World Magazine has an investigative article out in the May 23 edition, detailing the horrific illegal abortions that have occurred for years in California. Bertha Bugarin was recently found guilty of practicing medicine without a license and charged to six years in jail. During Bugarin’s trial, World Magazine writer Lynn Vincent did some research into Bugarin’s clinics and the recent surge of abortions among Hispanic women. Here are some excerpts from the article:
Bertha Bugarin's entire abortion business targeted Spanish-speaking women who wanted to terminate their pregnancies on the cheap. Her chain of seedy clinics is emblematic of what pro-lifers say is the exploitation by abortionists of low-income Hispanics.
The Guttmacher Institute, formerly the research arm of Planned Parenthood, reports that in 2004 there were 10.5 abortions per 1,000 non-Hispanic white women ages 15 to 44, compared with 28 per 1,000 Hispanic women in the same age group.
The article also highlights the dangerous practices that took place in Bugarin’s clinic. Unfortunately, these horror stories are not the only ones. While the abortion-industry promised us that a legal abortion meant a safe abortion, the truth was anything but. Here is one story from the World Magazine piece:
Over the years, Bertha Bugarin's Los Angeles clinics had at least 18 lawsuits filed against them, including a case involving Phillip Rand.
According to court records, Rand in 2004 performed, without anesthesia or painkillers, a vacuum aspirator abortion on "Angela P.," a woman 20 weeks pregnant.
According to the National Abortion Federation, an aspiration abortion should not be attempted after 14 weeks gestation. At 20 weeks, a fetus is about 10 inches long, weighs about 10 ounces, and has hair and a fully formed baby face visible on ultrasound. Size-wise, trying to suction a 20-week baby through a cannula would be like trying to suction a newborn kitten through a drinking straw.
By the time paramedics arrived, Angela P. was lying in a crimson puddle, pulse racing and blood pressure dropping. The incident, so heinous that the patient was profiled on NBC's Dateline, capped a string of Rand's botched abortions. He surrendered his medical license in 2005.
Take a few minutes to read the rest of this eye-opening article here, including the author’s encounter with abortionist Phillip Rand. Only by spreading the truth behind legal abortion will we be able to show Americans what “choice” really means for thousands of women across the country.
