Teen Dies After Taking Abortion Pill
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Saturday, Sept. 20, 2003
SAN FRANCISCO – Authorities are investigating the death of an 18-year-old who died after reportedly taking the abortion pill RU-486.
Monty Patterson, the victim's father, told the San Francisco Chronicle that his daughter, Holly, had gotten a prescription for RU-486 at a Planned Parenthood office in Hayward on Sept. 10 to end her seven-week pregnancy. He said he did not know his daughter, who lived with him, was pregnant until hours before her death.
Patterson said Holly was crying, bleeding and in such pain she could not walk on Sunday. Her boyfriend took her to a hospital, where she was given painkillers and released.
"She went back into the hospital in the middle of the night Wednesday, and she died at 2 p.m.," Patterson said. "The doctor told me that she hadn't aborted all of the fetus, and she had fragments left in her, and she had a massive systemic infection and went into septic shock."
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