{"id":240111,"date":"2021-02-17T14:41:32","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T20:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=240111"},"modified":"2021-02-17T12:14:09","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T18:14:09","slug":"roe-allowed-criminal-abortionists-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/roe-allowed-criminal-abortionists-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Roe v. Wade allowed these criminal abortionists to stay in business"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One of the most common arguments in defense of legalized abortion is that outlawing the procedure would put women\u2019s lives at risk. The claim is that without access to \u201csafe and legal\u201d abortion, thousands of women will die from illegal abortions, just like they did before <\/span>Roe v. Wade<\/span><\/i>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

However, the founder of NARAL, <\/span>Dr. Bernard Nathanson<\/span>, admitted years ago<\/a> that he and his cohorts fabricated most deaths from illegal abortions in their fight to decriminalize abortion.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Even worse, the legalization of abortion has failed to protect women<\/a> from injury or death. Decriminalizing abortion did not make the <\/span>\u201c<\/span>back-alley butchers<\/span><\/a>\u201d<\/span> disappear. Instead, the unscrupulous men committing illegal terminations were allowed to conduct their dangerous operations in plain sight due to <\/span>Roe<\/span><\/i>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Kermit Gosnell<\/b><\/p>\n

In 2013, Pennsylvania abortionist <\/span>Kermit Gosnell<\/span><\/a> was convicted of first-degree murder after he was found responsible for a female patient\u2019s death and multiple infants born alive at an unsanitary clinic he operated for years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But Gosnell\u2019s atrocities against women and their children can be traced back to the pre-Roe<\/em> days.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1972, 15 poor women were bused to Gosnell\u2019s clinic from Chicago during their second trimester of pregnancy. The incident was called the <\/span>Mother\u2019s Day Massacre<\/span><\/a> after Gosnell used them to conduct horrific experiments with a \u201csuper-coil\u201d device meant to abort their children. Nine of the women suffered serious complications, and one of them needed a hysterectomy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The following year, the Supreme Court legalized abortion nationwide, and Gosnell was free to stay in business, committing the crimes he is so well known for today.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0Why are the victims of abortionist Kermit Gosnell being forgotten?<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Milan Vuitch\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Milan Vuitch<\/span><\/a> was arrested 16 times for committing abortions in the District of Columbia throughout the 1960s. After his 17th arrest in 1969, Vuitch challenged D.C.\u2019s abortion laws in a federal district court, and the case made its way up to the Supreme Court.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This resulted in a reinterpretation of D.C.\u2019s abortion laws. Instead of having the burden of proof fall on the abortionist to prove the procedure was necessary to save the mother\u2019s life, the onus now fell on the state. If the state could not disprove the abortionist\u2019s claim regarding the medical necessity of the abortion, then a judge would dismiss the guilty verdict.<\/span><\/p>\n

After <\/span>Roe<\/span><\/i> expanded abortion even further, Vuitch seemed to relax his practice\u2019s safety standards since the law could no longer touch him.\u00a0<\/span>Vuitch would administer anesthesia to patients himself instead of having a trained anesthesiologist do it. A few of his female patients also claimed they did not receive anesthesia, even though they had specifically requested it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

One of Vuitch\u2019s patients, <\/span>Georgianna English<\/span><\/a>, died at the abortionist\u2019s hand after he and his staff improperly monitored the anesthesia process. English suffered massive brain damage and a cardiopulmonary collapse, and Vuitch was forced to pay her family $150,000. This had been her fourth abortion at Vuitch\u2019s clinic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Another one of Vuitch\u2019s victims was Andrea Furr. Furr suffered a lacerated uterus and had to have a hysterectomy after Vuitch performed an abortion on her against her will.<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition to operating an unsanitary clinic, Vuitch kept injured patients overnight at his house in a room called \u201cThe Annexe.\u201d His home was not a licensed facility.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite his wrongdoings, Vuitch received a glowing eulogy in the <\/span>New York Times<\/span><\/a> upon his death in 1993.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n