UK Coroner slates abortion clinic after girl, 15, dies

Wednesday, 1 April 2009

A coroner has criticised aftercare procedures at a leading chain of abortion clinics after a 15-year-old girl died from infection days after undergoing an abortion.

Huddersfield schoolgirl Alesha Thomas should have left the Marie Stopes International clinic in Leeds with a course of antibiotics to combat infection.

Instead she was discharged before her prescription was issued; something which an inquest was told happened “many times” at the clinic. the rest