She left the Taylor family full of griefs, lamenting & mourning, when she breathed her last breath on Thursday evening at a Nebraska hospital. Yes, Abigail Taylor – the six-year-old girl whose intestines were partially sucked out by a Minnesota swimming pool drain on June 29, 2006 – is no more in this world. Her death is virtually asking for some tougher safety legislation. That’s what the family attorney, Bob Bennett reported.

Abigail Taylor, who was injured June 29 when suction from a pool drain she sat on ripped out her entrails at the Minneapolis Golf Club in the suburb of St. Louis Park, had surgery to receive a new small bowel, liver and pancreas, but complications from the transplant occurred.  

Family attorney Bob Bennett told that she had suffered setbacks, including a cancerous condition sometimes triggered by organ transplants. Bob said the Abigail Taylor's parents were with her when she died Thursday evening at Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha.

Her parents, Scott and Katey Taylor, had been pushing for legislation to prevent such accidents in the future. Their effort resulted in Congress approving the legislation to ban the manufacture, sale or distribution of drain covers that don't meet anti-entrapment safety standards in December 2007. President Bush, last December, signed a law that bans the manufacture, sale or distribution of drain covers that don't meet anti-entrapment safety standards.

After the news of Abigail's death broke, State Sen. Geoff Michel said, "They have held up and been held up for such a tough, tough road. I just feel terrible for them."

Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D- Minnesota, called the girl "an inspiration for change" who prodded pool-safety legislation that had gone nowhere for years. Klobuchar said, "I visited her in the hospital, and she just had this incredible spunk, and was very focused on wanting to get this bill through Washington."

Bennett told that the Taylors had sued the golf club and Sta-Rite Industries, the pool equipment manufacturer owned by Pentair of Golden Valley in November. Meanwhile, Gretchen Koehn, president of the Minneapolis Golf Club's executive committee, sent a note to club members notifying them of Abigail's death. The club's "hearts and prayers" go out to the Taylor family, she wrote.

Such accidents are pretty common in United States. She is not the only child succumbed to the pool accidents. The 7-year old granddaughter of former Secretary of State James Baker drowned in a swimming pool in 2002, when the suction from a drain pinned her. Subsequent pressure led to the Virginia Graeme Baker Pool and Spa Safety Act.