For Immediate Release

New Jersey Abortion Business Settles Lawsuit
After Abortion Put Woman in Coma

Springfield, IL (December 16, 2009) -- A New Jersey abortion business has settled a lawsuit after performing a botched abortion that caused a woman to have a stroke and left her in a month-long coma.

Metropolitan Medical Associates in Englewood, NJ, agreed to a payment of $1.9 million in a settlement with Rasheedah Dinkins, who was 22 at the time of the January 2007 abortion.

Dinkins' attorney, Adam Slater, said she suffered a uterine rupture and excessive bleeding during the procedure and later had to have her uterus removed. She suffered a collapsed lung and a stroke due to blood loss. Officials from Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, where Dinkins was treated following the abortion, filed a complaint against the abortion business and a state investigation led to Metropolitan's temporary closure.

The state said Metropolitan had an unsanitary facility, failed to follow proper medical procedures and posed an "immediate and serious risk of harm to patients." However, the abortion business has since reopened.

Another woman also filed a lawsuit against Metropolitan, saying that the abortion business performed a  D&C on her after telling her she had miscarried, but failed to diagnose a twin tubal pregnancy. She underwent a second procedure 10 days later to remove a second embryo that had implanted in her fallopian tubes, putting her life at risk.

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