Why “Abortion as a Human Right” Is More Dangerous for Women

By Wendy Wright | February 8, 2013

The World Health Organization and the UN Commissioner on Human Rights have both released guidelines that assume abortion is a human right and should have no limits. Abortion for all nine months, with no legal protections for mother or baby.

Here is what happens when there are virtually no restrictions. In the state of Maryland, late-term abortions – which indisputably are more dangerous for women – are condoned, and abortionists are not required to follow normal medical standards such as having admitting privileges at nearby hospitals when problems occur. That leaves hospital professionals stranded, without information on what happened to the patient prior to landing in the hospital (what drugs were given, what procedures performed, amount of blood lost, how quickly her condition progressed, etc.).

Making abortion legal – and a human right – does not make it safe. It can make it even more dangerous – as this shows:

Carhart Patient Dead From Horrific 33-Week Abortion Injuries
February 8, 2013 By Operation Rescue
Germantown, MD – A 29-year old woman died yesterday as the result of fatal complications suffered during an abortion at 33 weeks that was done by LeRoy Carhart at Germantown Reproductive Health Center in Germantown, Maryland. Information about the incident comes from an extremely credible anonymous source.

The woman, who came for a third trimester abortion from out-of-state, arrived at GRHC on Sunday and was seen by pro-life activists every day through Wednesday. Witnesses said she appeared “pale and weak.”

Early Thursday morning, the woman began suffering chest pain and other discomforts. Her attempts to reach Carhart were unsuccessful. The woman was taken by her family from her hotel to a nearby hospital emergency room at approximately 5:00 a.m. Efforts by hospital staff to contact Carhart or get informational assistance from the abortion clinic were unsuccessful.

The patient suffered massive internal bleeding into her abdominal cavity. She slipped into a Code Blue condition approximately six times before finally succumbing to her injuries at around 9:30 a.m. The case has been placed with the Medical Examiner for further investigation.

This tragic incident ironically occurred the same day that another medical emergency took place at a New Mexico abortion clinic involving long-time Carhart associate Shelley Sella. At the time of that incident, a politically motivated Medical Board in New Mexico was voting to clear Sella of negligence charges, related to a botched third trimester abortion using the same risky late-term abortion method employed by Carhart. This dangerous out-patient abortion process includes long periods of time where the patient is unmonitored while taking strong doses of a drug that causes unpredictable and sometimes violent contractions.

“The avoidable death of this young woman dramatically illustrates the dangers of third trimester abortions that are done outside of the safety of obstetrical standards,” said Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue and Pro-life Nation. “In 2005, Carhart was also involved in the death of Christin Gilbert, who died after a third trimester abortion in Wichita, Kansas. It is time for medical boards to put an end to these horrifically dangerous and barbaric third trimester abortions. If they do not, we can only expect Carhart and his associates to send more women to the morgue.”

LeRoy Carhart was recently lauded at the Sundance film festival as a new documentary on him and three other late-term abortionists was previewed. He stated, ““We’re 40 years after Roe v. Wade, and the women in America are in worse shape than they were 40 years ago. Their rights are being trampled in the street.”

Surely not mentioned are the many women who have suffered – and untold numbers of babied killed – from these abortionists’ right to commit abortion.

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