WINNIPEG (UPC) -- A woman testified yesterday she began hemorrhaging and needed emergency treatment at a hospital shortly after having an abortion at Dr. Henry Morgentaler's Winnipeg clinic.

The woman was one of 10 witnesses called by Crown attorney Wayne Myshkowsky on the second day of a preliminary hearing into abortion-related charges against Morgentaler and eight of his clinic staff.

Morgentaler and his staff each face one count of conspiring to unlawfully procure a miscarriage. Judge Kris Stefanson imposed a publication ban on any details of the hearing that might identify the woman.

The woman, who said she was separated, testified she paid $300 for the abortion at the Morgentaler clinic in May. She said she later spent three days in a Winnipeg hospital being treated for complications resulting from the abortion.

"I had gone away for the weekend (after the abortion) and when I arrived back I was admitted to hospital...I was hemorrhaging," the woman testified. She said doctors at the hospital performed an "emergency D&C -- a dilation and curettage -- in which the entrance to the womb is enlarged and its contents removed.

The Crown introduced the clinic's suction curettage machine and some 50 photographs of the clinic as exhibits yesterday. Crown prosecutors have called 19 witnesses and indicated to reporters they had only one more to call today.

Dr. Peter Markestyn, Manitoba's chief medical officer, testified he had found "products of conception" in samples of the clinic's garbage, and blood and mucus on a gauze sponge.

Sgt. William Vandergraaf, who headed the police investigation in the case, told the court that patients apprehended during the two police raids were told they would not be charged. Under the Criminal Code, women who undergo illegal abortions can be charged.

Three other women also testified about their abortions at the clinic, including a 22-year-old woman who told the court she became pregnant because she could no longer afford birth control pills.

When asked to identify the doctor who performed their abortions, all four women pointed to Dr. Robert Scott, a member of the clinic staff. The women identified several nurses and counsellors who are also accused.