New Lawsuit Alleges Horrific Treatment of Woman Who Barely Survived Her Tuscaloosa Abortion

THIS SATURDAY, JANUARY 8TH AT 10:00 AM – Citizens and National Pro-Life Organizations Call on the ADPH to Shut Down Tuscaloosa Abortion Clinic Immediately.

On Saturday, January 8th at 10:00 AM, the Alabama-based organization CEC For Life, along with other national pro-life groups Life Legal Defense Foundation and Operation Rescue, will hold a press conference in front of Tuscaloosa’s West Alabama Women’s Center, located at 535 Jack Warner Parkway. The same abortion clinic recently sued for letting a patient nearly bleed to death after a botched abortion.

Last month, under the pseudonym of Jane Stone, a woman filed suit against WAWC for an abortion that took place on December 28, 2020.

The lawsuit alleges that Dr. Tamer Middleton’s medical mistakes resulted in a lacerated cervix, perforated uterus, and other life-threatening injuries that caused Stone to hemorrhage internally. In the hours that followed, Stone alleges she was left to bleed in a recovery chair, despite loss of consciousness and pleas to call an ambulance. According to the complaint, an ambulance was only called when staff could no longer detect Stone’s pulse. Once at the ER, an emergency hysterectomy was the only way to save her.

Abortionist Tamer Middleton, who is being sued by “Jane Stone” for causing her life-threatening injuries during a terribly botched abortion at the West Alabama Women’s Center last year.

These harrowing events took place just seven months after another patient, April Lowery, died of similar injuries from a botched abortion.  At that time, pro-life citizens repeatedly implored the Alabama Department of Public Health to investigate the death and revoke the clinic’s license, especially as it had just come under a new owner with no prior experience running a medical clinic.

ADPH largely ignored these requests, taking little to no action. And, though the Alabama Board of Medical Examiners did launch an investigation into the abortionist Louis Payne — who suddenly surrendered his license thereafter — the clinic itself escaped any blame or consequences.

Now, a second woman has sustained similar injuries, despite hiring a different abortionist, which should raise concerns regarding how the clinic itself operates. In fact, just a few months before Jane Stone’s injuries, the newly hired medical director was suspended by the Board due to fraud and unprofessional conduct. At the time of Stone’s abortion, the director’s medical license was invalid.

Fr. Terry Gensemer of CEC For Life states, “Once again, our coalition has helped organize complaints with ADPH and the Board of Medical Examiners and are awaiting their responses. We wonder how many women WAWC has to maim or kill before ADPH acknowledges the danger to Alabama citizens. ADPH has the ability, the authority and obligation to hold this clinic accountable for its detrimental actions — today.”

Cheryl Sullenger of Operation Rescue adds, ”The WAWC staff has displayed a shocking disregard for the law and for the lives of women.  Their willingness to lie to regulators and engage in conduct that has killed and maimed women should be ample reason to shut this dangerous abortion facility down.”

“It is absolutely deplorable that the ADPH has turned a blind eye to the illegal business practices of the West Alabama Women’s Center,” states Allison K. Aranda, Sr. Staff Counsel for the Life Legal Defense Foundation.  “The ADPH must shut down the WAWC now!”

Contact: Fr. Terry Gensemer, Charismatic Episcopal Church for Life, 205.253.0159

Alabama Abortion Biz is Sued for Botched Late-Term Abortion Like One that Killed a Woman There Last Year

(Operation Rescue) An Alabama woman has filed a medical malpractice suit against the West Alabama Women’s Center (WAWC) abortion facility in Tuscaloosa and one of its abortionists, Tamer Middleton, after she endured a near-fatal botched second trimester abortion last December. 

Her complaint detailed her injuries that bear similarities to those that resulted in the death of WAWC patient April Lowery in May 2020.

The plaintiff filed her suit on November 11, 2021, under the pseudonym Jane Stone.  Her true name is sealed under a protective order.

Jane Stone was lucky to survive her ordeal, which included being misled about the abortion process and its potential complications, forced dilation of an inadequately prepared cervix that resulted in cervical lacerations and perforation, uterine perforation, sliced broad uterine ligament and arteries, massive internal hemorrhaging, and a refusal of WAWC staff to heed her pleas for an ambulance to transport her to the hospital until she lost consciousness.

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BREAKING NEWS: Woman Sues Tuscaloosa Abortion Clinic Over Allegedly Botched Abortion

Tuscaloosa Thread (12/06/21)

A woman from Shelby County has filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against the West Alabama Women’s Center (WAWC) in Tuscaloosa over an abortion that allegedly almost killed her and left her unable to become pregnant again last December. The five-count lawsuit was filed last month, on November 11th, in the circuit court of Tuscaloosa County. Judge Daniel F. Pruet, who was elected to his seat on the bench in 2020, will preside over the case.

“Predisposed to Suffer”

The suit centers on the plight of a Shelby County woman identified under the pseudonym “Jane Stone,” who reportedly first visited the WAWC on December 22, 2020, for a pre-admission evaluation for an abortion. “Jane Stone informed [a nurse] that she decided to have an abortion after prenatal genealogical testing revealed that her child was predisposed to suffer from lifelong health disorders, including Downs [sic] Syndrome,” according to the lawsuit. Stone also allegedly asked about the risks specific to the pregnancy termination procedure recommended to her, which is called Dilation & Evacuation. She was told that hemorrhaging was the primary complication that arose after the procedure, and a nurse allegedly explained that “a patient had died following a procedure performed at the clinic, but … the patient’s death was the result of drug use and not related to the procedure or complications of the procedure.” Stone underwent an ultrasound and scheduled her abortion for December 28th, 2020. Tamer Yvette Middleton, a Georgia physician who practices at the West Alabama Women’s Center, was set to perform the procedure.

The Process

(Editor’s note: the paragraphs below will describe an abortion procedure in detail and also outline how Jane Stone’s reportedly went wrong. Reader discretion is advised.) After setting the stage with this background information, the lawsuit explains the process of a Dilation and Evacuation procedure. According to the complaint, a D&E is the “preferred method” for performing late first-trimester and second-trimester abortions. Essentially, instruments are passed through the cervix and into the uterus, where the fetus is then vacuumed out of the body. The procedure requires advance preparation, called cervical priming, to allow the medical instruments to pass safely into the uterus. According to the lawsuit, this priming is usually done through medications such as Cytotec, which softens, thins and opens the cervix before the procedure. “In order to properly dilate the cervix pre-operatively, the woman must receive the agent at least three hours prior to her procedure,” the complaint read.

The Day of the Procedure

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Abortionist Leah Torres made ‘deceptive’ and ‘untruthful’ claims, says Alabama medical board

abortionist Leah Torres Alabama
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(Live Action) Abortionist Dr. Leah Torres — who previously made headlines for profoundly tone-deaf and grotesque pro-abortion statements such as “God performs way more abortions than I do” and for calling “not being pregnant anymore” a “medical indication” for abortion — once again has an active medical license in the state of Alabama. Yet interestingly, Torres’ account of the restoration of her current license does not match the account of the General Counsel of the Alabama State Board of Medical Examiners (ASBME).

Last year, Torres’ temporary license to practice medicine in Alabama was revoked for alleged fraud on her application three weeks after she started working in the state. Over $115,000 in legal fees and an ethics class later, according to a GoFundMe set up to cover her court costs, Torres was granted a medical license in March 2021 and has been committing abortions at the same unsanitary Alabama abortion facility that was found responsible for killing 29-year-old April Lowery due to botched abortion in May 2020.

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So Do Something About It

Are you speechless that West Alabama Women’s Center is still open? 

Now is your chance to do something about it!

We are asking every concerned citizen to CALL the Alabama Department of Public Health (both of the contacts below) as soon as possible. You don’t have to be an Alabama citizen to call.

They are aware that a woman died after leaving West Alabama Women’s Center. We just need YOU to let them know of your concern by respectfully & briefly reminding them that based on the facts, West Alabama Women’s Center poses a clear danger to patients and should be shut down immediately.
 
ADPH/Division of Health Care Facilities
, Ms. Tonya Blankenship – 334-206-7039
(leave a message)

and

ADPH State Health Officer, Scott Harris, MD – 334-206-5200
(ask to leave a message for Dr. Harris)

BREAKING NEWS: Autopsy Report Reveals Alabama Woman Died of Perforated Uterus During Abortion at West Alabama Women’s Center in Tuscaloosa

Operation Rescue has uncovered that a woman who died after leaving the West Alabama Women’s Center (WAWC) abortion facility in Tuscaloosa, Alabama on May 7, 2020, has been identified through her autopsy report as 29-year-old April Lowery.

The report was obtained by the CEC for Life on behalf of a coalition of national and local pro-life groups that also includes Operation Rescue, Life Legal Defense Foundation, and Pro-Life Tuscaloosa.

Lowery was seen on May 7, 2020, leaving the WAWC by pro-life activists, who described her as “sick and pale.”  She had to be physically supported as she struggled to walk from the clinic to an awaiting private vehicle, which then reportedly transported her to what is believed to have been UAB Hospital in Birmingham, where she was later pronounced dead.

One local pro-life activist had been wrongly told by at least one WAWC employee that Lowery had died from a drug overdose and that she had not even wanted an abortion. 

Now, the coalition of pro-life groups has now learned her true cause of death, which has led to questions about whether she was coerced or forced into having the surgical abortion.

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