Lynette Wallace
On September 13, 1975, 22-year-old Lynette underwent a safe and legal abortion at
Inglewood Women's Hospital in Los Angeles County.
Early on the morning of September 27, Lynette went to the emergency
room reporting abdominal pain. Staff reported that she became agitated
and "difficult to handle." They put her in restraints, and
she was pronouced dead of cardiopulmonary arrest at 10:53 AM.
The autopsy revealed what the abortionist should have detected -- the
pregnancy had not been in Lynette's uterus but in her fallopian tube. The
tube had ruptured, spilling blood and a 10-week fetus into Lynette's abdomen.
Women who seek abortion should be less likely to die of ruptured ectopic
pregnancies than women who do not seek abortion. After all, the abortionist
is supposed to perform an examination verifying the size of the uterus,
and is supposed to visually examine the abortion tissue to be sure that
the entire fetus and placenta are present. Also, a pathology examination
is supposed to be done on the uterine contents to verify the presence of
the entire fetal/placental unit.
However, women who seek abortion are actually more likely to die of
ruptured ectopic pregnancies than women who do not seek abortion. The pain
and nausea associated with an ectopic pregnancy are often mistaken for
ordinary post-abortion symptoms, and are ignored until the tube ruptures
and the woman's life is in danger.
Lynette is one of many deaths currently attributed to Inglewood Women's Hospital (aka Inglewood Women's Clinic) in Los Angeles County. The others are Yvonne Tanner, Kathy Murphy, Belinda Byrd, Cora Lewis, and Elizabeth Tsuji.
Source: LA County Coroner Report
75-11665
Abortion Deaths
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