{"id":230270,"date":"2020-09-06T09:21:38","date_gmt":"2020-09-06T14:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=230270"},"modified":"2020-09-04T18:06:28","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T23:06:28","slug":"sister-woman-killed-harrowing-botched-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/sister-woman-killed-harrowing-botched-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Sister of woman killed by abortion tells harrowing story of her own botched abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The sister of Keisha Marie Atkins, killed at the notorious Southwestern Women’s Options late-term abortion facility in New Mexico, has now come forward with her own horrific story of a botched abortion. Nicole Atkins says she underwent an abortion in 2010 at 17 weeks, during which her abortionist committed an experimental procedure that ended with her receiving a hysterectomy. To add insult to injury, her baby’s brain was used for research without her knowledge or consent.<\/p>\n

Nicole Atkins spoke with Abortion on Trial<\/a> about her experience, and also provided documents about the botched procedure. Dr. Shelly Sella, who was featured in the documentary “After Tiller”<\/a> about the few late-term abortionists still working in the United States, committed the abortion on Atkins. Already a mother of three, with the youngest at just 10 months old, Atkins suffered from depression both depression and anxiety.<\/p>\n

Sella committed an induction abortion<\/a> on Atkins, a multi-day procedure not often recommended for women still in the second trimester.<\/p>\n