70 Year Magazine Archive

Clinical Psychosis

by Susan E. Wills

Unsafe abortions are not a thing of the past.

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THERE was a time when you could count on reporters not to care much what happened behind the doors of abortion clinics. But times are changing for America’s abortionists. One slipup—you misjudge an unborn baby’s age by three months, you lose a patient or two to a perforated uterus, you defraud a few insurance companies—and bam! The local papers are at your doorstep, exposing the ugly side of the American abortion industry.

Case in point: John Biskind of the A—Z Women’s Center in Phoenix. On June 30, 1998, while attempting to do a partial-birth abortion on a baby whose age he estimated at 23.6 weeks, Dr. Biskind discovered the little girl to be nearly full term, weighing a hefty 6 pounds, 2 ounces. He delivered her intact, but not before he had fractured her skull and deeply lacerated her face in two places.

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