{"id":208880,"date":"2019-08-20T15:13:03","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T20:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=208880"},"modified":"2019-08-21T10:43:57","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T15:43:57","slug":"whistleblower-planned-parenthood-abortionist-injured-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/whistleblower-planned-parenthood-abortionist-injured-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Whistleblower: Abortionist severely injured women, and Planned Parenthood did nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A lawsuit against Planned Parenthood of Arizona (PPA) has revealed that the abortion corporation knowingly kept an abortionist on staff who was consistently injuring women to a severe degree.<\/p>\n

Mayra Rodriguez, a former health center administrator of Planned Parenthood in Arizona, was fired after reporting to superiors a variety of fraudulent and negligent activity that was endangering patients at the facilities where she worked. A jury recently awarded her $3 million<\/a> in damages. One abortionist that caused Rodriquez concern is known simply as “Dr. X” in Rodriquez’s formal complaint. This doctor showed a dangerous history of injuring women and Rodriquez expected upper management at Planned Parenthood to do something about it, but they ignored her concerns.<\/p>\n

PPA gives abortion patients an after-hours PPA phone number to call in case they begins to experience complications on the evening of her abortion. A Planned Parenthood clinician is on hand to talk about any complications and direct the patient in what steps to take. If it is recommended that the patient visit an emergency room, she can then call that number back to follow up with any findings from doctors there. It is a legal requirement that the clinician document in a written report the patient’s complications and other information provided.<\/p>\n

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Rodriquez was tasked with speaking to the clinicians each morning and reviewing copies of the written reports regarding complications. She then would make followup calls to the patients to check on them. What she found disturbed her. The legal complaint<\/a> reads:<\/p>\n

By early-to-mid August 2017, Ms. Rodriquez noticed a trend of PPA clinician written reports detailing patients who were suffering from substantial post-abortion surgical complications or problems such as extensive bleeding and painful cramping.<\/em><\/p>\n

The reports, authored in order for PPA to comply with [the law], also documented several patients suffering from perforated uteruses which had been diagnosed by emergency room physicians throughout the metro area. Ms. Rodriquez determined that a single PPA doctor, fictitiously named herein as ‘Dr. X,’ had performed the abortion surgeries on each of these patients who had reported the foregoing substantial post-abortion surgery complications or problems.<\/em><\/p>\n

The women who were seen by Dr. X were “suffering far more substantial post-abortion surgery complications and problems than the patients who underwent abortion surgery by or with the other PPA physicians.” Rodriquez was concerned for them and for the health and well-being of future patients. She, therefore, felt the need to report her findings, but she was reluctant to report them to her immediate supervisor Elizabeth Ibarra, who was a long-time friend of “Dr. X” and had worked with him for 20 years. Instead, Rodriquez went to Deanna Wright, who was a Lead Clinician at PPA.<\/p>\n

That is when Rodriquez learned that not only did PPA upper management “all know what he [Dr. X] does but nobody wants to do anything about it.”<\/p>\n