On April 17, 1998, Lou Ann Herron, a 33 year old mother of two, lay on a gurney in a Pheonix, Arizona abortion clinic soaked with her own blood, crying out, Help Me! What's wrong with me? My legs are numb! The abortionist told her there was nothing wrong with her and that the bleeding had stopped, even as the blood continued to stream down her legs to her toes. The bleeding resulted from a torn uterus incurred during the forty five abortion procedure which had just been completed. A clinic staffer reported that the doctor had trouble crushing the skull and with pulling out the twenty-seven week baby. Following this difficulty, the patient began bleeding heavily. This is the time of the baby’s death, and of the mother’s being lethally wounded. The bleeding continued until the mother died about three hours later. During this time while the patient lay bleeding to death, the doctor, on more than one occasion, refused to interrupt his activities, leaving her care to untrained medical assistants, and after leaving the clinic when contacted by telephone told them he would not return and call 911. As the patient’s condition deteriorated throughout the afternoon, the clinic administrator refused to call an ambulance from the hospital across the street. When help was finally sought, it was to late. An emergency room physician estimated that Lou Herron had been dead ten to fifteen minutes before the paramedics arrived. The trial resulted in guilty of manslaughter and negligent homicide against Dr. John Biskind.
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