Once again, the deafening silence of NARAL, NOW and others:
by
Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
June 21,
2007
Riverside,
CA (LifeNews.com) — The mother of a woman who died after an abortion
at a Planned Parenthood in this city east of Los Angles has filed a
medical malpractice lawsuit against the abortion business. The lawsuit
contends that Planned Parenthood officials gave 21 year-old Edrica Goode
poor medical care prior to the abortion that claimed her life.
Goode
went to the Planned Parenthood abortion center on January 31 pregnant
and with a vaginal infection.
Despite
the infection, the lawsuit says staff at the abortion center inserted
cervical dilators to prepare her for a second-trimester abortion.
The
lawsuit says the dilators, which consist mostly of seaweed, caused
the spread of the infection throughout her body, leading to her death.
The
abortion eventually claimed Goode's life on February 14 after she
was treated at a local hospital, which is also named in the lawsuit.
Aletheia
Meloncon, Goode's mother, talked with the Los Angles Times about her
daughter's death. She filed the lawsuit in Riverside County Superior
Court on Tuesday.
"My
daughter made a choice, but she didn't choose to die," Meloncon
said. "A lost dog gets more attention than my daughter did. This
has really torn at my family."
Jack
Schuler, Meloncon's attorney, agreed and said, "If it wasn't
for the negligent medical care that Edrica Goode received, she would
be alive today."
After
the abortion, Goode never removed the dilators and Planned Parenthood
claims to have sent two letters to her, but Meloncon told the Times
they never came. She said the abortion facility should have done more
to contact her daughter.
Goode
wound up going to Riverside County Regional Medical Center where she
eventually had a miscarriage and died the next day.
Meloncon
was unaware of the abortion and described her daughter as having become
"mentally unstable" after it was done. She said that had
she known about the abortion before the laminaria problems developed
she would have gotten medical attention for Goode sooner.
Vince
Hall, director of communications for Planned Parenthood of San Diego
and Riverside counties, refused to comment on the lawsuit to the Times
and claimed that the "health and safety of our patients is our
highest priority."
However,
Goode is the third woman to die at Planned Parenthood abortion centers
in the last four years.
The
first was Holly Patterson, an 18 year-old from Livermore who died
after she received a lethal bacterial infection after using the abortion
drug she obtained at Planned Parenthood Golden Gate. Diana Lopez,
a 25-year-old Huntington Park woman, bled to death after an abortion
she had punctured her cervix.
Pro-life
groups were disappointed by the news and Operation Rescue President
Troy Newman told LifeNews.com, that abortion advocates "can pretend
that abortion is safe, but the mounting body count says otherwise,
and of course abortion is always fatal for the child."
"We
pray that the Riverside Planned Parenthood will close and those responsible
for the tragic death of Edrica Goode will be required to pay the full
penalty under the law," he said.
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