{"id":194875,"date":"2019-02-01T09:35:34","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T15:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=194875"},"modified":"2019-01-31T15:56:11","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T21:56:11","slug":"abortion-owner-abortionists-risked-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-owner-abortionists-risked-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Facility owner refused to fire abortionists who risked women’s lives"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Norma Goldberger, the founder and director of an Ohio abortion facility, wrote a memoir<\/a> about her experiences in the abortion industry. While she is still strongly pro-abortion, her memoir reveals some shocking things about what she witnessed.\u00a0Goldberger had many problems with the abortionists she employed. For example, an abortionist she called Dr. Peters violated fire codes and rushed through abortions<\/a> in order to go out to dinner with his girlfriend:<\/p>\n

[Dr. Peters] also liked to smoke cigarettes between procedures. He insisted on smoking in the room which housed the nitrous and oxygen tanks. This was strictly against fire code and worried me and the staff.<\/em><\/p>\n

I quickly learned I had no authority over him and asking him to stop smoking resulted in him slowing down performing procedures, not in stopping to smoke next to the gas machines. He refused to go to the employees\u2019 lunch room to smoke.<\/em><\/p>\n

His style of working was erratic. He would perform one procedure, stop and smoke a cigarette, then do another procedure, stop and smoke a cigarette. After he took a lunch break, he would then ask for the number of patients waiting for their procedures. About this time his significant other would call, make dinner arrangements and then Dr. Peters would work so fast that our sterilizing machines and staff could hardly keep up with him.<\/em><\/p>\n

READ: Botched abortion shows dangers of a troubled abortion industry<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Peters was also anti-Semitic. He said of another abortionist, “He\u2019s a typical Jewish doctor with rich Jewish patients,” among other things. Meanwhile, Goldberger’s solution to her problem with him was to buy more instruments so that the abortionist could continue rushing through procedures.<\/p>\n

I bought more instrument sets just to keep enough sterilized instruments ready for when he tripled his speed. I worried about having incomplete procedures when he started working so quickly, but fortunately none of the patients had any problems.<\/em><\/p>\n

Goldberger may not have known about her patients\u2019 complications. She had no way of knowing how many of the women went to the emergency room after leaving her facility or to their own doctors for treatment. Many times, a woman won\u2019t go back to the facility where she was hurt, but will instead show up bleeding in an emergency room or call her own doctor.\u00a0Abortion is often a traumatic procedure, and women don\u2019t like to return to the facility. Many women want to forget an abortion when it is over, especially if they have suffered complications.<\/p>\n

OB\/GYN and former abortionist Dr. Beverly McMillan<\/a> wrote:<\/p>\n

Planned Parenthood clinics, and free-standing abortion clinics like them, claim they have an untarnished record of no complications from their abortion procedures, but what they don\u2019t know is that I\u2019m the practitioner who sees their complications.\u00a0 These women don\u2019t go back to the clinic where they\u2019ve had a bad experience.\u00a0 They show up in my office or in my emergency room with their bleeding or with their infections or with their retained placenta, needing another D&C.<\/em><\/p>\n

Goldberger said that another abortionist, Dr. Mooney, also rushed through abortions, especially when he had a patient from his regular gynecological practice waiting. She complained about him being disrespectful to her and the staff.<\/p>\n