To all reading this thread…
I was told the same thing when I worte to a SDA Union President regarding abortions in SDA hospitals. It was ironic that at the time the Union President told me the same thing, he had articles in
“The Adventist Review” urging church memebers to write to President William Jefferson Clinton for stronger anti-tobacco legislation due to the fact that “nearly 400,000 deaths occur annually as a result of this insidius drug”.
What happened to preserving freedom by allowing choices in that situation? There are nearly 4 times that number of deaths each year resulting from abortion…approximately 1, 600, 000 in the United States of America.
I am planning to include my correspondence between the Union and General Conference presidents as an appendix in a book project, so I won’t include that here…but it is eye opening to say the least.
What I will include here, instead of waiting for the book, are the resutls of my research on abortion statistics for three SDA hospitlas in the period of 1991-1993. These statistics were obtained from the St. Paul Computer Center, Inc. in Glenn Burnie Maryland. They were repository of quite a few databases, two of which included:
- Maryland Acute Care (name removed by moderator)atient Data
- Maryland Outpatient Ambulatory Surgery Data.
The following are the number of abortions performed in 1991-1992 by Diagnosis Related Group (DRG) codes 380 and 381
DRG 380 is Abortion without D&C
DRG 381 is Abortion without D&C, Abortion by Aspiration Curettage, or Abortion by Hysterotomy
Washington Adventist Hospital:
DRG 380 = 41abortions
DRG 381 = 506 abortions
Shady Grove Adventist Hospital:
DRG 380 = 53 abortions
DRG 381 = 999 abortions
Leland Memorial Hospital (has since closed I believe):
DRG 380 = 11
DRG 381 = 88
Total income from the above procedures = $1,859,167.00 (U.S. dollars)
The following are the number of abortions performed up to June of 1993. There were no data available for July thourgh December 1993 at that time.
Washington Adventist Hospital:
DRG 380 = 21 abortions
DRG 381 = 266 abortions
Shady Grove Adventist Hospital:
DRG 380 = 20
DRG 381 = 391
These cannot possibly be “medically necessary” procedures, espeically when contrasted with two area public secular hospitals in Farifax and Arlington Virginia which performed less than 50 abortions each in each year noted above.
To my SDA friends, especially the ones who say they are against abortion, what is going on?
God bless all!!!