Saturday, April 05, 2025

Woman Expels Intact 16-Week Fetus. Planned Parenthood Claims She Knew to Expect This.

Central Massachusetts Planned Parenthood
Celina Casas sued Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts, nurse Rebecca Krieger, and Dr. Tara Kumaraswami for emotional trauma and lack of informed consent. 

Both Planned Parenthood and Celina agree that she went to Planned Parenthood in Worcester on March 12, 2015 for the first part of a two-day abortion procedure.

Celina said that she was never warned that she might expel an intact, recognizable fetus.

The next day, March 13, Celina said that she called Planned Parenthood to report severe pain as if she was in labor. She said that she was told to take her prescribed pain medications but was not instructed to seek further care, nor was she warned that she was at risk of expelling a recognizable fetus.

That night, Celina delivered the 16-week fetus in her bathroom, and suffered "physical pain and severe emotional and mental trauma" as a result. (The suit does not specify if the baby came out alive or already dead.)

Dr. Kumaraswami agreed that she did indeed insert the dilators for Celina's abortion but denies any lack of informed consent, asserting that Celina signed a detailed informed consent form. 

Likely Informed Consent According to Grok3

I've been unable to find any copies of a standard Planned Parenthood D&E consent form online, but I did ask Grok if expulsion of an intact, recognizable fetus is one of the risks covered and got the following answer:

For the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts (PPLM), the informed consent process for a dilation and evacuation (D&E) procedure does not explicitly warn patients that they might expel an intact, recognizable fetus as a standard part of the consent discussion. This aligns with the broader practices of Planned Parenthood affiliates, where the focus is on medical risks and procedural details rather than specific outcomes like the appearance of fetal tissue, unless directly relevant to a listed complication.

PPLM’s approach to informed consent for D&E, based on their general patient care model and available documentation, emphasizes:

Procedure Overview: Patients are told that cervical dilation (using osmotic dilators like laminaria or misoprostol) prepares the cervix for evacuation with suction and instruments, typically in the second trimester. The goal is to remove pregnancy tissue, not to deliver an intact fetus.

Complications: They inform patients about risks like bleeding, infection, cervical injury, uterine perforation, and incomplete abortion, as these are the most common and medically significant concerns. For example, excessive bleeding or incomplete dilation might require additional intervention, but spontaneous expulsion of an intact fetus isn’t framed as a typical risk.

Patient Experience: They cover what to expect (e.g., cramping, sedation options) and post-procedure care, but the consent process avoids graphic descriptions of fetal tissue unless a patient asks specific questions.

No public PPLM-specific consent form for D&E explicitly mentions the possibility of expelling an intact, recognizable fetus. This is consistent with the procedure’s design: D&E involves removing tissue in fragments, unlike induction abortions, where intact expulsion is more likely and might be discussed. However, in rare cases—such as if osmotic dilators or misoprostol trigger unexpected contractions before the evacuation step—an unintended expulsion could occur. PPLM doesn’t highlight this in standard consent materials, likely because it’s not a common outcome and isn’t a procedural goal.

Massachusetts law (MGL c. 112, § 12S) requires parental consent or judicial bypass for minors seeking abortions, but it doesn’t mandate specific warnings about fetal appearance. PPLM’s counseling, often paired with their judicial bypass navigation program, focuses on ensuring informed choice and emotional support rather than mandating such a disclosure. Their website and patient resources (e.g., abortion care pages) describe D&E as a safe, routine procedure without mentioning intact expulsion as a risk.

Thus I have a hard time believing that Celina was warned that she might see her dead baby.

Kumaraswami's Description of Unfolding Events

Dr. Tara Kumaraswami
The Planned Parenthood doctor described placing the dilators and spends a lot of time stating that Celina was provided with a 13-page consent form warning her of "the possible complications" among other things. Celina was then discharged and told to return the following day to have the procedure.

There is no mention that the baby was injected with digoxin -- which would be almost unheard of at 16 weeks anyway -- which increases the likelihood that the baby was still alive when Celina delivered it at home.

According to Kumaraswami, Celina called at around 4:25 that evening to report "10/10 pelvic pain, reduced to 6-7/10 with the one tab of percocet. Records indicate that she was advised by nursing staff to take another tab of percocet, to rest at home, to call the on-call nurse if symptoms worsened overnight, and to go to the emergency room if necessary before her scheduled appointment the next morning."

Kumaraswami went on to say that she got a call from the hospital at around 9:30 the following morning that Celina had "passed the pregnancy at home" and was receiving treatment for a retained placenta. 

Again, Was the Informed Consent Adequate?

She again asserts that Celina was given adequate informed consent by saying "The thirteen-page consent form adequately describes the risks of the procedure, including potential injuries and complications, such as bleeding and leaking of fluid. The consent form is regularly reviewed and updated by the national Planned Parenthood organization. The proper Massachusetts state required mid-trimester abortion consent was also signed by the patient prior to her procedure."

Would you describe this as "leaked fluid"?
I would consider expelling a recognizable 16-week fetus to be a very different experience from "bleeding and leaking of fluid." Look at the photo of a 16-week fetus. Would you describe that as "leaking of fluid"? 

It seems that if the consent form included the possibility of expelling an intact, recognizable fetus, Kumaraswami would have mentioned it in the letter defending herself. There is also nothing in Massachusetts law requiring warning an abortion patient about the possibility of expelling an intact, recognizable fetus. 

Her letter defending herself includes her entire nine-page curriculum vitae but does not include any of the consent forms Celina signed that supposedly warned her that she might end up giving birth to a dead baby.

What are your thoughts?

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April 5, 2001: Haley's Post-Abortion Journey Ends Tragically

 Dear Lord,

I sit here alone with my thoughts wondering if you will ever forgive me. Why do I continue to fail you? I'm failing you because I‘m turning away from the precious gift of having a child. A child. A breathing, living, beautiful life that I created but too selfish to accept from you. Will you still love me as a child of yours? Will I still love me after today?
Haley‘s journal - Oct. 23, 2000

On April 5, 2001, Donetta Robben‘s 22-year-old niece didn't show up for work. Her friend Rosa drove over to check on her, and her car wasn't there. Rosa called the girl‘s father, Edwin. Had she gone home to visit her family?

Edwin later said he just knew that his daughter was dead. He called the Omaha police, and he called his daughter's landlord. They went to the apartment. They found her body.

Though the coroner estimated that the young woman had been dead for several days, all official documents, and the young woman‘s tombstone, use the April 5th date. So will I.

In telling her niece's story, Donetta decided to use the name ‘Haley Mason‘ rather than her niece‘s real name. In respect for the family‘s desire to grieve privately, I‘m using the name Donetta uses. Likewise, I use the pseudonyms Donetta uses for friends and family members.

The official ruling was that Haley‘s death was an accidental overdose. Her family was stunned as the investigators spoke with them, revealing the discoveries made while looking into the young woman‘s death. Isolated words echoed in their minds: death, journals, death, pills, death, drinking, death, hurt, death, abortion...

Abortion?

Abortion.

The answers to how Haley went from happy-go-lucky college student to suicide statistic weren't in the official reports. They were found in Haley‘s journals, where she poured her heart out in the final months of her life.

The story of how Haley died begins when she fell in love with Todd. She found out she was pregnant and told him. He wanted her to get an abortion.

A two story building. The bottom story is brick, with dark brickwork depicting an old jalopy. A huge business sign points to stairs beside the building.
LeRoy Carhart's clinic in Belleview, Nebraska
Haley was a student at the University of Nebraska. She worked two jobs to meet her expenses. Unmarried, without much money, and with a disapproving boyfriend, Haley saw abortion as her only option. She made her appointment at the Bellevue, Nebraska practice of  Dr. Leroy Carhart. It was late October of 2000.

Haley wrote of Todd‘s attitude: "I must let him abandon me. He doesn't care about me. I know he‘s only agreed to pay for it to ease his own guilt."

Haley found the abortion stressful: the wait, the sounds, the crude and uncaring behavior of the doctor. Haley had been told to arrive at the clinic at 7:00 in the morning, but it was ten hours before she was finally on the table, ready for the abortion. Carhart walked into the room, clad in a dirty coat and glasses so smeared that Haley‘s friend, who had accompanied her, wondered how he could even see through the lenses.

Candid outdoor shot of an overweight middle-aged man with his hair going white in the front. He is wearing a suit and tie.Haley, in her fog of medication, tried to make a joke. "Don‘t hurt me down there?" she said. 

"Be still and I won‘t," Carhart replied.

While performing the vacuum abortion, Carhart spouted profanities. He told Haley and her friend that he was tired. He‘d been speaking in California the day before, and had just flown into Omaha that morning.

After the abortion, Haley felt violated, as if she‘d been raped. She also experienced continued spotting into January. She'd not been given a follow-up appointment, and didn't know if the bleeding was normal or not. She didn't want to go to another doctor, because she‘d have to tell him about the abortion, and that was just too painful to talk about. The bleeding was a constant reminder of the death of her unborn baby.

Haley told few people about the abortion: three close friends and two relatives. But she didn't tell them of her struggle to cope with the emotional pain. She kept telling herself that she‘d done the best thing. But she started punishing herself, and pushed away anybody who tried to love her. She didn't feel that she deserved their love.

Haley longed for a knight in shining armor to rescue her from the prison of her grief, but she no longer felt comfortable with men. She had to get drunk to be able to endure sex. And even then, it reminded her of the abortion. Todd came by at early hours, looking for sex. Haley submitted, but her heart wasn't in it. She no longer felt loved. She felt used.

The drinking got worse. Hot baths and quick jogs provided temporary relief from the anguish, but it always returned.

Finally, Haley could stand it no more.

First, she drank plenty of numbing alcohol. Then, she went into her living room and grabbed a precious photo of her late mother and maternal grandfather. Next, a bottle of vodka. A bottle of aspirin. An old prescription bottle of Benadryl. Haley washed the drugs down with the vodka, leaving the three bottles next to the photograph.

She went into the bedroom. She put her rosary around her neck. She set an empty holy water bottle on her dresser. She opened her journal to the day of the abortion. She lay down, head on her pillow, looking for the  rest she couldn't find any more in living, leaving her family to sort out their own pain. 

Other post-abortion suicides include:
  • Carol Cunningham, age 21, who shut herself in her garage, ran her car, and died from the exhaust fumes in August of 1986
  • Arlin della Cruz, age 19, who hanged herself in the woods near her house in October of 1992
  • Laura Grunas, age 30, who shot her baby’s father and then herself in August of 2006
  • “Sandra Roe,” age 18, who killed herself using an unidentified means in April of 1971
  • Sandra Kaiser, age 15, who threw herself off an overpass into traffic in November of 1984
  • Stacy Zallie, age 20, who committed suicide in October of 2002
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Friday, April 04, 2025

Planned Parenthood: "Not Our Fault Known Quack Screwed Up in Our Clinic"

Background

In the summer of 1992,  Dr. Delhi Elmore Thweatt, Jr., was preparing to perform an abortion on 32-year-old Kelly Morse. Kelly had indicated on her intake forms that she was allergic to the "cain" medications, but Thweatt administered Lidocaine anyway, resulting in Kelly's death.

Delhi Thweatt
Court documents in the resulting lawsuit indicate that the abortion clinic in question had advertised Thweatt as being a Board-certified ob/gyn, yet "Defendant Thweatt failed the Ob/Gyn Board certification examination not once, not twice, but on three consecutive attempts...Defendant Thweatt failed his Board certification exam even after a fourth attempt, following his deposition of July 27, 1997."

On April 20, 1999, Thweatt and Hillcrest settled out of court with Kelly's husband. Her two children, a boy and a girl, were left motherless.

The Pennsylvania Medical Board and Maryland Medical Board show no disciplinary actions against Thweatt..

So is it any surprise that he continued to commit malpractice?

And is it any surprise that, regardless of what he had done to Kelly, he was hired by Planned Parenthood of Maryland, working at their Baltimore location? 

What Happened at Planned Parenthood

Baltimore Planned Parenthood
On August 9 of 1996, Viki Jackson went to the Baltimore Planned Parenthood for an abortion, which was performed by Thweatt.

Nobody bothered to do a pathology report on what Thweatt had removed during the abortion. Thus, nobody told Viki that the embryo had not been in her uterus at all. It was in her fallopian tube.

On August 20, Viki returned to Planned Parenthood, reporting severe pain and bleeding. To their credit at this point, they at least didn't reassure her and send her home with Tylenol. They told her to go to University Hospital. 

There she underwent surgery for a ruptured ectopic pregnancy.

She could very well have died.

Planned Parenthood's defense was two pronged:
  1. Thweatt was an independent contractor so they weren't responsible for what he did or didn't do when he was working at their facility.
  2. It wasn't their fault the embryo wasn't in Viki's uterus.
Does anybody honestly believe that Planned Parenthood held no responsibility for ensuring that their doctor did his job, and that they had policies and procedures for screening for ectopic pregnancy?

Epilogue

Planned Parenthood of Baltimore didn't seem to learn much from getting sued. In February of 2013 they were smacked down after an inspection and told that they need to submit a plan of correction because of multiple deficiencies including inadequately trained nursing staff, failure to train staff on protocols for transferring patients to a hospital, staff with no current CPR certification, and the doctors discharging patients without documenting a proper discharge diagnosis. 

They were smacked down again in 2018 for failing to dispose of expired medications, using the same syringe and vial to draw medications for multiple patients, and failure to dispose of expired sterile single-use equipment. 

Source: Jackson v. Thweatt and Planned Parenthood, Baltimore City Circuit Court Case 98225104/CC7036


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April 4, 1985: First of Two Deaths at Hands of Gambling Addicted Doctor

Mary Bradley, an Alabama resident, was 41 and a mother of four when she underwent a 20-week abortion at the hands of Dr. George Wayne Patterson in March of 1985.

Soon after, Mary was losing blood. She was admitted to the University of South Alabama Medical Center in Mobile and her bleeding was described as “abnormal” and “uncontrollable”. Doctors performed a hysterectomy on March 28, 1985 in an attempt to save Mary, but she had developed a blood clotting disorder and respiratory problems as a result of the abortion. She died on April 4, 1985.

Like a disproportionate number of women who die in safe and legal abortions, Mary was black.

Less than a year after he killed Mary and her baby, Patterson perpetrated a fatal abortion on Janyth Caldwell.

George Wayne Patterson

Patterson was shot to death in 1993 near his car outside of an X-rated movie theater. At first, abortion-rights groups treated Patterson's death as martyrdom for one who provided "vital reproductive health care." They never mentioned the two dead women. Police confirmed later that the killer, Winston McCoy, was a violent felon who was on parole after serving time for a violent home robbery and sexual assault. Patterson's killing had been a botched robbery attempt. News coverage revealed that Patterson was a rather unsavory character who had accumulated tens of thousands of dollars in debts to illegal bookies. His name gradually vanished from the Rolls of the Holy Martyrs among the prochoice.

Watch Deadly Doc Dies Deplorably on YouTube.

Sources:

  • Alabama Certificate of Death # 85-10613
  • Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences Autopsy Report # 27(A)-85-31536
  • Circuit Court for Monroe County, Alabama Case, CV-85-54
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Thursday, April 03, 2025

No Evidence Planned Parenthood Reported Abuser Bringing Victim for Abortion

A young girl whose name was redacted on the police report alleged being sexually abused by her middle school principal. Referring to her simply as "the girl" feels dehumanizing, so I'll call her "Mia." The principal's name was Mr. Downey.

The abuse, Mia said, started when she was 16 years old It started with Downey hugging her in his office and kissing her on the lips. He took her to various locations for sexual intercourse: motels, his mother's house, his own house, and the school. 

Mia got pregnant at 17. Downey took her to the Planned Parenthood at 1200 North LaSalle Street in Chicago for an abortion.

Mia was able to give the police substantiating documentation, including datebooks and paperwork from the Planned Parenthood showing that both she and Downy attended her abortion appointment. Police interviewed Downey's wife, who had since divorced him, and Mia's friend, both of whom related information that supports Mia's allegations.

Downey entered a guilty plea and was sentenced to 3 years for two counts of felony Child Seduction after Mia made a statement to the court that she suffered mental trauma from the experience.

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Former "Employee of the Year" Wins Wrongful Termination Suit Against Planned Parenthood

Mayra Rodriguez
Mayra Rodriguez won a lawsuit against Planned Parenthood when a jury found that she was wrongfully terminated for revealing problems in the three clinics she oversaw.

The sources are a mix of secular and prolife sources, but since Mayra won her lawsuit and the main differences among the sources are how things are worded, I'm pulling together my summary from all of them.

Mayra decided to work at Planned Parenthood because she believed that she would be able to help women, especially Hispanic women such as herself. During the interview she was asked her views on abortion and gave the response she believed appropriate as what might be called a "personally opposed" Christina: "I wouldn't have one, but if someone else does, who am I to judge?" 

She was hired. She worked for Planned Parenthood for 17 years.

At first, Mayra worked at a center that didn't do abortions, but she rose through the ranks and became Director of Planned Parenthood facilities in Phoenix and Flagstaff. Still, she wasn't involved in abortions. 

Planned Parenthood Tempe AZ
Things changed after she was named Employee of the Year in 2016, and Planned Parenthood made her director of their largest Arizona abortion facility. She hadn't wanted the position, but told Catholic News Agency that she was told that the north Phoenix center was being closed and they couldn't promise she wouldn't be let go when the center closed.

Speaking to the Culture of Life podcast, Mayra said that everything at the abortion facility was about fast turnaround and abortion sales. She was to see as many patients as possible, as many as 50, and to get them all processed by 4 pm so the abortionist wouldn't have to work late. She was dismayed by the rush and lack of personalized care.

Mayra also became concerned about malpractice, One doctor, only identified as "Dr. X,'" left a lot of his patients with complications. Mayra brought this to the attention to the lead clinician and was assured that the problem would be addressed, but it wasn't. After one 19-year-old patient underwent a second-trimester D&E at 14 weeks, which involves dilating the cervix then removing the fetus in pieces using forceps. Dr. X told an assistant to account for all of the baby's body parts while he inserted an IUD. The aide told Dr. X that the baby's head was not accounted for. The aide told Mayra, who went to the doctor and he told her "Go find one in the trash." This shocked and angered Mayra, but she stood her ground. The doctor removed the IUD and used ultrasound to find and remove the baby's head. 

She also said that she saw doctors falsifying medical records by incorrectly reporting complications, or not reporting them at all. She reported that often the surgical abortion documentation was completed at the beginning of the day, noting no complications, all fetal parts accounted for, and so on, and would then just sign them at the end of the day regardless of what had actually happened during the procedure.

Mayra also said that she questioned the way Planned Parenthood was shifting money around so that though on paper they were not using tax money to fund abortions, the way things were shifted around, the money was indirectly subsidizing abortions.

Mayra said that as she continued to point out problems, she was treated like a bad employee. She got a memo accusing her of not adhering to Planned Parenthood policies. Mayra told HR that she thought the memo was intended to silence her. She also reported being cited for having narcotics in her desk when she actually had non-narcotic clinic medications that she was storing until passing it on the the proper department. Nevertheless, in October of 2017 she was fired on the grounds of violating a controlled substance policy.

When Mayra sued for wrongful termination, Planned Parenthood used the fact that she had been in the country illegally since the age of 18 and had used falsified documents to get her job in order to discredit her. However, Mayra won $3 million in her wrongful termination suit in a trial that took two weeks. She did not return to Planned Parenthood. She now works with And Then There Were None, an organization that helps abortion workers find jobs where they aren't involved in abortion.

Mayra tells her story here.

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April 3, 1935: The Second of Dr. Justin Mitchell's Known Deaths

A youngish white man with a high forehead and dark hair, facing the camera, with a pale colored jacket and dark necktie
Dr. Justin Mitchell
On February 12, 1936, Dr. Justin Mitchell, age 57, of Chicago was convicted of manslaughter in the April 3, 1935 abortion death of 32-year-old Mary Nowalowski.  Eleven days before his conviction, another of Mitchell's patients, Alice Haggin, died from abortion complications. Two years earlier, Mitchell had been implicated in the abortion death of Mary Schwartz.

According to death records, Mary was an assembler at a Western Electric factory.

The prime witness in Mary's case was milk wagon driver Stephen Zakes. He and Mary were planning a wedding for the upcoming May.  On March 27, Stephen brought Mary to the Chicago office of Dr. Victor J. Neale. He then met with the couple together, telling them that Mary was between two and two and a half months pregnant. Mary began to cry and ask Neale, "What will I do?"

Stephen testified that Neale had referred them to Dr. Justin Mitchell; Neale insisted that he had simply told them they could go to some busy corner and find an abortionist.

Stephen and Mary went to Mitchell's office on the evening of Friday, March 29. Mitchell examined Mary and confirmed that she was pregnant. She was at least eight weeks along, Mitchell said, and if she returned the following morning at 8:00 he would perform an abortion. The fee would be $50. He assured them that there was no danger for Mary to undergo the procedure.

Stephen Zakes went to Mitchell's office at around 11:00 the morning of Saturday, March 30 to see how Mary was doing after the abortion. "She will be all right, she is in a little pain right now." Stephen went to see Mary himself and found her to be in excruciating pain, unable to even sit up. Mitchell insisted to him, "They are all weak after an operation of that kind."

Stephen escorted Mary home. She was weak and chilly. They stopped at a drug store for coffee and toast, then walked to a cab stand where Mary became violently ill. After Stephen took Mary home, she immediately took to her bed. Dr. Neale was summoned to examine her. Neale provided morphine for Mary's pain before leaving. Stephen remained with her until about 1:00 in the morning on Sunday, March 31.

Somebody brought Dr. G. M. Redman to Mary's home between 4:00 and 5:00 that morning. He found Mary in such grave shape that he immediately took her to his car and drove her to the hospital.

Mary was given medicine to contract her uterus but she continued to bleed so Redman contacted the coroner's office then performed a curretage of Mary's uterus. Her cervix had already been damaged, showing tearing and pus. During the curretage, Redman retrieved the head of Mary's fetus along with retained portions of the placenta.

Redman's care notwithstanding, Mary died on Wednesday, April 3. A postmortem examination concluded that Mary's uterus had developed gangrene due to the abortion, and that she had died of hemorrhage and septic shock.

Watch Abortion Doctor's Second Dead Patient on YouTube.

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Wednesday, April 02, 2025

Woman Mangled Internally During Abortion at Planned Parenthood

AbortionDocs posted a copy of a complaint by a woman identified as "A.J." against Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington, DC, Inc. and Dr. Diane Joy Horvath-Cosper. 

Planned Parenthood Metro Washington
According to this complaint, AJ went to the Planned Parenthood in question on January 28, 2016 for a dilation and evacuation (D&E) abortion, in which the fetus is dismembered and removed with forceps. During the process, Horvath-Cosper caused the following internal injuries to her patient:

  • Two holes in the back of AJs uterus, measuring approximately 1 and 1.5 cm (roughly half an inch, more or less)
  • Tears and stripping of the surface of AJ's right broad ligament and lining of her pelvic cavity
  • Destruction and and tearing out of AJ's right ovary and fallopian tube, portions of AJ's uterus, and part of AJ's appendix
Diane Horvath-Cosper
The complaint goes on to assert that Planned Parenthood and their doctor "demonstrated a reckless indifference and complete lack of care" by delaying transfer to a hospital where AJ could be properly treated. When she was transported, Planned Parenthood sent her to Suburban Hospital, where they were unable to treat such severe injuries. This resulted in another delay in care while AJ was transferred to Shady Grove Hospital. 

When surgeons at Shady Grove performed emergency surgery, they found the placenta and the calvarium (top portion of the baby's skull) were still in AJ's damaged uterus.

The complaint also says that when AJ contacted Planned Parenthood, as instructed, for follow up care, they put her on hold for several hours and refused to help her.

The complaint also faults Planned Parenthood with:
  • Failure to properly assess whether it was safe to do AJ's abortion in an outpatient setting
  • Failing to provide adequate informed consent
  • Failure to properly dilate AJ's cervix
  • Failing to use ultrasound guidance to ensure that structures grasped and removed were actually fetal parts and not parts of AJ's internal organs
  • Failure to have policies and procedures in place to deal with the complications AJ suffered.
"Care. No matter what." That's their motto. It certainly fell short in AJ's case.

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April 2, 2005: The Brutal Brutal Reality of Baby Rowan's Death

Rowan was not as fortunate as the fictitious Hannah, or the real-life Gianna Jessen and Ana Rosa Rodriguez. Clinic workers ignored his mother's pleas for help for her baby.

The mother, who is using the name "Angele" when dealing with this situation, was in a very stressful situation that I'm not at liberty to discuss. She sought "Christian" counseling, and ended up, sadly, with a counselor who informed her that the best way to deal with the the stresses of the situation and the pregnancy would be to seek an abortion. With a heavy heart, Angele finally did so.

Angele could have had an abortion in or near her home state, but those facilities used the D&E dismemberment technique that uses forceps to dismember the baby while he is still alive. Though the counselor had convinced Angele that it was necessary for her baby to die before birth, Angele couldn't bear to think of him being torn limb from limb. She found out about the EPOC clinic of Orlando Women's Center. There, they used a method similar to the way animals are put down. A chemical is injected into the baby's heart to cause a quick death. The woman then goes into labor and delivers her dead baby. This method struck Angele as much less terrible than the dismemberment abortion. So off to Florida she went.

Angele even asked the "counselor" at the clinic again about the injection. She wanted to make sure that it was a quick injection that would stop the baby's heart right away, and not the saline injection that she knew caused a long, slow, agonizing death.

But for some reason, the staff at EPOC put the laminaria into Angele's cervix to dilate it for labor, but they didn't inject the digoxin into Rowan's heart. Angele was concerned that she still felt the baby moving after leaving the facility on Day 1. But she told herself that she must have just misunderstood how this worked. She took the labor-inducing drugs as instructed, and early the next morning she was in labor.

She arrived at the facility at 9 a.m., before it opened, and knocked and knocked at the door. About fifteen minutes later, somebody let her in.

I was directed to "the room." I had been there for a moment the day before and thought it to be a waiting room for family or driving companions. It had a leather sofa and a fabric sofa, both with a white blanket stretched across the seat cushions, a small television and a few magazines.

However, noted Angele, "It was not a waiting area; it was the 'delivery room.' It was, of course, very cold." She was given a wet blanket and a heating pad and told that the doctor wouldn't be there until 2 p.m.

Angele's contractions became strong and frequent, and she was in a lot of pain. But the staff member told Angele that medication would just slow her labor. Violene, the clinic staffer, left the room, and Angele started to bleed.

I came back to the sofa, (they both really smelled awful), wrapped up in the wet and sour-smelling blanket, then decided it was better without it. I rocked back and forth on my hands and knees, trying to hold the heating pad to my stomach to both relieve the pain and try to stay warm. I was looking down and saw little smears and spots of dried blood on the floor and an old cotton ball with blood on it by the fabric-covered sofa across from me. Noticing how dirty it was and how no one was in the room or even nearby in the hallway began to make me nervous and uncomfortable. I went right back to the powder room and began to try to push a lot. I thought it might help since I was told I was not nearly ready to deliver.

In one agonizing push, I felt and heard something come out. Then immediately another push. I was weak. I just held my head in my hands for a moment. Then I decided to stand up. I looked. There was my baby, the whitish cord and what I thought surely must be the placenta.

I started sobbing and lay down in the floor. I stared and stared at my son. I was horrified that I had just had him in a commode.

His right leg moved. He curled up a bit like he was cold; I screamed for Violene! No one came. I managed to get to the doorway, pants down, blood everywhere and yelled again. I went back to my baby. I heard her say she'd be right there.

I showed her Rowan, told her he was alive and moving and to call 911! She took a quick look, said he's not moving now and she'd be back to take care of things while walking out. I called her again. I was touching Rowan softly and he moved again. I called her back. Rowan jumped, I think startled by the loud sound of my calling for help. I showed her that he was moving and alive. I begged her to hurry and call 911, now!

She said for me to lie down and she would get her supervisor. No one came.

I continued to try to caress and comfort my son by rubbing his back, tummy and chest. I stroked his precious little head and kept telling him I loved him and we would be OK. I was afraid to move him because I did not want to do anything that might end up hurting him. I pushed my pinky into his little hand and his fingers curled around me. Still no one was coming. I was terrified but trying not to let him know I was scared. I kept telling him what a beautiful son he was and that we were going to be safe soon.

Staff told Angele not to call 911, so she decided to call her friend.

I left Rowan for two seconds, grabbed the phone, jumped back into the bathroom to be with him, calling my girlfriend 'Sharon' at the same time. I told her Rowan was alive and no one was helping us to please call an ambulance to the clinic immediately and hung up.

Angele's friend did call 911. You can read the transcript of the 911 calls here.

I stayed beside Rowan talking to him, telling him how strong he was being and how proud I was of him. I told him God must really want us to be together for him to make it through everything he had just been through and that Mommy was so sorry but so happy to have a chance to love him. I told him he was a strong little miracle and that I couldn't wait for him to meet his brother and sister. I just kept touching him, trying to warm him with my hands and talking to him so he would not feel any more afraid than he already must.

Then Rowan stopped moving.

Angele described her son:

He was perfect, slightly pale and a little translucent. His eyebrows were pale but wide and well-defined. You could see little hairs on his face and head. He had the tiniest little fingernails and toenails. I noticed they already had a little bit of growth. His mouth was lovely. He was this perfectly formed one pound, one ounce human being. He was beautiful. He had been so strong.

I wrapped him in [a] blue pad instead of one of the wet blankets. I just kept kissing him and telling him I loved him so much. I told him I was sorry I couldn't get anyone to help us and I was so sorry for ever coming here.

You can see photos of Rowan here.

A staff member came into the bathroom and demanded that Angele give her the baby. Angele refused.

Though Angele's friend had asked for rescue for the baby, Angele didn't see any ambulance staff at the clinic, only police. Angele told the police that she didn't want to give her baby to the clinic staff, that she wanted to take him to the funeral home for the funeral she had planned prior to the abortion.

Even though staff had originally told Angele that she would have to stay until after she'd been examined by the doctor, once Rowan had died they told her to leave, and she was discharged without being examined.

Here is A Message from Baby Rowan's Mother:

I wish that I had such a network and support before, I would still be pregnant. It is my hope that many things will transpire as a result of coming forward with my experience.

I hope that women will see my humiliation and remorse and seek forgiveness if they are post abortive.

I want to do everything in my power to see that this does not happen to other babies or mothers.

I want women in crisis pregnancies to see that whether they are of 6 weeks or 28 weeks gestation, that abortion will haunt them for the rest of their lives. I would like for them to know that no matter how little you want the pregnancy itself, you will want, love and cherish your child. Those 9 months of crisis are the toughest. If you make it through that, the rewards come 1000 fold!

If they choose not to keep their child; that adoption is easier than abortion, although that is not what most post abortive women thought before they terminated.

Finally I hope that women who remain pro choice will fight for these clinics to be more strictly regulated. As feminists, they should demand and expect it!

I think that even women who are pro choice, would not want to come face to face with what I have been through on any level. I also think they would agree, that having an infant born alive and left to die or literally murdered in some cases, is legally and morally wrong.

It is very shameful to step forward and admit publicly that I have been so wrong as to "choose" to take the life of my child. On the other hand if it will accomplish any or all of the above, then it is my duty, isn't it? That is so long as I protect the children I have here first and foremost. I know God wants me to put them first, just as I should have with Rowan.

Points I'd like to raise regarding this incident:

  1. Clearly, pre-abortion counseling is woefully inadequate at this "clinic." If a woman changes her mind in an instant like that, it's hard to argue that she really "needed" the abortion, or that she'd been prepared for the full ramifications of what she was signing up for.
  2. Supposedly abortion clinics exist to support women's choices. Where was their respect for Angele's choice to call an ambulance for her son?
A lot of prolifers cast stones at Angele, not understanding at all how she could have made the decision to have an abortion while wanting to have the procedure be quick and painless for a baby she'd named and planned a funeral for. What they don't seem to understand is that first of all, people in a crisis make terrible decisions; this is part of why bereaved people are usually told not to make major life decisions for a year, to let their decision-making abilities come back to normal. Second of all, you can't live in an atmosphere of poison and not be damaged by it. Angele lived, as we all do, in a society that says over and over again that abortion is moral, not merely harmless but palliative and merciful, etc. In a moment of duress Angele recognized that her own decision making abilities were impaired and she trusted the professionals around her -- the "Christian" counselor she was seeing for months, and the "counselors" at the clinic. She was adrift on a sea of despair and confusion and latched onto the wrong planks. She's painfully aware of this. Now. When it's too late. She realized she'd placed her trust in the wrong people as soon as she saw her son in the toilet. Hindsight is 20/20. She's trying to make it right now. Stop throwing stones. Or would you prefer she'd hardened her heart and become a convert to the abortion cause? That she put her efforts into seeing that her own nightmare is lived by even more women? She repented the moment she saw her son. Her sin is cast away, as far as the east is from the west, the Bible says. Let it go already.

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April 2, 1912: Was The Midwife Guilty?

According to the Homicide in Chicago Interactive Database, 25-year-old homemaker Elizabeth Jorgeson died on April 2, 1912 from an abortion perpetrated that day by Katie Sauer, whose profession is not given. Sauer was held by the Coroner's Jury and indicted by a Grand Jury on November 30. The case never went to trial.

An article in the Chicago Inter-Ocean from the year before Elizabeth's death identifies a Chicago woman named Katie Sauer as a midwife. I am working to verify if the midwife and the abortionist are the same person. If the Katie Sauer implicated in Elizabeth's death is indeed this midwife, that would be typical. Abortions in Chicago in that era were most often perpetrated by either doctors or midwives.

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April 2, 1943: Physician Accused in Woman's Death

On April 2, 1943, a 31-year-old domestic servant named Ellen Haro died at Illinois Masonic Hospital in Chicago. Before her death from a criminal abortion, she identified a doctor whose name was not given in news coverage.

For some reason the inquest was started in early April but put off until April 23.

Watch Who Was the Abortion Doctor?  on YouTube.

"Physician Hunted After Abortion Victim's Death," Chicago Daily Tribune, April 4, 1943

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Tuesday, April 01, 2025

April 1, 1933: Self-Induced in New York

According to New York death records, 38-year-old homemaker Julia Cerrone Carrotore died April 1, 1933 at Kings County Hospital in New York. Her death was attributed to septicemia following a self-induced abortion.

According to public records, Julia had five children.

Self-induced abortions were actually rare.  According to research by both Planned Parenthood and author Nancy Howell-Lee, about 90% of pre-legalization abortions were performed by doctors. Howell-Lee broke down the remaining 10% and found that the bulk of them were perpetrated by somebody with medical training, such as a nurse or dentist. 

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April 1, 1934: One of Six Clustered Victims of Dr. Guy Brewer

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Dr. Guy E. Brewer
Ruby Ford, a 26-year-old homemaker from Ponca City, Oklahoma, died on April 1, 1934, 11 days after an abortion committed on March 20 "at the combination bachelor dwelling and office" of Dr. Guy E. Brewer, a beloved philanthropist in the small town of Graber, Oklahoma. 

So popular was Brewer that the husband of one of his six abortion victims was fired from his job in retaliation for reporting the death to the police.

Brewer had graduated from the University of Louisville in 1906 and had been practicing medicine in Garber for 21 of the 29 years he had been a physician. He supported young men during their university studies, maintaining houses for them to live in. Those he had educated over the years rushed immediately to his defense. Though Brewer had spent many long years helping boys and young men, his impact on women's lives was evidently lightning-fast.

I believe that Ruby was the second woman to die under Brewer's dubious care. The first had been Elizabeth Shaw, age 23, who died on May 25, 1928. The other dead patients are:
During and after the entire case played out, Brewer was lavished with love and support from the boys that he had likely helped with more than just housing, tuition, and books over the years. 

Brewer entered guilty pleas and was sentenced to six four-year sentences, to run concurrently, for the six abortion deaths.


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Monday, March 31, 2025

A Non-Fatal Carhart-Associated Lawsuit

Background on Carhart

Leroy Carhart, who has since gone to meet his Maker, was an absolute hero among abortion-rights activists due to his willingness to do abortions at any stage of pregnancy as long as there was some semblance of a justification. 

Two of those late abortions left the patients dead under what I consider totally inexcusable circumstances:

Christin Gilbert
Christin Gilbert was an intellectually-disabled teenager whose third-trimester abortion was justified on "health" grounds, though aside from having Down syndrome Christin was perfectly healthy. Carhart was aborting Christin's baby at the supposedly saintly George Tiller's clinic. Per Tiller's practice, Christin -- whose health and life were supposedly in such danger that her viable unborn baby had to die to save her -- was spending nights at a nearby motel that Tiller used as a sort of annex. When she collapsed and lost consciousness, her parents used a luggage cart to take her out to the minivan so they could drive her to the clinic, where she went into cardio-respiratory arrest. Carhart's grasp of how to perform CPR was so rudimentary that the medics thought he was a bystander and had to chase him away from his patient so that they could make appropriate attempts to save his patient. To no avail. Christin went into a coma and her parents withdrew life support.

Jennifer McKenna-Morbelli
Jennifer McKenna-Morbelli went to Carhart's Germantown Reproductive Health Services in Maryland to abort their 33-week loved and wanted baby due to a prenatal diagnosis. At this stage of pregnancy, the baby is killed with an overdose of digoxin, a cardiac drug, that is injected directly into the baby's heart. Once Carhart confirms that the baby is dead he induces labor. Prolifers outside the facility reported seeing Jennifer enter the facility on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. On that last day she appeared pale and weak and was at the facility for over nine hours. After Jennifer left, Carhart and his wife left the state to go work at another abortion facility. At the hotel that Carhart used as an annex, like his mentor George Tiller, Jennifer suffered chest pain. She was unsuccessful in her attempts to reach Carhart, per instructions that in the event of complications she was to call clinic staff rather than go to the emergency room. In fact, an emergency number Carhart provided actually rang to the answering machine for his wife's equestrian supply business. Jennifer died of her complications.

Another young woman, whose aunt gave her the pseudonym "Haley Mason," described a dismal experience when, under pressure from the baby's father, she went to Carhart's Nebraska clinic for an abortion. Unable to cope afterward, she took her own life.

So this is the kind of "care" a "hero" provides.

So let's look at a case where a woman was fortunate enough to escape with her life. Hat tip to Operation Rescue.

Haimanot Aragaw went to Carhart's facility in Bethesda, Maryland on May 20, 2020, accompanied by her husband, Abel Woldemedhen. The couple had decided to abort their 23-week unborn baby because the child had been diagnosed prenatally with Down syndrome. 

On that day, clinic staff performed an ultrasound, noting that the placenta was in a "posterior position." Staff gave Haimanot oral medications then inserted laminaria to dilate her cervix. 

Haimanot then went to a nearby motel. She experienced pelvic pain and vaginal discharge during the night. She reported this when she returned to the clinic the next day and was reassured that this was normal. 

Anh-Chi Dang Do

Haimanot was given additional medications that was supposed to help further dilate her cervix. Then Dr. Anh-Chi Dang Do removed the laminaria. Haimanot began to blead heavily.

As Do suctioned out amniotic fluid and began dismembering Haimanot's unborn baby, the patient began to bleed so heavily, that according to the lawsuit the couple later filed, both Do and other staff were spattered with blood.

Carhart was called in to assist. In spite of their efforts, they were unable to remove the entire fetus or to stop the blood loss, so they called Montgomery County Fire and Rescue to take Haimanot to Shady Grove Adventist Hospital.

Haimanot was in critical condition and taken immediately to the operating room. Her cervix had nearly been torn off, with only about 1/3 of it still intact. Her mangled unborn baby was in her abdominal cavity behind her uterus. The baby was missing its arms and most of its right leg, and its head was torn nearly off. 

Do had also managed to damage Haimanot's appendix.

The only way to get the bleeding under control was to remove the entire uterus. 

Haimanot and Abel sued the doctors and the facility, alleging not just injury but lack of informed consent. They asserted that had she known of the risk of the damage to her uterus and appendix, and the loss of her ability to ever have another baby, Haimanot would never have consented to the abortion.

Sadly, the lawsuit doesn't mention that she never would have consented to the abortion had she known that her baby would be torn limb from limb.

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March 31, 1930: Two Nearly-Simultaneous Abortion Deaths Linked to Dr. Thomas Eade

SUMMARY: During an inquest into the March 31, 1930 death of Gladys Louise Anderson, word came that 24-year-old Cleo Hinton had also died from a botched abortion. Both deaths were attributed to the work of Dr. Thomas M. Eade. 

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Gladys Anderson
Gladys Louise Anderson was an 18-year-old freshman at the University of Illinois. She was studying liberal arts and sciences and was a member of the Alpha Omicron Pi sorority as well as Alpha Lambda Delta, a women's honorary freshman scholastic society.

Gladys had been seeing R. C. Catheart for about two years, and the couple had become engaged in the late fall of 1929. Over the weekend of March 8 and 9 of 1930, Gladys traveled to Chicago to tell R. C. that she was pregnant. The couple discussed the situation and decided that they were still too young to marry. They agreed that Gladys should abort the baby.

R. C. said that he had heard of Dr. Thomas M. Eade in Champaign, Illinois, and recommended that Gladys go to him.

Gladys wrote to R. C. to tell him that she underwent the abortion on Monday, March 24 and returned to classes and her sorority house after spending the night at Eade's practice. Her letters to R. C. stopped, so he went to Campaign on Thursday to check on his betrothed.

Dr. Thomas Eade
By Friday night, March 28, Gladys was seriously ill. Somehow word reached Dr. Eade that his patient was ill, and he sent his secretary, Ruth Brown, to the sorority house with medication. Gladys's condition continued to deteriorate. The sorority house mother called Dr. J. R. Powell to check on her at 3:30 on Saturday morning, March 29, and found her to be so ill that he admitted her to Mercy Hospital in Urbana. Somebody contacted her mother, Mrs. LeRoy Anderson, who hurried to her side.

Gladys's condition continued to deteriorate, so at 7:00 on Saturday evening Dr. J. M. Christle came in as a consultant. 

In spite of the best efforts of the doctors, Gladys died of peritonitis at 3:00 on the morning of Monday, March 31, with her mother at her side. An autopsy confirmed that she had died from peritonitis due to an abortion. 

Cleo Hinton
Just an hour before the start of the inquest on the evening that Gladys died, word came to the coroner that 23-year-old stenographer Cleo Hinton had also died at Mercy Hospital on March 31 after giving a statement that Eade had perpetrated an abortion on her. 

Unlike Gladys, Cleo indicated in her deathbed statement that her baby's father had not been involved in the abortion. However, the man in question, J. F. Campbell, testified to the contrary. "I have known Miss Hinton possibly five years, and since November 29 I have been in her company many times, although we did not go together steady, nor were we engaged. Six weeks ago she came to me and told me of her trouble and stated that it was necessary for her to do some thing at once. She told me she was going to see Dr. T. M. Eade and that she would let me know how much it would cost."

"Later, possibly two days later, she called me and told me that the doctor had consented to perform the operation for $40. For several days she took treatments and pills, but two weeks ago she told me at her home ... that the treatments were not benefiting her as they should and that she was to go and stay two days at the doctor's office."

The abortion had been perpetrated at Eade's office on Saturday, March 22, two days prior to Glady's abortion. Cleo remained, ailing, at Eade's practice while J. F. visited her regularly.

Cleo's sister, LaVonne Hinton, indicated that Cleo had said she was going to St. Louis and would return on Monday the 24th. When she didn't return as expected, LaVonne said, "I started an investigation and on Tuesday, March 25, I found her at Dr. Eade's office in bed and very very sick."

"I saw that her condition was bad," LaVonne said, "and ordered her removed to a hospital, but Dr. Eade refused. Later in the day I called him by telephone to tell him I was sending up two doctors to see my sister. Eade said he would not let them in and it was at this time that I went to the state's attorney."

Sheriff Shouf went to Eade's office on March 25 as part of the investigation into Gladys's abortion. Eade told the sheriff that Cleo was ill from intestinal influenza. The sheriff had her transferred to Mercy Hospital, where she died on March 31 at 7:15 pm.

Eade was arrested later that day. However, before police had a chance to seize his records, his secretary reported finding the office ransacked and the records stolen. 

Eade had previously been implicated in two other abortions, one in which the patient died an another in which the patient "went insane." 

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