Doctor: Abortion patients often end up in ER

[The Straight Story]

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A gynecologist whose statement is at the center of a lawsuit against a Charleston abortion clinic says he sees patients "weekly" with complications from abortions.

Dr. Byron Calhoun, vice chairman of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department at West Virginia University Physicians of Charleston, wrote a letter outlining his concerns about West Virginia's abortion clinics to Attorney General Patrick Morrisey. Calhoun is also the national medical adviser for an anti-abortion group.

Morrisey is in the midst of a review of the state's abortion clinic regulations. He recently accepted public comments on the issue. He has so far not released the results of that comment period.

The Gazette obtained the letter, dated June 31, 2013, via a public records request.

http://www.wvgazette.com/News/201309020042

[Cirque du So-What]

1. June 31st?

I suspect that's only the tip of the specious iceberg.

[LeftishBrit]

2. Ugh to Bryan Calhoun

And whatever happened to 'Thirty days hath September/ April, June and November'?

[Barack_America]

3. It was readable until the "informed consent" BS.

Pretty sure these clinics already give informed consent as to risks of the procedure. If they do not, they should. But standard informed consent does not require a waiting period and should never include the physician talking a patient out of having the procedure. That is a separate discussion. But should abortion clinics be monitored to ensure safe and sanitary conditions and adequate training, yes. But not by this buffoon who has made his agenda all too clear.

[Violet_Crumble]

8. He's on the board of an anti-choice group if his agenda wasn't already clear...

http://www.aaplog.org/about-2/aaplog-board/

[Warpy]

4. I would tell him to prove it by submitting the hospital's statistics

Personally, I doubt it unless it's women doing chemical abortions who want pain control.

[KamaAina]

5. If you believe that, I've got a bridge I'd like to show you

[liberal_at_heart]

6. I didn't have complications. They are just trying to shut down clinics. WA is proposing legislation

that would make insurance companies pay for abortions. I love living in WA.

[nobodyspecial]

7. And back alley abortion patients end up

in the cemetery.

Plus, he's full of shit. Show us the stats.

[SheilaT]

9. I once heard that a full

fifty percent of all OB beds in Brazil went to women recovering from illegal abortions. That says a lot.