An Ohio pro-life advocacy organization is calling for the closure of a late-term abortion facility in Cleveland following a patient experiencing a “dangerous hemorrhage” caused by injuries inflicted during a surgical abortion.
Ohio Right to Life said Preterm Cleveland, a notoriously dangerous late-term abortion facility, “should have its doors permanently closed.”
This is absolutely heartbreaking to read. The culture of death must be stopped in Ohio. @PretermCLE should have its doors permanently closed. https://t.co/K4IIup1kLl
— Ohio Right to Life (@ohiolife) June 20, 2023
The computer-aided dispatch transcript from the incident said that Cleveland EMS and Cleveland Fire Department rushed a 32-year-old woman to a nearby local hospital earlier this month following an emergency hemorrhage due to a surgical abortion at Preterm Cleveland.
The Preterm employee who called 911 reported that the hemorrhaging woman had just had the “procedure,” and the abortion facility staff could not “stop the bleeding.”
This is not the first time that this has happened at the abortion facility in recent years. Preterm Cleveland also had to place two separate 911 calls in April 2019 after two patients were hemorrhaging in response to their abortion procedures.
Since March 2015, Preterm has reported numerous medical emergencies at its Cleveland location. Also, in 2014, a patient, age 22, and in 2019, a patient, age 26, both passed away following their botched abortions at this facility.
Operation Rescue, one of the leading pro-life Christian activist organizations in the U.S., which has opened numerous investigations into the facility, claims that Preterm Cleveland has a long history of mismanaging abortions, including failing health inspections, neglecting to verify credentials of medical staff, using untrained personnel, lacking physician oversight, failing to follow their own procedures during the hospital transfer process, and faulty record keeping.
According to Operation Rescue President Troy Newman, “Preterm only seems to call 911 when women are on the edge of death.”
“We do not know if she survived the injuries sustained at this horrid excuse for a medical facility. We also do not know the circumstances in this woman’s life or what drove her to make an appointment at Preterm. We do know that, with God, there is always hope in seemingly hopeless situations. This young woman did not have to kill her baby, and she did not have to put her own life at risk in the process,” Newman said.
Preterm Cleveland touts on its website that it carries out “simple and safe” surgical abortions up to a gestation of 21 weeks and offers chemical abortion pills to its patients as an alternative “safe” option.
According to Ohio Right to Life, Preterm Cleveland’s dangerous practices must be stopped.
“This is absolutely heartbreaking. The culture of death must be stopped in Ohio,” Ohio Right to Life said.
Abortion is permitted in Ohio up to 22 weeks of pregnancy after a judge temporarily overturned the state’s heartbeat rule on September 14, 2022.
Extreme abortion activists are attempting to push further by passing a constitutional amendment in November to legalize abortion throughout Ohio.
The proposal would remove Ohio’s parental notification legislation when a minor wants an abortion, as well as the requirement that abortionists adhere to fundamental hospital health and safety standards. The proposal also aims to permit abortions far after babies have heartbeats and can feel pain.
Ohio lawmakers say that they hope that Ohio State Issue 1, to change the percentage needed to amend the state Constitution, will pass in the special August election before the abortion amendment goes before voters in November.
State Issue 1 would mandate a 60 percent approval percentage for any future constitutional amendments, call for signatures from all 88 counties, and do away with the opportunity to “cure” petitions by collecting additional signatures if necessary.
Voters will decide whether to approve State Issue 1 during a statewide special election on August 8th.
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Hannah Poling is a lead reporter at The Ohio Star and The Star News Network. Follow Hannah on Twitter @HannahPoling1. Email tips to [email protected]
Photo “Preterm Cleveland Shirt” by Preterm Cleveland Ohio. Background Photo “Preterm Cleveland Facility” by Preterm Cleveland Ohio.
