Beginning to gather recent info on abortion in the news for some talks I am giving to high school students..I bet they have not not heard these stories in the media
Abortion
Practitioner Who Killed Woman in Botched Legal Abortion Faces Hearing
by
Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
SeptembHyannis,
MA (LifeNews.com) — Abortion practitioner Rapin Osathanondh,
who has been charged with manslaughter after killing one of his patients
in a botched legal abortion, faces a Friday hearing. Osathanondh did
the abortion on 22-year-old Laura Smith, who died in September 2007
at his Women's Health Center abortion business.
The
September trial in Barnstable Superior Court is expected to last two
weeks.
Osathanondh
was indicted in July 2008 by a grand jury after an investigation by
local police, state police and the Massachusetts Board of Registration
in Medicine.
Laura,
who was adopted at the age of four from Honduras by her parents, was
13 weeks into the pregnancy when she had the abortion. Osathanondh
reportedly sedated her and did not have another other staff members
on site who had appropriate medical training to monitor Smith's vital
signs during the abortion.
In
comments to OneNewsNow today, Operation Rescue staffer Cheryl Sullinger,
who has been closely following the case, talked about the coming hearing.
"He
was the only licensed person in his clinic. The only other one there
was an unlicensed receptionist, so when life-threatening complications
occurred from the anesthesia he was unprepared and unable to help
her, and so she died right there on the abortion table," she
said.
Although
Sullinger is disappointed it has taken so long to get to this point,
there is one bit of good news in the aftermath.
"The
good news is that his two abortion clinics are closed and he was forced
to surrender his medical license," Sullinger told the news service.
The Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine revoked
Osathanondh's license after investigating the abortion death and
Osathanondh gave up his medical license permanently following the
decision.
Smith
died shortly after the abortion, on September 13, 2007.
Officials
say Laura died from "cardiac pulmonary arrest during anesthesia
during a voluntary termination of pregnancy" — known as an abortion.
Islands
District Attorney Michael O'Keefe released information about the charges
last year and called Smith's death a “terrible tragedy.”
“I've
been in constant communication with Laura’s mother and other
family members and I know how this has affected them and it’s
a terrible thing," he said.
He
said that Osathanondh's medical negligence and deficient actions led
to her death.
"The
evidence made out a case of willful, wanton and reckless conduct with
respect to how this medical procedure was carried out,” O’Keefe
said at the time.
Laura's
mother, Eileen Smith, has pursued legal action against Osathanondh
in a civil lawsuit.
"Our
family wants justice," Eileen Smith wrote in an affidavit accompanying
the lawsuit. "They want to see the man who took her life pay
for what he has done to Laura and our family."
"Today
I am picking out her tombstone when I should be picking out my mother
of the bride dress," Eileen Smith added. "Rapin Osathanondh
has caused great harm and there is no end in sight."
Operation
Rescue previously said Eileen had been dealing with some local officials
who won't acknowledge that the abortion caused her daughter's death.
Smith
said a Sheriff's Deputy in another county provided Osathanondh and
his abortion center staff with CPR training, then backdated the session
to a date prior to Laura's death. The official apparently did so with
the full knowledge that someone had recently died at the abortion
center.
Osathanondh
and his staff had been uncertified in CPR until that time, Smith said.
"I'm
appalled that an officer of the law would be involved in that,"
Eileen Smith said. "Thank God this has been exposed."
The
pro-life group indicated Smith has filed a complaint in Bristol County
against the deputy.
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