Posted on 08/18/2010 9:00:55 PM PDT by kcvl
RN charged with performing unlawful abortion By: John Worthen - - Published: 08/18/2010
A registered nurse employed by the El Dorado office of the Arkansas Department of Health has been charged with performing an unlawful abortion on a 20-year-old El Dorado resident, according to authorities.
Tracye Summerville, 46, of 1110 W. Main, El Dorado, was arrested and released Monday on a $50,000 bond and will have her first appearance at 1:30 p.m. today in Union County District Court.
She is also being charged with first-degree attempted criminal battery, possessing medication without proper documentation and performing an abortion without a license.
A report issued Tuesday by the El Dorado Police Department said that Summerville provided a female with five Cytotec pills, which are used to abort a fetus during the first trimester of pregnancy, on May 13 under the pretense that the medication was to be used for symptoms of nausea.
The victim, according to the report, took two pills, then visited the Arkansas Health Education Center the next day complaining of “heavy spotting and bleeding.”
The report said that the victim was between eight and 10 weeks pregnant at the time she lost the fetus.
According to a spokesman for the Arkansas Department of Health, Summerville was still employed with that department at the time of her arrest.
Have to have the ‘appropriate’ license to butcher a baby dontchya know.
Just charge her with murder and get it over. She murdered a baby, period. In cases where someone kills and adult female who is pregnant, the perp is charged with two murders. So, tell me, why is elected abortion, not a murder of a child? How can liberals say that an unborn fetus is not a human child...for the purpose of aborting it...and then our courts charge a person with a double murder if they have killed a pregnant woman?
From what you’ve posted it’s implied that this expectant mother did not go to that office seeking an abortion, whether or not it was legal to perform that procedure.
Like I said many times before, abortion is legal killing.
It’s legal killing of innocent human life.
Had the 50+ million not been slaughtered to death, we’d be a much healthier, happier, and prosperous Country today.
F# those who continue to butcher the innocent ones. I take that back - don’t.
The article is rather vague, but it sounds like the woman went to the health dept for pre-natal care and was poisoned. Pregnant women don’t go to the health department for abortions, but to get check-ups, vitamins and the like. It sounds like this nurse gave her the Cytotec (tricking the mother?) for “nausea”. I wonder if this is one of those cases where 2 women share the same “baby daddy” and she was trying to get rid of the competition? What would possess the nurse to do such a thing? (Jim’s W)
The article is poorly written so I don’t know what the ‘mother’ went to the ‘health dept’ for.
“The article is poorly written”
Agreed. I have just never heard of anyone having an abortion at a Health Department before, those are done at Planned Parenthood clinics. The Health Departments do pre-natal clinics and care for low income or uninsured women.
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