India: Pregnant tribal minor dies from bleeding amid hospital transfers; police probe possible abortion attempt

May 11, 2025

Kasaragod: A 16-year-old tribal girl, four-and-a-half months pregnant, died of excessive bleeding while her parents were forced to rush her from one hospital to another.

Kasaragod's Vellarikundu police, which registered an unnatural death case, said the Class XI student's pregnancy was linked to her 16-year-old classmate and distant relative from the same Mavilan Scheduled Tribe community. The two families knew of their affair, and their relationship often triggered arguments between them, Vellarikundu Station House Officer - Inspector Mukundan T K said.

Continued: https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2025/05/11/pregnant-tribal-minor-dies-bleeding-hospital-transfers-police-probe-possible-abortion-attempt.html

11.05.2025

Under Texas’ Abortion Ban, Where a Pregnant Woman Lives Can Determine Her Risk of Developing Sepsis

POLITICO - by Kavitha Surana, Lizzie Presser and Andrea Suozzo
May 7, 2025

Nearly four years ago in Texas, the state’s new abortion law started getting in the way of basic miscarriage care: As women waited in hospitals cramping, fluid running down their legs, doctors told them they couldn’t empty their uterus to guard against deadly complications.

The state banned most abortions, even in pregnancies that were no longer viable; then, it added criminal penalties, threatening to imprison doctors for life and punish hospitals. The law had one exception, for a life-threatening emergency.

Continued: https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-abortion-ban-sepsis-rates-dallas-houston

India – 23-year-old student who underwent abortion dies

Express News Service
25th Apr, 2025

CHENNAI: A 23-year-old college student who was admitted to Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital (RGGGH) following complications that arose from an abortion at a private clinic near Thalambur, died without responding to treatment on Thursday.

Rajesh Kumar, an assistant professor of Tamil Nadu Physical Education and Sports University, who allegedly impregnated her, was arrested earlier this week for forcing the girl to undergo the abortion. The case will now be altered based on relevant charges, police said.

Continued: https://www.newindianexpress.com/amp/story/cities/chennai/2025/Apr/25/23-year-old-student-who-underwent-abortion-dies

25.04.2025

News

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Rajesh Kumar

Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital

Bauchi, Nigeria: Police detain 3 over teen’s death from unsafe abortion

April 24, 2025

The Police in Bauchi have apprehended three suspects in connection with the death of an 18-year-old girl from unsafe abortion.

The Spokesman of the Command, CSP Ahmed Wakil, who confirmed the arrest, on Thursday in Bauchi, said the incident was reported on April 4, 2025.

Continued: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/04/bauchi-police-detain-3-over-teens-death-from-unsafe-abortion/

24.04.2025

News

Ahmed Wakil

Bauchi unsafe abortion arrest

Death of pregnant woman that sparked protests in Poland was unrelated to abortion law, say prosecutors

NOV 16, 2023
Notes from Poland

Prosecutors investigating the death of a pregnant woman in hospital – which sparked mass protests against Poland’s near-total ban on abortion – have concluded that the tragedy was unrelated to the abortion law.

The woman, Izabela, died in September 2021 after being brought to hospital in the 20th week of her pregnancy following a premature rupture of membranes. Her foetus subsequently died, and then so did Izabela herself soon after due to septic shock.

Continued: https://notesfrompoland.com/2023/11/16/death-of-pregnant-woman-that-sparked-protests-in-poland-was-unrelated-to-abortion-law-say-prosecutors/

16.11.2023

Law and Justice party

maternal death

Supreme Medical Chamber

India – 13-year-old dies after induced abortion in Delhi

Sept 24, 2023

NEW DELHI: Delhi Police has registered a case of rape and death due to miscarriage on the basis of the postmortem report of a 13-year old girl who died in August in Narela Industrial Area. Cops are searching for her parents, who are absconding. They are probing whether they had given her any abortion pills.

Continued: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/13-year-old-dies-after-induced-abortion-in-delhi/articleshow/103899629.cms?from=mdr

24.09.2023

USA – Lawsuit: Woman died after not being treated properly following abortion

By David Wilson, Las Vegas Review-Journal
September 22, 2023

A 24-year-old woman died last year of complications from septic abortion which, according to a wrongful death lawsuit, could have been prevented if she received the proper care.

On Sept. 22, 2022, Alyona Dixon visited a Planned Parenthood location and was given medication to terminate her pregnancy.

Continued: https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/local-las-vegas/lawsuit-woman-died-after-not-being-treated-properly-following-abortion-2908866/

22.09.2023

Alyona Dixon

care denial

Desert View Regional Medical Center

St. Rose Dominican Blue Diamond hospital

USA – The loss of abortion access demands a day of collective mourning

One year into the reversal of Roe v. Wade, it is clear that forced birth takes lives

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
June 22, 2023

The one-year anniversary of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health decision — the Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade and ended federal protections on our Constitutionally guaranteed right to abortion access — arrives this Shabbat, on June 24.

Jews must mark this day as a time of collective mourning for all those whose lives were taken from them because the government stripped them of their right to abortion access.

Continued: https://forward.com/opinion/551585/dobbs-anniversary-collective-mourning-abortion-access/

22.06.2023

Commentary

abortion and suicide

abortion and yahrtzeit

National Council of Jewish Women

Orthodox Judaism and abortion

Poland to issue more detailed abortion guidelines after another pregnant woman dies

The 33-year-old from Poland, which has some of the strictest abortion rules, died of sepsis after the hospital waited for the foetus to die.

By Lauren Chadwick
12/06/2023

Polish health authorities have appointed a team to issue more detailed pregnancy termination guidelines for medical facilities after a pregnant woman died last month.

Authorities said on Monday that a 33-year-old woman, Dorota, had her rights violated after she died of sepsis in a hospital.

Continued: https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/06/12/poland-to-issue-more-detailed-abortion-guidelines-after-another-pregnant-woman-dies

12.06.2023

International Planned Parenthood Federation

Polish authorities rule rights of pregnant woman who died were violated amid abortion law debate

Polish health authorities say that there was a violation of patient rights in the case of a woman who died of sepsis in the fifth month of pregnancy last month, a case that has gained scrutiny after a tightening of Poland’s already restrictive abortion...

By The Associated Press
June 12, 2023

WARSAW, Poland -- Polish health authorities said Monday that there was a violation of patient rights in the case of a woman who died of sepsis in the fifth month of pregnancy last month, a case that has gained scrutiny after a tightening of Poland’s already restrictive abortion law.

Poland's health minister, Adam Niedzielski, also stressed that every woman whose life or health is threatened by her pregnancy has the right to an abortion.

Continued: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/polish-authorities-rule-rights-pregnant-woman-died-violated-100008003

12.06.2023