They said it.
Abortionist Robert D. Crist, M.D killed three women in botched abortions. But that didn’t stop Planned Parenthood from praising him.
A Planned Parenthood official called him:
“one of the most skilled and competent and committed physicians performing abortions.”
Kansas City Star, April 27, 1997
Quoted in Denise Mountenay Forgiven of Murder: A True Story (Edmonton , Canada: C. Reality Publishers, 1999) 157
Share on FacebookAn abortionist talks about the dangers of abortion and why nonmedical personnel shouldn’t do them.
Abortion, particularly early suction curettage, gives the impression of not being a very difficult procedure. …However, impressions can be misleading. Ninety-nine times out of one hundred, everything goes very smoothly. But it’s that one time that can be associated with complications, some of which are very serious, even deadly. Surgical abortion in and of itself is not that difficult to do, although there’s a bit of an art to it and is more challenging in the second trimester, particularly since it is essentially a “blind” procedure when ultrasound is not used, which is how it’s generally done. The real skill comes in with regard to preventing, recognizing and managing those infrequent complications. I used to tell residents that anyone can teach a monkey how to operate; the real skill in surgery involves clinical judgment. The same is true of surgical abortion—it is feasible for nonclinicians to do it, but without question the risks are greater in terms of infection, incomplete abortion and uterine perforation, and even more importantly, it’s not clear to me how effectively those complications would be recognized and managed. ..
all of us who are well-trained to provide abortions and who have considerable clinical experience still have complications. About once a year, the average experienced abortion provider may perforate a uterus. Indeed, a pregnant uterus is much more easily perforated than a nonpregnant one….… if the best abortion providers still have occasional complications, nonclinicians who may provide such procedures on an infrequent basis will undoubtedly have a higher incidence of complications. …
Estimation of gestational age is critical. In trained hands, this doesn’t require ultrasound, but even some skilled gynecologists have blown it, thinking they were dealing with an 8-week pregnancy when they really had a midtrimester pregnancy on their hands…
Tracey-Kay Caldwell. “Dr. Toub Discusses the Safety of at Home Abortions” Bella Online, 2013
Share on Facebook“My first day on the job, a staff member took me on a driving tour of our seven clinics, which primarily served low income women. I was highly impressed by the quality of the medical services and staff but distressed by the environment in which those services were delivered. Many of the clinics were dilapidated. The furniture was decrepit. The medical staff wore T–shirts and jeans. I worried that women coming into these clinics might feel as though they were not deserving of medical settings comparable to those more prosperous women would expect. I made the same point to our board in their next meeting.
“We should not provide medical services in these settings, and the fact that we serve mostly poor women does not justify the conditions of these clinics. It’s an insult to poor women to strive for anything less than what other women would expect.”
Kate Michelman Protecting the Right to Choose (New York: Plume, 2007) 33
One would question, if the clinic were “dilapidated” and “decrepit” if the medical care given was really “impressive?”
Share on FacebookLate term abortionist Dr. Warren Hern:
“As a society, I think we’ve been in denial about the risks of abortion, because of ideology, and because of economics.”
Tamar Lewin “A New Weapon in an Old War,” The New York Times April 9, 1995
Quoted in: Taylor Carmichael The Seen and the Unseen: Abortion and the Supreme Court (Amazon Digital Services, 2014) 44
Dr. Hern has written and contributed to textbooks on how to do abortions.
Share on Facebook“We were told that if anybody asks what happened to say that it didn’t really happen, it’s just a lie that the protesters made up.”
What clinic worker Theresa Jensen Clinic Worker says she was instructed to tell patients after the death of a woman at the clinic. (A-Z Women’s Center)
20/20 A woman’s right, a woman’s risk 3-8-1999
Quoted by Life Dynamics
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Abortionist Dr. Tommy Tucker defended himself to a reporter who revealed that he had been sued for malpractice over ten times.
“Litigation is part of our life. We have people who are outside with 1 800 UCANSUE cards. This is just part of the business.”
Jim Yardley “Abortion Doctor Says It’s the Cause, and the Cash, that Keep Him Driving” (Atlanta, Georgia) Journal May 16, 1993
Tucker would later lose his licence after he botched an abortion and left the woman bleeding and dying in the clinic while he left to catch a plane. The clinic worker who frantically tried (unsuccessfully) to save the patient’s life had no medical training and had been left alone with her. She called Tucker, but he refused to come in and help. It turned out Tucker had untrained personnel doing abortoins and athesthetizng women in his clinic.
He was also accused by other clinic workers of killing a baby born alive in an abortion, but never was prosecuted for it because investigators could not find the body of the infant.
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According to one physician, writing in the British Journal of Venereal Disease:
“Infection in the womb and tubes often does permanent damage. The fallopian tube is a fragile organ, a very tiny bore tube. If infection injures it, it often seals shut. The typical infection involving these organs is pelvic inflammatory disease, or PID. This condition affects nearly 15% of all those who submit to induced abortion.”
Quoted in George Grant Grand Illusions: the Legacy of Planned Parenthood(Franklin, Tennessee: Adroit Press, 1988, 1992) p 34
Share on FacebookEtienne–Emile Baulieu, who was pivotal in discovering the abortion pill, RU-486, describes how surgical abortions can be difficult and dangerous for women:
“In theory, a woman could drop into a clinic at 8 o’clock and, after an hour’s rest following the procedure, go on her way without another thought to her pregnancy. But it doesn’t always work like that. She may begin hemorrhaging because of tissue left behind, or she may suffer the sharp pain of a perforation. Infection may set in, causing later distress and, in extreme cases, infertility. Even when the medical process is flawless, few women can simply shrug off the procedure. Any instrumental abortion is an intrusion. Physically, it is an operation and may leave a scar. Psychologically, it is an invasion of the most intimate reaches of a woman’s body.”
Etienne–Emile Baulieu The “Abortion Pill” (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990) 15
Women would later discover that abortion by pill may be even more traumatic than abortion by surgery. Read some stories here.
Share on FacebookPro-choice author Carole Joffe interviewed clinic workers for a book she was writing. She said the following:
“Though at the time of this study about 20 facilities offered abortion services in the metropolitan area in which Urban [the name the author gave to the abortion clinic featured in her book] is located, the clinic’s most immediate reference group was a group of four or five other clinics that resembled Urban in that they were also freestanding facilities that were private and nonprofit. Indeed, one of the factors that linked the small group was the common conviction that in some of the other abortion facilities – for example, certain hospitals and for-profit clinics – the quality of abortion services offered was questionable.
Carole Joffe The Regulation of Sexuality: Experiences of Family-Planning Workers (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986) 50
Share on FacebookAn author and researcher explains why official abortion statistics show a low complication rate from the procedure. The complications are voluntarily reported to the CDC by abortion facilities, who often don’t see the women who go to the emergency room or their private OB/GYN with problems. Even if they are honest about reporting complications, they miss many of them.
OBGYN Matthew Bulfin said that Planned Parenthood and the various other agencies that measure complication rates are
“missing vital input for their mortality and morbidity studies by not seeking information from the physicians who see the complications of legal abortions – emergency room physicians, and the obstetricians and gynecologists in private practice. The physicians who do the abortions in the clinics and centers where abortions are done should not be the only sources from which complication statistics are derived.”
Matthew JH Bulfin “Complications of Legal Abortion: A Perspective from Private Practice” from Thomas Hilgers, Dennis Horan, and David Mall New Perspectives on Human Abortion (Frederick, MD: Aletheia Books, 1981) 145
George Grant Grand Illusions: the Legacy of Planned Parenthood (Franklin, Tennessee: Adroit Press, 1988, 1992) 70
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