In medical practice, there are few surgical procedures given so little attention and so underrated in its potential hazards as abortion. It is a commonly held view that complications are inevitable. Abortions are the most commonly-performed surgical procedure in the country, and are therefore the safest. In fact, they are much safer than childbirth and definitely safer than minor operations like appendectomies and tonsillectomies. What these groups do not mention is that their 'fact sheets' include only very conservative estimates of those abortion complications that occur during or immediately after the procedure itself.
Many women rightly expect some pain during and after the abortion.
And many of these women check into hospital emergency rooms a day or a week later with serious bleeding, infections, and butchered internal organs. In 1972 I began seeing a marked increase in the number of patients who had had legal abortions. At that time I also began seeing patients with significant complications after legal abortions. Add to this the fact that many 'doctors' never see their 'patients' until they are on the table, and then rush them through their abortions and out the door the minute they can stand by themselves, and a recipe for disaster exists on a wide scale. Finally, it is well-known among medical personnel that abortionists in general permanently reside at the bottom rung of the medical profession.