[grellis]

The story you are thinking of is Veeeery recent. The pretty, blonde 16 year old girl who had an incomplete abortion after taking RU486 and died of a massive infection. Her father was on every news channel just three or four weeks ago.

And you were right--some folks on the forum are being way to testy.

Its Saturday, kids. Go ahead, drink some beer.

[GovernmentShrinker]

That girl (Holly Patterson) was 18 (barely) -- not 16, and apparently more or less living with her boyfriend. According to articles published shortly after her death, she had gone to spend the night at her boyfriend's AFTER she had started having severe complications while at her father's house (which she told him were just severe menstrual cramps). It was the boyfriend who took her to the emergency room in the middle of the night. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/09/19/BA258408.DTL

There's not much any law can do to protect a legal adult, who lies to family members about the reason she's writhing in pain, crying, and bleeding heavily, and then departs for her boyfriend's house, and fails to seek medical attention until it's way too late. The mode of her death was absolutely identical to those associated with miscarriages that develop complications and don't get timely medical attention. Bleeding or infection resulting from a miscarriage can be deadly if not treated in a timely manner -- makes no difference whether the miscarriage was natural or induced.

A couple of years ago, a girl from a devout Catholic family bled to death in a college dorm bathroom after a miscarriage. She hadn't told her parents she was pregnant because of their religious beliefs, and apparently failed to seek medical attention with the miscarriage in a further effort to hide that she'd ever been pregnant. It had nothing to do with RU-486, but she's just as dead as Holly Patterson.

[exnavychick]

Actually, I was thinking of the one where, I do believe, the victim was college student. I think she was older than sixteen, anyway.

In any event, it still wasn't the young lady in THIS story, lol.

Merry Christmas!