Let's back Representative Roscoe Bartlett on RU-486

HT: JivinJ

Rep. Bartlett Wins Support to Ban Abortion Pil

You can contact Rep. Roscoe here:

Office of Congressman Bartlett
2412 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington D.C. 20515
PHONE: (202) 225-2721
FAX: (202) 225-2193

Please provide any information that can be helpful to Rep. Roscoe in his fight to protect women from abortion quackery.

And, to reiterate:

1. Four of the five women died at top-notch facilities, two at National Abortion Federation facilities and two at Planned Parenthood facilities. If women are getting such poor care at top-of-the-line abortion facilities, what is happening, unreported, at fly-by-night abortion mills?

2. The other woman, Brenda Vise, died from an undiagnosed ectopic pregnancy. In theory, a woman undergoing an abortion should be less likely to die from an ectopic pregnancy than a woman intending to carry to term, but in practice, the aborting woman is more likely to die. If this is true of women undergoing surgical abortion, in which there's at least in theory an examination of the uterine contents, how much more true will this be of women undergoing chemical abortion, when there may not be any examination at all?

Let's toss in for good measure that RU-486 is not the only thing abortionists are killing patients with. They're still using the old-fashioned canula and curette. Just since January 1, 2000, that I've been able to learn:

• Leigh Ann Alford bled to death from a uterine perforation.
  
• Christen Gilbert died of infection.
  
• L'Echelle Head died of an apparent embolism.
  
• Diana Lopez bled to death from a uterine perforation.
  
• Kimbery Neil went into respiratory arrest and died.
  
• Tamia Russell died of sepsis.
  
• Nicey Washington died of sepsis.

And here's a thought: Does anybody have the numbers abortion supporters bandy about to show how much safer chemical abortion is than the old slice-and-scrape? After all, if chemical abortion is even safer than slice-and-scrape, then there's no way the tiny percentage of abortions that are done with chemicals have produced five dead women since the start of 2000, but the old-fashioned kind killed only seven. Anybody have numbers with which I can do the math?