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Michigan Appellate Court Reverses Summary Judgment For Abortion Medical Malpractice Defendants

October 27, 2026

On June 30, 2016, the decedent, at 12 weeks’ gestation, presented to Planned Parenthood for an elective abortion, which Dr. Laura Castleman performed. During that same visit, the decedent also underwent an IUD placement. Although the decedent experienced pain with the procedure, Planned Parenthood[...]

Texas Midwife Arrested For Alleged Illegal Abortions

May 11, 2025

On March 17, 2025, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the arrest of Maria Margarita Rojas, 48, for allegedly providing illegal abortions and illegally operating a network of clinics in the Northwest Houston area. Rojas, a midwife known as “Dr. Maria,” was taken into custody in Waller Co[...]

Recoverable Damages In Negligent Reproductive Health Care Cases

New Mexico $1.265 Million Late Abortion Death Settlement

July 25, 2022

The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center (“UNMHSC”) and Southwestern Women’s Options, a private late-term abortion clinic in Albuquerque, New Mexico, have settled claims by the estate of a 23-year-old woman who died as a result of a late-term abortion performed at 24 weeks. [...]

Former New York Abortion Doctor Pleads Guilty To Criminally Negligent Homicide

May 22, 2018

On May 4, 2018, a former New York abortion doctor, who ran an abortion clinic in New York until it was closed after a patient died following a late-term abortion in 2016, reached a plea agreement with prosecutors during a month-long trial after the jury reported that it was deadlocked. The abortion [...]

Defense Verdict For Abortion Doctor Who Left Part Of Baby’s Skull In Woman’s Uterus

February 1, 2018

On January 22, 2018, a Colorado medical malpractice jury found in favor of an abortion doctor who performed a late-term abortion on the plaintiff and left more than a half of the baby’s skull imbedded in her uterus. The 79-year-old late-term abortion doctor was accused of negligently performin[...]

Colorado Abortion Doctor Sued For Causing Woman’s Sterility

December 18, 2015

A federal lawsuit was recently filed in Colorado against an abortion doctor and his abortion clinic for the alleged failure to remove all of the fetal tissue during an abortion, leading to the female plaintiff suffering sterility. The plaintiffs (husband and wife) also allege that the defendants f[...]

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