{"id":217259,"date":"2020-01-23T16:20:02","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T22:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=217259"},"modified":"2020-01-22T23:15:02","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T05:15:02","slug":"abortionist-op-ed-procedure-abortion-was-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortionist-op-ed-procedure-abortion-was-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortionist’s op-ed claims life-saving procedure was an abortion. But was it?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As more states ban abortion<\/a> past a certain date — often 20 or 24 weeks — abortion advocates have likewise become more desperate, claiming not just the importance of bodily autonomy, but claiming that abortions so late in pregnancy are medically necessary. The problem is, abortion — the deliberate taking of a human being’s life in the womb — is never medically necessary, and the stories that claim to “prove” otherwise are fabrications.<\/p>\n

Case in point: a recent op-ed was published in USA Today by Stephanie Goodell and Nisha Verma, telling the story of how Verma saved Goodell’s life when she was an OB\/GYN resident. Verma, now an abortionist in Georgia, met Goodell when she entered the labor and delivery (L&D) unit at 21.5 weeks, when her water had broken. “We mourned together as we came to terms with the fact that the baby would almost certainly not be able to survive outside the uterus so early in pregnancy,” the women wrote.<\/p>\n

Initially, after weighing their options, they chose an induction (inducing labor) to deliver the baby. This would allow Goodell to hold her baby, and while there may have been some aggressive procedures available to try to stave off labor, both Goodell and her baby were in danger. Her condition, preterm premature rupture of membranes (PPROM), can lead to life-threatening infections<\/a>. Depending on the severity of her PPROM, Goodell may not have had the option to try bed rest or a prolonged hospital stay.<\/p>\n

Indeed, after the induction, Goodell was in labor for three days and did develop a dangerous uterine infection. The next stop, according to Goodell and Verma, was an abortion.<\/p>\n

Our grief and our heartbreak deepened, yet at that point \u2014 with the support of friends, family and other doctors \u2014 we understood that a life-saving abortion procedure was necessary for survival.<\/em><\/p>\n

In Stephanie’s case, it was also necessary to have a hysterectomy. Tests and a post-operative biopsy revealed that Stephanie had a dangerous uterine condition called placenta accreta \u2014 her placenta had become imbedded in her uterine wall. If Stephanie had continued with the labor instead of receiving the abortion, this condition could have caused life-threatening hemorrhage.<\/em><\/p>\n

While what happened to Goodell and her baby is a heartbreaking tragedy, was it actually an abortion<\/em>? According to Dr. Ingrid Skop, a board member of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists (AAPLOG), no, this was not an abortion<\/em>.<\/p>\n