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NRL News Lawsuits Against PPFA Continue to Pile Up The following is just a short sampling of some of the cases brought against Planned Parenthood over the last few years: * Michelle Marie Perreira filed suit against officials at Planned Parenthood Los Angeles in April of 2007, alleging they had intimidated her into completing an abortion after she had withdrawn her consent (City News Services, 5/12/07) * In June of 2007, the mother of Edrica Goode filed suit against the Planned Parenthood affiliate that treated her daughter in Riverside California in January of the same year. The young woman died of toxic shock after seaweed dilators were inserted to expand her cervix in preparation for a second trimester abortion. The suit alleges that the dilators served to spread a vaginal infection throughout her body (Los Angeles Times, 6/21/07). * A wrongful death lawsuit was filed against Planned Parenthood of Los Angeles after a mother of two, Diana Lopez, died February 28, 2002, following her abortion. The LA coroner’s office said Lopez died as a result of hemorrhage due to a “traumatic anterior cervical perforation” (Sacramento Bee, June 19, 2003). * An unidentified Ohio teen brought suit against Planned Parenthood of Southwest Ohio alleging that employees had failed to notify authorities after she disclosed that she was a victim of incest when she sought an abortion in November of 2004. Because no police report was filed, the suit said the sexual abuse by the teen’s father continued for another year and half. (Cincinnati Enquirer, May 10, 2007). * A woman identified only by the initials L.K.D.H. sued Planned Parenthood of Alabama on behalf of her child, who was born following a failed abortion attempt in June of 1999. The child was born with injuries that included a hole in the heart and a defect that affected transport of oxygen between the lungs and the heart. The mother blamed the clinic for the injuries (Health Law Week, June 23, 2006) * Lorraine Thul filed suit against Intermountain Planned Parenthood in March of 2004, alleging that the abortionist had perforated her uterus during a May 2002 abortion. The suit also alleged that the abortionist failed to tell the client that he was certified as an anesthesiologist, but not as a surgeon or an Ob-Gyn (Billings Gazette, March 20, 2004) * The parents of Holly Patterson named Planned Parenthood Golden Gate in a lawsuit after the teen allegedly received the abortion drug RU486 there in September of 2003 and died less than a week later of a massive infection (San Francisco Chronicle, December 22, 2004). * The family of Hoa Thuy Tran sued Planned Parenthood of Orange and San Bernadino Counties along with the U.S.marketer of RU486, the abortion pill, saying she was not given warnings of any risk of death or infection before dying of a rare infection December 29, 2003, six days after allegedly receiving the drug at Planned Parenthood’s Costa Mesa clinic. (Monterey County Herald, 10/8/05) |