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Detroit, MI (LifeNews.com) -- At a press conference outside the WomanCare of Southfield abortion facility, Nicole Redden told reporters about her 15-year-old cousin's death that followed a late-term abortion there. "This stuff needs to stop," said Redden. "People need to take a first hand look at what happens here." Redden said the abortion business acted out of interest in "money and greed" when they performed an abortion on her cousin, Tamia Russell, who was six months pregnant. Taisha Glenn, the sister of Russell's 24-year-old boyfriend, Stacy Glenn, had taken Russell to the abortion facility on January 7 without permission or...

Lathrup Villiage, MI (LifeNews.com) -- Geoffrey Fieger, the attorney known for his defense of assisted-suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian, will file a lawsuit on behalf of the family of a 15-year-old girl who recently died from an abortion near Detroit. Tamiah Russell, six months pregnant, was taken to the WomanCare of Southfield abortion facility by her 24-year-old boyfriend's sister on January 7, in order to obtain an abortion. She died later the next day. Steven Brown of the Wayne County Medical Examiner's Office told LifeNews.com the cause of death for Russell was listed as, "Uterine infarction with sepsis, due to status...

Detroit, MI (LifeNews.com) -- Fifteen year-old Tamia Russell of Detroit died as a result of a second-trimester abortion earlier this year. It is suspected that the abortion drug RU-486 caused the fatal infection that claimed her life. Steven Brown of the Wayne County Medical Examiner's Office told LifeNews.com that the cause of death for Russell was listed as, "Uterine infarction with sepsis, due to status post second trimester abortion." Dr. Leigh Hlavaty, the medical examiner, listed the manner of death as "normal," as opposed to homicidal, suicidal, or accidental, due to the natural cause of death, the obstruction of her...

DETROIT, MI, March 11, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A 15-year-old in a Detroit suburb died January 8 as a result of a second trimester abortion. News of the death has not been published anywhere except a minor mention on a local Fox station. Dr. Leigh Hlavaty performed an autopsy on 15-year-old Tamia Russell on January 9. Dr. Hlavaty told a local registered nurse and pro-life activist who contacted LifeSiteNews.com that the girl's death was caused by "uterine infarction with sepsis due to status second trimester abortion." She ruled the death as "normal." The doctor explained, "I ruled it normal because these...