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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