Category: On Abortions Dangers

Saline abortions are rarely done today, but were common in the 1970s and 1980s. In these abortions, saline solution was injected into a woman’s womb to poison her baby, who slowly died. Then labor was induced.

An article in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology revealed just how dangerous these abortions were.

In the article instructing would-be abortionists how to do saline abortions, it says:

“It is necessary that a woman undergoing a saline abortion remain conscious during salt injection so that her reactions can be monitored. Emergency measures must be taken at the first sign of shock. For this may mean that the needle has pierced one of the woman’s blood vessels. Introduction of the salt solution into her bloodstream can lead to rapid convulsions, cardiac failure and death.”

“Fetal Pathology and Mechanisms of Death in Saline Abortion,” American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 120 (1974), 347-355.

 

Share on Facebook

Monique Chireau, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the Duke University School of Medicine:

“The truth is we have no idea what the rates of morbidity and mortality for abortions are in the United States, because the data system is flawed. Despite all we may hear about abortion being a benign procedure, it’s really not. And it’s important to remember it’s elective. This is not lifesaving surgery or surgery for cancer.”

EMILY BAZELON “THE POST-CLINIC ABORTION” New York Times Aug 31, 2014

Share on Facebook

A book about abortion doulas tells of two women who had to have hysterectomies after their abortions. Is it responsible for a doctor to perform a procedure that will end with a hysterectomy for a woman? Is an abortion recommended in the circumstances? These women do not seem to be getting good care.

“During [Talia, the abortionist’s] first month of the fellowship; there is a slew of especially harrowing scenarios: two people have a condition called “placenta accrete” where the blood vessels of the placenta grow into and embed in the tissue of the uterus…Talia sees patient after patient who might be at risk for an accrete. But the two patients she sees within the first few weeks of her fellowship have accretas that are especially severe, and she knows their procedures are going to result in hysterectomies. It’s bad enough to have to break the bad news to one patient, let alone two. Never mind how nerve-wracking it can be to do such a complicated procedure. She doesn’t think she will ever really get used to it.”

Mary Mahoney and Lauren Mitchell The Doulas: Radical Care for Pregnant People (New York: Feminist Press, 2016) 233

Share on Facebook

In the National Review, a former abortion clinic worker described the scene in the abortion clinic where she worked:

“…there were times when there was blood and urine all over the place . . . . There were so many patients that staff had to step over them. The patient that delivered in front of me was on the floor with her head near one of the doors. She was screaming and asking God to help her.”

“Complete Disregard” National Review  11-23-98

This was an abortion clinic that was operating legally.

Share on Facebook

The following is from a paper by three British OB/GYN’s, which shares their views about the dangers of termination of pregnancy:

“If the termination of pregnancy were as safe as so many advocates of liberal abortion maintain, a patient suffering as a result of the operation could claim that professional negligence was responsible for her subsequent distress or disaster. Such claims would be grossly unfair. There would be great sympathy for a 16-year-old girl whose uterus was torn beyond repair; for the married woman with gut resection and peritonitis; for the mother in monthly distress following hysterotomy because of implantation endometritis in her abdominal wall, vagina or bladder; for the anxious infertile wife who knows the tubal damage now denies her the baby she desires is the delayed price she is paying for her teenage abortion. But the fact remains that none of these situations may be the result of negligence. They are complications which, though well-known to, and well documented by, those with wide experience of an operation which is neither simple nor safe, are seldom mentioned by those who claim that abortion is safe and merely an extension of contraceptive techniques.”

Quoted by Jeanne Head, RN in Alex Barno, M.D. Proposed Constitutional Amendments on Abortion “Hearings before the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, 94^th Congress” (Washington DC, US Government Printing Office, 1976) 934

These are only some of the dangers of termination of pregnancy.

Read more about the dangers of abortion

Share on Facebook

One study in The Lancet, a very reputable medical journal, says this:

“There has been almost a conspiracy of silence in declaring [abortion’s] risks. Unfortunately, because of emotional reactions to legal abortion, well documented evidence from countries with a vast experience of it, receives little or no attention in either the medical or lay press. This is medically indefensible when patients suffer as a result…It is significant that some of the more serious complications occurred with the most senior and experienced operators…”

J.A  Stallworthy., et al., “Legal Abortion: A Critical Assessment of Risk,” The Lancet, December 4, 1971

Share on Facebook

Susanne Renee Logan was left severely paralyzed following her abortion at the Hillview Women’s Medical Surgical abortion clinic in Suitland Maryland. Able-bodied and normal before the abortion, she lived out her remaining years in a nursing home.

The clinic’s administrator Barbara Lofton made the following statement:

“If you provide a certain number [of abortions], no matter how good you are, no matter what the qualifications are, there are sometimes circumstances. There are probably no facilities without some complications.”

And in response to accusations that the clinic did not know how to handle an emergency situation-she had this to say,

“Obviously, the report from the paramedics was written by a pro-life person. There were many fabrications in the report.”

“2 Tragedies Raise Doubts About Suitland Clinic ;Abortion Patient, Left Paralyzed, Files Suit” The Washington Post 8-13-1990

The clinic would go on to nearly kill at least one other woman.

Read more about Susanne Logan here.

Share on Facebook

Abortion clinic receptionist Irasema Mendoza testified in a case where a woman died in an abortion clinic:

“I told her to call the paramedics. I took the phone to call the paramedics but Alicia [the abortion clinic owner] grabbed it away from me and hung up.She told me not to call them because I was going to get her into problems.”

“Clinic owner prevented 911 call, aide says;” Orange County Register 8-24-1993 Quoted by Life Dynamics

Share on Facebook

Nancy Russo of Arizona State University, abortion researcher:

“As far as I’m concerned, whether or not an abortion creates psychological difficulties is not relevant…it means you give proper informed consent and you deal with it.”

Maria Gallagher “Abortion Advocates Discount Emotional Problems After Abortion” LifeNews January 27, 2004

She shows a cavalier attitude towards the psychological damage abortion does women. (for example, 6-7 times higher suicide rate for adult post-abortion women and 10x higher suicide rate in teens. (see here) 

Share on Facebook