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Australian woman tells of abortion horror

In October 2011, it was reported through the Australian news agency, The Age, that a doctor was under investigation after performing an abortion on a seriously ill woman.

Six weeks previous to that, the body of 40-year-old Pheap Sem, who emigrated to Australia twenty years previously and a mother of four, lay barely alive in an intensive care bed at Box Hill Hospital, her body racked with multiple organ failure.

Ms Sem had arrived at the emergency department on August 18 in a critical condition following a late-term abortion performed by one of Melbourne's most controversial doctors, Mark Schulberg. Ms Sem's case has sparked the third investigation in six years into the clinic, now Marie Stopes Maroondah, but formerly the Croydon Day Surgery.

Read more here: http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/woman-tells-of-late-abortion-horror-20111022-1mdvv.html