Month: September 2012

“This will make three clinics on probation and one that has lost its license. When four out of ten of the industry gets licensing action, that’s a high number. That’s a real high number. We’re doing a lot more enforcement of other facilities, too. You don’t hear about it very much, but it’s going on.”

Rick Harris, Alabama Bureau of Health Provider Standards director
The Associated Press, Health dept. wants probation for Birmingham abortion clinic, 11/17/2006

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“Had this quality of care been provided by any other medical provider — family physician, obstetrician, or emergency physician — it would be considered grossly negligent. By an abortion provider, it does not even cause a stir. In fact, it goes un-noted and un-reported. There is no other practice of medicine where people can suffer and die from complications of your intervention without your being in some way professionally accountable, involved in their care, and at the very least, made aware of it — except abortion. Abortion is bad medicine.”

Lenora Berning, MD ER Doctor
Lancaster New Era article “Abortion is bad medicine; quality care is lacking” 11/01/99

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“Abortion is a simple procedure except for the uterus’ total intolerance to poor technique… In the medical practice, there are few surgical procedures given so little attention and so underrated in its potential hazard as abortion…it is a commonly held view that complications are inevitable.”

Abortionist Warren Hern
Abortion Practice, (J.B. Lippenot Company) 1984 page 101

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Margarette Wooten, abortion clinic employee
LA Times, Doctor accused in abortion suit testifies: 7-30-1989

Margarette Wooten told a court in a case involving the death of an abortion clinic that she quit because:

“It was just a slaughterhouse and I couldn’t take it any more.”

 

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Lewis Koplik, abortionist
Boston Globe: ‘Home abortion’ safety issues a pro-choice dilemma; 8-26-1991

“I have used 4-, 5-, 6-millimeter cannulas and still occasionally I have perforated a woman’s uterus. I am a specialist, board certified. I have all the credentials and still I screwed up. They are saying the procedure is so benign you can’t harm anybody or cause any trouble. I don’t believe it. Those who propose Menstrual Extraction say they can tell when the uterus is empty.”

Yet even with the more advanced equipment used in clinic abortions, he says, “I may leave tissue.”

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Kenneth Edelin, abortionist- Massachusetts- New England Journal of Medicine, interview: http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/355/1/1/DC2

“One of the interesting things that happened after New York State liberalized it’s abortion laws is that abortion clinics opened up all over the state. They were not always run by the most professional or skilled or experienced physicians.”

 

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James T. MacMahon, abortionist
American Medical News, 7/5/1993 and LA Times “The Abortions of Last Resort” 1-7-1990

“There’s a great deal of craft to this procedure. Frankly I don’t think I was any good at all until I had done 3,000 or 4,000.”

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David Toub, abortionist
Bella Online, Dr. Toub Discusses the Safety of at Home Abortions.

“Abortion, particularly early suction curettage, gives the impression of not being a very difficult procedure. It’s fast, very safe and highly effective. However, impressions can be misleading. Ninety-nine times out of one hundred, everything goes very smoothly. But it’s that one time that can be associated with complications, some of which are very serious, even deadly.”

and

“…all of us who are well-trained to provide abortions and who have considerable clinical experience still have complications. About once a year, the average experienced abortion provider may perforate a uterus. Indeed, a pregnant uterus is much more easily perforated than a nonpregnant one.”

 

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Beacon Womens Center. abortion clinic- Consent to outpatient surgery form states:

“I understand that the purpose of an abortion is to end a pregnancy. I understand that my first trimester abortion consists of stretching open the mouth of the uterus (cervix) and removing the contents of my uterus-with surgical instruments and gentle suction. As a result of surgical procedures there may be material risks of: infection, allergic reaction, disfiguring scars, severe loss of blood, loss of function of a limb or organ, paralysis, paraplegia or quadriplegia, brain damage, cardiac arrest or death. In addition to these material risks, there may be other possible risks involved in the procedure including but not limited to: perforation, cervical tear, formation of blood clots in the uterus, hemorrhage, blood transfusions, DIC: the inability to clot blood which may be fatal, Fistula formation: An opening between bowel, bladder, ureter, vagina, and/or skin, emboli: clots that might travel to other parts of my body and be fatal, incomplete abortion, missed abortion, cervical incompetency, emotional distress, infection, possible need for immediate surgery or other additional surgery which might include a hysterectomy, laparascopy, and laparotomy, and ectopic pregnancy”

This document also details the extreme risks of anesthesia and states that

“No guarantees of assurance have been made to me concerning the results of this procedure.”

The patient is told to sign her name, but the name of the doctor performing the abortion is not included or revealed on this form.

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In an article regarding early medical abortions, British journalists spoke with a number of providers.

“Certainly, if one undertakes the surgical option, there are a good deal of things that go wrong. Patients have been known to have their cervix punctured, which can lead to infertility or worse. And of course, there’s an inherent risk in going under general anaesthetic in itself.”

The article noted that, Due to the sensitive nature of the subject matter, the anonymity of the four professionals – whose views have been put forward here – has been preserved.

A Tough Choice To Swallow : Part two: 6-8-2006 http://www.pembrokeshiretv.com/content/templates/v6-article.asp?articleid=2198

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