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After four weeks in coma, she sues abortion clinic
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ^ | March 1, 2007

Posted on 03/01/2007 12:54:17 PM PST by presidio9

A Newark woman who said she spent a month in a coma after undergoing an abortion at a Bergen County clinic sued the facility and several doctors there on Thursday, alleging medical malpractice that seriously injured her. Rasheedah Dinkins, who is still recovering in a hospital, filed suit in Superior Court in Essex County against Metropolitan Medical Associates, an Englewood clinic that performs thousands of abortions a year.

The clinic was ordered closed on Tuesday by New Jersey health officials until it corrects the “immediate and serious” risks.

“We expect to get to the bottom of why this incredible results could have happened from such a simple procedure,” her lawyer, Adam Slater, told The Associated Press Thursday morning.

The shutdown order cites problems involving infection control, instruments and equipment used for sterilization.

A woman who answered the telephone at the clinic Thursday said the facility remained closed, but had no other immediate comment. She said a representative of the clinic might comment on the situation later Thursday.

Dinkins, 20, felt ill after undergoing the abortion, and had to be rushed to a hospital by ambulance after she passed out at her home, her family said.

Once there, she was given blood transfusions and had her uterus removed, Slater said. The attorney also said Dinkins suffered a stroke due to serious blood loss, and one of her lungs collapsed.

The closure is only the second time in the last five years that state health regulators have shut down one of New Jersey’s more than 600 ambulatory care facilities on allegations of deficient care.


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1 posted on 03/01/2007 12:54:18 PM PST by presidio9
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To: presidio9
Look at the bright side ditz, you only lost 4 weeks of your life.
2 posted on 03/01/2007 12:56:03 PM PST by Millee (Tagline free since 10/20/06)
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To: presidio9
Looks like New Jersey's drawing the line on deaths at abortion mills.They won't tolerate a mortality rate higher than 50%.
3 posted on 03/01/2007 12:56:06 PM PST by Gay State Conservative ("The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism."-Karl Marx)
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To: presidio9

Yeah, but the baby DIED!


4 posted on 03/01/2007 12:56:32 PM PST by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: presidio9

more:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1793421/posts


5 posted on 03/01/2007 12:56:43 PM PST by xcamel (Press to Test, Release to Detonate)
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To: presidio9

At least she won't have to worry about having another abortion.


6 posted on 03/01/2007 12:56:52 PM PST by HarleyD
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To: presidio9

" had her uterus removed "

Permanently sterile. Wonder if that little warning was on the consent form...?


7 posted on 03/01/2007 12:57:22 PM PST by Froufrou
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To: presidio9
Once there, she was given blood transfusions and had her uterus removed...

Looks like *her* days of "unwanted" pregnancies are over.

8 posted on 03/01/2007 12:57:44 PM PST by Gay State Conservative ("The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism."-Karl Marx)
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To: wagglebee; little jeremiah; pandoraou812

Ping.


9 posted on 03/01/2007 12:57:53 PM PST by Froufrou
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To: presidio9
Just watch, the left will spin this and say:

"See what happens even under the best of conditions? think about how bad this will be if it is outlawed, coat hangers aren't sterile either, and this will happen thousands of times a year to innocent women."

The headlines will practically write themselves.....

10 posted on 03/01/2007 1:00:21 PM PST by Abathar (Proudly catching hell for posting without reading the article since 2004)
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To: Froufrou

From the other thread, 10,000 babies die every year at this clinic.


11 posted on 03/01/2007 1:06:32 PM PST by presidio9 (There is something wonderful about a country that produces a brave and humble man like Wesley Autrey)
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To: Millee

Yeah, she didn't LOSE her life.

They didn't murder her - she MURDERED her baby and now complains about HER treatment?

LOL!

Go back in your "coma".


12 posted on 03/01/2007 1:08:36 PM PST by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)
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To: Froufrou
Wonder if that little warning was on the consent form...?

No kidding!

13 posted on 03/01/2007 1:09:12 PM PST by HitmanLV ("If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking until you do suck seed." - Jerry 'Curly' Howard)
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To: Izzy Dunne

And that is what she went there for; now she is fighting mad. She went there for death, and she got a little extra - what is her complaint?


14 posted on 03/01/2007 1:09:43 PM PST by twonie (RUDY FOR PRESIDENT '08. THERE - A COMMITMENT OUT LOUD.)
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To: presidio9

Its all about her, to hell with the life she elected to murder. No more needs to be said I read enough when I read her name - Oh well hope this law suit shuts this place down.


15 posted on 03/01/2007 1:11:43 PM PST by sasafras (Multiculturalism is a solvent invented by the left to destroy our culture and end our history)
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To: sasafras
No more needs to be said I read enough when I read her name

Meaning what?

16 posted on 03/01/2007 1:13:33 PM PST by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: presidio9

I didn't see that, but while I looked I saw this:

"[she] said she regrets having ended her pregnancy."

There is only One who knows the truth in her heart, and that is the only One who is her judge.


17 posted on 03/01/2007 1:17:02 PM PST by Froufrou
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To: presidio9
Previous post:

After 4 weeks in coma, woman sues abortion clinic

 

18 posted on 03/01/2007 1:17:37 PM PST by Incorrigible (If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
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To: presidio9

We have been advised that being comatose is the same as being brain dead is the same as being a vegetable is the same as having less quality of life is the same as being unworthy of life is the same as having told a playmate, when you were six and a half years old, that you didn't want to play a tuba, is the same as your sister in law saying you told her tubes are icky is the same as her saying you didn't want to be put on life support is the same as letting your no-good boy friend dehydrate you to death.


19 posted on 03/01/2007 1:17:38 PM PST by T'wit (Visitors: the good news is, lots of people have agreed with you. The bad news is, they were Nazis.)
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To: Lurking Libertarian

Dont be stupid - figure it out.


20 posted on 03/01/2007 1:18:43 PM PST by sasafras (Multiculturalism is a solvent invented by the left to destroy our culture and end our history)
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