During that Perth Amboy Planned Parenthood visit on January 11 Live Action filmed, the (now former) clinic worker recommends Metropolitan Medical Associates as a good place for abortions for Asian girls in the country illegally engaged in sex work. LifeNews captures a snapshot of this women’s health haven:
in December 2009, Metropolitan Medical Associates, based in Englewood, New Jersey, settled a $1.9 million lawsuit out of court filed by a woman who was comatose for one month following a botched abortion she received there.
Newark resident Rasheedah Dinkins had an abortion in January 2007 at the Metropolitan Medical Associates abortion business that went horribly wrong.
Dinkins, who was 22 at the time of the settlement, became severely ill following the abortion and was transferred to Newark Beth Israel Medical Center where she needed blood transfusions and had her uterus removed. She also suffered a stroke due to the serious blood loss and had one of her lungs collapse.
“I was laying in my bed and I got the cold shakes,” Dinkins told AP in March 2007 about her ordeal. “My body kept going numb. After that, I don’t remember anything.”
“I think it’s horrible what I had to go through,” she said at the time.
Dinkins said her mother and hospital officials told her she died en route to the medical facility from the abortion center but medical personnel were able to revive her. She told AP she regards her decision to have an abortion as a bad one, saying “I probably wouldn’t have made this choice.”
Adam Slater, Dinkins’ attorney, filed a lawsuit against Metropolitan Medical Associates on her behalf and said he hoped it would help to “get to the bottom of why this incredibly horrible result could have happened.”
He told The Record newspaper at the time that the high number of abortions MMA does was a factor.
“We learned from the case that their volume of procedures was one factor that led to this problem,” he said. “When you do too many procedures, you start to lose sight of the fact that these are all separate patients and separate procedures.”
Yesterday New Jersey Right to Life president Marie Tasy called for an investigation of this clinic too. That video should be setting off more than one alarm bell.