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Cemetery of Choice
Anesthesia Deaths
Anesthesia or Analgesia Related Deaths of Women From Legal Abortion: The Need for Increased Regulation
Black Victims of Abortion
California Saline Deaths 1970-72
Embolism Deaths
Hemorrhage Deaths
Illegal Abortions by Amateurs
Illegal Abortions by Doctors
Illegal Abortions by Paramedical Staff
Instillation Abortion Deaths After Roe
Life Dynamics Abortion Deaths, Alphabetical Order
Life Dynamics Abortion Deaths, by State
Life Dynamics Abortion Deaths, by Year
Missouri Abortion Deaths
National Abortion Federation Deaths
New York Saline Deaths, 1970 - 1972
Pre-Roe Abortion Deaths
Pre-Roe Legal Abortion Deaths
Post-Roe Illegal Abortion Deaths
Self-Induced Abortion deaths
Teens Killed by Abortion
Undiagnosed Ectopics
Legal, illegal, amateur, professional, and self-induced: She's equally dead.
Sloppiness with anesthesia is one of the most common causes of legal abortion death. Learn about some of the victims.
"According to the Centers for Disease Control, since 1983 anesthesia-related complications have become the most frequent cause of death of U.S. women from legal abortion."
Black women are twice as likely to be sold abortions as their white sisters -- and twice as likely to die from abortion complications.
California legalized abortion-on-demand before Roe, so they started seeing legal abortion deaths much sooner than the rest of the country.
Sometimes air, amniotic fluid, or fetal tissue gets into the mother's bloodstream, killing her.
In theory, no woman should bleed to death from a botched legal abortion. In theory.
Amateurs -- people with no medical training -- were the rarest of criminal abortionists, but they were responsible for quite a few deaths.
Roughly 90% of criminal abortions were done by physicians, so it should come as no surprise that most illegal abortion fatalities were traced back to them.
Paramedical staff -- dentists, nurses, midwives, and so forth -- were the largest group of non-physician criminal abortionists.
Some of the deaths from saline, prostaglandin, and other instillation abortions in the United States after Roe v Wade.
The women of the Life Dynamics Tombstone Project poster, in alphabetical order, with links where available.
The deaths from the Life Dynamics Tombstone Project poster, sorted by state of death, with links where available.
The deaths from the Life Dynamics Tombstone Project poster, sorted by year of death, with links where available.
Women who died of botched abortions in the state of Missouri.
National Abortion Federation members perform roughly half of all abortions in the United States. Supposedly they adhere to the highest standards of care. Read these cases and judge for yourself.
New York was the first state to legalize outpatient abortion-on-demand. With no regulation or oversight, abortionists were free to play Russian roulette with patients' lives.
As more states loosened their abortion laws, legal abortion deaths began replacing illegal abortion deaths.
Different states allowed legal abortions for different reasons before Roe. And where there are legal abortions, there will be legal abortion deaths.
Illegal abortions persisted after Roe v. Wade, as did the deaths they cause.
Before and after legalization, women attempted home abortions for a variety of reasons.
Too often, abortion costs young girls their lives.
In theory, the woman seeking abortion should be less likely to die from ectopic pregnancy than the woman intending to carry to term. Sadly, the reverse is true in practice.
