Posted on 01/30/2005 9:48:56 AM PST by underlying
Wichita, KS (LifeNews.com) -- A Kansas woman rushed to a local hospital after her abortion at a late-term abortion facility was botched has died. The 32 year-old woman was transported to Wesley Medical Center on January 13 from the abortion business owned and operated by late-term abortion practitioner George Tiller.
According to one source, who spoke with the pro-life group Operation Rescue, she arrived at the hospital with "severe hemorrhaging" and died "a few days later" from undetermined causes the source said "are very likely to be the result of a botched abortion."
According to 911 transcripts the group obtained, Tiller employee Marguerite Reed called for an ambulance after the abortion was botched.
The record indicates Reed was "very evasive" and "refused to give any information about the patient."
Later, Reed told 911 operators the woman suffered from "pain above the belly button." Reed said the woman was awake and alert and did not suffer from chest pain.
Troy Newman, president of the group, called on Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius to ask the Kansas Board of Health Arts, which monitors doctors in the state, to investigate. His group filed a complaint with the state agency.
He also faulted Governor Sebelius for vetoing a bill that would have further regulated abortion facilities.
"I question the judgment of Governor Sebelius in vetoing the clinic regulation act," Newman said.
"That statue could very well have prevented this needless and tragic death," Newman added. "Our prayer of concern and sympathy go out to the family and loved ones for the untimely death of mother and child."
Operation Rescue officials say this is the fourth ambulance trip from Tiller's abortion facility to Wesley in the last 13 months.
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After 15 weeks, it's much safer to carry the child to term and delivery than to undergo an elective abortion. That's one reason that the people of Texas have decided that all abortions after 15 weeks must be done in ambulatory surgical centers or hospitals. And we don't allow elective abortions after 23 weeks, only those for health reasons (although the definition of "health" is wider than I'd like and includes fetal anomaly.)
I think it depends on the region.
Not in my book you aren't. I have been around TB's (not to mention my pet dogs) all my life and have at times wished for an MD for myself half as good, knowledgable, and caring as my VMD!
All legality did was legalize what the abortionists were already doing --- and many of the back-alley abortionists were the same kind of doctors --- so bad they couldn't ever practice real medicine --- saving lives is an art. It doesn't take much knowledge to cut a baby into pieces to kill it.
A coat hanger can perforate a uterus and a scalpel can do it just as well.
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Why the drop after 1960? (in deaths of women from illegal abortions)
The reasons were new and better antibiotics, better surgery and the establishment of intensive care units in hospitals. This was in the face of a rising population. Between 1967 and 1970 sixteen states legalized abortion. In most it was limited, only for rape, incest and severe fetal handicap (life of mother was legal in all states). There were two big exceptions California in 1967, and New York in 1970 allowed abortion on demand. Now look at the chart carefully.
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Abortion Statistics - Decision to Have an Abortion (U.S.)
· 25.5% of women deciding to have an abortion want to postpone childbearing
· 21.3% of women cannot afford a baby
· 14.1% of women have a relationship issue or their partner does not want a child
· 12.2% of women are too young (their parents or others object to the pregnancy)
· 10.8% of women feel a child will disrupt their education or career
· 7.9% of women want no (more) children
· 3.3% of women have an abortion due to a risk to fetal health
2.8% of women have an abortion due to a risk to maternal health
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So how many womens lives have been saved by abortion?
Only about 3% of abortions since 1972 were reported to be due to a risk to maternal health. A reasonable person would recognize that not all of those cases represent a lethal risk. But lets say they did. That means that nearly 45 million fetuses were butchered to save the lives of about 1.3 million women. Or put another way; 35 babies are killed to save each woman.
Abortion was legal in all 50 states prior to Roe v. Wade in cases of danger to the life of the woman.
How can the abortionist be considered any kind of doctor? He botches the procedure and then refuses to cooperate with vital information for the doctors who have to clean up his mess? The only ethic there is CYA.
We should hate the sin and not the sinner. I agree that this woman should have known better. She could have carried her baby to term and offered it for adoption if she had reasons for not wanting a child.
It's still a sad business. I take no pleasure in the death of a sinner.
Father Frank Pavone, founder of Priests for Life, was invited to speak at our parish in Scarsdale many years ago. I remember his saying that with each abortion the woman suffers as well as the baby, and that it was not too late for even women who have had numerous abortions to repent their sins and stop killing their babies.
After Roe v. Wade was announced, Leftists imagined that they would win the battle because all the women who had abortions would become lifetime supporters of abortion and vote accordingly. That has not proven to be the case. Some of them are hopeless and never learn, but many have learned, repented, and come over to the side of life. This young woman will never have that chance for repentance and conversion.
Exactly right.
I guess George wasn't satisfied with killing only children!
George doesn't carry much malpractice insurance. After all most of his patients die. He could only get sued if the patient (baby) lives.
There are a lot of hugely wealthy physicians, but if you take a look (one that's not clouded through a haze of resentful green) you'll see that they either inherited their wealth or that they own a business or have been canny investors. The wealth has not come from fees. You might try the business thing, yourself, when you stop pouting.
He was just a GP in family practice so his malpractice insurance was a pittance compared to an OB-GYN so that wasn't squeezing his ability to bring home a bigger net. You've got it right.
wow... :(
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