This abortion clinic operates out of the Surgical Day Care Centre of Vancouver General Hospital.
Issues
VGH ASKS FOR 'BUBBLE ZONE'
Vancouver General Hospital and medical staff, fed up after years of protests and vigils pointing out VGH's record, had enough and formally requested the provincial government to impose a "bubble zone" banning all protests of abortion. The "urgent" request was made in April of 1998 and not acted upon until October of the same year. It should be noted that in July of 1999, the BC Civil Liberties voted not to support the bubble zone at VGH.INFANT SURVIVOR OF ABORTION
The case of Ximena Renaerts, a beautiful young lady that made the mistake of being born at Vancouver General Hospital. Court documents confirm that her mother tried to have her aborted at a Washington State abortion clinic. The abortion was botched and the mother was still pregnant. She showed up at VGH and delivered Ximena. Nursing staff left Ximena to die - but she had other plans which included a strong desire to live. The case has been settled out of court and Vancouver Police have refused to investigate the blatant violations of the Canadian Criminal Code involved in her attempted abandonment.In an interesting ruling of the BC Supreme Court released publicly in July 1999 but written on December 4, 1998, the HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE WILLIAMSON writes about VGH:
[35] This flurry of lengthy applications in the days immediately before the trial date indicates a determination on the part of the defendants to avoid or delay the trial.
The result? A 8.5 million dollar settlement against Vancouver General Hospital...being billed as the largest in Canadian history.
OTHER INFANT SURVIVORS OF ABORTION AT VGH?
Various B.C. news reports document the cases of babies been born alive after their abortion procedure - they usually don't live very long - but the reports often document the lack of care and concern - shown by both Doctors and Nurses - to these innocent children. Putting it simply, they are a threat to the lie that abortion merely removes a "blob of tissue".
The Vancouver Sun ("Cocke to investigate late abortions: Secret report details live birth" May 11, 1974) documents a child that was born alive at Vancouver General and lived 24 hours. The baby girl weighed "nearly 2 1/2 pounds" - and was aborted by saline infusion. B.C.'s Health Minister Dennis Cocke promised an investigation into the incident. Reason given for the abortion was that the mother was distraught and 43 years of age. The baby was listed as 20 weeks and 5 days old. One gynecologist not associated with VGH said that by the weight of the child, it was comparable to a "six or seven month old fetus".
Another Vancouver Sun article dated May 30, 1986 ("Aid urged for abortion survivors") documents the comments of nurse Kathryn Larouche, who spent a year working in the VGH ward where abortions were performed. She stated she saw "three infants die" after being delivered alive. She stated: "we were supposed to turn the other way," Larouche said of the live-birth incidents. "We weren't supposed to do anything. There were a couple of people...I don't want to say who. They told us, 'Don't do anything. Leave it alone. It will die.'"
When Larouche resigned from VGH, 5 other nurses resigned with her.
ABORTION-RELATED DEATHS AT VGH
News reports in 1974 confirm an abortion death in 1973 that occurred at Vancouver General Hospital. The then Medical Director of VGH, Dr. Lawrence Ranta stated in a Vancouver Sun article (November 19, 1974) that a woman had died the previous year after a saline abortion. (This a procedure where the mother is injected with a saline solution which burns off the unborn baby's skin, thus killing the child. The baby is usually delivered dead, but in some cases the child survives.)1998 saw another abortion death occur at Vancouver General Hospital. On April 22, 1998 a 44-year-old woman died of a pulmonary embolism after her "safe, legal" abortion. Sources tell us that at the time of the death "all hell broke loose". Usually such an event would be a news story, but the death was hushed up until 1999.