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ABORTION VICTIM TELLS OF HER TRAUMA
"They punctured my uterus and severed my colon. To fix that later, I had to have a colostomy. I had a collapsed lung. I was septic inside. I was very ill, dying. I stayed like that for a whole week. The reason is that, these people were not doctors and they were operating an abortion clinic that was advertised in the phone book. ...These people at the clinic...they kept close contact with me so that they knew what my status was, what I was doing, while I was dying! And that's what they were hoping for. ...After that whole week, I was jaundiced, I was bloated, I was dying! I decided to call my mother. By the grace of God...she took me to a hospital," said 26 year old Lisa Robinson, on NET's live interactive news talk show "Capitol Watch." With the partial birth abortion ban before Congress, Lisa wanted her story to be heard by those that still argue in favor of the procedure.
At age 19, she put her life in the hands of who she thought were qualified doctors to have what they insisted be the partial birth abortion procedure because she was "too far along" at three months. She received no counseling that she might have offered options other than to be told on the first day of treatment that there was "no turning back." "Because I thought they were doctors and they knew what they were doing, I let them do it. I didn't know any better."
Now married, she has been advised that she can not bear children due to the damage done to her internal organs. She prays for a miracle, but is considering adoption. Lisa Robinson has a message: "If somebody will listen, and if they will understand how it hurts you, and how emotionally, physically, mentally, spiritually how it hurts you, then yes, I need to tell somebody, and I want them to know. ...Think real hard. Think real, real hard. It's not you're only option. There's people that you can talk to. It's a life! It's a life that you're taking. And you need to realize that."
Joining her on the program was Carol Everett, a former abortion provider who now speaks out against all abortions. She described the type of procedure Lisa was put through following two days of preparation. "They reach in with the forceps and locate the feet and pull the baby around. And many times, with the feet hard to reach, they'll either grab the woman's uterus and pull it, or then go back after they've torn it and pull her baby out, or whatever, but it's very, very dangerous to the woman....We do know that abortion is not as safe as it is being told."
Everett told of her time in the abortion business in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. "I was in the business for six years. I saw 35 thousand abortions! I saw one woman die from legal abortion. I saw 19 others have hysterectomies or colostomies. And I came out when we were caught red handed attempting to do abortions on women that were not pregnant! ...I left." Using telemarketing, her clinic sold only the one product - abortion. "I made 25 dollars for each abortion. ...The last month, we did 545 abortions! That's $13,625.00 was my income in one month! We had nine physicians doing abortions They wanted to do 10 to 12 first trimester abortions an hour, and three second - we never called them third trimesters, even though we measured them, we knew we were doing third trimester abortions - we called them all second trimester abortions. They make a minimum of 50 dollars a case... but if you go to the big end in this nation, abortions cost from two hundred dollars to eight thousand dollars" with the doctor getting 50o% of the fee. Everett said, "Today, there are about 15 hundred abortion clinics. And they are not as regulated as restaurants or veterinarians."
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