"How ironic that Aisha died at the hands of the first abortion centre where pro-lifers are no longer allowed to offer life-saving help." By SPUC—the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children A woman who died following a late-stage abortion procedure was discharged...
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Following death of patient, Illinois Abortion clinic evades fine by changing name
By Dave Andrusko A three-judge panel of the Appellate Court of Illinois has unanimous ruled that an abortion clinic in Linwood, Illinois, need not pay a fine that followed the death of 18-year-old Antonesha Ross. “The clinic owner, Larisa Rozansky, has argued that the...
Teenager in India dies after being forced to take abortion pill
By Dave Andrusko The Times of India is reporting that a teenage girl died after being forced to consume an abortifacient by a man who had allegedly sexually exploited her “several times.” Reporting from Kanpur, Faiz Rahman Siddiqui wrote that police identified the man...
Italian Woman Dies of Heart Attack after Taking Abortion Drugs
By Randall K. O’Bannon, PhD. NRL Director of Education and Research You probably didn’t see anything about in your newspaper or on any of the news networks, but another woman, this time in Italy, has died after taking RU 486, a two-drug regimen--mifepristone...
Ghanaian teenager dies after attempting to abort non-existent pregnancy
By Dave Andrusko A Ghanaian news service reported today that a 17-year-old girl died earlier this month after taking unspecified herbs to abort what turned out to be a non-existent pregnancy. The deceased teenager, already the mother of one, reported to school...
No charges filed against abortionist LeRoy Carhart in death of woman who aborted at 33 weeks
By Dave Andrusko Abortionist LeRoy Carhart, whose patient died in February following a third-trimester abortion, released a letter to the Washington Post this week in which the Maryland Board of Physicians wrote Carhart that it had closed its investigation into the...
Documents Reveal Tonya Reaves Suffered from bleeding, incomplete abortion, and perforation
By Dave Andrusko Basing his report on new documents, WBBM Newsradio’s Steve Miller is painting a much fuller—and much more potentially disturbing—picture of the death last Friday of Tonya Reaves following a second-trimester abortion at a Chicago Planned Parenthood...
Young woman dies after abortion at Chicago Planned Parenthood
By Dave Andrusko A 24-year-old mother of one died Friday night after undergoing a second-trimester abortion at a Chicago Planned Parenthood clinic--and the family of Tonya Reaves is demanding answers. The Cook County Medical Examiner’s office said Reaves died of a...