Deaths Inside Abortion Clinics

These women's lives were just as important--and their deaths just as appalling--as those of clinic workers killed by radical abortion opponents. The difference is that significant media attention goes to abortionists killed, while many of these women die forgotten. The below links tell just some of their stories.

Legal Abortion Tragedies

• Feminists for Life remembers victims of abortion
• Back Alley Butcher or Main Street Maimer?
• Diane Sawyer and the "Non-Story" of Lawson Akpulonu Diane Sawyer was provided with information on an abortionist who was abusing patients but decided the matter was not worth investigating.
• Abortion Deaths Archive Contains brief summaries of the circumstances of deaths for many women.
• Men Behaving Really Badly Details on some prominent atrocities.
• Who Do You Believe? Quotes from the National Abortion Federation contrasted with actual deaths at their clinics.
• Legal But Not Safe A Wall Street Journal article looking at abortion fatalities.
• Positions of Mastery Inadequate responses to abortionists' misconduct are dangerous to real women's rights.
• The Legend Are today's abortions really an improvement over the "back alley" abortions of the past?
• Clients of Abortionists Brief look at why abortionists may be intentionally lashing out at clients.
• Docs from Hell Focuses on the case of a New York abortionist who victimized numerous women and maimed at least one 32-week-old fetus.
• Their Last Choice This site explains issues such as why women continue to die from legal abortions and why many abortion deaths are not reported.
• Poor and Minority Women Put At Risk By "Chop Shop" Abortion Clinics An L.A. Times article that discusses numerous situations in which poor and minority women have been victimized by abortion clinics.
• A Tale of Two Abortions Dawn Ravenell was a 13 year old girl who was killed by an abortion she had without her mother's knowledge. Becky Bell was another teenager who died, but not from an abortion. Why do pro-choicers ignore Dawn's death while using Becky as a martyr in their fight against parental notification laws?
• When Pro-Choice Is NOT Pro-Woman Features a 911 call from an abortion clinic, several news stories on abortion deaths, and shoddy practices at Henry Morgentaler's abortion clinic.
• Victims of Choice Various accounts of specific legal abortion deaths.
• Myth of "Safe" Legal Abortions Women have been hurt, maimed and even killed by abortion practicioners at Planned Parenthood and other abortion facilities.
• Legal Action for Women An organization that provides abortion-injured women with attorney referrals, their website documents a variety of stories of the deadly practices of some abortion clinics.
• Ain't I a Woman? "Abortion must be legal," we are told, "or women will die." The victims of legal abortion might well quote Sojourner Truth: "Ain't I a woman?"