Autopsy Report Reveals Planned Parenthood’s Negligence Responsible for Tonya Reaves’ Death

Autopsy Report Reveals Planned Parenthood’s Negligence Was Responsible for Tonya Reaves’ Death :Operation Rescue: Operation Rescue has obtained a copy of Tonya Reaves autopsy report that shows beyond a doubt that the 24-year old woman died from three major complications to a botched second-trimester abortion suffered at a Chicago area Planned Parenthood abortion clinic on July 20, 2012. It furthermore indicates that her injuries were survivable if she had received proper emergency care in a timely manner.

Related: Medical Examiner Withheld Pages of Reaves Autopsy Report Mentioning Planned Parenthood

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Abortion never medically necessary

Forum in Dublin on maternal health - The Irish Times - Mon, Sep 10, 2012: An international symposium on maternal healthcare in Dublin at the weekend has concluded that abortion is never medically necessary to save the life of a mother.

A panel of speakers formally agreed to a “Dublin declaration” on maternal healthcare. It stated:

“As experienced practitioners and researchers in obstetrics and gynaecology, we affirm that direct abortion is not medically necessary to save the life of a woman.

“We uphold that there is a fundamental difference between abortion and necessary medical treatments that are carried out to save the life of the mother, even if such treatment results in the loss of life of her unborn child.

“We confirm that the prohibition of abortion does not affect, in any way, the availability of optimal care to pregnant women.”

Leading Belgian cancer physician and presenter at the conference Frederic Amant is quoted in The Lancet as saying, “Fear of chemotherapy should not be a reason to terminate pregnancy. There is no evidence termination improves outcomes for the mother.”

Related: 

• Cancer in Pregnancy website
• Treatment of breast cancer during pregnancy: an observational study
• Long-term cognitive and cardiac outcomes after prenatal exposure to chemotherapy in children aged 18 months or older: an observational study

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Multiple Abortions Increase Risk of Maternal Death: New Danish Study

A single induced abortion increases the risk of maternal death by 45 percent compared to women with no history of abortion, according to a new study of all women of reproductive age in Denmark over a 25 year period. In addition, each additional abortion is associated with an even higher death rate. Women who had two abortions were 114 percent more likely to die during the period examined, and women had three or more abortions had a 192 percent increased risk of death.

Elevated rates of death were also observed among women who experienced miscarriages, ectopic pregnancies or other natural losses. Women with a history of successful deliveries were the least likely to die during the 25 years examined. Women who had never been pregnant had the highest mortality rate. Among women with a history of multiple pregnancies, women with a history of both abortions and natural losses, but no live births, had the highest mortality rate.

The study is the second record linkage analysis of Danish mortality data to be published this month. The earlier study was limited to comparing mortality rates following only the first pregnancy outcome. It found that abortion of a first pregnancy was associated with a higher rate of death compared to death rates among women who delivered a first pregnancy. The higher death rate among women who had abortions persisted for each of the first ten years following the first pregnancy outcome.

Finnish study: Repeat abortions linked to premature birth

BBC News - Repeat abortions linked to premature birth, study suggests: The more abortions a woman has before her first child, the more likely she is to give birth prematurely, a study 300,858 first-time mothers in Finland of has suggested. The study showed women were three times more likely to have a very premature baby, born before 28 weeks, if they had had three or more abortions. The report was published in the journal Human Reproduction.

From the introduction, emphasis added:

"Induced abortion (IA) is one of the most common gynecological procedures performed on women but the impact of IAs on women’s subsequent childbearing has not yet been properly studied. . . . Many previous studies . . . have found a positive association between IA and risk of preterm birth or a dose– response effect (i.e. the risk of preterm birth increased with increasing number of IAs)."

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Danish study reveals higher maternal death rates following abortion

Medical Science Monitor: Medical records for the entire population of women born in Denmark between 1962 and 1991 and were alive in 1980, were linked to death certificates. Mortality rates associated with first pregnancy outcomes (delivery, miscarriage, abortion, and late abortion) were calculated. Odds ratios examining death rates based on reproductive outcomes, adjusted for age at first pregnancy and year of women’s births, were also calculated. Results: A total of 463,473 women had their first pregnancy between 1980 and 2004, of whom 2,238 died. In nearly all time periods examined, mortality rates associated with miscarriage or abortion of a first pregnancy were higher than those associated with birth.

Commentary by the American Association of Pro-Life Ob/Gyns: 

A new study of the medical records for nearly half a million women in Denmark reveals significantly higher maternal death rates following abortion compared to delivery. This finding has confirmed similar large-scale population studies conducted in Finland and the United States, http://www.aaplog.org/complications-of-induced-abortion/induced-abortion-and-maternal-mortality/induced-abortion-and-natural-cause-maternal-death/ but contradicts the widely held belief that abortion is safer than childbirth. . . .

Why is this study important?

1) Record-based studies provide complete reproductive history data for all residents. There are very few record-based studies of mortality risks associated with reproductive loss available in the published literature. Without data-linkage to complete reproductive histories (as in this study), results are highly unreliable as prior research suggests as many as 73% of all pregnancy associated deaths are not apparent from death certificates.

2) This study eliminates the potential confounding effect of unknown prior pregnancy history by examining mortality rates associated with first pregnancy outcome alone.

3) No previous record-based studies have compared early induced abortions to later abortions. There is consensus that late-term abortions are associated with more physiological risks and higher rates of maternal mortality in the short term compared to early abortions. However, longer term mortality risks have not been previously examined with record-based data.

From the Eliot Institute: Finding confirms similar large-scale population studies in Finland and US; contradicts widely held belief abortion safer than childbirth
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How to talk about abortion . . . without feeling nervous

Beth Chase posted this PDF from Planned Parenthood of New York City, advising readers on how to talk about controversial subjects such as abortion, sex education, birth control, and reproductive rights.

Getting rid of rape evidence

WORLDmag.com | Getting rid of rape evidence | Marvin Olasky: Gregg Cunningham’s Center for Bio-Ethical Reform ad will make lots of people angry, but there’s truth to it: Rape is atrocious and leaves every non-perverse person disgusted, so many of us naturally try to get rid of the evidence.

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Abortionist admits, ‘most women having abortions are not raped’

LifeSiteNews: Shortly before controversy erupted over Congressman Todd Akin’s remarks on abortion in cases of rape, an abortionist bluntly admitted that “most women having abortions are not raped.” D.C. abortionist Willie Parker was responding to an article on the ‘Advancing new standards in reproductive health’ blog of the University of California, San Fransico. 

Author Tray Weitz had critiqued the approach of advocates for abortion of using hard cases to make the case for legal abortion. She suggested rather an approach that would validate abortion whatever the circumstances – a ‘rights’-based approach. Parker notes that when abortion “advocates have sought stories from me to make the case for abortion, it has always been a request for tragic circumstances, the stories felt to be the most likely ones to move opinion. The reality is that that is not the typical patient I see, as most women having abortions are not raped or are not carrying a lethally flawed fetus.”

All charges dropped against Kansas Planned Parenthood

All charges dropped against Kansas Planned Parenthood: Former prosecutor Kline reacts | LifeSiteNews.com: Officials have dropped what remained of 107 charges that former District Attorney of Johnson County Phill Kline filed against Planned Parenthood five years ago, snuffing out the last possibility of examining the charges in court.

Related: Smoke and Mirrors: Deception Used to Support Dismissal of Planned Parenthood Felonies

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Woman Rushed to Hospital from Haskell’s Late-term Abortion Clinic

Woman Rushed to Hospital from Haskell’s Late-term Abortion Clinic Outside Dayton :Operation Rescue: Emergency responders swarmed late-term abortionist Martin Haskell’s Women’s Med Center abortion clinic, located in the Dayton suburb of Kettering, in response to a medical emergency on August 16, 2012. Local pro-life activists photographed paramedics loading a female patient into an awaiting ambulance. Those activists confirmed that the abortionist on duty that day was Roslyn Kade, a long-time associate of Haskell’s. This is the fourth medical emergency recently documented at Haskell abortion clinics. 

Related: New 911 Call from Haskell’s Abortion Clinic: “She’s Bleeding Quite Badly”
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"I wish my mother had aborted me"

Lynn Beisner writes in The Guardian: 

It is true that in the past 12 years, I have been able to rise above the circumstances of my birth and build a life that I truly love. But no one should have to make such a Herculean struggle for simple normalcy. Even given the happiness and success I now enjoy, if I could go back in time and make the choice for my mother, it would be abortion.

The world would not be a darker or poorer place without me. Actually, in terms of contributions to the world, I am a net loss. Everything that I have done – including parenting, teaching, researching, and being a loving partner – could have been done as well, if not better by other people. Any positive contributions that I have made are completely offset by what it has cost society to help me overcome the disadvantages and injuries of my childhood to become a functional and contributing member of society.

It is not easy to say, "I wish my mother had aborted me." The right would have us see abortion as women acting out of cowardice, selfishness, or convenience. But for many women, like my mother, abortion would be an inconvenient act of courage and selflessness. I am sad for both of us that she could not find the courage and selflessness. But my attitude is that as long as I am already here, I might as well do all I can to make the world a better place, to ease the suffering of others, and to experience love and life to its fullest.

Editor: There's so much here to comment on . . . where to begin? She actually makes some good points about some pro-life arguments -- they are entirely too subjective. But I don't believe subjectivity can be discounted completely, especially when you consider them from a post-modern perspective (all views are valid). 

Aside from all the things she suffered in the past, Beisner's greatest suffering is caused by blindness to the biblical worldview. It would explain suffering, God's sovereignty, the worth of an individual, and our purpose in life.

Group claims distribution of contraceptives by Planned Parenthood violates state law

Group claims distribution of contraceptives by Planned Parenthood violates state law | New Hampshire NEWS06: According to New Hampshire Right to Life, the clinics lost their ability to dispense birth control pills, RU-486, the morning-after pill and related prescriptions in June 2011, when the Executive Council voted to halt state participation in the funding of the clinics.

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Solid Majority of U.S House of Representatives Votes to Prevent Abortion of Pain-Capable Unborn Children

Solid Majority of U.S House of Representatives Votes to Prevent Abortion of Pain-Capable Unborn Children | NRL News Today: But 154 Lawmakers Vote to Defend Current D.C. Policy of Legal Abortion for Any Reason Until Birth

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Skin cream made from aborted fetal skin cells

KLTV: Back in 2004, a married couple in Switzerland became pregnant. The couple's fetus was diagnosed with posterior encephalocele. The brain was deformed, the brain stem was underdeveloped and the retinas were not formed correctly.

Doctors said the fetus wouldn't survive, so the parents decided to terminate the pregnancy. But before doing so, the parents sent some of the fetus' cells to a cell bank. And cloned proteins from those cells were used to make NeoCutis skin cream.

. . . "Most physicians aren't going to know for sure how this was developed in its early stages," said Dr. Charles Kay, bioethicist at Wofford College. "It's important to note that fetal tissues, stem cells - these are not ingredients in these preparations. These are simply the origins of the cells which produce the proteins, and are in turn, the ingredients."

. . . NeoCutis is quite blunt about the use of fetal skin cells on their website. . . . The letters "PSP" on the front of the tube indicate the cream was made from "processed skin cell proteins."

Woman dead after 2nd trimester abortion in Chicago

Operation Rescue: A CBS news affiliate in Chicago is reporting that a 24-year old woman died Friday, July 20, 2012, after receiving an abortion from a Planned Parenthood clinic located at 18 S. Michigan Ave. in Chicago, Illinois. The woman was transported from the Loop Health Center Planned Parenthood abortion clinic to Northwestern Memorial Hospital where she was pronounced dead at 11:20 P.M. The Chicago Sun-Times has identified the woman as Tonya Reaves of Chicago.

An autopsy conducted Saturday determined that she died from hemorrhage following a Dilation and Evacuation abortion. The D&E abortion method is one employed in pregnancies that have advanced beyond the first trimester. In involves opening the cervix and removing the pre-born baby by dismembering him or her. The Loop Health Center Planned Parenthood advertizes abortions up to 18 weeks.

. . . This incident follows a report published in the Chicago Tribune in June, 2011, that took to task abortionists in Illinois for failing to report abortion complications and exposed the fact that some abortionists did not report complications at all, in violation of the law. At that time, Illinois officials made no attempt to enforce abortion laws in that state. While the name of the abortionist responsible for this patient death is currently unknown, Planned Parenthood’s most recent 990 Tax Forms list abortionist Caroline M. Hoke as its Medical Director.

Bills cut Planned Parenthood funding

LifeSiteNews: Rep. Denny Rehberg  (R-MT) gave Planned Parenthood and NARAL plenty to complain about when he unveiled his Committee’s spending plan for the next fiscal year. To the delight of most taxpayers, Planned Parenthood would be the bill’s biggest casualty. With the blessing of Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers (R-KY), conservatives took an axe to the organization’s federal gravy train—zeroing out every last penny to America’s largest abortion business. Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) tried to reinstate the funds in today’s mark-up, but failed 9-5. In fact, under the leadership of Rep. Rehberg, the Committee went the other direction adding a bundle of other pro-life policies. 

The Chairman also took the opportunity to attach the Abortion Non-Discrimination Act (ANDA) to the broader bill, which would help end discrimination against pro-lifers in the health care industry. If it survives, ANDA would give medical workers legal recourse if they’re sidelined for their pro-life views.

Get to Know: Horatio Robinson Storer, M.D. (1830-1922)

Horatio Robinson Storer, M.D. (1830-1922)Horatio Storer is an early American gynecologist. He is even better known for the "physicians' crusade against abortion" which he started and carried out with the assistance of the American Medical Association.


Most people today are surprised to learn that induced abortion was common among married Protestant women in the United States in the 1850s. The "physicians' crusade" led to the passage of laws in almost every state that protected the fetus from conception. These physicians, and the new abortion laws they worked to create, taught people that the fetus was alive prior to "quickening," the point in the pregnancy when movements of the fetus were first felt by the woman.

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American Family Planning abortion clinic demolished

American Family Planning abortion clinic demolished | Pensacola News Journal | pnj.com: The American Family Planning clinic, the scene of a double murder and multiple fire-bombings during its years as an abortion clinic, is being razed. The City of Pensacola declared the Ninth Avenue building unsafe after a New Year’s Day arson fire damaged the rear section of the two-story, frame structure.

Editor: In an earlier article, the accused admitted setting the fire because he has a "strong disbelief in abortion." Baptists for Life's beliefs equally strong, but perhaps more consistent. We oppose the use of violence as a pro-life tactic. See also Should We Use Violence to Fight Abortion?

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Jon Voight (aka Angelina Jolie's dad) defends Brad Pitt’s mother after she receives death threats

Jon Voight defends Brad Pitt’s mother after she receives death threats | LifeSiteNews.com: Academy Award-winning actor Jon Voight, the father of Angelina Jolie, said he stands with Jane Pitt, who has received death threats since publishing her views supporting the rights of the unborn and traditional marriage—and opposing President Barack Obama.

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Undercover Sting Exposes Illicit Late-Term Abortion Clinic in Maryland

Undercover Sting Exposes Illicit Late-Term Abortion Clinic in Maryland :Operation Rescue: Operation Rescue staff members, posing as potential late-term abortion customers, began recording a series of conversations with James Scott Pendergraft, IV, of Florida, which document a suspicious bi-state abortion business aggressively advertized on the Internet as LateTermAbortion.net.