Category: On Abortions Dangers

From an abortion provider:

“I think actually performing an abortion is a very refined technical skill; it’s a very delicate skill – particularly the very early procedures. A lot of people will say, you know, “Oh those early procedures are a real piece of cake.” They’re not always a real piece of cake! I think you have to have an enormous amount of respect for the uterus when you begin to do this because every woman is different. They’ll be days or weeks when, you know, everything just goes picture perfectly; you know, you just dilate the cervix and sweep the cannula in and turn on the machine and whoo, you know, it’s over in about 10 seconds. But sometimes it takes a lot of patience. It takes knowing when to stop inserting instruments, knowing how far to push the cannula and no farther.”

Wendy Simonds. Abortion at Work: Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1996) 68

Even first trimester abortions take skill to perform. Some pro-choicer activists seek to make it legal for people who are not doctors to perform them. Many medical professionals believe this is a bad idea.

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Former employee of an abortion doctor in Louisiana:

“The word I got was that this particular doctor had a drug problem…The man definitely had some type of problem, because he would come to work and you could tell that he was either drunk or high on drugs or something. One day I recall telling him “Look, you don’t have any shoes on your feet. Why don’t you put your shoes on before you see patients?”

Interview w former employee by Rachel McNair, 3/10/92

Mark Crutcher  “Lime 5: Exploited by Choice ” (Denton, Texas: Life Dynamics Incorporated, 1996) 221

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“I and my colleagues hear repeated stories about abortion procedures performed indifferently or with something bordering on malice.”

Suzanne T. Poppema, M.D., “Why I Am An Abortion Doctor,” Prometheus Books, 1996, p. 18-19.

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“We do have bad practitioners. And it’s affecting all of us. And we have been reluctant to do anything or say anything or whatever because of the physician shortage. We don’t want bad press, but when something happens, under our breaths we all say, ‘Well, it was just a matter of time.'”

National Abortion Federation Risk Management Seminar participant September 1994

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Abortionist Dr. Warren Hern said the following at the National Abortion Federation’s 18th annual meeting on April 24 of 26 1994:

“I do not conceal my views from these people[pro lifers] but I have to say this – there’s a lot of crummy medicine being practiced out there in providing abortion services, and I think that some of the stuff I see come across my desk is very upsetting. And I think that I have said for 20 years in this movement, we have to do it right or we shouldn’t do it… If we’re not practicing good medicine, we’re going to get nailed.”

He was referring to lawsuits against abortion providers.

Mark Crutcher  “Lime 5: Exploited by Choice ” (Denton, Texas: Life Dynamics Incorporated, 1996) 115

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Fred E. Mecklenberg, MD professor of Obstetrics  and gynecology at the University of Minnesota Medical School and member of the American Association of Planned Parenthood physicians:

“There are no know psychiatric diseases which can be cured by abortion. In addition, there are none which can be predictably improved by abortion….[Rather] it may leave unresolved conflicts coupled with guilt and added depression which may be more  harmful than the continuation of the pregnancy.

Furthermore, there is good evidence to suggest that serious mental disorders arise following abortions most often in women with real psychiatric problems. Paradoxically, the very women for whom legal abortion may seem most justifiable are also the ones for whom the risk is highest for post-abortion psychic insufficiency….

When abortion is substituted for adequate psychiatric care – and there is ample evidence to suggest that this is already happening- then there is a distinct danger of minimizing established psychotherapeutic principles. Unfortunately, it is the distressed woman who ultimately suffers the dulling impact of this minimization. She is the one who cries for help, and she is often turned away.”

As quoted in John and Barbara Wilke “Handbook on Abortion” (Cincinnati: Hayes Publishing, 1979) 52

Francis J. Beckwith “Politically Correct Death: Answering the Arguments for Abortion Rights” (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Books, 1993)

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In her book about abortion, Teresa Tomeo tells the following story:

“I accompanied a family member to the emergency room of a well-known hospital in New Jersey in 2010. A thin screen separated us from the next patient, a young Latina, accompanied by a young man. The doctor examined her, then sent her for some tests. We were still there when the woman came back and the doctor came to speak to her. I remember the doctor’s exact words: “The problem is that parts of the fetus are still inside you.” The woman had to have surgery, and the doctor told her the risks included hemorrhaging; perforated uterus, which could leave her unable to have children; or a nicked bowel, which could result in a colostomy. Then the doctor said something I will never forget. She said, “Don’t worry, we’ve seen this before and I’m sure you’re going to be one of the lucky ones.” So it was no big deal to find baby parts inside a woman following an abortion. They had seen it all before.”

Teresa Tomeo Recall Abortion: Ending the Abortion Industry’s Exploitation of Women (Charlotte, North Carolina: St. Benedict Press, 2013)Page 54

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When a woman asking for an abortion called the National Abortion Federation (an organization of abortion providers that is supposed to certify the safety of abortion clinics)on behalf of Life Dynamics, she asked the counselor who answered the phone on behalf of the NAF about a story she heard about a girl who died at one of the facilities they recommended. It was a case of medical malpractice. At first, the woman tried to deny that such an event had occurred:

Then she said:

“Um, I think what, I’m not sure, but this may be the case, um, where there was a – she had some sort of condition. And I don’t know that I can’t say any of this officially, but she had some sort of condition that was not related to any of the procedure itself. It was a problem she had, she had a bad reaction – it was a strange thing, but it wasn’t anything – there was nothing, nothing medically wrong with the procedure. Um, it’s just kind of a – it was really a fluke kind of thing. Um…”

In reality, the 13-year-old that they were talking about died from a massive overdose of anesthesia she was given by mistake.

When the caller expresses more doubts about having an abortion, the national abortion Federation spokesperson says the following

“But you’re always – there’s always going to be stories, you know, for everything. And they’re scary, and, you’re saying gosh, you know “what if it happens to me?” There is always that, and you need to, like, think about it as it’s an incredibly unlikely chance that is going to happen.… It’s like, I don’t know, it’s like everything you do in your life. There are risks involved. It’s like when you go to the bathroom and the floor is wet. There’s a risk you know, there is someone in this country, maybe someone even around you that has fallen in the bathroom and died, but you still go to the bathroom….”

 Mark Crutcher  “Lime 5: Exploited by Choice ” (Denton, Texas: Life Dynamics Incorporated, 1996) 111 – 113

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