{"id":252669,"date":"2021-09-06T18:32:17","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T23:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=252669"},"modified":"2025-02-12T12:55:24","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T18:55:24","slug":"unlicensed-late-term-abortion-deliver-toilets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/unlicensed-late-term-abortion-deliver-toilets\/","title":{"rendered":"Unlicensed late-term abortion worker says she told clients how to deliver babies on toilets"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Abortion on Trial has released<\/a> a video of the unlicensed medical assistant who met with Keisha Atkins prior to her elective abortion at six months, which led to her death. In the video,\u00a0Italia Aranda, an abortion worker at Southwestern Women’s Options (SWO) in Albuquerque, New Mexico, admits she instructs women to “sit on the toilet and put a towel over their lap” so they can deliver their stillborn baby into the toilet<\/a> while waiting for clinic staff to arrive at their location \u2014 in some cases, a hotel room.<\/p>\n

“So we let the patients know that delivery outside of the clinic is a very real possibility,” said Aranda under oath due to a lawsuit concerning Atkins’ death. “[..] In case of an out of clinic delivery, we advise them to call us right away and we can have our on-call team go to them.” She said the abortion facility does not monitor the patient’s vitals overnight.<\/p>\n