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Call Reveals Medicaid Paying $16,000 to Abort 30-Week Down Syndrome Baby

Written by Operation Rescue

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Albuquerque, New Mexico – As Down Syndrome Awareness month concludes, Operation Rescue has released a video containing excerpts from an undercover call to a late-term abortion clinic that assured the caller that Medicaid would pay the total costs of an abortion at 30 weeks gestation on a pre-born baby diagnosed with Down Syndrome. Estimated cost of the abortion was between $10,000 and $16,000.

“We know that 92 percent of all women who receive a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome end up aborting their babies. Now we know that it is done at great expense to the taxpayer, who foots the bill for outrageously expensive abortions,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman.

“These precious babies do not deserve to die and certainly the taxpayers should not be paying to kill them. The fact that our tax money goes to exterminate innocent children with disabilities is abhorrent to most Americans. Cutting off the tax funding will go a long way toward ending this barbaric and intolerant practice.”

The call was placed on October 12, 2011, to Southwestern Women’s Options, a late-term abortion clinic in Albuquerque, New Mexico, that made headlines when a similar undercover call revealed that late-term abortions are being done at tax-payer expense on healthy women with healthy pregnancies. Operation Rescue and Project Defending Life documented 15 states where Medicaid funds pay for abortions.

Southwestern Women’s Options also recently attracted attention for the excessive number of abortion complications there requiring emergency hospitalization. Operation Rescue published the 911 calls showing women suffering from various life-threatening abortion-related injuries and complications. The clinic’s abortionists, Curtis Boyd, Shelley Sella, and Susan Robinson, are currently under investigation by the New Mexico Medical Board based on complaints filed by Operation Rescue and Project Defending Life.

Please call your Senator and demand an and to ALL tax-funded abortions.

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Undercover Calls Reveal Medicaid Pays $9,000 For Late Term Abortions with Our Tax Dollars

Written by Operation Rescue

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Albuquerque, New Mexico – As debate over tax-funding of abortions in Obamacare is scheduled in Washington, D.C. for Thursday, an investigation conducted by Operation Rescue and Project Defending Life shows millions of tax dollars are already paying for abortions each year. Operation Rescue has released a short video containing excerpts from an undercover recording showing that Medicaid pays not only for abortions, but completely covers third-trimester abortions for no medical reason whatsoever.

The caller identified herself as having a healthy pregnancy in the 26th week of gestation to a Southwestern Women’s Options employee named Sue. She told Sue that the reason she wanted an abortion was because her husband had just lost his job.

“It’s shocking that our tax dollars would pay $9,000 for a third-trimester abortion simply because of a lost job. The vast majority of the American people strongly object to their tax money being used in this way,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman.

Operation Rescue has identified 15 states where Medicaid funds pay for abortions. Those states are Alaska, California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Vermont, Washington, and West Virginia.

The undercover caller phoned abortion clinics in 12 of those states and in every case was told that Medicaid would pay for abortions.

Medicaid is a joint government program that is funded completely by tax dollars. Up to fifty percent of the money comes from state taxes and the rest comes from the Federal tax coffers, depending on the state’s poverty level.

Federal Medicaid funds are not supposed to cover abortions, but do so in the cases of rape, incest, and the life of the mother, exceptions that have been exploited in the past to include more abortions. But it is State money that generally funds abortions to the tune of millions of dollars annually.

For example, California’s Medicaid program, known as Medi-Cal, paid out over $23.6 million to cover abortions in 2007 alone.

Abortion clinics are well aware of Medicaid funding and jump at the chance to use it. One abortion fund website coaches women how to obtain free abortions through Medicaid and the number one way is to go through the abortion clinic for assistance.

“If we are serious about stopping tax-funded abortions, then we need end it in every government program at the State and Federal levels,” said Newman. “We encourage everyone to contact their U.S. Congressman this week and demand a complete end to publicly funded abortions.”

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Full, unedited recording to SWO. (18 min. 23. Sec.)
Written Transcript
Calls from Alaska, California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, New York, Oregon, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia.

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Botched Abortion Crisis Deepens As New 911 Call Reveals Continuing Dangers at Albuquerque Clinics

Written by Operation Rescue

Listen and watch video here: 11th 911 Abortion Emergency Call from SWO
 
Albuquerque, NM – Another woman has suffered complications from a botched abortion at Southwestern Women’s Options, a late-term abortion mill in Albuquerque, New Mexico, owned and operated by Curtis Boyd.

The latest 911 call obtained by Tara Shaver of Project Defending Life and released to Operation Rescue shows a 31-year old woman who is suffering uncontrolled bleeding after an abortion. The abortion clinic worker who placed the call requested that the patient be transported to the hospital.

This is the eleventh such abortion-related medical emergency at Southwestern Women’s Options in less than two years, and the fourteenth reported abortion emergency overall in Albuquerque in that same time frame.

Both Project Defending Life and Operation Rescue filed complaints about the recent flood of botched abortions with the New Mexico Medical Board (NMMB), but received mixed signals about whether an investigation would be conducted.

Since then, the Attorney General’s office has contacted NMMB’s Executive Director Lynn Hart, regarding the incidents, requesting her “assistance in handling this matter”.

In addition, members of Project Defending Life met with Gov. Susana Martinez to discuss the dangerous conditions that have spawned so many life-threatening abortion complications.

“Our concern is for the safety of women in New Mexico. We were encouraged to hear that Governor Martinez shares these same concerns. In fact, we were thoroughly impressed that the Governor’s office not only knew about the 911 calls, but had already contacted the Executive Director of the Medical Board to insure the investigation was progressing. We now have confidence that the New Mexico Medical Board is conducting a proper investigation,” said Fr. Stephen Imbarrato of Project Defending Life after the meeting.

“This latest abortion emergency further instills a new sense of urgency to the Medical Board’s ongoing investigation,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. “It is obvious that Albuquerque abortion clinics are ill-equipped to handle complications that occur on a regular basis and are using paramedics as a back-up plan for when things go terribly wrong. This presents an unacceptable risk to public health. If Boyd and other abortionists insist on running unsafe abortion mills with high complication rates and a dangerous lack of access to emergency resources, then they should not be allowed to operate at all.”

• Read written transcript of 911 call
• Read CAD transcript
• Background

October Newsletter: "Meeting with the Governor & Two More Babies Born!"

Encouraging Meeting with Governor Susana Martinez

This month Bud and I along with Fr. Stephen Imbarrato, Director of Project Defending Life, met with Governor Susana Martinez to discuss the urgent abortion crisis in New Mexico. Last month’s newsletter mentioned how we obtained thirteen 911 calls, ten of which, came from the notorious late-term abortion clinic Southwestern Women's Options. These ten calls were placed over a 30 month time span and reveal a troubling pattern of life threatening abortion complications. The reality is that on average every 10 weeks a woman is being rushed to the hospital as a result of serious injuries inflicted by local abortionists.

The other three 911 calls were placed from the University of New Mexico's very own abortion clinic, the UNM Center for Reproductive Health. The University of New Mexico as well as UNM Hospital are publicly funded institutions receiving funds directly from New Mexico tax payers. Another troubling issue is that the University of New Mexico is also training resident students to do abortions at the UNM Center for Reproductive Health abortion facility. The meeting with Governor Martinez addressed concerns raised by the 911 calls and also mixed messages that came from the New Mexico Medical Board.

Our concern is for the safety of women in New Mexico. We were encouraged to hear that Governor Martinez shares these same concerns. In fact, we were thoroughly impressed that the Governor's office not only knew about the 911 calls, but had already contacted the Executive Director of the Medical Board to insure the investigation was progressing. We now have confidence that the New Mexico Medical Board is conducting a proper investigation. We were very thankful for the open line of communication with the Governor's office. We feel confident that the Governor's office will stay on top of pro-life life issues. Also present at the meeting were Senator Bill Sharer and Representative Dennis J. Roch.

Two More Babies Born

In September two more precious children were born as a result of God’s power and presence at work in our lives. In the photo Tara is with baby Natalie who was born on the 28th. Tara met her mom outside of Boyd’s late term clinic. She had an appointment with heart doctors at the University of New Mexico Hospital and had gotten lost. Thankfully a friend of ours who also prays at the clinics with us took her to UNMH and stayed with her for her appointment. This mom who has health concerns was told right from the start that an abortion would likely be necessary to preserve her life. However, with love and encouragement as well as monetary help she carried her healthy baby girl to term. Please continue to pray for this mom and her baby.

The second baby born was to a woman who experienced a dramatic turn around outside of Boyd’s late term clinic. You may remember several month’s ago the article done by the NM Breeze titled, “Miracle Outside of a Late-Term Abortion Clinic.” Our presence is so vital out at abortion clinics! We must speak up compassionately and graciously offer the help necessary to save these precious lives. Because we are working with Project Defending Life, we were able to provide housing and other material necessities to this mom. She also attended many of our parenting classes and grew from her experiences at Project Defending Life. These precious lives are a testimony to the power of prayer and a public witness. Without these two crucial elements these babies may not be alive today. Thank you for helping us to save lives in Jesus’ name!

Exposing the “Landlord” of Late-Term Mill...Sandia Foundation

We also released documentation this month which shows that the Sandia Foundation acts as landlord for late-term abortion clinic, Southwestern Women’s Options; owned and operated by Curtis Boyd and his wife, Glenna Halvorson Boyd. The Sandia Foundation is a respected non-profit foundation based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with roots in the Catholic Church. They give money to Catholic Charities and various parishes in New Mexico. Also, Sandia board member Bernard “Gig” Brummell serves on the Archdiocese of Santa Fe Finance Council.

This documentation puts the Sandia Foundation squarely in the abortion business. They profit from the lease and therefore are enablers and collaborators in Boyd’s grisly late-term abortion business. Bernalillo County records show that Sandia owns the land at 522 Lomas Boulevard, Northeast, in Albuquerque, and continues to pay taxes on that property and some improvements. Curtis Boyd only pays property taxes for personal property located at that address. The document we released is an “Assignment and Assumption of Lease” signed by the Boyd’s and Sandia President and Chief Executive Officer Robert M. Goodman, who acts as “Landlord” for the Boyd’s abortion business.

Sandia Foundation was founded “to aid and assist educational, scientific, benevolent, religious and charitable institutions”, not to profit from the shedding of innocent blood though abortion. We urge Sandia Foundation to get out of the abortion business and return to the noble purpose that group was founded upon. We encourage those who have concerns about the Sandia Foundation’s involvement in profiting from dangerous, late-term abortions to contact them at gail@sandiafoundation.org, or call them at 505-242-2684. To read the documents released, go to: www.operationrescue.org/pdfs/sandia-boydleasedoc.pdf

God Continues to Provide Opportunities!

This month the Albuquerque Journal newspaper covered the 911 calls and the investigation by the New Mexico Medical Board. Tara was also able to do several interviews with local radio stations. This month we held a seminar at Grace Outreach Center, Tara was a keynote speaker for the kickoff rally for 40 Days For Life, and Bud did a presentation for a local Catholic lay organization. God continues to provide opportunities for us to share how He is “moving mountains” here in Albuquerque, NM and opportunities for people to get involved.