Michelle Madden
Michelle Madden, 18, was
a college freshman when she became pregnant. Michelle decided to have
an abortion after a doctor told her that the drugs she was taking for
epilepsy would cause her baby to be deformed. O.B. Evans performed the
abortion at the Family Planning Medical Center of Mobile, Ala. Three
days after the abortion, Michelle collapsed and had to be taken to the
hospital. At the hospital, doctors found a leg bone, two pieces of the
baby's skull and some of the placenta inside Michelle's uterus.
Michelle died of a blood
infection resulting from the abortion three days after admission to
the hospital.
Michelle's parents sued Evans
for malpractice. A jury awarded the Maddens $10 million for the loss
of their daughter.
The Mobile Press Register,
6/6/91 & 6/16/91
Reprinted from The American
Feminist, Summer 1997