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Tami Suematsu

Documents regarding Tami Suematsu, age 19, alleged that she underwent a safe and legal abortion by Vern Wagner at Riverside Family Planning Center August 19, 1988.

Tami went into bronchial spasm and asthma-related respiratory failure then cardiac arrest.

She was transported to a hospital, but died shortly after arrival.

Sources: LA County Autopsy File No. 64442; California Death Certificate 38833005990

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