Category: Botched Abortions

From the autopsy on Madgalena Rodriguez, who died in an attempted abortion:

“[T]he body of the baby was not complete when autopsied. Both arms had been cut off; the heart, lungs, liver, and other organs had been cut out, the front of the chest and abdomen were missing, the right femur was fractured, the head was intact except for an area on the scalp which had been taken off from the back of the head.”

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The fetus found during an autopsy on Janet Forster, who died from abortion complications:

“macerated, lacerated and purulent male fetus of about 19 weeks gestation. This fetus measures 14.5 cm. in crown-rump length, shows lacerations in the shoulder area, evisceration of the bowel through an abdominal laceration, and destruction of the skull and facial structures.”

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From medical records describing what surgeons found inside a 14-year-old victim of a botched abortion:

“fetus, approximately 20 weeks in size, protruding into the abdominal cavity, consisting of a fetal head, torso and one upper extremity.”

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From court records in an abortion malpractice suit:

“[F]etus was missing both arms and one leg… [the] rib cage … was exposed and lung tissue protruded from the left side of the chest, …there was disruption of the skin at the neck and right side of the face… and there was distortion of the facial features of said fetus.”

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In court records, an abortionist describes what he says he extracted, and a patient describes what she says she expelled at home:

Abortionist: “I clearly identified all the significant parts. I saw the calvarium. I saw the spine. I saw extremities.”

Patient: “the entire face, two arms, and a portion of rib cage and back.”

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From a pathology report on tissue expelled by an abortion patient:

“macerated fetus composed of head, one arm and a portion of thoracic trunk.”

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From the autopsy on Barbaralee Davis, who died from a botched abortion:

“Two fetal parts, the face and thoracic spinal column, are embedded in a 700 cc. fresh hematoma inside the uterus.”

“In an attempt to estimate the length of gestation in the absence of the whole fetus, the two parts, namely the face, less the crown, and the thoracic vertebral column without the rump, are laid end to end. Together they measure 9 cm.

A conservative estimate of the crown to rump length would be 10 to 11 cm. This will place the gestational age at 16 to 16 1/2 weeks.”

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From an autopsy performed on two fetuses found in a trash container next to an abortion clinic:

“FETUS #1: Parts of a fetus of indeterminate sex include a skull cap, both arms total with scapula intact, the entire vertebral column with a portion of rib cage attached, the pelvic girdle, the left femur, and both lower legs with feet attached. A kidney, the tongue, and one eye was also retrieved. Gestational age was estimated at 4 months, perhaps very slightly greater, estimated on length of long bones. Measurements are as follows: femur 28 mm. …foot length 18 mm. … hand length 15 mm. The tissue was evidently fresh from a viable abortion within hours.

FETUS #2: A beheaded male fetus of an estimated 7-8 weeks gestation. The length of the fetus from shoulder to rump is estimated at 2.2 cm… The arms and scapula girdle was traumatically detached and retrieved in a separate piece.

Again the tissue is fresh from a viable and very recent abortion.”

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“Magelena” had an abortion on December 8, 1994, and died from her injuries. She she arrived at the hospital, doctors found:

“large uterine laceration with a fetal lower extremity protruding out into the abdominal cavity…a surgical sponge in the uterus…cervical vaginal and bladder lacerations….”

and said of the dead baby (estimated to be 30 weeks along)

“Both arms had been cut off, the heart, lungs, liver and other organs had been cut out, the front of the chest and abdomen were missing, the right femur was fractured, the head was intact except for an area on the scalp which had been taken off from the back of the head.”

Source: San Diego Reader 12.13/94, San Diego Union-Tribune 12/17/94, Orange County Register 12/15/94, Santa Monica Outlook Decmber 1994, Los Angeles Times 3/21/95, San Diego County South Bay Judicial District, Californa Superiour Court Case No. S6003494, San Diego County Case no. 643695,

Cited in Mark Crutcher “Lime 5: Exploited by Choice ” (Denton, Texas: Life Dynamics Incorporated, 1996)

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The story of Angela Sanchez involves illegal abortion and attempts to hide the body. Alicia Hannah’s abortion clinic was operating openly and apparently legally.

On January 19, 1993, Angela Neito Sanchez, age 27, went to Clinica Feminina de la Comunidad with two of her four children: 12-year-old Maria, and 2-year-old Victor.

Angela’s family is adamant that Angela wasn’t seeking an abortion. They said that she was excited about the pregnancy and was hoping it would be a girl so Maria would have a sister. Angela’s sister Celia said that someone from the facility had called Angela, telling her to come in for a consultation about the pregnancy.

Maria and Victor waited for their mother in the lobby. A clinic staffer approached Maria and suggested that she take the car and drive Victor home. Maria protested that she was too young to drive. The children continued to wait for their mother.

At around noon, a staffer took the children to lunch. When they returned to the clinic, Angela’s car was gone, and Maria was told that her mother had gone to another clinic. The children continued to wait, but when their mother failed to appear Maria finally called her uncle, Hemiberto Sanchez, who took them home with him.

By 10:00, Angela’s family was frantic, and Celia took Maria to the clinic to look for the missing woman. When they arrived, they saw Angela’s car. Maria jumped out of her aunt’s pickup truck and ran to the car. There she saw her mother lying on the ground.

Maria asked two women from the clinic, who were standing nearby, what had happened to her mother, and they told her, “She’s dead.” Sobbing, Maria clung to and kissed her mother while the two women from the clinic told Celia that a man had shoved Angela from a car and they were picking her up. One of the women, Alicia Ruiz Hanna, who operated the facility, told Maria that her mother had just come knocking on the door, then collapsed.

Celia put her sister’s body in the back of her truck and flagged down a policeman, who led her and Maria to a hospital. There, Celia was told that her sister had been dead for several hours.

After a prolonged investigation, and Hanna’s jailhouse conversion to Christianity, the full story finally emerged. Hanna, who had been passing herself off as a doctor and performing abortions at the facility, had given Angela an injection to induce abortion. Angela stopped breathing, and staffers attempted to revive her but did not summon paramedics because Hanna feared that she would go to jail and lose her children if it was discovered that she was running the clinic illegally. She and the other woman had planned to put Angela’s stiffening body into the trunk of her own car and abandon the vehicle at a distant location.

In December 1994, Hanna was convicted of second-degree murder for Angela’s death. She was sentenced to 16 years to life.

Sources: Orange County Register 12/13/94 and 1/28/95

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Health officials have been very lax in investigating clinics in the state of Texas- so much so that in 2003, 145 women who had been injured in clinics in the state of Texas filed suit against the State, demanding that it make abortion safer.

In April 2003, District Court Judge John Coselli, Jr. heard testimony from four women alleging a variety of physical and emotional injuries, including a ruptured uterus, a ruptured colon and sterility, as well as guilt and depression, from abortion procedures at private clinics regulated by the state.

He ordered mediation to resolve the class-action lawsuit. During mediation, the parties will attempt to reach an agreement before an unbiased third party designated by the court — usually a former district court judge.

Allen Parker, Chief Executive Officer of the Texas Legal Foundation, which is representing the plaintiffs, said that “We’re alleging that they do not adequately give women enough information about the nature and consequences of abortion for them to make fully informed and voluntary decisions.”

The suit also alleges that the state failed to adequately investigate unlicensed abortion clinics; failed to adequately inspect and examine licensed clinics; failed to cooperate with other state agencies attempting to prosecute illegal activity in abortion clinics; failed to prevent the unauthorized practice of medicine by unlicensed individuals in abortion clinics; and failed to require abortion clinics to report child abuse that resulted in pregnancy.

Pro-Choice groups ignored the injured women as if they did not exist. Peter Durkin, CEO of Texas Planned Parenthood, called the case “disingenuous,” saying the Texas Department of Health “does a good job with available resources of inspecting on a regular scheduled basis, as well as unannounced inspections of abortion providers of Texas. I think if you look at the motives of these suits, they are intended to increase the barriers to women accessing this service, and their other goal is to increase the cost.”

Attorneys for the State of Texas asserted that individuals cannot sue a state to make the state enforce its own laws and regulations. In attempting to refute that argument, Parker pointed to a 1989 Texas case in which farmers successfully sued the state Department of Health for failing to enforce regulations designed to protect farm workers. Parker said “Instead of protecting women, the state wants to protect itself by having this lawsuit dismissed. The state’s attitude has been ‘We don’t care’ or ‘It’s not my job.’ … If a person was speeding in your neighborhood every day, going 90 miles per hour in front of your house, and you called the police and they didn’t do anything, eventually, a judge would order them to enforce the law. We’re also asking that the state inform women of the emotional and physical consequences of abortion. It is the taking of the life of a human organism under Texas law, and it has long-term emotional consequences.”

Parker added that the suit seeks enforcement of the Texas parental notification statute. Two of the plaintiffs, a minor and her mother, say the state never informed the parents that the girl, who was 16 years old at the time, was getting an abortion.

According to Parker, the minor said she would never have gone through with the abortion had her parents been notified and is suffering “severe emotional trauma as a result.”

“I was very upset about what happened to my daughter,” said the mother, who wished only to be identified by her initials, L.S. “I found out afterwards, and I was very angry that I wasn’t notified.”

L.S. said the state stonewalled her when she sought specific information on its abortion laws and regulations, particularly parental notification. A private guidance counselor referred her to the Texas Legal Foundation.

Her daughter made the decision to have an abortion based on information given to her at the abortion clinic, L.S. said. “They told her that the child could be born with some kind of disorder or retardation and that she would have to take care of it for the rest of her life. She was frightened about what they told her could happen.” L.S. said her daughter was “very distraught,” complaining that she had “rushed” into the decision and that the clinic had failed to inform her of alternatives to abortion such as child placement or adoption. Her daughter became more withdrawn, L.S. said, until the girl had to be hospitalized for emotional distress. The mother said that “She was crying all the time. I’m very upset that it happened at all. I wish I would have been notified, and I wish they would have given her different options when she went in to get her pregnancy test.”

Several of the women were injured by abortions performed in abortion clinics by non-licensed personnel, including non-doctors.

References: “Texas Women’s Botched Abortion Lawsuit Begins Friday.” Steven Ertelt’s Pro-Life Infonet at http://www.prolifeinfo.org, April 11, 2003; “Class Action Lawsuit Launched Against Texas for not Enforcing Abortuary Regulations.” LifeSite Daily News at http://www.lifesite.net, April 11, 2003; Steve Brown. “Texas Abortion Lawsuit Headed for Mediation.” CNSNews.com, April 14, 2003; “Texas Lawsuit Over Abortion Damage Goes to Mediation.” Steve Ertelt’s Pro-Life Infonet, April 14, 2003; “Judge Orders Mediation in Texas Abortion Suit.” LifeSite Daily News, April 14, 2003.

Credit abortionviolence.com

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After her 1981 abortion by Dr. X, Naomi had to have portions of three fingers amputated because the drugs that she was given were improperly administered.”

Los Angeles County Superior Court case number W EC 073497

Mark Crutcher “Lime 5: Exploited by Choice ” (Denton, Texas: Life Dynamics Incorporated, 1996) 189

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