They said it.
Sometimes abortion hurts all those involved, not just the mother, the siblings, and the father. From a schoolteacher in her 40s:
“Advising my daughter to have an abortion led me into a long, suicidal siege. I’m not over it yet. I can picture a baby who never even existed.”
James Patterson and Peter Kim, The Day America Told the Truth (New York: Prentice Hall press, 1991) 33
Intuitively, the woman knows that a baby did exist – a baby that was killed in the abortion.
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While many pro-choice activists have bemoaned the shortage of abortion providers, one abortionist thinks that new abortionists will step up to the plate after the present ones retire:
“Managed care is such a bad system, many physicians will get fed up with it. This is a cash business, and doctors can make as much doing this as in family practice. I just don’t think there’s ever going to be a shortage of providers.”
Dr. Tom Tvedten
“4 abortion providers in state refuse to let threats dictate practices Doctors face peril, continue work: Physicians perform procedure despite decades of violent opposition”Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Little Rock, AR) March 27, 2001
Abortion is very profitable for doctors. Working only a few hours a day, they can make as much money as they can with an ordinary career as a doctor.
Learn more about money and abortion here
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taste buds are working between 13 and 15 weeks gestation (11 to 13 weeks after conception)
Mistretta & Bradley, “Taste In Utero” 1970 7P 62
According to Bradley, et al “Development of Taste Buds…” J.Anat. 101 (4) 1967, P 743 – 752
Share on FacebookA study in the American Journal of Orthopsychiarty on the characteristics of children who were unplanned by their parents discovered the following:
“one doctor found no relationship between unplanned pregnancies and newborn deviant behavior. In fact, there were more deviant babies of mothers who planned their pregnancies than those who had not.”
AJ Ferriera “The Pregnant Woman’s Emotional Attitude and Its Reflection in the Newborn” American Journal of Orthopsychiarty volume 30, 1960, PP 553
Just because a baby is unplanned does not mean he or she she will not be loved and will not have a happy life.
Share on FacebookOne clinic administrator complained about a law that would allow women to sue clinics where they were injured (physically or emotionally) within 10 years of their abortions. The law, vigeously fought by pro-choicers, (who seem to care little for women who are injured in abortions) was defeated, then later passed. Hope Medical Group for Women (abortion clinic) manager Robin Rothrock said, in an article in Mother Jones:
“It was like a really scary movie, when you think the bad guy is dead, and suddenly he rises up and grabs you…There’s no way a physician can perform an abortion with this law on the books. It’s an insane level of exposure.”
Should women injured in abortion, or the families of women killed in abortions, be allowed to sue for damages? Is forbidding them from getting compensation for bad health care anti-woman? Somehow, Mother Jones manages to present idea of injured women seeking justice as a threat to women everywhere. The same article speaks out against abortion clinic regulations. In Louisiana, a news station exposed filthy conditions at Delta Women’s Clinic in Baton Rouge. In response, pro-lifers enacted legislation to require abortion clinics to be inspected and to meet minimum health standards. Mother Jones manages to make excuses for the clinic and advocates against the laws. It quotes a pro-abortion researcher claiming that:
“Having published on every hemorrhaged abortion death in the United States, I can assure you that not a single one was caused by a door width.”
No, but a death could be contributed to by the fact that stretchers can’t get through narrow doors, and lifesaving equipment cannot reach the injured woman.
They say that propaganda is the form of lying that deceives your friends without deceiving your enemies. In this case, Mother Jones serves up some excellent propaganda.
Barry Yeoman “The Quiet War on Abortion” Mother Jones Sept/ Oct 2001
Here are some cases of abortion malpractice.
Here are profiles of dangerous clinics and shoddy conditions.
Here is more information about clinic regulations and why they are needed
Here are the stories of some women who died from legal abortion.
Share on FacebookAn article on abortion malpractice discusses lawsuits against various clinics. Here is one lawsuit from a woman who had a hard time dealing with her abortion:
D. had a first trimester abortion to hide the fact that she was having sex with someone other than her mate. She felt she had no other choice. She did not receive any pre-abortion counseling. After the procedure she found herself thinking about the abortion hundreds of times during the day. When she had her menstrual period, she would save whatever blood clots that passed into the toilet and place them in glass bottles every month. She hoped for another pregnancy both as an attempt to “undo” the abortion and to “replace” her lost child. In addition, she had nightmares and suffered from depression and unrelenting guilt.
“On April 18, 1998, at approximately 7:00 a.m., I witnessed a patient deliver an intact fetus in the toilet of a bathroom in the waiting room area. After expelling the baby and the afterbirth, the patient walked to the operating room because there were no wheelchairs. I opened the fetal sac so that the fetus could be weighed. The weight was approximately 3029 grams [over 6 pounds, 10 ounces!]. It was a very big fetus. My impression is that at Midtown Hospital a procedure will be done at any gestational age as long as the patient has the money. I witnessed patients frequently expelling fetuses on the floor and in the toilet. It happened frequently throughout each day the abortion procedures were done. … Women are allowed to expel fetuses whenever and wherever with no concern for the patient. When I would attempt to comfort the women, I was told that this was not my job.”
According to the clinics ad in “Abortion Clinics Online” a database which supposedly lists only reputable clinics:
“Midtown Hospital has stood for quality healthcare since its founding in the early 1900s. … In 1977, the focus of that outstanding care changed when Midtown Hospital became a women’s medical facility offering a full spectrum of gynecological healthcare services and the tradition of unsurpassed excellence remained. … Today, Midtown Hospital is a rare facility, providing the medical profession and patients with nationally-recognized programs in second trimester abortions for medical and genetic studies. … Midtown is an invaluable resource to referring universities, hospitals and private physicians. … Every abortion is overseen by a Board Certified pathologist. Whether a patient is treated as an out-patient or is admitted for an overnight stay, she receives experienced, professional care in a warm and comfortable environment. Although Midtown Hospital strives to maintain reasonable costs, the staff never cuts corners on laboratory tests, medical care, counseling, personal attention or follow-up care. Midtown Hospital is licensed by the State of Georgia. All physicians are Board Certified and all other medical staff are fully licensed. In addition, our staff is trained in and dedicated to meeting the personal, emotional and physical needs of our patients. It is in this spirit that we preserve the dignity of our patients and provide uncompromised medical care in an atmosphere of comfort and caring.” (Emphasis supplied.)
Even if an abortion clinic is listed with the National Abortion Federation and endorsed by Planned Parenthood, it doesn’t mean that the clinic is clean and offers quality healthcare. Midtown hospital was eventually closed down, but until it was, it was the biggest abortion clinic in Georgia. It was an NAF member.
This is the ad for the clinic on abortionclinicsonline, a national database which is supposed to list only “quality” clinics.
Midtown Hospital has stood for quality healthcare since its founding in the early 1900s. … In 1977, the focus of that outstanding care changed when Midtown Hospital became a women’s medical facility offering a full spectrum of gynecological healthcare services and the tradition of unsurpassed excellence remained. … Today, Midtown Hospital is a rare facility, providing the medical profession and patients with nationally-recognized programs in second trimester abortions for medical and genetic studies. … Midtown is an invaluable resource to referring universities, hospitals and private physicians. … Every abortion is overseen by a Board Certified pathologist. Whether a patient is treated as an out-patient or is admitted for an overnight stay, she receives experienced, professional care in a warm and comfortable environment. Although Midtown Hospital strives to maintain reasonable costs, the staff never cuts corners on laboratory tests, medical care, counseling, personal attention or follow-up care. Midtown Hospital is licensed by the State of Georgia. All physicians are Board Certified and all other medical staff are fully licensed. In addition, our staff is trained in and dedicated to meeting the personal, emotional and physical needs of our patients. It is in this spirit that we preserve the dignity of our patients and provide uncompromised medical care in an atmosphere of comfort and caring.” (Emphasis supplied.)
In reality, the state inspected the clinic several times and found deficiencies. The Georgia Department of Human Resources allowed Midtown to continue to operate despite repeated on-site investigations which showed “a complete disregard for, or the inability to care for, the health and safety of its patients” (Verified Complaint for Injunctive Relief filed May 20, 1998). On May 22, 1998 Midtown Hospital was temporarily closed by a Superior Court judge pending the outcome of litigation to shut it permanently. Were it not for a short account of the clinic’s closing in the Local News section of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (May 23), no one would be the wiser.
Paragraph 2 of the Complaint against Midtown neatly summarizes the charges.
“Inspections of Midtown Hospital by DHR staff, interviews with current and former employees of Midtown Hospital, and interviews with women who have been patients at Midtown Hospital reveal an overcrowded, understaffed and dirty health care facility that jeopardizes the health and safety of its patients. For example, overcrowding and lack of proper monitoring of patients results in the expulsion of fetuses on the floor and in the commode of the preoperative area; Midtown Hospital’s sterilization process to prevent the spread of infection is severely deficient; Midtown Hospital’s personnel files lack any evidence that many of its employees are qualified for their jobs; and Midtown Hospital lacks any system for identifying, documenting, or evaluating unexpected or negative patient outcomes. DHR staff has consistently found that Midtown Hospital’s records lack information regarding transfer of patients to other facilities due to complications arising during or after surgical procedures performed at Midtown Hospital.”
According to the Affidavit of “Employee A,” employed at Midtown Hospital from November 1996 to February 1998:
“The preoperative room is located near the room where I was stationed. I could hear the patients hollering and screaming in the preoperative room. … I saw patients laying on the floor crying in pain. … I routinely saw patients expel fetuses on the floor and in the commode in the preoperative room. Patients expelled fetuses in front of other patients that were awaiting procedures. Patients expelled fetuses in commodes that were used by other patients. … I regularly observed patients expel fetuses in the commode in the discharge area. … Oftentimes, I was the only staff member in that area to assist patients. I do not have medical training.”
Employee B is a certified surgical technician, employed at Midtown Hospital from March 30, 1998 until resigning on April 18, 1998. Her affidavit states:
“I never saw the doctors or the anesthesiologist do any pre-operative work-ups on the patients prior to the patients going into the operating room. … Sterilization standards are not followed. … Most women lay on the floor in the pre-op area. Once I attempted to get some sterile sheets for the patients to lay on and was told by the Operating Room supervisor that if “they can lay up and get pregnant then they can come in here and deal with the procedure.” I have witnessed the use of stretchers with blood and bodily fluids on them being re-used without being cleaned. The staff was not concerned about cleaning up blood and other bodily fluids from the floors, chairs, stretchers and bathrooms and did not do so.”
The Affidavit of Patient X describes her experience on April 16, 1998. Following her procedure, she experienced”extreme pain … nausea, vomiting and even more pain.” This continued for several days. She called Midtown Hospital at least twice to speak to a doctor or nurse, but was told to make an appointment. Finally, she called 911 and was transported to a local hospital where they diagnosed an incomplete abortion. The Brief refers to other patients who were transfer-red to a hospital for “complications” occurring at Midtown
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Share on FacebookIn a study entitled “Women’s preferences for information and complication seriousness ratings related to elective medical procedures” in the August 2006 edition of the Journal of Medical Ethics, 95% of women surveyed claimed that they would want to know all of the risks of elective medical procedures, including abortion, before agreeing to that procedure. According to an article on the study:
Priscilla Coleman, David Reardon, and Matthew Lee, the study of a diverse sample of 187 largely low-income women seeking obstetric and gynecological services found that they overwhelmingly wanted to be informed of all known risks associated with elective procedures in general and with abortion in particular….
The study revealed that 95% of the women surveyed at the St. Joseph Regional Medical Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, expressed a desire to be informed of all possible complications associated with elective medical procedures, including abortion. This was found to be true regardless of how common or uncommon the particular complications were.
Study Reveals Women Want Information on Abortion Risks, NRL News Volume 33 Issue 9 September 2006 Page 20
Pro-Choice organizations usually oppose informed consent laws, which require clinics to inform women about the risks of abortion procedures prior to performing them.
Share on FacebookAbortionist John Biskind of A-Z Women’s Center in Phoenix first came under scrutiny when he botched a partial birth abortion he was attempting to perform on a baby that was full-term. He had examined the mother and determined that the baby was 23 weeks old, within the timeframe of a partial birth abortion.
The baby was born alive, but the abortionist had fractured her skull and lacerated her face. She survived.
When this “terrible” complication (terrible only because the baby survived – it would have been fine if the baby had died and would’ve attracted no attention) reporters started investigating and dug up more stories about practice.
He got a “letter of concern” from the Arizona medical board for stopping an abortion and sending a woman home bleeding after he discovered that her baby was late-term and not 10 weeks as he had thought. He’d also been cited for signing blank, undated prescription forms. He killed one woman by tearing a 3 inch rip in her uterus. This happened in 1995.
A nurse at his clinic also maintained that John Biskind aborted a baby at 26 weeks after fudging an ultrasound. State law of Arizona requires that paperwork be filled out before such late abortions, as a woman must be determined to “have a risk to her life or health.” He also failed to have another doctor on standby in case the baby survived the abortion and to write out of a fetal death certificate.
The baby’s mother, Louann Herron, fared no better than her dead unborn child. She continued bleeding after the abortion, and by the time clinic workers called 911, she was past saving.
This would be the second death attributed to this doctor.