I only read USA TODAY when I must stay at a hotel. Imagine my surprise when the opinion section carried an article entitled “Ex-abortionist: How I became pro-life” in their January 22, 2020 edition.
This article by Dr. Kathi Aultman, an OB/ Gynecologist, is worth reading in its entirety. Even though USA TODAY published Dr. Aultman’s words, they purposely miss-titled it so that their liberal readers would not read the truth contained in this article.
The article’s subject and focus is the federal lawsuit before the Supreme Court asking for removal of the requirement that abortionists be doctors with local hospital admitting privileges. The prime reason offered for removal is that “these safety standards aren’t needed because abortions are so safe.”
Planned Parenthood, and their supporters, are filing similar lawsuits in many states because they say abortions are safe, and the existing law is inconvenient for women and providers of abortions. There is a current lawsuit before Ramsey County District Court in Minnesota.
Dr. Aultman gives expert testimony that, “many abortion clinics have gotten away with shoddy practices that no surgery center would be likely to get away with.”
“As a gynecologist in the emergency room, I treated women experiencing severe complications, including life-threatening hemorrhage and infections from abortions because no one at the abortion clinic had admitting privileges. … This is not a safe way to practice medicine,” concludes Dr. Aultman.
The abortion industry has blocked access to abortion information! Only 28 states require abortion providers to report post-abortion complications to their state. And states are not required to report this information to the Centers for Disease Control! And I have been unable to access any such data from the Minnesota Department of Health! And I seriously doubt that there is any requirement for non-abortion surgery centers and emergency rooms to report abortion-related patients to their state medical or health departments.
My bottom line – there needs to be more legislation with respect to abortions and the numbers of women suffering needless deaths and lifelong complications, NOT successful lawsuits by the abortion providers, which will take the minimal protection away from this group of women.
I am sending this to my state and federal representatives. If you feel as I do, please do the same. Remember, in Minnesota, there are 10,000 or more abortions performed every year. We need our legislature to provide data to the public about how many women die from abortions, or have post-abortion complications before any existing abortion-related laws are changed!
And men, this is not just a woman issue, the women in your family and life need you to protect them – so man up!
Chuck Flickinger, Hovland
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