They said it.
In 1978, a doctor wrote the following in a respected medical journal:
“There has been no major impact on the number of women dying from abortion in the United States since liberalized abortion was introduced… Legal abortion is now the leading cause of abortion -related maternal deaths in the United States.”
D Cavanagh, Am J Ob Gyn 130(3):375 Feb 1, 1978
Share on FacebookDr. Stephen Foley, a doctor who performed emergency surgery on a woman who still had part of the baby left inside her after a botched abortion
“It is not acceptable to refer your patients to the emergency department and assume the on-call doctor will take care of any complications and assume all the risk associated with the complications. No practicing physician can maintain privileges to practice and perform surgery if they do not provide specific coverage for their patients, in case of a complication. It is considered abandonment of your patient.”
Richard and Rhonda White Confronting Abortion Distortions (Xulon Press, 2013) 127
Share on FacebookAbortion clinic worker:
“It is a major life occasion… Yes, it is a very safe medical procedure, but there are risks, just as there are to all medical procedures, and you could be one of those very few statistics.”
Patricia Lunneborg Abortion: A Positive Decision (Westport, Connecticut: Bergen & Garvey, 1992)
Share on FacebookThis quote reveals that the majority of abortion providers are not OB/GYN’s, which makes you wonder about their training and competence.
“Most abortions in the United States today are performed by general practitioners. Articles in medical journals have noted that fewer and fewer abortions are performed by obstetrical/gynecological personnel, in many instances because they are not trained or because they fear the violence in certain areas of the country that might result.”
Corinne J Naden Abortion (Tarrytown, New York: Marshall Cavendish Corporation, 2008) 86
The reasons the book gives for few Ob/Gyns doing abortions (basically it’s written from a pro-choice standpoint) are that it’s violence and lack of training that causes them not to perform abortions – but if there is a lack of training for OB/GYN’s, who are going to inthe specialty, what training is there for doctors studying in a different fields? And we know that stigma and the distasteful aspect of the work also contribute to doctors not wanting to perform abortions.
Share on Facebook“What about malpractice insurance for abortionists? The more dangerous the surgical procedure, the higher the cost of medical malpractice insurance. The State of Florida has always rated its doctors as Class I up to Class VI. On January 1, 1984, a special ultra-risk Class VII rating was created for abortionists.”
[This acknowledged the fact that the risk was greater for malpractice in abortion than for brain or heart surgery.]
Comment by Lynn Murphy
PIMCO, “Florida Insurance Reciprocal,” American Association of Pro-Life Ob & Gyn Newsletter, 1984, 10
Share on FacebookAmerican College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists did a survey in late 1974 to which 486 specialists responded with:
1. Have you had to treat patients with complications following abortions:
Answer Percent Number of physicians answering
Yes 91 443
No 9 43
2. Was hospitalization necessary?
Yes 87 423
No 13 63
3. Was there any mortality?
Yes 6 29
No 94 457
Paul Ervin, Women Exploited, the other victims of abortion, (Huntington, IN and/or Thaxton, VA: Our Sunday Visitor, 1985) 88.
Share on FacebookFrom an article in The Journal of the American Medical Association:
The so-called ‘freestanding clinics,’ which do over 90% of all abortions in the U.S., are often little better than back-alley operations that have been legalized . . . .’ Complications following abortions performed in free-standing clinics is one of the most frequent gynecological 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.'”
“Second trimester Abortions,” JAMA, 4 February 1983, 588,
Share on FacebookDr. Beverly McMillan, a former abortionist from Jackson, Mississippi:
‘Planned Parenthood clinics, and free-standing abortion clinics like them, claim they have an untarnished record of no complications from their abortion procedures, but what they don’t know is that I’m the practitioner who sees their complications. These women don’t go back to the clinic where they’ve had a bad experience. They show up in my office or in my emergency room with their bleeding or with their infections or with their retained placenta, needing another D&C.’
“A Close Look at Planned Parenthood,” (Focus on the Family) radio program, 27-27 October 1989, quoted in Douglas R. Scott, Inside Planned Parenthood (Grand Rapid, MI: Frontlines Publishing, 1990) 86.
Share on Facebook“At the Dundalk office of the Irish Family Planning Association (IFPA), a client was told she could lie to her doctor about having had an abortion, advice that could put a woman’s life at risk, Professor Sam Coulter Smith, the master of Dublin’s Rotunda Hospital, has warned.
He said he was aware of cases where women have died because they did not tell their doctors they’d had a termination….
At two Dublin branches of the IFPA in Tallaght and Cathal Brugha Street, women were also told they could conceal their abortions from doctors.
The same advice was given by a HSE employee at Ballinasloe Crisis Pregnancy Support Service in Galway.
In response, Dr Simon Mills, a barrister and medical doctor, said: “It is definitely reckless and probably negligent advice to tell a woman to conceal from doctors something that may be a vital part of her medical history.
“This is especially the case if she presented unwell in the immediate aftermath of a termination and felt that she shouldn’t tell her doctor about it when it could be the key piece of information to deliver prompt and life-saving treatment….-
At Dundalk IFPA, a woman was told: “Now when you go for medical attention they have no way of knowing that you have had an abortion. You need to say that you had a miscarriage. They will know you were pregnant but you need to say that you had a miscarriage.”
Gemma O’Doherty “Revealed: the abortion advice that could put lives at risk” Independent Irish News 27/10/2012
Share on FacebookSusan Poppema, abortionist:
“We choose people to work [at the clinic] based on their political commitment as well as their medical capabilities. We can teach people what they need to know medically, but we cannot teach them political commitment; we can encourage it, but we can’t teach that as well.”
Patricia Launneborg Abortion: a Positive Decision (New York: Bergin & Garvey, 1992) 189
it does not inspire confidence to know that clinic workers had to be taught how to perform medical tasks.
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