“Dottie” was a 30-year-old New Yorker seeking medical attention because she had started bleeding in the second trimester. She had suffered two miscarriages in the past and likely feared that she might lose this baby too. Unfortunately, the doctor’s dubious course of action would end her baby’s life and her own.
The medical journal that recorded Dottie’s case does not specify what the diagnosis was, but the doctor decided to put Dottie through a hysterotomy abortion and a tubal ligation. This was a questionable course of action considering that hysterotomy abortion is associated with a very high maternal mortality rate. But since it qualified under the health exemption (“life of the mother” exception), it was completely legal.
The report of Dottie’s death raises questions. She was put under general anesthesia for the abortion and tubal ligation, but the journal states that “Cardiac arrest ensued during the procedure, and the patient expired following completion of a tubal ligation, never having regained consciousness.”
Later research found that the risk of hysterotomy abortion concurrent with surgical sterilization was unjustified even in someone perfectly healthy (https://www.ajog.org/article/0002-9378(82)90729-3/abstract). Today, medical knowledge has advanced beyond the antiquated approach of abortion for pregnancy complications— the recommendation that failed Dottie and her child.
New York State Medical Journal, January 1974 https://archive.org/details/newyorkstatejour7919medi/page/n59
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Veteran pro-life investigator Kevin Sherlock asks people of good will to help him have Planned Parenthood prosecuted for profiteering from the rapes and incests of underage girls many thousands of times each year.
Sherlock has pulled the police records of hundreds of cities and has pulled the child protective services records of multiple states to prove Planned Parenthood staffers are violating mandated reporting laws designed to protect girl victims. But there is more to be done. Sherlock will make sure more and more evidence gets to federal and state prosecutors who care about protecting girls from abusers and profiteers.
Sherlock has talked to many girls and young women who trust him. Their stories and the forensic evidence shows most of them undergo pill abortions or humiliating invasive surgical abortions due to fear or ignorance or pressure or coercion. He treats the girls or women carrying children or devastated from their abortions as friends and neighbors in his home town, not afterthoughts.
Thank you for doing what you can to help girls and fight sexual predators and rape profiteers.
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