"Amy" Roe, Pre-Roe Abortion Death

"Amy" Roe, Abortion Death

Died over the holidays from abortion complications

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"Amy" is one of the women Life Dynamics identifies on their "Blackmun Wall" as having been killed by a safe and legal abortion.

Amy was 35 years old when she had a legal abortion December 24, 1970. She was 14 weeks pregnant.

During the abortion, Amy suffered from a massive pulmonary embolism. Efforts to save her life finally failed, and she died on January 2, 1971, leaving behind two children.

Though Amy was the first woman identified as an abortion victim in 1971, she wasn't the last. Other women to die that year include:

LDI Sources: "Maternal Mortality Associated With Legal Abortion in New York State: July 1, 1970 ? June 30, 1972,¡± Berger, Tietze, Pakter, Katz, Obstetrics and Gynecology, 43:3, March 1974, 323.

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