Category: On Abortions Dangers

The National Abortion Federation is an organization of abortion providers that without guidelines as to how abortion should be safe. According to abortionist Dr. Warren Hern:

“the NAF “has never pursued a serious program of standards implementation and program evaluation. Following good standards costs money. And people don’t want to do that.”

He admits that NAF has never implemented a system to monitor whether its facilities are following standards.

“Claiming Abortion Malpractice” by Diane Gianelli. The American  Medical News 2/6/95

Mark Crutcher  “Lime 5: Exploited by Choice ” (Denton, Texas: Life Dynamics Incorporated, 1996) 106-107

Legalized abortion did not prevent many abortion deaths from happening. Read more about the era of illegal abortion here.

“One obstetrician reported treating 54 teenagers for significant abortion complications which, because the patient had not returned the physicians who performed the abortions, never appeared in the official statistics.”

Matthew J Bulfin “A New Problem in Adolescent Gynecology” Southern Medical Journal 72, no. 8 (August 1979): 967 – 968

Dr. Albert Altchek who had done 5,000 abortions, on Roe Vs Wade in 1973 editorial:

“As one who was active in promoting [legal abortion] I was elated. However, in a short while an inner deep concern developed. The Court indicated that first-trimester abortion may be performed by any physician without any government restriction. This opinion was based on …. The Court’s finding that such abortion is safer than regular childbirth. The latter observation, based on a carefully controlled series of abortions performed in New York state, may not necessarily hold true if the floodgates of completely unsupervised abortion are suddenly opened nationwide. I predict that within one year our profession will sadly record a far greater morbidity and mortality rate than has been reported so far.”

Albert Altchek, M.D. F.A.C.O.G. “Editorial: Abortion Alert” Obstetrics and Gynecology Sept 1973

And, indeed, legalized abortion has ushered in a new era of complications in abortion deaths. Read about some of these deaths here.

Recalling cases of malpractice involving abortion, Dr. William Harp stated:

“I can remember three [anesthesia-related] cases in the last five years. Two of those cases were abortions; another was a plastic-surgery case.”

Dr. William Harp,  Virginia medical board’s executive director

“Regulations have made office-based anesthesia safer” Richmond Times Dispatch, 5/22/2005

Women still die in legal abortions. Read about some of those deaths here

Abortion rights groups oppose  legislation that would require abortion clinics to be regularly inspected and to be licensed. In some states, veterinary clinics are regulated more strictly than abortion clinics and are more subject to inspection.

“Would we like to do it ( inspect abortion clinics) more frequently? Absolutely,But the nursing homes get more inspection because those are federally funded surveys. We have to figure out how to do the clinic inspections with state dollars.”

Don Williamson, Alabama state health officer
Birmingham News, Clinic’s closing renews debate, 5/21/2006

Quoted by Life Dynamics

Read about women who’ve died from legal abortions. Some of these women may have been saved by the verb regulations that pro-choice groups fight against.

Read more about why abortion clinic regulations are needed.

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From the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology:

“There has been no major impact on the number of women dying from abortion in the US… After all, it really makes no difference whether a woman dies from legal or illegal abortion, she is dead nonetheless. I find no comfort in the fact that legal abortion is now the leading cause of abortion related maternal deaths in the US.”

Dr. Dennis Cavanaugh “Effect of Liberalized Abortion on Maternal Mortality Rates” American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology (February 1978) 375

Many times, abortionists who operated illegally before Roe Vs Wade simply began operating legally after it, moving from the back alley to the “front alley.” There have been abortionists who killed women before Roe and then went on to kill women after Roe. Read about some of them in the “Providers Hall of Shame” section.

Read about women who died from legal abortions here. 

Rick Harris, Alabama Bureau of Health Provider Standards director, discusses the closure of abortion clinics in Alabama:

“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.”

The Associated Press, Health dept. wants probation for Birmingham abortion clinic, 11/17/2006

The national news very seldom covers the deaths of women from legal abortion or the closing of clinics due to filthy or dangerous conditions.

UK Gynecologist Dr Himansu Basu says the following:

“For many women abortion is not as straightforward as it might seem.  It can cause infections and heavy bleeding and episodes of depression which can last several years.’ In the long term it can lead to infertility, miscarriages or a life-threatening ectopic pregnancy where the foetus develops outside the womb.”

“Women who have abortions again and again” Daily Mail, May 16, 2005

Read about the physical effects of abortion here.

Read about the emotional effects of abortion here.

Planned Parenthood 79^th annual conference where it bestowed its highest honor The Margaret Sanger award on Minnesota Abortionist Jane Hodgson.

At a staff meeting in 1990 Hodgson said:

“When I first started doing abortions, I took my boards in Obstetrics and Gynecology, and therefore I knew I was competent to do it. After I had done my first few hundred I realized how silly I had been. At this point, having done somewhere around 12,000 procedures, I’m beginning to think I am reasonably competent.”

“Who Will Provide Abortions” National Abortion Federation 1991

Quoted in Mark Crutcher  Lime 5: Exploited by Choice  (Denton, Texas: Life Dynamics Incorporated, 1996) 129-130