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Women forced to have abortions?
WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Tuesday, March 9, 2004

Posted on 03/08/2004 11:03:09 PM PST by JohnHuang2

MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH
Women forced to have abortions?
Expectant mother who screamed 'stop' will petition Supreme Court


Posted: March 9, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern


© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com

Responding to a recent ruling allowing forced abortions, a former judge is petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court to acknowledge a woman's "right to say no."

An appeals court ruled earlier this year an expectant mother can be aborted by force if the physician argues it is necessary to "protect the health of the mother."

But pro-life attorney Chris Sapp is prepared to challenge the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling Jan. 23 in Roe II v. Aware Women Center for Choice, Inc., says the Virginia-based Population Research Institute, or PRI, which says it is "dedicated to ending human rights abuses committed in the name of 'family planning,' and to ending counter-productive social and economic paradigms premised on the myth of 'overpopulation.'"

Sapp is asking the U.S. Supreme Court for a writ of certiori acknowledging a woman's right to say "no" to an abortion at any point in time.

His argument is based on the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances, or FACE Act, which makes violation of a woman's right to receive reproductive health care a federal crime.

If a woman had a right to enter a clinic to get an abortion, Sapp contended, she also has a right to leave a clinic in order to protect herself and her baby.

'My God, you're hurting me'

The Roe II case began March 29, 1997, when a young, pregnant mother entered the Aware Women Center for Choice clinic in Florida to get an abortion.

According to RPI, William P. Egherman, who has performed more than 10,000 abortions and been addicted to alcohol and opiates, began the procedure by attempting to dilate the woman's cervix.

But the woman had a change of heart.

"My God, you're hurting me" the woman began to scream. "You're killing me, I'll never be able to have babies. ... Stop!"

But Egherman ignored the pleas and screams and called for assistance from clinic workers who held the woman down as he continued to dilate her cervix.

Then he entered the victim with a pair of forceps -- "the bear" Ehgerman called them -- and began probing and pulling. He mistakenly pulled out part of the woman's intestines.

Sapp, who represented the woman, said she described it as like being drawn and quartered.

When he realized what he had done, Egherman heavily sedated the woman then he called for an ambulance.

But he instructed the ambulance to come slowly, without lights or sirens, to give him "time to pack the woman with gauze."

Egherman said he also was worried his regular flow of business would be interrupted by "all the hoopla."

"Saturday's our big day," he explained, "and I didn't want to generate … any more confusion, any more panic than was already present at the time. She was loud, and as I said, she was shrill, and there were a lot of patients who were hearing what was going on, and the normal rhythm of the day was interrupted. The other patients must have been terrified, and I didn't want the ambulance showing up with all the lights and sirens. …"

The woman underwent an operation at the hospital and the damage to her internal organs was repaired. But her baby was dead.

The matter would have ended at that point if not for Sapp's federal suit, arguing Egherman had violated the FACE Act.

Sapp argued forcing the abortion procedure and preventing the woman from going immediately to a hospital where her pregnancy could have been saved violated her reproductive rights.

Egherman's defense attorneys maintained "if he had to go back in" in order to protect the woman's health, then this would not constitute a violation of the FACE Act.

On a summary judgment, the appeals court agreed, but Sapp asserts the evidence shows the abortion had just begun when the woman called for Egherman to stop and that he went "back in" to perform the abortion against her will.

"This ruling does establish a precedent for forced abortion," Sapp said.

For example, he said, an expectant mother receiving a routine gynecological exam could be held down and forcibly aborted. The physician would simply have to argue the abortion was necessary to protect the mother's health or life, which would not violate the FACE Act.

'I've already paid for it'

PRI said it has learned of another case of forced abortion. A 25-year-old Maryland woman, four months pregnant, changed her mind after being taken to the procedure room.

She ran back to the clinic entrance where her boyfriend stopped her. The boyfriend said she must get an abortion, "I've already paid for it."

Three clinic workers and the abortion performers surrounded the women, sedated her by injection, then took her back into the procedure room. After the forced abortion, she awoke in a closet.




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KEYWORDS: abortion; catholiclist; forcedabortions; populationcontrol; prolife
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Tuesday, March 9, 2004

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1 posted on 03/08/2004 11:03:09 PM PST by JohnHuang2
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To: JohnHuang2
This is murder Johnny. This crap has got to stop.
2 posted on 03/08/2004 11:05:10 PM PST by jwalsh07 (We're bringing it on John but you can't handle the truth!)
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To: jwalsh07
This is murder

No other word for it, my friend.

3 posted on 03/08/2004 11:08:34 PM PST by JohnHuang2
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To: JohnHuang2
Wait a minute, this kind of thing was supposed to stop when we legalized abortion!!! Isn't this kind of like the old "back alley abortion?" Of course, at 10,000 abortions he is probably one of the poster children for NARAL, so don't expect any efforts by the pro abortion folks to stop this kind of abuse. What other medical procedure requires a court to certify the obvious right anyone has to stop a medical procedure any time they want to. It's like a bizarro Alice in Wonderland story.
4 posted on 03/08/2004 11:12:13 PM PST by Casloy
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To: cpforlife.org; Coleus
ping or rather barf alert!
5 posted on 03/08/2004 11:20:01 PM PST by farmfriend ( Isaiah 55:10,11)
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To: JohnHuang2
Disturbing, to say the least.
6 posted on 03/08/2004 11:37:13 PM PST by B-Bear (If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under)
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To: MHGinTN; Coleus; nickcarraway; Mr. Silverback; Canticle_of_Deborah; TenthAmendmentChampion; ...
PING - Women forced to have abortions?
7 posted on 03/08/2004 11:41:33 PM PST by cpforlife.org (The Missing Key of the Pro-Life Movement is at www.CpForLife.org)
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Please let me know if you want on or off my Pro-Life Ping List.

8 posted on 03/08/2004 11:42:09 PM PST by cpforlife.org (The Missing Key of the Pro-Life Movement is at www.CpForLife.org)
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To: JohnHuang2; jwalsh07; Casloy; farmfriend
http://www.fortifyingthefamily.com/Abortion_and_the_Mothers_Life.html

To Spare the Mother's Life:
A Myth of Abortion


"Protection of the life of the mother as an excuse for an abortion is a smoke screen. In my 36 years of pediatric surgery, I have never known of one instance where the child had to be aborted to save the mother's life. If toward the end of the pregnancy complications arise that threaten the mother's health, the doctor will induce labor or perform a Caesarean section. His intention is to save the life of both the mother and the baby. The baby's life is never willfully destroyed because the mother's life is in danger."

-C. Everett Koop, M.D., former U.S. Surgeon General

9 posted on 03/08/2004 11:44:29 PM PST by cpforlife.org (The Missing Key of the Pro-Life Movement is at www.CpForLife.org)
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To: JohnHuang2
I'm sickened...
10 posted on 03/08/2004 11:44:31 PM PST by stands2reason
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To: JohnHuang2
Liberals demand health inspections of every food outlet in the public. They'll close you down for violations.

Ever wonder why abortion clinics aren't held to the same standards?

Like a gay, pedophile Catholic priest, bad abortionists just get moved along to another clinic.
11 posted on 03/08/2004 11:46:51 PM PST by Fledermaus (Democrats! The party of total Anarchy!)
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To: cpforlife.org
Forced abortions? Underground Catholic Church? What is this, China?
12 posted on 03/09/2004 12:11:05 AM PST by Canticle_of_Deborah
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To: narses; Land of the Irish; NYer; Salvation
Pro-life ping
13 posted on 03/09/2004 2:51:38 AM PST by Dajjal
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To: Canticle_of_Deborah
It's the culture of Death.

My God, this is horrific...

"I've already paid for it..."

Oh.

My.

God.
14 posted on 03/09/2004 4:35:23 AM PST by Mr. Thorne ("But iron, cold iron, shall be master of them all..." Kipling)
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To: JohnHuang2
She ran back to the clinic entrance where her boyfriend stopped her. The boyfriend said she must get an abortion, "I've already paid for it."

Three clinic workers and the abortion performers surrounded the women, sedated her by injection, then took her back into the procedure room. After the forced abortion, she awoke in a closet.

They're pro-choice alright. They've chosen evil.

15 posted on 03/09/2004 5:40:15 AM PST by He Rides A White Horse
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To: JohnHuang2
Propaganda : "Ourbodies Ourselves"
Reality: "Your ass belongs to us"
16 posted on 03/09/2004 7:36:52 AM PST by joesnuffy (Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes)
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To: JohnHuang2
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17 posted on 03/09/2004 11:05:16 AM PST by kimmie7 (We're going to Boston in 2 weeks. I'm considering packing grits. Pray for Jacob!)
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To: JohnHuang2; 2nd amendment mama; A2J; Agitate; Alouette; Annie03; aposiopetic; attagirl; axel f; ...
Hey, it's all about choice, baby.

ProLife Ping!

If anyone wants on or off my ProLife Ping List, please notify me here or by freepmail.

18 posted on 03/09/2004 11:38:54 AM PST by Mr. Silverback (Pre-empt the third murder attempt-- Pray for Terry Schiavo!)
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To: JohnHuang2

Why in the world do we have to go Supreme court on this? Can't the local cops do their jobs and jail the fckrs?? What the hell's going on? The whole freaking county and state officials acting irresponsibly should be impeached and National Guards sent in.


19 posted on 03/09/2004 11:44:35 AM PST by JudgemAll
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To: JudgemAll
Because we live in a fascist state where there's one set of laws for us, and a totally different set of laws that apply to the politically correct.
20 posted on 03/09/2004 11:55:31 AM PST by thoughtomator (Political Correctness is fascism)
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