Metro Women’s CentermillsGuadalupe Negron, age 33, went for a safe, legal abortion at Metro Women’s Center in Queens, New York, on July 9, 1993. She was accompanied by her niece. SHe was to start a new job in four days, so it seemed that Guadalupe had chosen well when she decided to come to New York from Honduras to bmoved to the recovery room and left unattended for over an hour. When Benjamin’s wife, who acted as his assistant, brought Guadalupe into an examination room, she came out screaming “Oh my God! Oh my God!” and “Call the ambulance! Call the ambulance!” However, the ambulance was not summoned until 1:40 PM.uild a better life for herself and her four children.

A receptionist for the facility noted that after Dr. David Benjamin had performed Guadalupe’s abortion at 10AM, she was

When paramedics arrived, they found Guadalupe naked and bloody, with a nurse screaming and trying to revive her in a small, unventilated room with an inadequate oxygen tank and no necessary equipment such as a blood pressure cuff. They also noted that Benjamin had inserted a breathing tube into Guadalupe’s stomach instead of her trachea, causing stomach fluids to travel up the tube, into her mouth, and down into her lungs.

The paramedics also indicated that they were hindered in their attempts to save Guadalupe’s life because Benjamin lied to them about the nature of her problem.

The autopsy report found that in trying to extract a 20-week fetus, Benjamin had lacerated Guadalupe’s cervix and punctured her uterus. She hemorrhaged and went into shock and cardiac arrest. Authorities determined that Benjamin had initiated the risky procedure without having first examined the patient.

Benjamin was indicted for second degree murder due to “depraved indifference to human life.” One of the paramedics told a reporter, “I wouldn’t take my dog there (Benjamin’s clinic).” New York newspapers covering Benjamin’s murder trial discovered that he had a long history of malpractice and had changed his name from Elias Bonrouhi to David Benjamin in order to cover up his record. Benjamin was convicted, and his license was revoked.

However, Guadalupe’s children held that the medical board had contributed to their mother’s death by allowing such a quack to practice. They filed suit because this man that the Board itself had labeled a “risk to the community” in 1985 and 1993 had been permitted to kill their mother.

Sources: New York Daily News 7-11-93, 7-13-93, 7-14-93; New York Post 8-11-93; Medical Board Order No. BPMC-93-79; New York Times Metro7-18-95, 7-20-95; AP in West Sound Sun 7-13-95; //New York Times// 7-10-93; “Dosctors who lose license find ways to keep working,” North Hills (PA) News Record, September 11, 1995

1. 1900s
2. 1910-1919
3. 1920s
4. 1930s
5. 1940s
6. 1950s
7. 1960s
8. 1970s
9. 1980s
10. 1990s
11. 19th century
12. 2000-2009
13. 20s
14. 30s
15. 40s
16. NAF
17. abortifacient
18. abortion
19. abortion mill
20. abortion mortality
21. abortionists
22. abortionists — female
23. abortionists — male
24. alabama
25. anesthesia
26. arizona
27. black women
28. botched abortion
29. california
30. chicago
31. colorado
32. connecticut
33. cover-up
34. death
35. deaths
36. deception
37. delay in transport
38. delay in treatment
39. district of columbia
40. dumped body
41. ectopic
42. embolism
43. falsifying forms
44. fetal indications
45. florida
46. former criminal abortionist
47. george tiller
48. georgia
49. hemorrhage death
50. hospitals
51. illegal – doctor
52. illegal – midwife
53. illegal – nurse
54. illegal – paramedical
55. illegal – post roe
56. illegal – unknown
57. illegal – untrained
58. illegal abortion
59. illinois
60. inadequate documents
61. inadequate equipment
62. inadequate resuscitation
63. incomplete abortion
64. indiana
65. infection
66. kansas
67. legal abortion
68. llinois
69. louisiana
70. maryland
71. massachusetts
72. maternal indications
73. maternal mortality
74. michigan
75. mills
76. missouri
77. mortality
78. national abortion federation
79. new jersey
80. new mexico
81. new york
82. north carolina
83. ohio
84. oklahoma
85. pennsylvania
86. planned parenthood
87. pre-roe legal
88. previous misconduct
89. prostaglandin
90. quackery
91. questionable stories
92. ru-486
93. rupture
94. saline
95. secret abortion
96. self-induced
97. suicide
98. teens
99. texas
100. wisconsin

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