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Retroactively Safe Abortion
Retroactively Safe and Legal
"Sophia," age 19, traveled from Youngstown, Ohio, to Duquesne, near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on December 27, 1969 to have an abortion performed by a Dr. Benjamin King. Sophia was a 19-year-old freshman at Ohio State University. She had gotten King's contact information from her boyfriend, who was also 19 years old. King put out word about his services on college campuses in Pennsylvania and Ohio.
Sophia's boyfriend accompanied her to King's office. They made a down payment toward the $300 fee for the abortion. The young couple returned to Youngstown, where Sophia was admitted to South Side Hospital on December 29. She died the following day. King had perforated her cervix, causing both infection and hemorrhage.
Police had Sophia's boyfriend contact King, saying he had the rest of the money. When King came to collect, he was arrested. Though convicted and sentenced to prison, King's attorney won his freedom by citing the Roe vs. Wade decision striking down the abortion law.
A Possible Lay Abortionist in Chicago
On December 30, 1924, 21-year-old Agnes Nazar, an immigrant from Persia (modern-day Iran), died at Chicago's St. Joseph's Hospital from an abortion performed earlier that day. On January 6, 1925, Rogie Hatal was held by the coroner as the guilty abortionist. Hatal's profession is not listed. Mike Nazar, her husband, was arrested as an accessory, as was Sarah Babian. Hatal was indicted for felony murder on February 15, 1925. Keep in mind that things that things we take for granted, like antibiotics and blood banks, were still in the future. For more about abortion in this era, see Abortion in the 1920s.
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Planned Parenthood Medical Abortion and a Midwife in Chicago
Death Drugs from Planned Parenthood, 2003
Hoa Thuy "Vivian" Tran, like Holly Patterson, got abortion drugs at a Planned Parenthood. Vivian,a 22-year-old teaching student from Fountain Valley, California age 22, followed the medical abortion protocol on December 23, 2003 after getting the drugs at the Costa Mesa, California Planned Parenthood.
On December 29, 2003, Vivian was vacationing with friends at a Las Vegas hotel and fell ill. She was rushed to a local hospital, where staff tried for 40 minutes to revive her, to no avail.
The autopsy showed that Vivian had died of sepsis caused by Clostridium sordelli bacteria in her uterus. Clostridium sordellii is a rare bacterium that can cause sudden severe toxic shock syndrome in previously healthy people.
Vivian's husband is suing the drug company, Planned Parenthood of Orange and San Bernadino Counties, and The Population Council Inc., in Orange County Superior Court. VIvian's death left him to raise their 5-year-old daughter alone.
Other women identified as having died of infection deaths after RU-486 deaths in the Los Angeles area: Chanelle Bryant, and Oriane Shevin. Chanelle got her abortion drugs at a Planned Parenthood, and Oriane and Vivian got theirs from National Abortion Federation members.
A Midwife's Work in Chicago, 1907
On December 29, 1907, 19-year-old Marcie Mayer died in St. Elizabeth's hospital in Chicago from complications of a criminal abortion. Mary Bing, a midwife, was arrested, tried, and sentenced to Joliet. A man named John Mansfield was also held by the coroner's jury, but acquitted by the judge. Marcie's abortion was atypical in that it was not performed by a physician.
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Mystery Abortionist in Chicago, 1921
On December 28, 1921, 30-year-old housekeeper Belle Keehn died at the Chicago Lying-In Hospital from lung abscesses and septicemia caused by an abortion perpetrated by an unknown doctor on or about November 27.
Documents are unclear as to how it was determined that the perpetrator was a doctor. The hospital was a reputable facility, not a seedy abortionarium, so Belle would have received superior care as doctors tried to save her life.
Keep in mind that things that things we take for granted, like antibiotics and blood banks, were still in the future. For more about abortion in this era, see Abortion in the 1920s.
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A 1915 Abortion Death I Just Learned About
I stumbled across information about the following abortion death while looking for additional information on the death of Rose Kulamer.
In August of 1915, Dr. J. A. Williams of McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania was summoned to the Pittsburgh home of 41-year-old midwife Marie Treylt to provide care for a sick woman.
Upon assessing the woman, 27-year-old Margaret McCreary of Hickory, Pennsylvania, Williams admitted her to Ohio Valley Hospital. Margaret died there on August 21. Four nurses at the hospital told police that Williams had indeed admitted Margaret, telling them to give her medication if she was in pain but providing no other care. No other doctor treated Margaret, the nurses said.
Police sought out Treytl, and found her nearly smothering in a hiding place between two mattresses in the home of someone identified in news coverage only as A. Mentzer. Treytl told police that Margaret had some to her house on August 17, seeking shelter. The midwife insisted that she had not perpetrated an abortion, but that Margaret had taken ill and she had summoned Dr. Williams to care for her.
Treylt's 17-year-old daughter, Adeline,told police that she wasn't home when Margaret had come to the house. Police, however, believed that she had guilty knowledge. Witness Bessie Hays told police that Adeline had come to her house asking her to tell police that Margaret had been staying at the Hays home. Bessie ordered Adeline out of her house.
The Treylt family servant, 18-year-old Marie Mentzer,told police that Margaret had actually come to the house on August 14. I have been unable to determine if the servant was a relative of the A. Mentzer in whose home the elder Treylt had been found.
All four parties were brought before the coroner. The doctor and the two younger women were released on bail, but Mrs. Treylt, already awaiting a grand jury action in another abortion case, was held without bail.
Mrs. Treylt would go on to be implicated in the 1918 abortion death of Rose Kulamer
"Three Women and Doctor Held for Death of Girl," Pittsburgh Press, Aug. 23, 1915
"Four Arrested As Result of Girl's Death," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Aug. 23, 1915
"Coroner Holds Four After Woman's Death," Pittsburgh Daily Post, Aug. 24, 1915
"Mrs. Treytl is in Jail," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Aug. 24, 1915
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Second Deaths Each for a Doctor and a Midwife
A Doctor's Second Dead Patient, 1932
In late December of 1932, 20-year-old schoolteacher Myrtle Gardner of Four Oaks, North Carolina checked into a Raleigh motel room with her brother-in-law, George D. Clifton. The two presented themselves as a married couple.The following day, the two went to the home of Mrs. Carrie C. Forsythe, where they were to meet 45-year-old Dr. Mike Roberson, of Durham, for an abortion.
After the abortion, Mrytle took ill. Clifton took her to a hospital, where she was admitted under the name Mrs. George Clifton. She died from septic infection caused by an incomplete abortion on the evening of December 26. Dr. P. G. Fox reported her death to the police after Mrytle gave a deathbed statement at the hospital to him, another doctor, and a nurse.
Mrs. Forsythe, age 63 and described as "a gray-haired, middle-aged Raleigh woman," was also charged with murder in Myrtle's death. She was convicted and sentenced to 2 to 3 years for counseling and procuring the abortion. She collapsed and had to be carried to her cell after hearing the sentence. She spent the night "in a highly hysterical condition. Mrs. Forsythe had been charged previously as an accessory to abortion. Clifton was charged as an accessory in Myrtle's death as well.
Roberson was originally charged with first degree murder for Myrtle's death, but the charge was reduced to second-degree murder. Roberson's wife provided his alibi, saying that he was at home sick the night Myrtle's abortion was perpetrated. His defense also asserted that the prosecution had not proved that Myrtle had actually been pregnant.
Roberson pleaded nolo contendere and was given a 3 to five year prison sentence. The medical board revoked his license, but successfully convinced the court to suspend his prison sentence with the stipulation that he never practice medicine again, both on the grounds that he'd no longer be a danger if he stopped doing abortions and on the grounds that he was suffering a heart ailment and thus would not fare well in prison.
This was Roberson's fourth arrest on abortion charges. He had been convicted in the 1928 abortion death of Irma Robinson, but won a new trial on appeal.
A Midwife's Second Dead Patient, 1918
Rose Kulamer's husband, John, said that on Saturday, November 30, 1918, she'd told him that she'd been to see "a woman in the West End Pgh." who had used "a rubber tube" to cause an abortion. She was taken to Columbia Hospital in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania by ambulance on Monday, December 2.
According to Dr. Sidney A. Chalfant, 33-year-old Rose denied an abortion on admission, but later admitted that she and a friend had gone to a woman on Pittsburgh's South Side for an abortion. Her uterus was enlarged to three months, her cervix was dilated to admit two fingers, and a large piece of cotton, that had evidently been present "for some time," was in her vagina.
Rose was taken to the operating room, where the dead three- to four-month fetus was removed and her cervix was packed with gauze. The next day surgery was performed to remove the placenta.
Over the next four to five days, Rose's temperature fell to normal, but then it started to rise again. Rose reported pain in her lower left leg from old inflamed varicose veins. Her temperature rose and stayed elevated for about two weeks, then fell and remained normal for about five days.
On Christmas morning, Rose seemed fine, but around midnight on Christmas night Chalfant was called in because Rose's condition had taken a sudden downturn. He arrived to find that she had vomited and been incontinent in both her bowels and bladder. She was unconscious, with a weak, irregular pulse. Chalfant diagnosed a pulmonary embolism and remained with Rose for about an hour, during which she seemed to be improving. But the next time Chalfant checked on her, she was showing signs of brain damage from an embolism. She held on until about 1 p.m. December 26. She left five children motherless.
Dr. Charles Schildecker performed the autopsy in the hospital morgue. Rose, 5'6" and 175 pounds, showed no external marks of injury. However, her fallopian tubes and ovaries were enlarged and gangrenous, especially on the left. The lining of her uterus was inflamed, gangrenous, and decomposed. Her pelvic veins were filled with septic thrombi. All of her pelvic tissues were highly inflamed, showing signs of recent pregnancy. Schildecker determined that the cause of death had been septicemia from an abortion. The coroner's jury recommended that the person responsible, the mysterious woman on the South Side, be identified and arrested.
Police identified the mystery woman as midwife Marie Treytl. At the time of Rose's death, another of Treytl's patients was in critical condition herself as a result of an abortion. Treytl had also been implicated in the 1915 abortion death of Margaret McCreary.
Treytl had previously been implicated in the 1915 abortion death of Margaret McCreary.
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From Doctors in New York to a Lover in Michigan
Safe and Legal in New York, 1970
"Kimberly" is one of the women Life Dynamics identifies on their "Blackmun Wall" as having been killed by a safe and legal abortion. Kimberly was 25 years old and 18 weeks pregnant when she underwent a safe, legal abortion under the new law, in New York City on December 23, 1970. During the abortion, she went into cardiac arrest and died, leaving behind two children.
The 1970 liberalization of abortion had made New York an abortion mecca until the Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court ruling that abortionists could legally set up shop in any state of the union. In addition to "Kimberly," these are the women I know of who had the dubious benefit of dying from the newfangled safe-and-legal kind of abortion in pre-Roe New York:
1970: Pearl Schwier, Carmen Rodriguez, Barbara Riley, "Amanda" Roe, and Maria Ortega
1971: "Amy" Roe, "Andrea" Roe, "Sandra" Roe, "Anita" Roe, Margaret Smith, "Annie" Roe, "Audrey" Roe, "Vicki" Roe, "April" Roe, "Barbara" Roe, "Tammy" Roe, Carole Schaner, and "Beth" Roe
1972: "Roseann" Roe, "Connie" Roe, "Julie" Roe, "Robin" Roe, "Roxanne" Roe, and "Danielle" Roe
One of a String of Dr. Brewer's Dead, Oklahoma, 1931
Dr. Guy E. Brewer
On June 7, 1935, Dr. Guy E. Brewer pleaded guilty to six counts of manslaughter for the deaths of six women who died from complications of abortions he had perpetrated. He was sentenced to serve six consecutive four-year terms. He spent his incarceration working in the prison hospital. One of those young women was Myrtle Rose, age 21, of Ponca City, Oklahoma, on December 23, 1931. The other women include Hermoine Fowler, Ruby Ford, Doris Jones, Elizabeth Shaw, and Wanda Lee Gray.
Brewer was sentenced to six four-year sentences, to run concurrently, for six abortion deaths. The likely reason that he got such a light sentence was his extreme popularity for his benevolence in putting local young men through college. So beloved was Brewer that one victim's husband was fired in retaliation for reporting his wife's death to the police.
Body Dumped by New York Physician, 1934
On Christmas day of 1934, the nude body of a young woman was found under a pile of leaves in a thicket near a highway south of New York City. Eventually the date of death was determined to be December 23.
Loretta Wilson
Laura and Joseph Devine, whose 19-year-old daughter, Loretta Wilson, had been missing since December 19, contacted authorities and were able to positively identify the body. An autopsy revealed that she had bled to death from complications of an abortion
Loretta had left home at noon on the 19th, telling the landlady that she was going to see a doctor. Her husband of two years, William, knew better. Though initially he'd denied even knowing that Loretta had been pregnant, he later said he'd paid Dr. John H. Becker Jr., age 52, $55 for the abortion. He added that his wife's friend, Kay Dinger, had been present when the transaction took place.
Becker admitted to having been paid $2 for examining Loretta on December 17, but denied perpetrating the abortion. He said that she was supposed to return on the 18th but failed to show up. However, his assertion that he'd not seen Loretta after the 17th was challenged by a witness who picked Becker out of a lineup of seven men as the one he'd seen standing by a car near the area where Loretta's body was found.
Becker was found guilty and sentenced to between 18 months and three years in Sing-Sing.
Fatal Mystery Abortion in Chicago, 1909
"Sadie," identified in the source document as "Mrs. D," was 39 years old in November of 1909 when she either had a miscarriage or an illegal abortion. Five weeks later, on December 21, she was admitted to Cook County Hospital. She was vomiting and obviously very ill. Her pulse was 108, her respirations 28, her temperature 100 degrees.
The next day her temperature had fallen to 97.6, and her pulse and respirations had increased to 132 and 30, respectively. For reasons the document doesn't provide, she endured slightly over two hours of surgery during which surgeons removed both of her Fallopian tubes, drained her pelvic cavity, then curetted her uterus and packed it with alcohol gauze. The surgery sent her into shock and she died 14 hours later, either on December 22 or December 23.
Dead at her Lover's Hands, 1885
Harry McDowell began calling at the home of Dr. Truman Sawdy of Howard City, about 40 miles north of Grand Rapids, Michigan, to visit Dr. Sawdy's 21-year-old daughter, Sylvia. McDowell usually came on Sundays and in the evening, and also corresponded with Sylvia.
On December 10, 1885, Sylvia went to Grand Rapids by train, ostensibly to visit McDowell's mother. Dr. Sawdy heard nothing more from or about his daughter until the morning of Christmas Eve, when McDowell's father came to him, saying that he'd gotten a telegram or telephone call from his son. The senior McDowell said that Harry had told him that Sylvia was very sick and wanted her mother, Cornelia, to go to her.
Dr. Sawdy read the next day in the newspaper that his daughter was dead.
It came out in the trial that in November, Sylvia had consulted with Drs. Bodle, Hake, and Bradish, indicating that she was pregnant. Evidence indicated that McDowell had performed an abortion on Sylvia on December 23, and that she died that day. McDowell was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 15 years.
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From Screwed-up Anesthesia in 1997 to Unspecified Complications in 1915
Careless in Maryland, 1997
Earl McLeod
Dr. Earl McLeod was disciplined by the Maryland medical board over the death of an abortion patient on December 21, 1997. A now-defunct group called WAKE-UP identified her by name -- Jennifer M. Halner -- but do not indicate where they learned her identity. The Social Security Death Index does indeed show a Jennifer M. Halner, 27 years old, died in Maryland on December 21, 1997, which does tend to confirm their identification.
On December 20, 1997, the 27-year-old woman went to Potomac Family Planning for a safe, legal abortion, to be performed by D&C. She was 6 weeks pregnant. She had no significant medical or surgical history, but had undergone a prior abortion performed by McLeod in 1995, under general anesthesia, with no complications.
McLeod's anesthesiologist, identified in records only as Dr. K., started an IV, and the woman was hooked up to a cardiac monitor, blood pressure monitor, and pulse oximeter. Dr. K administered Versed (for sedation and memory impairment), Sublimaze (a short-acting narcotic used for short-duration pain control), Propofol (a sedative for anesthesia), with Lidocaine, a local anesthetic.
Jennifer breathed on her own during the entire five minutes of the abortion. She was transferred to recovery at 10:10 a.m., still unconscious but breathing on her own. Her blood pressure was charted as 112/60 (normal), but her pulse was 103 (very rapid). A nurse identified only as Nurse W put an oxygen mask on the patient, but she was taken off the cardiac monitor and pulse oximeter when she was moved to recovery.
After Jennifer's vital signs were documented, another nurse, identified as Nurse H, took the blood pressure cuff off of her and put it on another patient.
Meanwhile, McLeod was in a second procedure room, doing an abortion on another patient.
At around 10:20 a.m., Nurse W noticed that Jennifer was still unresponsive. She told a nursing assistant to get Zoloft (an antidepressant) from the anesthesiologist, who was still in the second procedure room with McLeod. As the assistant was leaving, Nurse W change the request to one for Zofran (an antiemetic). Then Nurse W went into the procedure room herself to get the Zofran.
Dr. K gave the Zofran to Nurse W without evaluating the patient. There was no record that Jennifer had suffered any nausea or vomiting to warrant the drug in question. At about 10:25, Nurse W administered Zofran to Jennifer through her IV. Not surprisingly, administering an antiemetic did nothing to revive her.
Nurse W returned to the procedure room and asked Kr. K for Romazicon, a more appropriate drug, since it is used to reverse the effects of drugs used for anesthesia. Dr. K again provided the drug to Nurse W without examining the patient.
Nurse H went to take Jennifer's blood pressure, and she realized she couldn't find a pulse, and that the patient's pupils were dilated. She fetched Dr. K to assess his patient immediately. He found her unresponsive, with a blood pressure an alarmingly low 60/40. He stared a second IV and began to perform CPR, using a pediatric-sized bag-valve mask. Nurse H took over ventilating Jennifer, continuing to use the pediatric-sized bag-valve mask. This device would be unable to pump sufficient air into the lungs of a normal-sized adult.
Meanwhile, McLeod performed two other procedures before finally entering the recovery room and finding his staff performing inadequate CPR on his patient. He administered additional IV medications, and said that Jennifer was hooked up to an EKG monitor even though there was no documentation whatsoever of her cardiac rhythm. She was also not hooked up to a pulse oximeter that would tell the staff how much oxygen was in her blood. A pulse oximeter is standard monitoring for post-surgical patients and for patients needing emergency care; failure to use it on this patient was inexplicable. Also, despite the presence of two doctors, two nurses, and at least one nurses' assistant, nobody documented respiration, lung sounds, or any neurological evaluation, all standard for treating an unresponsive patient.
Dr. K told somebody to administer Epinephrine, Ephedrine, and Lidocaine -- all appropriate drugs for treating a patient in cardiac arrest.
Finally, at around 10:42 a.m., McLeod told somebody to call 911 -- something that should have been done as soon as she was found to be unresponsive. Paramedics arrived and found Jennifer in cardiac arrest. The anesthesiologist could not tell them anything about the patient's heart electrical activity, which he should have been noting on the EKG. They noted the use of a pediatric bag-valve mask, and the fact that nobody had put a breathing tube into the patient to ensure that air was being pumped into her lungs and not her stomach.
The medics immediately began appropriate resuscitation, intubating Jennifer, ventilating her with an adult-sized bag=valve mask, hooking her up to a cardiac monitor, defibrillating her, and administering appropriate drugs.
The medics transported Jennifer to Shady Grove Adventist Hospital, arriving at 11:09 a.m. The ER physician noted that the patient's pupils were fixed and dilated. After aggressive resuscitative efforts by ER staff, Jennifer's heart was restored to a stable rhythm, and she was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit. But despite their best efforts, she died at 4:15 a.m. on December 21.
The appalled paramedics reported McLeod to the medical board, which faulted him with failure to provide adequate and readily-available post-operative monitoring equipment, and failure to provide adequate emergency supplies. The board also required him to get his staff properly certified in CPR.
McLeod also ran the Hillcrest abortion mill in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where Kelly Morse had died in 1996 after being inadequately resuscitated. Kelly's husband filed suit, noting, "No respiration rate was recorded, no pulse was checked and no blood pressure was measured. No EKG was applied. No cardiac monitoring was conducted. No pulse oximeter was applied. No intubation or emergency tracheotomy was performed." Evidently McLeod chose not to learn from Kelly's death the lessons that would have saved this Maryland patient's life.
The First Known FPA Death, 1970
Denise J. Holmes, a 24-year-old Australian woman living in Texas, decided to undergo a safe and legal abortion at Avalon Hospital in Los Angeles, California, on her way home for Christmas of 1970. Denise checked into Avalon Hospital (an abortion facility owned by Edward Campbell Allred) on December 21. Denise suffered an amniotic fluid embolism that carried pieces of fetal bone marrow into her lungs. She was pronounced dead by Edward Allred at Avalon at 5pm.
Denise is the first confirmed abortion death at an Allred facility, before the National Abortion Federationwas founded, with Allred's Family Planning Associates Medical Group as a member.
Other women known to have died after abortion at Allred's facilities include:
Patricia Chacon, age 16, 1984
Mary Pena, age 43, 1984
Josefina Garcia, age 37, 1985
Lanice Dorsey, age 17, 1986
Joyce Ortenzio, age 32, 1988
Tami Suematsu, age 19, 1988
Deanna Bell, age 13, 1992
Susan Levy, age 30, 1992
Christina Mora, age 18, 1994
Ta Tanisha Wesson, age 24, 1995
Nakia Jorden, 1998
Maria Leho, 1999
Kimberly Neil, 2000
Maria Rodriguez, age 22, 2000
Chanelle Bryant, age 22, 2004
I suspect that the reason the deaths appear in clusters is because those are years that researchers checked for lawsuits, rather than that these are all the women and girls who died at Allred facilities. Anybody with the time and resources to do so could probably uncover other deaths Allred and his staff have managed to sweep under the carpet.
Two Early 20th Century Chicago Deaths
On December 11, 1926, fifteen-year-old Emily Mueller underwent a criminal abortion somewhere in Chicago. She died on December 21. Midwife Magdelane Stegeman, maiden name Motzny, was booked on December 28. The coroner initially cleared Stegeman. She was nevertheless indicted for felony murder by the Grand Jury on February 15, 1927. Stegeman was later implicated in the 1941 abortion death of Rose Smith.
On December 21, 1915, 34-year-old Mrs. Anna Hunt died at Chicago's Rhodes Avenue Hospital from complications of an abortion perpetrated that day by an unknown person.
Note, please, that with overall public health issues such as doctors not using proper aseptic techniques, lack of access to blood transfusions and antibiotics, and overall poor health to begin with, there was likely little difference between the performance of a legal abortion and illegal practice, and the aftercare for either type of abortion was probably equally unlikely to do the woman much, if any, good. In fact, during the first two thirds of the 20th Century, while abortion was still illegal, there was a massive drop in maternal mortality, including mortality from abortion. Most researches attribute this plunge to improvements in public health and hygiene, the development of blood transfusion techniques, and the introduction of antibiotics. Learn more here.
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A Midwife's Work in 1920s Chicago
On December 13, 1926, 23-year-old Chicago native Mary Paradowski underwent a criminal abortion. She died on December 20 at Chicago Hospital. On January 15, 1927, midwife Josephine Petrova was indicted for felony murder in Mary's death. Keep in mind that things that things we take for granted, like antibiotics and blood banks, were still in the future. For more about abortion in this era, see Abortion in the 1920s. For more on pre-legalization abortion, see The Bad Old Days of Abortion
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Strings of Abortion Deaths, Legal and Illegal
1998: A Lingering Death
Venus Ortiz died in a nursing from lingering abortion complications at age 29 on December 16, 1998. The abortion had been performed five years earlier by Dr. Leiber at Eastern Women's Center, a National Abortion Federation clinic in New York, NY. Her family asserted that there was negligence in administering anesthesia to Venus, and failure to establish an airway. Brevital, fentanyl, and midazolam were administered in dosages and manners contrary to standards of practice, causing Venus to suffer a synergistic reaction. Eastern's staff failed to promptly diagnose and attend to cardio-pulmonary arrest. Eastern's notes of 5:35 PM indicate "2:35 PM end of surgery ... we noticed patient's ashen color and the pulse oximeter tracing and digital readout were gone from the monitor." Emergency medical services were called. However, the damage had already been done. Venus was left in permanent need of respirator, with profound brain damage. Two other patients, Dawn Ravenelle and Dawn Mack, also died of complications of abortions done at Eastern Women's Center.
Other women who suffered severe brain injuries and died years later from those abortion complications include
Suzanne Logan, who languished, mute and paralyzed, for three years until her death on in December of, 1992
Shelby Moran, who was cared for in a nursing home for over 20 years until her death in September of 1999
"Gabriella Alonso," who spent six years in a coma until her death in the summer of 2002
Christi Stile, who spent nearly 22 years in a vegetative state until her death in March of 2015
1984: One of Sixteen Deaths at a Reputable Chain of Clinics
On December 15, 1984, Mary Pena, a 43-year-old mother of five, underwent a safe and legal abortion at San Vincente Hospital in Los Angeles. Mary had thought that she was 3 months pregnant, but doctors discovered she was at 22 weeks. During the procedure, performed by Ruben Marmet, Mary sustained two cervical lacerations, and because she was bleeding heavily, a hysterectomy was performed in an effort to save her life. Hospital owner Dr. Edward Allred and another physician, Sohn Soon, were assisting Marmet with the emergency surgery. They were unable to locate a severed artery so they packed Mary's abdomen with sponges and closed the incision. Mary continued to bleed, so the surgical team called in another doctor who tried to repair the damaged artery, but to no avail. Mary died on the table in the early morning hours of December 16. The Investigator's Report states, "Dr. Allred cleared the case with Coroner and body was released to the family picked mortuary ... and services held. When the death certificate was taken to Kern County Health Department they refused to accept it and called the case to Los Angeles Coroner. ... Mortuary in Bakersfield will bring body to this office for autopsy on morning of 12-20-84."
Only then was cause of death attributed to exsanguination due to cervical laceration due to therapeutic abortion. The cervix showed two lacerations - a small one that had been sutured and a large unsutured one extending through the full ring of the cervix. Once a cause for the fatal hemorrhage was determined, the death certificate was accepted, and Mary was laid to rest again.
San Vicente had been purchased by National Abortion Federation member Familiy Practice Associates Medical Groupshortly before Mary's death.
1981: Safe and Legal in a New York Hospital
Barbara Auerbach was 38 years old when she went to a New York hospital for a safe, legal abortion and tubal ligation, performed December 11, 1981. Two days later, she was discharged. On December 16, Barbara was vomiting and suffering from back pain and inability to void her bladder. She was admitted to Princeton Medical Center in Princeton, New Jersey. Doctors there tried in vain to save her life, but she died within three hours of being admitted. The autopsy showed that Barbara had an obstruction of her small bowel, which caused massive infection throughout her body.
1925: Another Victim of the Infamous Dr. Lucy Hagenow
On December 16, 1925, 22-year-old Irish immigrant factory worker Bridget Masterson died in her Chicago home from a botched abortion. Police were able to question Bridget prior to her death, but she refused to implicate anybody. John O'Malley, a boarder and the father of Bridget's baby, committed suicide by gas after learning of Bridget's death. The Chicago Tribune printed the text of the suicide note he left which implicated notorious abortionist Dr. Lucy Hagenow. Hagenow, who had already been implicated of the abortion deaths of Louise Derchow, Annie Dorris, Abbia Richards, and Emma Dep in San Francisco, would go on to be linked to over a dozen Chicago abortion deaths:
Dr. Lucy Hagenow
1891: Minnie Deering
1892: Sophia Kuhn and Emily Anderson
1896: Hannah Carlson
1899: Marie Hecht
1905: May Putnam
1906: Lola Madison
1907: Annie Horvatich
1925: Lottie Lowy, Nina H. Pierce, Jean Cohen, and Elizabeth Welter
1926: Mary Moorehead
1923: One of Five Dead Patients of a Chicago Physician
On December 7, 1923, 19-year-old Hazel Hadicke of Arkansas City, Kansas, checked into a Wichita hotel. She remained in the room almost constantly and died under the care of Dr. Charles C. Keester on December 16. He attributed her death to heart disease. Abortion was certainly suspected, since Keester had already been implicated in the abortion death of Hattie Myers, age 19, in 1922. Other abortion deaths attributed to Keester are Loren Franklin, age 19, August, 1924; "Bonnie," age 18, August, 1924; and Rena Armstrong, age 17, February, 1930.
1874: A Brooklyn Midwife's Fatal Work
Christina Seifred, aged around 34, died on December 16, 1874 from complications of an abortion perpetrated by Brooklyn midwife-abortionist Johanna White. Christine had been unfaithful to her husband when he was away in Europe, and when he returned and learned of the pregnancy, he left her. Police arranged a sting and arrested White.
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Criminal Practice vs. Safe and Legal
There are two deaths from the Cemetery of Choice that took place on this date. I know little about the first, an illegal abortion death, but have an abundance of information about the woman who died on this date from a safe, legal abortion.
The Bad Old Days
On December 1, 1928, 23-year-old Esther Wahlstrom died in Chicago from complications of a criminal abortion. Dr. Lou E. Davis (pictured) was held by the coroner for murder by abortion on December 12. She was indicted for felony murder on December 15. Davis was also implicated in the abortion deaths of Anna Adler , Mary Whitney, Anna Borndal, Irene Kirschner, and Gertrude Gaesswitz.
Fast forward over sixty years to the enlightened days of safe, legal abortion.
Safe and Legal
Susanne Logan died a long, lingering death after she went to Maryland's Hillview abortion clinic for an abortion on September 9, 1989. Her abortion was performed by Gideon Kioko. She was 13 weeks pregnant. There was no record of how much intravenous Brevital was administered to Susanne, or who administered the drug. There was also no record of any examination to determine of this drug was appropriate for Suzanne.
Susanne was already unconscious on the table when Kioko and his nurse entered the procedure room. Kioko was being assisted by an unlicensed nurse, who noted that Susanne's lips were turning blue. She told Kioko, who continued with the abortion procedure. There is no record that anybody monitored her vital signs or administered oxygen during the procedure. Only after the abortion was finished did anybody do anything to address Suzanne's respiratory arrest.
Eventually somebody summoned emergency medical services (EMS). The EMS personnel reported that the Hillview employees seemed "very confused and did not seem to know what they were doing." EMS staff also noted that Hillview staff had put an oxygen mask on Suzanne upside-down, so that she wasn't getting any oxygen.
Susanne was cyanotic (she had turned blue from lack of oxygen), her pupils were dilated. She was limp, and had no pulse and was not breathing. EMS workers managed to perform CPR and get Suzanne's heart and lungs working again, and transported her to a hospital.
Susanne remained comatose and was transferred to a nursing home. Four months after the abortion, she regained consciousness, but was paralyzed and unable to speak. She had no memory of the abortion, but was able to eventually recall having gone to the clinic.
Local prolifers visited Susanne, and bought her a device that allowed her to communicate. She was interviewed by 60 Minutes, and asked what she wanted. She replied, "To go home."
Susanne filed suit against Kioko and the clinic. In November of 1992, she finally won her suit, and was awarded $2.6 million and $10,000 a month for life, to cover her expenses. Sadly, Susanne died on December 1, before she had a chance to fulfill her wish of seeing her father again.
Debra Gray also died after an abortion at Hillview under circumstances almost identical to the chain of events that fatally injured Susanne.
A Blind Eye
The TV show 60 Minutes learned that abortion-rights organizations had long known hos seedy Hillview was. They interviewed Barbara Radford, then-president of the National Abortion Federation, she defended the head-in-the-sand attitude the organization took toward safety issues by saying, "We want to make sure that women have choices when it comes to abortion services, and if you regulate it too strictly, you then deny women access to the service." When they asked pro-choice Maryland State Senator Mary Boergers why nothing was being done to address dangerous abortion clinics. Boergers said, "There's only so much of a willingness to try to push a group like the pro-choice movement to do what I think is the responsible thing to do because they then treat you as if you're the enemy."
The political goal of "access" trumped the bodies and lives of women like Susanne and Debra. Is the abortion lobby devoted to women's access to safe abortions, or abortionists' access to vulnerable women?
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The Gamut of Abortion Deaths in Chicago
At around 2 p.m. on November 30, 1874, Charles A. Dix went to the Madison Street police station in Chicago to report that his wife, 25-year-old Mary Dix, had died at around 12:30 that morning at their home on West Randolph Street. He told the police that Dr. W. T. Aiken had perpetrated an abortion on Mary. After an intensive investigation, however, a coroner's jury concluded that Mary had performed the abortion herself, and Aiken had only been treating her afterward.
On April 2, 1912, 25-year-old homemaker Elizabeth Jorgeson died from an abortion perpetrated that day by Katie Sauer, whose profession is not given. Sauer was held by the Coroner's Jury and indicted by a Grand Jury on November 30. The case never went to trial.
On October 27, 1926, 34-year-old Sophie Peterson underwent an illegal abortion in the Chicago office of Dr. Frederick Springe. She was taken to Mercy Hospital, where she died on November 30. Springe was indicted for felony murder by a grand jury on December 15.
On November 30, 1927, 22-year-old homemaker Lucille van Iderstine died in the Chicago office of Dr. Emil Gleitsman (pictured) from an abortion that had been performed on her that day. Gleitsman was indicted for felony murder in Lucille's death on January 15, 1928. Lucille's abortion was typical of illegal abortions in that it was performed by a physician. Evidently Gleitsman beat the rap on Lucille's death because he was later implicated in the abortion deaths of Jeanette Reder in 1930, Mary Colbert in 1933, and Marie O'Malley and Maggie Doe in 1942.
From Safe and Legal to the Last Known Hagenow Victim
Safe and Legal in 1971
"Monica" was a 31-year-old mother of five. She requested an abortion when she was 8 weeks pregnant, but the abortion was delayed about a month in order to address "some health, personal and administrative problems." The abortion was scheduled for November 20, 1971.
Her doctor decided that it was best to simply remove Monica's uterus with the fetus still in it. The hysterectomy was done under general anesthesia with no apparent complications.
On the second day after surgery, Monica developed fever and nausea, and had no bowel sounds. The next day she felt unwell and had a distended abdomen. The next day, she felt better and resumed eating, but still had not had a bowel movement.
Six days after the surgery, November 26, Monica began to scream and vomit. She reported severe abdominal pain and couldn't see. Within an hour of the onset of these symptoms, Monica died.
The autopsy revealed grim findings. Monica had a severe infection that had interfered with her bowel function. As she continued to eat but not to have bowel movements, her bowels backed up, allowing gastric juices to enter her lungs and begin to digest them. She also had bacteria in her brain, which may have caused her blindness in the final hour of her life.
Aspiring Star Dies from Abortion, 1954
Virginia Watson
Virginia Hopkins Watson, an Illinois native, had been on a record-setting relay swimming team with Esther Williams in 1939, and had herself set the world's fifty-meter record in 1938. Virginia was 32 years old and pursuing a Hollywood career when she became pregnant in 1954.Deciding that a baby would hurt her career, Virginia arranged to have an abortion on November 18. An investigation uncovered that she had arranged for a lay abortionist, Roger Fred Brenon, to come to her house and perform the abortion there, while Virginia's husband, Arthur, carefully avoided learning too much about what was going on even after obsrving Brenon in the kitchen evidently sterilizing some instruments by boiling them on the stove. At Virginia's instruction, Arthur also wrote a check payable to cash for $150 and gave it to Brenon.
After the abortion, Virginia became sick with vomiting and bleeing before passing the dead fetus. By November 26, Virginia had difficulty in breathing and was taken to California Hospital. On November 29th she was transferred to the General Hospital. She died there of massive infection.
In telling the authorities about the events that led to his wife's death, he indicated that Brenon had visited Virginia two years earlier, spent time alone with her, and went off with a check Arthur had written. During both visits, Arthur said, he'd been under the impression that Brenon was a physician named Rogers. Brenon was convicted of second-degree murder. in Virginia's death.
An Unknown Perp in Chicago, 1930
Seventeen-year-old Dorothy Jasinski was brought to St. Mary's Hospital in Chicago by two unidentified women on November 17, 1930. Dorothy was treated there until her death on November 29. The coroner determined that Dorothy had died from an abortion performed in Michigan City, Indiana, the day she'd been brought to the hospital. The coroner recommended identification of the person or persons responsible, and his or their arrest on charges of murder.
The Last Know Victim of Dr. Lucy Hagenow, 1926
On November 29, 1926, 25-year-old stenographer Mary Moorehead died from a criminal abortion in the Chicago office of Dr. Lucy Hagenow. Hagenow was arrested November 13. She was sentenced to 14 years at Joliet Penitentiary, but was able to get her conviction overturned by the Illinois Supreme Court, which ordered a new trial in 1929.
The judge, noting that there was no new evidence, dismissed the case, telling Hagenow, "You had better make your peace with God, Lucy Hagenow. I do not think your months on earth are many."
Lucy Hagenow
Hagenow, who also went by the name of Louise or Louisa Hagenow, had a long and unsavory history of being involved in women's abortion deaths. The first were in San Francisco before Hagenow relocated to Chicago around 1890. The abortion deaths Hagenow was linked to include:
1886: Louise Derchow
1888: Annie Dories, Abbie Richards., and Emma Dep
1925: Lottie Lowy, Nina H. Pierce, Jean Cohen, Bridget Masterson, and Elizabeth Welter
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A Death in the Dakota Territories, 1888
Mrs. George Libby, age 18, died November 28, 1888, in Wahpeton in the Dakota territories.
Before her death she admitted that she had bought abortifacient drugs from "a traveling doctor who made a specialty of selling such drugs."
I have been unable to determine Mrs. Libby's given name.
Labels: 19th century abortion, abortion deaths, criminal abortion, Dakota abortion, illegal abortion
A Fatality in an Abortion Ring, 1942
On November 18, 1942, 26-year-old Madlyon McGeehan, an OPA employee who had been living in Washington DC., died at Prospect Hospital in New York of peritonitis after an illegal abortion.
Dr. Joseph Nisonoff, age 58, was arrested for homicide and held on $150,000 bail. His nurse, Camille Ewald, was held on $150,000 bail. His receptionist, Pearl Tense, and Dr. Max J. Weinstein, who was thought to have referred Madeline to Nisonoff, were also arrested.
At the time of Madlyon's death, Nisonoff was out on bail after being charged with performing another abortion, which the woman survived. During six hours of questioning, he denied any knowledge of Madlyon's death.
A man identified as Madlyon's friend, Henry Elters, was held as a material witness on $15,000 bail.
Elters reportedly told Assistant District Attorney James Carney that he had known Madlyon for about seven years, and that they had gone to Nisonoff's office in Queens on November 13. They gave Ewald $600. She told Elters to "take a walk." He returned to find Madlyon resting on a couch.
On November 15, Elters was told that Madlyon needed a blood transfusion. She was admitted to Prospect Hospital as Betty McGee. After her death there, she was correctly identified by her sister, Mary, who had come came from the family home at Hazleton, PA, to claim Madlyon's body.
Nisonoff was sentenced to 5 years in state prison, and Weinstein was sentenced to the city penitentiary.
As a result of the McGeehan case, the New York District Attorney's office began investigating other possible abortion rings in the city.
Madlyon's abortion was typical of pre-legalization abortions in that it was performed by a physician.,
Labels: abortion death, criminal abortion, illegal abortion, Washington DC abortion
The Terrible Surprise: Thanksgiving, 1986
The Dreadful Thanksgiving Surprise, 1986
Eighteen year old Michelle Madden, a freshman at Mobile College, sought a safe and legal abortion from O.B. Evans at Family Planning Medical Center of Mobile, Alabama. It was performed on November 18, 1986. According to the friend who had accompanied Michelle to the abortion facility, Michelle had chosen abortion because a doctor had told her that her baby would have birth defects due to Michelle's epilepsy medication.
That very day, Michelle's parents were preparing to go to Mississippi to spend Thanksgiving with Mrs. Madden's brother. They got a call from Michelle's roommate telling them that their daughter was sick.
"We didn't think anything of it. We told her we were going to come the next day to pick her up," Michelle's mother told the Mobile Press Register. But before they could leave home the next day, the house mother at the dorm called, asking if Michelle had gynecological problems. Again, the parents weren't particularly concerned. At that point, they weren't even aware that their daughter had been pregnant.
When they arrived at the dorm, they were told that Michelle was in the hospital. "We called the hospital and they said she was in surgery." They were at the hospital for an hour until the doctor finally came to them and told them that Michelle had undergone an abortion. When they were operating on Michelle, doctors told her parents, they found a leg bone, two pieces of skull, and some placenta still in Michelle's uterus.
"From what he told me at that point," said Mrs. Madden, a nurse, "I knew that for her to live would be a miracle, on the order of the Lord raising Lazarus from the dead. She was in such bad shape I didn't see how she could make it."
Michelle's mother was sadly right. Sepsis had already set in, and Michelle remained on life support dying on November 24. Her parents sued Evans and the facility, and in 1991 a jury awarded them $10 million in damages.
On November 24, 1916, 24-year-old Mrs. M. Marazak died at Chicago's West Side Hospital from an abortion performed by an unknown perpetrator.
On November 24, 1907, homemaker Lizzie Paulson, age 38, died at County Hospital in Chicago from an abortion performed that day. John and Minnie Nelson were arrested and held without bail. John Nelson was sentenced to Joliet for his role in Lizzie's death. John Nelson's profession is given as "outside labor force" and "abortion provider", so likely he was a professional lay abortionist.
Labels: abortion deaths, Alabama abortion, Chicago abortion, criminal abortion, illegal abortion, legal abortion, Mobile abortion, safe abortion
Self-Induced and Illegal Abortion Deaths Spanning a Century
Self-Induced in Colorado, 1978
On November 15, 1978, 18-year-old "Sharon" was admitted to the Denver General Hospital emergency room. She was suffering from nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain. Her mood was alternating between agitation and lethargy. She reported having believed that she was pregnant -- though she had menstruated only three weeks previously -- and drinking two half-ounce bottle of pennyroyal oil. Since she had also been seriously depressed, doctors were unsure whether to consider her ingestion of pennyroyal as an abortion attempt or as a suicide attempt.
Sharon had used pennyroyal tea in the past to start her periods when she'd thought that she was pregnant. She'd become ill within a few hours of drinking the oil.
A medical botanist, Dr. Walter Lewis, wrote about the case:
Within two hours she vomited blood and bled from the vagina and eyes. By the third day her liver was damaged. On the sixth day, she sank into a coma and died on the seventh day.
This would indicate that Sharon died on November 22.
Upon autopsy it became clear that Sharon had not even been pregnant. The pennyroyal oil had done such serious damage to her liver that portions of it had died. During her hospitalization she, like Kris Humphry, had developed disseminated intravascular coagulopathy (DIC, a disorder in which the blood can no longer clot). It was eventually the hemorrhagic damage to her liver that caused her death.
The Centers for Disease Control investigated Sharon's death, along with other deaths from illegal abortion. They concluded that she, like the others whose deaths they studied, had sought an abortion outside the medical establishment for "idiosyncratic reasons."
Two Chicago Deaths, 1917 and 1913
On November 22, 1917, 20-year-old Helen Devora died at Chicago's West End Hospital from an abortion performed by an unknown perpetrator.
Four years to the day earlier, 33-year-old Hulda Tubbin died in Chicago, at the scene of an abortion perpetrated that day by Dr. Olaf Olson. Though Olson was indicted for felony murder, the case never went to trial.
Fishy Goings-On in California, 1897
On November 23, 1897, a funeral procession in Irvington, California, was stopped just as about the body was being loaded onto a ferry. The deceased was 24-year-old Ida Coakley, a homemaker who had only been married to John Coakley, a farmer, for two months. John reported that he'd taken her to the office of Dr. Samuel Hall the previous day to be treated for a heart problem.He had left the doctor's office and returned that evening only to find his wife dead. Her body was promptly removed to a funeral establishment.
A night watchman at a nearby bank had found the timing of the departure from the funeral establishment fishy and had contacted the police, hence the interruption of the funeral. Ida's body was taken for an autopsy, and a coroner's jury convened. They concluded "That Mrs. Ida Coakley, aged 24 years, nativity California, occupation housewife, residence Irvington, Alameda county, came to her death November 22, 1897, at 14 McAllister street, from septicaemia, following an attempt at abortion; and we further find that deceased came to her death from the effects of a criminal operation performed by Dr. Samuel H. Hall, and we further find that John Coakley was an accessory to the same crime."
Hall was arrested when he arrived in San Jose to visit his wife and daughter. He said that he'd not known that Ida had been pregnant when she and her husband had come to his office on Saturday. He'd treated her with morphine and nitroglycerin. On Monday see seemed okay, he said, but he left her for a while only to return to his office and find her dead. He said that he assumed that she must have died from an aneurysm.
John Coakley admitted that he had taken Ida to hall and asked if an abortion would be safe for her. When Hall had assured him that it would be safe, John paid $50 and Hall promptly took Ida into a procedure room. A few minutes later, Hall returned, told John that Ida had been fine, and sent her home.
Dr. Hall's daughter, Josephine Wells, testified that Ida had come to the McAllister Street house at about noon on the Saturday before her death. Hall had asked to use Josephine's room for a couple of days to care for Ida, who Hall told Josephine suffered heart disease. Ida was sitting in a chair by the fire the following Monday, where she died at about 6 o'clock in the evening.
The charges against John Coakley were dropped during the first trial in order to loosen his tongue against Hall. John Coakley proved useless during the trial, however. He broke down on the stand but the prosecution was unable to get him to say anything significant. The trial resulted in a hung jury, voting seven to five for acquittal. A second trial against Hall ended in acquittal after Coakley fled the state, leaving the prosecution minus the prime witness.
Hall had been twice tried for the 1891 abortion death of Ida Shaddock. The first trial ended in a hung jury and the second, three years later and after several key witnesses had moved away or died, resulted in acquittal.
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Kelly Clarkson's Daughter Is 'Bored' of Her Superstar Mom's Singing
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Kelly Clarkson may have countless fans of her music, but one person she has yet to impress is her very own daughter.
Clarkson reveals to Entertainment Tonight that her children really don't care what she does professionally, whether that be music or hosting her upcoming talk show. She jokes, "They do not care anymore. They're not impressed."
Clarkson says that during one of her latest rehearsals her four-year-old, River Rose, gave her some brutally honest critiques. Clarkson admitted that she wasn't singing full out since she performed for three days in a row and has four more days in a row left in the run.
"She was like, 'Mommy, you know when you're on stage and you were singing?' And I was like, 'Yeah, baby?' I was thinking like a compliment was about to come. She was like, 'Yeah, I was really bored,'" Clarkson laughs.
She continues, "I was like, 'Oh. Damn. ... Well, that was sweet honey. Maybe don't tell people that when they get off stage. But they don't care, they're over it. They see it all the time."
Clarkson will perform with Dan + Shay at this weekend's ACM Awards hosted by her mother-in-law Reba McEntire. The show airs on Sunday, April 7 at 8 PM ET on CBS.
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LAPD Officers Will Face No Charges for Killing Unarmed Homelss Man on Skid Row
Three LAPD officers were legally justified and acting in self-defense when they fatally shot a homeless man according to the District Attorney.
The Free Thought Project
Los Angeles, CA -- (RT) Three police officers in Los Angeles, California, were legally justified and acting in self-defense when they fatally shot a homeless man, Charly Leundeu Keunang, in March 2015, the Los Angeles County district attorney's office has determined.
Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Sergeant Chand Syed and Officers Francisco Martinez and Daniel Torres "acted lawfully in self-defense and in defense of others" when they shot and killed Keunang, 43, on March 1, 2015, in the Skid Row area of downtown Los Angeles, local prosecutors wrote in a November 9 memo obtained by the Los Angeles Times.
The memo explained why the district attorney's office was choosing not to charge the LAPD officers with an on-duty shooting, something that has not happened in Los Angeles since 2000, according to an LA Times analysis of officer-involved shootings.
Prosecutors point to video footage captured by Syed's body camera that indicated, to them, that Keunang had a hold of another police officer's holstered gun during a group struggle with Keunang. That officer, rookie cop Joshua Volasgis, alerted other officers on the scene that Keunang was tugging at this gun. "He's got my gun!" Volasgis yelled, according to the memo.
Keunang was "rapidly gaining control" of Volasgis' gun, the 22-page memo said. Keunang was then hit with six bullets fired by accompanying officers.
"Keunang posed a high likelihood of killing officers and civilians at the very instant that he was shot," the memo said.
The body camera footage mentioned in the memo has not been released to the public. The assertion made by district attorney's office, that Keunang had a hold of Volasgis' holstered gun, is in line with reports by the LAPD and its inspector general, the LA Times reported. While the body camera footage remains protected, video captured at the scene by a security camera and by an onlooker were released to the public, sparking protests in the city.
Josh Piovia-Scott, an attorney for Keunang's family, said the prosecutors' decision not to charge the officers was a "travesty of justice."
"We had six heavily armed, trained officers and one unarmed homeless man," he said, according to the LA Times. "Law enforcement officers are trained to de-escalate situations and to use deadly force — any force, but particularly deadly force — only as a last resort. That obviously did not happen."
The encounter between LAPD and Keunang began when someone alerted police to an attempted robbery and assault, identifying Keunang as the suspect. Upon arrival and questioning by the officers, Keunang became agitated and ignored the officers' commands, according to the LAPD. He was Tased three times during the tense back-and-forth. Upon the second Taser shot, Keunang began to swing his arms and lunged at Martinez, according to the district attorney's memo. Volasgis then approached as Keunang was Tased a third time.
At some point, Volasgis said he felt a tug at his gun. "He's going for my gun! He's going for my gun!" Volasgis told other officers, leading to a hail of gunfire aimed at Keunang.
Beck has said the gun was found partly cocked and jammed with one round of ammunition in the gun's chamber and another in the ejection port.
Keunang, a Cameroonian national also known as "Africa," was living in a tent on Skid Row after several years in a psychiatric facility, according to previous reports. LAPD Chief Charlie Beck said in March 2015 that "several of the officers [involved in the shooting] had participated [in] and completed our most extensive mental illness training over a 36-hour course."
The circumstances of Keunang's death prompted new LAPD policies regarding interactions with the city's homeless population, who often deal with mental or physical health issues or substance abuse problems. An autopsy on Keunang found methamphetamine and marijuana in his system, according to reports.
Keunang's family filed a federal wrongful-death lawsuit in August 2015. The suit says after being shot, Keunang was handcuffed while the officers abstained from offering medical aid and "and looked on while he bled to death in pain and terror."
David Winslow, an attorney for the LAPD officers, hailed the decision to not charge his clients, saying they did "nothing inappropriate."
"Anyone who saw the video and knew what it looked like from the officers' point of view would have known with confidence that there would be no consideration of charges."


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Many of our Working Hunter and Mobile cross country fences have the option to choose a coloured stain. This colour chart gives an idea of the colours but as a stain the grain of the timber will still show through as you can see on the photos. Occasionally we use other colours such as White, Grey, Blue, Pale blue & Dark green and these are all avail able on special request.


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Foundation Retreat VC Pitch Deck and Business Plan
An Altruistic Business, an institute, a museum of the future as we design it and a new home for the transhuman house… all of this is the part of the following 'business' plan.
One of our most exciting projects is for the Foundation Retreat (different than the Foundations Retreat they had recently at the Transhuman House) which would include a new version of the transhuman house. We did a VC Style pitch deck to explain the idea to the Foundation membership and to some people working on similar projects but wanted to share this idea with others. When we have enough funding we plan on creating this or executing on this one way or the other.
If you're really interested in this project ping us at pieseczek@hotmail.com
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Our Vision: Guarding the Future for Humanity
The purpose of the Foundation Retreat is to educate, sustain and help progress humanity through providing a place for learning about and acquiring sustainable technology and protecting our future.
Like the Transhuman House, it's a museum of the future and a tool to education and a retail outlet to make that future technology available to others. It aligns with the saying that the future is here just not evenly distributed.
Our 'Green' Strategy
Current Trends and Positioning
The Retreat Strategy is to use the key elements of our vision that already align with key consumer trends to drive that vision as well as retail success for the Retreat ensuring long terms survival as a business.
Retail Availability
Making Sustainable Technology available to the consumer as a separate but related organization creating a sustainable fund for the retreat, protecting the retreat from collapse caused by the business and setting all of it up for success through the retail business
A non-profit educational institute focused on bring industry and universities together along with the Foundation library sponsoring projects, education and educational activities.
Trends and Growth in Green Industries
To be clear this is a business plan and focused on taking advantage of current trends to do go AND produce money and be profitable but in a way that can move the vision of going green, helping humanity and making these technologies available to others.
https://greenbuildingelements.com/2015/11/23/demand-for-green-building-doubles-every-three-years/
http://www.businessinsider.com/connected-home-forecasts-and-growth-2014-9
https://charlieonenergy.wordpress.com/2015/12/07/solar-and-moores-law/
Retail Success is a Retail 'Experience'
Aesthetic Experience
The most success in brick and mortar is the experience you can't get on the computer.
Experts in Retail
The Sustainability Store it is about experts in the field that work there because of the love it and honestly want to help w/o commission.
From consumer education to partnership installations the 'Sustainability Store' is there to help.
Retail Products:
Smart Home Tech, Aquaponics, Permaculture, Solar, Sustainable Tech, Alternative Power, Education, Aesthetic and Function, Home Robotics, Energy Savings, Recycling, and Green Technology
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/akankshak/retail-spaces/
http://blog.bonbrand.com/home-alive-the-internet-of-things-is-showcased-with-target-open-house/#.WaMfryh97YY
Revenue from Retail
Building a retail presence in green and sustainable technology
20% growth in sales in retail
24 months profitability/ROI
Platform for store role out
Franchise Driven Growth
http://radar.sustainability.com/annual-trends-report/
https://www.greenbiz.com/article/sustainable-retail-trends-watch-2017
https://www.imrg.org/blog/online-retail-sector-growth-year-to-date-jan-may-2017/
Financial Model
24 Month return on 20% growth in retail in a single location.
Altruism Driving Profit
The Retreat Provides a platform for the retail business, a showcase of altruism and a look at the future.
Altruistic Business Model
Capitalizing Trends
Industry Thought leadership
Demonstrating Good Intent
The Ask – [TBD]
Creates Trends – The Foundation Retreat is about sustainability and preservation built on trends already in the market but the 2.5 million in the long run funds the building and construction of the sustainability store helps position
Key Value Proposition
Create 2 organizations, the retreat as an NPO and the retail store as a corporation.
40% equity note in retail business (5% employee reserve)
Management advisory role
Board seat on NPO
Thank you and Summary
The fall of Empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, and not easily fought. It is dictated by a rising bureaucracy, a receding initiative, a freezing of caste, a damming of curiosity—a hundred other factors. It has been going on, as I have said, for centuries, and it is too majestic and massive a movement to stop. ~ Isaac Asimov, Foundation
Retail Product Portfolio Example – Smart Home
Smart home products are one of the most popular trends in home improvement and in building and design our future. Many elements of this are about making your life easier as we progress and making the better products available to touch and experience is part of how we expect to make the location a real-life experience.
Retail Product Portfolio Example – Alternate Energy
Our only path forward as a species is in sustainable technologies in particular our ever increasing need for power. Making Alternate or sustainable energy available to others is one of the key product areas of the plan.
Retail Product Portfolio Example – Food
focused on sustainable technologies even with food production is important now, on earth and as we grow out into space.


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From graduation to revalidation: my first three years as a nurse
Lynne Pearce
Lauren Philpott's new book reveals the highs and lows of starting out in nursing
Lauren Philpott (left) with colleagues at Darent Valley Hospital in Kent.
Picture: Tim George
When children's nurse Lauren Philpott found herself struggling with some aspects of work, she searched for resources that might help her, but found very little.
'I thought maybe I should write about it,' says Ms Philpott. So began her book, Being a Nurse: a personal guide from graduation to revalidation, published on 29 June.
'Once I started writing about nursing it made me realise how much I really love it... It's a good way to reflect'
Lauren Philpott
'Work felt stressful and busy and things got on top of me,' recalls Ms Philpott, who trained at the University of South Wales, graduating in 2014.
'I was worried about whether I'd made the right choice, and thought writing about it might help others who found themselves in my situation,' she says. 'Once I started writing about nursing it made me realise how much I really love it and how glad I am that I did my training. It's a good way to reflect.'
A natural progression
Ms Philpott started writing in her spare time barely 18 months ago, publishing reviews of shows she's seen, after a friend suggested she blog about her interest in the theatre. 'I realised then how much I enjoy it,' she says.
Writing a book about her nursing experiences felt like a natural progression. After approaching three or four publishers with a proposal she was offered a contract last autumn by Lantern Publishing, which specialises in books about nursing, health and social care.
'I emailed them and heard back about three hours later that they wanted it,' says Ms Philpott, who works at Darent Valley Hospital in Dartford, Kent.
'It happened quickly and was very exciting. I was jumping around screaming when I heard. But then it hit me that I had to buckle down and start writing it, as I only had six months to get it finished by their deadline.
'Look at the good and don't focus on the bad – that's a key theme'
'It's been all systems go. Every spare minute I've had when I'm not working I've been sat in front of my computer.'
Full of personal accounts of her own and others' experiences, the book is divided into eight chapters that take readers from the first few months as a newly qualified nurse to revalidating for the first time after three years' practice.
'Days I love being a nurse'
Expect the unexpected, says Ms Philpott, as the most challenging days can also be the most rewarding.
'I recently worked a shift that was extremely busy, with each of my patients requiring a slightly higher level of care than usual,' she says. 'At the end of the shift, although I was exhausted, I felt happy and came home smiling. This can sometimes be unusual for me – mainly because I get grumpy when I'm tired – but on this occasion every patient and parent that I was caring for was lovely, making it impossible for me to think I'd had a bad day.
'I built strong relationships with the patients I was caring for, and they were open and honest with me about every aspect of their care. Although I was busy, I knew that I was providing the best care I possibly could for each of my patients. It's on days such as those that I really love being a nurse – even if it does take at least 12 hours of sleep to recover.'
'Other books out there tend to look at the practical and clinical aspects of becoming a nurse,' explains Ms Philpott. 'But there's nothing really personal, about how you might feel.
'The main aim of my book is to tell it from the point of view of someone who has been there and understands what you might be experiencing.'
How to make a good impression
Topics include how to make a good impression when you first start, teamwork, communication, building therapeutic relationships with patients, managing difficult situations such as breaking bad news or coping when a mistake occurs, how to recover from bad days, gaining confidence and learning on the job and achieving a work-life balance.
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'With some issues, I feel I've learned a lot while I've been writing it,' says Ms Philpott. 'I've included comments from others, for example, asking what they felt made a good day at work. Colleagues have been really supportive, suggesting things to cover.'
She has also incorporated many of her own experiences, including a night shift that was her first time in charge of a ward. 'A very poorly child was admitted. I'd never looked after someone that unwell before,' says Ms Philpott.
'Coming out the other side, it was actually a very positive experience for me, even though it was terrifying at the time. Then it felt like a low point, but on reflection I feel very proud of how I managed. It was a real learning curve and a turning point in my career.'
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Having enjoyed the process of writing so much, Ms Philpott is now exploring other avenues, and starting an online course in fiction writing. She is also serialising her book as a blog and vlog. 'My time is so filled with writing that when I'm not doing it I'm not sure what else to do,' she says.
Excitedly anticipating the publication date, she says: 'It doesn't quite feel real. But when I have it in my hands, I'm going to feel so proud. I look at it as my baby, so I'm a bit worried about what others might think of it.'
'Then there's that feeling when you know you have made a difference to your patients, and it completely changes your outlook'
Although her book is honest about the challenges, she hopes it will encourage readers to focus on the positive. 'Look at the good and don't focus on the bad,' she says. 'That's a key theme. There will always be bad days, when you think "I'm not sure I want to keep doing this".
'But then there's that feeling when you know you have made a difference to your patients, and it completely changes your outlook. It puts everything into perspective and you feel so much better.'
Building therapeutic relationships: an extract from the book
Lauren Philpott: Building relationships with patients is the most rewarding aspect
of nursing. Picture: Tim George
Caring for patients is the single most important thing we do at work and it is vital that we start, and maintain, trusting relationships with our patients and their families.
The term 'therapeutic relationship' is commonly used when discussing the relationship between a patient and a healthcare professional. This relationship is one of mutual trust, respect and understanding, and is extremely beneficial to both parties.
A commonly used term in children's nursing is 'family-centred care'. The principle is the same as a 'therapeutic relationship' but is applied to the family unit as a whole, rather than just the patient.
Forming a relationship of trust with your patient and their family has many benefits, but it is important to maintain boundaries in these situations; there is a fine line between being friendly and being friends, which can sometimes be hard to distinguish.
Decide on your boundaries
It's great to have a good relationship with your patient and their family, but you must always remain professional. Knowing when you are close to the line can sometimes be difficult; what could be a normal conversation for one family might become too much information for another, so use your judgement of each family to decide on your own boundaries with them.
As nurses, we have the unique and wonderful opportunity to build relationships with our patients, getting to know them and their families and having a positive impact on their lives. This is the most rewarding aspect of nursing; it provides patients with someone to talk to when there might be no one else, allows us to learn about their lives, and can even change our perspective about the world.
Lynne Pearce is a freelance health journalist
Being a Nurse: a personal guide from graduation to revalidation, by Lauren Philpott, Lantern Publishing, £9.99
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Legendary director Peter Brook returns to his legendary roots with Battlefield, playing now at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts. Based on his own adaptation of the Mahabharata, a piece he co-adapted three decades ago with Marie-Hélène Estienne, this seventy-minute piece is a triumph of minimalist theatre.
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Four actors and a musician are on stage for most of the piece, and it moves episodically much the way Epic theatre does, but is made up of the simplest ingredients. It doesn't rely on any technical elements that seem to dominate so much of the contemporary theater scene, but rather stays true to its theatrical roots, and its almost radical to see something with no fancy lighting or projections, and no elaborate costumes.
Based on The Mahabharata, the play deals with the cataclysmic effects of war, and its aftermath. Yudhishthira, the king of the Pandavas, is faced with the repercussions of war, and millions of his people are lying dead on a battlefield, which makes his victory feel very much like a defeat.
With the aid of his mother, Kunti, and the blind king, Dhritarashtra, who lost 100 sons on the opposing side, Yudhishthira tries to reason out how such a tragedy could have happened and see what lessons can be learned. And so a series of parables are presented to him to illustrate the very nature of life and existence in an unjust world. Two of the stories that stand out are one in which two bamboo sticks are used to symbolize two scales on which a king weighs himself against a pigeon, and when the pigeon proves to be of more weight, the king slowly sheds all of his skin in the attempts to be victorious. And a story about a worm trying to cross a very crowded road is cleverly told with the aid of colored scarves and as awfully pessimistic as it is, it is surprisingly humorous.
This play, like the material it's based on, asks large questions about the nature of existence, and the need for meaning that all creatures seem to be in deep pursuit of. It's beautifully staged in its simplicity, and plays out with enough heightened theatricality to be a wonderfully unique experience. There are parallels that will undoubtedly be drawn to our contemporary political anxieties, where these larger questions of life must be asked, but this piece isn't interested in those comparisons, necessarily, it's busy with itself as a work of art and not a political one, and so it stays true to the universality and timelessness that these tales reside within.
The cast is superb, all four of the actors inhabit the depth and weight of the piece, with Toshi Tsuchitori providing the wonderful music accompaniment, which is a Japanese drum used to punctuate moments, as well as add rhythmic beats to give the story a sort of heartbeat. This piece is very much alive as a singular experience of these artists visions. One that only lives in the room for those of us fortunate enough to share in it with them. Peter Brook is still tremendously capable of beautiful artistic expression, and with such a short run, you must get tickets now, because, like life itself, it will be gone before you know it.
Written by Jean-Claude Carrière
Adapted and Directed by Peter Brook and Marie-Hèléne Estienne
Bram Goldsmith Theater
Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts 9390 N. Santa Monica Blvd, Beverly Hills, CA, 90210
May 24 – 28, 2017
Performance Schedule: Wed – Fri at 8pm; Sat at 2pm & 8pm; Sun at 2pm
Single tickets: $35 – $85 (prices subject to change)
Online – TheWallis.org
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There isn't much new to see here, but the first poster for The Love Guru has finally been revealed. I've been waiting with my fingers crossed for this project to come together. I'm hoping Mike Myers has made the next Austin Powers, but I don't want it to be a dud and I'm worried this is headed that way. I'm guessing we'll see the first trailer in the next few weeks, considering posters and trailers are usually timed together. For now, enjoy this poster and expect some footage or a trailer quite soon.
The Love Guru stars Mike Myers, Jessica Alba, Justin Timberlake, Romany Malco, Meagan Good, and of course, Verne Troyer. Thanks to our friends at IMPAwards for finding this poster.
In the film, Pitka (Myers) is an American who was left at the gates of an ashram in India as a child and raised by gurus. He moves back to the U.S. to seek fame and fortune in the world of self-help and spirituality. His unorthodox methods are put to the test when he must settle a rift between Toronto Maple Leafs star hockey player Darren Roanoke (Malco) and his estranged wife. After the split, Roanoke's wife starts dating L.A. Kings star Jacques Grande (Timberlake) out of revenge, sending her husband into a major professional skid -- to the horror of the teams' owner Jane Bullard (Alba) and Coach Cherkov (Troyer). Pitka must return the couple to marital nirvana and get Roanoke back on his game so the team can break the 40-year-old "Bullard Curse" and win the Stanley Cup.
The Love Guru is directed by Marco Schnabel, who worked as second unit director on Meet the Parents, Meet the Fockers, and Austin Powers: Goldmember and is now directing his first feature film. The script was written by both Mike Myers and Graham Gordy. The Love Guru arrives in theaters on June 20th this summer.
Yeesh. I stand by my original assessment; this is going to be awful. With Austin Powers, Myers had the crutch of familiarity to lean on. We knew what he was making fun of; we've all seen James Bond and other Secret Agent shows and movies. We laughed along with him; in this I think we're going to be laughing at him. And not in a good way. I realize it's not a lot to go on; a one sheet and some still photos, but my Spider sense is not feeling good over this one.
I have to admit, it seems very complicated for this type of film & does not look good on paper. I also have to say, if anybody can pull it off, it would probably be Mike Myers. The Austin Powers trilogy was also complicated on paper but you see now, how Mike brought it all together in near perfect fashion (except for Beyonce's acting; horrible even for a silly comedy). We will have to wait for a trailer but I have learned to never count out a comedy genius; & that is exactly what Mr. Myers is.
Mike Myers is sharp witted! I think only he can pull something like this off! Austin Powers was a good trilogy(with rumors of another sequel floating around). I remember the 1st Austin Powers not being very popular, until it caught fire on home video. On the other hand, Myers couldn't even save "The Cat in the Hat". I think "The Love Guru", might illicit the same audience response as Austin Powers. I'd still like to see a trailer though!
This Sounds like it may actually be quite funny. Leave it to Myers to bring hockey into the forefront of major cinema (good 'ole Canadian boy). I have high hopes for this movie, it doesn't seem any more complicated than "So I Married an Axe Murderer", which was an amazing movie.


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HomeConrad Tao Plays Brahms
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Conrad Tao, Piano
Ken Lam, Conductor
$25-$114 (+applicable fees)
Conrad Tao returns to Charleston after an astounding performance with the CSO in 2018. The former child prodigy is among the greatest living piano players in the world, and has begun to establish himself as a respected composer. Last year, the New York Philharmonic commissioned and opened their season with Tao's original composition, Everything Must Go. The performance was lauded by The New York Timesas "One of the best classical music performances of 2018." And if that's not enough, Tao has managed to accomplish all of this by the tender age of 24.
Tao returns to play Johannes Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 1, written when the composer was about Tao's age. Brahms drafted this concerto during a period of great turmoil in his life, attempting it first as a symphony then as a sonata for two pianos before finally settling on a concerto. At the time, Brahms' mentor, Robert Schumann, had recently been institutionalized after throwing himself into the Rhine River. Brahms acted as a source of support for his friend's distraught wife, Clara Schumann. Some say a romance may have bloomed between Clara and Johannes, although we'll never know for sure. One thing we do know for sure: we cannot wait to hear Conrad Tao play Brahms' dynamic and introspective piano concerto next year.
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The special Federal Reserve borrowing facility for Wall Street securities firms is only temporary, a top Treasury official said Wednesday. Robert Steel, US Treasury undersecretary for domestic finance, stressed the word "temporary" in his remarks on the facility to the Wall Street Journal's dealmaking conference on Wednesday.
The new discount window that allows securities firms to borrow from the Federal Reserve, a privilege reserved for depository commercial banks in normal times, was opened amidst the collapse of Bear Stearns. It has somewhat calmed fears that another large Wall Street firm could collapse in the fashion of Bear Stearns, but lately Fed officials seem to have been indicating that the window poses serious "moral hazard" threats.
Much of the discussion on Wall Street and in the media has centered around the likely regulation that would accompany any continuation of the window beyond September. Indeed, much of the coverage of Steel's remarks concentrated on this issue. But this seems to overlook the very real possibility that the window will be shut permanently.
When asked if the window would remain open beyond its schedule September expiration, Mr Steel said, "I stressed the word temporary." The interviewer then pointed out that the word temporary was not used in Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain's discussion of the window earlier in the conference. Steel reiterated: "Notice I used it twice."
With government officials stressing the dangers of the window and its temporary nature, it's a wonder that Wall Street continues to widely believe that the window is permanent. The mainstream financial media is also stuck in this story line. Not one wire story or newspaper report on Steel's remarks even used the word "temporary." How many times does Steel have to say "temporary" before the message gets through?


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