Nadine Roe, Abortion Death

Nadine Roe, Abortion Death

Bled to death after abortion in hospital

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"Nadine" Roe is one of the women Life Dynamics lists on the "Blackmun Wall" as having died from legal abortion.

Nadine was 32 years old, a mother of three, when she checked into a hospital for a safe, legal abortion some time before 1981.

During the abortion, her cervix and uterus were perforated. Even though she was in a hospital, where doctors should have been able to detect and treat her injuries, she bled to death.

LDI Sources: “Deaths from Second Trimester Abortion by Dilatation and Evacuation: Causes, Prevention, Facilities,” Cates, Grimes, Obstetrics and Gynecology, 58:4, October 1981, p. 403

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