{"id":227426,"date":"2020-07-17T08:23:01","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T13:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=227426"},"modified":"2020-07-16T15:16:01","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T20:16:01","slug":"writer-praised-late-term-abortionist-botched-abortions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/writer-praised-late-term-abortionist-botched-abortions\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-abortion writer praised late-term abortionist who botched multiple abortions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Several years ago, Mother Jones profiled late-term abortionist William Rashbaum<\/a>, who died in 2005. Writer Rebecca Paley attempted to paint Rashbaum in a positive light, calling him a \u201cchampion of women\u2019s rights\u201d and \u201cexceptional.” She also stated, \u201cHe treats all his patients with the same obsessive care.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet she quoted Rashbaum reassuring a late-term abortion patient that he is a good doctor because \u201conly\u201d 18 women he operated on lost their ability to bear future children, openly admitting to botching these abortions. He presented this as a good thing, as if it would calm the fears of a woman about to have a late-term abortion. Apparently, in the abortion business, destroying the fertility of “only” 18 women is considered good practice, which\u00a0doesn\u2019t say much for the safety of abortion.<\/p>\n

WATCH: Late-term abortionist admits women with complications are told not to visit the emergency room<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Rashbaum reportedly taught approximately 100 doctors how to do late-term abortions, and a previous Live Action News article<\/a> discussed how he screamed and yelled at these abortionists while they operated on women. From the Mother Jones article:<\/p>\n

In the operating room, Rashbaum readily yells at the top of his lungs at residents working with forceps inside a woman\u2019s uterus, where he can\u2019t see what they\u2019re doing, to make sure they are as nervous as he is.<\/em><\/p>\n

This no doubt created a hostile and dangerous situation for the women undergoing abortions.<\/p>\n

Paley described in her article how when Rashbaum first started committing abortions, he had no idea what he was doing:<\/p>\n

In the beginning, Rashbaum had problems performing abortions\u2026. Like the other board-certified doctors who were suddenly doing procedures previously relegated to back alleys, Rashbaum lacked training in the necessary medical techniques. \u201cNone of us knew what we were doing,\u201d he says. \u201cThe only people who knew how to do abortions were the criminals.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n

Rashbaum and his colleagues practically taught themselves how to perform abortions and were limited by the crude instruments of those days \u2014 Dixie cups attached to the suction machine by rubber bands.<\/em><\/p>\n

It is shocking that Rashbaum used this type of equipment to do invasive surgery on women. One can only imagine how many women were injured.\u00a0At a National Abortion Federation conference in 1976, Rashbaum admitted (emphasis added):<\/p>\n

When I first started doing abortions, I took my boards in obstetrics and gynecology and therefore I knew I was competent to do it. After I had done my first few hundred, I realized how silly I had been in my previous viewpoint. After I had done a thousand, I thought I was an expert but by the time I had done 5000 I realized I was learning a lot. At this point, having done somewhere around 12,000 procedures, I’m beginning to think I’m reasonably competent<\/strong>.1<\/sup><\/em><\/p>\n