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NM abortion complaint highlights privacy concerns

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Associated Press This still image taken from the documentary, "After Tiller," shows Dr. Shelley Sella. The New Mexico medical board is expected to make a decision on whether to take action against Sella, who performed a late-term abortion. Sella is a former colleague of slain Kansas abortion doctor George Tiller and one of the few doctors in the country who still openly performs third-term abortions.

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A woman from New York came to New Mexico to terminate her pregnancy at one of the nation’s four late-term abortion clinics after she found out the fetus she had been carrying for more than eight months had severe brain abnormalities. There were complications and the 26-year-old woman was rushed to the hospital with a ruptured uterus. Nearly two years later, the intimate details of her medical treatment, her mental state, her religion and family status have become public as part of a state medical board probe by anti-abortion activists with Operation Rescue.