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British Abortionist Loses License Over Injuries to Women

Dec 8, 2011

By Randall K. O’Bannon, NRL Director of Education & Research

Abortionist Phanuel Dartey

Marie Stopes International is to Britain what Planned Parenthood is to America – the big abortion giant whose footprints are seen all over the world.  While they, like Planned Parenthood, trade on their international reputation as a most professional organization upholding the highest medical standards, there are cracks in the facade that show them to be not so different from the back alley quacks they say they replaced.  

A woman in Ireland, who ended up fighting for her life, found that out in 2006.  The doctor who botched her abortion at Marie Stopes has just now been struck from the list of licensed physicians  after a medical board hearing.

Newspapers in Britain are reporting that Phanuel Dartey performed an abortion on an Irishwoman in 2006 in which he perforated her uterus and left parts of the baby inside her.  Upon returning home to Ireland, the woman was taken to the hospital where she remained on the critical list for two months (Daily Mail, 12/2/11, The Independent, 12/2/11).

Abortion is not legal in Ireland, but British hotels advertise packages for women who wish to travel to Britain for abortions.

Dartey was brought up on charges before a British disciplinary panel after four other patients of his who had “laser vaginal rejuvenation” surgery suffered injuries.

The British papers say that Dartey, a Ghanian, received qualification to practice medicine in the former Soviet Union, but had no valid medical indemnity insurance at the time. The hearing was told that Dartey had produced a forged membership certificate to the Medical Protection Society to the operators of the clinic where he worked.

The panel ruled that “the deficiencies in Dr. Dartey’s practice and his dishonesty present a risk to patients and the public.  His integrity cannot be relied upon.”

The Belfast Telegraph says that Gabrielle Malone, manager of Marie Stopes Reproductive Choices in Dublin, Ireland, confirmed that the center where Dartey worked was indeed one of the recommended facilities on a list given to women seeking what the paper calls “pregnancy counselling”

Malone tried to argue that the Marie Stopes clinics had an excellent record and that the case with this woman was an isolated one.  The Telegraph says that 498 women had abortions at the Ealing center last year.

An unidentified spokesperson for Marie Stopes told the newspaper that there was a comprehensive list of requirements that doctors had to meet to be employed by the clinics.  “We have a rigorous governance and assurance framework in place,” she told the Telegraph.

How a person like Dartey slipped through the cracks of the “rigorous” standards in place at one of the world’s top abortion chains is never answered.

There’s at least one woman in Ireland who would have been better off if their standards had been a little higher.

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