Month: September 2012

“Complications following abortions performed in free-standing clinics is one of the most frequent gynecologic emergencies . . . encountered. Even life-endangering complications rarely come to the attention of the physician who performed the abortion unless the incident entails litigation. The statistics presented by Cates represent substantial under- reporting and disregard women’s reluctance to return to a clinic, where, in their mind, they received inadequate treatment.”

L. Iffy, “Second Trimester Abortions,” JAMA, vol. 249, no. 5, Feb. 4, 1983, p. 588

Note: this is an old reference, but as further research in this section shows, it often still holds true.

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Former abortionist Dr. Beverly McMillan said the following in a speech at a Pro-Life Action League Convention:

“So for a number of months I just medical directed. I kept track of our complications; we had monthly meetings where we went over morbidity; we fortunately did not go through mortality. I had one of the worst complications at the clinic. I perforated a uterus and sucked a piece of small bowel right into the tubing. Something very interesting came out of this. We had the young lady taken over the hospital where the residents took care of her and a surgeon spliced her bowel back together, and I went over to see her about two days later before she left the hospital to just say hello and are you doing okay, and to tell her I was sorry this had happened. She didn’t want to talk to me. She wasn’t angry at me. She didn’t want to think about the abortion, thank you. She was ready to get out. Denial. Absolute denial just right there. That’s why abortionists don’t get sued. These folks don’t want to think about it for at least two years and then the Statute of Limitations is up. That is (denial) the reason that many women don’t sue from complications from abortion.”

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“We call them [abortion clinics] chop shops, they are legal, but they are practicing medicine that is below the standard of care.”

Dr. Jorge Carreon, Longtime OBGYN
LA Times, Handful of abortion clinics put poor at risk for the record, 4/5/1998

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“There isn’t anybody watching them, and too many times their qualifications are subpar.”

Julie D’Angelo, Attorney with the Center for Public Interest Law in San Diego
LA Times, Handful of abortion clinics put poor at risk for the record, 4/5/1999

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“It was really a case of an assembly line, conducting abortions, one after another, three to five minutes apart.”

Attorney for the family of a girl who died from a legal abortion
ABC 20/20 Transcript #99030802-j11, A Woman’s right, a woman’s risk, 3/8/1999

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“Patient care was left entirely up to the personnel in the office. If he had someone really good, then patient care was really good. The next person might come in and (that person) was really horrible. Then that’s what happened to patient care – it was horrible.”

A doctor who used to work with abortionist Hachamovitch The Arizona Republic
History of trouble at clinics abortion centers accumulate record of 6 deaths, 28 suits: 1/17/1999

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“There’s a wall of silence. It’s just like with the police. There’s a brotherhood that doesn’t feel comfortable most of the time reporting misconduct.”

Commenting in a story about medical practice in general

Arthur Levin, director of the Center for Medical Consumers The Village Voice, When medicine is murder: 4/2/2005

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“The Board of Healing Arts has taken not months but years to take care of the problems at one (abortion) clinic. Abortion in Kansas has come down to the level of care in a Third World country.”

Peggy Mast, Kansas Rep.
The Wichita Eagle, Veto stays intact on abortion clinic bill, 4/29/2005

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NJ Acting Consumer Affairs Director, Jeffrey Burstein said this about abortionist Flavius Thompson of the Pleasant Women’s Pavilion after the state pulled his license:

“During our investigation, we found that medical waste material was being improperly disposed of down the sanitary sewer at that location,” and, “If proper procedures are not followed, patients are potentially put in danger. That is wholly unacceptable. The Board of Medical Examiners expects its licensees to adhere to legal and professional standards of conduct, as does the public.”

Jeffrey Burstein, Acting New Jersey Consumer Affairs Director

Tri-Town News, Doctor surrenders license:2/16/2005 Tri-Town News, Doctor awaits hearing on future of license: 2/2/2005

To read more examples of abortion clinics dumping medical waste including aborted babies, go here

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Abortion clinic employee, Liza Berdiel’s

“behavior is outrageous and without excuse. The motive was to make money. The victims suffered from the lack of medical professionalism.”

Berdiel was prosecuted for performing abortions without a license.

Assistant Ocean County Prosecutor Martin J. Anton

Asbury Park Press, “Abortionist’s receptionist sent to jail for illegally performing non-surgical abortions” 10/27/2006

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