{"id":175985,"date":"2017-12-09T09:30:57","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T14:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=175985"},"modified":"2017-12-08T13:45:38","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T18:45:38","slug":"planned-parenthood-nurse-quits-23-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthood-nurse-quits-23-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Planned Parenthood nurse sees serious health violations, quits after 23 days"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jayne Mitchell-Werbrich had been a nurse for 28 years when she took a job at Planned Parenthood<\/a> in Wilmington, Delaware — and she was horrified by the low standard of care she witnessed there, in which women were put at risk of complications and even death. Conditions in the facility were so bad that Jayne was afraid she might lose her nursing license if she stayed. She quit after only 23 days.\u00a0Jayne told her story in an issue of The American Feminist<\/em>, a publication of Feminists for Life.<\/p>\n

Lack of functional crash cart on site<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jayne reveals that the facility’s crash cart, which is used to revive women in the event of cardiac arrest, had medicines that were \u201cnot just out of date but way out of date.\u201d The oxygen mask on the cart was so old it was no longer pliable and was unusable. A woman could need the crash cart at any time due to a bad reaction to anesthesia or other complication such as heavy bleeding, which could lead to shock. This important life-saving equipment was poorly maintained and would have been useless in an emergency.<\/p>\n

And there have<\/em> been emergencies where women have died due to missing or poorly maintained crash carts. \u00a0A woman named Angela\u00a0died<\/a> in an abortion<\/a> facility after an abortionist perforated her uterus and left her hemorrhaging. When her heart stopped, a crash cart might have revived her, but there was no crash cart in the facility.<\/p>\n

Abortionist Mi Yong Kim had a crash cart, but no one in her facility was trained to use it. This led to the death of a 26-year old woman<\/a> who went into cardiac arrest due to an overdose of anesthesia.\u00a0In this case, no resuscitation was attempted.<\/p>\n

Lack of a crash cart may also have contributed to the death of Belinda Byrd<\/a>, who was 19 weeks pregnant when she bled to death after her abortion. The abortion facility where Belinda Byrd died had been repeatedly cited for health code violations, including not having sufficient crash carts. Belinda\u2019s mother, Mattie Byrd, wrote a heartbreaking letter<\/a> to the Los Angeles district attorney:<\/p>\n

I am the mother of Belinda A. Byrd, victim of abortionists at 426 E. 99th Street in Inglewood. I am also the grandmother of her three young children who are left behind and motherless. I cry every day when I think how horrible her death was. She was slashed by them and then she bled to death\u2026. She has been stone dead for two years now, and nobody cares. I know that other young black women are now dead after abortion at that address \u2014 Cora Mae Lewis and Yvonne Tanner. Where is [the abortionist] now? Has he been stopped? Has anything happened to him because of what he did to my Belinda? Has he served jail time for any of these cruel deaths? People tell me nothing has happened, that nothing ever happens to white abortionists who leave young black women dead. I\u2019m hurting real bad and want some justice for Belinda and all other women who go like sheep to slaughter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The lack of a properly stocked crash cart can mean the difference between life and death for an injured woman in an emergency.<\/p>\n