Pictured above is the room at 827 Webster Street that Dr. George Klopfer used as his “sterile room” while performing abortions at that location.  

The following is testimony recently given before the Indiana Legislature

My name is Geoffrey C. Cly, MD.  I am a Board Certified Obstetrician and Gynecologist with Northeast OB/Gyn, LLC, a Fort Wayne,  a physician group practice.  I have been in private and academic practice for 8 years.  I have been in Fort Wayne and Indiana for the past 4 years.  Additionally, I am a member of the Dupont Hospital Quality Assurance Committee and Chairman of that committee for the past 3 years.  I come before you today to discuss dangerous situations affecting women of Indiana. 

Multiple serious complications have occurred and are still occurring weekly to women in Indiana who seek elective terminations.

I recently became aware of the inferior medical care and medical negligence that has been occurring after two of my patients suffered serious, life threatening complications from elective terminations performed in Fort Wayne.  After caring for these two women and correcting the complications that occurred under the questionable care of another physician, I felt it necessary to become involved in this process in order to protect other women and patients from needlessly suffering the same complications. 

The first patient had become pregnant and underwent an elective termination prior to notifying our office of the pregnancy.  She showed up in the ER several days later with a severe uterine infection, vaginal hemorrhaging, severe abdominal pain, fever, chills, nausea and vomiting. 

The ultrasound performed in the ER showed pieces of the baby were left inside and had become necrotic.  I immediately had to perform a Dilation and Curettage to “finish the abortion” in order to save the patient from
sepsis (a life threatening total blood stream infection) and to attempt to save her uterus so that she could preserve her fertility, as she was only 20 years old and wanted children in the future.  Unfortunately, due to the pain
and infection, she required a hysterectomy to fix her symptoms.  She can not have any more children as a result of these complications.  All of which could have been prevented with proper emergency on call coverage and quality oversight.  This bill would correct that problem by requiring admission privileges and notification of the hospital where the patient can
receive follow up care.

To be continued …

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