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Saturday, August 09, 2008

Safe and legal? Or back alley butcher?

I'll describe several situations to you, and you decide if we're dealing with a "safe and legal" abortion provider or a criminal abortionist. And you can cheat, since I provide links. But I challenge you to just try to answer the question first, then click on the link to get more information.

  1. Doctor A had a license and a clinic. Many doctors in the area referred patients to him for abortions. He did counseling with the abortion patients, taking a medical history. He did a physical examination, verified the pregnancy and the duration of the pregnancy. He performed the abortion using the most up to date equipment and techniques. He monitored the patient in recovery, gave her aftercare instructions, and set her up for a follow up appointment. He kept statistics on the number of abortions he did, and the complication rates, which he reported to an international conference sponsored by Planned Parenthood.
    Safe, legal provider
    Criminal abortionist
    Started as a criminal abortionist, became a safe, legal provider
    Started as a safe, legal provider, became a criminal abortionist


  2. Doctor B did abortions in the basement of a used car dealership. He didn't have equipment for general anesthesia, and he'd discovered that if he just used local anesthesia, the patients tended to rooch around a lot on the table, so he developed a technique of injecting an overdose of local anesthesia, which renders the patient unconscious. Sometimes they stopped breathing, but he and his nurse just did some artificial respiration and got them going again. His records were sketchy and were demonstrated to be inaccurate after a patient died.
    Safe, legal provider
    Criminal abortionist
    Started out as a criminal abortionist, became a safe, legal provider
    Started out as a safe, legal provider, became a criminal abortionist


  3. Doctor C started out as an obstetrician, but he lost his license after he and his partner botched a delivery and let a patient die. He also got into a lot of trouble after he got caught having sex with his 14-year-old goddaughter. He left the state and moved to a large city in a neighboring state, a city with a large population of immigrant women with a poor grasp of English. He started out working for somebody else, but after a patient died there he set up his own abortion practice in a filthy building with no hot water. He used expired medications and dirty, moldy equipment. When authorities in that state closed him down, he fled to another state, where he was caught raping abortion patients.
    Safe, legal provider
    Criminal abortionist
    Started out as a criminal abortionist, became a safe, legal provider
    Started out as a safe, legal provider, became a criminal abortionist



  4. Doctor D ran a small private hospital. He had a thriving abortion practice, but faced numerous malpractice suits and was caught doing abortions with dirty instruments. He moved to another state and started doing abortions in a hotel suite. Eventually he botched an abortion in which he allowed an unattended patient to bleed to death in recovery. He was arrested, and while out on bail awaiting trial, he sent another abortion patient to a motel room after her abortion, where she bled to death.
    Safe, legal provider
    Criminal abortionist
    Started out as a criminal abortionist, became a safe, legal provider
    Started as a safe, legal provider, became a criminal abortionist



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11 comments:

  1. Anonymous9:36 PM

    well done christina, gets the point across

    1 - 4th attempt

    2 - correct

    3 - 3rd attempt

    4 - 3rd attempt

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  2. Thanx, anon. I probably also ought to choose random women from the Cemetery of Choice and build a quiz to see if people can guess when the abortion took place, before or after Roe.

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  3. Anonymous11:07 PM

    the answers are outrageous, you do well to expose these abortionists.

    would you know of a way to find out about british abortion malpractice?

    i put anon, but we have communicated before, i dont want to put my name to this post sorry, because of what i am going to write about.(Also if my ex sig o does happen to see my comments, he will write something pro choice. I just wanted to make you aware of that.) You once provided me with helpful info about the legality of aborting an empty gestation sac.

    If you want to ask questions about cemetery of choice i think that would be a good way to engage people with the facts, and get people questioning. Probably stating the obvious here again!

    Had forced abortion in 2006, was fearful ex sig o would threaten me with taking his own life again as happened in 2004 when i was pregnant and miscarried, (blighted ovum, no fetus to see, I came away with a distorted view of what miscarriage was, as i thought i had actually miscarried a baby, when there was no baby there.)

    In 2006 couldnt cope with any more suicide threats, and fear of my partner because i was pregnant. Couldnt do surgical abortion, as didnt want to physically hurt my child of 9 weeks gestation, but now i know i have mentally hurt him very much. The medical staff allowed the abortion to happen. The paperwork was incorrect, it was all his reasons, not mine. I spat the pill out, and walked away, saying i couldnt go through with any of it. They coaxed me back, they said i was weak to continue with the pregnancy. ( Manipulative.) I fall into that group of women who took ru486 for the reason that it wouldnt hurt the child. We otherwise would never have considered abortion even if it put them in very dangerous situations with our partners.

    There is a lot more to say, but i must stop here.

    If i am honest am barely hanging on. It helps to know that there are people such as yourself.

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  4. Hugs, anon.

    I'm not sure how the British civil courts work, or what entities do health inspections, etc. You might look at digging for dirt on abortionists and try to find the local equivalent of the various people to contact.

    Technically it's not aborting if there's no fetus. Which isn't something you'd know from listening to abortion-lobby rhetoric. They talk as if a ban on abortion would also ban treating blighted ovum, hydatidiform mole (gestational trophoblastic disease), and incomplete miscarriages. They actually had a woman come in and testify against the Pennsylvania Abortion Control Act, claiming that the Act would have prevented a doctor from starting labor after her fetus had died. Are they really that clueless, or do they do it deliberately? That's what I'd like to know.

    You sound like you've really been through the wringer. Hang in there. And look around for a post-abortion group where you can get some support.

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  5. Anonymous11:56 PM

    is it not insulting to peoples intelligence to testify on such grounds.

    Thanks for your comments, i mean this quite sincerely.

    sarah

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  6. is it not insulting to peoples intelligence to testify on such grounds.

    I have not the pleasure of understanding you, Sarah. Can you elaborate?

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  7. Anonymous1:00 PM

    Got the first two right, second two on second guess.

    Not (cough, cough) that it was too difficult.

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  8. Anonymous4:03 PM

    I got all of them correct first time around....

    Sarah, hang in there. I'll keep you in my prayers...

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  9. Anonymous4:23 PM

    Sorry Christina for not being clear. I guess what I meant was that the claims, (so to speak), made by the woman who testified against The Pennsylvania Abortion Control Act, surely were groundless. I guess the claims that were being made, were both clueless and deliberately inflammatory imho.

    Sam - thanks very much for your comment.

    Sarah

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  10. Anonymous9:05 PM

    ahhhh :)

    sarah

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