Category: Women’s Health

Remember: District Attorney described filthy conditions in Kermit Gosnell’s facility

Dist. Atty. Seth Williams describing Kermit Gosnell’s clinic after raiding it under suspicion that Gosnell was prescribing illegal narcotics:

“There was blood on the floor. A stench of urine filled the air. A flea-infested cat was wandering through the facility, and there were cat feces on the stairs. Semi-conscious women scheduled for abortions were moaning in the waiting room or the recovery room, where they sat on dirty recliners covered with bloodstained blankets.

All the women had been sedated by unlicensed staff – long before Gosnell arrived at the clinic – and staff members could not accurately state what medications or dosages they had administered to the waiting patients. Many of the medications in the inventory were past their expiration dates.
Investigators found the clinic grossly unsuitable as a surgical facility.

The two surgical procedure rooms were filthy and unsanitary – Agent [Stephen] Doughtery described them as resembling “a bad gas station restroom.”

Instruments were not sterile. Equipment was rusty and outdated. Oxygen equipment was covered with dust and had not been inspected. The same corroded suction tubing used for abortions was the only tubing available for oral airways if assistance for breathing was needed. There was no functioning resuscitation or even monitoring equipment, except for a single blood pressure cuff in the recovery room.”

James Taranto “Back Alley Abortion Never Ended” Wall Street Journal April 18, 2013

We must not forget the horrors of Kermit Gosnell, the fact that he was operating legally, and the fact that pro-choice gatekeepers allowed him to continue operating on women in his filthy clinic even after a woman had died and they knew about the conditions there.

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Head of Chain of Abortion Clinics: Some Women are “Devastated” by their Abortions

Clare Murphy, a spokesperson for the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, a chain of abortion clinics, says there is “not a jot of evidence” that women suffer post-abortion trauma.

But she says:

“There will of course be women who, even if they do not regret their decision, feel devastated that this was a decision they had to take in the first place.”

Radhika Sanghani “The harsh truth about how women feel after an abortion” The Telegraph 14 July 2015

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Abortion clinics with health code violations related to cleanliness

American’s United for  Life found health inspection violations relating to unsanitary conditions such as the following:

  • Equipment exam rooms, pre/post operation rooms and patient seating areas had torn, broken or makeshift repairs, preventing the surfaces from being properly sanitized.
  • Staff wearing used scrubs over and over again;
  • Staff performing procedures and examinations, and/or handling dirty objects without washing hands;
  • Blood and bodily fluid stained and/or splattered on floor, wall, lights and other equipment;
  • Medicine, blood testing, and fetal remains kept in the same refrigerators as food;
  • Autoclaves (sterilizers) that were not being properly monitored, not used to manufacturers’ standards, and/or not working;
  • Soiled and clean equipment stored in the same room;
  • Contaminated syringe containers being stored incorrectly;
  • Improper water temperatures for laundry and sterilization;
  • Single-use vials being used multiple times and on different patients;
  • Vaginal probes, surfaces, and other equipment not being disinfected between uses;
  • Infectious waste not being stored or disposed of properly

These violations were found in the following clinics:

ALABAMA

Alabama Women’s Center for Reproductive Alternatives

Beacon Women’s Center, Montgomery

New Woman All Women Health Care

Planned Parenthood of Alabama, Birmingham

Planned Parenthood of Alabama, Mobile

Reproductive Health Services, Montgomery

West Alabama Women’s Center

ARIZONA

Camelback Family Planning, Phoenix

Desert Star Family Planning, Phoenix

Family Planning Associates Medical Group, Phoenix

Planned Parenthood – Flagstaff

Planned Parenthood – Glendale

ARKANSAS

Little Rock Family Planning Services

CONNECTICUT

Hartford GYN Center

Planned Parenthood of Connecticut Inc– Norwich

Planned Parenthood of Connecticut Inc– Stamford

Planned Parenthood of Southern New England – West Hartford

DELAWARE

Planned Parenthood of Delaware

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Washington Surgery Center

FLORIDA

A Jacksonville Women’s Health Center

A Medical Office for Women, North Miami Beach

A Woman’s World Medical Center

A-1 Women’s Health Care, Inc., Miami

All Women’s Clinic, Fort Lauderdale

All Women’s Health Center of North Tampa

All Women’s Health Center of Orlando, Altamonte Springs

All Women’s Health Center, Saint Petersburg

Blue Coral Women’s Care

Florida Women’s Center, Inc.

Planned Parenthood of Greater Orlando, Inc., South Tampa

Planned Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida

Southwest Florida Women’s Clinic, Fort Myers

Today’s Women Medical Center

GEORGIA

Atlanta Women’s Clinic

Atlanta Women’s Medical Center

Cliff Valley Clinic

Savannah Medical Clinic

Summit Medical Associates

ILLINOIS

Access Health Care Center

ACU Health Center

Advantage Health Care

Hope Clinic for Women

Michigan Avenue Medical Center

Northern Illinois Women’s Center

Whole Woman’s Health of Peoria

Women’s Aid Clinic (Now operating as Women’s Aid Center)

INDIANA

Clinic for Women

Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, Bloomington

Potomac Family Planning Center

Prince George’s Reproductive Health Services

Silver Spring Family Planning (American Women’s Center)

Whole Woman’s Health of Baltimore

MASSACHUSETTS

Planned Parenthood/Preterm Health Services, Greater Boston (Boston)

Planned Parenthood/Preterm Health Services, Greater Boston (Fitchburg)

Planned Parenthood/Preterm Health Services, Greater Boston (Springfield)

Planned Parenthood/Preterm Health Services, Greater Boston (Worcester)

MICHIGAN

Heritage Clinic for Women

Northland Family Planning Centers

Planned Parenthood of Mid-Michigan, Ann Arbor

Planned Parenthood of Mid and South Michigan, Flint

Scotsdale Women’s Center

Summit Women’s Center

Woman Care of Southfield

Women’s Center of Flint

Women’s Center of Saginaw

Women’s Center of Southfield

Women’s Medical Services, Muskegon

MISSISSIPPI

Jackson Women’s Health Organization

MISSOURI

Comprehensive Planned Parenthood

Reproductive Health Services of Planned Parenthood, Springfield

Reproductive Health Services of Planned Parenthood, St. Louis

NEVADA

All Women Care

Birth Control Care Center

Safe and Sound for Women

NEW JERSEY

Cherry Hill Women’s Center

Metropolitan Surgical Associates

Pilgrim Medical Center

NEW MEXICO

Southwestern Women’s Options

NEW YORK

Unnamed (Redacted) (Redacted) New York Abortion Clinic

NORTH CAROLINA

A Preferred Women’s Health Center, Charlotte

A Preferred Women’s Health Center, Raleigh

A Woman’s Choice of Greensboro

A Woman’s Choice of Raleigh

Baker Clinic for Women

Carolina Women’s Clinic

Hallmark Women’s Clinic

Planned Parenthood South Atlantic of Central North, Chapel Hill

Planned Parenthood of Winston-Salem

Women’s Health Alliance/Chapel Hill Obstetrics and Gynecology

OHIO

Akron Women’s Medical Group

Capital Care Network

East Health Central Ohio (Planned Parenthood)

Founder’s Women’s Health Center

Northeast Ohio Women’s Center

Planned Parenthood, Bedford Heights

Planned Parenthood East Health Center

Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio Regional

OREGON

Lovejoy Surgicenter

PENNSYLVANIA

Allegheny Reproductive Health Center

Allentown Health Center (Planned Parenthood)

Allentown Medical Services

Allentown Women’s Center

Berger and Benjamin

Drexel OB/GYN Associates, Philadelphia

Hillcrest Women’s Medical Center

Philadelphia Women’s Center

Planned Parenthood of Central Pennsylvania, York

Planned Parenthood of Keystone, Allentown

Planned Parenthood of Keystone, Harrisburg

Planned Parenthood of Keystone, Reading

Planned Parenthood of Keystone, Warminster

Planned Parenthood of Keystone, York

Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania, Far Northeast Health Center

Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania, Locust Street Health Center

Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania, Norristown

Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania, West Chester Health Center

Planned Parenthood of Western Pennsylvania

Planned Parenthood – Warminster

Medical Center

Women’s Medical Society

SOUTH CAROLINA

Charleston Women’s Medical Center

Columbia Health Center (Planned Parenthood)

Greenville Women’s Clinic

SOUTH DAKOTA

Planned Parenthood Sioux Falls

TENNESSEE

Knoxville Center for Reproductive Health

Memphis Center for Reproductive Health

Planned Parenthood Memphis

TEXAS

Aaron’s Women’s Center

Alamo Women’s Reproductive Services Clinic, San Antonio

Hilltop Women’s Reproductive Clinic

Houston Women’s Clinic

Planned Parenthood Babcock Sexual Healthcare, San Antonio

Planned Parenthood Center for Choice Stafford

Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas El Paso

Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast (Aaron Women’s Clinic (“Aaron”)

Texas Ambulatory Surgery Center

Women’s Pavilion and Northpark Medical Group

Reproductive Services El Paso

Reproductive Services San Antonio

Suburban Women’s Clinic Houston

Whole Woman’s Health, Austin, Beaumont, Fort Worth, and McAllen

Whole Woman’s Health Austin

Whole Woman’s Health Fort Worth

Whole Woman’s Health, San Antonio

UTAH

Wasatch Women’s Center Inc.

VIRGINIA

A Capitol Women’s Health Clinic

A Tidewater Women’s Health Clinic

Alexandria Women’s Health Clinic

Amethyst Health Center for Women

Annandale Women and Family Center

Charlottesville Medical Center for Women

Charlottesville Planned Parenthood

Falls Church Healthcare Center

Hillcrest Clinic

NOVA Women’s Healthcare

Peninsula Medical Center for Women

Planned Parenthood, Blacksburg

Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington, Falls Church

Planned Parenthood, Roanoke

Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Virginia

Richmond Medical Center for Women

Roanoke Medical Center for Women

Virginia Health Group

Virginia League for Planned Parenthood

Virginia Women’s Wellness

Whole Woman’s Health of Charlottesville

WASHINGTON

Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and Northern Idaho

WISCONSIN

Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin

Catherine Glenn Foster, Steven H. Aden, ed. UNSAFE: America’s Abortion Industry Endangers Women (Americans United for Life, 2021)

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Woman hospitalized for six days after botched abortion at Planned Parenthood

Pro-life author and researcher Kevin Sherlock documented the following:

Stephanie M charged Aleksander Jakubowski with botching an abortion he performed on her at Planned Parenthood in Merrillville, Indiana in 1984. He perforated her uterus. She had to be taken by ambulance from Planned Parenthood to a hospital. At the hospital, she had to undergo corrective surgery. She spent six days in the hospital recovering from her injuries. Planned Parenthood abortionist Clarence Boone performed the corrective surgery.

“Stephanie, in deposition, said she was one of 35 or so women and girls packed into the Planned Parenthood facility that day. She also said Jakubowski, while performing her abortion, “stopped everything,” and said, “it’s all your fault.” When the nurse asked Jakubowski what happened, Stephanie said, Jakubowski replied, “I perforated her uterus.” Stephanie said, “He [Jakubowski] ran out of the room, and I never saw him again.” She said nurses and other staffers came into the room and summoned an ambulance for her. In the excitement, Stephanie said, one Planned Parenthood nurse tried to insert an IV needle in her arm but couldn’t do it properly.

Even though Boone wanted her to come back for follow-up treatment [to Planned Parenthood] after her hospital stay, Stephanie said, she sought medical help elsewhere because she “didn’t want nothing to do with Planned Parenthood after that.” Jakubowski and Planned Parenthood evidently reached an out-of-court settlement with Stephanie in 1986.”

Source: Case No C85–1248, originally filed in Lake County Circuit Court in Crown Point, was venued to Porter County Superior Court and received the number 85 –PSC– 1237

Kevin Sherlock The Scarlet Survey (Akron, Ohio, Brennyman Books, 1997) 11

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List of Abortion Clinics with Informed Consent Violations

Americans United for Life released a report called UNSAFE: America’s Abortion Industry Endangers Women. For this report, they examined 25,000 pages of health inspection reports from 39 states.

Here is a list of abortion facilities that had violations referring to informed consent. These were violations like the following:

  • Failure to obtain required informed consent at the required time, such as on the same day of procedures or within the state’s required window of time;
  • Failure to have the appropriate licensed staff member obtain the required informed consent;
  • Failure to post or provide patients with contact information for complaint hotlines;
  • Failure to post clinic’s license information in a place where patients could easily see it.

Here is the list.

ALABAMA

Alabama Women’s Center for Reproductive Alternatives

Beacon Women’s Center, Montgomery

Planned Parenthood of Alabama, Birmingham

Planned Parenthood of Alabama, Mobile

ARIZONA

Desert Star Family Planning, Phoenix

CONNECTICUT

Hartford GYN Center

Planned Parenthood of Connecticut Inc., Norwich

FLORIDA

A Gyn Diagnostic Center, Inc.

A Medical Office for Women, North Miami Beach

A Woman’s Center of Hollywood

A Women’s Choice, Inc.

A Woman’s World Medical Center

All Women’s Health Center

All Women’s Health Center of Orlando

All Women’s Health Center of Tampa, Inc.

Blue Coral Women’s Care

Bread and Roses Women’s Health Center

East Cypress Women’s Center

EPOC Clinic, Orlando

Fort Lauderdale Women’s Center

Gynecology and More, Inc.

Millennium Women Center

North Florida Women’s Services

Planned Parenthood of South Florida and the Treasure Coast

Planned Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida

GEORGIA

Atlanta Women’s Clinic

ILLINOIS

Advantage Health Care

Whole Woman’s Health of Peoria

INDIANA

Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, Bloomington

Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, Georgetown

Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, Lafayette

Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, Merrillville

Women’s Med Group Professional Corporation

Women’s Pavilion

KANSAS

Planned Parenthood of the Great Plains

LOUISIANA

Delta Clinic of Baton Rouge

Women’s Health Center

MARYLAND

Whole Woman’s Health of Baltimore

MICHIGAN

Women’s Center of Southfield

Comprehensive Planned Parenthood

Reproductive Health Services of Planned Parenthood, St. Louis

NEW JERSEY

Cherry Hill Women’s Center

Metropolitan Surgical Associates

NORTH CAROLINA

A Preferred Women’s Health Center, Charlotte

A Woman’s Choice of Greensboro

A Woman’s Choice of Raleigh

Family Reproductive Health

Planned Parenthood South Atlantic of Central North, Chapel Hill

OHIO

East Health Central Ohio (Planned Parenthood)

Founder’s Women’s Health Center

Planned Parenthood, Bedford Heights

Planned Parenthood East Health Center

Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio Regional

Preterm Abortion Clinic

Women’s Med Center of Dayton

OREGON

Lovejoy Surgicenter

PENNSYLVANIA

Allentown Health Center (Planned Parenthood)

Drexel OB/GYN Associates, Philadelphia

Hillcrest Women’s Medical Center

Planned Parenthood of Keystone, Allentown

Planned Parenthood of Keystone, York

Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania, Far Northeast Health Center

Planned Parenthood of Western Pennsylvania

SOUTH CAROLINA

Greenville Women’s Clinic

TENNESSEE

Planned Parenthood Nashville

TEXAS

Hilltop Women’s Reproductive Clinic

Houston Women’s Clinic94

Planned Parenthood Center for Choice Stafford

Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas Austin

Reproductive Services El Paso

Suburban Women’s Clinic Houston

Whole Woman’s Health Austin

Whole Woman’s Health Beaumont

Women’s Health Center Houston

VIRGINIA

Alexandria Women’s Health Clinic

Amethyst Health Center for Women

Annandale Women and Family Center

Charlottesville Planned Parenthood

Hillcrest Clinic

NOVA Women’s Healthcare

Peninsula Medical Center for Women

Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington, Falls Church

Virginia Health Group

Virginia League for Planned Parenthood

Virginia Women’s Wellness

Catherine Glenn Foster, Steven H. Aden, et al. eds. UNSAFE: America’s Abortion Industry Endangers Women (Americans United for Life, 2021) 183-186

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Interviewer couldn’t convince women to talk about their abortions

Byllye Avery, founder of the National Black Women’s Health Project, interviewed many women about their life experiences. She says:

“Women have been totally silent about all the issues. But the issue they were most silent about was abortion. I was amazed that women would talk about the worst kinds of psychological abuse. But they would not talk about their abortions.”

Quoted in Serena Garcia Collective Voices: Newsletter: Defending Abortion Rights as Black Women (Atlanta, Georgia: SisterSong, Summer 2011) 6

Is there something about abortion that is so traumatic that women can’t talk about it? Many women just want to forget their abortions and never tell anyone. If abortion was just the removal of cells, akin to getting a tooth pulled, why would women have such a hard time owning up to and discussing their abortions?

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Owner of second pill in the abortion pill regimen opposed its use in abortion

Cytotec is another name for the drug misoprostol, which was originally developed to treat ulcers but is now used with the abortion pill, mifepristone, to cause abortions. Misoprostol causes the uterus to contract, causing a woman to expel her baby. Mifepristone kills the baby by separating the placenta and cutting off the child’s oxygen and nutrition supply.

The company that has the patent to misoprostol/Cytotec opposed its use in abortions. According to author Melissa Haussman:

“The owner of the Cytotec patent, the Searle Company, consistently lobbied against having its drug included in an official medical abortion procedure.… In August 2000, one month after the drug had gone off-patent, Searle sent a letter to medical practitioners to warn them that Cytotec was not FDA approved for labor or abortion induction, although practitioners already knew that. It has strongly been suggested that the timing of that action was linked to avoiding future liability. Until misoprostol went off patent in July 2000, Searle acted to push any potential US manufacturer away from making mifepristone, since misoprostol would be required as an accompaniment.”

Melissa Haussman Reproductive Rights and the State: Getting the Birth Control, RU-486, and Morning-After Pills and the Gardasil Vaccine to the US Market (Santa Barbara, California: Praeger, 2013) 99

So Searle felt that it was unsafe to use misoprostol to induce abortions or labor, and was afraid of lawsuits due to this.

However, Searle lost the battle to control the use of their drug.

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Abortion worker complains more post-abortive women don’t support abortion

Abortion worker Steph Herold expresses her frustration over how few of the women she who came to her clinic are active in the pro-choice movement:

“We need our patients, who we do everything for, to stand up for us. We don’t need them to tell their abortion stories to everyone they know, although of course, that would be great. We need them to fight for abortion access in whatever way makes sense to them. If one in three US women has an abortion by age 45, where are these women? Why don’t they stand up for us?”

Sarah Erdreich Generation Roe: Inside the Future of the Pro-Choice Movement (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2013) 175

Could it be because women don’t find their abortions empowering and don’t want to advocate for abortion after they’ve been wounded by one?

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Abortion clinic owner can’t understand why former patients aren’t defending her clinic

Abortion facility owner Maggie Cage ran a full-page newspaper ad during Operation Rescue’s campaign. While pro-lifers staged sit-ins in front of the facility door, Cage called for her former patients to come and “defend” the facility. She couldn’t understand why they weren’t coming back to support the clinic:

“Where are you? Where are all the people we’ve helped over the years? We need you now. When you needed us, we were there. We held your hand and supported you. We see you in restaurants and at the grocery store, at PTA meetings and softball games. You are the businesspeople, the school officials, the politicians, the voters. We kept you safe. We held your secrets. But now we need help. Where are you?”

Quoted in Susan Wicklund This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor (New York: Public Affairs Perseus Books Group, 2007) 160

Could it be because these women didn’t feel so “helped” by their abortions?

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Abortionist describes women throwing up after their abortions from “emotional feeling”

Abortionist William J. Sweeney III writes:

“Consider five patients going up to the operating room for a dilation and curettage [for a non-abortion reason]: we put them to sleep and do the procedure: then they go to the recovery room and everything’s fine. But if we take five women upstairs to have abortions by suction curette, at least four of them will vomit as they’re waking up in the recovery room. Now although an abortion is a more delicate procedure technically, it’s practically the same operation as a D&C when you assess what has been done to the patient: same anesthesia, same operating room, same nurses, same doctors. Yet only an occasional D&C patient is nauseated whereas the vast majority of abortion patients will vomit. I think they throw up because of an underlying emotional feeling. Maybe they’re trying to get rid of the baby or their guilt. Or maybe they’re punishing themselves… Legal or not, an abortion is still a traumatic experience for most women.”

William J. Sweeney III, MD, Barbara Lang Stern Woman’s Doctor: A Year in the Life of an Obstetrician-Gynecologist (New York: Morrow & Company, 1973) 209

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