Former abortionist: Women don’t discuss botched abortions because they want to forget

Dr. Beverly McMillan committed abortions for years before she quit the abortion industry. McMillan worked at a busy abortion facility with other abortionists. Eventually, she became the facility’s medical director. One of her jobs was to keep track of the facility’s surgical complications. In a speech she gave at a conference sponsored by the Pro-Life Action League, she recalled a woman she injured:

As Canadian abortionist Dr. Henry Morgentaler has observed, a perforated uterus is a well-recognized hazard of abortion. He says that the cervical canal must be widened “by pushing metal dilators through it.” While “a very thin dilator might pass through… easily,” as the dilators become thicker, “the resistance of the muscles holding the cervix closed increases correspondingly,” and the doctor must apply “steady pressure” to access the uterus. Morgentaler continues:

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When Dr. McMillan tried to commit the abortion on her patient, something went very wrong… and it was then that she noticed something strange. McMillan says (emphasis added):

McMillan is not the only former abortion worker to express this sentiment. Carol Everett, who owned four abortion facilities and directed two, has said, “Post-abortion complications are never made known to the public, because abortion has a built-in cover-up. Women want to deny it and forget it, not talk about it.”

According to these former abortion workers, women don’t talk about their abortion complications because they don’t want to talk about (or remember) their abortions. A desire to put the experience behind them as well as social stigma encourages women not to make their experiences widely known. The exception is women who go through a healing process and speak out about regretting their abortions.

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We know complications from abortion happen. But is hard to find out how common they are. In most states, there are no regulations about how these complications must be reported. It is often left up to the abortionist’s discretion.

The New York Times ran an article about the safety of the abortion pill. A spokesperson from the abortion pill’s manufacturer was questioned about whether the abortion pill was more dangerous than surgical abortion. She conceded that she had no way of knowing:

Another New York Times article quoted Monique Chireau, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the Duke University School of Medicine. She said:

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Beverly McMillan also had something to say about how common abortion complications are (emphasis added):

Other doctors have spoken out about treating victims of botched abortions.

Dr. Stephen Foley performed emergency surgery on a woman who still had part of the baby left inside her after a botched abortion. He says:

Since the Supreme Court struck down laws requiring abortionists to have admitting privileges at a hospital near the abortion facility, these cases will likely become more and more common.

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Dr. Bryan Calhoun, vice chairman of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department at West Virginia University, made this statement in a letter to West Virginia Atty. Gen. Patrick Morrisey, who was considering new abortion facility regulations:

Local doctors who treat victims of botched abortions are not asked to report such complications to the Centers for Disease Control. Instead, statistics on abortion complications are gathered from abortion facilities, whose directors have a vested interest in not reporting them. In addition, these facilities often do not see women coming back with complications because these women go to emergency rooms or their own OBGYNs to be treated, not abortion facilities. Therefore many abortion complications are unknown to the providers. Thus, even a facility that does report its complications is likely to miss some of them.

Beverly McMillan speculates on why so many women are injured by abortionists:

Notes

1. Henry Morgentaler Abortion and Contraception (New York: Beaufort Books, Inc., 1982) 73-74

2. Richard and Rhonda White Confronting Abortion Distortions(Xulon Press, 2013) 127

3. Richard and Rhonda White, 58