Category: On Abortions Dangers

A very revealing comment was made at the National Abortion Federation meeting (the National Abortion Federation is an organization consisting of abortion providers. They periodically have meetings to discuss the issues surrounding performing abortions):

“[the abortion provider] need[s] to protect yourself legally by having the informed consent [form]… It doesn’t matter whether [the patient] understands it, as long as she signs it.”

Donna Stringer, National Abortion Federation, 16th annual meeting, April 12-15, 1992

Carol Everett, former abortion clinic owner and administrator, has commented on how the medical consent form they handed out at her clinics outlining the potential complications of abortion was  complicated and written in medical jargon. She said that very few women could understand it. This was by design, she explained, so that the women would not become scared of the medical risks and back out and not have the abortion.

Quotes like this from the national abortion Federation lend credence to her story.

To read more about the health risks of abortion, go here.

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From a man who worked two doors down from an abortion clinic in New Orleans. Gentilly Medical Clinic for Women was closed for repeated health and safety violations:

“Actions speak louder than words. Seeing their [the women, after their abortions] physical conditions, being held up by family members, distraught and crying, I believe more is going on in their [sic] than the story that the sign says.”

The Department of Health and hospitals revoked the clinic’s license May 25, 2011, after a May 6 investigation found that “the facility failed to provide nursing services to meet the needs of its patients and adequately monitor women in recovery following a procedure.”

Dave Andrusko “New Orleans Abortion Clinic Shut down Again” National Right to Life News Today September 8, 2011

 

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“It was really a case of an assembly line, conducting abortions, one after another, three to five minutes apart.”

Attorney for the family of a girl who died from a legal abortion
ABC 20/20 Transcript # 99030802-j11, A Woman’s right, a woman’s risk, 3/8/1999

For examples of other women who died from legal abortions, go here.

For more cases of abortion malpractice go here. 

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In an article in Salon, an abortionist said the following:

“This is why I hate overuse of forceps- things tear. There are only two kinds of doctors who have never perforated a uterus, those that lie and those who don’t do abortions.”

Margaret A. Woodbury “A doctor’s right to choose” Salon July 24, 2002

Can be found here. 

For more details about the abortions this doctor performs, go here.

For more information on the dangers of abortion, go here. 

For studies on abortion’s physical risks, go here.

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Charles Swenson, an abortion practitioner in the years after Roe V. Wade, expressed how disturbed he was at the lack of good quality medical care in the clinics he observed. See here. He said the following about how the public would perceive abortion:

“What I realized was that the first accident would be the toughest to defend, and the longer we could put off the first accident, the first death, the first perforation, the first infection, and get more experience and credibility under our belt, the better off we were going to be.”

Carole Joffe. Doctors of Conscience: the Struggle to Provide Abortion before and after Roe Versus Wade (Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon press, 1995) 139

This quote reveals two things. First of all, the doctor was saying that it was not a matter of “if” a terrible complication would happen, but a matter of “when.” Second, he shows a remarkable lack of concern about the woman who might be injured or killed. Rather, he sees this potential tragedy as simply an obstacle against legal abortion, and a bit of bad publicity for what he does. Unfortunately, this attitude towards complications remains common among abortionists today.

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The Chicago Women’s Liberation Union, a feminist group, discussed the terrible conditions in abortion clinics in Chicago and throughout the country. This quote comes from around 1976, several years after abortion was made legal in all states. The truth is, Roe Vs Wade did not end back alley abortions, it legalized them. Many of the same practitioners who were doing illegal abortions simply set up shop and did legal ones.  They continued to kill and maim women.

According to this feminist health group:

“Even legal abortion clinics across the country continue to victimize women, financially as well as medically. In 1973, HERS. was instrumental in closing down a shoddy Michigan Avenue clinic, but we know that unscrupulous and shoddy practices are the norm, and not the exception on Chicago abortion clinics. Public hearings were held just last month on the atrocities committed by one such Chicago clinic which was being sued by three victims of botched abortions, one of whom died of complications due to her abortion.”

“Crimes Against Women: there is something seriously wrong with me mom,” Janet M., Kathy Mallin, Lauren Crawford & Sharon M. (circa 1976)

Deaths and injuries from abortions continue to occur as most abortion clinics are not inspected and not required to be licensed. Pro-choice groups like Planned Parenthood rigorously fight against regulations that would make abortion safer. 

Read about the bad conditions in some abortion clinics here.

Read about some women who died from legal abortions here.

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Kathryn Kolbert, vice president of the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy in New York, acknowledges that there are many bad abortion practitioners and that abortion malpractices is common but blames pro-lifers for it:

”You’ve got such a degree of harassment and intimidation that physicians who used to perform these services as part of their general practice of obstetrics and gynecology have moved away from that, As a result, there’s a window for unscrupulous providers.”

The Commercial Appeal (Memphis): Abortionist guilty in woman’s death: 12-17-1994. Quoted by life dynamics

To read about abortionists who killed or maimed women, go here.

To read about women who died after legal abortions, go here.

To read more about abortion malpractice, go here.

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Journalist, Mark Feldstein reported on abortionist Milan Vuitch in his reports, See No Evil, for WTSP-TV (St. Petersburg, FL: March, 1981); and Investigation of Dr. Milan Vuitch, WDVM-TV (Washington, D.C.: Nov. 1984).

In Feldstein’s, Kissing Cousins: Journalism and Oral History, he describes a the interview and a comment by Vuitch:

“During my own work as a journalist, I often found that despite the television interviewer’s customary antipathy to dead airtime, silence can elicit the most damning admissions of all. “I don’t charge extra for rats, they come free when I rent the property,” one slumlord eventually told me on-camera. Similarly, a negligent gynecologist (Milan Vuitch) responded to my silence by stating, “Oh, I’ve lacerated many women’s [sic] uteruses, this is no big deal.”

This abortion provider killed at least one woman. You can read about her death here.

Quoted by Life Dynamics

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Many former abortionists and clinic workers have said that their clinics turned out abortions as if the women were on an assembly line, with the doctor hardly having any contact with each patient. Here one abortionist agrees:

Dr. Eugene Fox, speaking about the abortion clinics that emerged shortly after Roe:

“They would put up these clinics and then they would bring in doctors, and the game was, how many can you do in an afternoon?… You didn’t get a chance to know the patients ahead of time… We were like cogs in the wheel.”

Carole Joffe. Doctors of Conscience: the Struggle to Provide Abortion before and after Roe Versus Wade (Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon press, 1995) 175

 

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Shortly after abortion was legalized, abortion clinics were set up throughout New York City. Many of them were not run by qualified providers, in fact, many of the back alley abortionists simply hung up their shingles and started performing abortions legally. The state did not take any role in regulating these clinics. One abortionist and abortion-rights crusader said the following:

“What I realized was that the first accident would be the toughest to defend, and the longer we could put off the first accident, the first death, the first perforation, the first infection, and get more experience and credibility under our belt, the better off we were going to be.”

He knew it wasn’t a matter of whether there would be complications, but a matter of when.

Carole Joffe. Doctors of Conscience: the Struggle to Provide Abortion before and after Roe Versus Wade (Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon press, 1995)

 

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