Practitioner Who Killed Woman in Botched Abortion Faces Lawsuit, Indictment
March 21, 2008 Hyannis, MA  -- The Massachusetts abortion practitioner who killed a woman last year in a botched legal abortion is facing a lawsuit from her mother and a possible indictment from officials. Rapin Osathanondh gave up his medical license permanently last month and now he faces more repercussions from the failed abortion.
Osathanondh did the abortion on 22-year-old Laura Smith, who died in September at his Women's Health Center abortion business.

Eileen Smith, Laura's mother, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Osathanondh in Barnstable Superior Court .

Attorney David Angueira said the abortion practitioner failed to properly monitor Laura following the abortion while she was still under the effects of anesthesia. :: MORE

Abortion Clinic Linked to Rape Cover-Up
A Connecticut clinic that performed three abortions on a 14-year-old failed to report the pregnancies were the result of statutory rape, The Associated Press reported.
Police in New London charged 22-year-old Kevon Walker with second-degree sexual assault only after the girl’s mother contacted them.
Walker, free on a $50,000 bond, is prohibited from having contact with the young teen.
Just last week, a teen sued an Ohio Planned Parenthood clinic for failing to report years of sexual abuse by her father. :: MORE

Planned Parenthood Sued over Failure to Report Teen’s Incest Pregnancy
CINCINNATI, Ohio, May 16, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - An Ohio teenager has launched a lawsuit against Planned Parenthood affiliates in Cincinnati for failing to report to authorities that she was a victim of incest, Cybercast News Service reported earlier today.
Filed May ninth, the suit claims that when the girl--who cannot be named--sought an abortion in 2004 at the age of 16, she told staff with Planned Parenthood of Southwest Ohio that she had been raped by her own father and that the sexual assaults had been occurring since 2000, when she was 12 years old.
The girl accuses Planned Parenthood staff of violating Ohio law by failing to report the situation to authorities, a failure which then led to another 18 months of abuse. She is seeking $25,000 in damages ::MORE

Abortion Clinic Sued for Posing as a Pro-Life Crisis Pregnancy Center
WHITE PLAINS, NY,  (LifeSiteNews.com) - Expectant Mother Care-EMC FrontLine Pregnancy Centers filed suit against "Dr. Emily's" abortion clinic with sites in the Bronx and downtown Brooklyn citing evidence of deceptive advertising practices.
"EMC is taking the lead in countering a truly deceptive abortion advertiser which pretends to be an alternative to abortion agency advertising under pro-life ad categories in New York City yellow pages," said Chris Slattery, founder and president of EMC, operator of 15 pro-life crisis pregnancy counseling centers and medical clinics in New York City and suburbs. :: MORE

Stop coercive abortions
A pregnant 19-year-old is kidnapped by her parents, who tie her up, load her into the car and take her to an abortion clinic against her will. A boyfriend stabs his girlfriend who is carrying his child because she refused to have a abortion. Out of fear, the girl submits to an abortion.
Heartbreaking stories like these, involving women who are coerced into having abortions, are becoming all too common. In 2004, the Medical Science Monitor reported the results of a study of American post-abortive women. Sixty-five percent felt pressured by others to have an abortion through financial, relational or emotional threats. :: MORE

Alabama closes Birmingham abortion clinic after multiple violations; ...

WASHINGTON (BP)--The state of Alabama has shut down a Birmingham abortion clinic for numerous infractions, including giving RU 486 to a woman late in her pregnancy.
Alabama’s State Board of Health suspended the license of Summit Medical Center May 17 after following up on a complaint that clinic personnel inaccurately told a woman in February she was only six weeks pregnant and gave her the abortion-inducing drug, after which she delivered a stillborn child who weighed 6 pounds, 4 ounces. : MORE

Abortion Causes Mental Disorders: New Zealand Study May Require Doctors To Do Fewer Abortions
Pro-Choice Researcher Says Some Journals Rejected Politically Volatile Findings
A study in New Zealand that tracked approximately 500 women from birth to 25 years of age has confirmed that young women who have abortions subsequently experience elevated rates of suicidal behaviors, depression, substance abuse, anxiety, and other mental problems.: MORE

African- American Babies On Decline As More Abortions Performed On Black Women.

The Washington Post has a story on a census report which discusses the race of children under the age of five. The census found that 45% of Americans under the age of five are members of a racial/ethnic minority compared to 33% of America's total population.
However, the chart at the bottom of the page shows that black children under five represent only 4% of the population younger than 5 even though African-Americans represent 13% of America's total population. While other minority groups like Asians and Hispanics have a much higher percentage in the under 5 population, African-Americans have a much lower percentage.
Where are all the black children? They've been aborted. According to the Centers for Disease Control, 36.6% of U.S. abortions performed in 2002 were performed on Black women. This percentage has held fairly steady since the early 1990's...: MORE

Unborn Now Have Voice, Say Supporters of New Ala. Law

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — Supporters of Alabama's new legislation that recognizes two victims instead of one when a pregnant woman is assaulted or killed say it gives the unborn a voice.
A Citronelle couple, Tim and Sharon Helveston, were among families who successfully pushed the Alabama Legislature to approve the bill, which Gov. Bob Riley signed into law on Monday.  The Helvestons became victim activists after the 2002 car crash death of their daughter, Wendy Sullivan, a nurse and mother of two young girls who was pregnant with another girl, who died...
The bill is called the "Brody Act" in memory of the unborn son of 23-year-old Brandy Parker of Albertville. Parker was eight months pregnant when she was shot and killed on July 27, 2005.
The legislation will go into effect July 1 and can't be used retroactively. : MORE

Eighth Medical Organization Acknowledges Abortion Breast Cancer Link

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Another medical organization has gone on record as acknowledging that a link exists between induced abortion and breast cancer. The Philippine Foundation for Breast Care wrote a letter to the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer, a woman's group that monitors information about the link, saying that it exists.
Cristina Santos, MD, president of PFBCI, wrote that the board of directors and members of her group recognize that the link exists.
"[W]e acknowledge the abortion and breast cancer link based on the physiologic changes in the breast lobules of a woman who chose to deliberately interrupt her pregnancy (induced abortion) and the risk for breast cancer this will pose to that woman," Dr. Santos wrote.
...Malec explained that during the first two trimesters of pregnancy, the hormone, estrogen -- a recognized carcinogen -- increases dramatically and stimulates cancer-vulnerable Types 1 and 2 breast lobules to multiply, thereby causing breast growth.: MORE

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