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Woman has abortion, wakes up in hospital

Katherine describes how her abortion was botched:

“Anyway, I had the abortion, and the doctor – the reason I was hooked up to an IV for 24 hours was that he had blown it with the vacuum or whatever it is that they use, and I had lost almost 2 liters of blood. So $1000 abortion, okay? 2 liters of blood, hooked up to an IV, in hospital for 24 hours.

The nurse when I woke up said, “You poor thing.”.… I said, “Is it over?” And she said, “Yes.” She said, “You’ve lost a lot of blood and you have to be here for a while.” I said, “What??” And she said, “The doctor really blew it.”…

Then the doctor said to me, “Don’t worry, honey, you could get pregnant tomorrow if you want to.” He was trying to make out like, you know, ha ha, everything’s okay. And it was terrible – it hurt…

Oh, also, despite the fact that he knew my family, the doctor insisted on taking a check for the operation, right before I was wheeled into the… It’s kind of really sleazy. I mean he could’ve waited.…

Everything was done under the guise of, this is a very upper-middle-class. I mean, you’re in the best private hospital, and you’ve got the best OB/GYN, and still it was screwed up totally.”

Sumi Hoshiko Our Choices: Women’s Personal Decisions about Abortion (New York: Harrington Park Press, 1993) 150, 153

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Woman saw “blood all over” in abortion clinic

In 2009 a Michigan woman was rushed to the hospital to stop uncontrolled bleeding six months after her abortion. “If my boyfriend hadn’t woken me up that night, I just feel like I could’ve bled to death in my sleep,” said the woman, who was given two units of blood and an emergency D&C. The woman recalled “being in a lot of pain” during the abortion procedure and said she visited the clinic’s bathroom after the abortion, where she saw “blood all over the restroom, including on the toilet seat.”

Ken Kolker “Women: Botched Abortion Nearly Killed Me” WOODTV.com Tuesday, February 19, 2013

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Documenting botched abortion in April 2014 at Carhart’s abortion clinic

Saysumthn’s Blog documented an abortion injury on April 28, 2014. Dr. Leroy Carhart was the one who performed the abortion.

From the blog:

According to pro-life activists who were at the clinic at the time of Saturday’s incident, the injured patient was a woman who had come to Carhart’s poorly-maintained abortion clinic the previous day on Friday with her teen-aged daughter.

On Friday, the two women stayed at Carhart’s abortion office for about three hours, then left with the older woman driving.

The following morning, the two women were seen returning to Carhart’s facility. At about 11:50 a.m. on Saturday, the ambulance arrived for the older woman. According to witnesses, the daughter ran out of the clinic and told pro-life activists, “That’s my mom,” referring to the woman who was being transported.

“The events reported by witnesses are indicative of a botched early second trimester abortion procedure,” said Newman.

Carhart has carried no hospital privileges whatsoever since 1982. A lack of hospital privileges has been shown to interrupt the continuity of patient care and create delays in emergency treatment of women suffering life-threatening abortion complications.

Dates of other incidents involving Carhart documented by Operation Rescue include:

• March 4, 2014, Germantown, MD: Patient hemorrhaged after 2nd trimester abortion complications.
• November 30, 2013, Bellevue, NE: Patient suffered 2nd trimester abortion complications.
• November 26, 2013, Germantown, MD: Patient required emergency surgery. (Video with 911 recording)
• July 9, 2013, Germantown, MD: Patient hemorrhaged. (Video with 911 recording)
• February 7, 2013, Germantown, MD: Patient Jennifer Morbelli died of 3rd trimester abortion complications. (Autopsy Report)
• March 31, 2012, Bellevue, NE: Patient heard moaning and screaming during 911 call (Video with 911 recording.)

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George Grant tells story of near-fatal botched abortion

George Grant told the following story in his book, Grand Illusions.

“Martha Tollesk’s divorce had been final just 3 days when she discovered that she was pregnant. “Everybody told me that I should just go out and get an abortion,” she said. “I’d just enrolled in night courses at the local community college. I had a great new job. My life was coming together finally. And then this!”

Martha’s friends talked her into visiting a Planned Parenthood center where she received a fistful of brochures and tracts on the benefits and blessings of abortion. “It all sounded so simple and so secure. So I went ahead and scheduled an appointment.” The doctor performed a suction aspiration abortion on her 3 days later. “It was incredibly painful. It was just awful. But they told me all had gone well, and they sent me on home.”

But all was not well. After almost a week, Martha was admitted to the hospital with a number of alarming symptoms: swelling of the abdomen, severe pain, nausea, vomiting, rapid heartbeat, chills and fever, and shortness of breath. The obstetricians diagnosed her as suffering from peritonitis – an inflammation of the membrane covering the wall of her peritoneum. Caused by a small uterine puncture during the abortion, the bacterial infection had quickly spread throughout her body cavity. “They tell me I’m lucky,” she said. “But I’m not sure I call 4 days in the hospital and a close call with death lucky. I call it irresponsible.”

George Grant Grand Illusions: the Legacy of Planned Parenthood(Franklin, Tennessee: Adroit Press, 1988, 1992) 71

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Abortionist with more than ten malpractice suits defends himself

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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Planned Parenthood horribly botches abortion

Pro-lifer George Grant interviewed a woman who had complications after her abortion at Planned Parenthood:

“Caroline was 22 when she had her first abortion. 8 months later, she had another. “The first one seemed to go just fine,” she told me. “There was a little bleeding, and some pain for the next few weeks. Nothing serious, though.”

But it was serious. That became readily apparent when she went in for the 2^nd abortion. “There was quite a bit of scar tissue in my cervix. The physician seemed hesitant at first, but decided to go ahead with the procedure.”

That was not the last mistake that the doctor would make that day. His sharp, blindly wielded curette inadvertently perforated Carolyn’s already scarred cervix. When he inserted the suction apparatus, it passed through to the body cavity. The shearing force of the suction than seriously lacerated the bladder and tore loose the right ureter – the tube that carries urine from the kidneys to the bladder. The delicate parametrium and parametrium membranes were ruptured and a pooling hematoma surrounded the entire right renal system.

Completely unaware of the damage he had caused, the doctor finished the procedure, sent Caroline to the recovery room, and turned his attention to other matters. After a 45 minute rest, he released her.

“I collapsed on the subway on my way home. I think I was in shock,” she said. She was suffering from a lot more than shock. An emergency room examination revealed heavy hemorrhaging and leakage of urine per vaginam. Attendants rushed her into the operating room where surgeons reluctantly performed an emergency right nephrectomy and oophorectomy – the removal of the right kidney and ovary. They also evacuated the hematoma and resection the torn endometrium.

“I spent about 10 days in the hospital after that,” she told me as we walked past the Juilliard toward the Hudson River. Those 10 days had cost her a place in the school’s renowned drama department. “But the worst was still yet to come.”

Over the next several weeks, Caroline suffered from recurring abdominal pain, high fever, vaginal discharge, and abnormal bleeding. She was scheduled for both a cystoscopy and a laparoscopy and was once again admitted to the hospital. The exploratory surgeries revealed that a portion of the fetal skull had been embedded into the resected intra-abdominal tissue. They also revealed a severe pelvic inflammation caused by bacteria from the mangled renal system.

“The doctor said that I had no choice but to undergo a complete hysterectomy.” Tears began to well up in her eyes. “I was only 22. My whole life was ahead of me. I was happy. Carefree. And then this… Well, I just couldn’t believe that this was actually happening to me.”

The next day, the doctors removed Caroline’s remaining ovary, along with her uterus, cervix, fallopian tubes, and lymph glands. She would never again be able to bear children.

“The counselors at Planned Parenthood told me that abortion was the only responsible choice in my situation,” she said. “Now look at me. My health is broken. My career is ruined. My emotions are shot. And the only 2 children I will ever bear are dead and gone.”

George Grant Grand Illusions: the Legacy of Planned Parenthood (Franklin, Tennessee: Adroit Press, 1988, 1992

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Woman suffers complications after abortion: baby born alive

Pro-life author George Grant told the following story about a woman named Bethany de Grassi who had a saline abortion and suffered complications. According to her, her baby was born alive.

First she explains why she had the abortion:

“I was living with a guy at the time,” she told me, “and I really thought we were in love. When I got pregnant, I was happy. I thought we’d just settle down, raise a family, and pursue the American dream. But he had other ideas. When I refused to get an abortion he just moved out. Boom. My whole world caved in. I didn’t know what to do. I was scared and confused.”

Grant says:

Bethany waited almost 3 months before she did anything at all. Finally, she went to a Planned Parenthood clinic. “They told me that they didn’t do the procedure I needed there in the clinic, so they referred me to one of their doctors that had a private practice on the side for late-term abortions. They gave me all kinds of literature with charts and tables and footnotes and all, telling me that the technique was perfectly safe.”

Later, when Bethany was filling out the liability release form, she had a change of heart. “The form had a long, long list of possible complications in tiny print and I started to get really nervous. But the nurse came in and sat by me, assuring me that everything was going to be okay. I believed her.”

She shouldn’t have. Clinic personnel are trained to calm their customers. Sometimes with smiles. Sometimes with lies. Anything, just to get the job done.

The baby was born “gasping”:

Bethany’s troubles began with the delivery. “The baby was gasping when it came out,” she recalled. “It was awful. I started screaming. The doctor was cursing. And the nurse didn’t seem to know what to do. It was a nightmare.”

The child expired quickly and the clinic personnel were able, after a few minutes of coaxing and consoling, to calm Bethany down. She went into recovery was released.

Bethany suffered complications:

2 days later, she suffered a series of seizures and lapsed into a coma. At the hospital, her doctors found that she had hypernatremia – salt poisoning. Her parents were notified and along 6 day struggle for her life ensued. Finally, the medical team at the hospital was able to restore Bethany’s electrolyte balance intravenously and she was roused from the coma. “I should’ve paid attention to my conscience,” she now says. “I knew better than to try to come up with some easy fix for my problems. There’s just no such thing.”

George Grant Grand Illusions: the Legacy of Planned Parenthood (Franklin, Tennessee: Adroit Press, 1988, 1992)75 – 76

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Planned Parenthood abortion leads to injuries, broken relationship

Pro-lifer George Grant tells the following story:

Jared McCormick took his girlfriend, Susie Glanze, to Planned Parenthood for a pregnancy test late last year. “She was really scared, and so was I,” he said. “I told her that we could go ahead and get married. We were planning on it anyway. We’d just have to move things up a little, is all. But she wanted me to finish up with school first. So, there we were. At Planned Parenthood.”

The test was positive and Susie made an appointment for an abortion the next Saturday “I really went berserk,” Jared said. “I was dead set against the abortion. I begged her to marry me and keep our baby. But she wouldn’t listen.”

The doctors performed a D&C. There was profuse bleeding, but since that is quite common with D&C abortions, the clinic personnel didn’t think anything of it.

That was a terrible mistake. An hour later, Susie was still hemorrhaging and had to be rushed to the nearest hospital emergency room. There she was given 2 units of blood and treated for severe lacerations of the cervix and uterus. It would be almost 2 days later before she would be released.

“It’s amazing what can happen between 2 people in just a couple days time,” Jared said. “Susie was so grieved over what she done – over what they’d done – that she couldn’t stand to be with me anymore. Just like that. It was all over between us. I’m convinced that if she’d known how risky the operation was we’d be together today. And our baby would still be alive.”

George Grant Grand Illusions: the Legacy of Planned Parenthood (Franklin, Tennessee: Adroit Press, 1988, 1992) 73

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Abortion clinic worker wipes blood from sidewalk after botched abortion

The following took place at A Woman’s World Medical Center:

Sidewalk counselors noted that a post-abortive mother who had left the clinic and driven herself out of the parking lot (which I’m sure is a health code violation), drove herself back 20 minutes later.

Walking up the ramp to the front door, she dropped her keys. When she bent over to pick them up, she hemorrhaged a large amount of blood, and then left a trail of blood behind her all the way to the door.

The mother left the clinic again after a half hour, again driving herself out of the parking lot alone.

It is unknown what happened to her. The abortion clinic had previously been cited for 31 pages of health code violations .

Here are pictures of an abortion clinic employee mopping up blood. Apparently, seeing a pool of blood at the entrance of the clinic might be a turn off for some of their expected “clients.”