Guide to Informed Choices
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thought, that's it. 782
—Abby Johnson, abortion director, quit 2009, quoted on KBTX
'We have members calling and saying, 'I can't find doctors to work,' '' she said. ''This used to be restricted to rural areas, but now it's happening in big cities too.' 783
Federation, New York Times, 1990
at clinics, and those of us who have been out on the front lines for a long time are very tired, and hanging by a string. We're waiting for replacements, and they're not appearing. It's low-status, low-pay work with a lot of stigma. 784
Northern New England, New York Times, 1992
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the number of abortion providers was 1,558. In 1982 that number peaked at 2,908 and ever since that time it has continued to drop. The latest date we have, 2005, shows 1,787 providers. If this trend continues, then in another three years we could see the figures drop further to below the original number of abortion providers in 1973.
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A 1993 national survey of Family Practice residency programs indicated that ―when offered, less than half of the residents (45%) choose to participate in abortion training.‖ 786
The
pro-choice training manual mentioned earlier expressed alarm that, when given the option, most doctors opt out of abortion training: ―One study found that more than three out of four residents participated in almost all of the programs with routine first semester training compared to less than one-third of programs with optional training.‖ 787
I guess that‘s proof that doctors would rather spend their hard-earned medical career restoring life, not taking it. See also Reason #64: Abortion is not real medicine .
them all… on an abortionist and the last abortion he performed.
Waiting for him upon his arrival at the hospital that morning was a cousin, along with his girlfriend. They had booked an abortion with him. Four months pregnant, the woman was about to do away with her ninth consecutive child. Adasevic refused, but his cousin was so importunate that he gave in: okay, but this was the very last time.
On the USG monitor he clearly saw the child with its thumb in its mouth. Stretching the uterus, he inserted the forceps, took hold of something, and pulled. In the jaws of the forceps was a little arm. He placed it on the table, but in such a way that one of the limbs‘ nerve endings touched a drop of spilled iodine. Suddenly, the arm began to twitch. The nurse standing beside him almost screamed out. Just like frogs‘ legs in a physiology lab! Adasevic shuddered, but went on with the abortion. Again he inserted the forceps, gripped, and pulled. This time it was a leg. Just as he was thinking: ―Better not let it touch that drop of alcohol,‖ a nurse standing behind him dropped a tray of surgical instruments. Startled by the crash, the doctor released the forceps, and the leg landed right beside the arm. It too began to move. The staff had never seen anything like it: human limbs twitching on the table. Adasevic decided to mash up what was left in the womb, and pull it out in a formless mass. He began mashing, squashing, crushing. Upon withdrawing the forceps, now certain that he had reduced everything
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to a pulp, he produced a human heart! The organ was still beating. Weaker and weaker it beat, until it stopped altogether. It was then that he realized he had killed a human being.
The world turned dark around him. He cannot recall how long this lasted. Suddenly he felt a tug on his arm. A nurse‘s terrified voice called out: Doctor Adasevic! Doctor Adasevic! The patient was bleeding. For the first time in years, the doctor began praying earnestly: ―Lord! Save not me, but this woman.‖ …When Adasevic removed his gloves, he knew this was the last abortion he would ever perform. 788
(This was the same abortionist who had had the dream we talked about in Reason
#19 .)
Reason #61 ―Spare the abortionist — he doesn‘t really enjoy being there but he stays only ‗for women‘ like you, and the money, of course‖ Reason #62 Abortionists are known to have bad records
Insufficient training leads to incompetence A 1995 national survey found that only 15% of chief residents had any clinical experience providing… abortions. 789
If you can‘t get enough experience, you aren‘t going to be very good, are you? That‘s the position that many abortionists are finding themselves in today. According to the pro-choice ―Abortion Training: A Guide to Establishing an Effective Program at Your Facility,‖
―Even if programs offer routine training, residents may not have an opportunity to perform enough procedures to obtain competency.‖ 790
The same source revealed that students who went through the abortion training course had actually completed ―very few abortions,‖ 10 or less during their entire time there. In their own words, this is ―certainly not enough to become competent to perform abortions without additional
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supervised experience.‖ 791
From a different abortion training manual we read why experience is so important: ―Abortion, almost more than any other operation, demands experience to develop skill.‖ 792
I was able to access the first source before registration was required to download this manual.) 793
Abortionists are not well trained, they are not getting the experience they require, and great skill is needed in order to perform an abortion safely. What can I say? Insufficient training leads to incompetence.
The abortion industry knows their doctors can be a bad lot
p next are some quotes that reveal even the industry is aware that abortionists can be ‗bad apples.‘
'It's seen as the dirty work of our field. The sad truth is that the people who moonlight at the clinics are grade-B doctors. They're not the cream of the crop. And it's not because they're committed. It's because they can't find steady work.' 794
—Anonymous pro-choice OB/GYN, New York Times Magazine
Abortion is still a very fringe-type practice. There aren‘t a lot of people who want to get into abortion provision… And the ones that we do have applying to us for training often have very dodgy histories and backgrounds. And if you dig deep enough, you‘ll find a death or two or a malpractice suit or a de-registration somewhere along the line. It‘s very difficult to get good doctors. 795
—Abortionist David Grundman, National Abortion Federation Seminar, 1993
Most physicians regard abortion as a stigmatized operation done by people who are otherwise incompetent and can‘t do anything else. 796
—Warren Hern, Abortionist, American Medical News
clinic An abortion clinic in New York has hired a doctor who was dismissed in 2000 with assault and felony charges. Dr. Allan Zarkin was removed from his practice at the Beth Israel Medical Center in New York following an incident in which he — unbelievably — carved his initials onto a woman‘s abdomen after delivering her baby. Incredibly, while
Dr. Zarkin‘s investigation was ongoing, the Choices U
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Women's Medical Center chose to hire him! The New York Times covered this story and noted that the president of the abortion clinic was fully aware that the doctor no longer had admitting privileges (i.e., that he had done something wrong) and that she hadn‘t asked for more information. 797
This is surely a case of, don‘t tell me, I don‘t want to know, I never heard anything. I wonder if the customers at the clinic know their doctor‘s history.
botched abortions n 2004 a woman visited the Clinica Medica Para la Mujer de Hoy in Santa Ana, California for her legal abortion. The abortionist, who was in his eighties, performed an early procedure on her despite the fact that she was now late into her second trimester. No anesthesia or painkillers were offered and a medical board would later describe the abortionist‘s actions as ―barbaric.‖ It was fortunate that paramedics were able to attend to the woman, whom they found lying in her own blood, with dangerously low blood pressure and a racing heart. 798
The clinic where this occurred is part of a chain of clinics which have had numerous problems in the past, including the following incidences, which were taken from a 2008 news article in the Los Angeles Times
:
Abortionist Dr. Braemer admitted to performing incomplete abortions, on one occasion removing just the fetus‘ arm and another time leaving the fetus‘ skull and placenta inside the mother, requiring a month‘s stay in hospital while her bowel was repaired and abscesses drained. He was also charged, among other things, with performing abortions at unapproved facilities. 799
Abortionist Dr. Mohamed Dia admitted driving a bleeding patient to hospital in his own car after he perforated her uterus and left bits of the fetus inside her during a 1996 abortion. 800
Abortionist Dr. Laurence Reich has been charged with three accounts of sexually assaulting patients, and more recently he admitted to two new charges from his employment in 2000. Accusations include groping patient‘s breasts and inappropriate touching of patient‘s genitals. 801
Abortionist Dr. Glenn Edward Miller, a self-admitted alcoholic, performed operations while under the influence of alcohol — while on probation too! 802
Here are a few more recent records I have found dealing with other clinics across the U.S.: I
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New York abortionist Akiva Abraham lost his license after a series of misconduct including having sex with a depressed patient on the same day as her surgery, falsifying his medical accreditation on his website, and inducing a woman‘s labor early so he could keep his vacation plans. Yes, the cream of the crop, these abortionists. The medical records are shocking, aren‘t they? And you know what? The Court found that even the claims which Abraham did not choose to contest were sufficient for revoking his license, which they did in 2005. That‘s one more off the streets. 803
Abortionist Rapin Osathanondh, a Thai graduate, but Massachusetts certified doctor, has been indicted on charges of manslaughter following the 2007 death of a patient. Laura Smith Hope, a 22-year-old, died following her 13-week abortion at the Women's Health Center in Cape Cod. Her death was caused by failure to monitor her vital signs while under anesthesia, the absence of a medically qualified assistant in the room, the delay in calling 911 and the absence of proper equipment — all contributed to her death. 804
Interestingly, the board of investigators found that he had "fraudulently obtained renewal of his medical
license by
providing false
information." 805
How many other women are feeling safe out there because their doctor, after all, has a certified medical license?
A Jackson abortionist by the name of Dr. Malachy DeHenre was recently found guilty of killing his wife. Other charges which are known against him include raping at least one patient, causing a woman‘s death
from his
abortion (perforated uterus) and causing three women to have hysterectomies to avoid bleeding to death. This is not some way-out abortionist but a regular one who performed some 35,000 abortions before his license was revoked. 806
Who knows how many other women he injured.
When the medical board in California released accusations against abortionist Dr. Lawson Akpulonu in 1995, other patients also came forward to testify. In my opinion, the worst accusation was of the patient who awoke during the procedure to find the abortionist penetrating her. He gave her a shot and sent her back to sleep. A second time when she woke up he again gave her a shot to put her to sleep. The third time she awoke he was fondling her breasts. When she tried to scream he covered her mouth and told her she was very beautiful and slipped his business card in her shirt. Yes, I know, it sounds like a horror story. It is. This guy, by the way, was actually a podiatrist — that‘s right, a foot doctor. That
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was his qualification for performing abortions. Anyhow, back to the story, a warrant was issued for his arrest on charges of rape and he ran away, and is probably still out there somewhere, hopefully not seducing women
or performing abortions. 807
Finally, we look inside the head of another abortionist, recently sent to jail for sexually abusing his patients. In an article in the Phoenix New Times, abortionist Finkel admits he grew up with alcoholic and abusive parents, and can‘t wait for the last one of them to die, ―so I can go **** on his grave.‖ He planned to be a doctor, hoping his dad would like him (didn‘t work). He became an OB/GYN because "the only guy that was nice to me was the chief of OB/GYN." Finkel introduces the reporter to his clinic or ―Vaginal Vault,‖ his procedure room as ―where I do the nasty, as the bad boys say‖ and his machine which he refers to as the ―Super Sucker.‖ He shows the reporter his Philippine souvenirs of a nude teen girl – a painting of one of those Little Brown ******* Machines (LBFM) that he felt sorry for (the army prostitutes who suffered after illegal abortions). Elsewhere in the article he gleefully warns a pro-life protester that he‘ll be there for his wife if ever she needs an abortion — ―Not because I'm a nice guy, but just because I want to get between her l-e-e-e- e-gs.‖
808 Would you want this guy performing your abortion?
Q. What happens when they can no longer keep their job as abortionist? A. One found employment in an elementary school! One abortionist has found a great
new job as a principal for a Chicago elementary school.
In his
time, abortionist Arnold Bickham has been found responsible for performing abortions on non-pregnant women, performing abortions that caused two women‘s deaths
and defrauding government funds. He has also been sued for injuries by former patients. Oddly enough, the school spokesman said that his criminal conviction (the fraud) did not prohibit him from working there. Thinking of Bickham, who still goes by the title doctor, one can only imagine his fondness for children. 809
While it would be an exaggeration to say that all abortionists have botched records, doing the job they do, you have to be weird or numb or both, at least in part. You can‘t just yank off little arms and legs
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and torsos and reassemble them to make sure you ―emptied the uterus,‖ and still be a conscious, feeling, compassionate human being — not in my mind, anyway. In conclusion, while all abortionists may not be perverts or medical failures, pro- choice
sources admit
doctors need
experience and are not getting it. That leaves women at increased risk for botched abortions. I guess the question you have to answer is, do you want to take the risk?
Abortionist charged with
sexually abusing patient during follow-up exam ―He was charged last month with sexually abusing a female patient during a follow-up examination after she had an abortion at his office, police said.‖ 810
Washington Times , 1991
Reason #62 ―Many abortionists are incompetent, weird, or both —is it worth the risk?‖ Reason #63 Women have died from abortion
Death is an irreversible complication ardly anyone dies from an abortion. That‘s true. But I bet these women thought that too, and look where they are now:
2010 Alexandra Nuñez, age 37 Alexandra Nuñez was 37 years old when she went for an abortion at the A1 Medicine
clinic in Queens, New York. You would think this would be a safe clinic to go to, since it is qualified as both a gynecology and plastic surgery clinic and can perform full anesthesia for patients. So what went wrong for this single mother of four? The NYDailyNews.com says that police reports show that one of her arteries was accidently severed, causing her to go into cardiac arrest. What is most shocking, perhaps, is what an employee said to the press over this tragedy: ―The patient was transferred to the hospital: she didn't die at the clinic… Nothing happened here." 811
Nothing indeed. Just a woman‘s death. (Sources: NYDailyNews.com) H
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