Botched Abortion Crisis Deepens

Botched Abortion Crisis Deepens As New 911 Call Reveals Continuing Dangers at Albuquerque Clinics   October 5, 2011       Albuquerque, NM - Another woman has suffered complications from a botched abortion at Southwestern Women's Options, a late-term abortion mill in Albuquerque, New Mexico, owned and operated by Curtis Boyd.   The latest 911 call obtained by Tara Shaver of Project Defending Life and released to Operation Rescue shows a 31-year old woman who is suffering uncontrolled bleeding after an abortion. The abortion clinic worker who placed the call requested that the patient be transported to the hospital.   This is the eleventh such abortion-related medical emergency at Southwestern Women's Options in less than two years, and the fourteenth reported abortion emergency overall in Albuquerque in that same time frame.   Both Project Defending Life and Operation Rescue filed complaints about the recent flood of botched abortions with the New Mexico Medical Board (NMMB), but received mixed signals about whether an investigation would be conducted.   Since then, the

 Attorney General's office has contacted NMMB's Executive Director Lynn Hart, regarding the incidents, requesting her "assistance in handling this matter".

 

In addition, members of Project Defending Life met with Gov. Susana Martinez to discuss the dangerous conditions that have spawned so many life-threatening abortion complications.

 

"Our concern is for the safety of women in New Mexico. We were encouraged to hear that Governor Martinez shares these same concerns. In fact, we were thoroughly impressed that the Governor's office not only knew about the 911 calls, but had already contacted the Executive Director of the Medical Board to insure the investigation was progressing. We now have confidence that the New Mexico Medical Board is conducting a proper investigation," said Fr. Stephen Imbarrato of Project Defending Life after the meeting.

 

"This latest abortion emergency further instills a new sense of urgency to the Medical Board's ongoing investigation," said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. "It is obvious that Albuquerque abortion clinics are ill-equipped to handle complications that occur on a regular basis and are using paramedics as a back-up plan for when things go terribly wrong. This presents an unacceptable risk to public health. If Boyd and other abortionists insist on running unsafe abortion mills with high complication rates and a dangerous lack of access to emergency resources, then they should not be allowed to operate at all."

 

Click to view video featuring the 911 recording and links to other documents. 

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