Josefina Garcia

Josefina Garcia30s, 1980s, california, nationalabortionfederation, ectopic, previousmisconduct, quackerySUMMARY: Josefina Garcia, age 37, died May 23, 1985 after an abortion at Family Planning Associates Medical Group in California.

Documents indicate that Josefina Garcia, age 37, mother of 2, died after abortion at a Family Planning Associates Medical Group (FPA) facility.

Josefina’s survivors filed suit against FPA owner Edward Campbell Allred, and 5 other doctors: Kenneth Wright, Leslie S. Orleans, Earl Baxter, Soon Sohn, and Thomas Grubbs.

The family said that staff failed to determine that Josefina had an ectopic pregnancy before proceeding with a routine safe and legal abortion procedure by D&C on May 23, 1985.

Edward AllredAfter her abortion, Josefina was left unattended in a recovery room, where she hemorrhaged. She died the day of her abortion.

Her death certificate notes “acute bronchopneumonia due to anoxic encephalopathy following cardiopulmonary arrest due to ruptured tubal gestation with hemorrhage” as the cause of Josefina’s death. Mention is made elsewhere on the death certificate of “status post uterine suction curettage.”

Though in theory women who choose abortion should be less likely to die from ectopic pregnancy than women who intend to carry to term, they are actually more likely to die because sloppy practices lead them to believe that they had normal uterine pregnancies that were terminated. Thus, they ignore symptoms that would ordinarily lead them to seek prompt, life-saving medical care.

Regardless of whether or not abortion is legal, an ectopic pregnancy is something any abortionist should have diagnosed, if not before the abortion, then certainly after the abortion was completed and there were not pieces of fetus removed. Either way, there was little excuse for failing to detect the ectopic pregnancy. Whether Josefina lived or died would have depended on the state of medicine at the time, and the ordinary skills of doctors who were not abortionists.

Because the abortion is noted only as a suction curettage, and is mentioned in a supplementary box rather than in the cause of death box on the death certificate, a data run on California death certificates did not identify Josefina as an abortion death.

Josefina is one of many women to die at this NAF facility after the National Abortion Federation was founded.

Other women known to have died after abortion at Allred’s facilities include

Denise Holmes, age 24, 1970
Patricia Chacon, age 16, 1984
Mary Pena, age 43, 1984
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

Sources: Press-Telegram 4-25-88; California Death Certificate No. 85-106566

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