Isabella Brooke Knightly and Austin Gamez-Knightly
In Memory of my Loving Husband, William F. Knightly Jr. Murdered by ILLEGAL Palliative Care at a Nashua, NH Hospital
Saturday, June 5, 2010
AFRA is Looking for Pictures of Dead CPS/DCYF Children in Casket's
Or Your Child Could be One of Them!
Our friends and comrades at AFRA are looking for pictures of dead children in casket's, that died while in state care. God know's, there are thousands! AFRA is working on a new project which deals with all the children who died while in protective custody, at the hands of the people who were hired to protect them. This is a never-ending nightmare, brought on by CPS/DCYF. If this project sound's horrific, blame CPS/DCYF. If it weren't for them, these kids wouldn't be dying. After all, their supposed to be the protectors of children. If CPS/DCYF doesn't like it, too bad! Stop Stealing our Children! Our government and our citizens need to be made aware that CPS/DCYF need's to be held accountable for NOT doing the jobs their paid to do! Instead of "Preserving Families", they are DESTROYING THEM! Ignoring the deceitful practices of CPS/DCYF doesn't help our children. It kill's them!
Please visit AFRA to submit your pictures at: WANTED: Photos of kids in caskets
http://familyrights.us/news/archive/2010/june/wanted.html
Director defends agency Frank Castano says Children and Youth does not focus on foster care.
Posted: 1:00 AM
Director defends agency
Frank Castano says Children and Youth does not focus on foster care.
By Jennifer Learn-Andes jandes@timesleader.com
Luzerne County Reporter
Luzerne County Children and Youth Director Frank Castano said an implication that the county is trying to keep kids in foster care is false because both the county and state have been focusing heavily on getting children back in their homes or adopted.
Castano said the statistics don’t lie.
There were 733 children removed from their homes due to alleged neglect or abuse in the county in November 2008. As of April 30 this year, there were 533.
Statements made by local attorney Jim Hayward this week created the impression that the county is unnecessarily placing children in foster care.
Hayward, who plans to file a federal lawsuit on behalf of parents who had children removed from their homes, said Friday that the statistics are irrelevant to him because he has many examples of parents with children who languished in foster care for no reason.
“I have one client who had a child who was placed in 17 different foster homes,” Hayward said.
County officials say the reduction in foster care placements stems largely from the county’s participation in two initiatives aimed at preventing children from getting bounced around in foster care and institutions.
As part of one of these programs, run by the state Department of Public Welfare, the county was challenged in 2008 to reduce outside placements 20 percent by the end of 2010.
The county has already surpassed that goal, with a reduction of roughly 31 percent.
This program – the “National Governors’ Association Initiative to Safely Reduce the Number of Children in Out-of-Home Care” – covers both delinquent and dependent children.
Delinquency involves juveniles who get into trouble with the law, while dependency refers to juveniles removed from their homes due to alleged abuse and neglect.
In addition to the reduction of 200 dependent children, the number of delinquent juveniles was also lowered, from 107 in November 2008 to 47 this April, Castano said.
County officials have largely credited Court of Common Pleas Judge David Lupas for the reduction in juvenile delinquent placements. Lupas has placed fewer juvenile offenders in outside facilities compared to predecessor Mark Ciavarella, who faces charges as part of the federal corruption probe. Lupas took over juvenile court from Ciavarella in May 2008.
Luzerne is among 16 Pennsylvania counties participating in the welfare department initiative and was chosen in large part because its outside placements exceeded the statewide average, state officials have said.
High-ranking state welfare official Richard Gold personally visits Luzerne County once a month to review cases with a team of county employees and providers involved in child placements, said state welfare spokesman Michael Race.
“They discuss the rationale for placement and go through cases in great detail to discuss whether each case is being handled in the best possible way and in the best interest of the child,” Race said.
Gold, deputy secretary of the welfare department’s Office of Children, Youth and Families, has publicly cited Luzerne as an example of a county that has made strides in getting children back in their homes or adopted, Race said.
“He’s been impressed with the steps Luzerne County has taken,” Race said.
Luzerne County lowered foster care placements, in part, by requiring Children and Youth caseworkers to use a more in-depth safety assessment to determine if children should be removed from homes due to suspected abuse or neglect, said county Human Services Director Joe DeVizia.
The county has also worked with counseling agencies to provide more intensive family therapy, he said.
Parental substance abuse is still a “major issue” preventing children from returning home, DeVizia said, estimating that more than 300 children are stuck in placement solely because their parents must obtain treatment for drug and alcohol addictions.
“We’re really trying to give parents the tools to get their kids home,” he said.
The county is also participating in the Supreme Court’s “Permanency Practice Initiative,” which was created by state Supreme Court Justice Max Baer.
The number of dependant children in foster care and institutions statewide has gone from 21,500 three years ago to 15,700 around the start of this year, thanks largely to the program, Baer said Friday.
County judicial systems were operating in bubbles throughout the state, unaware of proven strategies to keep or return children to their homes are get them into alternative permanent homes faster.
“It’s not fair to the children. We take them in for physical safety and ruin their lives. All over the United States there was a serious recognition that the number of kids in foster care was a terrible problem,” he said.
Sandy Moore, who oversees the permanency initiative through the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts, said Friday that Luzerne and other participating counties are using the following techniques:
• Search engines to help locate relatives who may want to take care of children if they must be removed from a home.
• Meetings of people close to a child removed from a home – parents, relatives, a pastor, a coach – to come up with a recommended plan to care for that child. The team’s feedback is recommended to the judge overseeing the child’s placement. In the past Children and Youth agencies came up with these plans, usually without feedback from people close to the child, Moore said.
• Training for providers who are involved with Children and Youth cases on how to recognize positive qualities of clients in the system, rather than dwelling mostly on their shortcomings.
• Court reviews of cases held every 90 days instead of the six months required by law.
• Periodic roundtables to identify barriers that keep children in foster care and discuss solutions.
Moore said the 90-day reviews have had a dramatic impact because it forces the court and all parties involved in the case to “keep on track.”
Keeping or returning children to their home is always the main goal, Moore said.
“When that is not possible, the next option is to get children to another safe, loving permanent home,” Moore said. “One of our mantras is that no child should grow up in foster care.”
Jennifer Learn-Andes, a Times Leader staff writer, may be reached at 831-7333.
http://www.timesleader.com/news/Director_defends_agency_06-04-2010.html
Director defends agency
Frank Castano says Children and Youth does not focus on foster care.
By Jennifer Learn-Andes jandes@timesleader.com
Luzerne County Reporter
Luzerne County Children and Youth Director Frank Castano said an implication that the county is trying to keep kids in foster care is false because both the county and state have been focusing heavily on getting children back in their homes or adopted.
Castano said the statistics don’t lie.
There were 733 children removed from their homes due to alleged neglect or abuse in the county in November 2008. As of April 30 this year, there were 533.
Statements made by local attorney Jim Hayward this week created the impression that the county is unnecessarily placing children in foster care.
Hayward, who plans to file a federal lawsuit on behalf of parents who had children removed from their homes, said Friday that the statistics are irrelevant to him because he has many examples of parents with children who languished in foster care for no reason.
“I have one client who had a child who was placed in 17 different foster homes,” Hayward said.
County officials say the reduction in foster care placements stems largely from the county’s participation in two initiatives aimed at preventing children from getting bounced around in foster care and institutions.
As part of one of these programs, run by the state Department of Public Welfare, the county was challenged in 2008 to reduce outside placements 20 percent by the end of 2010.
The county has already surpassed that goal, with a reduction of roughly 31 percent.
This program – the “National Governors’ Association Initiative to Safely Reduce the Number of Children in Out-of-Home Care” – covers both delinquent and dependent children.
Delinquency involves juveniles who get into trouble with the law, while dependency refers to juveniles removed from their homes due to alleged abuse and neglect.
In addition to the reduction of 200 dependent children, the number of delinquent juveniles was also lowered, from 107 in November 2008 to 47 this April, Castano said.
County officials have largely credited Court of Common Pleas Judge David Lupas for the reduction in juvenile delinquent placements. Lupas has placed fewer juvenile offenders in outside facilities compared to predecessor Mark Ciavarella, who faces charges as part of the federal corruption probe. Lupas took over juvenile court from Ciavarella in May 2008.
Luzerne is among 16 Pennsylvania counties participating in the welfare department initiative and was chosen in large part because its outside placements exceeded the statewide average, state officials have said.
High-ranking state welfare official Richard Gold personally visits Luzerne County once a month to review cases with a team of county employees and providers involved in child placements, said state welfare spokesman Michael Race.
“They discuss the rationale for placement and go through cases in great detail to discuss whether each case is being handled in the best possible way and in the best interest of the child,” Race said.
Gold, deputy secretary of the welfare department’s Office of Children, Youth and Families, has publicly cited Luzerne as an example of a county that has made strides in getting children back in their homes or adopted, Race said.
“He’s been impressed with the steps Luzerne County has taken,” Race said.
Luzerne County lowered foster care placements, in part, by requiring Children and Youth caseworkers to use a more in-depth safety assessment to determine if children should be removed from homes due to suspected abuse or neglect, said county Human Services Director Joe DeVizia.
The county has also worked with counseling agencies to provide more intensive family therapy, he said.
Parental substance abuse is still a “major issue” preventing children from returning home, DeVizia said, estimating that more than 300 children are stuck in placement solely because their parents must obtain treatment for drug and alcohol addictions.
“We’re really trying to give parents the tools to get their kids home,” he said.
The county is also participating in the Supreme Court’s “Permanency Practice Initiative,” which was created by state Supreme Court Justice Max Baer.
The number of dependant children in foster care and institutions statewide has gone from 21,500 three years ago to 15,700 around the start of this year, thanks largely to the program, Baer said Friday.
County judicial systems were operating in bubbles throughout the state, unaware of proven strategies to keep or return children to their homes are get them into alternative permanent homes faster.
“It’s not fair to the children. We take them in for physical safety and ruin their lives. All over the United States there was a serious recognition that the number of kids in foster care was a terrible problem,” he said.
Sandy Moore, who oversees the permanency initiative through the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts, said Friday that Luzerne and other participating counties are using the following techniques:
• Search engines to help locate relatives who may want to take care of children if they must be removed from a home.
• Meetings of people close to a child removed from a home – parents, relatives, a pastor, a coach – to come up with a recommended plan to care for that child. The team’s feedback is recommended to the judge overseeing the child’s placement. In the past Children and Youth agencies came up with these plans, usually without feedback from people close to the child, Moore said.
• Training for providers who are involved with Children and Youth cases on how to recognize positive qualities of clients in the system, rather than dwelling mostly on their shortcomings.
• Court reviews of cases held every 90 days instead of the six months required by law.
• Periodic roundtables to identify barriers that keep children in foster care and discuss solutions.
Moore said the 90-day reviews have had a dramatic impact because it forces the court and all parties involved in the case to “keep on track.”
Keeping or returning children to their home is always the main goal, Moore said.
“When that is not possible, the next option is to get children to another safe, loving permanent home,” Moore said. “One of our mantras is that no child should grow up in foster care.”
Jennifer Learn-Andes, a Times Leader staff writer, may be reached at 831-7333.
http://www.timesleader.com/news/Director_defends_agency_06-04-2010.html
Friday, June 4, 2010
WHEN CPS FINISHES WITH YOU, WHERE ARE YOU?
Free the FLDS Children - AKA The Freedom Liberty Defenders Society
Defending Due Process, Religious Liberty, Human Rights, Constitutional Rights, and Freedom for the FLDS Community and All Of Us!
WHEN CPS FINISHES WITH YOU, WHERE ARE YOU?
By Bill Medvecky
June 4, 2010 – 12:52 pm
Somehow CPS and CASA have convinced themselves they are the saviors of abuse and neglected children.
Once they get through making as much money as they can with them, this is what those same children have to look forward to. With a record like this, why are they not in prison?
Grim Statistics
HOMELESSNESS:
Covenant House reports that 50% of adolescents aging out of foster care and juvenile justice systems will be homeless within 6 months because they are unprepared to live independently, have limited education, and no social support.
EDUCATION:
Only 54% of aged-out foster kids receive a highschool diploma.
70% of foster kids WANT to attend college….but only 3% of aged-out foster kids goto college and less than 1/2 of them ever graduate—–(In comparison, over 70% of high school students attend college and 65-70% of those graduate!)
UNEMPLOYMENT:
Over 50% of aged-out foster kids are unemployed —-(Compared with 14.2% of general youth aged 14 to 24.)
Over 30% are receiving welfare assistance.
EMOTIONAL PROBLEMS:
It is estimated that as many as 80% of kids in foster care have emotional and behavioral problems.
A study by the Department of Health and Human Services (2005) evaluating care of foster children stated that: there was a sheer lack of mental health services for children, mental health assessments were not conducted adequately or timely, and that there is a lack of consistency in providing preventative services for children. (HHS. 2005. “General Findings from the Federal Child and Family Services Review.”)
Even former foster children are twice as likely to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as Iraq war veterans, according to the 2005 Northwest Foster Care Alumni study.
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PRISON AND PREGNANCY
Crime also factors in.— 25% of emancipated youth were incarcerated within a two year period of leaving a foster care environment
40% of women reported having been pregnant at least one time in the 18-24 months since leaving foster care.
Just a couple years ago…..
A statewide survey by the Florida Department of Children & Families released in 2007 found that a majority of 17-year-olds in its custody either believe they lack, or actually are lacking, the necessary skills and services needed to live on their own at 18.
Most of the youths surveyed said they had no bank account and no plan for developing skills beyond high school. Fewer than half, or 45 percent, were performing at or above their grade level. Nearly a third had been arrested at least once in the past year.
http://www.flds.ws/
Defending Due Process, Religious Liberty, Human Rights, Constitutional Rights, and Freedom for the FLDS Community and All Of Us!
WHEN CPS FINISHES WITH YOU, WHERE ARE YOU?
By Bill Medvecky
June 4, 2010 – 12:52 pm
Somehow CPS and CASA have convinced themselves they are the saviors of abuse and neglected children.
Once they get through making as much money as they can with them, this is what those same children have to look forward to. With a record like this, why are they not in prison?
Grim Statistics
HOMELESSNESS:
Covenant House reports that 50% of adolescents aging out of foster care and juvenile justice systems will be homeless within 6 months because they are unprepared to live independently, have limited education, and no social support.
EDUCATION:
Only 54% of aged-out foster kids receive a highschool diploma.
70% of foster kids WANT to attend college….but only 3% of aged-out foster kids goto college and less than 1/2 of them ever graduate—–(In comparison, over 70% of high school students attend college and 65-70% of those graduate!)
UNEMPLOYMENT:
Over 50% of aged-out foster kids are unemployed —-(Compared with 14.2% of general youth aged 14 to 24.)
Over 30% are receiving welfare assistance.
EMOTIONAL PROBLEMS:
It is estimated that as many as 80% of kids in foster care have emotional and behavioral problems.
A study by the Department of Health and Human Services (2005) evaluating care of foster children stated that: there was a sheer lack of mental health services for children, mental health assessments were not conducted adequately or timely, and that there is a lack of consistency in providing preventative services for children. (HHS. 2005. “General Findings from the Federal Child and Family Services Review.”)
Even former foster children are twice as likely to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as Iraq war veterans, according to the 2005 Northwest Foster Care Alumni study.
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PRISON AND PREGNANCY
Crime also factors in.— 25% of emancipated youth were incarcerated within a two year period of leaving a foster care environment
40% of women reported having been pregnant at least one time in the 18-24 months since leaving foster care.
Just a couple years ago…..
A statewide survey by the Florida Department of Children & Families released in 2007 found that a majority of 17-year-olds in its custody either believe they lack, or actually are lacking, the necessary skills and services needed to live on their own at 18.
Most of the youths surveyed said they had no bank account and no plan for developing skills beyond high school. Fewer than half, or 45 percent, were performing at or above their grade level. Nearly a third had been arrested at least once in the past year.
http://www.flds.ws/
AlterNet Misleads Women, Says Abortion Not Linked to Breast Cancer, Infertility
AlterNet Misleads Women, Says Abortion Not Linked to Breast Cancer, Infertility
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
June 4, 2010
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- In a new hit piece the liberal political web site AlterNet posted against pregnancy centers, they are accused of giving women inaccurate information about abortion and its link to breast cancer and infertility. However, AlterNet is apparently not up on the latest research confirming both links as true.
"Under the dubious free speech protection, CPCs are going to disgusting lengths to scare women out of seeking abortions -- with the help of federal and state funding," AlterNet wrote.
The report featured an interview with a California NARAL operative who led an "investigation" of pregnancy centers -- though she failed to record or video any examples of the claims she provided the web site.
"NARAL volunteers reported being told that abortion can lead to breast cancer, infertility and mental health problems," AlterNet complains. "NARAL's goal isn't to shut CPCs down; it's to get them to be more upfront about the type of information or services they offer."
AlterNet may want to heed those words.
Just this year, a study called abortion a "known risk factor" for breast cancer and cited a prior study conducted by the prestigious Janet Daling group of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.
Daling and her colleagues showed between a 20 and 50 percent increased breast cancer risk for women having abortions compare to those who carried their pregnancies to term.
The newer study, conducted by Jessica Dolle, appears in the April, 2009 issue of the epidemiology journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention.
As Dr. Joel Brind, a prominent breast cancer researcher, says, "what was striking was the way in which the finding of a significant ABC link was characterized."
"Specifically, abortion appears in the data table which lists the associations found for 'known and suspected risk factors,'" he explains. "In the text, the effect of the significant risk factors, including induced abortion, were described as 'consistent with the effects observed in previous studies on younger women.'"
Last year, studies from Turkey and China also reported statistically significant risk increases for women who had abortions.
Dr. Vahit Ozmen and his colleagues at the Istanbul Medical Faculty at Istanbul University and Magee-Women's hospital in Pittsburgh conducted a retrospective study.
They published their findings in the April 2009 issue of the World Journal of Surgical Oncology and examined women who, between January 2000 and December 2006, were admitted to clinics of Istanbul Medical Faculty for examination.
The researchers said that their findings showed abortion was "significantly associated with increased breast cancer risk."
"Breast cancer risk was found to be increased in women with ... induced abortion (95% confidence interval)" and an age above 35 years-old at the time of a first live birth. "However, decreased breast cancer risk was associated with ... presence of spontaneous abortion."
"Our study revealed that spontaneous abortion was associated with the decreased risk of breast cancer in univariate analysis whereas induced abortion was associated with increased breast cancer risk in both univariate and multivariable analyses," they wrote.
As far as infertility is concerned, abortion has been documented in a link with infertility in nations across the globe.
The 2009 Investigative Report on the Current State of Infertility in China, released at the China International Summit Forum on Infertility in August, 2009, found, in a survey of 18,000 people, seeking treatment for infertility in Beijing, that 10 percent had been trying to conceive for a year since getting married, 15 percent had been trying for two years and 25 percent for 10 years.
For women, the leading cause of infertility is the blockage of the fallopian tubes, mostly induced by abortions, the report said.
Research shows that abortion can lead to infertility by increasing the risk of miscarriages.
A 1986 report in the medical journal Epidemiology reveals women with a history of abortion have a greater risk of fetal loss than women who had no previous abortions. Women with two prior pregnancies carried to term and no abortions had the lowest risk, while women with two prior abortions had the highest risk.
Also, a 1991 British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology article revealed that women with a history of abortion had a 1.5-1.7 times higher risk of ectopic pregnancy than women who had previously carried a pregnancy to term.
According to the Elliot Institute, an Illinois group that studies abortion's effects on women, about three to five percent of women who get abortions are left inadvertently sterile as a result of an abortion. The risk of sterility is even greater for women who are infected with a venereal disease at the time of the abortion.
Even Planned Parenthood of Australia has acknowledged the future risk of problem pregnancies caused by abortion.
Its web site includes consent forms that list 12 serious complications from a first trimester abortion.
It says that some complications include: "infections ... a tear in the cervix that may require stitches ... incompetent cervix/stenosed cervix (too tight or too loose cervix which may impair future fertility), Asherman's syndrome (cessation of periods and adhesions in uterus that may impair future fertility), depression or mood disturbance, suicide. ..."
The risk of post-abortion problems in future pregnancy is also seen in countries with abnormally high abortion rates, such as Russia and Vietnam.
Vladimir Serov, the deputy director of the Russian Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Perinatology Center at the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, told the Russian media source Regnum that 120,000 women are injured each year from legal abortions.
He said numerous Russian women suffer from sterility, endometriosis and other problems following abortions.
This has led to a significant problem of premature births and Serov said Russian women typically have 160,000 miscarriages a year and there are 60,000 premature births annually.
Vietnam is experiencing high rates of infertility among women there.
Dr. Le Thi Phuong Lan, deputy director of the Central Hospital for Obstetrics and Gynaecology’s Reproductive Assistance Centre, has noticed the recent infertility problems. He said that a survey conducted by Tu Du Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City found that women who had abortions were 5.2 percent more likely to suffer from infertility.
http://www.lifenews.com/nat6396.html
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
June 4, 2010
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- In a new hit piece the liberal political web site AlterNet posted against pregnancy centers, they are accused of giving women inaccurate information about abortion and its link to breast cancer and infertility. However, AlterNet is apparently not up on the latest research confirming both links as true.
"Under the dubious free speech protection, CPCs are going to disgusting lengths to scare women out of seeking abortions -- with the help of federal and state funding," AlterNet wrote.
The report featured an interview with a California NARAL operative who led an "investigation" of pregnancy centers -- though she failed to record or video any examples of the claims she provided the web site.
"NARAL volunteers reported being told that abortion can lead to breast cancer, infertility and mental health problems," AlterNet complains. "NARAL's goal isn't to shut CPCs down; it's to get them to be more upfront about the type of information or services they offer."
AlterNet may want to heed those words.
Just this year, a study called abortion a "known risk factor" for breast cancer and cited a prior study conducted by the prestigious Janet Daling group of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.
Daling and her colleagues showed between a 20 and 50 percent increased breast cancer risk for women having abortions compare to those who carried their pregnancies to term.
The newer study, conducted by Jessica Dolle, appears in the April, 2009 issue of the epidemiology journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention.
As Dr. Joel Brind, a prominent breast cancer researcher, says, "what was striking was the way in which the finding of a significant ABC link was characterized."
"Specifically, abortion appears in the data table which lists the associations found for 'known and suspected risk factors,'" he explains. "In the text, the effect of the significant risk factors, including induced abortion, were described as 'consistent with the effects observed in previous studies on younger women.'"
Last year, studies from Turkey and China also reported statistically significant risk increases for women who had abortions.
Dr. Vahit Ozmen and his colleagues at the Istanbul Medical Faculty at Istanbul University and Magee-Women's hospital in Pittsburgh conducted a retrospective study.
They published their findings in the April 2009 issue of the World Journal of Surgical Oncology and examined women who, between January 2000 and December 2006, were admitted to clinics of Istanbul Medical Faculty for examination.
The researchers said that their findings showed abortion was "significantly associated with increased breast cancer risk."
"Breast cancer risk was found to be increased in women with ... induced abortion (95% confidence interval)" and an age above 35 years-old at the time of a first live birth. "However, decreased breast cancer risk was associated with ... presence of spontaneous abortion."
"Our study revealed that spontaneous abortion was associated with the decreased risk of breast cancer in univariate analysis whereas induced abortion was associated with increased breast cancer risk in both univariate and multivariable analyses," they wrote.
As far as infertility is concerned, abortion has been documented in a link with infertility in nations across the globe.
The 2009 Investigative Report on the Current State of Infertility in China, released at the China International Summit Forum on Infertility in August, 2009, found, in a survey of 18,000 people, seeking treatment for infertility in Beijing, that 10 percent had been trying to conceive for a year since getting married, 15 percent had been trying for two years and 25 percent for 10 years.
For women, the leading cause of infertility is the blockage of the fallopian tubes, mostly induced by abortions, the report said.
Research shows that abortion can lead to infertility by increasing the risk of miscarriages.
A 1986 report in the medical journal Epidemiology reveals women with a history of abortion have a greater risk of fetal loss than women who had no previous abortions. Women with two prior pregnancies carried to term and no abortions had the lowest risk, while women with two prior abortions had the highest risk.
Also, a 1991 British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology article revealed that women with a history of abortion had a 1.5-1.7 times higher risk of ectopic pregnancy than women who had previously carried a pregnancy to term.
According to the Elliot Institute, an Illinois group that studies abortion's effects on women, about three to five percent of women who get abortions are left inadvertently sterile as a result of an abortion. The risk of sterility is even greater for women who are infected with a venereal disease at the time of the abortion.
Even Planned Parenthood of Australia has acknowledged the future risk of problem pregnancies caused by abortion.
Its web site includes consent forms that list 12 serious complications from a first trimester abortion.
It says that some complications include: "infections ... a tear in the cervix that may require stitches ... incompetent cervix/stenosed cervix (too tight or too loose cervix which may impair future fertility), Asherman's syndrome (cessation of periods and adhesions in uterus that may impair future fertility), depression or mood disturbance, suicide. ..."
The risk of post-abortion problems in future pregnancy is also seen in countries with abnormally high abortion rates, such as Russia and Vietnam.
Vladimir Serov, the deputy director of the Russian Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Perinatology Center at the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, told the Russian media source Regnum that 120,000 women are injured each year from legal abortions.
He said numerous Russian women suffer from sterility, endometriosis and other problems following abortions.
This has led to a significant problem of premature births and Serov said Russian women typically have 160,000 miscarriages a year and there are 60,000 premature births annually.
Vietnam is experiencing high rates of infertility among women there.
Dr. Le Thi Phuong Lan, deputy director of the Central Hospital for Obstetrics and Gynaecology’s Reproductive Assistance Centre, has noticed the recent infertility problems. He said that a survey conducted by Tu Du Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City found that women who had abortions were 5.2 percent more likely to suffer from infertility.
http://www.lifenews.com/nat6396.html
Woman Says Practitioner Held Hand Over Her Mouth as He Forced Abortion
Woman Says Practitioner Held Hand Over Her Mouth as He Forced Abortion
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
June 4, 2010
Flint, MI (LifeNews.com) -- A Michigan woman who says she was victimized by a forced abortion is speaking out more about her ordeal and offering a more graphic, detailed explanation. She says she had a hand forced over her mouth as she was held down and an abortion done on her as she tried to hold her legs together.
Caitlin Bruce is 20 and she has filed a lawsuit against abortion practitioner Alberto Hodari, who has a long history of killing and injuring patients and also faces other forced abortion accusations.
Bruce had the abortion in April 2008 at Hodari's Feminine Health Care Clinic in Flint, Michigan. But she told ABC News she changed her mind at the very last second but was pinned down and had her mouth closed as she tried to protest.
A high school dropout trying to make a life for herself, Bruce is the classic case of a minority girl impregnated by a much-older boyfriend -- and her father persuaded her to have the abortion.
"I was really confused, asking everybody else what I should do. Everybody told me, 'You were too young,'" she told ABC. "What I really wanted to hear was, 'We'll help you out.'"
On the table for the abortion, Bruce felt the first instrument go inside her and she asked Hodari to stop, but he and his assistants held her down.
"He had a real tight grip over my mouth, but I was screaming .. and trying to pull my legs together," she said.
She said Hodari appeared to give up and told her she could go home and as soon as she relaxed, Bruce tells ABC News Hodari completed the abortion.
"And that's when I felt the worst pain in my stomach," she said. "It really felt like he was ripping everything in me out, that's how painful it was."
She said Hodari never said another word to her and she lay by herself on the table horrified.
"This is a question about choice. Who makes the decision here? He told her she could back out any time," Bruce's attorney Tom Pabst told ABC News. "Who does he think he is?"
Hodari's lawyer Steve Weiss called the lawsuit "baseless" and has already said she changed her mind too late for Hodari to go back on the abortion.
Hodari faces a revised civil lawsuit from Bruce. She filed a lawsuit previously, but her attorney submitted new paperwork last week at the Genesee County Circuit Court.
In a prior interview with ConnectMichigan, Bruce said, "He was inserting the speculum, and I told him I'm nervous. I just told him stop please. I'm really nervous and I don't want to do this anymore.”
Hodari responded to the news service, saying “When she said stop, it was too late… I told her I would stop, but when I take my instrument there was blood and tissue on it from pregnancy, so I couldn't stop.”
However, obstetrician and gynecologist Dr. Mona Hardas told the Michigan news outlet that Hodari handled the situation poorly. She said Hodari could have taken Bruce to a local hospital for a second opinion rather than forcing her to have the abortion.
“Even if someone has signed a consent form, if someone wants you to stop you have to stop. I am shocked. I can't believe this is still happening in this day and age," she said.
Hodari responded to those comments, defending his record as an abortion practitioner.
“I am there because I want to help woman have safe abortions. Look at my records. I have done more abortions and longer than any doctor in Michigan," he said.
However, Hodari has also killed women in failed abortions and, last June, he was fined $10,000 by a state board in connection with a woman's botched abortion death.
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by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
June 4, 2010
Flint, MI (LifeNews.com) -- A Michigan woman who says she was victimized by a forced abortion is speaking out more about her ordeal and offering a more graphic, detailed explanation. She says she had a hand forced over her mouth as she was held down and an abortion done on her as she tried to hold her legs together.
Caitlin Bruce is 20 and she has filed a lawsuit against abortion practitioner Alberto Hodari, who has a long history of killing and injuring patients and also faces other forced abortion accusations.
Bruce had the abortion in April 2008 at Hodari's Feminine Health Care Clinic in Flint, Michigan. But she told ABC News she changed her mind at the very last second but was pinned down and had her mouth closed as she tried to protest.
A high school dropout trying to make a life for herself, Bruce is the classic case of a minority girl impregnated by a much-older boyfriend -- and her father persuaded her to have the abortion.
"I was really confused, asking everybody else what I should do. Everybody told me, 'You were too young,'" she told ABC. "What I really wanted to hear was, 'We'll help you out.'"
On the table for the abortion, Bruce felt the first instrument go inside her and she asked Hodari to stop, but he and his assistants held her down.
"He had a real tight grip over my mouth, but I was screaming .. and trying to pull my legs together," she said.
She said Hodari appeared to give up and told her she could go home and as soon as she relaxed, Bruce tells ABC News Hodari completed the abortion.
"And that's when I felt the worst pain in my stomach," she said. "It really felt like he was ripping everything in me out, that's how painful it was."
She said Hodari never said another word to her and she lay by herself on the table horrified.
"This is a question about choice. Who makes the decision here? He told her she could back out any time," Bruce's attorney Tom Pabst told ABC News. "Who does he think he is?"
Hodari's lawyer Steve Weiss called the lawsuit "baseless" and has already said she changed her mind too late for Hodari to go back on the abortion.
Hodari faces a revised civil lawsuit from Bruce. She filed a lawsuit previously, but her attorney submitted new paperwork last week at the Genesee County Circuit Court.
In a prior interview with ConnectMichigan, Bruce said, "He was inserting the speculum, and I told him I'm nervous. I just told him stop please. I'm really nervous and I don't want to do this anymore.”
Hodari responded to the news service, saying “When she said stop, it was too late… I told her I would stop, but when I take my instrument there was blood and tissue on it from pregnancy, so I couldn't stop.”
However, obstetrician and gynecologist Dr. Mona Hardas told the Michigan news outlet that Hodari handled the situation poorly. She said Hodari could have taken Bruce to a local hospital for a second opinion rather than forcing her to have the abortion.
“Even if someone has signed a consent form, if someone wants you to stop you have to stop. I am shocked. I can't believe this is still happening in this day and age," she said.
Hodari responded to those comments, defending his record as an abortion practitioner.
“I am there because I want to help woman have safe abortions. Look at my records. I have done more abortions and longer than any doctor in Michigan," he said.
However, Hodari has also killed women in failed abortions and, last June, he was fined $10,000 by a state board in connection with a woman's botched abortion death.
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