BREAKING: Carhart instructed patients not to go to ER, falsified safety of late-term abortions
UPDATE 2/16 12:11p: I received the following information from a sidewalk counselor at Carhart’s Germantown clinic:
In July 2012 we had a save who was ~27 weeks. She gave us her blue paperwork from Carhart’s, different from the one Jill posted. I copied it on white paper, attached.
These instructions do tell patients to go to the ER, but only if unable to reach Carhart’s clinic. The fact remains for a period of time Carhart instructed his patients not to go to the ER. The relevant portion of the instructions is below. Click to enlarge. Read them in their entirety here and here.
2/14 2:06p: I wrote earlier this week that the Environmental Crimes Unit of the Maryland Attorney General’s Office has opened a criminal investigation against Germantown Reproductive Health Services in the wake of a complaint lodged by Germantown Pregnancy Choices of it illegally dumping biohazardous and medical waste.
Although the complaint was filed in November 2012, it appears obvious the Maryland AG’s February 11 announcement of its criminal investigation came in response to the February 7 death of Jennifer Morbelli, a 29-yr-old patient of GRHS’s sole late-term abortionist, LeRoy Carhart.
There were other documents retrieved by pro-lifers from Carhart’s trash aside from those of which I posted photos.
Also collected between August 2011 and May 2012 were Carhart’s (pictured right) instructions to patients. There were three sheets found, all on the same color blue paper, two of three stating they were revised in October 2010. Since the previous revision was made 16 years earlier, it is reasonable to expect Morbelli was given these same instructions.
Of greatest interest, particularly in the wake of Morbelli’s tragic death, which came after the abortion of her 33-wk-old baby Madison Leigh, were Carhart’s instructions not to go to the ER in the event of an emergency, but instead to “call and we will meet you at the clinic,” which is clearly dangerous medical advice.
Furthermore, who is “we”? Carhart left the state the afternoon Morbelli’s abortion was completed.
In addition, if it is true, as was maintained by an informant close to the situation, that Morbelli’s family tried several times to unsuccessfully contact Carhart before going to Shady Grove Adventist Hospital’s ER, then this document is at the very least misleading, stating, “One of our staff is on-call 24 hours a day.” Again, that staff does not necessarily include the doctor himself. Click to enlarge…
In this case, Carhart’s self-serving motive at the expense of patient safety is to contain publicity about negative reactions to abortions.
Also, because Carhart has no hospital privileges – anywhere – his impotence as a primary care physician is that much more glaring when he is barred from an ER to provide contiguous care to a patient.
Did Jennifer Morbelli’s family delay getting her emergency medical treatment based on Carhart’s instructions? I hope they saved all their paperwork.
In addition was the following information on another Carhart document, particularly poignant in the wake of Morbelli’s death:
Death: Abortion is one of the safest operations in all medicine. The risk of a woman dying from full-term pregnancy & childbirth is over 10 times greater than that from an advanced gestation abortion.
Read bottom paragraph. Click to enlarge:
Professor Michael New succinctly explained in a September 2012 NRO piece how “the data to back up this claim are, to put it charitably, misleading.” In fact, New explained just the opposite is actually the case, that there is “very strong evidence that giving birth in in fact safer than obtaining an abortion.”
At the very least Carhart was attempting to downplay the increased risk of late-term abortions, which even Planned Parenthood acknowledges.
[HT for photographs: Maryland Coalition for Life]
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
We know Jennifer Morbelli chose an abortion upon finding out her baby had “anomalies.” Has there been any evidence of what those anomalies were?
I am waiting for the feminist outrage.
Wake me up when it starts.
Jennifer and her baby were just collateral damage.
“I am waiting for the feminist outrage.Wake me up when it starts.”
Oh, it’ll start all right. Unfortunately, it will all be directed at Jill Stanek for daring to smear the good name of “Dr” Carhart. 9_9
wow, that’s a pretty damning find.
This is obscene! And why did the Maryland AG come out only after Jennifer died to report that they were still investigating the dumping claim from from last summer? When would/will the Maryland AG investigate Carhart for Jennifer’s death?
I’m looking forward to see how pro-choicers respond to the “don’t go to the ER” thing. They’ll try to explain it away, I’m sure.
Hi Courtnay 2:24PM
You’ll make Rip Van Winkle look like a catnapper.
Hi Jack,
Its that ER thing that really makes my jaw drop. Also, how he trivializes uterine perforations, which it sounds like Jennifer may have died from. Gee, maybe if she and her family had immediately gone to the ER instead of trying to contact a “doctor” who had already skipped town, Jennifer might be alive.
Now just a minute, hold the phone here. Are you telling me PL people retrieved these documents from Carhart’s trash? Well shame on THEM! And Jill, you put these on your blog! Well, double shame on you! The issue here isn’t horrendous medical practice, incompetence, putting patients in danger, and a dead woman, its naming names! That is what is immoral and unethical.
She might have survived had she been treated earlier. This is all so very sad.
“Are you telling me PL people retrieved these documents from Carhart’s trash? Well shame on THEM! And Jill, you put these on your blog! Well, double shame on you!The issue here isn’t horrendous medical practice, incompetence, putting patients in danger, and a dead woman, its naming names! That is what is immoral and unethical.”
Actually from one of Jill’s posts earlier in the week…
“Carhart’s clinic was illegally dumping medical and biohazardous waste, patients’ medical records and private information, medications, and syringes.”
You can’t willy nilly dispose of patient records and medical waste.
Hi Dewayne,
I was being facetious. Jill came under attack for naming Carhart’s victims, but apparently these same people weren’t too upset about a dead woman, appalling conditions at Carhart’s facility, or Carhart skipping town. I should have put a “sarcasm alert” on my post. My bad.
Mary,
My bad for not picking up on your facetiousness.
Hi Luana,
I think it highly likely she would have survived had she gone immediately to the emergency room. Precious time was lost trying to contact Carhart, who didn’t even have hospital privileges and had already skipped town.
I just read the “emotional reactions” section, and it sounds verbatim to a response I read recently from Dear Abby to a young man who had written her about his girlfriends previous abortion. That after an abortion there is a great sense of relief. Where do they get this stuff? Its amazing to me that someone that would go to Carhart and actually read the paperwork would still feel confident enough to go through with the procedure. I hope he is charged, tried and convicted at least for negligent homicide if not murder over this case.
If nothing else happens, this case has shed an enormous amount of light on a subject that too many are in the dark about… on several talk shows the past few days I have heard callers saying they had no idea late term abortions were even legal.
From post: “One of our staff is on-call 24 hours a day.” Again, that staff does not necessarily include the doctor himself.
I carried the 24-hr on-call medical beeper for the abortion facility I used to work at–I was a high school drop-out and wore it on my combat boot when I went out dancing. Seriously.
I am so grateful for my (eventual) conversion to pro-life. I sincerely hope this clinic closes and his license is revoked. This is indefensible.
This paperwork is misleading is it not???
Rare. That is rare. This is extremely rare. Rarely.
The bad stuff happens so very rarely. 1 in 1000. Sign your name here.
Trust Women. After you mislead them.
Yes. The relief lasts a couple of days. And the emotional pain and regret lasts a lifetime.
Jewels,
YES!! I am so glad you are now prolife too! Glory to God!
So… a physician performing high-risk surgeries has no admitting privileges at any hospital? ZERO.
Abortion defenders- your docs are looking more and more piggish all the time. Especially this one.
But somehow someone like this is considered a
hero to you? How Amazingly Anti-woman.
Hi Mary Ann,
He also works the “abortion circuit”. I’ve never heard of anything as outrageous as a surgeon working a “circuit”. Carhart comes into town, operates, and leaves. Oh, and who performs any emergency surgery these women will “rarely” have? Why, the surgeon on call at the local hospital, assuming the local hospital has the facilities and surgeons to treat her, who will have no knowledge of this patient or her history, or even what’s wrong with her since the original “surgeon” has skipped town and may be on the other side of the country by now. That’s assuming the ER staff can make a proper diagnosis in time, since they won’t have much in the way of info either, unless the patient or family members can tell them.
Now, that’s what I call pro-woman quality patient care.
I neglected to mention that if the hospital cannot provide the patient with the care she needs, more valuable time will be lost air-evacing or transferring this woman by ambulance to a facility maybe miles away. Oh, and there’s always the possibility of the development of DIC, any OB nurse on this blog can tell you about that nightmare come true. Let’s just put it this way, the last case I saw of it we could only struggle helplessly as the new mother bled to death.
Totally agree Mary and Mary Ann!!
The list of back alley hack abortionists keeps growing doesn’t it??
Gosnell
Pendergraft
Carhart
Hodari
Hern
All butchers who maim and kill for profit.
And all think they are above the law as the media and feminists look the other way. Thank God for this blog!!
May every mill crumble under increased scrutiny!!
So no trolls feel like defending Carhart just yet?
I’ve never visited Planned Parenthood, but clicked on the link at the end of this post just to see. I find it astounding at how subtle they are in their wording about the procedures. There is no clear description of how the baby is killed.
Aspiration:
A tube is inserted through the cervix into the uterus.
Either a hand-held suction device or a suction machine gently empties your uterus.
What is the tube? What does it do? What is being emptied from the uterus??? It does not answer these questions and no one, certainly, wants to discuss them when seeking an abortion.
D&E:
In later second-trimester procedures, you may also need a shot through your abdomen to make sure there is fetal demise before the procedure begins.
Your health care provider will inject a numbing medication into or near your cervix.
Medical instruments and a suction machine gently empty your uterus.
In the section about possible risks, one such is: “incomplete abortion — part of the pregnancy is left inside the uterus.” Part of the pregnancy — don’t they mean part of the baby and/or uterus? They don’t at all mention that D&C could include dismembering the baby.
Another website describes the D&C abortion is more detail: “A curette is a long steel rod with a loop at the tip. This loop has sharp grooves on it, which are used to scrape away the lining of the uterus. The doctor will begin to press the tip of the curette along the surface of your uterus to dislodge the placenta and the sac that contains the baby. The lining of your uterus, the placenta, and the developing human will be removed in pieces and collected in a bowl just under your vagina. … The doctor will then remove the curette and examine the contents of the bowl on a tray to be sure that everything has been removed. If something is missing, he or she may continue with more curettage or may use a tube attached to a suction machine to vacuum the surface of the uterus a few times.”
Any way it’s explained does not change the fact that it is inhuman for a mother to have her baby killed, that there are people motivated by money and will do anything to attempt to paint this is as easy, painless, normal, and good.
What also struck me was in Dr. Carhart’s instruction sheet. They’re trying to make 1 in 100 sound like good odds. Those are not good odds! 1 in 100 contract infections?! 2 in 100 — more accurately, 1 in 50 — experience perforated uterus?! 2 in 1000 — 1 in 500 — abortions don’t work the first time?! So, the baby is bleeding to death, maybe partially dismembered and slowly dying?!? This is only sounding worse and worse, folks!
It is inhuman for a mother to have her baby killed.
And there is hope and healing for mothers after they have aborted.
http://rachelsvineyard.org
As I read the infomration disclosure, I wondered (i) where does this clinic get its statistics – there are absolutely no statistical references reported, (ii) on the basis of what actual facts are the comments made about emotional reactions, and (iii) why anyone going to that clinic would consider a 1-of-100 ratio anything but very risky.
I seriously hope this guy is not only put out of business but criminally prosecuted.
Jill, I’m not sure if your two new links to the instructions are supposed to be different, but they link to the same page.
Kate – thanks, fixed.
May his incompetent patootie rot in jail where he belongs. I do hope he discovers salvation and mercy, but only after he can no longer prey on others.
Carla: don’t forget to add Steven Brigham to your list.
http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/phillipsburg/index.ssf/2011/12/abortion_doctor_with_phillipsb.html
He’s been so bad for so long I knew his name in the early 90s when I was still working in the industry. He is even mentioned in Dr. Bernard Nathanson’s book “The Hand of God” (c) 1996.
LORD, have mercy.
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Thank you Jewels!
I knew there were more back alley hacks than what I listed.
In fact I just read about one who carved his initials on a woman’s stomach! That is how much he “cares.”
May all of their evil be exposed!!
Here is a FB page that you should all check out..The Truth Behind Operation Rescue
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Occupy-Operation-Rescue/603460646338017
Sarah Rose, you really need to look up the word truth in the dictionary. You seem horribly confused on what it means.
Again, no actual defenses of Carhart yet? Are our trolls still waiting for RH Reality Check or whoever to feed them talking points on this particular matter?
Crickets, JDC always crickets.
I am sure it is somehow OUR FAULT. For “harrassing” Carhart outside his mill. For trying to pass basic regulations on his killing facility. For insisting that he should have hospital privileges.
Poor Carhart. Such a victim.
I’m confused by the “defense” pro-aborts have put forth in light of the Jennifer Morbelli tragedy. I’ve heard some say this is why abortions need to be performed at hospitals. (why I wonder. . . maybe b/c they’re not so safe?) Well, pro-lifers have tried to get laws passed that bring clinics standards up. Pro-aborts fight these laws tooth and nail because added costs will affect their profit margin. I specifically remember reading an article where Carhart himself was lamenting one proposed law where among other things, required clinics to have some safety regulations that hospitals do, ie wider hallways (for stretchers in medical emergencies, I presume). Amazingly, now we hear that Carhart doesn’t even want women to go to the hospital!!! Oh I know why. Embarassment. Keep all complications private. Women’s health, my ass.
As a paramedic, we are trained to NEVER “push ANYTHING back in!” His paperwork stated to push hanging strings back in. That could cause infection!