{"id":203957,"date":"2019-06-19T10:21:26","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T15:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=203957"},"modified":"2019-06-19T00:02:15","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T05:02:15","slug":"attorney-wrongful-death-abortion-substandard-killed-patient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/attorney-wrongful-death-abortion-substandard-killed-patient\/","title":{"rendered":"Attorney in wrongful death case says ‘substandard’ late-term abortion center killed patient"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Last week, a judge denied a motion to inspect late-term abortionist Curtis Boyd’s facility in New Mexico. Southwestern Women’s Options has been plagued with scandal: Boyd had partnered with the University of New Mexico Health Science Center (UNM) in recent years, and one of Boyd’s patients also suffered an untimely death following her abortion at his facility. The attorney for patient Keisha Marie Atkins<\/a>‘ family says he will not stop fighting for justice, because he believes she was killed due to the practices of the facility.<\/p>\n

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It was February 4, 2017, when 23-year-old Atkins\u00a0went to Boyd\u2019s Southwestern Women\u2019s Options to complete the late-term abortion that was started on January 31 — a multi-day procedure. She was dead soon after. The UNM Medical Investigator autopsy reported the cause of death<\/a>, as Operation Rescue reported at the time.\u00a0Atkins’ mother Tina\u00a0decided enough was enough<\/a> and filed a wrongful death lawsuit against SWO<\/a> in August of 2018, also naming Boyd and fellow abortionists at both SWO and UNM, Carmen Landau, and Shannon Carr, as well as the university and UNM Board of Regents, among several others. Live Action News reported<\/a> on the story and the wrongful death lawsuit, but now Atkins\u2019 attorney, Michael Seibel, tells Live Action News that despite a judge’s decision to deny an inspection of Southwestern Women’s Options, he has greater concerns for the future of abortion.<\/p>\n

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Seibel issues a disclaimer about himself, saying, “I\u2019m just a street lawyer in New Mexico but I\u2019m deathly afraid for women in our population centers.”\u00a0His reasoning, however, doesn\u2019t need a lot of disclaimer. He told Live Action News that in the hearing to see inside the facility that he needed to be able \u201cto show the difference between the hospital and the clinic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Seibel explains that the defense “argued that it could be done with pictures and too much time elapsed from the incident [Keisha’s death].”<\/p>\n

Seibel said they also argued that they had “changed” the facility so it wouldn’t be the same as when Atkins was a patient anyway, but Seibel says, “I argued we needed a baseline so that we could see how the clinic operates and to show the jury. The easiest way would be to film the clinic and then ask questions from there. The judge kept focusing on the fact that it was not a premises liability case and there was no need to go into the clinic as it was a malpractice case.”<\/p>\n