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Troubled Virginia
Abortion Clinic Puts Bleeding Botched Abortion Patient in Hospital
Contact: Troy Newman, President, 316-841-1700; Cheryl Sullenger, Senior Policy Advisor, 316-516-3034, info.operationrescue@gmail.com; both with Operation Rescue/Pro-Life Nation
FAIRFAX, Va., April 19, 2012 /Christian
Newswire/ -- A 35-year old diabetic patient suffering from heavy
bleeding after an abortion at Nova Women's Healthcare was rushed to the
hospital on March 3, 2012, according to recently obtained 911 records.
Pro-life activists were at the scene and videotaped the
ambulance and fire units that responded to the 911 call and later sought the
911 records through an open records act request.
Nova Women's Healthcare has a long history of abortion
injuries and standard of care violations, including the death of a patient
in 2002. Its owner, Mi Yong Kim, continues to operate the abortion clinic
even though she was forced to surrender her medical license in 2007.
In 1998, Kim was disciplined for failing to determine the
gestational age of pregnancy for one of her abortion patients. Board
documents reveal that she assumed one patient's pregnancy was 8 weeks, but
in reality her baby was 26 weeks gestation. The ensuing botched abortion
landed the woman in the hospital with life-threatening injuries.
In 2005, Kim was disciplined after a patient died from an air
embolism during an abortion. Kim improperly sedated her patient, failing to
realize that she had gone into cardiac arrest. Kim did not attempt to
resuscitate her.
In 2007, the Board determined that Kim failed to provide
follow-up care for her patients, kept inadequate records, and improperly
dispensed and handled drugs. Under threat of revocation, Kim voluntary
surrendered her medical license but continued to operate her abortion
clinic.
In 2009, Kim and Nova Women's Healthcare was sued for
conducting an abortion on a woman with an ectopic pregnancy. The patient was
told the abortion was successful and sent home. The ectopic pregnancy later
ruptured and caused a painful, life-threatening emergency for the woman.
"There can be no doubt that Kim's policies and procedures --
for which she was forced to surrender her medical license -- are in place at
Nova and are endangering the lives and health of women every day. She has no
business operating any kind of facility," said Cheryl Sullenger, Senior
Policy Advisor for Operation Rescue and Pro-Life Nation. "We are filing
complaints and urging the medical board and the health department to step in
and close the clinic on an emergency basis in the interest of public
safety."
View Nova Women's Healthcare's profile on AbortionDocs.org
View Mi Yong Kim's profile on AbortionDocs.org
View Mi Yong Kim's profile on AbortionDocs.org
About Operation Rescue®
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Operation Rescue is one of the leading pro-life Christian activist organizations in the nation and has become a strong voice for the pro-life movement in America. Operation Rescue is now headquartered in a former abortion clinic that it bought and closed in 2006. From there, Operation Rescue launches its innovative new strategies across the nation, exposing and closing abortion clinics through peaceful, legal means. Its activities are on the cutting edge of the abortion issue, taking direct action to stop abortion and ultimately restore legal personhood to the pre-born in obedience to biblical mandates. Click here to support Operation Rescue.
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