Twenty-four-year-old Maura Morales was eight weeks pregnant when she went to Woman’s Care Center for a safe and legal abortion on May 8, 1981.
When she was in the recovery room, her heart went into spontaneous ventricular fibrillation — irregular heartbeats not capable of effectively pumping blood.
Maura was taken to a hospital, but died that day.
Maura was the fourth woman to die at the same facility. The others were Shirley Payne, Myrta Baptiste, and Ruth Montero.
Sources: Florida Certificate of Death # 81-043232; “Fourth Woman Dies After Abortion At Miami Clinic,” The Miami Herald, January 5, 1983, 1D; “Cluster of Abortion Deaths at a Single Facility,” Kafrissen, Grimes, Hogue, Sacks, Obstetrics & Gynecology, 68:3, September 1986, 387-389
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