Category: On Abortions Dangers

Sometimes, even pro-choice activists admit that not all abortion clinics are good. Jennifer Baumgardner, who started the “I Had An Abortion” t-shirt campaign, in which women were encouraged to wear t-shirt celebrating their abortions, said this in her book “Abortion & Life”:

“Visiting many clinics in recent years, I’ve become concerned with how stark and unwelcoming some of them are….Certainly the cold procedure rooms, blank waiting room walls (or worse, cheesy posters), and worn furnishings probably don’t make patients feel nurtured….Further, some of the protocol at clinics has no root in medical care and undermines the comfort of patients.”

In many ways, that is an understatement.

“Abortion & Life” (New York, NY: Akashic Books, 2008) p 142-143

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Judith Fetrow (a former clinic worker) reported from her former work at a San Francisco Planned Parenthood clinic.

“The most horrifying complication that I witnessed was a woman who stopped breathing during the abortion. Dr. Michael Susman just walked out of the room when he was finished. Despite my telling him that the client was not breathing, he left me alone with her. When Dr. Susman was forced to return, we didn’t even follow emergency protocol for that situation. It was a miracle that this woman didn’t die.”

“Meet the Abortion Providers III: The Promoters,” Audiotape. Conference held by the Pro-life Action League, April 3, 1993.

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This quote is from Achieving Peace in the Abortion War” by Rachel M MacNair, Ph.D., published by the Feminism & Nonviolence Studies Association January 2009. (http://www.fnsa.org/apaw/)

60 Minutes did a piece called “Suzanne Logan’s Story,” about health hazards at a Maryland clinic. Ms. Logan was brain-damaged and would spend the rest of her short life in a nursing home due to anesthesia complications. She died there on December 1, 1992, after the story ran. The report showed her attorney, Patrick Malone, saying:

“The anesthesia was given without any monitoring whatsoever, without an anesthesiologist present, without a nurse anesthetist present, without the normal safeguards that are part of standard modern American medical care. I’ve seen a lot of cases, and met a lot of doctors, and reviewed a lot of records, and I’ve never seen anything like this.”

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To [abortionist Robert] Crist, the quality of abortion doctors is one of the most troubling aspects of what abortion has become….the few doctors willing to replace [those who are retiring] Crist says, are “mostly physicians who have had difficulty establishing regular ob-gyn practices.” As an example, he mentions a clinic in Nebraska where a young doctor was brought in to replace an older one.

“Out of his first six months of work, there are nine malpractice suits…After it was apparent the guy was a klutz, they kept using him, and trying to cover for him, because they couldn’t find another abortion provider. It’s a bad picture.”

St. Petersburg Times, June 3, 1990 (Quoted in Access: Key to Pro-Life Victory by Mark Crutcher Life Dynamics Inc.)

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Dr. Bernard Nathanson described the clinic he ran the following way:

“The counselors were largely young radicalized college-educated women who were unapologetically feminist and regarded the largely male physician staff as the enemy. This attitude did not make for harmonious relations and the clinic, especially as the quality of the physician staff was – in a word – deplorable, consisting of an extra ordinary variety of drunks, druggies, sadists, sexual molesters, just plain incompetents, and medical losers. At least one was a fugitive from justice, with the FBI close on his tail.”

Nathanson, Bernard N, M.D The Hand of God: a Journey from Death to Life by the Abortion Doctor Who Changed His Mind (Washington DC: Regnery Publishing Inc, 1996) 104

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Former abortionist Dr. Bernard Nathanson recalls a conversation he had with a clinic worker:

“One more thing. You got to get those doctors shaped up. I mean half of them don’t even wash their hands anymore before doing an abortion, let alone scrubbing. They refuse to use masks or caps, and their mustaches are dragging into the suction machines. I swear, one of these days we’re going to lose one of those guys right into the suction trap and the lab is going to tell us the tissue is pregnancy tissue and the abortion is complete. One guy refuses to take the cigar out of his mouth while doing abortions. Even the counselors are not THAT crazy…

Our garbage problem is impossible, and its getting worse every day. I mean, there are these huge piles of our stuff stacked up in the hallway. Man, we use a lot of disposables, and the building refuses to help us with it except to make the usual garbage rounds once a day. Anyway, they don’t want to handle it because its all bloody and all.”

Bernard N. Nathanson MD “Aborting America” New York: Doubleday Company 1979, p 99

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