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Poor-Choice
Non-Trivial Fact of the Month
Abortion
Kills More Women
Than Poor-Choice Advocates
Admit
On
March 1, 1989, Erica Richardson, a 16-year-old Maryland resident,
bled to death from a punctured uterus only hours after undergoing an abortion.During
the next five months, two other residents of Maryland, Gladys Estanislao
and Debra Gray, also died from abortion complications.1
Since
there is not a standard, much less reliable, mechanism for tracking abortion
related deaths, none of these three women was even granted that smallest
of recognitions—becoming a statistic. The official statistics issued by
Maryland public health officials showed that there were no deaths
from abortion in 1989.Indeed, Maryland
only reported a single abortion-related death for the entire decade of
1980 to 1989.2
Actually,
there was at least one more woman who died as a result of a 1989 abortion
in Maryland. In this case, Susanne Logan fell into a coma during
her abortion and awoke four months later as a quadriplegic, unable to talk.She
survived for three years, dying in 1992 at the age of 24.3
These
four deaths occurred in one small state.The
Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reported only 12 abortion related deaths
for the entire country in 1989.4
Final
toll: Eight dead, four families
devastated, no one helped.
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1. Kevin Sherlock, Victims of Choice,
(Akron, OH: Brennyman Books, 1996) 134-135.
2. Kevin Sherlock, Victims of Choice,
(Akron, OH: Brennyman Books, 1996) 134-135.
3. Retha Hill, “Abortion clinic scrutinized
after two cases end badly: patient who was left paralyzed files suit.”
Washington
Post, Aug 13, 1990. A1, Col. 1., also “Botched-abortion Victim Dies
in Baltimore,” Washington Times Dec. 2, 1992, Final Edition, page
B2.
4. Koonin L, Green C, Ramick M Smith J. Abortion surveillance--United States,
1992.May 3, 1996. Morbidity and
Mortality Weekly Report Volume 45 / No. SS-3
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Abortion
of 21-Year-Old Results in Coma, Paralysis and Death
During
her “safe, legal” abortion, Susanne Logan suffered complications
that resulted in brain damage and coma. She awoke four months later as
a quadriplegic, unable to talk.Susanne
survived for three years, dying from complications in 1992 at the age of
24.
(Retha Hill, “Abortion
clinic scrutinized after two cases end badly: patient who was left paralyzed
files suit.” Washington Post, Aug 13, 1990. A1, Col. 1., also “Botched-abortion
Victim Dies in Baltimore,” Washington Times Dec. 2, 1992, Final
Edition, page B2.)
Abortion.
What a poor choice.
Poor-Choice Non-Trivial
Fact of the Month
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To learn more about about how deaths associated with abortion are more
common than deaths associated with childbirth, read the following articles.
New Study Shows Women's Death Rate
Following Abortion Much Higher than Previously Known.
New Studies Unmask High Maternal
Death Rates From Abortion
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