{"id":254,"date":"2012-11-12T22:18:08","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T22:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/?p=254"},"modified":"2025-09-30T01:51:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T01:51:06","slug":"abortionist-being-investigaed-for-botching-abortion-at-35-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/?p=254","title":{"rendered":"Abortionist being investigated for botching abortion at 35 weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She&#39;s not being investigted for doing the abortion per se; rather for rupturing the woman&#39;s uterus.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/2012\/11\/12\/abortion-practitioner-faces-probe-botched-35-week-abortion\/\" target=\"_self\">New Mexico Medical Board documents says Sella wrongly conducted the dangerous 35-week abortion in a clinic setting instead of a hospital and disregarded the patient\u2019s history of a previous Caesarean Section delivery. The board noted that a Caesarean Section weakens the uterus, increasing the risks of rupture during subsequent labors. Sella is also accused of over-using uterine stimulants, which contributed to the life-threatening rupture.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Sella is a former associate of the late George Tiller, having worked<br \/>\nfor him at his late-term abortion clinic in Wichita, Kansas. When that<br \/>\nabortion facility closed in 2009, Sella went to work for Curtis Boyd at<br \/>\nSouthwestern Women\u2019s Options in Albuquerque, New Mexico, an affiliate of<br \/>\nthe National Abortion Federation and doing the same late-term abortions<br \/>\nshe did in Kansas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Sella canceled her Kansas medical license the same week the Kansas<br \/>\nState Board of Healing Arts notified Operation Rescue that a<br \/>\ndisciplinary petition had been filed against one of Sella\u2019s Kansas<br \/>\nco-workers, Ann Kristin Neuhaus, who had provided improper late-term<br \/>\nabortion referrals to Tiller\u2019s abortion clinic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Testimony taken during Neuhaus\u2019 disciplinary hearings indicated that<br \/>\nlate-term abortions done in Kansas by Sella were in fact illegal. The<br \/>\nKSBHA revoked Neuhaus\u2019 medical license, but because Sella had previously<br \/>\nsurrendered her license, she was outside their jurisdiction and avoided<br \/>\naccountability for her actions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\nSella also works as an abortion practitioner for Planned Parenthood in California &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>PP, well, of course. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She&#39;s not being investigted for doing the abortion per se; rather for rupturing the woman&#39;s uterus. New Mexico Medical Board documents says Sella wrongly conducted the dangerous 35-week abortion in a clinic setting instead of a hospital and disregarded the patient\u2019s history of a previous Caesarean Section delivery. The board noted that a Caesarean Section [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":798,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions\/798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}