| "Beth" Roe, Abortion Death | |
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"Beth" is one of the women Life Dynamics identifies on their "Blackmun Wall" as having been killed by a safe and legal abortion. Beth was 23 years old when she traveled from Massachusetts to New York for an abortion in 1971. The abortion was initiated by injecting saline into Beth's uterus. But instead of the amniotic sac, the saline went into Beth's bloodstream. Beth immediately began to have siezures and went into a coma. She was pronounced dead on December 29, 1971. 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, 322.
