{"id":289682,"date":"2023-04-24T08:40:44","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T13:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=289682"},"modified":"2023-04-22T16:27:42","modified_gmt":"2023-04-22T21:27:42","slug":"abortion-industry-skirt-laws-manual-aspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-industry-skirt-laws-manual-aspiration\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortion industry hopes to skirt laws by pushing for more ‘manual aspiration’ abortions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As the FDA’s approval of the abortion pill remains in question and the number of OB\/Gyns willing to commit abortions remains low, the abortion industry looks to continue advocating for primary care doctors to commit abortionists in their offices.<\/p>\n

But it might also allow them to commit illegal abortions under the radar.<\/p>\n

Manual aspiration abortion training<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to The Guardian<\/a>, abortionist Joan Fleischman has been committing abortions for decades through manual uterine aspiration. Using this method, a first-trimester abortion is carried out with the use of a small, hand-held device that uses pressure to pull the preborn baby and pregnancy tissue out of the uterus.<\/p>\n

Fleischman is also a co-founder of the MYA Network \u2014 the group that in 2022 spread inaccurate photos<\/a> of first-trimester preborn children with the help of The Guardian. The MYA Network of primary care clinics spreads across 16 states \u2014 and Fleischman thinks that the manual uterine aspiration abortion tool could be the solution to the possible removal of the abortion pill from the market and the enactment of more pro-life laws.<\/p>\n

Currently, only about 10% of primary care physicians<\/a> commit abortions, but The Guardian claims more would be willing to. The MYA Network is planning to unveil an online curriculum as well as in-person trainings to teach primary care doctors how to use the manual uterine aspiration tool to kill preborn babies.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe number of clinicians who could be trained would be limitless,\u201d says Michele Gomez, a co-founder of the MYA Network of clinicians.\u00a0\u201cThere are so many clinicians out there who want to do something to help but just don\u2019t know how, and this information and support could be a gamechanger.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fleischman, who had her own abortion as a college student because she wrongly believed she was incapable of being both a medical student and a mother, was a family care doctor in her 30s when she decided to learn how to do abortions. She knew that so many women go to Planned Parenthood for abortion as she had \u2014 it’s the leading abortion business in the nation \u2014 but she also saw the lack of ‘intimacy’ with women at Planned Parenthood. This inspired her to begin committing abortions on her own patients \u2014 to make it more personal.<\/p>\n

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She explained about Planned Parenthood, \u201cWomen went station to station. They got their blood drawn, and then they sat in a little waiting room with other people. They got their ultrasound; they sat in another little waiting room, always with paper gowns on. They had been fasting for the whole night before. They saw a counsellor. Then they were in a bigger waiting room. And then they got called by name, to come in for their procedure. The surgeon went from room to room to room, doing 50 to 60 abortions a day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Skirting the law<\/strong><\/p>\n

Manual uterine aspiration also has the potential to allow abortionists to skirt pro-life laws, which are expanding throughout much of the nation.<\/p>\n

As explained by The Guardian, following the 1971 civil war in Bangladesh, pregnancy from rape increased dramatically. Though abortion was not legal, abortionists began carrying out “menstrual regulation” procedures \u2014 the same<\/em> manual aspiration abortion procedure that Fleischman uses to kill preborn children, marketed under a more digestible (and even more euphemistic) term. It was a legal loophole. The Guardian states (emphasis added):<\/p>\n

Now, one might walk through a busy street in Bangladesh and find\u00a0a sign advertising menstrual regulation<\/a>\u00a0in a country where, at least officially, abortion is only allowed in life-threatening situations. A woman simply comes in and explains she has missed her period. She doesn\u2019t take a pregnancy test before the procedure, and nobody asks her to. As long as she sees the clinician before 12 weeks, they will \u201crestore her period\u201d for her.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Bill Powell, the senior medical scientist at the pro-abortion IPAS, an international abortion advocacy organization focused on expanding abortion, explained, “It’s just a clever policy, a wink and a nod \u2014 everybody knows what’s going on<\/strong>.” (emphasis added)<\/p>\n

Under the guise of “menstrual regulation,” abortionists can kill preborn children without ever confirming that the woman is pregnant<\/em>. This could be dangerous for a woman if she is farther along than she thinks and fails to give the doctor accurate information \u2014 making aspiration abortion the wrong procedure for her stage of pregnancy and increasing her risks of a failed abortion.<\/p>\n

Fleischman said she is only advocating for the legal use of manual uterine aspiration abortion \u2014 but that means nothing, especially since other abortion advocates argue<\/a> that women can carry out their own<\/em> manual uterine aspiration abortions.<\/p>\n

An ulterior motive<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fleischman believes the abortion method is easy and safe, and she has patients traveling to her for an abortion from around the world because of this. However, the safety of women is not a top-of-mind concern for abortion industry leaders, who actually appear to have an ulterior motive for increasing the use of manual aspiration abortion.<\/p>\n

As revealed<\/a> during the Center for Medical Progress’ undercover investigation into Planned Parenthood’s participation in the trafficking of fetal body parts, Dr. Mary Gatter, former president of the Planned Parenthood Medical Directors’ Council, explained that manual aspiration abortion is better for acquiring ‘intact’ dead babies for research use compared to machine vacuum aspiration abortion. Gatter referred to manual aspiration abortion as “less crunchy” than machine vacuum aspiration abortion because the baby doesn’t come out in pieces.<\/p>\n