{"id":299316,"date":"2023-09-29T10:42:46","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T15:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=299316"},"modified":"2023-09-28T14:07:56","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T19:07:56","slug":"doctor-abortion-saves-lives-woman-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/doctor-abortion-saves-lives-woman-died\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor says abortion saves lives… but didn’t mention the woman who died in her care"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In an interview with the Albuquerque Journal<\/a>, a New Mexico abortionist spoke about the so-called importance of abortion even as the life-ending procedures increase throughout the state. She also claimed women are allegedly dying because they can’t have abortions. Yet in her interview, the abortionist fails to mention at least one woman’s life lost to legal abortion<\/em> on her watch.<\/p>\n

Lisa Hofler is executive medical director of the University of New Mexico Hospital Women\u2019s Services, as well as the clinical vice chair of UNM\u2019s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. She’s also served as the medical director of the UNM Center for Reproductive Health in the past \u2014 which was involved in the unnecessary abortion-related death of Keisha Atkins.<\/p>\n

In Hofler’s interview, she said women began traveling to New Mexico from Texas after the heartbeat law, which protected preborn children from abortion after a heartbeat can be detected, at approximately six weeks gestation.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople came anyway, even though they thought they\u2019d be arrested, because an abortion was that important,\u201d she said. Hofler also claimed women are “dying” because of pro-life laws throughout the country \u2014 a claim for which she offered no proof, and one which echoes the debunked claims<\/a> made about abortion deaths prior to Roe v. Wade<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“Doctors (in states where abortion is banned) are afraid to make a phone call even though they know it\u2019s the right thing to do medically and they want to keep their license,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s a critical and important part of health care and an important part of our lives. It\u2019s important to talk about it.”<\/p>\n

Yet what is never acknowledged is the fact that women die from legal abortion. Keisha Atkins lost her life during the process of a second trimester abortion, with which UNM doctors and Hofler were directly involved, along with abortionists from Southwestern Women’s Options (SWO) in Albuquerque.<\/p>\n

In 2017, Atkins underwent a late-term abortion at SWO, and was repeatedly drugged<\/a> throughout the process of an induction abortion, demonstrated in the video below. The procedure begins with the abortionist dilating the woman\u2019s cervix and injecting a feticide, such as digoxin, into the preborn baby\u2019s heart. After three to four days, the woman returns to the abortion facility to deliver the body of her dead baby, although she may give birth on her own at home or in her hotel room:<\/p>\n