On January 24, 1985, abortionist Alan Kline aborted and killed 13-year old Dawn Ravenell at the Eastern Women’s Center abortion mill. Dawn’s 15-year-old boyfriend paid the $450 abortion fee with a family member’s credit card. Osteopathic nurse Robert Augent gave Dawn only half the dose necessary for the operation. Dawn awoke five minutes into the abortion procedure and began to vomit and choke.
Kline put a breathing tube into her throat and failed to extract the remainder of the preborn child. Despite her obviously serious difficulties, Kline left her unattended in the abortion clinic’s recovery room, where she suffered a heart attack and slipped into a coma.
Her parents were notified only when she was brought to St. Luke’s Hospital. She was comatose for three weeks and died on February 11, 1985. In an interview, her mother said, “They told me I had to come in [to St. Luke’s] right away, that Dawn is here at that hospital fighting for her life … How could she be fighting for her life? She left this morning, going to school, looking healthy, never been sick … While I was in the hospital sitting there, I had to keep my hand over my mouth to keep from screaming in horror. I could not believe this was happening. I said this is a bad dream, I’m going to wake up and this would not have happened.”
When a judge asked Kline if his patient’s young age had captured his attention, he responded, “Oh, no. I’ve done 13-year-olds before. When they’re 10, maybe I’ll notice.”
Court testimony showed that Kline and the abortion mill fabricated medical records in attempt to conceal their mistakes. The Court awarded $1.2 million to the plaintiffs, and the jury labeled his indifference to human life “an abomination.”
Kline testified in defense of fellow abortionist Harold Tictin, who aborted a 7-month fetus he had estimated as 3 months, stating that he himself had mistaken gestational ages by as much as 10 weeks.
References: Ray Kerrison. “A Child Died in the Care of this ‘Hero’ Abortion Doc.” New York Post, August 15, 1994, pages 2 and 18. St. Petersburg Times, May 12, 1988; New York Post, December 11, 1990 and August 7, 1991 and August 15, 1994; New York Daily News, December 1, 1990; New York County Supreme Court Index #22504/85.
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