{"id":207442,"date":"2019-07-31T13:10:39","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T18:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=207442"},"modified":"2019-07-30T21:25:38","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T02:25:38","slug":"abortionist-charged-patients-pain-medication-time-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortionist-charged-patients-pain-medication-time-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortionist: We charged patients extra for pain medication… and didn’t allow time for it to work"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The abortion industry purports to care about women and women’s health while entirely ignoring the child in the womb. However, former abortion workers frequently tell a very different story about the supposed “care” women receive at abortion facilities. For example, in a pro-abortion Ms. magazine\u00a0article, an abortionist described how abortion facilities where she worked engaged in practices that made women’s abortions very painful:<\/p>\n

I felt patients in some facilities were given suboptimal pain medication. Sometimes doctors didn\u2019t wait long enough for medications (e.g., paracervical blocks) to work. In one clinic, extra IV pain medication was offered, but for an additional fee. I worried that women might endure unnecessary pain because they didn\u2019t have enough money.1<\/sup><\/em><\/p>\n

Former abortion worker Shelley Guillory, who worked at Delta Clinic in Louisiana, said in a webinar<\/a>\u00a0that her facility did not offer anesthesia at all:<\/p>\n

We didn\u2019t do sedation. There was no sedation done, regardless of how far along, anywhere from eight weeks to 16 weeks. It was all done the same. No medication, nothing. You [lay] there and you took the pain, and that was that.<\/em><\/p>\n

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A willingness to subject women to extreme pain, whether by withholding anesthesia or rushing abortions and not waiting for painkillers to take effect, shows little care for the well-being of women, and more concern with making money.<\/p>\n

An abortion doula who volunteers at an abortion facility says<\/a>, \u201cSome of the first-trimester patients scream and cry and shake.\u201d<\/p>\n

Women who had abortions also discuss pain. One woman says<\/a>, “I expected to be sedated for the actual abortion, but Dr. Woods only used local anesthesia. While the whole procedure took about 15 minutes, the pain left me blanched and hyperventilating.”<\/p>\n