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| Inglewood Women's Hospital reopens as a clinic |
Seventeen-year-old Kathy Murphy went to Inglewood Women's Hospital in Los Angeles County for an abortion on August 24, 1973.
The Doctor's Choice
A saline abortion involves using a large syringe to remove as much amniotic fluid as possible, replacing it with a strong, sterile salt solution. This gets into the baby's lungs, digestive system, and from there into the blood stream, causing water to be pulled out of the cells. The blood vessels dilate and leak blood, leading to a scaled look nurses in saline wards dubbed "candy-apple babies." Eventually the excessive saline would cause the fetal heart to stop.
Considering the way it kills the fetus, it's not hard to understand why sometimes the saline gets into the mother's bloodstream as well, causing organ damage and sometimes death. Japan and the Soviet Union had abandoned saline abortions because they had this dismaying tendency to cause brain damage or death to the mothers. Two Japanese doctors, Takashi Wagatsuma and Yukio Manabe, warned western doctors of the dangers of saline abortions, but the method was widely adopted in the United States anyway.
That's the kind of abortion was selected for this teenager girl. Kathy went into labor and expelled the baby, though documents don't specify when. She was then sent home.
The Risks Come True
During the days after her abortion, Kathy suffered breathing problems and became semi-conscious, so Inglewood staff transferred her by ambulance to Centinela Hospital on September 7.
Later that night, Centinela transferred Kathy back to Inglewood, where John Dupont pronounced her dead at 1:20 on the morning of September 8.
The autopsy revealed the grim reality. The same strong saline that killed Kathy's unborn baby had allowed infection to get into her cervix and uterus, leaving her cervix covered with greenish-black pus. This infection made its way through her body, causing bronchopneumonia, severe congestion of the lungs, and swelling of the brain. Kathy died of sepsis.
Trouble for Thee, but Not for Me
The Inglewood facility was far better at evading responsibility than it was at providing adequate care. After Kathy's death, the next woman to die was 22-year-old Lynette Wallace, who underwent an abortion at "Inglewood Women's Hospital" on September 13, 1975, just a little over two years after Kathy Murphy's death.
Elizabeth Tsuji was the next to die. She had a saline abortion on February 2, 1978. The next to die was Cora Mae Lewis, age 23, following abortion under general anesthesia in 1983.
Yvonne Tanner died next. The 22-year-old mother of one had an abortion performed July 10, 1984 at Inglewood. The last death I know about at Inglewood was Belinda Ann Byrd, a 37-year-old mother of three. She underwent an abortion by Steve Pine at Inglewood on January 24, 1987, when she was 19 weeks pregnant.
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| Belinda Byrd |
Belinda's mother wrote to a Los Angeles district attorney: “I am the mother of Belinda Byrd, victim of abortionists at [Inglewood]. I am also the grandmother of her three young children who are left behind and motherless. I cry every day when I think how horrible her death was. She was slashed by them and then she bled to death ... and nobody cares. I know that other young black women are now dead after abortion at that address. ... Where is [the abortionist] now? Has he been stopped? Has anything happened to him because of what he did to my Belinda? Has he served jail time for any of these cruel deaths? People tell me nothing has happened, that nothing ever happens to white abortionists who leave young black women dead. I’m hurting real bad and want some justice for Belinda and all other women who go like sheep to slaughter.”
In the wake of the series of abortion deaths at Inglewood, the authorities inspected the place. Among other things, they caught an abortionist writing post-operative examination notes without even examining the patients. When the state closed Inglewood for numerous violations, the facility simply re-opened as Inglewood Women's Clinic; as a clinic rather than a hospital they were no longer subject to the same intense scrutiny and were able to remain in business.
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Sources:
- LA County Coroner Report 73-14675
- Death certificate #47882
- LA Superior Court Case No. C555261
- "Officials order closure of abortion hospital," (San Pedro, CA) News-Pilot, February 12, 1988
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