Fifteen Year-Old Girl Dies After RU 486 Abortion in Detroit, Michigan

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." The uterine infection is identical to that which caused the death of Holly Patterson, a 19-year-old California teen who died after taking Mifepristone, also known as RU-486, she was given by Planned Parenthood in September. Russells relatives say, on January 7, she confessed to being pregnant with her 24-year-old boyfriend's child, and that his sister had driven her to the abortion facility. Russell was 6 months pregnant when she had the abortion though FDA regulations stipulate the drug should only be given around seven weeks into pregnancy.

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