Woman Dies After Abortion
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Source: Pro-life Infonet,
CDR Radio Network (Ohio); October 22, 2000
Woman Dies After Abortion in Dayton, Ohio
Dayton, OH -- A young woman residing in Dayton, Ohio apparently died
after
an abortion two weeks ago at one of Dayton's three area abortion
facilities.
A spokeswoman for Dayton Right to Life says a 21-year-old woman was
pronounced dead at Dayton's Good Samaritan Hospital after she was sent
home from the Dayton Women's Services abortion facility following an
abortion there.
According to an obituary obtained by the Pro-Life Infonet from the
Dayton
Daily News, L'Echelle Renee Head died Wednesday, October 11th at Good
Samaritan. The News gives no cause of death, saying only that Head
"departed this life unexpectedly."
A call from the Pro-Life Infonet to Dayton Women's Services was answered
by a volunteer who could not provide any further information on the
Head's
death. Calls to staff at Good Samaritan Hospital had not been returned
by
press time.
Head was a graduate of Dayton's Wayne High School and the daughter of
Snobia Head and Willard Hall of Dayton. She worked at a local Wendy's
Restaurant. The obituary notes Head is survived by a daughter, Ja'Chelle
North Head, as well as her parents and three sisters, among other
related
family.
L'Echelle Head was buried October 18th in Dayton.
Peggy Lehner, president of Dayton Right to Life, noted the death was
just
hours after she left the abortion facility.
Lehner explained, "The final results of the autopsy are still
pending.
From early indications it appears she suffered some sort of blood clot
or
embolism. We won't know for sure until we get the results of that
autopsy
back. We do know she entered the clinic as an apparent perfectly healthy
woman, pregnant, frightened, probably, and had made the choice to have
this procedure done. As a result of that choice, she is now dead."
Lehner says the death could've been prevented by the Ohio Department of
Health, if the state had proper regulations of abortion facilities in
place.
"One of the real tragedies here was that this clinic just this past
summer
was granted a license as an ambulatory surgical facility by the Ohio
Department of Health. And in order to obtain that license, the clinic
asked for a waver for any kind of arrangement for special treatment of
complications. The normal license requirements say that you have to have
a
hospital and a doctor identified who are going to follow up in case one
of
your patients runs into trouble. And that didn't happen. They weren't
able
to get that kind of arrangement. They asked for a waver and the
Department
of Health granted it. This woman very well may have been alive today if
the Department of Health had done their work," Lehner concluded.
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