Illegal Abortion Deaths After Roe
Legalization was supposed to eliminate dangerous self-induced abortions.
Evidently there is something other than illegality driving women to these
grisly acts.
Myrta Baptiste
Myrta, age 26, had abortion performed by Orlando Zaldivar at Woman's Care Clinic December 18, 1982. Since Zaldivar's license was inactive at the time he performed Myrta's abortion, the CDC classified her death as being due to illegal abortion.
Laura France
In September of 1989, 33-year-old mothr of four Laura France was found
dead in the garage of her home in Mansfield, Ohio.
Kris Humphrey
Kris Humphrey placed a high value on "self-determination" and doing things "naturally." These values led her to choose the herbal abortion that ended her life on August 14, 1994.
Rosie Jimenez
In 1976, the Hyde Amendment went into effect, banning the use of Federal funds to pay for elective abortions. Abortion advocates sat back and waited for a death they could hang around Henry Hyde's neck. On October 3, 1977, they got what they'd been waiting for.
"Daisy" Roe
Daisy, a systems analyst for a defense contractor, had an appointment to abort her second-trimester pregnancy scheduled for April 30, 1990. But on April 28, she allowed her boyfriend to insert a plastic tube into her uterus in a home-abortion attempt.
Angela Sanchez
Like the deaths of Jacqueline Smith and Barbara Lofrumento, the story of Angela Sanchez involves illegal abortion and attempts to hide the body. The difference is that Alicia Hannah's abortion clinic was operating openly and apparently legally when 27-year-old Angela died there in 1993.
Jennifer Suddeth
Seventeen-year-old Jennifer underwent an abortion by Frank Robinson on June 30, 1982 at a California clinic. After she bled to death, Robinson was charged with manslaughter. California counted her as an illegal abortion death.
Abortion Deaths
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