They said it.
From Mark Crutcher’s book Lime 5, which has horrible stories of abortion malpractice.
In the fall risk management seminar, the National Abortion Federation again discussed malpractice suits. The malpractice consultant they brought in said “there are a lot of really bad abortion places out there….”
Mark Crutcher “Lime 5: Exploited by Choice ” (Denton, Texas: Life Dynamics Incorporated, 1996) 115
Share on FacebookMany pro-choice activists know that despite the pro-choice movement’s propaganda that abortion is beneficial to women, at least some women suffer from ambivalence before their abortions and grief afterwards. According to one abortion clinic escort:
“The emotionally honest approach is to acknowledge the ambivalence [of women having abortions], to acknowledge all of the complex bouquet of feelings and emotions that comes out of this decision. That’s the emotionally honest approach. But I completely understand the flipside, which is the knee-jerk reaction, where we’re under attack by all these anti-choicers, we have to present the cheeriest side, just for PR sake, we have to present women who are relieved. They’ve made a tough decision, they made the best of a bad situation, but now they’re relieved that everything is fine and happy and roses and sunshine and unicorns because that’s how to present it public relations wise.”
Sarah Erdreich Generation Roe: inside the Future of the Pro-Choice Movement (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2013) 22 – 23
Many studies have documented that women do suffer after their abortions, that there is a higher rate of substance abuse, depression, psychiatric hospitalizations, and suicide in women who have had abortions. In fact, teenagers who have had abortions are 10 times more likely to commit suicide that teenagers who have not
Abortion is not all “unicorns, sunshine and roses” by any means. And this is what it does to an unborn child
Share on Facebook“I am mindful of what was brought out by our psychologists… That in almost every case, abortion, whether legal or illegal, is a traumatic experience that may have severe consequences later on.”
Dr. Mary Calderone, medical director of Planned Parenthood
Mary Calderone, “Illegal Abortion Is a Public Health Problem” American Journal of Pub. health 50 (July 1960): 948
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The late Dr. William Raushbaum, who performed late-term abortions, describes how, after Roe versus Wade, none of the new abortionists knew much about performing abortions:
“Like the other board-certified doctors who were suddenly doing procedures previously relegated to back alleys, Rashbaum lacked training in the necessary medical techniques. “None of us knew what we were doing,” he says. “The only people who knew how to do abortions were the criminals. Rashbaum and his colleagues practically taught themselves how to perform abortions and were limited by the crude instruments of those days — Dixie cups attached to the suction machine by rubber bands.”
REBECCA PALEY “Cruel to be kind: In the twilight of his career, a late-term-abortion doctor tells all” The Boston Phoenix Dec 2003
As you can see, Roe versus Wade did not always create safe conditions for abortions – in some ways, things got worse.
Share on FacebookIn a paper put out by the Family Planning Associates medical group, a group of abortion clinics in Southern California, the following risks are described:
“However, it is clear to us that even when the surgeon is highly skilled and experienced in the method dilation and extraction [abortion] that there is a risk of perforation of the uterus by the various instruments that are required. There is an additional risk of laceration of the uterus either by the instruments or by the fetal tissue itself.
… The most common problem encountered in termination of early pregnancies is infection and retained tissue (incomplete abortion).”
Diane Monahan and Karen Sullivan–Ables “What to Know before You Choose… Abortion As Your Option” The Precious Feet People, undated
Share on FacebookAn Ob/Gyn doctor who operated two abortion clinics in Jackson, Mississippi is now a pro-lifer who works with the American Rights Coalition. According to her, abortion-related deaths are usually hidden from the public’s view.
“It’s a very scary thing,” says McMillin. “If a woman has an abortion and some placenta is retained and gets infected, she starts bleeding. If she dies due to blood loss, the cause of death will not even mention that she had an abortion. And if she didn’t tell anyone she was having an abortion, the whole thing could go undetected.”
Camille Otto “Should Abortionists Be Sued” The Association
Share on FacebookA pro-lifer in Brad Stetson, editor The Silent Subject: Reflections on the Unborn in American Culture (Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 1996) (page 8) cited:
“A Los Angeles doctor who operates two abortion clinics is called “an unselfish and committed provider” by a judge who sentenced him to one year probation for the deaths of two women to whom he was administering abortions. Later, following a review by the Medical Board of California, the doctor, who has performed approximately 100,000 abortions, had his medical license revoked.”
“Abortion Deaths Cost Doctor License” Los Angeles Times May 25, 1995
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“I do take all steps to remove everything, but certainly I have been called back about, I think three times now, where there is a piece of — usually it’s a piece of bone found in the uterus.”
Dr. William Fitzhugh, abortionist, in sworn testimony in Carhart vs. Ashcroft, Lincoln, NE, March 30, 2004
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In Virginia, Pro-choicers were fighting against a bill that would have required the state to inspect abortion clinics and have them meet certain basic health standards. For more about regulations of abortion clinics go here.
One state legislator said the following an exasperation:
“So, I question how the Department of Health, which has never visited any one of these places (abortion clinics) and probably doesn’t even know how many there are in the state, could conclude that, in fact, the procedures are safe.”
Senate Panel kills abortion, Daily Press, 2/23/ 2006
Of course, the Department of Health does not know. But pro-choicers are against any kind of oversight or regulation of abortion clinics. This has led to many abuses.
Share on FacebookA study cited in a book on second trimester abortion found that 86% of cases where women died from legal abortion “could’ve been prevented” and that 68% was because of the physician making a mistake (“physicians performance”):
“A review of fatal cases indicates that 86% of the deaths might have been prevented if there had not been some problem in carrying out the tasks needed to avoid the death… In 68% of these cases, there was a problem with the physician’s performance.”
Gregory S Berger, William E Brenner, Louis G Keith Second Trimester Abortion: Perspectives After a Decade of Experience (Boston, Massachusetts, 1981) 22
Read about abortion doctors and clinics and their multiple lawsuits and malpractice cases here
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