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Allegations Against [Abortion Doctor #3]

[Abortion Doctor #3] is an abortion provider who has operated at three locations in Houston, Texas and one in Dallas. Several former employees who worked with him at one or more of the Houston locations have come forward alleging numerous violations of law.

According to several of his employees, including [Employee #1] and [Employee #2], who were medical assistants, and [Employee #3], who assisted with administrative tasks, numerous patients of [Abortion Doctor #3] delivered infants alive prior to their demise, which the doctor

himself brought about. Specifically, [Employee #1], who assisted the doctor in the operating room at the Aaron Women’s Clinic (Aaron), estimated that “[d]uring a typical week with a full patient load, . . . [Abortion Doctor #3] would perform abortions at 20 or more weeks gestation, i.e., later in the second trimester or in the third trimester, on approximately 40 patients.”793 Of that number, [Employee #1] asserted: approximately three or four infants would show signs of life. This typically happened when infants were extracted from the cervix in a breech position. At times, the infant would slide completely out because of the extent of the dilation caused by the laminaria administered to patients. In all such cases, [Abortion Doctor #3] would terminate their lives. The signs of life they exhibited would include movement of the stomach as the infant breathed or movement of the toes or fingers.

[Abortion Doctor #3] would terminate the lives of these infants, [Employee #1] further

alleged based on those incidents she witnessed, by any of several methods, including the following: snipping the infant’s spinal cord with scissors; cutting the neck with Sopher forceps or similar instruments; twisting the infant’s head; using forceps, other instruments, or his finger to crush the “soft spot” of the infant’s head, or crushing it by the same means through its stomach; or inserting his finger down its throat. If the infant’s cranium was coming out first, he would usually use his index finger to puncture its head, but if it was coming out feet first, he would instead insert an instrument in the back of the infant’s head.

Several of the same allegations were also made by [Employee #2].

[Employee #3] was not in the treatment rooms when abortions took place, but she alleges she learned from her coworkers of numerous infants whose lives were terminated by [Abortion Doctor #3] after showing signs of life following partial or full extraction from the uterus. On one occasion, she stated that she learned from a coworker of an infant killed by the doctor after surviving an abortion; as he was preparing to put it into a bag for disposal, she maintained, the infant had “opened up his eyes and grabbed his hand.” [Employee #1] stated that “[o]f the three to four infants terminated in a typical week by [Abortion Doctor #3] while showing signs of life, on average, approximately one or two would

be put to death after they had left the birth canal entirely. The balance were terminated while they were partially out of the birth canal.”799 [Employee #1] added that she never observed

[Abortion Doctor #3] “make an attempt to keep alive or resuscitate any infant who showed any signs of life or to direct anyone else to do so,” an observation consistent with [Employee #3]’s understanding. [Employee #1] also alleged that “[Abortion Doctor #3] performed numerous abortions during the third trimester in cases that did not involve any serious threats to the mother’s or the infant’s health.” [Employee #2] asserted, “As long as the patients had the cash, he was going

to do it past the 25 weeks.”

pg 344-347

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Four photographs identified by [Employee #1] and [Employee #3] as taken in the sterilization room of one of [Abortion Doctor #3]’s clinics, the Women’s Pavilion, in 2012 depict the remains of infants clearly in their third trimester when they were allegedly terminated by [Abortion Doctor #3]. According to [Employee #1], the tears in the neck line visible in the photos are “inconsistent with” terminations done “while the infant[s] were] entirely inside the uterus.” Thus, besides being late-term abortions, they were likely either partial-birth abortions or homicides committed after full delivery. [Employee #1] and two other employees at the clinic, [Employee #3] and [Employee #4], additionally alleged that the doctor regularly falsified sonogram results to misrepresent the gestational age of the fetus. Some sonograms, they maintained, would be falsified to “overstate the gestational age of the fetus in order to overbill customers.”

In other cases, according to [Employee #1] and [Employee #3], “sonograms would be falsified to conceal the advanced gestational age of the fetus beyond the legal limit in Texas.”

[Employee #1] claimed:I have witnessed this happen in cases involving fetuses as old as 28weeks. [Abortion Doctor #3] would typically tell his ultrasound technician in cases involving fetuses beyond a certain gestational age to allow him to perform the ultrasound himself; he would then bring the patient an ultrasound picture showing another fetus at the gestational age he was misrepresenting to the patient. An affidavit from a patient attached hereto alleges another specific case of manipulation: [Patient

#1], a woman who obtained an abortion in 2002 at “24 to 25 weeks” gestation, “worried that I was too far along. The girl doing my ultrasound told me that ‘ultrasounds can be manipulated.’

The clinic determined me to be 23 weeks.” “On two occasions that I witnessed,” [Employee #1] also alleged that “[Abortion Doctor #3] failed to inform a patient she was pregnant with twins.

According to [Employee #1] and [Employee #3], the doctor “would regularly make use of pre-drawn medicine,” including Demerol and Nubain, “without properly logging or storing

it.” They added: This included improperly storing medicine in a food refrigerator. On one occasion, [Abortion Doctor #3] concealed these practices during an inspection from the Harris County Public Health office by having a nurse put pre-drawn medicine in basins, which she hid in the trunk of her car while the inspector was present.”

[Employee #1] and [Employee #3] also allege the doctor failed to keep a registered nurse on site in the recovery room at Aaron, which “left unqualified workers to draw and administer drugs.”

[Employee #1] added that [Abortion Doctor #3] concealed this deficiency from authorities by “hir[ing] a nurse from a temp agency for a few days at a time when a government inspection was scheduled.” [Employee #1] recorded examples of storage, record keeping, and personnel violations in an undercover video she took in 2011.

Additionally, according to [Employee #1]:

[Abortion Doctor #3] would regularly fail to observe proper

sterilization procedures. This included the doctor’s habitual reuse of

a bottle of Betadine, which is used for cleaning prior to the

procedure, that was not cleaned or stored, and which he handled with his gloved hand for patient after patient when going inside the

cervix. Additionally, after removing instruments such as HawkinsAmbler’s dilators and Bierer and Sopher forceps from sterile packages, he would place unused instruments back in the sterile package to use on other patients. He often would do so wearing gloves that he did not change between seeing one patient and another, or between trips to the restroom. . . . Instruments in

[Abortion Doctor #3]’s clinic were not regularly soaked in

sterilizing solutions as they needed to be for specified periods of

time in order to be sterile. The exception to this occurred prior to

government inspections. The vast majority of the doctor’s assistants

in the sterilization room were uninformed on proper methods of

sterilization. In order to reduce his costs, [Abortion Doctor #3] also

habitually disposed of biohazardous waste in standard garbage bags instead of sterile bags required for such waste.

The same failure with respect to sterilization was also alleged by [Employee #2], [Employee #3], and [Employee #4].

pg 344-347

https://archives-energycommerce.house.gov/sites/republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/files/documents/Select_Investigative_Panel_Final_Report.pdf

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>>5119707

Late term abortions

>>5119809

No, I hate the gore. Trying to get fucks to read good research – only a photo grabs attention sometimes.