By Tara Shaver of Abortion Free New Mexico,
Albuquerque, New Mexico- In April of 2021 I was due to deliver my 5th child in a planned home birth that turned into an emergency c-section. It has taken me four years to be able to share this testimony because it was pretty traumatic on many levels. This pregnancy occurred during COVID and I was denied medical care at Lovelace hospital in Albuquerque because I refused to harm myself and my unbornchild by wearing a mask during routine visits. I believe this was the catalyst for having a c-section because I apparently had an underlying infection that was not diagnosed before delivery.
I have had three previous amazing home births and am a strong advocate for natural home birth without medical intervention unless there is an emergency. Home birthing is empowering to women, allowing them to be in a safe comfortable space, while also avoiding unnecessary medical interventions.
After 24 hours of labor with no progress, my midwife and I decided that we needed to get to the hospital because something wasn’t right. My plan was to go to any hospital other than University of New Mexico Hospital (UNMH) because they provide abortions, train abortionists and have their own free standing abortion center near the airport in Albuquerque.
However, my midwife informed me that if we went to UNMH that she knew that she’d be able to stay with me and advocate for me. She informed me that if anything was really wrong with my baby that he would be transferred to UNMH by other hospitals and could potentially lead to the separation of my baby and I. Since my husband had to stay home with our other children I trusted my midwife’s advice and we made the detour to UNMH.
Once I was signed in at the hospital we waited for the doctor to come in to meet me. As soon as abortionist, Lisa Hofler, walked in the door I immediately recognized her and my heart sank. At that moment, I panicked and asked myself if I should get up and go to another hospital.
“UNM Hospital has betrayed women and children by blurring the lines of true medicine. True medicine heals, not harms all of the individuals entrusted into their care, both born and unborn. Doctors can’t deliver babies at UNM Hospital and also kill babies at UNM Center For Reproductive Health abortion facility and maintain our trust, stated Tara Shaver of Abortion Free New Mexico.”
Instead, I gathered my composure and I told her that my baby’s life is just as important as my life but that if anything happened during delivery, to please save my baby. It was the main point I wanted to get across because I instantly did not trust this woman with the life of my unborn child knowing that she destroys little babies bodies by abortion on the days she is not delivering them.
The next few hours concluded with a very emergent c-section, my son was born with an APGAR of 1 out of 10 and Hofler said that he was looking straight at her with a stunned look on his face. He was stuck in my pelvic bone and had to be pried out of my womb.
I’m thankful that my son survived being delivered by an abortionist but it has come with a certain level of shame and trauma. Delivering there was a compromise on my part, because I’ve spent so much time over the years exposing UNM’s radically pro-abortion agenda. I was forced to have an abortionist as my labor and delivery doctor and had been given no other choice. In fact, Hofler told me after the fact that every doctor in labor and delivery that night was also an abortionist.
This situation put me as a pregnant woman in a dilemma that I never should have had to face. At delivery women should not have to worry whether or not their baby will be protected by those who are supposed to heal and not harm.
Birthing a child should be a joyous occasion, it is the most natural and beautiful process we as women get to experience. Hospitals like UNMH have blurred the lines of legitimate healthcare by allowing abortionists, who have betrayed true medicine, to deliver babies at the hospital on the days that they are not killing them at their free standing abortion facility.
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