Date:
Monday, December 22, 2014
by Cheryl Sullenger | LifeNews.com | 12/22/14 11:15 AM
Prolife activists caught an ambulance on video as it rushed a patient to the hospital from Southwestern
Women’s Options, an abortion facility known to specialize in very lateterm abortions. The incident took
place on Friday, December 19, 2014.
This represents the seventeenth documented botched abortion at that facility since 2008.
The video clearly shows a patient on a gurney
as she was loaded into an awaiting ambulance
and whisked away to a nearby hospital.
“While abortion is never safe for mother or
child, those who champion abortion in New
Mexico cannot claim to care about women
seeking abortions when these injuries continue
to pile up without consequence,” stated Bud
Shaver, Executive Director of Protest ABQ.
Tara Shaver, also of Protest ABQ, verified that
the abortionist on duty was Shelley Sella, who
was featured in the film “After Tiller,” which explored controversial lateterm abortions done by Sella and
others throughout all nine months of pregnancy.
Sella, who flies in from her home in California to conduct abortions in Albuquerque, faced license
revocation in 2012 for botching an abortion done at 35 weeks on a woman with a history of having a
previous Cesarean section. The woman’s uterus ruptured during labor and she nearly died. The incident
was discovered by Tara Shaver, who had obtained 911 records that dramatically documented the event.
Both Shaver and Operation Rescue filed complaints against Sella with the New Mexico Medical Board.
However, after a disciplinary hearing in which the Board’s attorney recommended sanctions against Sella,
the New Mexico Medical Board inexplicably cleared her of all wrongdoing in 2013, leaving Sella to
continue her pattern of seriously injuring women.
In addition, New Mexico has enacted no minimum safety standards for abortions and continues to allow
abortion clinics to operate without inspection or any other accountability despite the large number of
documented abortion injuries.
“New Mexico continues to be the Wild West for an outofcontrol abortion cartel that is allowed to run amok
by a state government that refuses to hold it accountable to even the most rudimentary safety standards
that could spare women from needless injury,” said Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue. “Until
that changes, we will continue to see women hurt and perhaps killed by abortionists that admit they do not
use practices that meet the minimum standard of care. Women everywhere should be outraged that
women’s lives and health are regarded with less consideration that what New Mexico‘s pets receive.”
Operation Rescue continues to urge the New Mexico Medical Board to take action to protect women and
shut down Southwestern Women’s Options permanently.