Inside
the abortion industry
One
woman's story
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"We could have saved Sheryl's life!"
my mind screamed.
"But he had a date, and the margaritas were
waiting."
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Carol Everett and her abortionist partner had
what they felt was "the Neiman-Marcus of the abortion
industry" in the early 1980s. They had a record of no
complications--until they decided to go for the big money by
doing late abortions. Operating on one woman who was about
twenty- two weeks pregnant, the abortionist perforated her
uterus and pulled out the lining of her colon. Instead of
calling an ambulance—which could have given the clinic bad
publicity—Everett drove the woman to a hospital, where she
had a colostomy. The abortionist persuaded a colleague to
reverse the colostomy later at no charge; he also arranged
for the hospital to write off bills for both surgeries.
There was no lawsuit.
Another abortionist at an Everett clinic
perforated a woman's uterus and also severed her urinary
tract. Again Everett drove the woman to a hospital instead
of calling an ambulance. "We were maiming at least one woman
a month" at one point, she recalled. read more
Then there was the woman named Sheryl, who,
after an abortion at twenty weeks, was in the recovery room
"lying in a pool of blood." Everett said her bed "was soaked
with blood, the privacy curtains were splashed with it, and
even the wall had blood on it." The staff were finally able
to control the bleeding; but the abortionist, eager to leave
for a date, did not examine the woman to find the source of
the bleeding. The woman was anxious to go home, and the
staff let her go a few hours later, although her blood
pressure was very low. She lost consciousness the next
morning and was rushed to an emergency room, but she died.
The abortionist and his girlfriend changed her medical chart
so that the blood pressure readings appeared to be normal.
But the coroner established the cause of death as hemorrhage
due to a cervical tear. Everett said she "went numb" upon
hearing this:
""We could have saved Sheryl's life!' my mind
screamed. We only needed to have sutured her
cervix. We had everything we needed in the
clinic to save Sheryl's life, with one
exception--a doctor willing to take the time to
re-examine his patient to determine the cause of
the bleeding. But he had a date, and the
margaritas were waiting."
From The Ex-Abortionists: Why
They Quit by Joseph Frank, MD. (The Human Life Foundation, 215
Lexington Avenue, New York, New York 10016)
