Abortionist John Biskind of A-Z Women’s Center in Phoenix first came under scrutiny when he botched a partial birth abortion he was attempting to perform on a baby that was full-term. He had examined the mother and determined that the baby was 23 weeks old, within the timeframe of a partial birth abortion.
The baby was born alive, but the abortionist had fractured her skull and lacerated her face. She survived.
When this “terrible” complication (terrible only because the baby survived – it would have been fine if the baby had died and would’ve attracted no attention) reporters started investigating and dug up more stories about practice.
He got a “letter of concern” from the Arizona medical board for stopping an abortion and sending a woman home bleeding after he discovered that her baby was late-term and not 10 weeks as he had thought. He’d also been cited for signing blank, undated prescription forms. He killed one woman by tearing a 3 inch rip in her uterus. This happened in 1995.
A nurse at his clinic also maintained that John Biskind aborted a baby at 26 weeks after fudging an ultrasound. State law of Arizona requires that paperwork be filled out before such late abortions, as a woman must be determined to “have a risk to her life or health.” He also failed to have another doctor on standby in case the baby survived the abortion and to write out of a fetal death certificate.
The baby’s mother, Louann Herron, fared no better than her dead unborn child. She continued bleeding after the abortion, and by the time clinic workers called 911, she was past saving.
This would be the second death attributed to this doctor.