By Cheryl Sullenger
Portland, Oregon – As smoke billowed from an accidental gas explosion a few blocks away, an ambulance arrived at a late-term abortion facility in Portland, Oregon, to transport a patient to a hospital emergency room. The incident took place on October 19, 2016.
The misnamed Lovejoy Surgicenter conducts abortions “through 23 weeks or occasionally longer on a case-by-case basis,” according to its website. This makes the Lovejoy Surgicenter one of 40 abortion facilities in America that openly do abortions at 24 weeks or later. Late-term abortions pose significantly higher risks to women than the first trimester variety.
The gas explosion took out power to the Lovejoy Surgicenter abortion facility and surrounding area. During the outage, pro-life activists snapped photos as emergency responders loaded a young patient, who appeared to be 15 or 16 years old, into the ambulance. Whether or not she was a late-term abortion patient is unknown at this time.
“It’s possible the woman may have been in the middle of an abortion when the power went out and caused complications, but we don’t know for sure,” said Nancy Witt of 40 Days for Life in Portland.
“It appears that Lovejoy had no emergency back-up power source. This is a dangerous safety deficit that has the potential to place women in life-threatening conditions,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. “It is obvious that Lovejoy – like the vast majority of abortion facilities in America – lacks the ability to properly treat a vulnerable patient in the event of medical emergencies that routinely plague the abortion industry. They would rather take a chance with a patient’s life than have proper safety equipment and protocols in place.”
But aside from the dangers of unprepared abortion clinics conducting surgeries without power back-ups, witnesses at the scene were troubled by another disturbing development.
Witnesses told Operation Rescue that the teenager had been brought to the abortion center by a suspicious-looking older African-American man, raising concerns that the girl may have been the victim of sex trafficking.
Abortion facilities are required to report suspected child sex abuse to the authorities, but often, abortion businesses across the nation have shown the propensity to ignore such reporting laws in favor of protecting the abuser.
In 2012, a former employee at Lovejoy filed suit alleging that Lovejoy’s female nurse molested patients while they were under anesthesia and sexually harassed other female employees. The nurse was fired only after the abuse became public.
ShemSilber
May the time be soon when we see with our own eyes that these children murdered before they had a chance to be born have passed into the care and custody of the Master Yahushua (Lord Jesus), and those who have refused to repent of this genocide against unborn babies see those children IN the eternal Kingdom that will replace these Dark Ages (Revelation 11:15) and themselves cast out, on their way to become ashes in the second death, from which there is no resurrection. They also could have been saved from the second death and for everlasting life, but they turned it down.
Blessed are those who have turned away from abortion to the Master Yahushua, so that they will live in everlasting peace on earth and productivity in service to our Father in the heavens.
harold
ALL abortionist’s are bloody handed murderers bar none. They WILL face their crimes!
Royce Beasley
I pray as we go forward that, God will soon and very soon help us shut down theses murders.
Deborah G
What did NAzi Germany have that we don’t have here with this kill facilities?