CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Tia Archeiva Parks was a 26-year-old mother of a little girl that had just turned four when she walked in to Preterm, a Cleveland abortion facility, on June 7, 2019, for what seemed like a routine abortion in her first trimester of pregnancy.
But the results were anything but routine. By the time the sun set the next day, Tia Parks was dead.
Parks had a rare potentially life-threatening condition known as heterotopic gestation that went undiagnosed by Preterm staff.
The postmortem diagnosis of a heterotopic gestation means that Parks carried two pregnancies - fraternal twins - one of which was implanted inside the uterus, and one that implanted in her left fallopian tube.
Tia Parks died from internal hemorrhaging from a ruptured left fallopian tube that occurred either during the abortion of the baby in her womb - possibly due to the force of the suction procedure - or immediately after.
"It was reckless for Preterm to conduct Parks' abortion in their outpatient clinic - especially since they are so prone to inflicting life-threatening injuries on women during abortions. We have documented over two dozen medical emergencies there, and we know that is just a fraction of women who have been hospitalized after abortions at that facility," said Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue. "Ms. Parks had several health issues that made her a high risk patient who should have been referred for proper medical care in a hospital setting where her tubal pregnancy may have been detected. That may have spared her life and the life of her baby in the womb."
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