Medical Board Dismisses Case of Botched 35-Week Abortion
The New Mexico Medical Board has dismissed a case against an abortion
practitioner who faced a disciplinary hearing held in November, 2012 on
four acts of gross negligence during a 35-week abortion on a woman with
a history of previous Cesarean Section that resulted in a ruptured
uterus.
Local pro-lie advocates and Operation Rescue had filed the original
complaints with the NMMB after receiving a 911 recording of a medical
emergency that took place at Southwestern Women’s Options, a late-term
abortion clinic in Albuquerque, on May 12, 2012.
The records also show
that it is the position of Sella and her attorney, Joseph Goldberg,
that the complaints should not have been considered by the Board due to
the fact that pro-life activists filed them.
After hearing two days of testimony from Sella and two expert witnesses
before Hearing Officer David K. Thompson, Administrative Prosecutor
Daniel Rubin recommended that Sella be disciplined for “gross
negligence” for breaching the standard of care during her treatment of a
patient referred to as “ML”. “The Respondent [Sella] was well aware of
the risks of uterine rupture associated with her treatment of M.L., but
willfully ignored such risks,” wrote Rubin in his Closing Arguments and
Proposed Finding of Fact, dated January 4, 2013.
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