Another testimonial from Michelman's book: The voice of Becky Bell, a high school junior who died of an illegal abortion in 1998 because she didn't want to have to tell her parents that she was pregnant — and her state, Indiana, required parental notification or judicial bypass.
Mitt Romney's "very close" relative died of an illegal abortion (which is why he used to say he wouldn't force his pro-life beliefs on you).
Following its enforcement, approximately 10,000 women (an unofficial number) are said to have died because of illegal abortions.
Here in the El Centro sector, five suspected illegal immigrants died of heat exposure in mid-July in an area of the Imperial Desert that resembles a moonscape.
Detention centers drew widespread attention at home and abroad last month after an inmate in Yunnan Province, Li Qiaoming, 24, charged with illegal logging, died of brain injuries.
The man, Victor Rodriguez, an American citizen formerly of Brownsville, is among 14 defendants in the case, in which the illegal immigrants died of heat exhaustion or suffocation when abandoned in Victoria, Tex., inside a sealed transport truck.
Norma Gonzalez Sánchez, 44, pleaded guilty to involvement in a human smuggling operation in which 19 illegal immigrants died of heatstroke after they and more than 50 others were abandoned in a sealed trailer at Victoria, Tex., in May 2003.
The tape was made in 1996, when Mr. Mery, who has since died of cancer, was being investigated for illegal fund-raising.
Three former Immigration and Naturalization Service officers were fined and sentenced to prison terms ranging from 33 to 78 months for failing to obtain medical care for an illegal immigrant who died of injuries received during a raid they helped conduct in 2001.
The deaths are believed to be the most among one group of illegal immigrants since July 1980, when 13 Salvadorans died of exposure in Arizona.
