Posted on 07/26/2012 12:11:50 PM PDT by rhema
New documents a local CBS television station obtained in the case of a young African-American woman killed in a fatal botched legal abortion show Planned Parenthood waited over five hours before sending the woman to a local hospital for emergency care.
Steve Miller of the CBS news affiliate WBBM has released a new report showing documents released in the botched abortion death of Tonya Reaves that alarmingly shows Planned Parenthood delayed summoning emergency care for the dying woman for five and a half hours after the abortion failed.
At 11:00 a.m. on Friday, Reaves received a second-trimester dilation and evacuation (D&E) abortion at Planned Parenthood, located at 18 S. Michigan Ave. in Chicago. Following the abortion, Reaves began bleeding heavily and it continued at Planned Parenthood for five and a half hours before a Fire Department ambulance finally took her to Northwestern Memorial Hospital at 4:30 p.m., according to Miller.
Then, once the young woman arrived at the hospital, the reports make it appear emergency personnel had to start from scratch to figure out the extent of Reaves injuries.
“Then at 5:30 p.m., doctors performed an ultrasound, and another dilation and evacuation procedure – basically, another abortion – this time at Northwestern,” Miller reports. “But after that, there were then more problems, and pain. That warranted a new ultrasound, and a perforation was discovered. At 10:12 p.m., Reaves was taken back to surgery – and “an uncontrollable bleed was discovered,” documents say.”
Responding to the report, Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue and Pro-Life Nation, said, “It is clear that Planned Parenthood botched the procedure that resulted in uncontrolled bleeding then failed to treat the hemorrhage while Reaves was at their clinic, allowing her to bleed for over five hours before finally calling for help.”
“There can be no doubt that this delay contributed to her death,” Newman argues. “The injury and the untreated hemorrhage happened at Planned Parenthood and they are solely responsible for it.”
Newman, in a press statement to LifeNews, quotes Dr. James C. Anderson, M.D., a 30-year veteran emergency room doctor who said abortion clinics never informed him about their patients’ conditions.
“I have always had to evaluate the situation, come to my own conclusions, and initiate what I thought was appropriate treatment. This definitely created some time delays that were not in the patient’s best interest,” stated Dr. Anderson. “These delays can have life-threatening implications when dealing with hemorrhage or infection.”
Newman says the lack of information proved fatal for Tonya Reaves.
“Planned Parenthood butchered Tonya Reaves, delayed her access to emergency care, then left the emergency room doctors to figure out what happened to her. By the time they discovered the true extent of her injuries, it was too late to save her life,” said Newman. “Planned Parenthood is trying to minimize their responsibility for Reaves completely avoidable death that appears to have resulted from a combination of their negligence, delay – possibly for the purpose of cover-up – and lack of communication with emergency providers. That abortion clinic is dangerous and should be closed. The abortionist should not be allowed to continue to inflict harm on women and should have his medical license revoked.”
Newman concluded: “We again call on President Obama to stop protecting Planned Parenthood and halt all Federal funding to the abortion giant in order to prevent other women from suffering Tonya Reaves’ fate.”
Reaves’ family has obtained an attorney who is looking into a potential civil lawsuit against Planned Parenthood on the family’s behalf.
Now watch as the Demwits double down and claim this happened due to some (imaginary/fictional) cut in gov’t funding for PP. Thanks rhema.
Where’s Sharpton and Jackson? Planned Parenthood is loaded.
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No, she was bleeding out for 5 1/2 hours before she even got to Northwestern.
They likely attempted to do a D&C (Dilation and Curretage) to make sure her womb was clear, and after that when the bleeding wouldn’t stop, it sounds like they had to approach the area from her abdomen. A quick ultrasound wouldn’t necessarily show a small tear/perforation, especially if they were clueless on what she had gone through before getting there. It’s also possible the blood was collecting in her abdomen and not out through the birth canal.
If it was another D&E at Northwestern then that indicates that PP didn’t even COMPLETE the first attempted abortion correctly. One also has to keep in mind that this woman was in the 2nd trimester which makes things a bit more complicated as far as what can go wrong. I’m actually surprised the woman didn’t bleed out in minutes vs. the 5 1/2 hours.
That said, I hope the doc at PP and the nurses face charges. They SHOULD face charges for performing an abortion in the first place, but that’s my opinion and not the current law.
I had a similar experience with the birth of my first daughter. I’m thinking it had to be a pretty small perforation for her to be bleeding out for 5 1/2 hours, but we don’t know what was going on at PP. I wonder if they were hanging blood products like crazy or something - do they even HAVE blood products??
Also, what in the world does PP have to do with tooth decay? Crazy people... Good for you working with those women. It must have been rewarding for your soul. :)
She was a victim of Planned Parenthood's incompetent medical care
Indeed. Confusing word choice from Life News.
Too bad the abortionist was unscathed.
I’ve seen reports which I consider reliable that wrongful
death suits often get lower settlements/jury verdicts
than injured live plaintiffs.
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