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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.




TOPICS: Editorial; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abortion; catholiclist; forcedabortions; populationcontrol; prolife
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To: Canticle_of_Deborah
This is a very, very dangerous court ruling.>>

It sure is, I remember when I was on the first aid squad, we were not allowed to take anyone who didn't want to go to the hospital for treatment. This decision is more proof for the argument that today's judges are activist judges who want to push their atheistic, Marxist agenda.
41 posted on 03/09/2004 9:19:47 PM PST by Coleus (Roe v. Wade and Endangered Species Act both passed in 1973, Murder Babies/save trees, birds, algae)
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To: Mr. Silverback
bump and thanks!
43 posted on 03/09/2004 11:50:14 PM PST by lainde (Heads up...We're coming and we've got tongue blades!!)
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To: JohnHuang2
Ugh. Reminds me of Nazi concentration camps. Guess the abortionists have been reading up on some WWII literature. God help us.

tSG
44 posted on 03/10/2004 8:38:12 AM PST by alkaloid2 (Hey! Check out http://www.thesupergenius.com!)
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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."

Legal abortion is the best thing that ever happened to irresponsible men. Yet the libs would have you believe it's all about women's rights. What an ironic crock.

45 posted on 03/10/2004 10:34:23 AM PST by workerbee
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To: Siobhan
Unbelievably horrible!

From 1973-1998 over 38 million Americans were aborted. The survivors of Roe v. Wade, young people born since 1973, have lost a third of their generation.
46 posted on 03/10/2004 11:28:22 AM PST by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: jwalsh07
Thanks for the link.

AWARE must be some kind of independent operator. I've never known a Planned Parenthood affiliated clinic to let their slip show, as it were. Very tight with the protective orders.
47 posted on 03/10/2004 1:01:39 PM PST by Askel5
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To: jwalsh07
I guess -- being that it was her third abortion -- she indeed was positioned to know whether the pain was SOP or not.
48 posted on 03/10/2004 1:03:16 PM PST by Askel5
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To: JohnHuang2
Where are the advocates for choice on this? I know they're "deeply troubled". /sarcasm
49 posted on 03/10/2004 1:10:20 PM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: CalKat
Choice, my tuchis!
50 posted on 03/10/2004 1:17:09 PM PST by Mr. Silverback (Pre-empt the third murder attempt-- Pray for Terry Schiavo!)
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To: Siobhan
When you think you've heard the worst...along comes something only the evil one would consider...... God have mercy on us all.
51 posted on 03/11/2004 1:01:01 PM PST by ejo
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To: Coleus
acknowledging that a woman's right to say "no" to an abortion, at any point in time, is absolute, and that this right is found in the FACE Act.

I would say that this right is much more fundamental than just the FACE Act.

52 posted on 03/16/2004 10:43:38 PM PST by Bellflower
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To: JohnHuang2
Interesting. At the same time there's a case with a woman that had one twin die at birth (they found the child already full of crack) and the same pro-choice people are whining about her being charged with murder.

Can't they make up their minds?
53 posted on 03/16/2004 10:47:29 PM PST by Fledermaus (Ðíé F£éðérmáú§ ^;;^ says, "Tick off France, Germany, Spain and Al Qaeda - VOTE BUSH!)
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To: JohnHuang2
Omg.. how disgusting and evil!
54 posted on 03/16/2004 10:49:23 PM PST by Trillian
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