In June of 1979, National Abortion Federation member Atlanta Women's Pavillion rose to new levels of incompetence when staff there managed to fatally injure two teenage abortion patients in less than an hour.
It all began when 19-year-old Angela Scott stopped breathing in the recovery room. A nurse-anesthetist was administering anesthesia to 14-year-old Dolores Smith for her abortion. The nurse-anesthetist ran to assist in efforts to revive Angela, leaving Dolores unattended with her anesthesia drip still running.
After staff had resuscitated Angela and loaded her into an ambulance, they returned their attention to Dolores, who had gone into cardio-respiratory arrest. The clinic's physician had accompanied Angela to the hospital, and staff refused to release Dolores to an ambulance until the physician had returned to discharge her.
Angela lingered for a week in a coma before dying on June 11. Dolores never regained consciousness and eventually was admitted to a nursing home, where she died of adult respiratory distress syndrome some time after her fifteenth birthday.