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Abby Johnson discusses her accusations against Dr. Paul Fine

Abby Johnson, former Planned Parenthood director turned pro-life, testified before the Texas Medical Board to encourage them to investigate Dr. Paul Fine. Dr. Fine had been the clinic director at Abby Johnson’s former workplace (a Planned Parenthood clinic that has since been closed). Dr. Paul Fine is still the medical director of another clinic as well as being on staff at Baylor College of Medicine.

In an interview with Clinicquotes, Abby Johnson explained the allegations:

Why did you choose to file the complaint against Dr. Fine?

When I left Planned Parenthood, I had no idea that these things I was bringing forward were even against standard medical practice. When I learned this, I knew that I had to make these things public for the health and safety of women. I also want physicians to be held accountable, period. Whether they are family physicians or abortionists, physicians who endanger patients should be investigated.

In brief, what were the allegations?

The most egregious allegations are the two that the board are spending their most time on in their investigation: Pre-signing prescription pads for narcotics without ever having a conversation or examining the patient and backdating consent forms that stated he was physically in the presence of the patient and answered all of their questions when he never was.

In what ways were his actions dangerous or potentially harmful for patients? What could have happened as a result of his violations?

It is illegal to presign prescriptions for controlled substances. This is something that the states have really cracked down on because of the widespread abuse of narcotics. When doctors don’t actually examine the patients they are supposedly treating, the results can be very dangerous. Physicians are trained to examine the patient’s history to specifically look for contraindications that an untrained medical staff person may not be able to evaluate. I don’t know what the TMB will ultimately decide to do if they find proof of his negligence, but I don’t think removing or suspending his medical license is out of the question.

Can you give an example of harm done by his actions, a woman hurt, for example?

We often had women come back in with serious complications resulting from RU-486 abortions. Because we didn’t have a physician on site, we would have to either send them to the emergency room (which was not our preference) or make them drive two hours to our abortion center that did have a physician on site every day. If a woman is experiencing heavy bleeding or serious infection, two hours could be too long.

How did his neglect of meeting with patients violate their right to informed consent?

Every patient should have the opportunity and should have the right to discuss any procedure with the physician before that procedure is performed. This is standard practice in the medical community with the exception of abortion.

The Texas Medical Board voted to conduct an official investigation of Dr. Paul Fine and his behaviour at Planned Parenthood. Follow Abby Johnson on Facebook to learn of developments as they occur.

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Therapist holds pro-life sign, tells of helping women

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Woman sees aborted baby after taking abortion pill

The following was posted on my site in response to a comment that was made that 10-week-old babies do not look human and are not developed. The woman below had an abortion by pill at 10 weeks, and held her baby in her hand:

Your [sic]wrong. If you want to see that science for yourself, its easy , you don’t care right! So get pregnant, go to a abortion clinic around 9-10 weeks, get the abortion pill. Next day insert the three pills in your cervix area, get some sleep, and wait for you to gush. Deliver in tub, so you can see this so called pile of tissue, that so called pile of tissue, has a nice round head, eyes, developing ears, hand, fingers arms, elbows, legs , feet, toes, mouth, I’ve held my 10 wk baby, have you.

A medical (by pill) abortion after nine weeks or so can result in the expelling of a baby with human parts, arms, legs, etc. These parts developed by about seven weeks after conception. See recognizable body of an aborted baby is one reason why abortions by pill can be so incredibly traumatic to women. It is also not recommended by the FDA that they be given beyond seven weeks, but many clinics do.

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Lack of support drives woman to the abortion clinic

Pamela’s story:

I am 20 years old, and I always thought this would be too young for me to have a child, but when it actually ‘happens’ everything is so different. I’ve been with my ex only a couple of months, before he broke up with me. He started saying I was different, getting so emotional and stuff… A week after he broke up I found out I was pregnant. When I told my friends, it was obvious for them that I’d get an abortion, and for my ex, it was not even a question. He is the only one I eventually told I wanted to keep it, and he was hysterical, telling me he was not ready for a child (can’t forget to mention he’s a 28 year old insecure about anything that resolves around money, even if he’s doing fine).

Back then, I thought that, since that’s what he wanted, it’d be better for our relationship. Now that I knew my ups and downs were caused by the pregnancy, I thought he’d forgive me for being such an idiot. I eventually told my parents about it, my mom was very supportive, but on the other hand, my dad kept saying ”you know it would not be good for you, you have so much more to live…” I could see he was devastated. I ended up taking an appointment, without even really thinking about it… trying to make the thoughts of wanting to keep the baby go away.

The fact of me being a single mom is never something that bothered me. I’m independent, I have a good job, and I don’t mind taking care of it myself. But, the only thought of really being all alone, without having my friends and family supporting me was making me feel so insecure. I was so scared of loosing it all, and now I know I would not have ”lost it all”, because my best friend and my dad (the ones I thought would not support me) would have eventually accepted it, and I know it.

I went to the appointment, with my ex boyfriend, and did it. I laid, closed my eyes, and fell asleep. When I woke up, I was hysterical. I kept crying, feeling like they’ve taken away a huge part of my body. I felt so empty. In 15 mins my whole life changed. I was getting used of having a little baby inside of me, and it felt like they had just taken away the only thing that was keeping me from falling apart. I was going through a lot when my ex left me. I felt so abandoned. On top of that my best friend, who is also my roommate, would not even understand me while I was pregnant. My food cravings, fatigue and nausea were annoying here.. As if she could not associate all of this with my pregnancy because she knew it would soon going to end, so she did not try to realize I WOULD actually still be pregnant until my abortion. Saying ”I’m going to get an abortion” does not mean it all goes away… So, while I felt everyone was just abandoning me, this little thing right inside my belly was the only thing that gave me a reason to try to be ”OK”. At night, when going to bed, I kept crying, but always felt better when thinking I was not alone.

After a while, the situation with my ex got worse. I felt so mad at myself for caring about his feelings.. He had no right to tell me what to do with my body… and him being that much of an asshole with me after the abortion felt like a slap in the face. Everything I thought I was, I wanted, and also how people were was all flipped upside down. And that made it all worse, I felt like this would all kill me. I wished I could just go to sleep for a couple of months. Felt like this was just too much, too much in a year, too much for a lifetime… I was still grieving (I’ve also lost someone i was really close too only a couple of months before that), and felt like ”this” experience was way too much for me to handle.

Now that it’s all said and done, I mad at myself for listening to others instead of my own feelings. I cared about people who could not even try to care for me. Now that it’s over, everyone’s acting as if it never even happened, but every night I go to sleep crying, and wake up the next morning, put on my brave face and try to convince myself everything’s gonna be OK. What hurts the most is thinking I’m never going to go back to that person I was before. It is now part of my story and I have to live with it. I’m mad at myself in a way because I always told my self I’d never be that ”person”. I have to carry these regrets on my shoulders, and everyday I wish this has not been a life-changing experience for me, but it was…

This abortion changed so much in my life, and in my perception of how I want to live it. Now I am being a little more selfish, thinking about my own feelings first, and I guess being that depressed has its reasons… Everything happens for a reason. I guess when I’ll get pregnant again, this feeling of emptiness will go away, but until then, I know I still have a lot to go through. Unfortunately, this experience really did change my life, and now everything seems so blurry. I am slowly going to heal, and I know it, I know I am grieving, and eventually, the guilt will also go away, but I wish I could just fast forward my life, and make it all go away…
Pamela

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Pregnant teen sees baby’s heartbeat on ultrasound, decides not to have abortion

“I went to an abortion clinic in Knoxville, just to talk to them to ask questions to make sure I was pregnant. They did an ultrasound. I think I was three weeks when I went. As soon as I saw her heartbeat I knew then that wasn’t an option. I knew I couldn’t do it.”

Lindsay Dougherty, at the time pregnant at 17

“17-year-old knew decision as soon as she saw baby’s heartbeat” The Tennessean May 19 2012

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Abortion is “murder” but should be a woman’s choice?

Pro-choice and pro-euthanasia advocate Jim Taylor says that abortion is “murder” but he still thinks it’s wrong to prevent a woman from having one:

“I would consider prohibiting a woman from having an abortion, and forcing a woman to have one, to be equally wrong.

Some local agencies have accused me of being pro-abortion. I’m not. I’m opposed to abortion. I consider it a form of murder. Or of euthanasia, at the other end of life. I would not counsel any woman to terminate a pregnancy by having an abortion.

At the same time, I would not condemn any woman for having had an abortion. Because I cannot, and should not, make that choice for her.”

Jim Taylor “Fundamental right to choose” The Daily Courier January 11, 2015

More and more pro-choicers are saying that yes, abortion is “murder” or “killing” a “baby” (or “life” or “human life”), but that abortion still should not be illegal and that woman have a right to kill their offspring.

9 to 10 weeks. is killing this baby "murder"? — 9 to 10 weeks. is killing this baby “murder”?

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The Story of Baby Tia

In a 1992 handout, author Jed White of Operation Rescue National told the story of baby Tia, a little girl who was aborted in the fifth month of pregnancy. Because she had been a victim of an abortion by induced labor, Tia’s little body was intact and unmarred. (See left) A pathologist was given Tia’s body to dispose of by the abortionist who killed her. However, struck with sympathy, the pathologist gave Tia to pro–lifer Rev. Robert Schenck of Buffalo, NY, for proper burial. A mortician offered his services and cared for Tia’s body, but Rev. Schneck was unable to bury the little girl because cemeteries all required a death certificate, and Tia’s life and death were never acknowledged.

While technically New York State at the time required a death certificate to be filled out for each abortion, these laws were not always followed. Tia’s mother most likely paid cash and the records were never made.

This all took place during the time when Operation Rescue was staging large demonstrations outside abortion clinics, and squaring off against vocal, often violent pro-choicers. Rev. Schneck and his brother took Tia to a demonstration in Buffalo, New York and displayed her to the crowd.

Rev. Schneck, who was holding Tia, was attacked by a violent proabortion demonstrator who grabbed Tia and threw her to the ground. The Schneck brothers were then arrested by police at the scene.

When asked what the charges were, the arresting officer said “I don’t know.” Within the next several weeks, charges were amended several times and then dropped. The Schnecks were released.

An Erie County medical examiner had seized Tia’s battered body and refused to give her back to the pro-lifers. In his autopsy report, he pronounced her “a human body” and “a stillborn.” However, he refused to state the cause of death, and never ruled on whether Tia was “stillborn” as a result of an abortion procedure.

All this was recorded in Jed White “Baby Tia” Operation Rescue National, 1992

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Abortion is “empowering” to me

Abortionist Eric Schaff:

“The desire to control one’s destiny is fundamental. The physician’s role is to help our patients have healthier and more productive futures….Simply advocating for abortion services for my patients often left me helpless. Now, the ability to provide this critical health service has been empowering to my patients and to myself as a physician.”

Voices of Choice

Many women do not feel empowered after their abortions, but in fact, regret them.

There is something wrong with a person who is empowered by tearing apart babies like the one below

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Abortion Survivor: Nik Hoot

Read about more abortion survivors.

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Father sees ultrasound of his baby for the first time

A pregnant woman talks about what happened when her ambivalent fiancé, the baby’s father, saw an ultrasound of his baby for the first time:

“My fiancé and I were a lot closer before I found out I was pregnant… We kinda drifted apart. I got him to go to the ultrasound with me, and once he saw it moving around and kicking and stuff, he has been involved ever since!!

He has been 100% supportive, and at my last doctor’s appointment he was excited to go! We heard the heartbeat and I will never forget the look on his face! Try to get the father to go to things like that, it will definitely get him going…”

Anonymous, Quoted from the AOL’s Pregnancy Message Boards, and reposted on abortion TV, a pro-life website that is now down.

Below: 3-D ultrasound of a 10 week-old baby. These ultrasounds are amazing, but even the traditional, two-dimensional ultrasounds can be a powerful tool in humanizing unborn babies.

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