{"id":181810,"date":"2018-04-23T12:37:59","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T16:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=181810"},"modified":"2018-04-21T18:59:10","modified_gmt":"2018-04-21T22:59:10","slug":"woman-dies-abortion-discharges-weak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/woman-dies-abortion-discharges-weak\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman dies in taxi after abortion facility discharges her ‘too weak to speak’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Aisha Chithira died after a botched legal abortion in west London on January 21, 2012. This week, an inquest<\/a> heard details of the events leading up to Chithira\u2019s sudden death from extensive internal bleeding and cardiac arrest<\/a> after the abortion of her 22-week-old preborn baby. Disturbingly, the inquest heard that Chithira vomited in a stairwell the first time nurses tried to help her to a taxi following the abortion. When Chithira did leave the abortion facility 30 minutes later, the taxi driver says she was swaying so badly \u201cshe looked like she was drunk.\u201d<\/p>\n

Previous investigation<\/a> showed that Chithira fell on the floor, hyperventilated, and complained of feeling hot before nurses helped her into the taxi in which she died. The abortionist, Adedayo Adedeji, and two nurses involved in the botched procedure that took Chithira\u2019s life, were charged with gross negligence manslaughter in 2016. However, all three were acquitted after the prosecution offered no evidence. The prosecutor gave no explanation<\/a> to the court for dropping the charges.<\/p>\n

READ: Marie Stopes halts surgical abortions over untrained staff<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Chithira, who was from Malawi, had settled in Ireland. She traveled to England for a late-term abortion at a Marie Stopes facility. Her husband Ryan stayed in Ireland with the couple\u2019s daughter. In a statement read at the inquest, Ryan said<\/a>, \u201cAisha told me she had finished having the procedure and was going to get a taxi back to Slough,\u201d where she was going to spend the night with a cousin. Ryan said that on the phone, \u201cShe just said ‘I cannot speak, I’m feeling too weak to speak’ and then she ended the call.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hours later Ryan received a call from Chithira\u2019s cousin with the news that his wife was dead.<\/p>\n

Chithira\u2019s tragic death shows the inherent dangers of abortion procedures. Uterine tears and other life-threatening complications can occur as the result of the violent second trimester abortion procedure known as a D&E (dilation and evacuation). In this video<\/a>, Dr. Anthony Levatino describes a D&E abortion, the most common type of abortion in the second trimester:<\/p>\n