Posted on 07/23/2012 10:23:07 AM PDT by NYer
A young woman has died after having a second-trimester abortion at a Chicago-area Planned Parenthood clinic. Tonya Reaves, 24, died late Friday night, according to a local CBS television station, of hemorrhage, with a cervical dilation and evacuation, according to the medical examiner’s office following an autopsy after the abortion that claimed her life.
CBS Chicago said Reaves died after the abortion she had at 18 S. Michigan Avenue Planned Parenthood facility. The woman was transported from the Loop Health Center Planned Parenthood abortion clinic to Northwestern Memorial Hospital where she was pronounced dead at 11:20 P.M.
An autopsy conducted Saturday determined that she died from hemorrhage following a Dilation and Evacuation abortion. The D&E abortion method is one employed in pregnancies that have advanced beyond the first trimester. In involves opening the cervix and removing the pre-born baby by dismembering him or her. The Loop Health Center Planned Parenthood advertises abortions up to 18 weeks.
Tonya’s twin sister Toni was devastated by the news, telling the television station, “We were born the same day. She was my other half.”
“It happened so fast. She was just fine one day and then the next day she was gone. We’re just trying to figure out what happened… what happened,” she said.
Reaves’ sister indicated Tonya was engaged to be married and had another son, who had just enjoyed his first birthday.
Troy Newman, the head of Operation Rescue and Pro-Life Nation, told LifeNews he is saddened by Reaves unnecessary death.
“Abortion deaths like this are completely avoidable. When a woman bleeds to death after an abortion, it is usually an indication of error on the part of the abortionist coupled with a delay in calling for emergency assistance. Planned Parenthood should be held accountable,” said Newman. “Our heartfelt prayers go out to the victim’s family at this time of tragic loss.”
Newman said the abortion death follows a recent expose’ published in the Chicago Tribune in June, 2011, that took to task abortion facilities in the state failing to report abortion complications and exposed the fact that some abortion practitioners did not report complications at all, in violation of the law. At that time, Illinois officials made no attempt to enforce abortion laws in that state.
Newman said that, while the name of the abortion practitioner in this case is likely unknown, Planned Parenthood’s most recent 990 Tax Forms list abortionist Caroline M. Hoke as its Medical Director.
In fact, Planned Parenthood of Illinois CEO Carole Brite, in a written statement the television station obtained, refused to give further details, saying, “We do not publicly discuss private patient matters and we follow HIPAA laws that forbid the disclosure of patient information.”
Newman called on the Obama administration to pull taxpayer funding from the Planned Parenthood abortion business because of the death.
“In light of this tragedy, which is yet another in a long list of Planned Parenthood abuses, we call on President Obama to immediately withdraw all Federal funding and personal support from Planned Parenthood,” said Newman. “Friday’s death is yet another reason why men and women of conscience across this nation cannot and will not comply with the forced funding of abortion and its intentional violation of religious liberties.”
Ping!
Actually, two people died. One was complete innocent.
Sorry, that should have read: completely innocent.
All I can say is, God works in mysterious ways. Serves her right for killing a life. Bitterly Ironic isn’t it?
“opening the cervix and removing the pre-born baby by dismembering him or her.”
Those who do this are as culpable as James Holmes.
Just she alone died? Didn't the unborn human she carried die too? What am I missing?
This woman paid someone to murder her unborn child, and all they talk about is the one who wanted her child slaughtered?
Sorry, but I couldn't get passed the headline!
While working for the Clinton administration in defending support of this barbaric procedure, Elena Kagan committed fraud against the Supreme Court by personally altering a report from the ACOG submitted to the SC.
Her “revision” caused the report to state the exact opposite of its original meaning.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2010/06/026643.php
I though back alley abortions were the risk to women?!? < /sarc>
What really bothers me about this whole story is the fact that this young woman was engaged and just celebrated her child’s first birthday. Don’t get me wrong.. I’m not justifying abortion for women without living children or if they are single. It just boggles my mind that she experienced carrying a life, giving birth to a precious child, watching that child reach age one AND decides to end the life of another child. I don’t get it... why would one child be more precious to her than another?!
Was it:
"Gee ... what can I give my fiance for a wedding present? I know! I'll kill our kid!!!"
or
"Gee, honey ... I'll marry you if only you first kill our kid!"
I'm nauseated ...
Two lives lost through an act of sin.
Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, life for life.
2nd Trimester? Isn’t that old enough to live outside the womb, wearing cute little booties and stocking hats?
“with a cervical dilation and evacuation”
It’s it nice to have medical terms for slicing open a mother so that a baby can be pulled out and murdered?
Uh....She had an abortion. It killed her.
This will be one of the few deaths that gets properly recorded as being caused by abortion.
There are others but they do not get acknowledged as such.
Sometimes everything will seem fine, only the abortionists don’t realize they did not succeed in completely cleaning out the entire contents of the aborted child.
The mother will then develop an infection.
Her death certificate will state sepsis killed her.
Or a woman shows up at the ER with severe bleeding.
Her certificate will state hemorrhage.
And then there are the ones who are maimed, rendered sterile, or contract STDs from unsterilized equipment.
Oh they’re a lovely bunch at those clinics.
Where’s Eric Rudolph when we need him?
>>All I can say is, God works in mysterious ways. Serves her right for killing a life. Bitterly Ironic isn’t it?<<
God didn’t kill her. She was ignorant and selfish. She believed the hype from the feminists and the MSM. They told her it’s like cutting her fingernails. Like removing a cyst. If God killed every woman who did this, some fine women who have either woken up or repented and are now fighting FOR life would be dead.
The abortionist killed her and the baby.
What’s with FR today?
How awful for the 1 year old boy. Can you imagine him hearing... “Your mother died while she was having your brother killed”. I would say he is another victim as he has no chance of having a ‘normal’ life.
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