Month: September 2012

“[Abortion] is the only elective surgical procedure that I know of in which the doctor performing the procedure is not responsible for follow-up care nor does he or she take an active role in dealing with the complications… it is bad because it pushes sloppy medical care upon women who have been led to believe that their only choice is to abort their babies.”

Dr. Lenora Berning, an emergency room physician who has treated women for abortion-related problems

Quoted in “Doctors Call Abortion Bad Medicine” Lancaster New Era Oct 28, 1999.

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“The public is misled into believing that legal abortion is a trivial incident, even a lunch-hour procedure, which can be used as a mere extension of contraceptive practice. There has been almost a conspiracy of silence in declaring [abortion’s] risks. Unfortunately, because of emotional reactions to legal abortion, well documented evidence from countries with a vast experience of it, receives little or no attention in either the medical or lay press. This is medically indefensible when patients suffer as a result…It is significant that some of the more serious complications occurred with the most senior and experienced operators…”

Stallworthy, J.A., et al., “Legal Abortion: A Critical Assessment of Risk,” The Lancet, December 4, 1971

This is an old reference, but it is significant because it documents the fact that legalization of abortion (it was legal in several states in 1971) did not end abortion’s dangers. Many illegal abortion practitioners simply became legal ones.

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“It is extremely difficult to watch doctors lie, clinic workers cover up, and hear terrifying stories of women dragged out of clinics to die in cars on the way to the hospital without beginning to question the party line. I began to wonder if we were really caring for these women, or if we were just working for another corporation whose only interest was the bottom line.”

Judith Fetrow, Former Planned Parenthood worker, from a speech to The Pro-Life Action League

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“If we see a doctor out there who’s really hurting women, it’s incumbent upon us to blow the whistle — no matter what the outcome. But it’s a real choice, because you could end up with someone worse — or no doctor at all …”

Ron Fitzsimmons, Director of National Coalition of Abortion Providers Abortion Report, July 7, 1994

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“… abortion is still a very fringe practice. There aren’t a lot of people who want to get into abortion provision … And the ones that we do have applying to us for training often have very dodgy histories and backgrounds. And if you dig deep enough, you’ll find a death or two or a malpractice suit somewhere along the line …”

David Grundmann, Australian Abortion Provider. National Abortion Federation Risk Management Seminar, Seattle, WA, September 1993

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“The abortion clinics never accept any responsibility for complications. They just say it was not their fault. The concern is not the patient at this time. The concern is with taking care of the doctor and keeping his reputation and the clinic’s [reputation] clean.”

Carol Everett, Former Clinic Director and Owner “Meet the Abortion Providers”

Carol Everett also said, in another interview (After revealing that complications happened frequently in her clinics:

“Q.: how did you keep these competitions in deaths from the public?

A.: the woman would be loaded into my car (an ambulance outside an abortion clinic is terrible advertising) and transported to a hospital…You have a built-in cover up with the patient’s family. They are dealing with their guilt and emotions over the situation and do not want to deal with the added pressure of exposing the truth through the media.”

“What I Saw in the Abortion Industry” Human Life Alliance Advertising Supplement

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“[Abortion is] the dirty work of our field. The sad truth is that the people who moonlight at the clinics are grade-B doctors. They’re not the cream of the crop. And it’s not because they’re committed- it’s because they can’t find steady work.”

Unidentified Pro-Choice OB/GYN The New York Times Magazine January 18, 1998

Quoted by Life Dynamics

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“Rarely a week went by when he didn’t treat a woman arriving at the hospital after an abortion. Pain, excessive bleeding, infections, perforated cervixes and bladders, ruptured uteruses, severed fallopian tubes. Some needed blood transfusions. Others – surgery. He couldn’t count how many times he’d removed retained fetal parts from women. He can’t forget the 16-year-old who arrived with almost 1m of bowel sitting between her legs. She required surgery; her bladder and bowel torn through, her uterus ruptured. “We found the torso, buttocks, a bit of a hand and the baby’s head still inside her,” the doctor said. “The baby had been literally ripped, drawn and quartered. The girl wasn’t dead but she was close.”

His account is from the bad old days of illegal abortion, surely. Well, no. This is but one story not from the backyard but the front yard of so-called safe, legal abortion. But no one wants to know about the women maimed by abortion today.”

From the article “So What if the Aborted Baby Cried?” by Melinda Tankard Reist, November 9, 2004

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