What the media doesn’t tell you about the abortion industry is darker than you think

Behind the closed doors of abortion businesses, things are not as sterile, medical, or business-like as they are portrayed by the abortion industry and its friends in the media. In fact, much that happens would horrify the public if the truth were to be told.

Despite decades of secrecy and cover-ups, pro-life groups and individuals have done painstaking work documenting the secrets of Big Abortion. This article will discuss a few of those secrets.

The bottom of the barrel

I begin with my own experience seeing what’s behind the veil of legalized abortion.

In the late 1980s, I uncovered some of the industry’s most hideous and disgusting secrets, many of which are tragically still taking place today — abortion facilities failing to sanitize instruments, abortion tables left covered in blood, rooms infested with rats or cockroaches, the employment of unlicensed and unskilled abortionists and staff, a lack of sufficient life-saving equipment — the list goes on and on.

I spent thousands of dollars obtaining and reviewing medical board disciplinary reports of abortion providers across the United States. The documents I uncovered in those years would make anyone’s skin crawl. They included cases of abortionists committing sexual abuse and rape, allegations that abortion staff photographed abortion clients while they were under anesthesia, child sexual abuse committed by abortionists, theft, drug abuse, malpractice resulting in injuries and death to abortion clients… and even cold-blooded murder.

Killing women

In 1996, I attended the funeral of abortion client Carolina Gutierrez, who received a life-threatening infection after her legal abortion, which led to the amputation of multiple parts of her body. But the infection eventually won, and Carolina and her preborn child both lost their lives. Tragically, she was not the first or last woman to believe the lie that legalizing abortion made it safe.

I will never forget watching Carolina’s surviving children climb on top of her casket at her graveside. Her name will never be mentioned by Big Abortion, and her death remains secretly behind the veil of legalized abortion.

I took the photo below at her funeral, with the permission of her family.

 

Dirty (Not-So-Little) Secrets

In the 1980s, pro-life activist Lynn Mills began what now amounts to decades of research behind the veil of legalized abortion in Michigan. She has combed through thousands of public documents, filed freedom of information requests (FOIAs), attended meetings around medical licensure, and filed multiple cases with the State of Michigan’s medical licensing agencies to protect women.

Mills said the county records department became a treasure trove to locate “all the dirty little secrets” behind the abortion industry in her state. That information included evidence of “poor mangled women,” which Mills said “eventually leads to the death certificates, the closed hospitals, and what they do in secret behind doors — with or without gloves on.”

“This is where you get to the corporate papers, the corporate filings. This is what… gets you the names behind the scenes, the web of deception, the people pulling the strings behind the doors, the people who don’t want to be seen, all the interwoven tangles of lies and deceit,” Mills told Live Action News.

Mills also assisted Tim Murphy — who worked for the Pro-life Action League at that time — in identifying women killed by abortion.

“Many of those deaths became part of the tombstones that Tim Murphy and the Pro-Life Action League created and placed outside the National Abortion Federation convention in Chicago in 1992,” she said.

Mills was inspired to do this work by Joseph Scheidler, founder of the Pro-life Action League (PLAL), who passed away in 2021. She called Scheidler her “hero and Pro-Life mentor” and the “one who suggested to me to get the information on the abortionist, because there was plenty,” Mills told Live Action News.

Scheidler first got involved in the pro-live movement in 1972, at the urging of his wife, Ann. In 1985, Scheidler published “Closed: 99 Ways to Stop Abortion,” a controversial book which included multiple ways to “gather evidence” against abortionists.

“We kept running into people who worked in the clinics and were disgusted with what they saw,” Scheidler wrote.

One abortion facility worker described to Scheidler how the facility where she worked was committing later abortions. Scheidler relayed one instance, writing that the “baby was large, and they were having difficulty getting it out. They had to crush the baby’s head and she had seen more blood and baby parts than she could stand. She told us that when she saw its face, that she walked out,” he wrote.

Another abortion business worker had, in Scheidler’s words, “watched a baby slowly die after an abortion,” and had reportedly “seen at least one live baby disposed of in an incinerator… still moving….”

The veil of legalized abortion was slightly lifted when, over a decade ago, Operation Rescue (under the leadership of Troy Newman) published information on abortionists, health violations, and more on its website AbortionDocs.org. The group has filed numerous complaints against abortion providers, and their efforts have led to sanctions and the closures of several abortion businesses. In addition, OR also began assembling a cadre of 911 calls from abortion businesses where women are injured — work the watchdog group continues to this day — documenting just how dangerous legal abortion can be for women.

But prior to this information being available in an online format, former newspaper reporter Kevin Sherlock utilized his background in investigative work to publish “Victims of Choice” in 1996. There, Sherlock documented how Big Abortion exploited women, citing multiple instances of abortion-related deaths, egregious mistreatment of abortion clients, unlicensed providers openly operating, and even a dog allowed to remain in the operating room of one facility.

In 1997, Sherlock published his follow-up book, “The Scarlet Survey,” where he again meticulously dug through court records, health agency documents, newspapers, and coroners’ reports to expose what was hiding behind the veil of legalized abortion, describing his findings as no different than the days of the “back alley.”

Sherlock’s research — among the work of many others — made its way into one of the most impactful pro-life books to date, titled “Lime 5,” published by Life Dynamics founder Mark Crutcher, who passed away last year. This book chronicled the abortion industry’s horrific abuses, ranging from medical malpractice to sexual assault.

Abortion Injury Lawsuits

Historically, pro-life groups have aided women who were injured by abortion. Charlie Wysong pioneered efforts to file abortion malpractice lawsuits out of his American Rights Coalition office in Chattanooga, Tennessee, according to local media. Legal Action for Women in Pensacola, Florida, started in 1985 by Mike and Vicki Conroy, also offered legal aid to women who had been injured by abortion.

The shoddy and unregulated actions of many abortion providers led the late Mark Crutcher to assist women who were injured by abortion, as well as the families of those killed.

In more recent years, malpractice attorney Mike Seibel took on one of the most notorious late-term abortionists in the country: Curtis Wayne Boyd, who openly admitted in a court deposition that he had no gestational limits on when he would commit an abortion.

Seibel’s representation in the abortion-related death case of 23-year-old Keisha Atkins, a patient of Boyd’s, not only brought justice to her family but may have led Boyd to end his gruesome practice of later abortions in Texas and New Mexico.

Media Once Peered Behind The Veil

Big Abortion has always had a character problem. What is hiding behind the veil of legalized abortion has not changed, no matter how far away we are from Roe v. Wade. But in recent decades, the media has gone mute, choosing not to expose the truth about Big Abortion.

But this was not always the case.

“One of the most useful devices in gathering evidence is to attract an evidence-gathering agency to come in and assist you,” wrote Joe Scheidler in his previously mentioned book. “That was part of our rationale in encouraging the Chicago-Sun Times to research its ‘Abortion Profiteers’ series.”

That five-month investigation, previously highlighted by Live Action News, detailed how journalists once believed it necessary to investigate the abortion industry rather than propagandize about it as they do today. Undercover reporters who exposed what was hidden behind the abortion veil in Chicago’s “thriving abortion business” found many of the same sordid secrets we find within Big Abortion today.

While a handful of other journalists did similar work, it was William Saletan at Slate who identified what he labeled as the “Sisterhood of Silence” which still surrounds the veiled abortion industry today. In his article, Saletan described the regulatory failures and poor health practices hidden behind the closed doors of the abortion industry, kept secret by a systematic cover-up within Big Abortion.

“A bad abortion clinic, a dead woman, and a wall of pro-choice denial,” the Slate headline read.

Instead of transparency, the abortion industry — with help from media propagandists — hides behind euphemisms like “reproductive freedom” to disguise the evil deeds they do. In addition, public servants — sold out to Big Abortion — relentlessly work to shield abortion providers rather than protect women with reasonable measures to regulate abortion facilities.

“The days of gore, fear, and silence hadn’t ended with Roe,” Saletan pointed out. And it did not end with Dobbs v. Jackson either, as many women may tragically discover.

In future reports, Live Action News will detail more hidden horrors veiled by legalized abortion.

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