Anniversary: Patricia Chacon, bled to death

Sixteen-year-old Patricia Chacon underwent a second-trimester abortion at the hands of either Edward Allred or Leslie Orleans at Allred's Avalon Hospital in Los Angeles on the morning of March 3, 1984. Patty retained fetal tissues, so she was scheduled for a second procedure that afternoon to complete the abortion.

There are conflicting stories as to what happened next. Allred claimed that Patty died of an embolism during the second surgery (he pronounced her dead at 4:30 PM). Patty's parents claim that Patty bled to death while left unattended.

An autopsy found numerous catgut sutures in Patty's vagina and hemorrhage in her uterus. Death was attributed to disseminated intravascular coagulopathy (DIC) due to abortion-induced amniotic fluid embolism. DIC kills you by hindering its abilty to clot properly; patients often bleed to death because their blood can no longer clot. Patty's parents sued Allred and Orleans for their daughter's death.

Avalon Hospital was part of Edward Allred's Family Planning Associates Medical Group, a National Abortion Federation member facility.

Patricia is one of many women to die at one of Edward Allred's facilities. Others known to have died after abortion at Allred's facilities include:

Denise Holmes, age 24, 1970

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

Susan Levy, age 30, 1992

Deanna Bell, age 13, 1992

Christine Mora, age 18, 1994

Kimberly Neil, 2000

Chanelle Bryant, age 22, 2004

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