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Latachie “The Invisible Girl” Veal, 17 (USA 1991)

Houston teenager Latachie Veal was 20–22 weeks pregnant when she suffered a painful death at the hands of the West Loop abortion facility staff.

Latachie was already bleeding badly at the abortion facility and crying out for help. The staff dismissed her bleeding and excruciating pain as “normal” and sent her home. Hours later, Latachie stopped breathing. Her terrified sister administered CPR while a brother-in-law called 911, but Latachie was dead on arrival at Ben Taub Hospital. She was only 17.

Her furious and heartbroken family sued Robert Crist, the abortionist who killed Latachie and her baby. He had already been the subject of a lawsuit over the abortion death of 19-year-old Diane Boyd, a disabled victim of forced abortion. Crist was also sued for the case of an abortion client who delivered her baby’s mutilated corpse in a bathroom two days after the abortion. And just a few weeks before killing Latachie, another teenage girl had been hospitalized for abortion injuries inflicted by West Loop. Crist should never have been allowed to keep his license long enough to kill Latachie.

Crist appeared on TV calling the case “media hype” and a “political event”. The Veal family’s attorney responded, "I wish he would have a copy of the 911 tape.... If he would talk to the parents, if he would talk to the sister as she gave her CPR or talk to the brother-in-law as she was breathing her last breath and see then if he thinks it's a media event."

To add insult to lethal injury, Latachie’s death was excluded from CDC data on deaths from legal abortion. Even though her case went public and was documented in newspapers and court records, the voluntary-only reporting system for abortion deaths clearly was not enough for the CDC to notice. Data sets from the CDC on deaths from legal abortion counted NO abortion fatalities in Black girls aged 15–19 in 1991. This exclusion has earned Latachie the nickname “Invisible Girl” among some researchers because apparently nobody at the CDC noticed her death.

This is even more astounding when you take into account the speech Crist made at the 1992 National Abortion Federation Seminar in Dallas. He openly spoke about Latachie’s death and tried to convince his audience that the death was not his fault. (He did not, of course, mention her name, but researchers were unable to find any another 17-year-old abortion client of his who he killed in 1991.) TWO staffers from the Centers for Disease Control's abortion surveillance activities area attended, including the person whose job it was to verify abortion deaths. Yet Latachie still went uncounted.

In spite of all the publicity, in spite of the lawsuit, in spite of the shouting from the rooftops, in spite of the abortionist discussing her death at an event attended by the very woman whose job it was to notice abortion deaths, the Centers for Disease Control failed to notice Latachie. Their 1991 Abortion Surveillance Report, published in May of 1995, did not even mention of abortion mortality and requests for information had to be filed to even see the statistics, which still did not include Latachie. If the CDC failed to notice Latachie’s highly-publicized death even after it was discussed openly at an event attended by two of their abortion surveillance staffers, what would it take to get them to notice and count legal abortion deaths?

Two months after Latachie was killed, another 17-year-old girl had to be hospitalized for abortion injuries inflicted at the West Loop facility. Both young girls deserved better than abortion.

"Death of teen after abortion leads to probe of care at medical clinic," Houston Chronicle, November 6, 1991

"Secrecy veils state probes of abortion clinics," Houston Chronicle, February 9, 1992

Houston Chronicle 11-3-91, 11-11-91

Houston Post 11-7-91, 11-12-91

Washington Times 11-21-91

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