Sentences with phrase «performed illegal abortions»

Even though her doctors could have been arrested they agreed to perform an illegal abortion to spare her this second trauma.

The film is about a young arrogant OBGYN who is a vegetarian and gets involved with the Russian mafia by performing illegal abortions for their prostitutes.

Imelda Staunton earned a Best Actress Oscar nomination for playing a working - class London woman who spends her evening performing illegal abortions.

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Despite its illegality, Brazil's Ministry of Health estimates that about 1 million abortions are performed in the country annually, and that about 200,000 women are hospitalized every year from infections, vaginal bleeding, and other complications from illegal abortions.

Gosnell allegedly «snipped» the spinal cords of seven newborns after performing illegal late - term abortions.

Some of these centers (fewer than half) offer abortion services, but none actually uses federal funds to perform abortions, since using those funds for that purpose is already illegal.

Ohio Gov. John Kasich has signed a new law that makes it illegal for doctors in the state to perform abortions based on a diagnosis of Down syndrome.

One of the interesting findings was also the lack of correlation between abortion being illegal and the number of actual abortions performed.

A great many people are trying to ban forms of womens» healthcare, and perhaps you are too young to remember, but when it was illegal before, large numbers of women turned to «back alley» abortions, often performed in unsanitary conditions by untrained people.

If a fetal heartbeat is detected, the abortion would be illegal and a doctor performing one would be guilty of a felony.

She then tried to obtain an illegal abortion, but couldn't find anyone to perform it for her.

Called «Horrible Disclosures at Philadelphia,» the article told of a man who'd performed abortions, which were illegal and thus done in dangerous circumstances, who'd been arrested when his wife charged him with brutal assault.

Trump said during the presidential campaign that if abortion were made illegal, women who got the procedure should be punished for doing so — then he backtracked almost immediately and said only the doctor or any other person performing the illegal procedure should be punished.

When performed in a hospital, surgical abortion is one of the safest medical procedures; when performed in an illegal environment, however, it's incredibly dangerous.