Missouri as well. Why?

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Answer: Another woman had died in Kansas City after an abortion by the same doctor.

Diane Boyd, a 19-year-old mentally challenged woman, had died in 1981 after Dr. Robert Dale Crist, a member of the National Abortion Federation, had injected her with drugs in preparation for an abortion. Those drugs had interacted with the medications Diane was taking and caused her death.

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Answer: One woman died, and another was hospitalized, after similar illegal abortions.

Two Colorado women suffered complications in 1978 from abortions they performed themselves using pennyroyal oil. One of the women developed liver failure and died as a result. The CDC's investigation found that the women's lives had not intersected in any way. They did not belong to any organization that promoted herbal abortion. They had not attended any events together promoting self-help abortion. They did not even buy their pennyroyal at the same herbal shop. The CDC investigation concluded that the similarity of the cases was just a coincidence.

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Answer: They didn't.

The CDC noted no abortion deaths in Texas for any woman in Latachie's race and age range for 1991. This is despite the fact that in 1992, the doctor discussed the death during a National Abortion Federation seminar that was attended by two members of the CDC's staff responsible for investigating abortion mortality.

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Answer: Performing an abortion on a 14-year-old girl who had been raped by soldiers

Bourne performed the abortion, then turned himself in. He was tried and found not guilty. Bourne was the first to use the approach of deliberately breaking abortion laws in order to pave the way for other physicians to perform abortions they believed were in their patients' best interests.

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Answer: A prochoice activist.

Prochoice activist and author Ellen Frankfort was disgusted by the response to the illegal abortion death of Rosie Jiminez in 1977. Public health officials seemed content to simply note and report Rosie's death. The police were not taking any action on their own. Frankfort took it upon herself to put the pressure on the powers-that-be and organized the sting.

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Answer: Holly had been given the abortion drugs in an unapproved manner by Planned Parenthood.

The FDA's approved regimen is to give the woman methotrexate, then have her return in two days for an examination. The second drug, misoprostol, is only to be administered orally and only if the physician, on examining the patient, determines that this second step is necessary to complete the abortion. Planned Parenthood followed the more popular, but unapproved, regimen of sending Holly home with a misoprostol suppository she was to insert vaginally, without being examined first and without medical supervision. The abortion was incomplete and Holly developed sepsis and died.

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Answer: Acupuncturist

An 18-year-old patient told investigators she went to Zhong Fu's home, where he operated an acupuncture business, for an abortion. He charged $1,500. The woman was hospitalized with retained fetal parts, pain, and hemorrhage. Fu said that the woman had threatened suicide, and that the fetus was already dead, so he pretended to perform an abortion on her with herbs. Local authorities believe that Fu had also sold abortions to other women.

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Answer: Chiropractor

Dr. Julius Leatherman, a chiropractor with suspended license, faced charges of performing two illegal abortions. A 21-year-old patient was injured in an abortion performed in November of 1975. A 26-year-old woman who was opposed to abortion said that she visited Leatherman and he performed a pelvic exam, told her she was pregnant, used instruments on her without getting consent or informing her what he was doing, then informed her abortion was complete. This woman bleed heavily 4 days, and was admitted to a hospital to complete the abortion and treat blood poisoning.

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Answer: One group had arranged illegal abortions for a group of minority women; the other group thought that the abortions were unsafe and wanted them to be stopped.

The "Jane" illegal abortion ring in Chicago had been raided, and its leaders jailed. The remaining "Jane" members had arranged for their clients to have abortions performed by Harvey Karman, who was pushing his new "super coil" technique as safe and simple. A local group in Pennsylvania thought that the patients were being used to test an unproven and probably unsafe abortion method.

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Answer: She paid a fee to a referral service.

Dr. Howard White, a chiropractor who had failed his licensing test at least three times, and whose license had been suspended in 1976, charged the girl $250 for an abortion. She was 21 weeks pregnant and thought that White was a qualified physician because she'd been referred by a heavily advertised Chicago area abortion referral-for-fee organization. White used a corkscrew-like device on the girl, who was taken from his facility directly to the hospital to be treated for complications. She was hospitalized for 11 days and required a hysterectomy. White was sentenced for 1 to 3 years in prison.

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Answer: Three were classified as legal abortion deaths, and one as an illegal abortion death.

Ruth died August 7, 1979. Maura died May 8, 1981. Myrta died December 18, 1982. Shirley died January 4, 1983. As Orlando Zaldivar's medical license was inactive at the time he performed Myrta's abortion, the CDC classified her death as being due to an illegal abortion.

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Answer: She'd died of complications of a legal abortion, and her doctor was charged with murder.

Pro-choice activists hold that Sharon's doctor, Bruce Steir (rhymes with "peer") was being unfairly persectued. They say that Sharon's injury was an accident and that Steir was a good doctor who was the victim of a vendetta because he performed abortions. Pro-life activists hold that Steir's record shows that he was incompetent, and quote his assistant who testified that Steir was aware of the severity of Sharon's injury and sent her home anyway. Steir plea-bargained to a lesser charge, and the political battle continues.

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Answer: The woman's boyfriend.

An autopsy report from the San Bernadino County Coroner's office tells the story of this woman, a systems analyst for a defense contractor. She had an appointment to abort her second-trimester pregnancy scheduled for April 30, 1990, at a local abortion clinic. But for some reason, she didn't wait for her appointment. On April 28, she allowed her boyfriend to insert a plastic tube into her uterus in a home-abortion attempt. She died of infection.

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Answer: Hanna failed to call 911 when Angela stopped breathing because she was afraid of being caught passing herself off as a doctor.

Hanna had given Angela an injection to induce abortion. Upon realizing that Angela was dead, Hanna dismissed Angela's children from the clinic and summoned a former staffer. She and the other woman were putting Angela's body into the trunk of her own car, with the intention of abandoning the vehicle at a distant location, but were caught in the act by Angela's sister and daughter, who had come to the clinic to find out where Angela had gone.

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Answer: The owner of an abortion clinic.

Alicia Hannah's abortion clinic, Clinica Feminina de la Comunidad, was operating openly and apparently legally. Hanna had begun passing herself off as a doctor and performing abortions at the facility when the physician who had been performing abortions quit. Hanna had given Angela an injection to induce abortion. Angela stopped breathing, and staffers attempted to revive her but did not summon paramedics because Hanna feared that she would go to jail and lose her children if it was discovered that she was running the clinic illegally. She and the other woman had planned to abandon Angela's car, with her body in it, at a distant location. In December 1994, Hanna was convicted of second-degree murder for Angela's death. She was sentenced to 16 years to life.

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Answer: Staff testified that the doctor regularly overdosed patients on local anesthetic, sometimes causing them to stop breathing.

Staff reported that when a woman would stop breathing, Dr. Scott Barrett would resuscitate her. But when Stacy stopped breathing, Barrett and his staff were unable to revive her. An autopsy found toxic concentrations of Lidocaine in Stacy's blood.

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Answer: She checked one of her patients into a hospital and performed an abortion there.

Hodgson's patient was a young married mother who had been exposed to German measles. Hodgson thought that it was unfair that if her patient had been in another state, she could have gotten an abortion legally. Hodgson was arrested and convicted. When Roe vs. Wade was handed down, she was able to get her conviction overturned. Her patient, by the way, was discharged from the hospital with no complications.

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Answer: Kris did it herself.

Kris had decided to use pennyroyal tea to abort her pregnancy because she'd had an unpleasant experience with legal abortion at a Planned Parenthood. She also mistrusted modern medicine because her brother had died from an allergic reaction to a painkiller. What Kris failed to do was ensure that the embryo was actually in her uterus. She actually had an ectopic pregnancy. Her persistent efforts to use herbs to end the pregnancy caused liver damage and clotting problems which killed her.

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