Woman sues New Mexico abortion facility for violating informed consent

According to news reports, 25-year-old New Mexico resident Jessica Duran is suing the Albuquerque late-term abortion facility, Southwestern Women’s Options, claiming she was not given full and necessary information by the facility before choosing to abort her daughter in 2012.

National Review reports that Duran claims “SWO employees did not provide her with informed consent and did not disclose their connection to the [University of New Mexico] research center to which her aborted child’s remains were later given”:

Live Action News has reported extensively on this “conflict of interest,” including details on the close relationship between Southwestern Women’s Options and the University of New Mexico.

According to KRQE News 13 in Albuquerque (video below), Duran signed a consent form for the abortion, but the consent for tissue donation was listed on the same form. This should not be, New Mexico Alliance for Life’s executive director Elisa Martinez told KRQE. The tissue donation consent should be done on a separate form. “They’re supposed to be informed about the nature of the research going on. They’re supposed to be informed about the benefits of the research,” she told the news station. “They’re also supposed to be given the opportunity to ask questions and withdrawal from the research at any time.”

(Hat tip to HarmsReport.com):

A February story by Live Action News’ Carole Novielli corroborates the report that the consent forms are combined into one. At the time, Novielli wrote:

Abortionists Curtis Boyd, Shelley Sella, Susan Robinson, and Carmen Landau operate Southwestern Women’s Options, which advertises third trimester abortions on its website — abortions like the one below, described by former abortionist Anthony Levatino:

3rd Trimester Induction Abortion: Injection and Stillbirth