{"id":789,"date":"2004-04-13T14:58:08","date_gmt":"2004-04-13T22:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/04\/13\/teenage-girl-dies-after-late-term-abortion\/"},"modified":"2004-04-13T14:58:08","modified_gmt":"2004-04-13T22:58:08","slug":"teenage-girl-dies-after-late-term-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=789","title":{"rendered":"Teenage girl dies after late-term abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Detroit News <\/i>reports on the tragic death of Tamiia Russell<\/a>, a fifteen-year-old Detroit girl who died due to complications from a second-semester abortion. As the article points out, abortion-related deaths are very rare; unsurprisingly, pro-life groups are attempting to turn Tamiia’s death into a referendum on abortion in general and late-term abortions in particular (Tamiia was 24 weeks pregnant when she died).<\/p>\n

This pro-life news source <\/a>gives more details, but I’m not sure how reliable it is. If <\/i>it is reliable, however, then WomanCare – the clinic which performed Tamiia’s abortion ? deserves to be shut down, and some of its employees should face real penalties. However, since the article doesn’t attribute many of its allegations, read it with a grain of salt. (Link via The S.I.C.L.E. Cell<\/a>).<\/p>\n

The facility vaginally inserted laminaria, a seaweed used to begin dilation. Russell was sent home, where she confessed to her family that she was pregnant and had begun the abortion procedure.<\/p>\n

When her mother and aunt called WomanCare, they said the abortion could not be stopped once the laminaria is inserted.<\/p>\n

However, according to eMedicine Journal, though there are some medical risks, “pregnancies have safely been carried to term after laminaria insertion and removal.” In fact, many crisis pregnancy centers offer laminaria removal for women who have changed their minds after beginning an abortion procedure.<\/p>\n

Russell’s mother drove her daughter to the abortion facility the next day to finish the abortion, which was performed by Alberto Hodari. Upon her return home, she experienced severe bleeding — “so much so she soaked an entire mattress,” Redden told LifeNews.com.<\/p>\n

WomanCare told her family that such bleeding was “normal” following an abortion, and not to take her to the hospital.<\/p>\n

Concerned for Russell, the family called paramedics who rushed her to Sinai-Grace Hospital. Russell died on the way to the Hospital.<\/p><\/div>\n

Her death is a tragedy. But to argue that her death proves that abortion should be banned is ridiculous. All surgical procedures – however safe – occasionally have complications leading to death. There are sometimes irresponsible doctors in every medical field.<\/p>\n

Right now, abortion is an extremely safe procedure (although no procedure, including birth, is absolutely safe). That won’t be the case if abortion is outlawed..<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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