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By Denver Sallee
Jacqui Fetsko and Renee Freedman
University Hospital says that they provide "conflict of interest" details about staff members who might gain from association with other industries. Two Cleveland area abortionists are on the Ob-Gyn staff at University Hospitals. They are Dr. Lisa Perriera, abortionist for Preterm and Dr. David Burkons abortionist for Planned Parenthood in Bedford Heights.
Yet on University Hospital websites for Perriera and Burkons, you will not find any information regarding their sordid association with abortion. Furthermore a collaborative effort between University Hospital and Preterm, noted in Preterm's 2010 Annual report (page 5) published online in July 2011, Lisa Perriera's presence on their staff enabled them to expand abortion services up to 23 weeks.
University Hospital's MacDonald Hospital for Women is pretty open about their center for family planning services. many of which are abortion inducing.
They also offer pregnancy services which include the following:
- Pregnancy options counseling
- Medical and surgical management of miscarriage
- Family planning clinic for women with complicated medical problems or pregnancies diagnosed with fetal anomaly
Pregnancy options counseling is code name for abortion referral. So that begs the question: does Lisa Perriera provide referrals for Preterm? Does David Burkons do the same for Planned Parenthood? Isn't this worth a mention in their conflict of interest?
University Hospitals is not being upfront with the public when it comes to disclosing pertinent information regarding these two UH employed physicians. Why? If they truly believe that abortion is legitimate healthcare, why do they hide the fact that they employ two abortionists? Have these doctors left the system and if so why are their credentials still on the websites?
The public has a right to know about any relationship a physician may have with an outside industry, especially regarding their involvement with abortion. It is apparent that UH is being very selective about providing this information to their patients and for good reason. They know that they will lose business because abortion is not acceptable to the American public as noted by their response to public outrage in 2010 to a UH facility who was performing abortions. The public pressure forced UH Richland Heights to stop all abortions on their facilities. UH Richland Heights representatives met with Fr. Sal Ruggeri who was helping to spearhead the protest in April 2010 to inform him that "they are no longer performing any abortions including those that had been deemed 'medically indicated' ".
While they do not abort children at a UH facility, having on the UH staff Lisa Perriera and David Burkons who openly promote and perform abortions is a distinction without a difference. Babies are dying at the hands of UH staff. This fact belies both one element of the UH Mission: "To Heal" and one component of their Core Values, "Compassion. We have genuine concern for those in our community and treat them with respect and empathy." Abortions do not "heal". They most often bring a lifetime of untold health complications both physical and mental to the mother and they always destroy an innocent life.It is impossible to envision how dismembering a baby in the womb could be construed to define it as treating them with "respect and dignity".
Please contact University Hospital CEO and respectfully ask that the hospital cut all ties with the abortion industry.
Thomas Zenty III, CEO
UH Case Medical Center
11100 Euclid Ave
Cleveland, OH 44106
(216) 844-0474
Denver Sallee is co- founder of HELP (SS Helen, Edward & Lucy Prolife)
Jacqui Fetsko is Executive Director of Lake County Right to Life
Renee Freedman is a board member of Lake County Right to Life
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