{"id":193186,"date":"2018-12-23T09:16:55","date_gmt":"2018-12-23T15:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=193186"},"modified":"2018-12-23T00:41:14","modified_gmt":"2018-12-23T06:41:14","slug":"women-bleed-late-term-abortionist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/women-bleed-late-term-abortionist\/","title":{"rendered":"AUDIO: Two women nearly bleed to death at hands of late-term abortionist"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Josepha Seletz, a late-term abortionist<\/a> in Beverly Hills, is both the owner and operator of the Pro-Choice Medical Center. Newly revealed 911 records reveal more information about two botched abortions that happened this year at the center — both late-term abortions, and both with the same complication. And both botched abortions<\/a> took place within just days<\/em> of each other.<\/p>\n

On July 3rd, a woman suffered a botched abortion at 21 weeks and experienced Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIC). This is a life-threatening complication\u00a0most commonly caused by<\/a> an amniotic fluid embolism, or amniotic fluid being released into the bloodstream. This can happen due to infection, lacerations of the uterus, or compromised blood vessels when the placenta detaches. An incomplete abortion procedure which leaves behind parts of the preborn baby can also cause DIC. According to the NIH, in such cases, the mother “is often acutely ill and shocked with widespread hemorrhage (common bleeding sites are mouth, nose, and venipuncture sites), extensive bruising, renal failure, and gangrene.” It can lead to death if not treated quickly.<\/p>\n

Yet Seletz’s staff showed no urgency whatsoever when they called 911 about the mother’s condition, blithely reporting, \u201cWe have a patient that had a second trimester pregnancy termination. After the procedure, she\u2019s having some bleeding, and Dr. Seletz at this point thinks it\u2019s DIC. That\u2019s when the blood doesn\u2019t clot, so she\u2019s [just going] for observation.” The seriousness of the condition was not made clear to the emergency operator, instead being framed as just a routine complication that’s not to be worried about.<\/p>\n