Patricia Chacon
Sixteen-year-old Patty underwent a safe and legal second-trimester abortion at the
hands of either Edward
Allred or Leslie Orleans at Allred's Avalon Hospital in Los Angeles
on the morning of March 3, 1984. Patty retained fetal tissues, so she was
scheduled for a second procedure that afternoon to complete the abortion.
There are conflicting stories as to what happened next. Allred claimed
that Patty died of an embolism during the second surgery. (He pronounced
her dead at 4:30 PM.) Patty's parents claim that the child bled to death while
left unattended.
An autopsy found numerous catgut sutures in Patty's vagina and hemorrhage
in her uterus. Death was attributed to disseminated intravascular coagulopathy (a clotting disorder)
due to abortion-induced amniotic fluid embolism (amniotic fluid in the bloodstream). Patty's parents sued Allred
and Orleans for their daughter's death.
Avalon Hospital was part of Edward Allred's Family Planning Associates
Medical Group, a National
Abortion Federation member facility.
Patricia is one of many women to die at one of Edward Allred's facilities. Others known to have died after abortion at Allred's facilities include:
- Denise Holmes, age 24, 1970
- Mary Pena, age 43, 1984
- Josefina Garcia, age 37, 1985
- Lanice Dorsey, age 17, 1986
- Joyce Ortenzio, age 32, 1988
- Tami Suematsu, age 19, 1988
- Susan Levy, age 30, 1992
- Deanna Bell, age 13, 1992
- Christina Mora, age 18, 1994
- Kimberly Neil, 2000
- Chanelle Bryant, age 22, 2004
Sources: LA County Coroner Report No. 84-2948; Daily
Breeze 3/2/85; Los Angeles Herald Examiner 3/3/85
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