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According to most abortion clinics: "Most women experience some hard cramping during the procedure."
According to Planned Parenthood: "Most women feel pain similar to menstrual cramps. For others, abortion is more uncomfortable. " Is this the case for all women? Read their stories and see for yourself!
In the July 2,1993 LA Times article, State board charges doctor with negligence in botched abortion, it was reported that a 19-Year-old patient sued abortionist,Saihb S. Halil, following the abortion performed on her. She testified that the abortionist would not heed her screams of pain and refused to give her any pain medicine.
According to the LA Times, the abortionists assistant said in the deposition that she urged Halil to stop. She claims she screamed, "My God, stop," as the woman screamed repeatedly, but he continued.
Florida abortionist, Raymond F. Hudanich, was cited by the states medical board following a botched abortion he performed on a woman. The St. Petersburg Times reported, (State Board of Medicine punishes several doctors: 10/1/1994 ) that Hudanich first treated the woman at a Fort Lauderdale abortion clinic but stopped the abortion because the patient complained of pain. The article does not state which abortion clinic Hudanich was working in. In the past, Hudanich worked with the OBGYN group: Hudanich, Rinella, and Greensberg which offered abortion services in Plantation. The St. Petersburg Times report stated that Hudanich ruptured the womans uterus and failed to recognize it. According to the report, he left the woman with two holes in her uterus and removed her appendix and some other tissue. He failed to remove the fetus and finish the abortion. According to the article, some members of the board were reported to have requested that Hudanich be banned from performing abortions and gynecological surgery until he again proves his competence. On April 13, 1999, the Palm Beach Post exposed how patients checking on doctors through the Florida Department of Health's website were not receiving the correct information. As one example the Post's article, State's website lacks key information on doctors, revealed that the web site showed Dr. Raymond Hudanich of Plantation as having a ''clear'' license status and no history of having been disciplined. But, the Post points out, in 1995, the state banned Hudanich for the rest of his career from performing abortions after the fetus' third month. On February 17,2005, the State of Florida Board of Medicine entered a consent order regarding a Letter of Concern filed by the Department of Health (DOH case # 2002-23995) against Hudanich. That Letter listed deficiencies found when health officials inspected the Broward Women's Center located at 333 NW 70th Ave, suite 120 in Plantation where Hudanich performed surgeries. Inspectors noted that there was a lack of compliance with the level 11 office surgery crash cart, in that there were insufficient amounts of Epinephrine 1:1000 and Isuprel to supply three operating rooms, lack of compliance with level 11 office surgery equipment and supplies. The case states that at the time of inspection these deficiencies created an imminent danger to the safety of patients.
"I went to the clinic on the 16th of August in 2000, they told me that I was only 8 weeks and that I wouldn't have to have the surgical operation, so I had the abortion pill instead. The pain in my stomach was immense, I remember so clearly sitting in the hospital room waiting for my baby to fall out of me! By this time I really needed to go to the toilet, the nurse put a pan over the toilet just in case my baby fell out when I was going a wee. I remember seeing lots of blood thinking that it was all over! So I went back to my room and sat down upon the bed, my stomach was hurting so much. The nurse came into my room and told me to have a walk about, because the baby still hadnt come out. I was in tears surely there couldnt be anymore I was thinking to myself. So I got up and had a walk around when I felt a pain in my stomach, so I quickly went to the toilet, I sat down with the pan beneath me, then there below me I saw what would have been my baby, I can't explain the hurt and pain and how much I cried, but to see your unborn baby lying in a pan beneath you really is the worst possible thing in the world!!!!!" Abortion patient Website: Abortion and the regrets
"The pain was unspeakable, both physically and emotionally. The machine was loud and the
suction made the most gruesome sound that I will never forget. I would rather listen to the sound of a dentist's drill in my ear for eternity than to hear that sound ever again for even a moment; the gruesome sound of a baby being sucked from its' mother's womb."
anesthesia. Who knows how much they gave me in the first place--if it was a correct dosage or not?"