Planned Parenthood Waited Five Hours Before Sending Abortion Victim to ER
New documents a local CBS television station obtained in the case of a young African-American woman killed in a fatal botched legal abortion show Planned Parenthood waited over five hours before sending the woman to a local hospital for emergency care.
Steve Miller of the CBS news affiliate WBBM has released a new report showing documents released in the botched abortion death of Tonya Reaves that alarmingly shows Planned Parenthood delayed summoning emergency care for the dying woman for five and a half hours after the abortion failed.
At 11:00 a.m. on Friday, Reaves received a second-trimester dilation and evacuation (D&E) abortion at Planned Parenthood, located at 18 S. Michigan Ave. in Chicago. Following the abortion, Reaves began bleeding heavily and it continued at Planned Parenthood for five and a half hours before a Fire Department ambulance finally took her to Northwestern Memorial Hospital at 4:30 p.m., according to Miller.
Then, once the young woman arrived at the hospital, the reports make it appear emergency personnel had to start from scratch to figure out the extent of Reaves injuries.
“Then at 5:30 p.m., doctors performed an ultrasound, and another dilation and evacuation procedure – basically, another abortion – this time at Northwestern,” Miller reports. “But after that, there were then more problems, and pain. That warranted a new ultrasound, and a perforation was discovered. At 10:12 p.m., Reaves was taken back to surgery – and “an uncontrollable bleed was discovered,” documents say.”
Responding to the report, Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue and Pro-Life Nation, said, “It is clear that Planned Parenthood botched the procedure that resulted in uncontrolled bleeding then failed to treat the hemorrhage while Reaves was at their clinic, allowing her to bleed for over five hours before finally calling for help.”
“There can be no doubt that this delay contributed to her death,” Newman argues. “The injury and the untreated hemorrhage happened at Planned Parenthood and they are solely responsible for it.”
Newman, in a press statement to LifeNews, quotes Dr. James C. Anderson, M.D., a 30-year veteran emergency room doctor who said abortion clinics never informed him about their patients’ conditions.
“I have always had to evaluate the situation, come to my own conclusions, and initiate what I thought was appropriate treatment. This definitely created some time delays that were not in the patient’s best interest,” stated Dr. Anderson. “These delays can have life-threatening implications when dealing with hemorrhage or infection.”
Newman says the lack of information proved fatal for Tonya Reaves.
“Planned Parenthood butchered Tonya Reaves, delayed her access to emergency care, then left the emergency room doctors to figure out what happened to her. By the time they discovered the true extent of her injuries, it was too late to save her life,” said Newman. “Planned Parenthood is trying to minimize their responsibility for Reaves completely avoidable death that appears to have resulted from a combination of their negligence, delay – possibly for the purpose of cover-up – and lack of communication with emergency providers. That abortion clinic is dangerous and should be closed. The abortionist should not be allowed to continue to inflict harm on women and should have his medical license revoked.”
Newman concluded: “We again call on President Obama to stop protecting Planned Parenthood and halt all Federal funding to the abortion giant in order to prevent other women from suffering Tonya Reaves’ fate.”
Reaves’ family has obtained an attorney who is looking into a potential civil lawsuit against Planned Parenthood on the family’s behalf.
A leading member of Congress who has already started the process of investigating the Planned Parenthood abortion business related to Medicaid fraud and potentially hiding cases of sexual abuse of minors says it should be probed over a recent abortion death.
Woman Dies After Second-Trimester Abortion at Planned Parenthood
http://www.lifenews.com/2012/07/23/woman-dies-after-second-trimester-abortion-at-planned-parenthood/
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LISTEN: WBBM Newsradio’s Steve Miller reports
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/07/24/documents-shed-light-on-womans-death-after-abortion/
It sure seems like they should have, but I'm not a doctor. Maybe somebody made a mistake, maybe she began hemmoraging so quickly there was nothing to be done.
Her death was ruled an accident, but her family certainly has the right to demand more answers.
Nothing is spotless, mistake or accident/death free. Not pregnancy, not childbirth, not abortion. And nobody's ever claimed this. Women die every day of complications from any of these things, but legal medical abortion has a very low rate of complications and death.
That poor woman.
Quoting daughteroftruth:They should have sent her to the ER. Planned parent hood does not have a spotless records... nor does any hospital or ER in this country. Even OB's have made dumb choices and careless mistakes that cost lives.. that's what their insurance is there for. medical mistakes take many many lives in this country.
Instant karma?
How sad that Planned Parenthood, who are supposed to be trained medical professionals allowed this to happen. Is it really surprise though? They value no life.
While it is sad that this young woman died and left a child behind motherless, how do we know that the person who performed the d&c didnt do everythong in his or her power to help? Granted waiting 5 hours to call 911 is extreme, we as the public just dont know the whole story. Just what is being reported to us and these reports could be biased for both sides of the abortion argument.
Quoting Jamie1972:
While it is sad that this young woman died and left a child behind motherless, how do we know that the person who performed the d&c didnt do everythong in his or her power to help? Granted waiting 5 hours to call 911 is extreme, we as the public just dont know the whole story. Just what is being reported to us and these reports could be biased for both sides of the abortion argument.
Waiting 5 hrs is beyond extreme....
http://health.usnews.com/health-news/family-health/womens-health/articles/2012/01/23/abortion-safer-for-women-than-childbirth-study-claims
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