Category: On Abortions Dangers

From abortionist Warren Hern, in his book Abortion Practice. Abortion Practice can be described as a textbook on how to do abortions:

“A high level of operator skill is at least as important in abortion as it is in any surgical endeavor. Abortion is a blind procedure that proceeds by touch, awareness of the nuances of sensations provided by instruments, honesty, and caution. While competent orientation in the performance of an abortion is essential, abortion, almost more than any other operation, demands experience to develop skill… Well-trained, highly experienced, and reputable gynecologists found, to their dismay, that one abortions became legal and they began performing them, the complication rates were frequently quite high….”

Warren Hern Abortion Practice (Philadelphia: J Lippincott, 1990) Quoted by Stephen Wagner in his book Common Ground without Compromise

Dr. Warren Hern, one of the most prominent abortionists in the country, said the following when discussing the campaign by the pro-life group life dynamics to uncover instances of malpractice in abortion clinics:

“In my view, there are many legitimate cases that would not happen if people were following good standards of medical practice… There are people out there providing abortion services that do not recognize fundamental principles of surgery.”

Diane Gianelli “Claiming Abortion Malpractice” the American Medical News, 2/6/95. Quoted in Mark Crutcher “Lime 5: Exploited by Choice ” (Denton, Texas: Life Dynamics Incorporated, 1996)

Kirsten Breedlove was the director of the only freestanding abortion clinic in Dallas. They performed abortions up to 25 weeks. Breedlove later left the abortion business and described the complications she saw in her clinic:

“We used two day laminaria insertion. There were a lot of mistakes. A lot of torn uteruses, a lot of perforations. I sent five women in the last six months home with perforated uteruses. One woman lost her uterus. Our doctor was getting very shaky and was getting very accident prone. At one point, I found myself delivering a breach stillborn by myself because the doctor wouldn’t answer my beeps.”

Quoted in Gail M. Hamilton “Feminism Reconsidered: How Women Are Exploited by Abortion” (Encino, California: Family of Man Publishing) P191

“Not only do deaths from illegal abortions continue to occur, but constitutional abortion has added its own casualties….Indeed, exhaustive study has shown that maternal deaths resulting from legal abortions are replacing those due to illegal abortions.”

Mark E. Chopko, Phillip H. Harris and Helen M. Allvare, Phi Kappa Phi Journal, Fall 1989

To read about some legal abortion deaths, go here

“In 1972 I began seeing a marked increase in the number of patients who had had legal abortions. At that time I also began seeing patients with significant complications after legal abortions.”

Matthew Bulfin, M.D. “A New Problem in Adolescent. Note: in 1972, abortion was legal in several states.

“Gynecology” Southern Medical Journal, August 1979

“Complications following abortions performed in free-standing clinics is one of the most frequent gynecologic emergencies . . . encountered. Even life-endangering complications rarely come to the attention of the physician who performed the abortion unless the incident entails litigation. The statistics presented by Cates represent substantial under- reporting and disregard women’s reluctance to return to a clinic, where, in their mind, they received inadequate treatment.”

L. Iffy, “Second Trimester Abortions,” JAMA, vol. 249, no. 5, Feb. 4, 1983, p. 588

Note: this is an old reference, but as further research in this section shows, it often still holds true.

Former abortionist Dr. Beverly McMillan said the following in a speech at a Pro-Life Action League Convention:

“So for a number of months I just medical directed. I kept track of our complications; we had monthly meetings where we went over morbidity; we fortunately did not go through mortality. I had one of the worst complications at the clinic. I perforated a uterus and sucked a piece of small bowel right into the tubing. Something very interesting came out of this. We had the young lady taken over the hospital where the residents took care of her and a surgeon spliced her bowel back together, and I went over to see her about two days later before she left the hospital to just say hello and are you doing okay, and to tell her I was sorry this had happened. She didn’t want to talk to me. She wasn’t angry at me. She didn’t want to think about the abortion, thank you. She was ready to get out. Denial. Absolute denial just right there. That’s why abortionists don’t get sued. These folks don’t want to think about it for at least two years and then the Statute of Limitations is up. That is (denial) the reason that many women don’t sue from complications from abortion.”

“We call them [abortion clinics] chop shops, they are legal, but they are practicing medicine that is below the standard of care.”

Dr. Jorge Carreon, Longtime OBGYN
LA Times, Handful of abortion clinics put poor at risk for the record, 4/5/1998

“There isn’t anybody watching them, and too many times their qualifications are subpar.”

Julie D’Angelo, Attorney with the Center for Public Interest Law in San Diego
LA Times, Handful of abortion clinics put poor at risk for the record, 4/5/1999

From Life Dynamics