Pro-Choice Violence in California

“Pro-Choice” Violence and Illegal Activities in California

Bakersfield Barstow Chico Fresno Los Angeles Modesto Oceanside Palm Desert Redding Sacramento San Bernardino San Diego San Francisco Santa Cruz Santa Rosa Stockton Victorville Bakersfield, California
First-Degree Murder, Assault (20 incidents), Death Threats (6 incidents) and Drug Pushing (4 incidents) Conroy James Hayes was a typical pro-abortion "user." He only had a relationship with a person if he could extract something out of that person, and he gave absolutely nothing back. He was a drug dealer and had a violent nature, as many people could and did testify. Rochelle Mackey, Hayes' girlfriend, was living in an apartment with her cousin Avanae Eddington. Hayes moved in with them and immediately began to live off of their work. Hayes did not have a job,

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and Rochelle cooked and cleaned for him, ironed his clothes and even washed his car for him ― even though she was pregnant. Rochelle even bought Hayes a Cadillac to go with his Monte Carlo, and frequently gave him money. Hayes refused to do any work around the house, and was basically just a parasite. He would also prepare crack cocaine in Rochelle's apartment and sell it from there. Avanae Eddington testified that Hayes often beat Rochelle, and on two occasions threatened her life with a gun. Hayes stated that he would kill her. Avanae intervened on four occasions when Hayes was beating Rochelle. Rochelle's son testified that he had seen Hayes beating up Rochelle at least ten times, and that she often fled the apartment. Out of sheer meanness, Hayes killed the boy's goldfish by pouring bleach into their tank. On another occasion when Hayes was beating his mother, the boy grabbed a knife and told Hayes to stop the beating. Hayes said that he would shoot Rochelle if the boy did not put down the knife. Naturally, Hayes had many other girlfriends, and would often talk to them on his cell phone after locking Rochelle out of their bedroom. He had at least four other children by other women. Another of Hayes' girlfriends had previously experienced the same abuse that Rochelle had. He moved in with her and controlled everything she did. He threatened to kill her if she left him and also threatened to blow up her grandmother's house. On one occasion, he tore her clothes off, poured cold water on her, and threatened to pour hot oil on her. At other times, he held a knife to her throat, threw objects at her, hit her in the face, and pushed her. Hayes told Rochelle that she "better have an abortion" because he did not want a baby by her. On July 9, 2005, Rochelle had finally had enough abuse, and told Hayes to leave. Two days later, early on the morning of July 11, 2005, Hayes shot Rochelle in the chest, killing her. Then he urinated on his hands to remove any gun residue left on them and claimed that Rochelle had committed suicide. A jury convicted Hayes of first-degree murder and possession of cocaine for sale. References: The People v. Conroy James Hayes, Fifth Appelate Court for the District of California, case number F050460, (Superior Court Number BF110986A); "California Man Won't Be Charged for Killing Pregnant Woman's Baby." LifeNews, August 26, 2005. Solicitation to Commit Murder In April 1973, abortionist Xavier Hall Ramirez initiated a third-trimester saline abortion at Greater Bakersfield Hospital. The patient expelled a live 4½ pound infant. Nurses called Ramirez, who ordered them to discontinue oxygen to the baby, but another doctor countermanded this order, and the infant survived to be adopted. Ramirez was indicted for solicitation to commit murder. Reference: Philadelphia Inquirer, August 2, 1981. Assault and Death Threat This incident is one of the most astounding examples of police bias for pro-abortionists and against pro-lifers we have ever heard of. On June 13th, 1995, Carlotta Fondrin was sidewalk counseling outside the Family Planning Clinic abortion mill in Bakersfield, California. One young man dropped off a young lady and Carlotta tried to give him some literature. He swore at her and then pulled a gun on her, then drove away. Carlotta called the police and they found the man at his home. He showed the police the gun, which turned out to be a pellet gun. He was not arrested.

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Tim Palmquist, the pro-life leader in Bakersfield, went to the police station with his wife and children to ascertain why this man was not arrested. He asked for the police report and was refused because his name was not on the report. He then made it clear that there was a double standard being applied by the Bakersfield police. The District Attorney in Bakersfield had often stated that people who counsel for life at abortion mills should expect mistreatment because abortion is such a "volatile" issue. The next thing Tim knew, the policeman had gone from around the counter and grabbed him. He threw him down on his face and handcuffed him. Tim asked, "Why are you doing this?" The policeman said, "You have a pen in your hand and you were making stabbing motions." Tim was thrown in the Bakersfield Jail in lieu of $25,000 bail and was charged with assault with a deadly weapon on an officer, disturbing the peace, and resisting arrest. Needless to say, the charges were thrown out in court, but there were absolutely no consequences for the policeman who assaulted Tim ― or for the man who made threats with his pellet gun. Reference: Operation Rescue National Newsletter, July 1995.

Barstow, California
Murder, Manslaughter, Stalking and Assault (4 incidents) According to police and prosecution documents and witness testimony, the following events occurred in and around Barstow, California and New South Wales, Australia. Lawrence Rivera (aka Lawrence Hale) killed his pregnant girlfriend, Kristina Garcia of Leawood, whose body was found in Yermo on May 22, 2002. He immediately fled to Australia. Rivera's former wife, Michele Grant, described to the Desert Dispatch how he would consistently assault and stalk her. According to Grant, Rivera often choked her when he was angry while they were married. She said "His best maneuver was putting his thumbs in the middle of your neck and just squeezing until you stopped breathing or he realized what he did. He would squeeze my hand so hard that the wedding bands would literally bend on my finger. Then when he hid in the trunk of my rental car in April 1996. that was really scary." She said that once, he choked her until she passed out and went to the hospital. She also described other bizarre behavior by Rivera, including stalking. On one occasion Rivera allegedly hid in the trunk of her car to keep tabs on her while she ran errands. When she became pregnant, Grant said Rivera was unhappy. She said that "Lawrence told me that if I didn't get an abortion that he would pull it out of my stomach." Sergeant Gerrit Tesselaar of the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department described Rivera's possible motive for killing Garcia: "She shunned him and he couldn't handle it." Tesselaar also revealed that Rivera has a manslaughter conviction on his record, involving another girlfriend. Additionally, Rivera was also implicated but never charged in the manslaughter death of a child in Germany in 1998. The child was the daughter of his live-in girlfriend, according to military records. His former wife said "Pray for whoever crosses his path the wrong way." Rivera was placed on the Most Wanted List. He was arrested in New South Wales, Australia in December 2002 and, as of August 2007, is still sitting in jail and fighting extradition in what Australian authorities call "an embarrassment" of a case. References: Ercum Over. "Murder Suspect's Ex-Wife Tells of Abuse." The Desert Dispatch [Barstow, Dagget, Fort Irwin, Hinkley, Lenwood, Newberry Springs and Yermo, California], June 8, 2002; Lee

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Glendinning. "Murder Suspect Ordered to Be Sent Back to US." Sydney Morning Herald December 17, 2002; "US Extradition Case an 'Embarrassment'." ABC News, August 19, 2007.

Chico, California
Assault (5 incidents) The Northern California Feminist Womens Health Center (FWHC) retained the services of a contingent of "clinic escorts" ― a team of activists whose sole purpose was to clear pro-lifers from the sidewalks. The "escorts" were led by Alison Gude, who at the time was associated with both the violent homosexual group AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT-UP) and the Bay Area Coalition against Operation Rescue (BACAOR). The BACAOR "clinic defense handbook," written by Gude, states: "Our best work is done before police arrive, or when there are not enough police there to prevent us from doing what we have to do. ... Get in place before cops can mess with it: establish balance of power early, do key acts requiring physical contact with [pro-lifers] as much as possible before the cops have enough people to intervene." Videotapes of BACAOR confrontations depict Gude and other activists taunting, spitting, shoving, body-blocking, and throwing punches at pro-life sidewalk counselors. The BACAOR manual continues: "Chivalry is not dead with these people ― and that means they have an inordinate sense of 'honor' about being accused of touching women. ... There are innumerable instances of clinic defenders neutralizing male [pro-lifers] by shouting 'get your hands off me, don't you dare touch me' all the while they are tugging or pushing [pro-lifers] out of line." Specialized "escorts" called "doggers" are deployed for the purpose of getting into "loud, expletive-filled physical confrontations" with pro-lifers. Reference: William Norman Grigg. "The Abortion Underworld." The New American, January 15, 2001. Reckless Driving, Child Endangerment, Probation Violation, Driving on a Suspended License and False Vehicle Registration According to official police documents and media reports, the following events occurred in and around Chico, California. On June 24, 2009, several pro-life protestors were standing outside a Chico, California Planned Parenthood abortion mill. One of the protestors was 69-year-old James Cantfield, who was holding a graphic photo of the severed head of an aborted preborn child. Matthew Reid Haver was driving his SUV past the abortuary on Vallombrosa Avenue with his daughter in the vehicle. When the girl asked Haver what the sign meant, he flew into a rage and drove his vehicle right at James, who jumped out of the way just in time. One of the other pro-lifers got the license plate of Haver's vehicle and police arrested him at his home a short time later. Police charged Haver with assault with a deadly weapon, child endangerment, probation violation, driving on a suspended license and false vehicle registration. Later, the ADW charge was reduced to reckless driving. Not only did "pro-choicers" not condemn this act of violence, they celebrated it. It is interesting to see how the incident looked to one caring, non-judgmental, inclusive pro-abort who was not at the scene,

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and who filtered it through his own particular lens of unreality; For the fetus fetishists, it's business as usual: Just another day of hanging around in the street outside Planned Parenthood, screaming, yelling, threatening, praying, crying, menacing, scolding and slut-shaming anyone who enters the clinic (probably in direct contravention of the FACE Act, but never mind that). Along comes Haver in his SUV, attempting to make his way down the street and instead being confronted with a frothing, foaming, shrieking little wankfest. He leans on the horn, screams "Comin' through!" and walks the vehicle slowly forward, scattering the zygote zealots like so much brainless flotsam. ... The fact is, we don't know what Haver's position on abortion is ― we only know he's opposed to being obstructed by idiots while driving. References: "Fetus Fetishists are Closer than They Appear." UnrepentantOldHippie's blog at http://unrepentantoldhippie.wordpress.com/, June 26, 2009; Greg Welter. "DA to Decide if Man Will be Charged with Assault on Abortion Protester." Chico Enterprise Record, July 15, 2009. Sexual Battery (2 counts) In May of 2009, 29-year-old Christopher Ryan Fears had sex with a 14-year-old girl when he was drunk, and she became pregnant. She informed her mother of this fact, and she confronted Fears, who offered to pay for an abortion. Shortly thereafter, he was arrested and charged with seven counts of rape. In January 2010, Fears pleaded guilty in January to two counts of sexual battery. On March 18, 2010, a judge sentenced him to four years in prison and must also spend five years on community control and register as a sex offender when he is released from prison. References: Steven Ertelt. "Ohio Man Tries to Hide Statutory Rape of Pregnant Teenage Girl With Abortion." LifeNews, August 28, 2009; "Police: Teen Pregnant With Rape Suspect's Child." WLWT Television News Channel 5 [Cincinnati, Ohio], August 28, 2009; "Man Admits To Sex With Teen Who Got Pregnant." WLWT Television News Channel 5 [Cincinnati, Ohio], January 14, 2010; "Man Who Impregnated Teen Sentenced To 4 Years: Judge Orders Man To Register As Sex Offender." WLWT Television News Channel 5 [Cincinnati, Ohio], March 18, 2010. Forced Abortion, Malpractice and Harassment This pitiful case shows just how little radical feminists and other pro-abortionists care about "choice," and how much they care about performing as many abortions as possible. In 1985, they railroaded a developmentally disabled young girl into an abortion without telling anything to her mother, and without even hinting at other alternatives. This is cowardice at its worst. The radicals at the Chico Feminist Womens Health Center even went so far as haranguing a grieving mother about "choice" while she was still in shock over her daughter's secret abortion. Erin Preston was a developmentally disabled 14-year-old girl. She had learning disabilities, low verbal comprehension, and psychological and emotional impairment. Due to the problems Erin had, her school had promised "to keep her [mother] informed of everything that happened relating to Erin, no matter how trivial or insignificant," and that the principal had developed a program of written daily reports to keep her apprised of Erin's school situation. In 1985, when Erin's class was presented with sex education, the teachers learned by questioning Erin that she might be pregnant. These two teachers encouraged Erin to have a secret abortion, assuring

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her "that abortion was quick and easy." Typically, they did not even mention any alternatives to Erin, and they "implied that parental involvement in the decision was unnecessary or improper and effectively prevented Erin from communicating with her parents." The teachers arranged a pregnancy test at an off-campus center, with the knowledge and approval of the school's principal, and a teacher took Erin for the test, paying for it herself, and filling out the forms since Erin was unable to do so, and forging school documents and the report to Erin's parents to conceal the fact that the girl had been taken off the premises without her parents' knowledge or consent. The facility that did the pregnancy test, Oroville Family Health Center, knew that the adult accompanying Erin was her teacher and that the pregnancy test was being done during school hours to avoid notifying her parents. Yet Oroville did not advise Erin to inform her parents, nor did any of its personnel inform Erin of alternatives, but instead joined the teacher in urging a secret abortion. Oroville also urged Erin to proceed with the abortion within a matter of days or it would be too late, which was false and misleading. The teacher and Oroville staff then met to plan how to secure Erin's abortion without parental knowledge or consent. The principal and superintendent were informed that the pregnancy test was positive and supported the decision to pursue secret abortion and all steps necessary to carry out the act. During school hours, the teacher took Erin to the welfare department and with the complicity of staff there procured a Medi-Cal card to pay for the abortion, giving a teacher's name and the school address, with knowledge that the Medi-Cal card was for use in obtaining a secret abortion. Erin's school records and daily report were falsified to appear as though Erin had attended her regular classes. Oroville, the abortion clinic, and the school made arrangements with Rape Crisis to have Erin transported by a rape crisis counselor for pre-abortion testing. The rape crisis counselor took Erin for four and a half hours during the school day to the abortion clinic, and she presented herself to Erin as "a person experienced in and knowledgeable about gynecological and reproductive matters." She filled out the forms and read them to Erin, who was unable to do so herself, "deliberately and purposefully remained with Erin continuously throughout the entire procedure and voluntarily assumed the fiduciary role of spokesperson and advocate for Erin, effectively controlling and limiting the information Erin received and keeping Erin in a passive, non-speaking role;" she also "volunteered information and offered opinions to Erin, ... and voluntarily assisted FWHC in the explanation of the abortion procedure." She told Erin about her own abortion and urged her to proceed. She and the clinic workers "gave Erin inaccurate, incomplete, and misleading information concerning ... the nature of the abortion procedure, the time period within which the abortion could be performed, and the inherent risks of abortion." School records were again falsified to keep knowledge of the proceedings from Erin's parents. Erin's teacher sent a note to Erin's mother stating that she wanted Erin to baby-sit for her March 23, 1985, and that she would keep Erin at her home overnight because she would be out late. The teacher again advised the principal and superintendent of the plans, which they supported. On March 23, Erin's teacher took her for the abortion, identifying herself as the girl's teacher and filling out forms for her because Erin was unable to do so herself. Abortionist Diane Pemberton performed the abortion on Erin. At no time did any agents of the clinic, Rape Crisis, Oroville, or the school inform Erin of alternatives to abortion, or of the risks associated with abortion, but at all times all parties involved continued to encourage the secret abortion as safe and easy. Erin spent the night at her teacher's home, and again school records were falsified to conceal the fact that she had been off the premises. On March 27, Erin's mother was called by the school and asked to come there immediately. Upon her arrival, she was informed of the abortion and that complications had arisen. The teacher took Erin and her mother to a doctor's office, where Erin was examined and

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immediately rushed to a hospital for emergency surgery. While Erin was in emergency surgery, and her mother paced the floor in front of surgery, Chris Parker from the abortion mill arrived at the hospital, confronted [Erin's mother], explained that she was from FWHC, and repeatedly told [her] that Erin had a right to have an abortion because it was every woman's right to choose what to do with her body. [Erin's mother] repeatedly asked Parker to leave her alone, informing Parker that she was very worried about her daughter and very angry at those who had assisted in the abortion. Parker ignored [her] requests and continued harassing, haranguing, and berating her, despite [her] recent shock, obvious distress, and repeated requests to cease. Parker simply would not let up harassing her, and finally Erin's mother knocked her to the floor. Erin's parents "are informed and believe ... it is the policy and practice" of the school district to procure secret abortions for pregnant students. Erin's mother sued the school district, Oroville, Rape Crisis, the welfare department, the clinic, and their agents for deceit in leading her to unwittingly relinquish care, control, and custody of Erin to them under circumstances she never would have consented to, and for misinforming Erin about abortion and her options. Erin's mother also found cause of action in that the parties involved refused to consider the religious and/or philosophical beliefs of the family and of Erin herself, "thus imposing the Defendants' own beliefs on the minor child and family." Erin suffered "great physical harm and injury and emotional distress," and her family was forced to shoulder over $7,000 in medical bills. Reference: Butte County Superior Court Case No. 89930.

Fresno, California
Assault (4 incidents) On March 28, 1981, at the Family Planning Associates Medical Group abortion mill, four pro-abortionists attacked pro-life picketers, wrenching picket signs away from them and beating several of them with the signs. Reference: "Anti-Abortion Pickets Claim Signs Taken by 4 Assailants." The Fresno Bee, March 30, 1981. Assault, Destruction of Property (2 incidents) and Death Threats (3 incidents) On October 15, 2009, Victor Fierro, director of the Hispanic pro-life group Latinos4Life, was standing outside the Fresno, California Planned Parenthood. A pro-abortion woman walked up to him, shouted the usual brainless "pro-choice" obscenities, and tried to break his camera. Then she took a sharp object out of her pocket, slashed at him, and cut his arm. She then fled the scene. Earlier in the week, another pro-abort had stopped by the abortion mill several times and had destroyed their materials and shouted threats at them. Yet another pro-abort called the Fresno Right to Life office on October 16 and said "When you go and shoot doctors that are just trying to offer a service to women it's not good, there's a lot of hate out there, and one day it's going to blow up, and a lot of people are going to get hurt." Another pro-abort called the office and snarled "Why don't you just die?"

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Naturally, the local media ignored these acts of violence and threats. If a pro-lifer had stabbed a pro-abort, it would have been front-page news for days. But KMPH Fox 26 told the pro-lifers that they weren't going to cover the story since Victor "wasn't stabbed, just scratched." KFSN ABC 30 shot footage at Planned Parenthood and interviewed both Josh Brahm and Victor Fierro, but didn't use the story. Instead, the station reported on much more serious news with great solemnity: Chocolate-covered bacon and a man who believes he sees the Virgin Mary on a rock. Reference: Steven Ertelt. "40 Days for Life Participant in Fresno, California Assaulted by Abortion Advocate." LifeNews, October 16, 2009. Vandalism [Silver Lake] Pro-abortionists defaced a pro-life church with red paint, red coathangers, and posters accusing the church of "crimes against women" in March 1989. Reference: Bill Soucie, comments in personal video recording of the incident.

Los Angeles, California
Murder (8 counts), Malpractice (11 incidents), Grand Theft, Perjury, Conspiracy, Fraud (2 counts), Practicing Medicine without a License (22 incidents), Aiding and Abetting the Unlicensed Practice of Medicine, Conspiring to Practice Medicine without a License, Preparing Fraudulent Insurance Claims and Presenting Fraudulent Insurance Claims In 1989, abortionist Milos Klvana was sentenced to 53 years in prison after being found guilty of the mass murder of eight newborn babies and the stillbirth of another infant. The State of New York Department of Health revoked the abortionist's license to practice medicine, noting his many convictions, including second-degree murder; aiding and abetting the unlicensed practice of medicine; conspiring to practice medicine without a license; preparing fraudulent insurance claims; presenting fraudulent insurance claims, grand theft and perjury. References: Associated Press, August 9, 1995; HLI Newswire, August 11, 1995; State of New York Department of Health. "Monthly Report on Professional Misconduct and Physician Discipline," April and May 1996. Murder (2 counts), Gross Negligence, Grand Theft and Criminal Abortion (15 counts) One of the most colorful and unscrupulous characters the "pro-choice" movement has ever given us is "Dr." Harvey Leroy Karman. He was idolized by pro-choicers, perhaps because he epitomized their values and standards. Karman didn't have much of an education, but then education is not really necessary for an abortionist. He was a UCLA School of Theatrical Arts dropout, so at least he had the background to bluff his way into medicine. But first he needed a prestigious degree, so he awarded himself a fake Ph.D. from a nonexistent European university. He quickly distinguished himself by being convicted of nine felonies in Los Angeles, and was sent to jail for killing Joyce Johnson with an illegal botched abortion committed with, of all things, a

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nutcracker in a motel room. He aborted Joyce on April 6, 1955, and she died of a massive infection on April 21. He was jailed, but as soon as Governor Jerry "Moonbat" Brown was elected, the virulently pro-abortion Brown pardoned him. As soon as Karman was released, he went to work for an abortion mill in California despite his complete lack of medical credentials. There, he invented a new type of intra-uterine device (IUD) he named the "Super Coil," a plastic spring that was supposed to induce an abortion. Karman was also the inventor of an early abortion technique called "menstrual extraction" or ME, which is widely used to circumvent pro-life laws in developing nations. The Federation of Feminist Womens Health Centers (FWHCs) adopted Karman's techniques, which are still used in "home abortion parties" by feminists today. Back in the day when even feminists were more truthful, Ms. Magazine said in its September 1976 issue that [Harvey] Karman is the developer of the menstrual extraction technique. His three-page police record includes an arrest for murder in the death of an abortion client and a prison term for illegal abortion and grand theft. One of his other abortion arrests was in connection with a West Los Angeles clinic where he was associated with one Dr. John Gwynne. [Abortionist] Gwynne has since been convicted of the murder of his nineteen-year-old girlfriend. Karman joined up with the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) to test ME on women in Bangladesh. It is quite common for the racist abortionists and population controllers to test abortion and contraceptive techniques on poor women in developing nations before they try them out on North American or European women. A large number of the poverty-stricken women nearly died, and Karman quickly returned to the USA. There he joined forces with the Jane Network in Chicago, which helped women get abortions before it was legalized in the United States.

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Self-taught abortionist Harvey Leroy Karman, a hero to feminists, holding one of his lethal “Super Coil” devices. On Mother's Day in 1972, things came to a head. Karman received a busload of Jane Network clients at his Philadelphia abortion mill. He had invited the media to be present so he could be arrested and challenge the abortion law in Pennsylvania. While Harvey and his associates started putting "Super Coils" in the clients, other feminists protested outside and even let the air out of the bus tires. One of the fifteen women had to be hospitalized due to a lacerated uterus. Several others had to be hospitalized when they returned to Chicago. Of these, the Centers for Disease Control found that one patient required a hysterectomy, one was hospitalized for twenty days with infection, and another continued to bleed until she became anemic. In all, nine of the 13 patients who could be tracked down suffered complications, some of them life-threatening. Karman then returned to California and was arrested at least three times for running illegal abortion mills. He faded into obscurity after Roe v. Wade in 1973. References: District Court of Appeal, Second District Division 3, California. The People of the State of California, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. Harvey Leroy Karman, Defendant and Appellant. Cr. 5583, November 13, 1956; New York Times, December 13, 1972; Judith P. Bourne, R.M., et.al. "Medical Complications from Induced Abortion by the Super Coil Method." Health Services Report, January-February 1974; Bernard N. Nathanson. Aborting America [Life Cycle Books, 1979]; Mark Crutcher. Lime 5 [Denton, Texas: Life Dynamics, Inc.], 1996; Laura Kaplan. The Story of Jane

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[University of Chicago Press, 1997]. The information in this summary was largely condensed from the four-part series on Harvey Karman on the Real Choice Web site. Murder (2 counts), Child Abuse (2 counts) and Drug Possession [Glendora] Lorie Renee Hurd is a good example of how a person hardened to abortion can cross the line to infanticide without as much as a pang of conscience. According to police and prosecution documents and witness testimony, the following events occurred in and around Los Angeles, California. At the age of 15, she aborted her first pregnancy. At the age of 17, she began to use speed and methamphetamine, and soon began drinking heavily. She also aborted her second pregnancy during this year. Despite her heavy drug use, she became pregnant again in 1992 and gave birth to a daughter. In 1993, she gave birth to a son and gave him up for adoption. In 1994, she had another abortion. In 1995, she became pregnant again and delivered a son. In 1996, she became pregnant again and miscarried in her bathroom. On November 10, 2001, Hurd gave birth to full-term twin baby girls in the bathroom of her home. Then she stuffed them into a plastic bag, cinched it closed, and abandoned her dying babies. Hurd was also charged with two counts of child abuse and methamphetamine possession, and went on trial in Pomona Superior Court. Reference: Bill Hetherman. "Murder Suspect Testifies On Drug Habit." San Gabriel Valley Tribune, April 15, 2003. Murder (2 counts) [Fontana] 17-year-old Anyssia Escamilla already had a three-year-old son who she was very devoted to. She was three months pregnant by her boyfriend Jesus Avitia, Jr., who was not at all happy about her pregnancy, thinking that it would interfere with his pursuit of a nursing career. He demanded several times that she get an abortion, but she refused. So, on May 11, 2010, he murdered her at his Fontana home and dumped her body in a trash can, which collectors then hauled to a Corona landfill. A week later, he confessed to the murder and was charged with two counts of murder, to which he pleaded not guilty. On August 4, 2010, detectives finally found her body at the El Sobrante Landfill in Corona. On August 15, 2010, five hundred mourners packed St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church in Rialto for her funeral. The Reverend Steve Porter, pastor of the church that the family attends, said Anyssia died a martyr because she resisted Avitia's insistence that she get an abortion. He said that “She knew the baby in her was precious and she was going to protect the baby the best she could." Porter said. References: “Body of Pregnant Teen Found In Corona Landfill.” KCAL Television Channel 2 [Los Angeles], August 6, 2010; “Hundreds Mourn Slain Pregnant Teen.” The Press-Enterprise [Riverside, California], August 16, 2010. Murder [Van Nuys] A jury found pro-abortionist Alfred E. Smith guilty of second-degree murder in the death of his

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ex-girlfriend Denna Moody. Smith killed Moody in April 1997 because she refused to abort their preborn child. The jury heard evidence that Moody had been pregnant by Smith before, and that he had pressured her to have an abortion in that case as well. Moody adamantly refused in this case. Her charred body was found in her burned car near the Van Nuys Amtrak station the next morning. Deputy District Attorney Alan Yochelson said Smith, 41, probably killed Moody at a park in Sherman Oaks after an argument, then drove the body to a business area near the train station and set the fire. Reference: "Jury Convicts Man in Abortion-Related Killing." Los Angeles Times, May 21, 1998. Rape (3 counts), Sexual Assault (2 counts), Sexual Abuse (6 counts), Sexual Misconduct, Coercion, Battery (28 incidents), Attempted Battery, Grand Theft (2 counts) Gross Malpractice (10 counts), Gross Negligence (7 counts), Incompetence (12 counts), Malpractice (32 counts), Negligence (7 counts), Substance Abuse (3 counts), Practicing Medicine without a License (34 counts), Impersonating a Doctor, Prescribing Drugs without a License, Unprofessional Conduct (2 counts), Medi-Cal Fraud (3 counts), Medicaid Fraud (2 counts), Falsification of Medical Records and Probation Violation (2 counts) California Feminists Really Care About Women, Don't They? Before Roe v. Wade, we heard a lot from the feminists and the "pro-choicers" about how the legalization of abortion would eliminate all of those nasty "back alley" abortion mills they told us so much about. Now the same feminists and "pro-choicers" tell us that we have to keep abortion "safe, legal and rare," when all they really care about is keeping it legal. The Bugarin case, and many others in this database, prove this point. All that happens is that the "pro-choicers" look the other way while incompetent hacks butcher one woman after another. Even when a nest of incompetent abortionists leave dozens of women dead or wounded, the "pro-choicers" stay silent simply because they value the mere availability of abortion far above the lives and well-being of these women. Enter Bertha Bugarin ― Businesswoman Extraordinaire Bertha Pinedo Bugarin was money-hungry, even by abortionist standards. She owned and operated the second largest chain of abortion mills in California, eleven clinics that she staffed with the worst of the worst ― abortionists who were sex offenders, substance abusers, unlicensed, and utterly incompetent. Bugarin developed the concept of the low-cost abortion mill chain herself, saving money by hiring abortionists to work on an on-call basis. She saved even more money by hiring the worst abortionists she could find, those who were out of work or desperate for cash. Bugarin named her abortion mills Clinica Medica para la Mujer de Hoy (Medical Clinics for the Woman of Today). Some also used the names Community Women's Medical Clinic and Family Planning Medical Center. They all operated on a cash-only basis, and systematically targeted Hispanic women. These assembly-line abortion mills were located in Baldwin Park, Huntington Park, Los Angeles, Panorama City, Chula Vista, North Hollywood, Torrance and Santa Ana. Bugarin herself had absolutely no medical training, but in her mad rush to make money, she performed many abortions herself when an actual medical doctor was not available. Operation Rescue president Troy Newman said that Bugarin has had a heck of a time keeping abortionists over the years, and has always

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hired the very bottom of the barrel. It looks like when she couldn't get one of her quack abortionists in the office, she did the job herself. Bertha is a predator who has a mercenary attitude about abortions. Laws mean nothing to her, as is the case with so many abortionists. She has been quoted as preferring to target Hispanic communities with her mills, presumably since women there may not be in the country legally and will be less likely to report problems. The sooner Bertha and all of her cohorts are behind bars, the better. Bugarin operated with virtually no interference for nearly two decades, despite mountains of evidence that she routinely butchered women. At least nine women testified that she had botched abortions on them, and many suffered from incomplete abortions that had to be repeated. One woman that Bugarin butchered was hospitalized three times and gave birth to a baby, who died three hours later. Bugarin's First Medical Director Abortionist Nicholas Braemer was one of the incompetent doctors that Bugarin hired, and he became the first Medical Director for her chain of abortion mills. He was in trouble with the medical authorities for decades after receiving his California medical license in 1966. • • In 1983, the California Medical Board put Braemer on five years' probation after a criminal conviction for state Medicaid fraud. On August 26, 1987, Braemer horribly botched an abortion on a viable preborn baby, managing only to chop one arm off the baby. The mother miscarried the dead child a day later, and he had only one arm. For this botched abortion, the California Medical Board found Braemer guilty of "gross negligence, repeated negligent acts and incompetence," suspended his medical license for 90 days, and placed him on probation for five years. The Medical Board found that he botched the abortion "through haste, inattention and neglect of his professional medical responsibilities," all of which Braemer admitted in accepting probation. In 1988, Braemer told a woman at the Huntington Park abortion mill that her abortion was successful. Six weeks later, she found out that she was 15 weeks pregnant with a severely wounded preborn child, and she had a second abortion. In June 1999, the Medical Board sought to revoke Braemer's license in because of this case, and in November of that year accused him of negligence in yet another case of a 1998 botched abortion. In 1996, Braemer grossly botched an abortion in Panorama City that left a woman with serious bowel damage. Three years later, the Medical Board formally accused him of gross negligence in the case, which happened while his medical license was under probation for previous findings of negligence. In the signed agreement to surrender his license, Braemer admitted gross negligence in the 1996 case. Finally, on August 1, 2000, Braemer, who had committed late-term abortions in at least ten locations, agreed to stop practicing medicine under a negotiated settlement with the California Medical Board. As always, Braemer was thinking only of himself as he said "I chose not to fight it. I agreed to retire. I'm 60 years old, I'm financially OK. I'm ready to do other things." He also said that Bugarin's abortion businesses will remain open, but would not do late abortions, as he did, between the 24th and 26th weeks of pregnancy. State investigators later added two allegations of negligence and unprofessional conduct to the charges, contending that Braemer told another woman that her abortion was successful when she was actually still pregnant, and that he allowed untrained staff to perform and interpret ultrasound pregnancy tests.

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On September 16, 2000, medical board investigators posed as patients at four of the ten abortion mills that Braemer worked in, one in Huntington Park, another in Baldwin Park and two in Los Angeles. On the basis of those visits, the Medical Board accused Braemer of allowing medical assistants to perform ultrasound pregnancy tests and interpret the results to patients, and that this amounted to their practicing medicine without a license.

Bugarin's Second Medical Director The second of Bugarin's medical directors was abortionist Laurence Reich, who was even more corrupt and dangerous than Nicholas Braemer, if such a thing can be imagined. Reich took over as Medical Director in 2000, when Braemer was forced to stop practicing his peculiar brand of medicine. Over a period of just three years, Reich was charged with 28 counts of battery, attempted battery, sexual misconduct, prescribing drugs without a license, coercion, and impersonating a doctor. Reich sexually assaulted two of his abortion patients, forcing them to have oral sex with him. He asked several women to masturbate in front of him. One patient claimed that Reich raped her and botched one of her abortions. Sherman Oaks resident Yvette Chambers said that Reich groped her breasts and asked explicit questions during an abortion. Court testimonies by several of his patients claimed that Reich sexually abused at least six of them and botched operations on at least four others. The California Medical Board finally put Reich on probation for ten years. Bugarin's chain of abortion mills were the subject of a 2005 Cable News Network (CNN) exposé that was so effective that even rabidly pro-abortion United States Senator Barbara Boxer sent a strongly worded admonition to the California Osteopathic Board demanding that Reich's medical license be suspended. Other Examples of Bugarin's Stellar Abortionists Bertha Bugarin employed a number of other abortionists, many of whom were in continual trouble with the law. Since she wanted to make as much money as quickly as possible off poor and undocumented Hispanic women, she appeared to value fluency in Spanish above medical competency. • • Abortionist Mohammed Dia surrendered his license after the California Medical Board charged him with malpractice and billing fraud. He admitted that he used a van to rush a bleeding patient to a hospital after perforating her uterus and leaving part of the preborn child in her body. Abortionist George Dalton Flanigan was convicted of stealing from the California state Medi-Cal program, and was accused of incompetence and negligence in the traumatic death of an infant named "Baby Girl Rodriguez," whom he delivered using a vacuum procedure after refusing to perform a Cesarean section. For this malpractice, the Medical Board put his medical license on probation for five years. Abortionist Glenn Edward Miller was a confessed alcoholic whose license was revoked by the California Medical Board in 2005 due to repeated substance abuse relapses. The Board also placed Miller on probation for performing obstetrical procedures while drunk. Abortionist Philip Rand, by then in his mid-80s, performed a vaginal suction procedure on "Angela P." at Bugarin's Clinica Medica Para la Mujer de Hoy in Santa Ana in the Summer of 2004. Angela was 20 weeks pregnant, but this procedure should usually only done until the 14th week of pregnancy, according to the National Abortion Federation (NAF). By the time paramedics arrived, Angela was lying in a pool of her own blood, her pulse racing and her blood pressure dangerously low from loss of blood. The California Medical Board found Rand's negligence "barbaric" and a "severe departure" from a reasonable standard of care. Before this

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incident, Rand had been sued at least forty times, had botched many abortions, and had had his medical license suspended four times. In 2003, abortionists Miller and Rand settled a malpractice lawsuit filed by a woman who said they gave her an abortion even though she was not pregnant, rupturing her uterus in the process. Rand finally was forced to surrender his medical license permanently in 2005. Abortionist John Rivera was arrested and convicted when he publicly groped a woman in the vaginal area while high on the drug ecstasy. Abortionist Steven Turnipseed was not even a medical doctor, but a physician's assistance who called himself "Dr. Steve." He performed abortions on women and botched many of them at Bugarin's North Hollywood and Panorama City clinics in 1999 and 2000. Finally, Operation Rescue reported Turnipseed to the Physician Assistant Committee of the California Medical Board, which accused him of gross negligence and repeated negligence, and of performing abortions without a physician present. In 2004 he admitted to all the allegations and was placed on probation for three years. He had also been placed on probation for two years previously for prescribing the wrong medication for a two-year-old boy with flu symptoms, and the child had to be hospitalized for complications.

Finally, the End of Bugarin's Bloody Trail In 2007, five of Bugarin's abortion mills were raided by a special unit of the Los Angeles Police Department, the Health Authority Law Enforcement Task Force, or HALT. In June 2008, Bertha Bugarin was charged with five felony counts of practicing medicine without certification and two misdemeanor counts of dispensing medication without a license, and her sister Raquel was charged with five felony counts of aiding or abetting the practice of medicine without certification. On April 24, 2009, Bertha Bugarin was sentenced to six years and nine months in a California state prison, on nine felony counts of committing abortions without a medical license. Judge Charles Gill ordered that Bugarin's sentence run concurrently with a sentence she was currently serving on similar charges in Los Angeles. Raquel Bugarin pleaded no contest to three counts of felony practicing medicine without a license in a plea bargain. On October 1, 2008, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Sam Ohta sentenced her to three years of probation, 500 hours of community service, and ordered her to pay $3,270 in restitution to six victims. A [Light] Slap on the Wrist for Accomplices However, two of Bugarin's accomplices at the Chula Vista abortion mill, Luz Catalina-Gomez and Paloma Yonna Solorzano-Rodriguez, received only three years of probation. Catalina-Gomez pleaded guilty to four counts of "treating the sick/afflicted without a certificate," and Solorzano-Rodriguez pleaded guilty to two counts of the same crime. Both also pleaded guilty to grand theft. Catalina-Gomez was sentenced to three years of formal probation, 350 hours of community service, and a year of jail suspended. Solorzano-Rodriguez was sentenced to the same, except for 200 hours of community service. Longtime Chula Vista resident Maria Hart was one of the many women who were outraged by the lenient sentences handed down by the courts, which perpetuated the protection afforded abortionists and their allies by the police and the courts. She said that her cousin had been mistreated and sexually molested in one of Bugarin's abortuaries: "She came out crying; she came out in tears, back then we were young. We kind of just went there and trusted the doctors and that they would treat us correctly,

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and they didn't. I don't think it's right that they're just still walking around, free to go." Operation Rescue spokesperson Cheryl Sullenger said that Bugarin's sentence was less than we had hoped, given the number of felonies and the seriousness of her crimes. ... Each time Bugarin committed an abortion, she knowingly risked the lives of the women she victimized. Bugarin was a cold-hearted predator who was unconcerned with the law or women's lives. All that mattered to her was making money. Putting her in jail was the only way she was ever going to stop. Thank God she is behind bars where she belongs. ... It is hard to fully describe the horrific nature of Bugarin's abortion business. To call it a "shop of horrors" is no overstatement. We pray for Bugarin's repentance and salvation during her extended stay in prison, and that she makes sincere efforts to amend her life. Hold On, Don't Celebrate Just Yet ... Just because the Bugarin sisters were taken out of the picture doesn't mean that the Clinica Medica chain of abortion mills would shut down. After all, there is money to be made! There are poor women to exploit! And, above all, there is no shortage of uncaring and incompetent abortionists who stand ready to step in and take over on a moment's notice! Bertha Bugarin handed over ownership of the chain of abortuaries to abortionist Nolan Jones in 2009. Jones was a medical predator who set up abortion mills in low-income areas of Southern California in order to "serve" low-income Hispanic women, so he was a natural to take over Bugarin's chain. He repeatedly got into trouble or fell behind on his bills, but he would just close one clinic and open up another one. His abortion mills would have names such as La Rose, The Butterfly Clinic, Women's Center Medical Group and Clinica Medica Latina Femina. Despite making a lot of money in the abortion business, Jones fell further and further behind in his bills. Finally, in 2003, he declared bankruptcy as protection against about a hundred creditors and nearly $100,000 in credit card debt. At this time, Jones appeared to be homeless and sleeping inside his abortion clinics. On April 20, 2009, the California Medical Board revoked Jones' medical license. The Medical Board's order said that Jones falsified the medical records of two patients, and violated his probation on several other charges. The California Medical Board had disciplined him on four previous occasions for offenses ranging from botched abortions to negligence during childbirth that led to the death of a newborn baby. Community Hospital in San Bernardino terminated his hospital privileges in 1997. Troy Newman said that This follows a national trend of abortionists being held accountable to the law. Jones was one of the most incompetent and dishonest abortionists in the country ― and that is saying a lot. His license should have been taken years ago. ... That man's life was train wreck. We pray for Jones' repentance and salvation, but as far as his abortion career goes, it is good riddance. The Killing Just Never Seems to End Abortionist Andrew Rutland was the perfect candidate to take over one of Bugarin's abortion mills. His medical license was revoked in 2003 after his negligence caused the death of a wanted baby during childbirth and he lied to the parents as to the cause of the child's death. He was on probation at

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the time for the deaths of two other infants. In 2007, his license was reinstated, and he took over the Chula Vista abortion mill from abortionist Nolan Jones, who had his license revoked in 2009, In July 2009, Rutland killed 30-year-old Ying Chen with a botched second-trimester abortion. The California Medical Board said that Ying had died in his "dirty, ill-equipped acupuncture clinic" in San Gabriel, and ordered him not to perform abortions. However, the Board allowed him to keep his restricted medical license, even after an undercover investigator with the Board caught him scheduling a surgery for an abortion. A month later, during a California Medical Board emergency hearing on February 18, Judge James Ahler ruled that Rutland could not only keep his medical license, but could perform non-surgical (RU-486) abortions. California Medical Board member Kathleen Nicholls asked incredulously "How many patients have to die before a doctor is shut down? It's unfortunate someone else is going to have to die to change this order." Troy Newman of Operation Rescue remarked that This is one of those times when one has to shake his head and ask what the judge was thinking. Rutland has a record of human destruction a mile long and he continues to flout the law and the restrictions put on him. He is a danger to the public. When Rutland injures or kills another person, and with his track record, that could be any day now, Judge Ahler will have that on his conscience. ... We pray that Rutland is the last abortionist in this cycle of abuse of women through illegal and unsafe abortions, and that this clinic will never be allowed to reopen. References: Santa Monica Municipal Court Case #M107591; Los Angeles County Superior Court Cases #C407986, #C413009, #C436254, #C522808, #C619947, and #C672949; Osteopathic Examiners Board Case #82-18; Kevin Sherlock. The Scarlet Survey [Akron, Ohio: Brennyman Books, 1997], pages 6 to 8; James McCoy. "Not a Back-Alley Clinic: This is Chula Vista." NewsNotes [San Diego's Catholic Newspaper], April 1999, pages 1 and 3; "California Abortion Practitioner Gives Up His Medical License." San Diego Union Tribune, June 22, 2000; "California Abortion Practitioner Gives Up His Medical License." Pro-Life Infonet, June 23, 2000; Maggie Garcia. "Unlicensed to Kill: Has Notorious Abortionist Really Left the Killing Business?" Los Angeles Lay Catholic Mission, October 2000, pages 1 and 3; Rosa Ortega. "Better Late Than Never?: Medical Board Finally Revokes Abortionists' Licenses." Los Angeles Lay Catholic Mission, May 2005; John-Henry Westin and Steve Jalsevac. "California Abortion Doc Convicted of Sexual Abuse Continues to Practice." LifeSite Daily News, November 1, 2005; Steven Ertelt. "California Woman Taken to Hospital after Botched Abortion in Santa Ana." LifeSite Daily News, February 16, 2006; "Convicted Sex-Offender Abortionist Still Practicing: De-Licensed California Doctor Allowed to Keep Clinics Open Until Mid-April." WorldNetDaily, March 2, 2006; Tiffany Hsu. "Abortion Clinics Operator is Charged." Los Angeles Times, February 8, 2008; Thomas Larson. "Bertha Bugarin Heads to Jail." San Diego Reader, February 18, 2009; Paul Tuns. "LA Times Exposes Abortion Malpractice." The Interim, March 23, 2008; "CA Medical Board Revokes Abortionist Nolan Jones' License." Operation Rescue, March 31, 2009; "Illegal Abortionist Bertha Bugarin Sentenced to 6 Years, 9 Months Prison." LifeSite Daily News, April 27, 2009; "Bugarin Accomplices Sentenced: Women Who Helped with Illegal Abortions get Probation, Community Service." California Catholic Daily, September 24, 2009; "Local Abortion Clinic's Troubled History Raises Questions: Allegations Of Molestation, Negligence Haunt Chula Vista Clinic." KGTV Television 10 News [San Diego, California], September 28, 2009; "Judge Refuses to Pull License from Abortion Doctor: State Medical Board Pushes for Action after Death of 30-Year-Old Patient." Christian Examiner, February 19, 2010.

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Murder, Malpractice (20 incidents) and Impersonating a Doctor [Santa Ana] Abortionist Alicia Ruiz Hanna was convicted in 1994 of second-degree murder after Angela Nieto Sanchez, a 27-year-old mother of four, died at Hanna's Santa Ana abortion mill in January 1993. Hanna owned and operated the abortion facility under the license of Dr. Anthony Lee Cappelli, who rarely visited the two-room facility, according to court testimony. Prosecutors asserted that Hanna posed as a doctor, performing up to 20 abortions with no doctor present. Sanchez suffered seizures after Hanna injected her with an unknown drug; Hanna later prevented a receptionist from calling 9-1-1, court testimony revealed. Sanchez had told family members only that she was getting a checkup. Two of her children sat in the waiting room for hours after she died. Later, they saw Hanna trying to stuff their mother's body into the trunk of a car in order to dump her body across the border in Tijuana, Mexico, according to court testimony. Hanna told them that Angela had just collapsed after being attacked by unidentified man who had run away, but the coroner indicated that Angela had been dead for at least six hours at that point.

Abortionist Alice Ruiz Hanna, found guilty of murder of a patient. Hanna's abortion facility was financially ailing when she began performing abortions herself to eliminate the middleman (the abortionist), prosecutors said. On January 28, 1995, Santa Ana, California

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Superior Court Judge Everett Dickey described her as "callous and self-serving" before sentencing her to 15 years to life in prison. In January 2000, the United States Supreme Court turned back a challenge to the abortionist's conviction and sentence. References: Rene Lynch. "Ex-Worker Tells of Attempt to Cover Up Death." Los Angeles Times, August 24, 1993; Rene Lynch. "Clinic Operator Sentenced for Murder." Los Angeles Times, January 28, 1995; Tim Graham and Clay Waters. "Roe Warriors: The Media's Pro-Abortion Bias." Media Research Council report dated July 22, 1998; Tony Gosgnach. "Cases Reveal a Path of Destruction Through Women, Children, and Society." The Interim, September 1998; Richard Marosi. "Santa Ana Clinic Owner's Murder Conviction Stands: Supreme Court Denies Alicia Ruiz Hanna an Appeal in Botched Abortion." Los Angeles Times, January 11, 2000. Attempted Murder and Conspiracy to Commit Murder [Ventura] Jaime Solis Olmos was certainly not happy that his girlfriend Justine Cornejo was pregnant with his child. He repeatedly tried to pressure her to have an abortion, but she refused. So he concocted a scheme to get rid of their preborn child. In January 2008, Olmos paid two men $500 to fake a robbery attempt and attack Justina in order to cause her to miscarry. When the couple was parked at an overlook in Newbury Park, the two men attacked Justina and punched her repeatedly in the face and stomach. The baby survived the attack and was born healthy. . On September 20, 2010, Ventura County Superior Court Judge found Olmos guilty of one count of conspiracy to commit murder and one count of attempted murder. References: “Man Hired Men to Beat Up Pregnant Girlfriend.” KGO Television (Channel 7, San Francisco), September 21, 2010; Steven Ertelt. “Men in California, Australia Attempt to Force Girlfriends to Have Abortions.” LifeNews.com, September 21, 2010. Rape (3 counts), Forcible Sodomy (3 counts), Sexual Battery, Practicing Medicine without a License (3 counts) and Illegal Abortion Gee, we used to hear a lot from the feminists about how legalizing abortion would put an end to those awful, nasty, back-alley abortions performed by untrained and unskilled people. Seems like they lied about that, too.

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Miguel Hugh Gomez liked being a doctor. Too bad he wasn’t one. But there is no better place to pretend being one that at a loosely-run abortion mill like Los Angeles’ La Clinica Eva. On October 25, 1987, a patient went to the La Clinica Eva abortion mill at 707 South Broadway in Los Angeles for an abortion. Gomez, posing as a physician, estimated that the preborn child was only 17 weeks old. He failed to even take a medical history of any kind, and there was no physician anywhere in the abortion mill at the time. Gomez got as far as severing the left arm of the child. The woman had to be transported to a nearby hospital, where real doctors found that the preborn child was actually at 31 weeks of development, fully viable. Unfortunately, the baby bled to death in the emergency room of the hospital. The California Medical Board suspended Gomez’ license in 1991, but that didn’t stop him from

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practicing medicine (of a sort). Police began to investigate Gomez in December 1994, after interviewing a man who had taken his wife to him for an abortion at the Daly Medical Clinic abortion mill in Montecito Heights. After a long period of time, the man got worried and went to check on her. He walked outside the building and looked through the windows, seeing Gomez having sex with another woman who appeared to be unconscious. Gomez pleaded “no contest” to the criminal charges of rape of an unconscious person (two counts), rape by use of drugs, sodomy of an unconscious person, unlawful practice of medicine with serious injury, unlawful representation as a physician, sexual battery by restraint, anal and genital penetration by a foreign object, and practicing medicine without a license. On June 12, 1996, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge William Pounders sentenced Gomez to 12 years in state prison.

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There was another very strange aspect to this repulsive story — there was not a peep from the same feminists who so loudly decried butcher abortionists before Roe v. Wade. Could it possibly be that they care more about the image of legal abortion than about the health of women? References: Physician’s Assistant Examining Committee's Division of Allied health Professions Medical Board of California Case # D-4430; “Bogus Doctor.” City News Service, June 12, 1996. Gross Negligence (2 incidents) Even before Roe v. Wade, the Bel Air abortion mill in Los Angeles specialized in late-term abortions. But sometimes someone other than the agonized preborn baby would die at Bel Air. Katherine M. Morse traveled to Los Angeles from Texas for a saline abortion at the hands of abortionist John Dupont, which took place at the Bel Air abortion mill on September 1, 1972. She complained of severe pain and a 102 degree fever 24 hours later. Her preborn baby was expelled just after noon on September 3, two days later. The coroner's report stated "Patient fretful, uncooperative throughout night. Hypotension, tachycardia, anuria noted 7:00 a.m. progressing to irreversible shock and death at 9:40 a.m." Preliminary diagnosis of sepsis was listed as the cause of her death, but the final cause of her death was determined to be shock due to gangrene of the ovary. The autopsy showed strangulation of the ovary and tube, hemorrhagic necrosis and edema. Just two months later, on November 13, 1972, Twila Coulter traveled from her home in Colorado to the Bel Air Hospital abortion mill in Los Angeles for a saline abortion. She died from the experience. Her autopsy report shows that she was admitted to a real hospital the next day and expelled her unborn child. Her blood pressure fell and she went into cyanosis. Doctors administered oxygen, and she began bleeding profusely from IV sites and her vagina. She received 3 units of blood and was transferred to another hospital in a comatose condition. A D&C removed retained pregnancy tissues. Her lab results were highly abnormal, and she was transferred to an intensive care unit (ICU). Doctors undertook aggressive treatment to address problems with her bleeding and clotting. Twila's parents were contacted and flew in from Colorado. They had been "unaware of her trip to Los Angeles or her plans for a therapeutic abortion. ... They were fully aware of the gravity of the patient's condition prior to her demise." Twila died the morning of November 15. An autopsy revealed a clot and extensive hemorrhage in her brain and in her internal organs and eyes. Her death was attributed to the hemorrhage in her brain.

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References: Los Angeles Times, November 10, 1972 and September 15, 1973; Los Angeles County Coroner Case #72-9587; Los Angeles County Coroner Case #72-12165. Gross Negligence, Negligence (8 incidents) and Incompetence (8 incidents) On August 13, 1986, abortionist Mahlon Douglas Cannon botched an abortion and killed Covina preschool teacher Donna Heim, 20, at the HER Medical Clinic abortion mill. Heim was asthmatic and began to suffer extreme respiratory distress during Cannon's abortion procedure. Instead of treating this breathing problem, Cannon chose to ignore it and complete the abortion. In June 1991, the California Medical Board adopted the decision of administrative law judge Richard J. Lopez that Cannon had been incompetent and negligent in treating at least eight abortion patients, including Heim. Cannon continued to perform abortions at the Family Planning Associates abortion mill on South Westmoreland Avenue in Los Angeles until he surrendered his medical license on July 10, 1991. Judge Lopez found that Cannon routinely did not perform required physical exams on his abortion patients, take medical histories or administer standard tests. In one case, the abortionist aborted one woman and sent her home despite severe bleeding. She later rushed to a hospital emergency room in severe distress. When the hospital called Cannon, he said that she should be sent home and come in for an office visit in a week or two. Fortunately, the hospital disregarded the abortionist's advice and performed emergency surgery, which revealed a perforated uterus and severe hemorrhage that required an emergency hysterectomy. References: Betsy Bates. "For Three Women, a Safe Medical Procedure Turned Deadly." Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, February 22, 1988, page A7; Claire Spiegel. "Physician in Abortion Case Loses License." Los Angeles Times, June 17, 1991, page B1. Involuntary Manslaughter and Negligence (3 incidents) A Trail of Death and Misery Abortionist Bruce Steir, according to the Associated Press, "with a history of disciplinary actions, was charged with murder after state regulators determined that he punctured a woman's uterus during an abortion." Deputy District Attorney Kennis Clark told Riverside County Judge Dennis McConaghy that Sharon Hamptlon bled to death after Steir ignored a danger he knew he had created. Steir was on medical probation at the time of the abortion because of his previous botched abortions, which included uterine perforations. He perforated Hamptlon's uterus during the December 13, 1996, abortion. After Hamptlon was discharged from A Lady's Choice Women's Medical Center, her mother drove to Barstow, where she and her daughter lived. But Doris Hamptlon could not awaken her daughter when they arrived at the mother's home. Hamptlon, 27, was dead before paramedics got her to Barstow Community Hospital. Her son, Curtis Bullorck, was 3 when his mother died. At the time of the abortion, both Steir and another abortionist, Joseph Durante, who owns the abortion facility, were on medical probation stemming from ethical problems and medical errors in previous abortions. Steir surrendered his medical license in March 1997 amid complaints about negligence during abortions, including three that required surgery to repair injuries. In one case, surgeons had to remove a fetal skull found protruding through a huge tear in a patient's uterus, according to complaints filed with the Medical Board of California. Another woman discovered that Steir had left behind a four-inch piece of wire in her abdomen during an abortion. She suffered for 13 years before the

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wire, and the abscess that surrounded it, were surgically removed. In 1985, Steir, who at the time was a Naval Reserve physician "moonlighting" as an abortionist, botched a cesarean section by leaving a placenta fragment inside his patient. In response, the Navy revoked his license to practice medicine. In 1987, the Florida Department of Professional Regulation ordered Steir to relinquish his license to practice medicine in that state and "never again to apply for licensure as a physician in the State of Florida." In 1988, while under probation with the California Medical Board, Steir perforated the uterus of an abortion client. An official review found that Steir "made no operative report or post-operative report [of the incident] until approximately eight months later, and this was in response to an investigation." Steir's behavior in that case prefigured, in detail, his actions in the death of Sharon Hamptlon. A 1990 malpractice suit filed by one of Steir's clients recounted how the abortionist had "informed [the woman] that there was a fetal mass that could be aborted when in fact no such mass was present." Despite the absence of a child to abort, Steir proceeded with the abortion, causing permanent uterine damage and a condition known as Asherman's Syndrome. Attorneys said key testimony during the Hamptlon trial came from Nancy Myles, an ultrasound technician who assisted Steir in the abortion. Myles recalled that Steir looked up during the abortion and said, "I think I pulled bowel." The bowel cannot be reached without perforating the uterus, Clark said. If Steir thought he had grabbed the bowel with a clamp during the procedure, he had to know he had perforated the uterus, she said. Steir's "Pro-Choice" Defenders Showing a callous and total disregard for the safety of women, pro-abortionists raised money for Steir's defense on the Internet, encouraged their friends to put pressure on elected officials and the California Medical Board, and urged the Riverside County prosecutor to drop the charges. Pro-abortionists even set up a professional-looking Web site in Steir's defense at http://www.steirsdefense.org. The Chico Feminist Womens Health Center (FWHC), where Steir was Medical Director, set up the grandly-named "Dr. Bruce Steir Constitutional Litigation Fund." E-mail fundraising letters from this group are a showcase of paranoia and a conspiracy theorist's delight. According to the pro-abortionists, the fault lies everywhere except with the incompetent, bungling abortionist. How typical. How utterly predictable. What do you expect? The "Fund's" February 28, 1998 letter, entitled "Medical Board of California Exploits Woman's Death," said In March 1996, Carol Downer, founding director of the Feminist Women's Health Center, organized a group of providers and supporters concerned about escalating attacks on second-trimester abortion providers. Community Access to Reproductive Services (CARES) has been actively investigating the harassment and discrimination of abortion doctors by the Medical Board of California (MBC). CARES found in a recent study that nearly 90% of doctors of freestanding abortion clinics are on probation with the Medical Board [Editor's note: Could this have anything to do with the fact that abortionists are generally incompetent, negligent hacks?]. One doctor had to battle the MBC six years to retain his license. During this time, he uncovered facts that document that the MBC participated in a campaign to selectively harass and close later abortion doctors [Editor's note: Naturally, such documents were never made available to the curious, who wanted to see evidence of such charges]. ... Jeanette Driesbach, referred

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to in a Riverside newspaper as an "anti-abortion spokeswoman," has a ten year history of collaborating with the Medical Board of California to eliminate abortion doctors from practice. ... Through testimony it became evident that the Hamptlon family was the target of Driesbach's anti-choice crusade. Doris Hamptlon, Sharon's mother, testified that she was working with Driesbach regarding her daughter's death. Hamptlon also testified that Driesbach connected her with anti-choice attorney, Jack Schuler, for a civil law suit against Dr. Steir on the family's behalf [Editor's note: Why is it a crime for pro-lifers to attack abortion by working with a victim's family when their daughter dies ― but it is all right for pro-abortionists to work with the family of a girl (Becky Bell) who died of an alleged "illegal abortion" for the purpose of supporting abortion? This is just more pro-abort two-faced hypocrisy]. ... Although Judge McConaghy insisted, before the hearing, that he could be "fair," it has been learned that he holds strong anti-abortion views and regularly participated in Christian Fundamentalist prayer meetings [Editor's note: Gee, what a crime! Apparently no Christian can be "fair" in the feminist's eyes. Of course, if the guy had been a practicing Satanist and drag queen, he would have been perfectly acceptable to them. Just another ordinary guy]. ... What You Can Do: • Contribute or raise money to help pay for trial expenses. • Attend court this summer or fall in Riverside; • Urge national and local pro-choice groups you belong to take a position of support for Dr. Steir; • Send tax-deductible contribution to: Dr. Bruce Steir Constitutional Litigation Fund, c/o Feminist Women's Health Center, 1469 Humboldt Road, Suite 200, Chico, Ca 95928, (530) 891-1911, (530) 893-9347 Fax. A breathless e-mail letter sent out by the "Steir Defense Fund" on March 4, 1998, said, in part, Dear Pro-Choice Supporter: The nightmare of Dr. Bruce Steir, abortion physician, continues. ... On February 18, 1998 Judge Dennis A. McConaghy, an anti-abortion judge in conservative Riverside County, California has held him over for trial. ... Dr. Steir's nightmare could happen to any provider of late abortions, especially one who travels a distance to provide abortions in a conservative community. He has surrendered [his medical] license, being unable to fight three legal battles at once ― the battle to retain his license, the battle to prove he was not negligent, and the battle to stay out of jail. For several years California abortion providers have been alarmed at the California Medical Board's relentless attack on physicians who do later abortions. No one could foresee these outrageous criminal charges. In hindsight, it is easy to see how, given the climate of fear, suspicion, ignorance and pressure from the largest contingent of anti-abortion forces in the state, the California Medical Board could inflame the community justice system into bringing such harsh charges. Representatives from abortion clinics have attended all hearings and have examined all the medical records and the chart. We are fully satisfied that Sharon Hamptlon, the patient who died from an undetected perforation that bled into the abdominal cavity, was provided with competent medical treatment that met or exceeded that standard of care. This attack is serious. The effects of this attack, even if Dr. Steir is charged with the lowest criminal charge, Involuntary Manslaughter, can have a devastating effect on the availability of later abortion care nationally. Abortion providers understand this. We must take the lead in standing by

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Bruce and educating our pro-choice community about the fact that abortion is a comparatively safe procedure, but serious, sometimes fatal, complications can happen, even with excellent care. The Dr. Bruce Steir Constitutional Litigation Fund welcomes your questions, your ideas, your participation, and your financial support. Shauna Heckert, executive director of the Northern California Feminist Women's Health Centers, where Steir worked for 12 years, said "he really did have a bigger goal in mind ... to help women." In this case, he certainly did help Sharon Hamptlon ― right into the grave. Specifically, the national leadership of the National Organization for Women (NOW), the National Abortion Federation (NAF), Refuse and Resist, and the California chapter of the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARRAL, now NARAL Pro-Choice America), argued against filing any charges at all against Steir. The Chico [California] Feminist Women's Health Center (FWHC) went so far as to set up a "Dr. Bruce Steir Constitutional Litigation Fund." Naturally, they blamed the murder charge on pro-lifers, claiming that the charges were "trumped-up" and brought for "political" reasons, and, despite Steir's own admissions, claimed that the complications he caused during the abortion were "undetected" [see excerpts from the above letter]. During his hearings, several workers for the Feminist Womens Health Centers (FWHCs) appeared in the courtroom wearing large "STEIR, OUR HERO" buttons, and one was ejected from the courtroom. The FWHC in Chico, California, was Steir's primary employer. The National Organization for Women (NOW) followed FWHC's lead. A letter of support from the Sacramento chapter of NOW said that "It is an inequitable tragedy that a doctor, who has dedicated so many years of his practice to providing abortion services, now faces such unjust harassment. The charges against Dr. Steir must be dropped, not only because we believe that he is not guilty of murder but also because we must send the message that we cannot be bullied by the anti-choice movement." A 1998 letter from the National Abortion Federation (NAF) urged that the murder charge be set aside and that any action against Steir be taken through "medical peer review and civil court." The NAF, which "sets and maintains quality care standards for abortion services," insisted that there was no evidence that "Dr. Steir deliberately put aside all his years of training and experience in order to cause harm to this patient."

Butcher abortionist Bruce Steir, who killed a patient and was then strongly defended by many large national “pro-choice” groups, showing that they care

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more about the “right” to abortion than they care about the lives of women. A report by the Northern California chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which had filed amicus briefs on Steir's behalf, insisted that the prosecution of Steir was part of a vast conspiracy by "anti-choice" activists. The ACLU report whined that "Through harassment and violence, anti-choice groups have tried to frighten women out of seeking abortions and to frighten doctors out of providing them. ... Recent years have seen the rise of another tactic: Using the legal and regulatory systems to intimidate abortion providers and drive them out of business." Refuse & Resist!, an extremely violent Marxist group headquartered in New York's Cathedral of St. John the Divine, designated Steir "a true hero" as it conferred its supposedly coveted "Courageous Resister" award upon Steir during its March 10, 1998 "National Day of Appreciation for Abortion Providers." Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Dorothy Fadiman, who attended the Refuse & Resist! ceremony in San Francisco, described Steir as "part of a sacred circle who have put their lives on the line for us." Meanwhile, Steir, like so many other abortionists, blamed the women for their problems when he said that "They were all second-trimester abortions. The patients put themselves at risk by waiting so long." Showing its utter disregard for the lives of women, the abortion industry, while canonizing Steir, resolutely ignored the women who had been maimed by him. Steir's defenders dismissed the death of Sharon Hamptlon as a "tragic complication," rather than another episode of gross negligence on his part. What was really important, maintained the abortion establishment, were the supposed motives of Steir's opponents. For example, a letter from Eleanor Smeal's Feminist Majority Foundation (FMF) to the California Medical Board asserted that "We believe the murder charge against Dr. Bruce Steir is part of an orchestrated campaign by anti-abortion extremists that targets health care workers and continues to harass them until they quit. We urge you to consider the possibility of ulterior motives of those accusing Dr. Steir and to respond accordingly." In summary, it is significant that none of the self-proclaimed "champions of women's rights" considered it worthwhile to hold Steir accountable for his gross ineptitude. In a February 15, 1989 deposition, Steir admitted that he spent an average of seven seconds with each patient before aborting them. He said that his total interaction with the women consisted of the words "Hello, my name is Bruce and I'm here to perform your abortion. How are you?" Yet Another "Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy" Phyllida Burlingame of the American Civil Liberties Union authored a "study" concluding that legitimate doctors were not treated as harshly as Bruce Steir. State officials dismissed the allegations, calling the study a flawed review and a rehash of arguments that failed Steir's defense team in court. In a written statement, a medical board official assailed the ACLU study. The review contains no information on how Burlingame evaluated the cases, said Ron Joseph, the board's executive director. And it ignored the fact that the medical review process includes independent examinations by doctors, prosecutors and administrative judges. Burlingame's study also accused the California Attorney General's Office of inappropriately providing information about the Steir investigation to a pro-life organization before the information was made public. That information was used to lobby for criminal charges, she said. Deputy Attorney General Jose Guerrero said no information was released before it was included in public records. Many of the study's conclusions were raised as defense issues by Steir's attorneys. Judges rejected the arguments before Steir accepted a plea bargain. "How many times do we get to chew this cud?" Riverside County prosecutor Kennis Clark asked, calling the study an attempt to generate publicity just

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before Steir's sentencing. Clark said Steir's remark that he had "pulled bowel" was the key to the prosecution. "If that statement had never been made, we never would have prosecuted that case," she said. "When you make a statement that you've done something bad and don't do anything to fix it, that's when you're in trouble. ... Because [Steir] had so many prior bad acts and lies in his background ... we know that he knew." Abortionist Dennis Christensen of the Madison Abortion Clinic in Wisconsin wrote that since [Steir] has relinquished his medical credentials, there is no way he can be considered a threat to the community. Any other medical mishap that didn't involve abortion or intentional abuse would never have seen the inside of a criminal courtroom. I am convinced that Dr. Steir is being crucified on the tree of political ambition. ... The practice of medicine is an imperfect and often unpredictable undertaking which doesn't always follow a happy ending script and I believe justice would be best served with a minimal judicial penalty. No Remorse In an interview with the publication Inland Empire, Steir said, "My incarceration proved nothing." He maintained he was guilty only of failing "to make the diagnosis of her (Hamptlon's) condition." "I'm absolutely not sorry," he told the Inland Empire. "I'm sorry I ended up in jail. I'm sorry I had to surrender my license and I'm sorry a woman died. I would like not to have done that abortion that day." His order of priorities is telling; he apparently sees himself as the primary victim in the matter. Jack Schuler, the Hamptlon family's attorney, said "I don't understand why the pro-choice people want to rally around the cause of a shoddy physician. If I were in their shoes, I would do as much as possible to distance myself from the likes of Steir ... rather than having him be the poster boy for my cause." At the last possible minute, as jury selection was about to begin, Steir pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter. He entered the plea in Riverside County Superior Court. Pro-aborts continued to support him. Despite the crushing weight of evidence, Carol Downer ignored all reality and said "I'm incredibly sad. There was no case. I'm sure this will give heart to people who want to attack doctors." Steir's defense had suffered a series of losses in court while arguing that he was a victim of selective prosecution, targeted because he performed abortions. Despite a total lack of evidence, defense attorneys also alleged that state officials and prosecutors pushed for a murder charge because of pressure from abortion opponents. In pretrial hearings, Judge Vilia Sherman said she saw no indication that pro-life pressure led to the charge. A state official denied the selective-prosecution allegation and said abortion opponents hold no sway in any investigation into medical wrongdoing. Candis Cohen, spokeswoman for the Medical Board of California, said that "Mr. Steir's record ... of mispractice speaks for itself." Hamptlon's mother, Doris, said that Steir should go to prison for a "long, long, long, long time. My child's never coming back." Doris Hamptlon and her husband now care for Sharon's son. In 1999, the family agreed to a settlement worth up to $2 million in a civil lawsuit against Steir. The clinic where the abortion was performed is owned by Dr. Joseph Durante, who was placed on two months' probation last year for failing to disclose previous disciplinary actions taken against him. On November 30, 1998, the San Diego Union stated that "The shadow of Dr. Bruce Steir hangs over the Medical Board of California like a cloud ― a constant reminder of how an incompetent and dangerous physician slipped through the cracks. ... Beginning in 1985, when he was thrown off staff at the Naval Hospital on Camp Pendleton, Steir repeatedly was disciplined for harming California women."

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Four Months in Jail for Killing a Woman Steir was spared a prison sentence. His punishment for killing Sharon Hamptlon was a year in the county jail, 60 months of probation, and 1,000 hours of community service. The sentencing judge suspended 180 days of the sentence, thus reducing the term to six months. On September 16, 2000, after serving 114 days, Steir was released. This was done for his ostensible good behavior, which apparently did not require even the most trivial expression of remorse. References: "Abortion Doctor." Associated Press, October 24, 1997; "Abortion Practitioner to be Tried for Second-Degree Murder." The Press-Enterprise [Riverside, California], December 19 anad 21, 1996, and February 19 and July 11, 1998; American Life League's Communiqué, November 14, 1997; Raymond Smith. "Funds Raised for Abortion Doctor." The Press-Enterprise, December 1, 1997, pages B1 and B2; "Woman's Death From Legal Abortion Continues to Cause Concern." Los Angeles Times, December 1, 1998; "Woman's Death From Abortion Makes for Explosive Case." Pro-Life Infonet, July 31, 1998, December 2, 1998 and February 19, 1999; "Legal Abortion Death Continues to Make Headlines," Sacramento Bee, February 18, 1999; "Abortion Practitioner Who Killed Woman Will Face Murder Trial." Pro-Life Infonet, April 6, 2000; Raymond Smith, The Press-Enterprise. "Plea Changed to Guilty in Abortion Case: An Agreement to a Lesser Charge is Reached as the Murder Trial was About to Begin." Inland Empire Online, April 10, 2000; "Abortionist Changes Plea to Guilty in Murder Trial." Pro-Life Infonet, April 7, 2000; "Abortionist Pleads Guilty: First Such Conviction Ever in State." San Diego News Notes, May 2000, pages 1 and 3; "News." Los Angeles Lay Catholic Mission, May 2000, pages 10 and 11; "ACLU Says Bias Led to Prosecution of Bruce Steir." Riverside Press-Enterprise, May 26, 2000; "ACLU Says Bias Led to Prosecution of Bruce Steir." Pro-Life Infonet, May 28, 2000; "Steir Gets Only One Year for Abortion-Related Death." Pro-Life Infonet, May 30, 2000; Maggie Garcia. "Caught Off Guard: Abortionist Sentenced to Jail." Los Angeles Lay Catholic Mission, July/August 2000, page 1; Julie Foster and Michael P. Ackley. Jailed Abortionist to be Released Early. Doctor Who Botched Procedure: 'My Incarceration Proved Nothing'." WorldNetDaily.com, September 16, 2000; William Norman Grigg. "The Abortion Underworld." The New American, January 15, 2001 [this is a wonderful description about how pro-abortion groups fully supported a butcher]; "Abortion Practitioner Convicted of Manslaughter in Legal Abortion Death." Arizona Republic, May 5, 2001; Pro-Life Infonet, May 5, 2001. Infanticide (2 counts) [Santa Ana] On March 2, 1977, abortionist William Waddill, Jr. committed a third-trimester abortion saline abortion and delivered alive a viable baby girl, whom he then strangled to death. This was the second time he had been charged with infanticide. References: "Defense Rests in Dr. Waddill Trial Despite 'Missing' Evidence." National Right to Life News, June 1979, page 5; Omaha World-Herald, October 19, 1979; Philadelphia Inquirer, August 8, 1981; Los Angeles Times Magazine, January 7, 1990; Orange County Superior Court Case Number C-37815, Case Number 28-84-14. Infanticide Nurse witnesses stated that an abortionist from San Vicente Hospital, California, aborted a 7-month old preborn baby live. Some time later, he noticed that the baby was still moving, and drowned the little

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child in a vat of formaldehyde. Reference: "Technician Alleges Aborted Baby Drowns." National Right to Life News, March 25, 1982, page 5. Gross Negligence (3 incidents), Negligence (7 incidents), Incompetence (3 incidents), Improper Recordkeeping (2 incidents) and Medi-Cal Fraud Abortionist Leo Kenneally botched a December 19, 1992 abortion on Estella Gonzales at the HER abortion mill. After she left the abortion mill, she collapsed and was rushed to an emergency room for surgery to repair a lacerated uterus and intestines. Estella reported that while she was hospitalized, clinic employees visited her and offered her $10,000, and later $5,000 and a Cadillac; HER's attorney called this "a humanitarian gesture." Kenneally was charged with negligence by the medical board in the 1986 death of Donna Heim following an abortion at his HER Medical Clinic by Mahlon D. Cannon. Kenneally aborted Liliana Cortez on September 20, 1986 at his HER Medical Clinic. She went into cardiac arrest after the abortion, and there was a 40-minute delay before paramedics arrived. She was transported to a hospital, where she died five days later. Her death was ruled a "therapeutic misadventure," which a coroner's spokesman called "a nice medical term for a mistake." The attorney for the abortion mill said that "If something like this happened at a hospital, people would just say it was bad luck, one of those fluky things. But all of a sudden they make it seem like these [abortion clinics] are terrible places where terrible things happen." Kenneally's medical license was suspended after his negligence resulted in several deaths and injuries. He was investigated after the death of another woman (possibly Maria Soto, who died at the HER Medical Clinic on September 9, 1985). The California Medical Board attributed the deaths of Donna K. Heim, Liliana Cortez, and Michelle Thames to his neglect or incompetence. His medical license was suspended in 1975 for federal narcotics records-keeping violations and in 1979 for Medi-Cal theft. The California Medical Board voted to allow Kenneally to keep his medical license despite finding him guilty of incompetence and negligence because he works in an "underserved" neighborhood. References: Los Angeles Times, June 17, 1991 and January 31, 1993; Betsy Bates. "For Three Women, a Safe Medical Procedure Turned Deadly." Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, February 22, 1988, page A7; Los Angeles County Superior Court Case #SWC30375; Claire Spiegel. "Physician in Abortion Case Loses License." Los Angeles Times, June 17, 1991, page B1. Gross Negligence (5 incidents), Malpractice (52 incidents) and Violation of Health and Safety Standards (62 incidents) Introduction. There are several examples of high-volume abortion mills in the United States that have repeatedly killed women, whose abortionists have botched literally dozens of abortions, and which have failed inspection after inspection ― but which operate for years or even decades. These 'front-alley' abortion mills are always loudly defended by the press, the State, and the pro-abortionists regardless of how many women die or are butchered at them. A prime example of this kind of legalized butchery is presented by the Inglewood Women's

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Hospital, in Los Angeles, California. This huge abortion mill killed an incredible 12,000 preborn children a year, making it one of the largest clinics in the United States. It was also operated so sloppily that deaths and maimings were inevitable. Inglewood abortionists worked quickly and efficiently, and each patient spent just five minutes in Inglewood's single operating room. This five minute time period included not only the abortion, but the preparation of the room for the next patient, which meant cleaning the floor and procedure table and suction machine. This five minutes also included counseling. Belinda Byrd was aborted at nineteen weeks gestation, which means the abortionist had perhaps three minutes to dismember and extract a preborn baby that weighed about a pound. Abortionist Steven N. Pine botched two abortions so badly that both of his patients died: Yvonne Tanner in 1984 and Belinda Ann Byrd in 1987, both at the Inglewood Women's Hospital abortion mill. Several other women died at the high-volume clinic over the years, including Kathy Murphy, Lynette Wallace, Cora Mae Lewis and Elizabeth Tsuji. The Unlamented Death of Belinda Byrd. Belinda Byrd, young mother of three, died at the hands of abortionist Steven N. Pine at the Inglewood abortion mill in 1987. But the abortion mill continued to butcher women unimpeded by the State, the media, or feminists. Belinda was the 74th abortion of the day in Inglewood's single procedure room. Belinda's mother, Mattie Byrd, tried hard to get justice for her little daughter, but nobody would listen to her. Finally, she resorted to putting posters up in her Watts neighborhood urging the State to take action against the Inglewood abortion mill. She finally wrote a letter to a Los Angeles district attorney; I am the mother of Belinda A. Byrd, victim of abortionists at 426 E. 99th Street in Inglewood. I am also the grandmother of her three young children who are left behind and motherless. I cry every day when I think how horrible her death was. She was slashed by them and then she bled to death. ... She has been stone dead for two years now, and nobody cares. I know that other young Black women are now dead after abortion at that address ― Cora Mae Lewis and Yvonne Tanner. Where is [the abortionist] now? Has he been stopped? Has anything happened to him because of what he did to my Belinda? Has he served jail time for any of these cruel deaths? People tell me nothing has happened, that nothing ever happens to White abortionists who leave young Black women dead. I'm hurting real bad and want some justice for Belinda and all other women who go like sheep to slaughter. Sincerely, Mrs. Mattie Byrd As a partial result of this botched abortion, the Inglewood Women's Hospital had its license revoked by the State of California and closed down a month after Belinda's death. However, money is a great motivator, and it opened only two weeks later with a different name: The West Coast Women's Medical Group. It was now a freestanding clinic, meaning that it did not have to have a State license. It was subsequently bought by mega-abortionist Edward Allred (who has also killed several women), and still functions to this day. It was Allred who famously exposed himself as a racist when he said that I would do free abortions in Mexico to stem the new influx of Hispanic immigrants.

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Their lack of respect for democracy and social order is frightening. ... When a sullen Black woman of 17 or 18 can decide to have a baby and get welfare and food stamps and become a burden to all of us, it's time to stop. In parts of South Los Angeles, having babies for welfare is the only industry these people have [San Diego Union, October 12, 1980]. Women Who Died at Inglewood. • On August 24, 1973, Kathleen Denise Murphy was aborted at the Inglewood Women's Hospital abortion mill. After the abortion, she drifted in and out of consciousness. She stayed at Inglewood until the staff finally transferred her by ambulance to Centinela Hospital on September 7, two full weeks after her abortion. On that same day, the hospital transferred her back to Inglewood, where abortionist John Dupont pronounced her dead at 1:20 on the morning of September 8. Her autopsy showed that she died of massive cervical and uterine infections caused by the abortion. Her cervix in particular was covered with greenish-black pus. On September 13, 1975, 22-year-old Lynette Wallace was aborted at the Inglewood Women's Hospital abortion mill. Two weeks later, on September 27, she reported to a hospital emergency room, complaining of severe abdominal pain. She became hysterical, and died of cardiopulmonary arrest at 10:53 AM. Her autopsy revealed what Inglewood abortionists should have detected ― that she had had an ectopic pregnancy. Her Fallopian tube had ruptured, causing a massive infection. On February 2, 1978, Elizabeth Tsuji had a saline abortion at the Inglewood Women's Hospital abortion mill and died three days later. On November 11, 1983, Cora Mae Lewis was aborted at the Inglewood Women's Hospital abortion mill. After the abortion, she developed fever and chills and was admitted to a real hospital, where she died on December 3. She died of pneumonia and lung abscesses caused by uterine and cervical inflammations caused by her abortion, but the death was classified as "natural" and an "accident." On July 10, 1984, Steven Pine and/or Morton Barke aborted Yvonne Tanner at Inglewood. She immediately went into a coma after the abortion and died on August 14, 1984. Last to die at Inglewood was Belinda Byrd, who was aborted at Inglewood by Steven Pine on January 24, 1987. She was 19 weeks pregnant. She went into a coma and died on January 27 due to bleeding from a punctured uterus.

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Other Botched Abortions at Inglewood. Many other women alleged malpractice and various other injuries at the hands of Steven Pine or other abortionists at Inglewood. These women included; 1971: 1972: Joyce B., aborted at the West Coast Medical Group, as Inglewood was called at that time, on October 29, 1971. Debra V., at the hands of abortionist Richard B. Tepper. Debra said in her suit that Inglewood seemed designed "to get me through the operation as quickly as possible as opposed to ensuring my well being and safety, both before, during and after the operation;" Tami R., aborted on June 1-2, 1972; and Jean K., for a Planned Parenthood-referred abortion at the hands of Dennis Perlow. Jean said that "They told me that the abortion was a quick and simple procedure and that no problems could result. I wasn't warned that the doctors performing the abortion had so many other abortions to do that realistically it would be hard for them to do

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anything with care. ... I was sent to an abortion mill." Janet C., Gladys G. and Gloria D., at the hands of abortionist John Dupont on June 9, 1973, July 11, 1973, and September 4, 1973, respectively; Sharon M., at the hands of Maclyn Wade and/or Dennis Perlow in May 1973; and 13-year-old Cynthia T., at the hands of Leo Kenneally in April 1973. According to her lawsuit, little Cynthia suffered "post-abortal clostridia sepsis, diffuse intravascular coagulation, and acute tubular necrosis. ... Some necrotic material was found in the uterus, draining of the cul-de-sac revealed pus, and the uterus was found to be quite involved by a suppurative process as were the tubes and ovaries. The plaintiff also suffered acute renal failure. ... [The plaintiff] has suffered severe emotional, nervous, mental and psychological shock resulting from the complete abdominal hysterectomy, and demonstrated by prolonged periods of depression and lethargy." The little girl must take medications for the rest of her life, and will never have children, thanks to the Inglewood assembly-line abortion mill. Patricia J., at the hands of abortionist John Dupont on November 30, 1974; and Laura M. at the hands of abortionist Floyd Gray and/or Jacobs Noghrian on January 15, 1974; Aliner P., at the hands of abortionist Fred D. Parrott on April 25, 1975; Deborah S., at the hands of Morton Barke on September 29, 1978. Elizabeth Tsuji also died at Inglewood in 1978. Karen C., at the hands of John Dupont on July 28, 1979, and Linda L., at the hands of Scott Ricke on October 20, 1979. Also, the Philadelphia Inquirer, on August 2, 1981, published a story of live births after abortion at Inglewood, and described a 1979 case where a 1-pound 11-ounce infant was born after a saline abortion and subsequently died. Mia C., at the hands of abortionist P. Scott Ricke on June 12, 1980. Sandra Applegate; and Dorothy A., aborted on June 27, 1981. Vicky Rabourn; Betty Matthews; Shannette D., aborted at Inglewood on February 17, 1982; Betty M. and Vicky R., aborted at the hands of Steven Pine on September 29 and November 24, respectively; and Stella G., aborted at Inglewood on November 14, 1982. Patrice C., aborted by Morton Barke and/or R. Weaver and/or C. Von Dippe at Inglewood on April 27, 1983. Tracy M. Medley, Susan Lee Minyo, Shanti Friend, Leslie M. Thompson and Kathryn Ann Hummell [the last by Steven Pine at Women's Care Hospital]; Shanti F., at the hands of Steven Pine on June 19, 1984; Leslie T., at the hands of Lola Barke and/or Steven Pine and/or Bruce Shiffman on January 5, 1984; Dianne C., at the hands of Morton Barke on September 11, 1984; Tracy M., at the hands of Steven Pine and/or Morton Barke on June 1, 1984; and Susan M., at the hands of Steven Pine and/or Morton Barke on April 17, 1984. Juana Nunez; Penny P., aborted by Bruce Schiffman on August 2, 1986; Juana N., aborted by Edward Wilson on September 13, 1986, and winding up being hospitalized for five weeks; Kate A., at the hands of Bennett Weiss on October 12, 1986; Debra W., sterilized and then aborted by Steven Pine; and Dayna H., at the hands of Bruce Schiffman and/or Chand Aryasingha in December 1986. Debra Weaver; Mary Y., 22 weeks pregnant, aborted on January 22, 1987 by Morton Barke and/or Steven Pine, and/or Theresa Zumwalt; Edith H., aborted at Inglewood in June 1987; Teresa C., at the hands of Teresa Zumwalt and/or Morton Barke on June 2, 1987; Christina G., aborted at Inglewood on June 26, 1987; Monique D., at the hands of David Lieu on November 11, 1987; and Rosette M., aborted by John Kaplan on December 11, 1987. Donnetta G., failed abortion on May 21, 1988.

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The "Inglewood Women's Hospital" abortion mill is the perfect example of exactly how unconcerned abortionists are about women's health. Inspection after inspection turned up life-threatening deficiencies. After the death of Elizabeth Tsuji, a March 1978 inspection found: • • • • • • • • • • no pulmonary function testing available; missing radiology equipment; required equipment not in recovery room; no identification of infections evident at time of admission; no documentation that the physician director was coordinating respiratory care services; respiratory care diagnostic and therapeutic procedures were not being provided; facility conducting outpatient surgical services without having applied for a license to do so; dietetic supervisor not qualified to do the job. This was very important, since many of Inglewood's late-term abortion patients had to stay overnight in the abortion mill; syringes and needles not being rendered unusable in the recovery room; and facility had an inadequate disaster plan.

Three days after Cora Mae Lewis died at Inglewood in November 1978, another inspection found • • • • • • • • • radiology equipment missing; required equipment not in recovery room; unqualified staff inserting laminaria and performing physicals; no nursing care plans for seven patients; standing orders not signed; medical records charting not all signed; facility still using an unqualified dietetic supervisor; facility still failing to render syringes and needles unusable; and forms for sterilizations did not have physician signature, date, and time.

A February 1980 inspection found that conditions had not improved. Obviously, the abortionists at Inglewood had learned that the State of California was not going to impede their mad rush for money in any meaningful way. This inspection found; • • • • • • • • no documentation that a registered nurse was always available; there was not always an RN assigned to the recovery room; two of three nursing plans reviewed were identical, and had not been individualized for each patient; there were more problems with the charts and documentation, including notes not being signed by the person making the observation; there were also irregularities of standing orders; "surgery log had white out and a different procedure performed written over;" "history and physician exams as recorded were less than adequate in a number of charts;" and consent forms for sterilizations still did not have physician's signature, date, and time.

Inglewood continued to operate unimpeded. A year later, a February 1981 inspection found; • no documentation of pre- and post-anesthesia instructions;

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only one crash cart available for both nursing and surgery; cloth-wrapped sterile supplies were marked with a six-month expiration date rather than a thirty-day expiration date indicated in policies; ECG machine not on written preventive maintenance program; electromedical equipment not tested as scheduled; no control panel for nursing call station; and diet orders unclear.

A September 24, 1982 inspection found; • • • • • • • • • • • • • • post-anesthesia notes dated later than the time the observation was supposedly made; records face sheets were signed off by the physician with blank spaces later stamped with final diagnosis, surgery, and complications; date and time of orders were not documented; patient records were charted by aides but signed by a registered nurse; improper documentation of IVs; discrepancies between medications ordered and medications administered; only one registered nurse available for the pre- and post-operative surgical area for the 72 patients scheduled the day of the inspection; patients not provided with visual privacy; plastic anesthesia face masks were washed and re-used; multiple patients were given the same IV solution from the same container, using the same tubing; staff were not changing scrub suits between patients; linens were stored uncovered; an operating room technician washed his hands for surgery, then opened the operating room door, contaminating his hands; and solid waste bins were not covered and "had encrustations of putrescable material."

Another inspection, carried out one year later on September 23, 1983, found; • • • • • • • • • • • times for vital signs were not recorded in the recovery room; sites of injections were often not recorded; one medication was given 3 hours after it was ordered; there was no infection control policy addressing scrub clothes; there was inadequate documentation of "all possible infections possibly acquired during hospitalization and evident following discharge;" an addition to the rear of the operating room was not rodent-proof or sealed from the elements; infection control in the disposal of infectious waste was not followed; not all staff were documented as being tested for tuberculosis; a patient ordered a particular diet, but there was no menu available to define the diet; another patient was put on a surgical liquid diet the day before that diet was ordered for her; and dishes were being towel-dried rather than air-dried; this could contaminate the dishes.

In response to complaints, the State inspected Inglewood yet again in May and June of 1984. These inspections found; • a patient had a complication, but "none" was listed in the complication section of the surgical

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log; two patient surgical logs had no entries, just a blank under the complications section; laminaria was inserted by unlicensed staff; a patient was transferred to another hospital without proper documentation; consent for laminaria insertions was not always checked; two patients' physical exam forms and history forms contained different information; unlicensed staff were doing tentative gestational diagnosis; there was no documentation that a physician was notified of ruptured membranes in one case; one aide inserted laminaria, but another was documented as doing it; there was no documentation of observations of a patient having seizures; one patient was charted as in acute distress and unable to get blood pressure, but the type of distress was not described and no reason was given for the apparent inability to get her blood pressure; entries in charts were written over and/or not dated; there was no stripchart EKG in the post-anesthesia recovery room; the written policy for the flash autoclave used to sterilize instruments was not followed; the facility was advertising outpatient and emergency services although it had not been licensed to provide those services; the surgical suite shelving was laden with dust and lint; the surgical suite ceiling ventilation grid was encrusted with grayish material; "Hospital does not have enough surgical equipment, nor does it appear that staff is properly sterilizing their equipment as evidenced by comparing the hospital's surgical log with the number of surgical sets available;" and nurses, practitioners, and physician assistants lacked assignment of clinical privileges.

Conditions at the abortion mill just got worse and worse. A January 17, 1985 inspection found many more deficiencies than had ever been found before, including; • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • lab procedures were performed without a physician's orders; the surgical log did not document complications charted elsewhere for two patients; a recovery room adequate for only two patients was serving four patients; only one cardiac monitor was present for the four patients in recovery; boxes of supplies were stored on the recovery room floor; in two abortion patient records, verbal orders were documented from a physician who was neither on the premises nor contacted by phone; some physician's orders lacked dosage, frequency, or time; medication was administered without orders from a physician; "policy and procedures manual contained conflicting temperatures and pressures for autoclaving;" autoclaving documents were not dated; uncovered clean linen was stored in a patient room used as a pre-operative holding area; linen was stored on a counter by the recovery room sink; disposable anesthesia masks were re-used; re-usable anesthesia masks were rinsed but not sanitized between patients; there was an accumulation of dust and lint on the operating room suite shelving; an area of operating room floor covering was missing; one recovery room gurney was covered with dust; sterile equipment with a December 24, 1984 expiration date was seen in the operating room

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during the January 17, 1985 inspection; two of eight employee records lacked documentation of health examinations; a physician's assistant was practicing without privileges; documentation on D&Cs were made by numerous staffers and not signed; one patient record had an undated examination form in it; a physician pre-signed blank physical examination forms for some patients; "It was common practice to record the time a surgical procedure began before the patient actually entered the operating room. In one case, the patient's record [documented] that the procedure had begun at 10:00 a.m., but this was observed at 11:30 a.m., and the patient had not yet entered the O.R." In other words, patient charting was done in advance!; "One physician did not wash his hands after going to the bathroom. He was observed going from the bathroom straight to the operating room to perform a surgical procedure;" operating room staff did not wash hands "After returning from break and in between patients;" operating room staff did not follow procedures for scrub gowning; medication was observed on counters in the utility rooms, accessible to unauthorized personal; a backup supply of controlled substances was not adequately monitored; single-dose vials of medications were used for multiple doses; medication was dispensed contrary to manufacturer's recommendations; there was no medication refrigerator on the nursing unit; and medications were charted as ordered but not charted as administered.

On May 9, 1985, inspectors once again returned to Inglewood to see if their corrections had been implemented. They really should have known better. Instead, they found; • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • inpatient records were charted primarily by nurses' aides and were co-signed by a nurse; two patients were not reassessed as their condition changed; patient chart entries were not signed by the person making the entries; medications were not administered for several hours after they were ordered; one patient's chart did not show the administration of ordered medication; entries in charts were written over; a patient's allergic reaction was documented in surgery but not in her discharge summary; the emergency generator was not tested as required; expired medications were stored in a refrigerator; there was no documentation of training for the person disposing of infectious waste; there was a defective recording thermometer on the operating room autoclave; there were outdated sterile supplies in the utility room; there were inadequately documented credentials for a physician assistant and a nurse practitioner; a drug was administered to a patient when she had had an allergic reaction to that same drug the previous day; one patient's allergic reaction had not been documented; a certified registered nurse assistant was documented as administering medication which interviews indicated had been administered by a registered nurse; a registered nurse administered a drug to treat allergic reaction without doctor's orders; despite one patient's allergic reaction, the certified registered nurse assistant indicated that the patient "tolerated anesthetic well without problems;" numerous medical entries were obliterated so as to be illegible; physician orders were documented, but not the time they were given; one person functioned as a circulating surgery nurse, while another signed off;

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one physician was observed documenting orders as if he had written them the previous day; one nurse was signing off on charts written by aides, without assessing patients to ensure their accuracy; one patient was admitted with a temperature of 100.6 degrees, but no further documentation of the patient's temperature was observed, and she was later readmitted with a high temperature; one chart documented a positive skin test for a patients's medication sensitivity, but it lacked documentation of any further assessment; some drugs ordered to be administered for pain had been given to a patient for her fever; there was improper documentation of autoclave temperatures; there was dust along ledges, on the ceiling, and on fixtures in the recovery room; there was an eroding plaster wall by the handwash sink in the operating room; there was peeling and/or chipped paint in the operating room; there were torn and/or stained window curtains; and the upholstery was torn on one operating room surgical table and stool.

After having its inspectors ignored for more than a decade, the State of California finally closed Inglewood in February of 1988 after documenting dozens of major health code violations caused by the abortionist’s mad rush to make money, including; • • • • • • • the use of operating tables "soiled by the fresh blood of previous patients;" abortionists signing discharge orders for patients they hadn't examined; failure to monitor patients' vital signs; falsification of and failure to complete medical records; administering a fixed amount of anesthesia to patients of all weights; rushing patients through recovery; and killing at least five women since 1973 by botching their abortions.

Superior Court Judge Miriam Vogel stated that "These are obviously life-threatening infractions, not technical violations. Obviously, people's lives are at risk." State Deputy Attorney General Donna Buntaine agreed, saying that the "hospital" had made "empty promises" in the past to correct violations: "They correct the violations on paper, but when we walk out the door they go back to their [dangerous] practices." Predictably, the abortionists, who couldn't resist the incredible amount of money made from 12,000 abortions a year, immediately found a way around the law, reopening just three days later as the "West Coast Women's Medical Group." Also predictably, the most outspoken critic of the investigation of the health care violations at this abortuary, California State Senator Diane Watson, received two very large campaign contributions from the facility. References: Inglewood letters to the California State Health Department dated April 16, 1972 and April 22, 1975; Undated letter from Mrs. Mattie Byrd (mother of Belinda Byrd, who died January 27, 1987), quoted in Feminists for Life of America amicus brief in the case of Webster vs. Reproductive Health Services, #88-605; Los Angeles County Superior Court Cases #C-141669, #C-249894, #C-331213, #C-359986, #C-368721, #C-41915, #C-442889, #C-476082, #C-476082, #C-483321, #C-483321, #C-507397 , #C-555261, #C-555261, #C-577956, #C-58508, #C-64484, #C-64485, #C-74502, #C-84626, #HWC-32151, #NWC-034151, #NWC-04156, #NWC-042103, #NWC-045509, #NWC-35925, #SCC-11519, #SCC-12219, #SCC-12219, #SEC-61659, #SUC-099075, #SWC-062766, #SWC-102814, #SWC-108011, #SWC-28902, #SWC-30375, #SWC-34021, #SWC-34625, #SWC-52412, #SWC-69025, #SWC-97391, #SWC-97812, #WEC-092527, #WEC-092527, #WEC-86705, and #WEC-86705; Los Angeles County Coroner Reports #73-14675, #78-1763 and

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#83-15079; Los Angeles Times, December 3, 1987 and August 12, 1989; California Hospital License #4H-00951; Ownership and Control Interest Disclosure Statement dated March 24, 1983; The Wall Street Journal, October 12, 1988; Associated press, July 15, 1989; and Leslie Bond. "Abortion Hospital Closed Because of 'Battlefront Conditions.'" National Right to Life News, March 24, 1988, page 5. You can find a very detailed exposé of the Inglewood abortion mill, which served as the source of most of this information, at the Real Choice Web site. Racist quote by Edward Allred: San Diego Union, October 12, 1980, also described in National Right to Life News, May 2, 1985, page 4. Gross Negligence (3 incidents), Negligence and Malpractice (10 incidents) Abortionist Kenneth L. Wright was a defendant in lawsuits regarding the abortion deaths of 17-year-old Laniece Dorsey in 1986 and Josephina Garcia in 1985. He was also a defendant in at least nine other malpractice suits up until 2000. The most recent case was filed in August 2001 in Fresno County Superior Court. It accuses Wright and the Family Planning Associates Medical Group abortion mill of wrongfully causing the death of Kimberly K. Neil. The lawsuit alleges Kimberly wasn't properly monitored and wasn't properly treated after she went into respiratory arrest during the abortion. Kimberly died on May 22, 2000. The other case, filed in April 2001, claims Wright was negligent and "overlooked" an unborn child while doing an abortion on Heather M. Shaw of Tulare County in 1999. Shaw later suffered cramping, hemorrhaging, nausea and "borderline gangrene" and required emergency surgery, the lawsuit says. Lita Reid, Shaw's lawyer, said that an unborn child was left behind during the abortion and that her client's medical care was substandard. "There is a consent form and you warn patients about things, but you can't write off negligence with a disclaimer," Reid said. References: Press-Telegram, April 25, 1988; Los Angeles County Superior Court Cases #BC008189, #C109353, #C148914, #C188819, #C347394, #C483647, #C505315 and NCC238673; Orange County Superior Court Cases #317968, #320240, #370730 and #503914; "Fresno Abortion Practitioner Sued for Abortion Death, Botched Abortion." Fresno Bee, August 18, 2001; Pro-Life Infonet, August 20, 2001; "Kenneth Wright Loses Abortion Patient." About.com, August 22, 2001; Sylvia Dorsey v. Family Planning Associates Medical Group, et.al. [wrongful death], Superior Court of California, County of Orange case #S1-04-15. Gross Negligence, Malpractice (13 incidents), and Medi-Cal Fraud (32 counts) Joyce Ortenzio developed an infection and died on June 8, 1988, after a laminaria insertion for an abortion by abortionist Ruben Marmet, who had over a dozen other malpractice suits lodged against him. The abortionist was also charged and convicted of 32 counts of Medi-Cal fraud in 1983. References: Los Angeles County Superior Court Cases #C122497, #C127280, #C258779, #C343897, #EAC50227, #WEC139590, and #WEC38628. Gross Negligence and Malpractice On February 28, 2002, 25-year-old Diana Lopez of Huntington Park went to Planned Parenthood for a second-trimester abortion. She already had two children and relied on state aid to support them, according to her sister. Diana was about 20 weeks pregnant. Within minutes, abortionist Mark Maltzer punctured her

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cervix, and she began to bleed profusely. The abortion mill staff was unable to control the bleeding, so Diana was taken by ambulance from the Planned Parenthood clinic on Kingston Avenue in East Los Angeles to nearby Los Angeles County/University of Southern California Women's and Children's Hospital, where an emergency hysterectomy was performed. Maltzer did not bother to accompany his bleeding patient to the hospital. The Los Angeles County Coroner determined that Diana died from a massive hemorrhage caused by "traumatic perforation of the cervix" subsequent to an abortion at Planned Parenthood. Additionally, the Los Angeles County Department of Health, Facility Licensing Division issued two reports concluding that Planned Parenthood and the abortionist Mark Maltzer of Sacramento, were at fault. This report found that Diana was not a good candidate for the abortion procedure. Diana's death left her two sons, Frankie (4) and Fabian (2), motherless. Relatives struggled to provide for the boys. The reports noted that Planned Parenthood's own procedure protocols "absolutely contraindicated" taking a patient into surgery who has less than a ten hemoglobin count, as was the case with Diana. The reports also noted that Maltzer failed to obtain physician-required informed consent, that he failed to examine Diana prior to surgery, and that he failed to adequately dilate her cervix. Additionally, Planned Parenthood did not report Diana's death within a required 24-hour period. Although the Department of Health failed to note the most revealing part of Planned Parenthood's substandard care, it is clear in the patient record that Maltzer was working so rapidly that he could only be described as working recklessly. He completed the delicate twenty-week abortion in only 6 minutes. In summary, the California Department of Health Services study, released on May 21, 2002, found numerous deficiencies in the Planned Parenthood clinic's operations, including: • • • • • • • • Failing to institute a necessary change in medical protocol relating to the use of laminaria (used to expand the cervix) in the dilation and evacuation procedure; Lacking the evidence to show a completed assessment of the competency and credentials of the physician who carried out the abortion; Failing to follow proper surgical abortion policy and procedure by administering Cytotec to the patient on day one of the two-day abortion procedure, when policy requires it to be administered 90 minutes before the abortion procedure; Failing to inform Planned Parenthood's governing body of any adverse outcome related to patient care within the facility; Failure to contact the state within 24 hours after Diana was taken to a hospital, as required by the state (the state was notified six days after Diana died); Failure to implement a policy that would have advised against an abortion for Diana because her hemoglobin (a substance in the blood) was too low on a test; Failure by the clinic's board of directors to "exercise oversight responsibility for ensuring the operation of the clinic." Minutes from board meetings, for example, did not document "any adverse outcome related to patient care within the facility;" and Failure to keep a detailed health record on Diana, including her diagnoses, type of anesthesia used during the procedure, surgical findings and the procedure performed.

As always, the pro-abortionists do everything they can to defend the procedure while not even mentioning the names of those they have mutilated or killed. Martha Swiller, acting president and chief executive of Planned Parenthood Los Angeles, heartlessly tried to put a happy face on the death of this young mother with typical pro-abort boilerplate propaganda that sounds as if it was prepared years ago, without even a space for filling in the dead woman's name. Swiller said that

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Everyone at Planned Parenthood Los Angeles feels tremendous sympathy for this woman's family and we share their grief. While abortion is extremely safe, this is a tragic reminder that, as with all medical procedures, some risk does exist. Why Maltzer, whose practice is in Sacramento, was working in the Los Angeles clinic is not clear. Jack Schuler, the Lopez family's attorney, suggested the motive was financial. He said that "They get the clinics to do all the prep work, then they line the patients up in a cattle call. They never see the patient until just before surgery, and then spend five or six minutes with the patient and are on to the next one." Vicky Saporta of the National Abortion Federation (NAF) joined Planned Parenthood in damage control. She said that some abortionists travel to fill in where there are too few doctors willing to perform abortions. She said that Eighty-seven percent of counties in the U.S. have no current abortion provider. They often have to travel so women in remote areas can have access to abortion services. Some travel to lend their knowledge and expertise in a training situation. On Maltzer's own Web site, PregnancyConsultation.com, he stated that this same second-trimester abortion procedure takes "ten to thirty minutes." Maltzer is Medical Director of Pregnancy Consultation Center in Sacramento. He bought this abortion business from the owners who had employed abortionist Bruce Steir, who pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of Sharon Hamptlon in 1996 (for details, see elsewhere in this database). Steir went to jail and the business was sold to Maltzer and his wife. Later, Maltzer's Pregnancy Consultation Clinic was featured as one of the clinics caught in a nationally publicized sting of abortion clinics that were skirting state laws requiring the reporting of statutory rape of young teenaged girls. Significantly, the Los Angeles Planned Parenthood abortion mill where Diana was killed was also caught in the same sting originated by Mark Crutcher's Life Dynamics, Inc. Both abortion mills agreed to provide abortions and contraceptives to a woman posing as a 13-year-old girl impregnated by her 22-year-old boyfriend without notifying parents or authorities. "It was wrong. It was wrong," said Judy Lopez, Diana's older sister. "She was healthy. She was fine." In April 2003, the Lopez family filed a wrongful death suit against Planned Parenthood of Los Angeles and Maltzer, alleging that "Maltzer worked so quickly, recklessly and negligently pulling out sharp body parts of Diana Lopez's 19-20 week unborn infant that severe irreparable damage was done to the cervix causing massive, immediate hemorrhage from a traumatic cervical perforation that caused the death of Diana Lopez." The suit also alleges that Maltzer failed to accompany Diana to the hospital, nor did he speak with doctors there or with the Lopez family after she died. Both Planned Parenthood and Maltzer denied all of the allegations, of course. Not surprisingly, Maltzer is still performing abortions and piling up money at abortion mills in the Los Angeles area, but at least is under investigation by the Medical Board of California. The board's spokeswoman declined to say what the probe was about. On February 17, 2005, the Lopez family suit against Planned Parenthood and Maltzer was settled for "a substantial amount," according to Lopez family attorney Jack Schuler. Maltzer continued to deny performing the abortion that killed Diana, even though his name appeared as the surgeon of record and he signed his name on the surgical and post-surgical notes. Today, Maltzer owns the Pregnancy Consultation Center abortion mill in Sacramento, and still does abortions.

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References: Dorsey Griffith. "State Faults Clinic in Death." Sacramento Bee, June 19, 2003; "State Faults Planned Parenthood Facility in Woman's Abortion Death." Sacramento Bee, June 19, 2003. Pro-Life Infonet, June 21, 2003; "Family of Woman Who Died at Abortion Clinic Files Lawsuit." Sarasota Herald-Tribune, June 25, 2003; Mother of Three Dies after Planned Parenthood Abortion, Family Sues." LifeSite Daily News, June 25, 2003; "Family of Woman Who Died at Abortion Clinic Files Lawsuit." The Sacramento Bee, June 26, 2003; David Fein. "Abortionist Involved in Woman's Death Awaits Word on Medical License." CNS News, June 30, 2003; Maria Kennedy. "Callous Indifference: State Honors Doctor Implicated in Botched Abortion." San Francisco Faith, January 2006. Sexual Assault (24 counts), Bestiality (3 counts), Forced Abortions (3 incidents), Production of Child Pornography (3 counts), Possession of Child Pornography, Fraud (2 counts) and Misuse of Passports and Other Entry Documents George Joseph England was another "pro-choice" male who found abortion to be an invaluable tool to cover up his molestation of young girls. England, who was a civilian contractor in Vietnam, paid a Vietnamese family to "adopt" their five-year-old girl. He then began to sexually assault her over a period of eleven years after moving back to Contra Mesa. He would get the little girl drunk and then rape her repeatedly. She was essentially his sex slave. He encouraged the girl to invite friends over, then used a bathroom peephole to spy on them. He also installed a camera near the bathtub to take pictures. He also sexually molested several other little girls while living in Costa Mesa (in Los Angeles). He even forced the little girl to have sex with animals on several occasions. The girl became pregnant six to eight times, and England forced her get abortions at least three times. The abortion mills that aborted her did not ask any questions about a ten-year-old girl being pregnant and accompanied by a much older man. Finally, she became pregnant once again at age 13 and the pregnancy was discovered too late for an abortion. England convinced a social worker that a boy had impregnated her after she got drunk at a party, and the girl's baby was put up for adoption. He continued to rape her until she was sixteen and she threatened to kill herself if the abuse continued. England was arrested in July 1977 on suspicion of molesting three girls between the ages of 9 and 10 after one girl told her mother about the attacks, fearing England would go after her younger sister. While awaiting trial, England told his Vietnamese "daughter" that, if he were convicted, members of her foster family would rape her or force her into prostitution. He also told her she was too old to be adopted and that he was the only one who could "protect" her. In 1977, England was convicted of sexual assault on three girls, but before he could be sentenced for his crimes, he fled after the judge gave him time to "settle his affairs." He managed to elude the authorities for 29 years, using the identity of a baby boy, Stephen Arthur Argoe, who had died at the age of eleven months in Santa Barbara. He was finally captured in Florida in May 2005 and spent a little more than three years in prison, having pleaded guilty to charges to two counts of fraud and misuse of passports and other documents. Despite ample evidence to the contrary, England continued to deny molesting the girls, showed no remorse, and refused therapy. Police found many graphic and sickening images of children performing perverted sex acts on his computer. After release, he was sent to Orange County to be sentenced for the 1977 sexual assaults. England was released on March 12, 2010, but was immediately re-arrested on a federal warrant out of Palm Beach, Florida.

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Reference: "Child Molester will be Rearrested Upon Friday's Release." Contra Costa Times, March 11, 2010. Rape (3 incidents) On October 4, 2004, a woman identified only as "Jane Doe" on court papers filed a lawsuit against the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles, claiming that Father Jesus Garay raped her and then pressured her to have an abortion. The lawsuit states that Father Garay repeatedly raped her in 1997 when she was 17 and was a parishioner and part-time secretary at Holy Family Church in Wilmington, California. She became pregnant in December 1997 and Father Garay continued to sexually abuse her until about April 1998. The lawsuit alleges that the Los Angeles Archdiocese failed to notify authorities of the sexual abuse, did not provide medical care for the girl, and did not support the child after it was born. Reference: "Woman Claims L.A. Priest Raped Her When She Was 17, Urged Abortion." The San Diego Union-Tribune, October 5, 2004. Attempted Mass Murder and Mayhem In March 1989, three pro-abortionists were arrested after igniting an incendiary device in a church packed with pro-life activists. Police also found concussion grenades beneath the speaking platform where pro-life leaders were to speak. If these had been detonated, the speakers would have been killed or gravely injured. Approximately 2,500 people were present. Reference: Operation Rescue of California, Blue Jay, California. Attempted Murder A member of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT-UP) rammed pro-lifer Bill Soucie's car with a Chevy Blazer and forced him into oncoming traffic. The criminal fled to Canada to avoid prosecution. Reference: Glenn Ellen Duncan. "The Shocking Violence Against Prolifers." Catholic Twin Circle, September 11, 1994, page 11. Rape (4 incidents), Sexual Abuse (18 incidents), Sexual Misconduct (65 incidents), Gross Negligence, Incompetence (3 incidents) and Mail Fraud (15 counts) Pro-lifers laugh when “pro-choicers” accuse them of “hating women.” To which we often reply Let’s see who really hates women. Call up an abortion clinic and tell them that you are pregnant, but that you don’t want an abortion, and that you need help with housing, with food, with expenses, and they will either laugh at you or refer you to a social agency. Then call up a pro-life crisis pregnancy center and ask for help, and you will get it. The abortion mills are in it for the money, pure and simple, not because they care

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for women, and this simple test will prove it.

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Ivan C. Namihas was typical of abortionists in one way (he really did hate women) and not at all typical in another (he could be honest). According to patient interviews in the Los Angeles Times, he told one woman, whom he treated for more than 10 years, that he became a gynecologist so he could vent his anger toward women. Another patient (and employee) said in an affidavit that she "felt he had problems with women in general because he talked about how much he hated his mother and bad relationships he'd had with girlfriends and his wives." Yet another patient said that "He told me the reason he became a gynecologist was because he hated women and he could use a knife to cut them.”

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This admitted loathing of women manifested itself many times in Namihas’ medical practice. He impregnated one of his patients, "Jeannette J." In January 1989 he performed an after-hours abortion on her without adequate equipment or personnel. Namihas wrote a letter to Jeannette's employer, disclosing confidential medical information and calling her an "incorrigible liar." Namihas also repeatedly raped his half-sister, "Y.N.P.," during the time period 1964 to 1970 and "carried out several D&C procedures on her to terminate suspected pregnancies" without anesthesia. In 1969, he sent her to Mexico for "an abortion carried out in primitive, non-sterile conditions" on a confirmed pregnancy. Over 100 patients and former patients reported allegations of medical misconduct or sexual abuse at the hands of Namihas to the medical board dating back to 1969. These included raping a patient with a foreign object. One 21-year-old patient in an emergency room, suffering a miscarriage, reported he did a D&C on her without anesthesia and made sexually abusive statements. Namihas told another patient to think about him and masturbate and "induced her into performing oral sex on him." He had "physical encounters with a nurse" while a patient was in labor, boasted to her of his sexual prowess, and demanded she have a hysterectomy although there might not have been any medical indications, and then went on to insert his tongue into her vagina. He "asked numerous intimate and insulting questions and critical, judgmental comments about [a patient's] sex life," "prescribed expensive and dangerous medication for infertility without medical indication or proper examination," performed laser surgery so incompetently as to require hospitalization, "divulged to her confidential physician-patient information of a sexual nature concerning another patient," and attempted to establish a sexual relationship with her. He attempted to solicit a date with a patient's friend while he was performing a painful exam and treatment; he kissed patients on the mouth; he entered an exam room, undoing a woman patient's belt and pants, moved his body against her, put his hand down inside her underwear and told her "that she had a nice 'cunt' or 'pussy.'" He falsely told a patient she was in premature labor and did a C-section "for the convenience of his skiing vacation;" he put "extra stitches" in episiotomies to make women "nice and tight;" he took the drape away from another patient, making her walk naked to the scales to be weighed, telling her she was too shy and that she should be proud of her body, and said she should make love with him so he could "show her how good it could be." He then called her at home and asked her to meet him, kissed her during an exam, and asked her to describe her marital encounters in detail. He asked another patient if she was having sex, and when she told him 'no,' he "put his fingers in her vagina, pushed them in and out quickly and said 'See what you are missing,'" she told him it hurt, and he told her "What a waste, you shouldn't be letting a tight pussy like this go to waste," then he referred her

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account to a collection agency, and told her "I'm a doctor, this is what I do, they won't believe you;" he told a 17-year-old patient, nude on the exam table, that her body was perfect for sex and that he wanted to have sex with her, and he falsely told her she had cysts on her ovaries and needed a hysterectomy (her parents got a second opinion and the girl avoided the unnecessary surgery). He asked a patient on the exam table, "Hi, have you had a good f― lately?" He raped a patient on the exam table; a 12-13 year old patient brought to him due to painful menstruation was told she had cysts on her ovaries, she would have to take birth control pills, and that if they did not take care of her problem she would need a hysterectomy and be unable to have babies. He pulled her to the end of the exam table and "gave her a very passionate hug." She began to cry and he "gave her a very wet kiss, told her it was O.K. and not to cry." He "used offensive slang terms when referring to body parts" during her exam, and told the patient she shouldn't get married "because she wouldn't be around for 'us dirty old men to play with.'" He tried to French-kiss a patient during a postpartum check up, telling her that her symptoms she attributed to possible bladder infection was "a build up from not climaxing during sex and that he could help her out if she went to a motel with him." Namihas undressed one patient for her exams, tell her "he wanted to show her what an orgasm really was," and called her on the phone offering to be her first sexual experience. The abortionist played with a 16-year-old patient's nipples during an exam; made comments about another patient's pubic hair, pulling out loose pubic hairs and blowing them across the room, saying how he loved blondes. Another patient came in with her baby for a postpartem exam, and Namihas instructed her "to tighten up her vaginal muscles. He then spread her legs further apart and put his fingers in her vagina moving them in and out quickly," asked her gruffly if it felt good. As she tried to move away he followed her up the exam table, she pushed him away with her foot, she got dressed when he left the room but he returned and pinned her against the wall, breathing hard and telling her she was beautiful, and she finally took her baby and left. The abortionist fondled another patient's breasts to awaken her after surgery; he told a patient she had "blue balls" because her husband "was not satisfying her," and offered "to help with the problem;" he conducted pelvic exam without gloves, telling the patient "that her 'cherry' was not broken but was very stretched out and that he could break it for her if she wanted him to because he was very big." He rubbed the tip of her clitoris "and said it was very red at the tip which meant that she "was a very horny little girl," and offered to help her get pregnant since he was very fertile; he offered to show a patient, a virgin, "what love is all about;" while he was examining a patient's breasts, he told her he "would like to eat those." He severed a patient's veins during a C-section, and she required multiple transfusions. He came to see her, "to tell her how scared he was that he had almost lost her ... stated how special [she] was to him and that he would take good care of her ... that it was his birthday and, while [she] was laying in the hospital bed with IVs in both arms ... kissed her on the lips." During a later exam, he said "Are you horny? You seem so horny, maybe I can help." He moved his hand inside her, and told her that if she "was having sexual problems she would call him day or night and he would always be there for her." He told another patient's husband that she was a hypochondriac, that he should not believe anything she said, and then told the patient "that her husband was cheating on her and that was how she had gotten all her diseases." He told a patient and her stepmother that she had severe genital warts, showing them photos in a book, and saying that "her case was so bad that he was going to have to burn her all over inside and out and that she would be bedridden for 30 days ... that she would have to soak in seawater, to be purchased at the fish store ... that he was going to have to hurt [her] terribly ... if she did not have the surgery it would lead to cervical cancer and that there was a slim chance that [she] would ever have children. When questioned by the stepmother, [he] immediately slammed shut his book, became defensive, and raised his voice." When she was getting ready to sign consent forms while Namihas was with another

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patient, his nurse told her the tests were negative and that Namihas "was misdiagnosing many women because he needed the money." He was dating and having sex with a patient; he told another patient he had stitched her vagina "a perfect size for his penis and there was no way that [her] husband could be bigger than him," and when she said that obviously her husband was because intercourse was painful, he "pushed [her] to the floor, started to press hard against her, and French kissed her;" he rubbed his penis against a patient's leg, telling her he'd stitched her tight during surgery and that her husband would enjoy it, and during a subsequent exam told her "You're not being used much." Namihas was finally found guilty by the medical board of sexual abuse, sexual misconduct, gross negligence, incompetence, and immorality. The California medical board pursued allegations and revoked his medical license. He was also charged with mail fraud for billing patients for unneeded treatments. Assistant United States District Attorney Jonathan S. Shapiro summed things up nicely when he said that "The term “abuse of a position of trust” seems to have been coined for Dr. Ivan C. Namihas, MD. Arrogant, cruel, and greedy, he carried out a particular form of fraud against his victims." References: “Patients Allege Gynecologist Hated Women.” Los Angeles Times, March 22, 1992; Los Angeles Times, January 1, 1993; Orange County Register, March 28, 1995; Medical Board of California Department of Consumer Affairs Case Number D-4660, OAH Number L-57069). Assistant United States District Attorney Jonathan S. Shapiro, Central District of California. “United States v. Dr. Ivan Namihas, M.D.: He Never Cried for Us.” USABulletin, June 1997 [Volume 45, Number 3], “Health Care Fraud Issues.” Rape, Perjury, Death Threats (2 incidents), Negligence, Gross Deviation from Standards of Care, Medical Insurance Fraud (206 counts), Disturbing the Peace and Violation of Health and Safety Standards (36 incidents) According to medical board documents, abortionist Lawrence Alozie Akpulonu allegedly raped patient "A.A," who was under anesthesia for an abortion by Akpulonu at Midland Medical Center on January 28, 1995. A complaint to the California Medical Board states that A.A. awoke to find respondent raping her; he had penetrated her vagina with his penis. Respondent gave patient A.A. a shot and she went back to sleep. When patient A.A. woke up a second time, she saw respondent next to her. She saw his erect penis out of his pants. She tried to push him away ... Respondent then gave her another shot and she went back to sleep. When patient A.A. awoke for a third time, she found her sweater had been removed and her bra partially pulled down exposing her right breast. Respondent was caressing patient A.A.'s body ... when patient A.A. tried to scream, respondent placed his hand over her mouth. Respondent told patient A.A. she had a beautiful body. He said she was a very nice girl and a very sexy girl while he continued rubbing her inside her blouse and bra. He kissed her right breast. He then placed his business card inside her bra and said she could "call him anytime." He was found guilty of negligence and gross deviation from standard of care in this behavior and in the excessive injections given to A.A. In other incidents, Akpulonu was arrested for committing perjury on government documents. He was also given probation for brandishing a loaded handgun in front of pro-lifers and threatening their lives. Akpulonu also pleaded guilty to medical insurance fraud. On November 19, 1991, Akpulonu

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threatened a parking garage attendant with a loaded .380 caliber semi-automatic pistol, which he had been carrying concealed in his vehicle, when the attendant asked him to remove his improperly parked car from a restricted area. Original charges of exhibiting a firearm, carrying a concealed weapon in a vehicle, and carrying a loaded firearm in a public place were amended to add a charge of disturbing the peace; Akpulonu pleaded nolo contendere to the added charge February 20, 1992, and the remaining charges were dismissed. Medical board documents alleged that Akpulonu billed Medi-Cal for X-rays on patients S.T. (October 22, 1986), C.C. (November 11, 1986), D.C. (December 16, 1985), and E.D. (December 13, 1986); false or fraudulent Medi-Cal claims totaling $9,300 on 62 additional patients in 1989 and 1990, such as billing once as an abortion D&C and once for a non-obstetrical D&C for the same abortion; billing $5,970.40 fraudulently as new patient visits for 98 previously billed patients; submitted fraudulent pathology bills on 43 patients when pathology services were included in other billed procedures; 15-count felony complaint filed against respondent and Shirley Akpulonu September 9, 1987; on August 9, 1988, 16 counts were dismissed in a hearing and 10-count Felony Information was filed August 15; March 13, 1991, he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor offense. There were many official inspections of Akpulonu's Midland Medical Center abortion mill, and every one of them revealed recurring threats to patient health that were not corrected. Akpulonu, who is a podiatrist by training, ran his filthy Midland Medical Center abortion mill for years, and kept his clinic open despite at least seven health inspections that found numerous threats to the lives and health of his patients. Akpulonu's case is a perfect example of how states are perfectly willing to let bad abortionists continue to threaten the lives of women, just because they want abortion to stay fully available. When reading this list of inspection failures, consider what the authorities would do to a pro-life crisis pregnancy center if it had such a lousy inspection record ― it would be shut down after it failed the first inspection! A July 17, 1991 inspection found; • • • • • • • •

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A filthy rest room with no toilet paper; Reports of unsterile instruments being used in the operating room; Fumes persevering after anesthesia; No registered nurse at the facility; Akpulonu performing abortions alone, with no assistant; No scrub room and inadequate supply of gowns and gloves; Blood on floor and curtains of the operating room; Facility operating with an expired license; and Blood specimens discarded rather than sent to a lab for testing.

August and September 1991 inspections found that; • • • • • • • Employees were trained to clean hoses used in medical procedures in running cold water by working the hoses manually to flush out all blood and tissue; Surgical gloves not worn; Employees trained to dump tissue jars into the sink and run the contents through the garbage disposal; Medical instruments were in cold water in the sink and put in the autoclave, which was rusty and too small to permit closing of the lid when the instruments were in it; No pathology reports were performed on abortion tissues; Disposable plastic syringes being re-used; Clinic smelled of rotting tissues, surgery room splattered with blood, and some other rooms were

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extremely dusty; and Rat droppings found in the surgery room and in the hall.

A May 1993 inspection found that; • • • • • • • Respondent did not use gloves during medical procedures and advised his medical assistants that they did not need to use gloves unless they had a cut on their finger or hand; Respondent brought his entire staff into the examination room to observe a patient who had a severe case of genital warts; No pathology reports done on abortion tissues; No refrigeration for blood and tissue samples or for medications; No on-site equipment for handling emergencies; Fetuses less than 18 to 24 weeks were flushed down the garbage disposal; and Equipment was not properly sterilized between procedures.

A July/August 1993 inspection found that; • • • • • Staff were now flushing fetuses of less than five months down the toilet; Staff were not trained in infection control; Equipment was still not being sterilized between procedures; Employees were assisting in medical procedures were not provided aprons, masks or hair covers; and Staff were re-using single use equipment such as plastic equipment inserted in patients' vaginas, and tubing that transported products of conception.

A September 1993 inspection found that; • • • • A foul odor in exam rooms; A dirty autoclave containing rusty, dirty, tissue-encrusted instruments; An employee containing dirty equipment without wearing gloves because the employee had been instructed by Akpulonu that, if the employee desired to work at respondent's clinic, the employee would not wear gloves when dealing with bodily fluids; and When the employee indicated intent to report this to health authorities, Akpulonu told the employee he would see to it that the employee never got another job in the health care field.

A February 1994 inspection found; • • • • • • • • Blood products improperly stored in improperly labeled, leaking containers; No soap, antiseptic, or towels at handwashing facilities; Improper storage of hazardous waste; Inadequate personal protective equipment for staff; Missing emergency equipment; Poor housekeeping; Improper record keeping; and Training was inappropriately given by an employee with only one week of employment and did not include information on the handling of an exposure incident.

A March 1994 inspection found;

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IV needles were not disposed of properly; There were improperly labeled blood products stored in open cupboards; There were still no towels at the handwashing site; The emergency exit was blocked; There were no gowns, face shields, or goggles for staff; The emergency equipment was still missing; The housekeeping was still poor; The record keeping was still inadequate; Biohazardous waste was improperly stored in paper boxes; and The maintenance room contained an unlabeled and blocked electrical panel as well as a foor covered with large wires creating a hazard.

On January 14, 1995, Akpulonu hired a nurse on the spot, but she quit after only four hours of working in his filthy abortion mill. Among other health hazards, she observed in a complaint to the California Medical Board; • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Rusty metal speculums; Rusty forceps; Instruments cleaned with dishwashing liquid; A lack of lifesaving equipment; No apparatus for administering anesthesia; Cockroaches in the operating room; No medical swabs in the operating room; No alcohol in examining or operating rooms; A "rancid blood smell" in procedure rooms; No refrigerator to store pathology tissues; No containers for biohazardous materials; No needle disposal units in the examining room or the operating room; Used needles left on tables in the operating room; and Improper handling of fetal materials.

The nurse's complaint to the California Medical Board stated that Akpulonu performed five abortion procedures. ... I saw old specimens, apparently from earlier abortions performed the day before, in urine sample glasses stored in the medicine cabinet. ... When Akpulonu began the abortion procedures, he did not allow anyone else in the room with him. There was no nurse or assistant with him. ... After the procedures, Akpulonu asked me to empty the products of conception from the gauze bag attached to the vacuum aspirator into containers. ... he referred me to the medicine cabinet. The only containers in that cabinet that could have held the specimens were the plastic urine sample glasses. I followed instructions and then asked an intern if that was the standard procedure at the clinic. She said it was. The specimens sat on the counter for several hours. ... Based upon what I saw in the short time that I was there, it does not appear that Akpulonu is sending any specimens to a pathology lab. ... I truly believe that someone will become seriously injured if something is not done immediately. Abortionist Akpolunu seems to have vanished. There are no references to his activities since 1995

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anywhere on the Internet. References: Los Angeles Times, January 31, 1993; News Notes. "A Gentle Touch." The Wanderer, March 2, 1995, page 3; California Medical Board Accusation Number 17-95-46707 dated March 21, 1995. Incest, Sexual Abuse (3 incidents) and Forgery This case demonstrates an obvious fact: That child predators use abortion to cover up their crimes of incest and child rape. Jose Luis Melchor-Aparicio, of La Habra, impregnated his daughter and then demanded she have an abortion. Melchor, who failed to register as a sex offender, had two prior deportation orders related to sex offenses. He tried to hide his identity by using fake documents, said Lori Haley, a spokeswoman for the immigration agency, which is part of the Homeland Security Department. Melchor-Aparicio was one of a dozen child predators and other sex offenders arrested in the Los Angeles area in early October 2003. The arrests were part of "Operation Predator," a nationwide crackdown by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to protect children from pornographers, prostitution rings, Internet pedophiles and other predatory criminals. Since July of 2003, there have been more than 250 arrests in Los Angeles, Ventura, Riverside, San Bernardino and Orange counties, said Loraine Brown, special agent-in-charge of ICE investigations in Los Angeles. Since the operation began, there have been more than 1,000 arrests nationwide of child predators and sex offenders. "Operation Predator" is coordinated by the ICE Cyber Crime Center in Fairfax, Virginia, and the effort also partners with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Reference: "Operation Aimed at Sex Offenders, Child Predators Nets Dozens of Arrests in L.A. Area." San Francisco Chronicle, October 10, 2003. Committing Lewd Acts on a Child and Sexual Abuse (12 incidents) On August 25, 1978, Father John Peter Lenihan, a Catholic priest, committed lewd acts on 14-year-old Lori Haigh, to include oral copulation, sexual intercourse and mutual masturbation, according to court documents. The molestation continued for two years. Haigh told reporters in April 2002 that Lenihan impregnated her when she was 16, then paid for her to have an abortion. Lenihan was arrested in March 2003 and was jailed in Orange County in lieu of $100,000 bail. He was charged with committing lewd acts on a child. It was not the first time Lenihan was accused of sexual abuse. A former pastor at St. Edward Church in Dana Point and St. Norbert Church in Orange, Lenihan left the priesthood in 2002 after Roman Catholic Church officials paid $1.2 million to a woman who accused him of getting her pregnant when she was 16. The Diocese of Orange County also paid $400,000 to settle a lawsuit that accused Lenihan of having sex with a woman who sought counseling while he worked at St. Edward. References: Robert Jablon. "Former Priest Jailed for 1978 Affair that Led to Girl's Abortion." Wilmington Star, March 14, 2003; "Ex-Priest Will Face Sex Charges." The Orange County Register, May 12, 2003.

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Felony Assault (2 incidents) An April 10, 1993, during the fifth annual Holy Week rescues, pro-lifers shut down the Hamilton Family Planning Clinic in Huntington Park. A male pro-abortionist had been arrested for violently assaulting pro-lifers the day before. Police released him, and the coward returned the next day to bite a 10-year-old boy on the neck and smash him to the pavement. He was arrested for felony assault ― and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) paid the $5,300 bail to set him free! Reference: Jan Stoltenberg. "Holy Week Rescues in L.A. Close 3 Clinics." [Advocates for Life Ministries, Portland, Oregon], June 1993, page 24. Assault and Battery During the August 2000 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles, a worker from the HER Medical Clinic abortion mill attacked Operation Rescue West director Troy Newman while he demonstrated on a public sidewalk. She was arrested by Los Angeles police and was charged with assault and battery. Ironically, this attack occurred just minutes after Operation Rescue held a press conference contrasting the difference between peaceful pro-life protests and other protest groups which use violence to get out their messages. Newman said "I can think of nothing that illustrates my point more clearly than this arrest and jailing of an abortion clinic worker for assault and battery." References: "Abortion Clinic Worker Arrested for Assaulting Pro-Lifer." LifeSite Daily News, August 15, 2000; "Abortion Clinic Employee Arrested in Connection with Protest." ZENIT News Agency Daily Dispatch, August 13, 2000. Assault and Battery Lilliam Mackey was attempting to serve papers on abortionist Curlee Ross, who beat her severely about the face and body. Ross settled the case out of court for $1,500. Reference: Los Angeles County Superior Court Case #C34287. Grand Theft, Conspiracy to Defraud (2 counts), Filing False Claims and Receiving Stolen Property Abortionist Morton W. Barke was indicted in 1972 of "conspiracy to cheat and defraud by committing the crimes of grand theft and of filing false claims;" "On February 14, 1972, Barke and [Walter] Appleman performed a total of fifty-one therapeutic abortions in 665 minutes while preparing reports and claims totaling 610 minutes for the eleven patients who were on Medi-Cal." On February 18, 1972, Barke and Appleman filed claims for anesthesia for five simultaneous abortions; "On February 28, 1972, Barke and Appleman performed a total of 43 therapeutic abortions in 540 minutes while preparing reports and claims totaling 580 minutes for the 11 patients who were Medi-Cal recipients." On March 15, 1972, Barke and Appleman filed claims for anesthesia for four simultaneous abortions; Barke pleaded nolo contendere to a misdemeanor of receiving stolen property in a plea bargain, and was given 2 years probation without formal supervision and a $1,000 fine. Reference: Los Angeles Superior Court Case #A308288. The Life Advocate

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Grand Theft (6 incidents) and Medi-Cal Fraud (6 incidents) Abortionist Edgar A. Guess, Jr. was indicted for six counts of grand theft for filing false Medi-Cal claims. Reference: Los Angeles County Superior Court Case #A331372. Bribery, Gross Negligence, Negligence (3 incidents), Gross Incompetence, Incompetence (3 incidents) and Involuntary Abortion Abortionist Christopher Dotson aborted 17-year old Andrea Monique Ball on January 7, 1980. During another procedure, Dotson had discovered that Andrea was pregnant; Dotson noted "unwanted pregnancy" on Andrea's chart, and did not tell her that she was pregnant. He went ahead and aborted her viable unborn baby anyway. Court documents said that "At all times prior to the death of plaintiff's unborn child, said unborn child was viable but for defendant's professional negligence would have been born healthy and capable of providing the plaintiff with society, comfort, attention, and support." In documents related to a non-abortion obstetrical suit by the survivors of Pamela Ferguson, Dotson allowed Batty Ingram to provide prenatal care to Pamela, a diabetic; Pamela, 9 months pregnant, had elevated blood pressure and blood sugar, swelling of feet and legs, and Ingram prescribed medication. Pamela went home, took the medication as prescribed, lay down to rest, convulsed and died, and her preborn child died as well. Her family endured the trauma of watching her die. As a partner in Compton Penny Venture, Dotson was charged in 1976 with paying development commissioners $40,000 to vote in favor of the city of Compton purchasing a property from Compton Penny Venture for $701,408 HUD money. References: Los Angeles County Superior Court Cases #C404454, #C374282 and #C167504. Perjury, Felony Insurance Fraud, Conspiracy and Unlawful Distribution of Controlled Substances (10 counts) Abortionist Leonard Breslaw was convicted in 1972 of felony insurance fraud and perjury in connection with a conspiracy to have his office burglarized to collect insurance money and denying said conspiracy in court. Breslaw's California medical license was suspended 180 days on January 28, 1982, with five years license probation. During his license probation period, he prescribed controlled substances "other than for a legitimate medical purpose and not in the usual course of medical practice ... to persons not under respondent's treatment for a pathology or condition other than addiction ... without either a good faith prior examination or medical indication." He pleaded guilty to and was convicted of 10 counts of unlawful distribution of controlled substances. On December 15, 1986, he was fined $20,000 and given five years probation and a suspended five year prison sentence. References: Los Angeles Municipal Court Case Number A-120918; California Medical Board Case Number D-3825. Gross Negligence, Malpractice (12 incidents) and Incompetence [Claremont]

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Abortionist Michael Rosenthal, already on probation and without medical malpractice insurance, was stripped of his medical license after he acknowledged to the Medical Board of California that he misled patients, endangered their lives and attempted a second-trimester abortion. Rosenthal admitted to the Board that he misled patients, lied to another physician, failed to reveal an abnormal pap smear result, failed to perform an ultrasound on a patient who had already delivered four babies by caesarean section, and started an abortion on a woman in her second trimester. In an agreement dated September 24, 2001, he admitted gross negligence and incompetence. In an interview, he admitted to poor decisions that he made in part because he was taking Prozac that he prescribed to himself. The Board accused him of botching three abortions in 1999, when he was running his own Upland, California-based abortion mill with the truly Orwellian name "Family Birthing Center." At the time his license was revoked, Rosenthal was on probation for two other incidents, one in 1986 and one in 1992. In the latter case, medical board prosecutors said he gambled that a pregnancy would be without incident and didn't tell his patient that he had lost his privileges in San Antonio when he practiced there. His privileges were revoked after his insurance company stopped his malpractice coverage in 1992. Rosenthal's primary concern was not for the women he injured, but for the embarrassment his troubles would cause his wife, a former Mayor of Claremont. He showed his utter disregard for others when he said that "The single biggest thing is embarrassing Karen. I have resolved this in my own mind a long time ago. ... For myself, I just don't care." Finally ― an honest abortionist! References: Tipton Blish. "Abortion Practitioner Admits Many Violations, Loses License." Angeles Times, April 20, 2002; Pro-Life Infonet, April 21, 2002. Malpractice and Practicing Medicine Without a License (14 incidents) [Hollywood] In February 2002, health and law enforcement officials shut down an unlicensed abortion mill in West Hollywood. Abortionist Edgar Ruiz charged $200 in cash for abortions and catered to uninsured women, according to sheriff's and county health department officials. Ruiz told authorities he is licensed in his native Nicaragua, but does not hold a medical license in this country. A sheriff said that Ruiz drew "women wanting something cheap and discreet, something that wouldn't leave a paper trail." Ruiz told investigators that he had run his Centro Medico Para La Mujer abortion mill for four years in a medical building on Santa Monica Boulevard near the Hollywood Freeway. Officials learned about the unlicensed abortion mill after a woman complained to county Supervisor Gloria Molina's office on November 30, 2001 that the abortionist had botched an abortion on her. An undercover sheriff's deputy then visited the clinic posing as a patient, and Ruiz allegedly offered to perform a pelvic exam on her. Authorities then arrested Ruiz and seized hundreds of patient files and padlocked his abortuary. His bail was set at $1 million. Investigators asked the district attorney's office to file felony charges against Ruiz, alleging that he practiced medicine without a license with the risk of great bodily injury. Another abortionist by the name of Mohammad Bararsani helped Ruiz perform his illegal abortions. Bararsani ran another cash-only abortion mill, the Women's Care Center on Crenshaw Boulevard in Torrance, which is part of Los Angeles. The California Medical Board charged Bararsani with committing medical malpractice by aiding Ruiz, and also charged him with seven counts of negligence and incompetence. Bararsani is a 1964 graduate of the Tehran University School of Medicine, and also worked with another abortionist, Bertha Bugarin, who was convicted of committing illegal abortions in both Los Angeles and San Diego Los

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counties. The California Medical Board allowed Bararsani to keep his medical license, much to the amazement of at least one Los Angeles law firm. The Jurewitz Law Group said that "Quite honestly, it is amazing that the California Medical Board did not do more to protect Californians ― and San Diegans ― from his practice of using unlicensed doctors to perform abortions on low-income women." References: "Abortion Facility Shut Down in Hollywood." Los Angeles Times, February 3, 2002; Pro-Life Infonet, February 4, 2002; Ross Jurewitz. "California Medical Board Allows Doctor to Keep License after Aiding Illegal Abortions." San Diego Injury Lawyer Blog [published by the Jurewitz Law Group], February 4, 2009. Death Threats (5 incidents) Mark Hardie, a Black reporter for the student newspaper at the University of California, was forced to resign and was placed under police protection after receiving death threats for his conservative views. One pro-abortionist said on a radio show "He's gonna be a victim. I'm waiting outside. I swear to God I'm gonna kill his family." Reference: "Black Student Threatened For Espousing Conservative Views." The Wanderer, March 17, 1994, page 8. Bomb Threats (8 incidents) This is a classic example of the pro-abortion use of the "Moby" maneuver, named after the singer who suggested using it. It is a very effective and extremely dishonest tactic that "pro-choicers" and homosexuals like to use because it causes maximum damage to the enemy while entailing minimum risk and expense. A "Moby" consists of either; (1) Deliberately committing crimes against one's own movement and leaving the impression that the crime was carried out by one's opposition. Another classic example of this kind of "Moby" is Portland's Azalea Cooley. She posed as a crippled, cancer-ridden lesbian who also happened to be Black (the perfect "fourfer" victim), who faked 22 hate crimes against herself; and (2) Presenting heartrending stories as truth when they are actually lies. Mendiola's story is a great example of this tactic, but more common are pro-abortion allegations of thousands of women dying of illegal abortion, when the actual number is usually about one percent or less of the number claimed. The "Moby" is utterly alien to those with a sense of honor, but we must remember that it is tailor-made for dishonest people who use as their primary guide the precept "The ends justify the means." Frank (and his ghostly sister) Make the Scene In the mid-1980s, the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL, now NARAL Pro-Choice America) organized a "Silent No More" competition as an emotional counteroffensive against former abortionist Bernard Nathanson's movie "The Silent Scream." NARAL invited women to submit stories of a close female relative who had died of an illegal abortion. Naturally, NARAL did not bother to verify

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these stories, and this is what tripped up NARAL in the end. NARAL included the most heartrending of these tales in a fundraising appeal letter signed by Executive Director Kate Michelman. As they always do, this pro-abortion appeal letter was a raw play on the emotions of readers, listing a cluster of highly suspicious and very anonymous "victimization" stories, including one that read: "Frank, who wept as he told of his beloved twin sister, who bled to death from an illegal abortion after being brutally raped at the age of 14." This "Frank" was Frank Mendiola, a well-known homosexual and pro-abortion activist in the Los Angeles area. After he began peddling the story about his sister, he became one of the "leading lights" of the "pro-choice" movement and a minor media celebrity. On May 21, 1985, Mendiola traveled from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C. to join hundreds of other pro-abortionists in the public reading of letters to President Ronald Reagan. This was the highly-publicized wrap-up of NARAL's 30-state "Silent No More" campaign. Before a battery of cameras, he sobbed heartrendingly and said; My name is Frank Mendiola. On November 18, 1971, my twin sister, Rose Elizabeth, died at age 14 of an illegal abortion after she was very brutally raped by six men. ... It was performed in a shady part of town in the back room of a garment sweatshop. ... She bled to death on a kitchen table. Yes, Mr. President ― on a kitchen table. NARAL was not above using Mendiola's story politically. His tale was probably the deciding factor in the California legislature rejecting a bill that would require pregnant minors to get parental permission before obtaining abortions, unless they could persuade a judge that they were "sufficiently mature" to make the decision themselves. Mendiola testified, giving his story and claiming that her Catholic family would not agree to an abortion, so she turned to a "back-alley" abortionist. The Perfect Victim's Story Naturally, pro-lifers were immediately suspicious of Mendiola's story because it was just too perfect ― the gang rape, the "back room" of a "garment sweatshop" in a "shady part of town," and, to top it all off, the "kitchen table," an essential part of "pro-choice" mythology. The media, naturally, loves lurid tales, and so nobody bothered to check Mendiola's facts, probably for fear of appearing "insensitive" or not "politically correct." It was not long, however, before Mendiola's story began to come apart at the seams. This might not have happened at all if he had not gotten ambitious and called in numerous bomb threats to abortion mills, abortionists, and even his own home so that "... you people, the media, will come down with a harder line on those people who are harassing the clinics." The authorities took a close look at Mendiola and a background check found that he had no sisters at all ― he had been flagrantly and publicly lying the entire time, which was a stunning surprise to the "pro-choicers" and the media, but to few other people. Support for the Liar Pro-lifers are sometimes condemned for saying that "pro-choicers" have no shame. They certainly had no shame in the Mendiola case. The fact that he had embarrassed the "pro-choice" movement and lied to an entire nation meant nothing to them. During his trial, "pro-choicers" packed the courtroom in Mendiola's support. Many members of the "Committee for Reproductive Rights" appeared at his trial, and Sherna Gluck of the CRR said that "Clearly, the whole thing is very sad. I just feel very badly for him. He is a very fine person, and I guess the worst one can say is he is just confused. I'm sure it was

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[done] with the very best of intentions." In the end, Mendiola was given a one-year suspended sentence because, as the judge put it, he had "good intentions." Gee ― when Clayton Lee Waagner sent fake anthrax threats to dozens of abortion mills in 2001, we certainly didn't see the judge or the media excuse his actions because he had "good intentions!" We also did not see Gluck or any other "pro-choicer" say that he was "just confused." The Mendiola case is another excellent example of how biased the "mainstream media" and the court system really are. Checking for Shame ... ... ... Nope, Still Negative on that Reading Speaking of a lack of shame ― even after Mendiola was exposed and confronted with his lies, he merely altered his story to say the person who really died of an illegal abortion was "a sister's friend," and that "I was her voice." Naturally, he refused to identify the person in question. Pro-lifers naturally asked: If the "sister's friend" actually died of an illegal abortion, why not use her story in the first place? This rather lurid incident helps illustrate the incredible arrogance of "pro-choicers" who will continue to lie like rugs even when they are caught, and shows how out of touch with reality they really are. Mendiola's bogus story helped to call into question all of NARAL's other propaganda stories of women who died of illegal abortions before the procedure was legalized. When the organizers of local NARAL "Silent No More" events were asked for documentation on their stories, not a single one complied. And, of course, neither NARAL nor any other "pro-choice" group apologized for this blatant attempt to hoodwink an entire nation. Reference: Betty Cuniberti and Elizabeth Mehren. ""Silent Scream" Abortion Film Stirs Friend, Foe." Los Angeles Times, August 8, 1985; Paul Jacobs. "Panel Rejects Bill Calling for Parental Abortion OK." Los Angeles Times, February 25, 1986; Patt Morrison. "Pro-Choice Activist Faces Sentence for Phony Threats to Bomb Clinics." Los Angeles Times, December 10, 1987; Patt Morrison. "Zealot's Tale: Pro-Choice Activist Faces Sentencing in Bomb Threats to Stir Sympathy for Cause." Los Angeles Times, December 10, 1987, pages F1, F4 and F6; News Briefs. "Friendly Bomb Threats." HLI Reports, April 1988, page 4; "Pro-Life Action League Helps Expose Pro-Abortion "Bomber."" The Advocate (publication of Advocates for Life Ministries), Portland, Oregon, May 1988, page 10; Anti-Life Report. "Bomb Hoaxer Gets Suspended Sentence." ALL About Issues, June-July 1988, page 16. Sexual Assault (2 incidents) and Hate Crimes (4 incidents) On April 18, 1992, pro-abortionist Julie Schollenberger of the Clinic Defense Alliance was arrested for sexual assault against a female participant of Operation Rescue. Also, about a dozen homosexuals, dressed up as Jesus Christ, danced and mocked Christianity, using crude and offensive language in front of pro-life women and children. The pro-abortionists held makeshift crucifixes, applied red dots of paint to their hands (mocking the crucifixion of Jesus Christ) in efforts to shock and offend Christians. To the tune of the song Hokie Pokie, they sang, "You put your crucifix in, you take your crucifix out ..." A male clinic escort assaulted a female pro-lifer from behind and simulated sexual acts on her, and was arrested by the Los Angeles Police Department. Naturally, the "mainstream" media completely ignored the bare hatred shown by the pro-abortionists. But if one pro-lifer had yelled an epithet like "faggot" at one of the pro-aborts, we can be assured that it would make the front pages of newspapers across the nation. As always, anti-lifers scream for tolerance

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while showing none themselves. Reference: Press release, Operation Rescue of California, April 21, 1992. Sexual Assault At the HER Medical Clinic abortion mill, a pro-life woman in a dense crowd felt a pro-abortion man press his body against her. He hissed in her ear, "I bet you like that don't you?" Then the man started making explicit sexual comments as he pushed against her. Another pro-abortionist said, "She's one of those frigid ones." The first pro-abortionist said, "I like 'em that way," and then he made various sexual movements. References: testimonies. American Anti-Persecution League, December 1993 fundraising letter, and personal

Assault (12 incidents), Hate Crimes (4 incidents) and Setting an Illegal Fire On July 25, 1992, at a Christian prayer vigil, pro-abortionists dressed as the Virgin Mary carried a six-foot cross in the shape of a phallus, beat on drums, shouted obscenities, tore pages out of Bibles, threw them into the faces of the pastors and praying crowd, and called nuns "lesbians." At the Women's Center abortion mill, pro-abortionists mocked God, screamed blasphemies, and assaulted Christians. A transsexual, "Connie Norman," repeatedly cursed and verbally attacked a Catholic priest with crude and offensive language. The pro-abortionists brought out a portable barbecue, placed a stack of Bibles on it, poured lighter fluid on them, and ignited them. The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) charged them with setting an illegal fire. References: "Pro-Abortion Demonstrators Barbecue Bibles at Prayer Vigil Outside Abortion Clinic." Life Advocate, Advocates for Life Ministries [Portland, Oregon], September 1992, page 11. Assault (5 incidents) On April 14, 1990, at the Family Planning Associates abortion mill, several pro-abortionists physically assaulted pro-life rescuers. Reference: Bill Soucie, personal video recording of the incidents. Assault and Battery Abortionist George J. Collins assaulted Mary E. Jones by swinging her by her arm and shoulder on March 15, 1968, causing her "bruises, lacerations and contusions over her entire body ... serious injuries to her ribs and back, to her head and to her hips, and to the bones, muscles and ligaments thereof." Her answers to interrogatories indicate she was a medical assistant at his abortion mill at the time. Reference: Los Angeles County Superior Court Case Number 949816. Assault

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In March 1991, a member of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT-UP) member severely bit pro-lifer Chris Keys twice. Reference: Operation Rescue National, Violence and Disruption Report, December 10, 1994. Assault In February 1994, at the La Mujer abortion mill, an AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT-UP) member repeatedly kicked pro-lifer Terri Palmquist. Reference: Tim Palmquist, letter to Lynn K. Murphy, Life Research Institute, November 14, 1994. Assault [Orange City] In March 1989, during a rescue at the Family Planning Associates abortion mill in Cypress, a pro-abortion Orange City police officer dragged a pro-lifer behind a wall so he could not be seen, and savagely beat him, although he was not resisting. Reference: Tim Palmquist, letter to Lynn K. Murphy, November 14, 1994. Fraud (30 incidents), Criminal Abortion, Practicing Medicine Without a License, Malpractice (8 incidents), Gross Negligence (2 incidents), Falsifying Documents, Unprofessional Conduct and Incompetence (8 incidents) [Van Nuys] Abortionist Gordon Goei had committed abortions for years in abortuaries throughout the Southern California region before authorities were called to a Northridge hospital where a 42-year old woman who had been aborted by him was bleeding profusely. They found the mutilated body of her 26-week-old preborn child in a dumpster outside Goei's abortion mill. The County Coroner ruled the child's death a "homicide" due to "blunt force trauma." The District Attorney's office claims that Dr. Goei has more accusations against his license than any other doctor in any field in California. Goei was practicing despite a suspended medical license. He was charged with performing an illegal abortion. Goei was no stranger to the medical board; he had a 99-page file detailing disciplinary actions dating to 1979, when he was first placed on probation. He was disciplined again in 1984, in 1992, and in 1997 ― the most recent time for mishandling cases of eight obstetrical (non-abortion) patients. Six days before he performed the abortion that led to his arrest, his license was suspended because he failed a competency exam required under probation, according to medical board records. Goei has been disciplined concerning his abortion practice since 1979 for, among other acts, gross negligence in dealing with two mothers, knowingly making or signing a falsified medical document, and professional incompetence in his treatment of eight other patients. Goei also committed most of the late-term abortions that led to the famous discovery of 16,000 aborted preborn babies found in a California dumpster that was seized for lack of payment. The California Medical Board found the abortionist guilty of "fraud, corruption, dishonesty, and unprofessional conduct" in billing patient L.B.'s insurance company $385, $710, $510, $475, $754, $495, $390, $150, $390, $150, $390, $508, $345, $300, and $390 for services he did not do, billing combination injections as separate injections, and billing $225, $250, $410, $300, and $612, for dates

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L.B. did not even visit his office. His medical license was suspended for 1 year, with 3 years probation. Despite this incredible range of crimes, an attorney defending Goei posted an Internet plea on the WHAM (Women's Health Action & Mobilization) ALERT! website for corroborating evidence that "physicians who perform later abortions are under attack from the California Medical Board." After many years of criminal activity, Goei was finally forced out of the medical profession. However, he is a very good example of the axiom "You can take the man out of the abortion business, but you can't take the abortionist out of the man." On July 17, 2008, in the United States District Court in Los Angeles, a jury convicted Goei of one count of tax evasion and two counts of wire fraud. From 1999 (right after he was ejected from the medical profession) to 2005, he operated a Ponzi scheme in which he defrauded investors by promising that funds invested in his high-yield investment program would generate millions of dollars in profits within sixty days. He established shell companies in Nevada for this purpose. These companies, which he named Aphrodisia, would allegedly generate huge returns in which his investors would share. However, Goei did not use his investor's money for their benefit, but his own, including credit card expenditures made on an account in the name of a third party as well as to repay one of his investors in a previous high-yield investment program scheme. References: "Dumpster Abortionist Faces Late Abortion Charges." ALL About Issues, May 1984, page 33; California Medical Board Accusations #D-4464, #D-3132 and #L-31034; Los Angeles County Superior Court Case Numbers C225892, C322090, C363563, C531778, C538008, C751915 and SWC097915; "Judge Bars Abortion Practitioner from Practicing." Los Angeles Times, April 30, 1998; Julie Marquis and Lee Romney. "Handful of Abortion Clinics Put Poor at Risk." Los Angeles Times, April 5, 1998; Pro-Life Infonet, May 1, 1998; Global Report; "Men Behaving Really Badly." Life Insight [publication of the Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB)], October 1998; Internal Revenue Service. "Promoter of High-Yield Investment Fraud Scheme Convicted of Tax Evasion and Wire Fraud." LawFuel.com, July 17, 2008. Vandalism (2 incidents) and Hate Crimes (2 incidents) [Torrance] On Sunday, July 9, 1990, the Catholic Church in Torrance, California, and the building housing the Los Angeles Archdiocese were sprayed with obscene graffiti. The vandals left a wooden cross festooned with used condoms and a mattress stuffed with animal intestines outside the church. Police speculated that the animal entrails were the products of Satanic rituals. The next day, an anonymous woman called the church, and proclaimed herself to be a member of "Artists Against Religious Oppression." She warned the Catholic Church to "stay out of politics" and to "stop its oppression of women, gays, and lesbians." Reference: Joseph Sobran. "Liberals Obsessed With Imaginary Dangers." Conservative Chronicle," July 25, 1990, page 20. Vandalism and Hate Crime [Gardena] In August 1991, pro-abortionists sprayed butyric acid on a church and spray-painted it with obscene pro-abortion slogans. Reference: Wendy Wright, letter to Lynn K. Murphy, Life Research Institute, November 23, 1994.

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Desecration of a Church (5 incidents) and Hate Crimes (5 incidents) Pro-abortionists defaced the Sherman Oaks Church with obscene graffiti several times in 1989, and, on March 18, 1992, they defaced its walls with red paint, red coat hangers, and posters accusing the church of "crimes against women." Reference: Bill Soucie, comments in personal video recording of the incidents. Desecration of a Church (5 incidents) and Hate Crimes (10 incidents) On December 3, 1989, pro-abortionists and homosexuals vandalized three churches in Los Angeles and the Catholic cathedral and chancery buildings in both Los Angeles and San Francisco as a "protest" against recent U.S. bishop's policy statements on AIDS and the Church's consistent opposition to homosexual perversions and abortion. All of the buildings were vandalized by having red paint splashed all over them and anti-Catholic posters glued to them. Additionally, seven of the bigots displayed their hatred for God and the Catholic Church by stealing consecrated Hosts, throwing them on the ground, and stamping on them. The "mainstream" media took absolutely no notice of these hate crimes. Reference: Robert Hutchinson. "Seven Trample on Consecrated Host." 30 Days, January 1990, pages 20 to 23. Harassment [Santa Ana] During a speech by Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony, a bottle of butyric acid broke in a pro-abortionist's hand while he was in the middle of the crowd. The stinking pro-abortionist was arrested and charged with harassment. Reference: Operation Rescue of California, Blue Jay, California. Violation of Civil Rights In June of 2001, the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform (CBR) began a campaign to show the result of abortion by driving hundreds of miles of Los Angeles freeways in trucks with billboard-sized photos of aborted babies on every side. In March of 2002, citing a California law that prohibits "disruptive" activity on any street adjacent to a school, police officers pulled over one CBR member who was driving a box-body styled truck with the pictures, while a second was escorting the truck in a sedan. The traffic stop took place near Dodson Middle School in Los Angeles County. Deputies detained the activists for more than 90 minutes, searched their vehicles, and then warned them their activity was disruptive and to not return to the school with their pictures. The Thomas More Law Center, a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, filed a federal lawsuit on April 17, 2003, on behalf of CBR alleging a violation of the Free Speech provision of the Constitution. Robert Muise, associate counsel with the Thomas More Law Center, said that Regardless of how one feels about these disturbing photos, CBR has a constitutional

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right to display them. Planned Parenthood and other pro-abortion groups have embedded themselves in public school systems throughout this country. So long as pro-abortion groups insist on targeting school-age children, it is appropriate that these same students receive at least a modicum of truthful education about abortion. CBR's photographs do not lie and they show abortion for what it is: The killing of an innocent human life. In addition to the Sheriff's department, the lawsuit also named Sherriff Lee Baca, several deputies and a school administrator who assisted the deputies. The plaintiffs wanted a judge to declare the use of the "disruptive" law to restrict the operation of CBR's trucks on public streets unconstitutional. Reference: "Deputies Sued Over Aborted-Babies Photos: Pro-Life Group Files Claim after Billboard Truck Deemed 'Disruptive'." WorldNetDaily, May 7, 2003. Violation of Civil Rights (2 incidents) [Riverside] Pro-life nurse Michelle Diaz worked for the Riverside Neighborhood Health Center. In June 1999, she was fired after she told her supervisor that her deeply-held religious beliefs prevented her from distributing morning-after pills designed to end pregnancies because she believed she would be participating in an abortion. The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) filed suit for Diaz in December 2002 and represented her in a four-day trial in the United States District Court in Riverside, California. On May 24, 2002, a jury found the County of Riverside guilty of violating her First Amendment rights of free speech, violating her rights of freedom of religion, and failing to reasonably accommodate her religious beliefs. The jury awarded damages totaling more than $47,000, including $19,000 in damages for back pay and more than $28,000 in damages for emotional distress. References: "Pro-Life Nurse Fired for Refusing to Issue Morning after Pill Wins Lawsuit." LifeSite Daily News, May 27, 2002; "Jury Sides With Fired Pro-Life Calif. Nurse on Distributing Drugs." Associated Press, May 31, 2002; Pro-Life Infonet, June 4, 2002. Indecent Exposure (4 incidents) [El Monte] On June 29, 1991, at a picket of a local abortion mill, two pro-abortion women exposed their breasts to pro-lifers, and two others stripped off their pants and exposed themselves to the pro-lifers. Reference: Bill Soucie, personal video recording of the incident. Threat In June 2004, hip-hop 'artist' Joe Budden, also known as "Usher," suggests violently beating a pregnant woman when she refuses to have an abortion in his song "Confessions (remix)." The lyrics include the following; Pray that she abort that, If she's talkin' 'bout keepin' it, One hit to the stomach, She's leakin' it.

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Day Gardner, Director of Black Americans for Life, said that These lyrics are demeaning and outright violent toward both women and unborn children. It is appalling to suggest that a man attack a woman to cause the death of her unborn child. As women and as mothers, we simply cannot allow ourselves or our unborn children to be treated as objects of such abuse. References: "Remix of Usher Song Advocates Abortion, Violence Against Pregnant Women." Pro-Life News Report at LifeNews, June 26, 2004; "Joe Budden Hip-Hop Song Advises Violence Against Pregnant Women Who Refuse Abortion." LifeSite Daily News, June 30, 2004. Malpractice and Negligence Dolores Watson sought counseling at the pro-abortion Clergy Counseling Service due to her unwanted pregnancy concurrent with marital problems in August 1970. A man presenting himself as a clergyman did not discuss her problems with her, but indicated that Dolores "had good legitimate grounds" for an abortion. He stated that the abortion would be safe and easy, and discounted any medical or psychological risks, refusing to even discuss them. Watson said that "I was unsteady and messed up at the time and did not know what to do." The "clergyman" referred her to Lee D. Newman for an abortion. The abortionist did not explain the risks but proceeded with the abortion. Dolores passed an intact preborn child two weeks later while working with a friend in her church nursery. This friend said that Since the abortion operation and since seeing her child, Dolores Watson has not been the same ever since. She has undergone severe guilt because of the killing of her unborn baby. ... based on my numerous years of experience knowing Dolores [I believe] that she was substantially induced to undergo the abortion operation by the lack of any hesitancy by the person in Clergy Counseling. While hospitalized following the expulsion of her preborn child, Dolores had to undergo a hysterectomy. Reference: Los Angeles County Superior Court Case #C59813. Malpractice In February 2001, a 28-year-old Los Angeles woman won a lawsuit against Planned Parenthood stemming from a botched first-trimester abortion in 1997. She was awarded $672,610 after a baby missing two limbs was aborted from her several weeks after she was supposed to have had an abortion at Planned Parenthood. It is thought that the woman had twins, with the second baby initially undetected by abortionists. Her lawyer said that since the incident, the woman has contemplated suicide, is haunted by visions of babies being killed and cries uncontrollably at the sight of children. Reference: Tony Gosgnach. "Planned Parenthood Exposed." The Interim, February 2003. Lewd Conduct

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According to police documents, abortionist Earl D. Baxter, on September 10, 1982, in a park restroom, "unzipped his pants and masturbated his erect penis towards" one vice officer and grabbed the crotch of another. Baxter pleaded no contest to one of three counts, and the other two were dropped; he was fined $60 and given three months probation. Reference: Los Angeles Municipal Court Case Number P006285. Coercion Sharrona Alexander, an assistant coach of the women's basketball team at the University of California, was pregnant. However, the head coach, Marianne Stanley, gave her a coercive choice between having an abortion or quitting her job, then abandoned her at a hotel during a Midwest recruiting trip with 90 cents in her pocket. Stanley admitted during sworn testimony that she told Sharrona that "If you are going to continue with this pregnancy, you're not going to be able to fulfill the job duties; therefore, I am then going to have to hire another coach." Despite this confession, Stanley denied attempting to force Sharrona to have an abortion. She said she did not fire Sharrona, but "asked her for her resignation." Sharrona went so far as to call an abortion mill and schedule an abortion for Stanley in Atlanta. In 2000, the University of California paid Sharrona $115,000 to settle a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit after she refused to have the abortion. Stanley was named WNBA coach of the year after leading Washington to the Eastern Conference finals during the 2001-2002 season. She won three national championships at Old Dominion and was voted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in May of 2002. Dr. Sherrie McElvy, a fetal medicine specialist at the University of California-Davis, says she advises pregnant women to continue the physical activities they were doing before their pregnancy right up until giving birth ― as long as it doesn't involve using their abdominal muscles or there is a high risk of suffering trauma. She says "For the most part, there would be nothing about coaching that would exclude her from continuing." Three weeks before filing her suit, Sharonna gave birth to Kenden Reaves. Sharrona and her boyfriend married on May 16, 2000, and now have two children and live in Nashville. Sharrona said she since has applied for welfare. She has applied for assistant coaching jobs at four schools, but none has hired her. She testified that This has ruined my life. I went from thinking I am going to take care of my son and be able to provide for myself, and to be on food stamps and on welfare and be degraded. ... You can't imagine how this has changed my life. My reputation ... how hard I had worked to get to that point was just thrown down the drain because I couldn't ― I couldn't just go to a clinic to abort my son. Naturally, not a single "pro-choice" group supported or assisted Sharrona in any way. References: "Post: Stanley Gave Assistant an Ultimatum." The Seattle Times, September 16, 2002; "Fired Basketball Coach Settles Pregnancy Discrimination Lawsuit." Pro-Life Infonet, September 17, 2002; Jessica Hopp and Greg Sandoval. "Choice Between Child, Paycheck: Lawsuit Claims Coach Told Assistant to Have Abortion or Give Up Her New Job." Washington Post, September 18, 2002; Ted Olsen. "Forcing Abortions: Mandated Abortions Happen in the U.S., Too." Christianity Today Magazine, November 18, 2002, page 21.

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Death Threats (3 incidents) [Anaheim] "I got an idea. You put that f―ing banner in the air one more time I'm going to f―ing find you and kill you all." This is one of the many death threats that freedom-loving "pro-choicers" sent to Gregg Cunningham's Center for Bio-Ethical Reform (CBR) after it flew banners depicting aborted babies over beaches in California. The threat was sent by mobile telephone on August 10, 2002. Another threat said "Yeah, I just saw a truck with one of your ad campaigns on it that's f―king disgusting, and, I mean, Goddamn, y'all don't need to be having big semi-trucks driving around with aborted fetuses on it. Whoever came up with that campaign is a dumb son of a bitch and they deserve to be drug in the street and shot. Thank you, 'bye." Another intelligent pro-abortion e-mail message, displaying all the literacy and self-restraint we can expect from pro-aborts, came from Dezarae Dolan Jimenez on April 23, 2003. She wrote Hey F― Heads. I saw your trucks this morning on the 101 freeway. That was me, the friendly young lady who gave you the bird and said "F― You." I'd like to see you guys without your Police Escort. I'm sure you sissy's [sic] would never do without them. Maybe next time your [sic] out protesting I can get arressted [sic] for assualt [sic]. Your campaign and your Nazi propaganda tatics [sic] are complete bulls―. How can you compare apples & oranges. You ignorant a―h―s" To this hate- and obscenity-laden message, Gregg replied Whoa! If abortion is such a great idea, why do a few photos make you so angry? But we have heard it all before. Lots of pro-aborts who advocate violence against the unborn will threaten violence against us. Some have even tried it. They all went to jail. If you wish to join them we are willing to accommodate you. But in the mean time, you will be in our prayers. Improper Disposal of Medical Waste [Chino Hills] At the bottom of a steep embankment, where Route 71 crosses over Payton Drive, two boys who were playing nearby found some boxes filled with the remains of 54 late-term dismembered babies. The boys bicycled home and said they had found boxes of "babies." The babies had been dumped on March 14, 1997, by a trucker who may not have known what the Los Angeles abortion clinic had hired him to dispose of. He later served 71 days in jail for the improper disposal of medical waste. This incident troubled local residents, who formed a group called Cradles of Love, for the purpose of providing a burial for the 54 babies. The members of this group were shocked (although perhaps they should not have been) when the American Civil Liberties Union said that it strongly objected to the dead babies being "released to the church groups for the express purpose of holding religious services." The pro-lifers ignored the ACLU, and in October the babies were buried in a plot provided at no charge by a cemetery in nearby Riverside. Each baby was given a name by a participating church group. Each name was engraved on a brass plate that was affixed to each of the 54 small, white, wooden caskets made, at no charge, by a volunteer who took three days off from work to do it. Fifty clergy and four persons active in the right-to-life movement carried the caskets. Each baby's name is inscribed on a large headstone, also provided at no charge. Fifty-four doves, provided at no charge by the cemetery, were

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released at the services. It seems very strange that the same pro-abortionists who object so loudly when the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform drives its big trucks with large photos of dismembered preborn babies around schools will then turn around and dump the actual dead babies where kids can find them. Reference: George F. Will. "54 Babies." The Washington Post, December 3, 1998, page A23. Concealing a Corpse Edward Allred, the notorious Los Angeles abortionist, attempted to bury a woman who died after an abortion without first turning the body over to the county coroner. References: Los Angeles County Coroner Case Number 84-16016 and Los Angeles County Superior Court Case Number C575154); Paul Likoudis. "Investigators Cast a Wide Net To Find Abortionist's Murderer." The Wanderer, December 10, 1998, pages 1 and 10.

Modesto, California
Stalking A pro-abortionist was arrested for stalking a pro-lifer on July 7, 1994. Reference: Operation Rescue of California, personal communication with Lynn K. Murphy, October 30, 1994.

Oceanside, California
Vehicular Assault and Assault (3 incidents) A group of pro-lifers named Open Eyes Ministries often pray in front of the Planned Parenthood abortion mill in Oceanside (a city midway between Los Angeles and San Diego), and reported numerous incidents of pro-abortion violence directed towards its members. On April 14, two pro-abortionists in a car swerved towards three of the pro-lifers (including an eight-year-old) and swerved away at the last possible second. One of the pro-lifers got the license plate number, and a sergeant from the police department appeared after the pro-lifers called him. A Planned Parenthood worker demanded that he arrest them! Two weeks, previously, two pro-aborts in a car threw eggs at the pro-lifers. Their license plates were covered with masking tape so they could not be identified. On April 3, while Howard Putnam and Glen Biondi were picketing in front of the Scripps Hospital in Encenitas, a male pro-abort threatened them and then knocked the sign out of Putnam's hands and shoved him into the street. He then shoved Howard again. After a police officer took the statements of the pro-lifers and drove away, another pro-abort drove by and threw a half-gallon jug full of water at them.

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Reference: Glen Biondi. "Little Notes: Pro-Abortion Violence at Planned Parenthood, Oceanside." San Diego News Notes, June 2001, pages 10 and 12.

Palm Desert, California
Gross Malpractice, Gross Negligence, Perjury (2 incidents), Malpractice (2 incidents) and Fraud The Medical Board of California suspended abortionist Joseph Durante's medical license two months after he lied to state officials about an earlier disciplinary case for which he was still on probation. State medical officials also placed the abortionist on five years probation in September 1996 for gross negligence when he misdiagnosed the age of an unborn child he was trying to abort at a San Diego clinic. Eight months later, Durante told the state's Medi-Cal program that his medical license had never been suspended, revoked or otherwise disciplined by a state licensing authority. Durante was applying to become a Medi-Cal provider so he could perform abortions at a Santa Ana abortion facility. Durante's earlier Medical Board case stemmed from a 1992 abortion he attempted to perform at a San Diego abortion facility. According to state records, Durante failed to perform a pelvic exam or an ultrasound to determine the age of the unborn child before he proceeded with the abortion. The 17-year-old girl told Durante the pregnancy was eight to 12 weeks along; it actually was 6½ months along. The Medical Board of California filed accusations on May 1, 2000 against Durante, who operates abortion mills in Riverside and San Bernardino counties. The petition states Anne Marie Santana underwent an abortion on August 10, 1998, at A Lady's Choice Women's Medical Center in Victorville, one of Durante's abortuaries. Her uterus was perforated and she suffered a probable bowel injury. Durante did not perform the abortion but, in providing follow-up care, he did not properly evaluate and treat the woman's symptoms and failed to refer her to an acute-care facility. The petition also points out that Durante kept outdated medications and did not have a valid federal permit for keeping controlled substances at the Moreno Valley abortion mill. As they always do, this abortionist tried to absolve himself by blaming others ― especially pro-lifers. Durante maintained that he was being targeted by the Medical Board for reasons that have nothing to do with his qualifications as a physician. He sniveled that "There are some anti-abortion zealots on the board. They didn't get what they wanted ― to take my license away." He also maintained the board still is reacting to a criminal case that arose out of the 1996 death of a Barstow woman at one of his Southern California abortion facilities. Bruce Steir, who worked for Durante and had performed an abortion on the woman, was charged with murder in her death and eventually pleaded guilty to manslaughter. On March 4, 2008, the Riverside County Superior Court awarded Anne Marie Santana $344,218, the maximum possible amount, since the court had found that Durante had committed medical malpractice to an extreme degree. After a lifetime of killing tens of thousands of preborn children in his abortion mills, Durante finally died on March 13, 2008, at the age of 80. Despite his murderous life, he received a lavish Catholic funeral ― the likes of which pro-life activists can only hope for. The pastor of Sacred Heart Parish in Palm Desert, Father Howard Lincoln, who also served as a spokesman for San Bernardino Bishop Gerald Barnes, calls himself "an extremely pro-life priest." As he delivered a glowing eulogy for Durante at the Ramon Chapel of Forest Lawn Mortuary in Cathedral City, pro-lifers wondered if he knew what he was talking about, especially when he called another abortionist, Marion M. Sherman, Durante's business partner, forward to give another eulogy.

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Father Lincoln alleged afterwards that he did not know that Durante, in the news constantly as one of California's most notorious abortionists, actually did abortions ― although he did seem to know many other details about Durante's life. Ironically, Durante operated his abortion mill only two miles from Father Lincoln's parish, and he knew nothing about it. Father Lincoln had also previously celebrated a Mass for the homosexual activist group National Association of Catholic Diocesan Lesbian and Gay Ministries (NACDLGM). To be sure, this is the kind of "pro-life priest" the pro-life movement doesn't need. References: "California Abortion Practitioner's License Suspended." Pro-Life Infonet, October 28, 1999; Riverside Press Enterprise, October 27, 1999; "California Abortion Practitioner Facing More Charges." Pro-Life Infonet, May 19, 2000; Carlos Bay. "Will the State Let This One Slip By?: Another Botched Abortion at Durante's Clinic." Los Angeles Lay Catholic Mission, July/August 2001, pages 1, 7 and 8, and San Diego News Notes, July/August 2001, pages 1, 3 and 4; "Abortion Practitioner Faces Disciplinary Action in Malpractice." The Desert Sun, September 27, 2001; Pro-Life Infonet, September 28, 2001; Steven Ertelt. "Abortion Business Owner Who Injured Woman Shuts Down California Facility." Pro-Life Infonet, November 27, 2004; "Entitled to a Christian Burial: Highly Placed Priest of San Bernardino Diocese Delivers Eulogy Praising Abortionist." California Catholic Daily, March 26, 2009.

Redding, California
Felony Vandalism (4 counts) and Commission of a Hate Crime (4 counts) In January 2005, several local Christian organizations erected 3,000 crosses in a grassy lot adjoining the Christian Life Center in Redding, California, in order to commemorate the number of preborn babies who die at the hands of abortionists in the United States every day. Naturally, pro-abortionists, who hate any kind of opposition, and who especially despise any form of free speech that exposes their mass killings, very frequently vandalize and destroy such displays, and then snivel that they are victims when they are caught. At about 3:00 AM on January 17, 2005, four pro-abortion men ― Michael Lane Redding, Clayton Heath of Anderson, Brian Fitzgerald of Chico, and Aaron Krzywicki of Santa Rosa ― decided to go on a vandalism spree. They tore all of the 3,000 crosses out of the ground, and threw some of them over the adjoining fence onto a freeway, endangering passing traffic. They also slashed and destroyed several eight-foot-long vinyl signs that read "Abortions done per day in the U.S.A." Sergeant Roger Moore of the Shasta County Police Department said that the four were arrested, and each was charged with felony vandalism and commission of a hate crime. Moore said that "It is a hate crime. Anytime you infringe on people's civil rights, it's a hate crime." He also said that damaging property to intimidate or interfere with civil rights based on a person's race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, disability, gender or sexual orientation, real or perceived, is illegal, he said. The amount of labor that went into making the crosses and signs was about 2,000 hours, according to organizers. Reference: "Un-Constitutional 'Hate Crimes Law' Used to Charge Four Pro-Aborts for 'Vandalism and Destruction of Property'." Covenant News Wire Service, January 18, 2005. Assault with a Deadly Weapon (ADW), Assault (4 incidents) and Destruction of Property

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Pro-abortionists at the Redding Feminist Women's Health Center (FWHC) abortion mill have a long and vicious history of committing violence against pro-life rescuers and picketers. In June 1993, a pro-abortionist attempted to run down pro-lifers Debbie McCallister and Walt Runyon with his truck. In July 1993, a pro-abortionist wrested Ron Walters' picket sign away from him and beat him with it. Ron was taken to a doctor for severe bleeding. In August 1993, a clinic worker threw rocks at pro-lifer Steven McCallister. On September 24, 1993, abortionist Carl Serratt and others kicked, punched and jumped on pro-lifer Richard C. Rudolph after stealing his picket sign. On December 2, 1993, a pro-abortionist soaked Pastor Steven McCallister and his video camera with a garden hose. References: Redding Police Department Report #93-51505 and lawsuit #124449 filed by Richard C. Rudolph on September 23, 1994 in Shasta County Superior Court. Operation Rescue National, Violence and Disruption Report, December 30, 1994.

Sacramento, California
First-Degree Murder (2 counts) and Accesory to Murder (2 counts) Deondre Terrell Hudson's girlfriend, Quinnisha R. Thomas, was eight months pregnant with his daughter, and he was very unhappy about it. So, on January 13, 2003, Thomas shot her in the back of the head as she took a shortcut through a fence to a Greenhaven neighborhood supermarket to buy some chips. Hudson and his two friends removed her body and dumped her into the trunk of a car. They were very careful to wrap her head in plastic garbage bags so her blood would not stain their car. Then they drove her to a nearby park and dumped her body into some bushes. Then Hudson stole her 99-cent bag of Cheetos corn chips and gave them to another girlfriend, who was only 14 years old and also pregnant with his child, which she aborted after his arrest. Deputy District Attorney Mark Curry said "That is pretty cold. That is as cold as it gets and that tells you what's up with this guy. He is a coldblooded killer." Testimony showed that Hudson wanted Quinnisha and her baby dead because he viewed them as an "irritant" that would "jeopardize his future" as a rap music star. Hudson confessed to his half-brother, Jermaine Arron Hatchett, that he had killed Quinnisha. Hudson's two friends, Kevin Duran Coleman and James Kaleo Ross, each pleaded guilty to lesser charges of acting as accessories to murder. Hudson's murder trial was unusually short, taking only two weeks. The jury deliberations were even shorter, less than two hours. The members of the jury found Hudson guilty of two counts of first-degree murder for the killing of Quinnisha and her preborn daughter. On June 14, 2004, Judge James L. Long sentenced Hudson to life in prison without the possibility of parole. References: Ramon Coronado. "Double Murder Case is Outlined: Jury Will Now Decide Fate of Teen Accused of Shooting Pregnant Girlfriend in the Head." Sacramento Bee, May 14, 2004; Ramon Coronado. "Jury Takes Less Than 2 Hours to Convict in Double Murder." Sacramento Bee, May 15, 2004. First-Degree Murder, Malicious Wounding, Assault with a Deadly Weapon (ADW), Felony First-Degree Burglary, Domestic Violence (3 counts) and Probation Violation (3 counts)

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Both Danny Ray Poplin Jr. and his girlfriend Vanessa Roberts, who was six months pregnant, were deaf. Poplin was convinced that Vanessa's baby was not his, and so, on December 31, 2006, he stabbed her twice in the stomach with the deliberate intent of killing her baby. He succeeded. Fortunately, Vanessa survived the brutal attack. In November 2009, a jury found Poplin guilty of first-degree murder. On April 9, 2010, Sacramento Superior Court Judge Greta Curtis Falls sentenced him to 50 years to life, with Vanessa watching. This sentence will begin after Poplin spends serves 12 years for malicious wounding and assault with a deadly weapon. During the trial, Sacramento County Deputy District Attorney Noah Phillips said that "It's our position that he was intending to kill the baby." Ironically, DNA tests on the preborn baby's body showed that Poplin was the father after all. In 1996, Poplin had pleaded guilty to a felony count of first-degree burglary. He also had a history of domestic violence convictions, including at least one case against Vanessa, and had also violated probation several times. Tom Johnson, head of the Sacramento County district attorney's domestic violence unit, said his office has handled numerous cases where pregnant women have been punched, kicked and threatened, and in the worst cases killed along with their babies. He said that "There is a clear connection between pregnancy and domestic violence." References: Hudson Sangree. "Fetal Murder Charge Sought in Stabbing." Sacramento Bee, January 4, 2007; Kim Minugh. "Sacramento Judge Gives Man 50-to-Life for Killing Unborn Baby." Sacramento Bee, April 9, 2010. Attempted Murder (3 counts), Conspiracy to Commit Murder (2 counts), Kidnapping (3 counts), Assault with a Deadly Weapon (3 counts), and Attempted Robbery (3 counts) Terry Buford's girlfriend was 7½ months pregnant, and he did not want the baby. So, on September 25, 2004, he enlisted two friends, Titenesha Russell and Dwayne Curry, to help him carry out a brutal abortion on her. Buford, Russell and Curry said that they were going to take her to the movies. Instead, they took her to a remote area in a park, and beat her with a baseball bat, a metal flashlight, a garbage can and their hands and fists, causing her serious head injuries. Then the three robbed her, stripped her, dumped her by the side of a road, and fled. Before she died, a woman found her and took her to a hospital, where doctors not only saved her life but that of her preborn child through emergency Cesarean section and resuscitation. On April 3, 2006, a Sacramento jury found Buford, Russell and Curry guilty of attempted murder of a fetus, assault with a deadly weapon to terminate a pregnancy, attempted robbery and kidnapping for purposes of robbery. Buford and Russell also were found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder. Reference: Associated Press. Herald-Tribune, April 4, 2006. Arson In November 1992, pro-abortionists set fire to a church dumpster next to a pro-life Alhambra church. Fire officials said if it had not been caught as soon as it was, the church would have burned down. The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT-UP) was demonstrating at another church that morning in "Jury Finds Three Guilty of Beating Pregnant Woman." Sarasota

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response to the previous day's arson of the Alhambra abortion chamber. ACT-UP members had previously vowed that they would burn down a church every time an abortion mill burned down. Reference: Operation Rescue, Sacramento. Assault (5 incidents) At the Alhambra Women's Center abortion chamber, pro-lifers were singing. Pro-abortionists used a bullhorn to scream directly into the ears of the pro-lifers. The volume was so loud that several of the pro-lifers said that it may have caused permanent ear damage. Reference: Law offices of Cyrus Zal, personal communication with Lynn K. Murphy of Life Research Institute, November 7, 1994. Assault (4 incidents) On July 7, 1994, a pro-abortionist identifying himself as "condom-man" blasted a radio in order to interfere with sidewalk prayer and a woman dropped condoms at the feet of Christians. "Condom-man" then yelled at those praying telling them to go home, that they weren't Christians. Several pro-abortionists then bounced inflated condoms off the heads of the Christians. Reference: Video taken by a pro-lifer at the scene (in possession of Life Research Institute). Assault On July 7, 1994, at the Sacramento Feminist Women's Health Center (FWHC), police arrested a pro-abortionist for assaulting a pro-lifer. Reference: Operation Rescue of California, personal communication with Lynn K. Murphy, Life Research Institute, October 30, 1994. Vandalism (4 incidents) Pro-abortionists broke the windows of a Christian coffeehouse named Pilgrim's Cafe on several occasions. This was apparently a result of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT-UP) vow that members of the organization would burn down a church every time an abortion mill burned down, since the incidents happened on the days after abortion mills around the country were burned. Reference: Operation Rescue, Sacramento, Murray Lewis, March 2, 1994 telephone conversation with Tim Palmquist.

San Bernardino, California
Violation of Civil Rights (8 incidents), Tampering with Evidence, Assault (3 incidents) and Theft

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“Pro-choicers” mock pro-life people who claim that our country’s universities and colleges are hotbeds of intolerance for conservative viewpoints. However, as this database conclusively demonstrates, many colleges are so hostile to the pro-life viewpoint that they will readily resort to physical violence to make certain that the pro-life message is censored and suppressed. Chaffey College in San Bernadino, California is one of these colleges. Joey Cox, Jason Conrad, James Conrad and other members of the pro-life youth group Survivors Campus Life Tour visited Chaffey College in November 2007 to hold signs and distribute pro-life literature. Campus police immediately ordered the eight pro-lifers to stand in an area so small that they would have been crushed against each other. Joey walked into the police station to ask about what authority the police had to make this order, and he was immediately grabbed, shoved against a wall, searched and handcuffed — for being “insubordinate,” as the cops claimed. The cops also knocked Joey to the ground and leaned on him with one knee pressed into his back, causing him considerable pain. All of this brutality was unnecessary, since Joey did not offer even the slightest hint of resistance. During the search, the cops discovered Joey’s digital audio recorder and immediately tried to delete the recording, knowing that it contained evidence of their illegal actions. They kept the recorder, and an appeals court later ruled that this was theft. Jason and James went to the police merely to inquire who Joey was being treated in this manner, and the police physically attacked them. The police slammed James onto a table and, when other pro-lifers looked through the window, the cops covered it so that nobody could see them beating him. The police handcuffed Jason to a pole in a dark bathroom and slammed his head against a wall. Joey, James and Jason were held in jail for three full days. In order to justify this imprisonment, the cops had to make up some charges to make it seem that the three boys were dangerous. Incredibly, the San Bernardino County District Attorney's office charged Joey with six counts of unlawfully recording a private conversation, and Jason and James with disturbing the peace and obstructing a police officer! Of course, in May 2009, a jury voted unanimously to acquit the pro-lifers of all of these trumped-up charges. The Life Legal Defense Foundation, which defended them, said that "The jurors are to be commended for following the law and denouncing the police misconduct. LLDF will seek damages in a civil suit against the officers for the violations of both the Conrads' and Mr. Cox's civil rights." LLDF immediately filed a lawsuit against several Chaffey College campus police officers. On May 3, 2011, a court awarded the pro-lifers $225,000 in damages and attorneys’ fees. Dana Cody, Executive Director of the Life Legal Defense Foundation, said that “This case shows that the pursuit of justice may be a long battle, but the freedom to peacefully speak the truth about abortion on a public college campus, without fear of recrimination and police abuse of authority, is a right that we at the Life Legal Defense Foundation will relentlessly seek to protect.” References: Steven Ertelt. “California Court Sides With Pro-Life Advocates Against Chaffey College.” LifeNews.com, May 11, 2009; John Jalsevac. “Pro-Life Youth Roughed Up by Cops Get $225K Settlement.” LifeSite News, May 4, 2011. Assault (5 incidents) On May 12, 1990, at the Family Planning Associates abortion mill, private security guards trampled on several pro-lifers and deliberately stamped on one pro-lifer's face. Reference: Bill Soucie's personal video recording of the incident (in possession of Life Research Institute).

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Gross Negligence, Incompetence, Unprofessional Conduct, and Failure to Maintain Adequate Medical Records The Medical Board of California revoked the license of abortionist Philip B. Pierre-Louis, effective May 27, 2003. On March 31, 1999, he was fined $5,000 by the Board and put on four years of probation after he perforated the uterus of a patient and removed three to five feet of her intestine when aborting her. The patient wound up in intensive care for nine days and spent nearly two weeks in a hospital. During the hearing, Pierre-Louis acknowledged that there was enough evidence for the Board's charges of gross negligence, incompetence, unprofessional conduct, and failure to maintain adequate medical records. In its Petition to Revoke Probation, filed November 20, 2002, the Medical Board charged Pierre-Louis with numerous violations of his probation, including failure to take and pass a remedial clinical program; failure to submit timely reports to the Board; failure to reimburse the Board for its investigative and probation monitoring costs; and failure to appear for interviews with Board staff, all of which he had agreed to do in his settlement. Soon after the Petition was filed, Pierre-Louis disappeared, and the abortionist has not been found since. References: "Medical Board Revokes License of San Bernardino Physician." Business Wire, April 30, 2003; "Abortion Practitioner Loses License After Botched Abortion." Pro-Life Infonet, May 2, 2003; Annette Wells. "Doctor's License is Revoked." San Bernardino County Sun, May 6, 2003; "Doctor's License Revoked for Botched Abortion." LifeSite Daily News, May 7, 2003; News Notes. "California Abortionist Loses License." The Wanderer, May 15, 2003, page 3.

San Diego, California
First-Degree Murder (2 counts), Second-Degree Murder and Abuse of a Corpse (2 incidents) Ramon Jay Rogers was a talented guy. He was an actor, a musician and a businessman. He also had a talent for murder — or so he thought.

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Rogers was a typical “pro-choice” male, who was having sex with a lot of different women and who viewed them as problems or obstacles to be disposed of when they got in his way or when they would not cooperate with his demands. Rogers’ one-time best friend and roommate was Ron Stadt, who discovered that Rogers was having sex with his wife, and planned to use evidence of the relationship in his child custody dispute. So, in June 1993, Rogers murdered him. In December 1993, Roger’s girlfriend Rose Albano was pregnant with his child, and he demanded that she get an abortion. She refused, so he murdered her as well. He dismembered her body and dumped her in a plastic bag in Valley Center. Beatrice Toronczak had moved from Poland to live with Rogers, and they had a young son together. Rogers had to move his current girlfriend out of his apartment because Beatrice didn’t want their son to be in contact with her. In February of 1996, Beatrice suddenly vanished from sight, and Rogers seemed to be unconcerned

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about her disappearance, making no effort to locate her. He did not bother to file a missing person report, and told Beatrice’s mother and his friends conflicting stories regarding her whereabouts. On March 6, Beatrice’s mother filed a missing person report, saying that she had not seen or talked to her daughter in nearly a month. About a week later, San Diego Police, citing an urgent need to locate Beatrice, conducted a warrantless search of the storage units in the apartment complex that Rogers managed. Beatrice’s mother had said that Rogers had threatened to lock her in one of the storage units, so the police broke into it and found bloodstains, a hammer, a saw and a butcher knife. They also found Beatrice’s severed fingers and parts of her jawbone. In 1997, a California jury found Ramon Jay Rogers guilty of murdering Beatrice Toronczak, Rose Albano and Ron Stadt, and Superior Court Judge Frederic Link recommended that he be put to death. Such cases are automatically appealed to the California Supreme Court, which, on July 6, 2009, affirmed the jury’s sentence of capital punishment. References: People v. Rogers, 09 S.O.S. 4127; “Court Upholds Death Sentence for Rogers.” San Diego News Network, July 6, 2009; “S.C. Upholds Death Sentence for Man Who Killed Ex-Girlfriend — Possibility that Victim was Still Alive Justified Warrantless Search, Justices Rule Unanimously.” Metropolitan News Company, July 7, 2009. Murder, Grand Theft (15 counts), Medi-Cal Fraud, Illegal Distribution of Drugs, Aiding the Unlicensed Practice of Medicine, Prescription Forgery and Gross Malpractice Abortionist Suresh Gandotra killed Magdalena Orteg Rodrigues with a botched abortion on December 8, 1994 at the El Norte Clinica Medica abortion mill. The San Diego County district attorney's office filed involuntary manslaughter charges in Magdalena's death. Medical authorities came under fire in this case because a file indicated that Gandotra had so seriously injured a woman in an abortion four years earlier that an examining physician described her anatomy as "difficult to identify." Gandotra fled the country to his homeland, India, before authorities could formally charge him with an upgraded charge of murder after further detailed investigations. Gandotra had no hospital admitting privileges at any facility. Nor did he have basic emergency supplies on hand, such as blood for transfusions, according to medical board records. A medical expert for the licensing board, in a sworn declaration, stated that Gandotra deviated from the standard of care in 10 significant ways, including "an extreme delay" in transferring the patient to the hospital. Gandotra had previously lost his license to practice medicine in New York state in 1992, and served 8 months in prison in 1990 for 17 felony counts, including forging prescriptions, grand theft, Medi-Cal fraud, aiding in furnishing of a dangerous drug without an authorized prescription, aiding and abetting the unlawful prescription of controlled substance, and assisting in the unlicensed practice of medicine. References: California Superior Court Case #S6003494; Los Angeles County Superior Court Case #SEC76210; San Diego Union-Tribune, December 13, 1994; Santa Monica Outlook, December 1994; Orange County Register, December 15, 1994; Los Angeles Times, March 21 and April 5, 1995; San Diego News Notes, February 1995; Paul Likoudis. "Investigators Cast a Wide Net To Find Abortionist's Murderer." The Wanderer, December 10, 1998, pages 1 and 10; Tony Gosgnach. "Cases Reveal a Path of Destruction Through Women, Children, and Society." The Interim, September 1998. Assault (7 incidents) and Destruction of Property [El Cajon] On September 21 and October 5, 2000, pro-lifers from the California Life Coalition passed out

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pro-life literature to students on public sidewalks outside Santana High School in Santee and Granite Hills High School in El Cajon. Both schools are in the Grossmont Union High School District. Outside Granite Hills, Allyson Smith was assaulted by a male and a female student. The female hit her in the face and spat on her, and the male destroyed her sign. Another male student spat on her from a departing school bus. Other students and passersby cursed and swore at the pro-lifers. Pro-lifer Ron Brock said that "I was picking up the posters when a 4-wheel-drive vehicle pulled up in a red zone behind me. The driver got out, went up to my van, and tried to rip the signs off the sides, but they're plywood so she was unable to destroy them. I started taking her picture, so she decided to come after me. She came at me with both arms swinging. She grabbed my smock and hit me on the back. Cheryl started taking pictures of her attacking me; then she came after Cheryl. She threw Cheryl's camera into the parking lot and hit her in the mouth. At that point we heard the sirens coming, and the police pulled up. They took a police report, and I placed her under citizens arrest." Outside Santana High School, Shamgar Jabez, director of Christian Men United, and three other pro-lifers, were physically assaulted by pro-abortion students. In none of these incidents were any charges filed by police, nor was any disciplinary action taken against the attacking pro-abortion students by the schools. References: Allyson Smith. "Back to School: Screaming, Hitting, Spitting." San Diego News Notes, November 2000, pages 1 and 3. Page 1 of the article has a photograph showing two students assaulting pro-lifer Cheryl Sullenger. Assault (4 incidents) and Destruction of Property [La Jolla] On August 4, 2003, Hillary Clinton was at a swank La Jolla bookstore promoting her so-called "tell-all" book Living History. About 15 pro-lifers with the California Life Coalition picketed the event. By the time pro-lifers arrived, the crowd had grown to more than 300, and quickly surpassed 1,000 by mid-morning. Within moments of displaying large graphic signs of aborted babies in the first trimester, Clinton supporters surrounded the pro-lifers and began shoving and covering their signs. Suddenly, one man violently kicked one of the signs, shattering the foam insulation board to which it was mounted and putting a hole in the middle of the vinyl photograph. Pro-lifers Sylvia Sullivan and Rayna Sullenger were slightly injured in the assault. Police were called and the attacker, Andrew Vergowuen, was detained. Moments later, pro-lifer Joe Manzo was attacked and spit upon by a woman who disagreed with his views. Manzo immediately placed her under citizen's arrest to prevent others in the crowd from thinking that they could act aggressively against the Christians without consequences. Within minutes of that attack, an angry woman dumped a drink down the back of pro-lifer Frank Dawson but ran away before she could be detained. Cheryl Sullenger, director of the California Life Coalition which organized the prolife outreach, said that These Clinton supporters have demonstrated with their actions the lawlessness of their world views. If support for abortion, homosexuality, and other criminal acts against the Creator can be held in respect, then violent, criminal reaction to those who disagree can only be expected. Everyone on the street and most people in the community were aware of the bold pro-life testimony today. It was well worth the loss of a sign and a few bumps and bruises.

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Reference: MTTU News, Missionaries to the Unborn, August 7, 2003. Death Threats (9 incidents) During the first week of January 1995, three pro-life crisis pregnancy centers in the San Diego area received a total of nine death threats from pro-abortionists. The taped messages included statements such as "It's time for some of you to die" and "I'm going to f―ing kill you." Thomas A. Glessner, president and general counsel of the National Institute for Family and Life Advocates, sent a letter to Attorney General Janet Reno on January 6, 1995, asking for the Department of Justice to provide CPCs with the same level of protection it so eagerly provided to abortion mills. Not surprisingly, such protection was denied. And Gena Shaw, spokeswoman for the National Abortion Federation, questioned whether the CPCs deserved or needed protection. Reference: Joyce Price. "Pro-Life Care Sites Ask for Protection After Death Threats: Seek Same Help as Abortion Clinics." The Washington Times, January 7, 1995. Death Threat On March 17, 1999, pro-lifers picketed Planned Parenthood's Mission Valley abortion mill. A woman identified as a Planned Parenthood employee or patient by a Planned Parenthood security guard threatened the life of a pro-life attorney, saying "I'm going to run your ass over on the way out." Reference: Nicholas Owen. "Lawyer, Judge Buttress Baby Killers." News Notes ["San Diego's Lay Catholic Newspaper"], May 1999, pages 1, 6 and 8. Assault and Indecent Exposure When pro-lifers picketed abortionist David Priver at his high-rise condominium complex on February 20, 1999, one woman resident exposed herself to them, and another poured water on them from the balcony. Reference: "Little Notes." News Notes ["San Diego's Lay Catholic Newspaper"], May 1999, page 10. Malpractice (7 incidents) Abortionist Philip Rand had a number of malpractice lawsuits filed against him. One of the suits, by 17-year-old Shirley Bellamy, claimed that the abortionist had refused to treat her for bleeding during her pregnancy. Rand "yelled and screamed" that she was going to lose the baby anyway, so she should get out of his office; Bellamy requested treatment in a hospital to try to save her unborn baby, but Rand refused, stating that he did not run a taxi service. When Bellamy experienced a sudden gush of blood, Rand refused to allow one of his nurses to take her to a nearby hospital. She suffered premature birth and subsequent death of her infant, who she named Sherelee Natai Allen. Rand declared bankruptcy in March 1992, due to the loss of a multi-million dollar lawsuit by Pamela Batter, who suffered toxemia and detached placenta, causing her son to be born brain-damaged fifteen years earlier.

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References: San Diego County Superior Court Cases #382675, #479972, #640446, #640957, #642682 and #650363; San Diego News Notes, February 1995. Gross Negligence and Gross Incompetence Abortionist James M. Long of San Diego performed an abortion on 22-year-old Angela Vidano in February 2000 at the Family Planning Associates abortion mill on Hospitality Lane. According to the attorney general's office, Long did not take precautions to deal with Angela's medical condition before beginning the abortion and failed to treat her after she stopped breathing. She subsequently suffered severe brain damage. State medical officials requested the revocation of Long's medical license, and attorney general's office accused him of gross negligence, repeated negligent acts and incompetence in his handling of the Vidano abortion. Angela's family also sued the abortionist, the clinic and other staff members. The lawsuit sought unspecified damages and compensation for Angela’s injuries and loss of future wages.

Angela Vidano is loaded onto an ambulance after abortionist James M. Long botched her abortion, causing severe and irreversible brain damage. Unlawful Business Practices, Wrongful Termination and Practicing Medicine without a License (3 incidents) Surgical technician Megan Allen was required by Planned Parenthood to perform medical services ― including assisting abortionists during abortions ― that she was not licensed to perform. She was hired as a management trainee by Planned Parenthood of San Diego, but clinic supervisors immediately

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put her to work assisting in abortions, even though she had no training or certification to perform those duties. Allen immediately began pointing out medical procedural discrepancies, but [clinic staff] told her "Don't worry about it." In one example, a woman came to the clinic for an abortion, but didn't speak English. Allen asked "Are you going to get someone in here who can speak her language and get her informed consent?," but clinic supervisors allegedly dismissed her. When she began to complain more frequently, the clinic fired her. She said After working at Planned Parenthood, I noticed a lot of things that they were doing wrong ― a lot of procedures they weren't doing in a sterile fashion or with people who were not certified and trained properly. ... They call them 'surgical assistants' ― [people] who are trained in-house, just right off the street without any medical background ― and during surgical procedures that involved sterile instruments they would be assisting during the abortions. The United States Justice Foundation filed a lawsuit on behalf of Allen, naming as defendants Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Planned Parenthood of San Diego and Riverside Counties, and Planned Parenthood of Los Angeles. The suit alleged that the facilities participated in "unlawful business practices" and "wrongful termination." The facilities allegedly permitted "unlicensed personnel" to assist in the performance of abortions and to diagnose, evaluate and treat medical conditions, the complaint said. Allen is seeking damages in the form of back pay and punitive damages for being fired. Her lawsuit also accuses Planned Parenthood abortion facilities in San Diego and Los Angeles of failing to report suspected or known cases of child sexual abuse, as required by law. The Planned Parenthood abortion mills were quite blatant about their use of unqualified staffers. According to one clinic job description, new hires needed only a high school diploma to be qualified, even though they were required to be involved in caring for abortion patients. Exhibit 3 of the complaint is the official job description given to Allen by clinic staff and signed by her. Called "Surgical Services Assistant Center Manager," the job profile required her to have direct patient-care contact. "Education" required for the position says only that candidates need a "High School diploma or equivalent experience." "Other" job duties include "willing to work in all areas of the center," without specifically exempting medical treatment areas. And under a heading entitled "Detailed Duties and Responsibilities," employees must "assist physician with [abortion] procedure." Richard Ackerman, litigation counsel for the USJF, said the clinics' alleged violations were some of the worst he's seen. He told WorldNetDaily "Toward the end she was complaining about quite a few of the violations of law, and they retaliated by firing her. ... I spent a decade doing medical malpractice cases. This [case] is unbelievable. It's a time bomb." Allen, who said she is not a pro-life activist, maintains she was purely concerned for the safety of women from a medical perspective. Would she ever work for a Planned Parenthood clinic again? "Never," said Allen. "Not for any amount of money." References: Jon E. Dougherty. "'Time Bomb' Lawsuit Against Planned Parenthood: Ex-Employee Alleges Unlicensed Personnel Assisting in Abortion Procedures." WorldNetDaily.com, August 22, 2002; "Ex-Planned Parenthood Employee Sues Over Safety Violations." Pro-Life Infonet, August 27, 2002; Scott Marshall. "Planned Parenthood Attorney Responds to Lawsuit." North County Times, September 13, 2002.

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The same old boring, unoriginal, bigoted and obscene pro-abortion response to the 2006 March for Life in San Francisco (photos from Zombie’s Web site).

Planned Parenthood Golden Gate’s “Superhero for Choice” Animated Movie In August 2005, Planned Parenthood Golden Gate produced an eight-minute animated cartoon called “A Superhero for Choice,” which you can still find on YouTube.

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The “hero” of the movie is a super-powered African-American woman (“Dianysis”) who flies around San Francisco defending “reproductive choice” and murdering pro-life activists in the process (keep in mind that Planned Parenthood is constantly criticizing pro-lifers for “violent rhetoric,” but pro-lifers have never produced an animated movie depicting the murder of “pro-choice” people). After the introduction, the “hero” corrects alleged propaganda being given to three kids on the street by a stereotypical pro-lifer (a short little man, a Snidely Whiplash lookalike called ”Sleazy Dude,” complete with tall black top hat and thin, long, twirlable mustache). Wait a minute ― don’t the “pro-choicers” condemn stereotyping? Then she fills a trash can to the brim, tosses him into it like a basketball, and holds the lid down, drowning him;

Next, she zooms over to her home base of Planned Parenthood Golden Gate, only to encounter several zombielike pro-life protestors (complete with yellow, bloodshot eyes) outside the abortion mill. She pauses to lecture the viewer on how the protestors sometimes get a little rowdy, and then shows how to deal with them — by using a gun that shoots condoms at the protestors, which cover them and then noisily explode, obliterating them;

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Then she chirps “That’s more like it! Open for business! Now everyone that needs low cost and confidential health care may enter freely, without intimidation or violence.” Apparently, “pro-choicers” are utterly immune to the concept of irony. It is hard to understand how Planned Parenthood can complain about “violent rhetoric” by pro-lifers when it actually shows someone murdering pro-lifers outside one of its own abortion mills and then condemning violence. Throughout the entire film, the “Superhero for Choice” is apparently having a great time killing prolifers, because she is smiling the whole time. After several more minutes of childish propaganda, the credits (printed on condoms, of course), “stretch” across the screen, and one of them decapitates another pro-lifer;

Now, just for a minute, imagine the media sensation that would occur if some pro-life cartoonists got together and depicted abortionists being drowned, blown up and decapitated. Yet, of course, not a single media outlet condemned “A Superhero for Choice,” going so far as to defend it as “good, clean fun.”

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Murder (4 counts), Arson and Death Threats (3 incidents) According to police and prosecution documents and witness testimony, the following events occurred in and around San Francisco. Early in the morning of October 10, 2005, Rodrigo Ortiz Paniagua stabbed his girlfriend, Leticia Chavez, who was about five months pregnant, three times in the stomach, apparently deliberately targeting their preborn child. Then he stabbed their little daughters, cutting the throat of six-year-old Adrina, and killing three-year-old Analisa. Leticia and Analisa died at that point. Then he methodically set their Palo Alto house on fire and sat down on the curb outside the home and lit up a cigarette, waiting for police to arrest him. When firefighters arrived at the scene, they found Leticia's 15-year-old sister trying to care for little Adrina, who was suffering from multiple stab wounds and burns. She was rushed to Regional Medical Center, but was pronounced dead shortly after arrival. A police summary statement said that "Rodrigo Paniagua was standing in the driveway area watching the paramedics and firefighters as if he were a bystander. An attending paramedic noticed Paniagua toss a knife to the ground. The paramedic then noticed that Paniagua was covered with a large amount of blood." A few hours after he was arrested, Paniagua confessed to the murders during a police interview. He was arraigned in Santa Clara County Superior Court on four counts of murder and one count of arson. Neighbor John Stallworth said of Paniagua that "He was pretty mellow; he was good with his kids, he took care of them. He was a cool, laid-back dude. ... He loved his girls. He'd tell me how his daughter aced something in school. ... It was a perfect family. It just goes to show you that you never know what's going on in people's minds." Leticia's relatives had a different story, however. Her cousin Lisa Gutierrez said that domestic violence had occurred in the past and that Leticia had complained to police. Cousin Danny Gutierrez said "I think she was holding back, that she was afraid to tell us." Paniagua was convicted in 2002 for repeated death threats against Leticia, served time in jail, and was ordered to complete a yearlong course on domestic violence. References: Diana Walsh and Steve Rubenstein. "Man Kills Pregnant Girlfriend and 2 Kids, Police Say: He Allegedly Slays Family Members Before Setting Fire." San Francisco Chronicle, October 11, 2005, page B-1; "Pregnant Mother of Two Stabbed to Death." Palo Alto Online News, October 11, 2005; Kathleen Sullivan. "Suspect Admits Stabbing Family, Gets 4 Murder Charges." San Francisco Chronicle, October 14, 2005, page B-5. Murder (2 counts) [San Jose] Gilberto Cano's live-in girlfriend, Martha Isela Moreno, was nearly seven months pregnant, and was looking forward to having her little girl. On April 20, 2002, he stabbed her several times in the abdomen with a long kitchen knife and then strangled her to death. Cano was arrested that night, jailed, and charged with two counts of murder in Stanislaus County Superior Court. Forensic pathologist Jennifer Rulon testified that Moreno suffered three stab wounds to her stomach, two of which could have been fatal. Moreno also appeared to have been strangled to death, she said. One of the stab wounds had a single entry point but three corresponding puncture wounds to an interior muscle, consistent with the knife being stabbed in, not withdrawn all the way and then thrust in three more times, Rulon said. Prosecutor Rick Distaso argued that those wounds indicated that the attacker

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was clearly stabbing in an "attempt to kill the baby." Two witnesses testified that Cano had gone to a relative's house on Taggert Court on the evening of Moreno's death and told them he had "injured" or "done something bad" to Moreno. A blood sample drawn from Cano that night showed no indication of drugs or alcohol in his system, attorneys on both sides agreed. On September 12, 2005, Stanislaw County Superior Court Judge Hurl Johnson sentenced Cano to 17 years to life in prison on a plea bargain. References: Ty Phillips. "Double Homicide Charge Likely." The Modesto Bee, March 23, 2003; John Cote. "Murder Case Focus Deep, But So Narrow." The Modesto Bee, May 8, 2003; Susan Herendeen. Sacramento Bee, September 13, 2005. Second-Degree Murder (2 counts) [Oakland] Aaron Ashley had quite a delicate problem on his hands. He was the married father of three children already, but he had a girlfriend on the side. He had been carrying on an affair with Latrice Grayson for years, since he was 23 years old and she was only fourteen. Finally, of course, she got pregnant, and he repeatedly demanded that she have an abortion. On September 7, 2008, when Latrice was only two weeks from giving birth, Ashley used a pair of scissors to stab her to death. Ashley waited for hours before calling police and telling them that "My baby's mother has been stabbed." Latrice's five-year-old son found his mother's body on the couch, covered with blood and ants. On June 4, 2009, Ashley was convicted of two counts of second-degree murder, and on July 31, he was sentenced to 32 years to life in state prison. Alameda County Superior Court Judge C. Don Clay gave Ashley the maximum sentence possible, choosing to have Ashley serve his time for the two murders consecutively rather than concurrently. References: Paul T. Rosynsky. "Man Accused of Killing Pregnant Girlfriend Indicted." Oakland Tribune, January 22, 2009; "Postal Worker Sentenced For Murdering Woman And Unborn Child." KTVU Television [San Francisco, California], July 31, 2009. Gross Negligence [Livermore] 18-year-old Holly Marie Patterson and her boyfriend went to Planned Parenthood in Hayward on September 10, 2003 for the RU-486 abortion pill [mifepristone]. After being taken to a local hospital following complaints of severe bleeding and cramping, doctors told her family that Holly had experienced septic shock coupled with a severe bacterial infection. They also said the abortion was incomplete and that part of the baby remained inside of her. She died hours later, on September 17, 2003. The Alameda County Coroner's Office confirmed that drug-induced abortion medication was the official cause of death for Holly Patterson. According to Deputy Coroner Frank Gentle, Holly Patterson's "therapeutic drug induced abortion" caused a condition called endomyometritis, an inflammation of the mucous membrane lining the uterus. This inflamed condition set in several days after Holly took the abortion drug, and in turn led to shock which ultimately killed her, Gentle said. Monty Patterson, her father, said that he didn't learn until hours before his daughter's death that she was pregnant, let alone that she and her boyfriend had gone to Planned Parenthood. It wasn't until three days later, when his daughter was in critical care at ValleyCare Medical Center in Pleasanton, that he learned she was seven weeks pregnant and had taken the pill. He says a doctor there told him she died

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because she hadn't aborted the entire fetus, causing a systemic infection and septic shock. He said I think it's a sad day when a father has to bury his daughter because she suffered in silence. I think it was fear and shame that made her decide she could do this, that she could take a pill and make it all go away. If she could have just talked to us, things would be different. ... What we want to tell young ladies and teenage girls is no matter what, no matter how bad things are, talk with family and friends. We will support you. Family has the strength to pull you through anything. ... Parents need to talk to their children, and children need to talk with their parents. There's no quick fix for pregnancy, no magic pill. ... The medical community treats this as a simple pill you take, as if you're getting rid of a headache. The procedure, the follow-ups, it's all too lackadaisical. The girl gets a pill. Then she's sent home to do the rest on her own. There are just too many things that can go wrong. Holly's mother Deborah said "We hope with Holly's passing that other families can come together and take care of issues. We want to save other girls from the same demise and heartbreak. It was so needless, so needless." In 2002, The Washington Post reported that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the RU-486 manufacturer (Danco Laboratories) sent a letter informing doctors that two women died and four others became seriously ill after taking it. More deaths have followed, said the report. Despite this, the Planned Parenthood Web site describes the most common side effects of mifepristone as abdominal pain, bleeding and gastrointestinal distress. It also says no deaths have taken place as a result of the use of mifepristone. Danco estimates that nearly a million women in the U.S. have used RU-486 from the late 1980s to 2010, inclusive. Its Web site says RU-486 (also called Mifeprex) is "the medical breakthrough you've been hearing about for years," and that it is "the first FDA-approved safe and effective non-surgical option for ending early pregnancy." Yet the site also says, "bleeding and cramping are a normal part of the process ... Side effects that may occur include nausea, headache, vomiting, diarrhea, dizziness, fatigue and back pain," and that "a few women who take Mifeprex will need a surgical procedure to end the pregnancy or to stop heavy bleeding." Misoprostol has a legitimate use in the treatment of gastric ulcers. Moreover, its manufacturers, including Searle, warn pregnant women never to use misoprostol since it can kill or otherwise harm the child and also harm and even kill pregnant women. Numerous medical studies have shown that many women who take the RU-486/prostaglandin combination experience severe pain, nausea, vomiting, much blood loss, and sometimes heart attacks. Helen Wilson, Monty Patterson's fiancé, said "They thought they were doing the right thing for themselves at the time. They researched it on the Internet, they were told no one in the country had died of this. But we later found out that's not true." Holly, who worked at Macy's, had just bought a new red Honda Civic and planned on starting at Las Positas College in the Spring, her father said. Though Monty Patterson said he doesn't consider himself pro-life or pro-choice, he vowed to support the work of pro-life groups in placing an initiative on the 2004 ballot. The initiative would require the parents of girls under 18 to be notified at least 48 hours before a scheduled abortion. Despite Holly's death, Planned Parenthood is still giving the abortion drug to women. As pro-lifers expected, it is also callously defending the killing pill. Vanessa Cullins, vice president for medical affairs at the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) national headquarters in New York, said

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Until we're able to examine the medical records, and piece together from the medical records exactly what the sequence of events was, we will not be able to know why this woman died. It may be totally unrelated to the medical abortion. ... It's really safer than carrying a pregnancy to term. I hope that the media attention around this tragic situation does not scare other women from opting to have a termination procedure through mifepristone medical abortion if that's something the woman wants to do. References: "Reports Posted on Abortion Pill." The Washington Post, April 17, 2002; Susan Okie. "Physicians Sent Abortion Pill Alert: Six Women Using RU-486 Taken Ill, and Two Died, Letter Says." The Washington Post, April 18, 2002, page A02; "Dead Teen May Have Taken Abortion Pill." The Washington Times, September 19, 2003; Julian Guthrie. "Pregnant Teen's Death Under Investigation: East Bay Woman had Taken RU-486, According to Father." San Francisco Chronicle, September 19, 2003, page A-21; Bonita Brewer. "Family Blames RU-486 in Woman's Death: Father Urges Parents, Children to Communicate." Contra Costa Times, September 20, 2003; "Abortion Pill May be Cause in Death." Tri-Valley Herald, September 20, 2003; "Woman Dies Following Use of RU 486 Abortion Drug." LifeNews, September 20, 2003; "Investigation Into RU 486 Abortion Death Begins." LifeNews, September 22, 2003; "U.S. Teen Dies After Taking Abortion Pill (RU-486): Father Says 'There Are Just Too Many Things That Can Go Wrong' with RU-486." LifeSite Daily News, September 22, 2003; George Neumayr. "Planned Parenthood's Latest Casualty." The American Spectator, September 23, 2003; "Planned Parenthood Provides Abortion Pill that Kills Teenage Girl." Culture & Cosmos [Culture of Life Foundation], September 23, 2003; Julia Duin. "Teen Dead after Abortion Pill." The Washington Times, September 23, 2003; Bonita Brewer. "Father Wants Answers on His Daughter's Death." San Jose Mercury News, September 23, 2003; Carl T. Hall. "Questions Abound About Why Pregnant Teen Died: Experts Not Quick to Blame Abortion Pill." San Francisco Chronicle, September 24, 2003, page A-21; Jeanine Benca and Kim Santos. "State Probing Hospital Where Teen Died After Taking RU-486." Oakland Tribune, October 1, 2003; Brent Bozell. "Behind the Holly Patterson Story." Media Research Center, October 1, 2003; "Holly Patterson Received Proper Care Before Abortion Death, Hospital Says." LifeNews, October 3, 2003; "Coroner Confirms Abortion Pill Death." Bay City News and KTVU.com, November 1, 2003; Joshua L. Kwan. "Teen's Death is Linked to Use of Abortion Pill." Mercury News, November 3, 2003. Rape and Sexual Abuse (2 incidents) Abortionist Anthony J. Lund raped a female patient. Medical board documents indicate that At that time, respondent was aware that A.O. was separated from her husband. Without a nurse present. ... respondent performed a vaginal examination [and] began manipulating the clitoris and asked the patient to fantasize and move her hips. This conduct caused A.O. physical irritation, mental confusion and emotional distress ... as A.O. stood up, respondent lifted off A.O.'s examination gown, leaving her nude, and requested that she walk and move her hips; she refused. Respondent indicated to her that she had a nice body and requested that she lift her leg onto the step of the examining table to remove the diaphragm, while she remained nude. Medical board documents indicate that, in the case of another female patient, "S.S. had great trust in respondent and confided in him;" S.S. sought care July 12, 1977; "Respondent knew that S.S. was in the process of divorcing her husband ... and had consulted him in part to ensure that she had not contracted any venereal disease as a result of her husband's contact with other females. Without a nurse present ...

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respondent checked the patient's breasts by manipulating and rubbing them instead of examining them in an appropriate manner;" during vaginal exam, "respondent began manipulating the patient's clitoris and subsequently inserted his erect penis into her vagina. S.S. was frightened, acutely embarrassed and suffered intense feelings of shame and extreme emotional distress as a result." Medical board documents indicate that, in the case of a 15-year old girl who sought fitting for diaphragm for her upcoming marriage November 19, 1982: After the nurse left the room, Lund said he wanted to check the fit of her diaphragm, so B. resumed her position on the examining table; respondent stated he was going to teach her how to relieve herself and began to manipulate the patient's clitoris with his right hand, with his left hand placed against the pubic area. Upon the patient's protest, respondent took the patient's hand, placed it over her clitoris, placed his hand over hers and began to rub back and forth. While the patient was standing in the room after the examination, respondent put his hand inside her vagina and stated that 'this is what it will feel like...' while pushing on the inside of her vagina and manipulating her clitoris; B.R. is ... now extremely reluctant to consult with physicians for gynecological examinations or problems. The California Medical Board revoked Lund's license in 1984 because of these allegations. Reference: California Medical Board #D-3191. Possession of Child Pornography (4 counts), Child Endangerment (2 counts), Illegal Drug Prescriptions (4 counts), Forced Abortion (2 incidents) and Sexual Abuse (8 incidents) Dr. Roger Mason Levin was not an abortionist, but he certainly would have fit in perfectly with this ghastly fraternity. He started early, and was caught making obscene phone calls as a boy. In 1987, Levin pled guilty to two counts of child endangerment and received a suspended sentence after he had been charged with having sex with two boys. Police arrested Levin on September 6, 1996 and charged him with eight felony and misdemeanor drug and child pornography offenses. Police discovered the child pornography when they executed a search warrant on his Menlo Park home on drug charges. He possessed thousands of pornographic photographs of children on his computer. After this search, Levin’s license to practice medicine was suspended. Within two weeks of his arrest, sixty former patients and other people called police with information on Levin. Detective Michael Yore said that "They are victims of the doctor dating back to the 1970s. They were hesitant to come forward because of his doctor's status…. We plan to take additional requests for sexual assault charges to the district attorney." On October 24, 1997, Levin was sentenced to ten months in jail after he pleaded guilty to one count of illegally prescribing the painkiller Halcion to himself. He was also sentenced to three years of probation and was ordered not to live under the same roof as any person below the age of 18. Levin, apparently, is either incorrigible or some sort of sex addict. He got in trouble again in 2007, when one victim wanted him to treat her chronic abdominal cramps. Instead, he gave her a lengthy rectal exam, insisted on a pelvic exam, then touched her breasts and squeezed her nipples while "telling me how pretty my eyes were." When the unnamed victim told her mother about her ordeal, the mother shouted “Oh, my God!,” because he had abused her in a similar manner 14 years earlier.

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One victim said that "His medical license has given him access to people's bodies, their private lives, all of which he penetrates and violates. The license has not only enabled him, but protected him." When Levin was 49, he preyed on one young woman who was only 19 years old and had just been released from a psychiatric hospital ― the perfect victim. He invited her to live with him, got her hooked on drugs, and forced her to abort two pregnancies. According to one investigator, after one of the abortions, Levin had her handle the dismembered body of her preborn child. References: Vicky Anning. “Courts: Palo Alto Doctor Sentenced.” Palo Alto Weekly, October 24, 1997; Edwin Garcia. “Doctor Abuse Case Continues to Grow: Cops Says 20 More Cite Sex Misconduct.” San Jose Mercury News, October 8, 1996. Child Rape (7 incidents), Committing a Lewd Act on a Child, Oral Copulation and Falsification of Documents This is another example of the dozens of cases described in this database where child molesters find that abortion is their best friend. It allows them to “erase” the physical evidence of their crimes and continue to molest their victims. Abortion mills almost never report such molestation. In fact, “prochoice” groups routinely battle any attempt to make abortion clinics mandatory reporters so that they would be required to report such molestation.

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Gary W. Cross got married in July 1995 to a woman who had a small daughter. Cross "took a liking" to this girl after a few years and, when she was thirteen, began to rape her in June 2002 when her mother was not at home. To ensure her silence he threatened her, telling her that she would be taken away by the police and would not be allowed to see her family. The girl objected to the sex acts Cross demanded of her because she was afraid that Cross would not allow her to go out with her friends or would take away her cell phone. In August 2002, the girl told Cross that she might be pregnant. He took her to a local clinic on September 25, where her pregnancy was confirmed. After the girl's mother commented on her weight gain, he took her back to the abortion mill in December 2002, when she was 5½ months pregnant. The abortuary referred her to San Francisco General Hospital, where the two-day abortion procedure was carried out. Both days, Cross kept the girl out of school without her mother's knowledge. He also falsified the forms required to get her the abortion, stating that he was her father, and nobody at the abortion mill or the hospital made the slightest effort to check his identity or that of the girl. Since neither the abortion mill nor San Francisco General asked any questions, Cross was free to resume raping the girl, which he did until July 9, 2003, when her mother came across documents relating to the abortion. The next day, the girl reported her sexual molestation to the police, who arrested Cross. During his trial, DNA tests showed that Cross was indeed the father of the girl's preborn child. The jury found Cross guilty of committing a lewd act on a child under the age of 14 inflicting great bodily harm and oral copulation with a person under 14 years of age and more than 10 years younger than himself. At the instruction of the judge, the jury also found that the girl had suffered "personal infliction of great bodily injury" because the rapes had made her pregnant. Cross was sentenced to prison for a term of fifteen years to life. Reference: In the Supreme Court of California, The People v. Gary W. Cross, S139791; Ct.App. 6

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H027519; Super. Ct. No. CC319761 filed August 28, 2008 in Santa Clara County. Arson and Theft [Walnut Creek] On February 26, 1982, pro-abortionists set fire to the office of California Right to Life. Fire officials ruled that the incident was arson, partly because the arsonist stole the organization's membership lists. Reference: Camile Giglio. "California Right to Life Office Destroyed by Arsonist." National Right to Life News, March 11, 1982, page 1. Assault with a Deadly Weapon (ADW) and Assault (4 incidents) Eduardo Lopez was enraged upon learning that his girlfriend was pregnant and did not want an abortion. He savagely beat her four times after he learned about the pregnancy, concentrating especially on punching and kicking her in the stomach. He then bought a syringe with an abortifacient drug and tried to inject her with it, but she managed to fight him off. Reference: "Frontline Updates." National Right to Life News, May 7, 1991, page 4. Assault with a Deadly Weapon (ADW) and Assault (2 incidents) [Menlo Park] In 1999, Ken Reed, a leader of Operation Rescue West, was picketing a Menlo Park abortion mill when an outraged pro-abortionist drove his large SUV up onto the sidewalk, striking Ken and knocking the sign out of his hands. He then climbed out of the SUV, threw hot coffee on Ken, and physically assaulted two other pro-lifers. References: "Please Help Us Stop the Outrageous Wave of Pro-Abortion Violence Against Peaceful Pro-Lifers!" Paid advertisement by the Life Legal Defense Foundation. The Wanderer, April 26, 2001, page 12. The advertisement includes three photographs of a pro-abort in a van on the sidewalk, driving directly at pro-lifers in another incident of pro-abortion violence. Stalking (2 incidents) and Battery (2 incidents) [Beale's Point] Police arrested two pro-abortionists for battery and stalking pro-lifers. Reference: July 1994, Operation Rescue of California, personal communication with Lynn K. Murphy, Life Research Institute, October 30, 1994. Vandalism (215 incidents) and Hate Crimes (10 incidents) It is a sad fact of political and social life that pro-abortionists loudly demand that they be allowed unlimited free speech rights, but adamantly deny this right to pro-lifers. This is proof of how fascistic, hypocritical and oppressive the pro-abortion movement really is. While pro-aborts have gone so far as to say that abortion must be protected because women "speak with their bodies" when they have abortions, the pro-abortionists try their best to squelch classic pro-life free speech in the form of picketing and leafletting outside abortion mills, and they even attack pro-life free speech in other public forums.

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There is no better example of this pro-abortion bigotry, inconsistency and fascism than what was displayed in (where else)? San Francisco in early 2006. The Respect Life Ministry of the Oakland Diocese of the Roman Catholic Church paid $43,200 to display 280 posters in Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) trains, and another 48 in BART stations. There were two different very inoffensive ads produced for the campaign, each featuring a blurry photograph of a woman against a turquoise background. One ad said "9 months" in large letters, and featured nine months of a calendar. It read "Because of Roe vs. Wade, this is the amount of time the Supreme Court says it's legal to have an abortion." The other ad contained the message "The Supreme Court says you can choose: After the heart starts beating, after its arms and legs appear, after all organs are present, after the sex is apparent, after it sucks its thumb, after it responds to sounds, after it could survive outside the womb." Both ads concluded with the tagline "Abortion: Have we gone too far?" and the name and Web site address (www.secondlookproject.org) for the Second Look Project, an effort sponsored by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), which created the campaign and unveiled it on Washington's Metro subway system in 2005. The San Francisco campaign started shortly after Christmas 2005, and was scheduled to continue until the end of January 2006. Pro-abortionists tore down, vandalized, or defaced more than 200 of the posters, causing an average of more than $130 in damage each time. Many of the pro-abortion scrawlings took the form of hate crimes and anti-religious bigotry. Monika Rodman, coordinator of the Respect Life Ministry, said that "The defacement has taken to religious epithets, profanity, everything you can think of." About thirty pro-aborts called the BART offices and demanded that the pro-life posters be removed. This was a pretty weak effort, in light of the fact that the pro-abortion Web site www.indybay.org urged pro-aborts to call BART and members of its Board of Directors to register their discontent. Suzanne "Sam" Joi is a member of a typical so-called "social justice" group named Code Pink, which is in reality simply virulently pro-abortion and anti-free speech. Joi said "I think every woman has noticed them. I couldn't believe BART would allow something like this. Why are they doing this? At the very least they should have made sure both sides were represented." We wonder how loudly Joi would snivel if pro-lifers shredded her ads. Another unoriginal thinker, Elizabeth Creely of the Bay Area Coalition for Our Reproductive Rights (BACORR), whined that "They're calling for the overturn of Roe vs. Wade, which will lead to the slaughter of women. The Catholic Church is very strong here and is working hard to erode reproductive rights." One BART official disagreed with the pro-abortionists when he said that his organization does not discriminate on the basis of content: "We're not in the business of censorship and don't believe a government agency should be in the business of censorship. It shouldn't be up to a government official to determine whose opinion is right and whose is wrong." Reference: Michael Cabanatuan. "Anti-Abortion Ad on BART Angers Activists: Many Placards Have Been Defaced or Destroyed." San Francisco Chronicle, January 13, 2006, page B-1. Bomb Threat and Vandalism (5 incidents) [Union City] Pro-abortionists phoned in a bomb threat to the East Bay Crisis Pregnancy Center on January 22, 1999, the 26th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Pro-abortionists had also vandalized the building with spray-painted pro-abortion slogans such as "Abortion is a Right" and "Lies Told Here." The buildings were also plastered with pro-abortion flyers advertising local abortion mills, and their locks were jammed with an epoxy-like glue. Four other crisis pregnancy centers in the San Francisco Bay area were also the victims of vandalism on the same day.

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References: Thaai Walker. "Vandals Hit Clinics Opposed to Abortion." San Francisco Chronicle, January 23, 1999, page A16; "Pregnancy Help Center Receives Bomb Threat." Catholic World News, January 25, 1999; "California Crisis Pregnancy Center Receives Bomb Threat, Others Vandalized." San Francisco Chronicle, January 23, 1999, page A16; Pro-Life Infonet, January 24, 1999; Associated Press, January 23, 1999. Assault (2 incidents) and Death Threat On February 3, 2001, members of the pro-life group Voice for Life were peacefully protesting in front of the Sutter Maternity & Surgery Center abortion chamber in Santa Cruz, California. 37-year-old pro-abortionist James Wilson was arrested after he punched and kicked two of the pro-lifers. The Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office said Wilson also brandished a knife and told one protester he was going to stab him. References: "Pro-Choice Protestor Assaults Pro-Life Advocates." San Jose Mercury News, February 5, 2001; Pro-Life Infonet, February 7, 2001. Possession of Extreme Pornography In December 1998, Feminist icon Betty Friedan, a co-founder of the National Organization for Women (NOW), denounced President Clinton's enemies as "a bunch of dirty old white men trying to use sexual issues wrongly." In July of 1984, the Daily News reported on an incident at the San Francisco airport when Friedan arrived for the Democratic National Convention as part of the New York delegation. Friedan's over-stuffed suitcase burst open on the luggage carousel, disgorging a cargo of sado-masochistic magazines depicting women in extreme bondage. According to witnesses, "Both Friedan and the delegates around her were extremely embarrassed." Friedan, who has dismissed Clinton's sexual indiscretions as "private behavior" and "his business," could not be reached for comment. Reference: "Friedan's Feminist Domination." New York Post, December 21, 1998, page 6. Assault with a Deadly Weapon (ADW) and Destruction of Property [San Jose] In September 2000, a group of pro-lifers were peacefully picketing a Planned Parenthood abortion mill. Suddenly, pro-abortionist Aly Tamboura of San Jose drove a large white van directly onto the sidewalk at a high rate of speed, forcing the pro-lifers to dive out of the way or be run down. Fortunately, the only object hit by the van was a pro-life sign, which was knocked into the street and destroyed. Longtime pro-lifer Harry Padilla, who had been faithfully protesting outside the abortion mill for 13 years, snapped several pictures of the assault. Tamboura fled and was later arrested by police. He admitted to the crime, said that he committed the assault because he was in favor of abortion and because the signs offended him, and then he asked the arresting officer, "Wouldn't you do the same thing?" Incredibly, the San Jose District Attorney refused to prosecute Tamboura. It took a persistent, months-long campaign by local and national pro-lifers to finally embarrass the District Attorney into prosecuting Tamboura. He said that he had "no idea" why the case "slipped through the cracks." Pro-lifers know why. If the assault had been by a pro-lifer, he would have been instantly thrown in jail

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and vigorously prosecuted for attempted murder at the very least. However, since it was a pro-abort attacking pro-lifers, there was no crime committed in the eyes of the San Jose District Attorney. Even then, the DA reduced the charge against Tamboura to "reckless driving" ― a misdemeanor ― and then refused to arrest him for a month and a half. The response of the San Jose District Attorney's office was so criminally sluggish that the pro-life Life Legal Defense Foundation had no recourse other than to file a civil suit against Tamboura. Neither Planned Parenthood nor any other pro-abortion group or individual apologized for this near-deadly act of violence nor condemned it in any way. References: "Please Help Us Stop the Outrageous Wave of Pro-Abortion Violence Against Peaceful Pro-Lifers!" Paid advertisement by the Life Legal Defense Foundation. The Wanderer, April 26, 2001. page 12. The advertisement includes three photographs of the van on the sidewalk, driving directly at pro-lifers. Stalking (6 incidents) and Assault [San Jose] During a May 5, 1990 Operation Rescue blockade at the Family Planning Associates abortion mill, a pro-abortionist sat on pro-lifer Suzanne Summerhay's head, causing back injuries, a neck injury, and a dislocated shoulder, according to doctor's reports. The assailant was protected and disguised by the abortion clinic. After the trial on the incident, pro-abortionists began to stalk and harass Summerhay. Several men appeared on her campus trying to find where she lived. They also called her parents and appeared at her house to try to find her. She finally had to hide for several months out of fear. Reference: Suzanne Summerhay, October 29, 1994 personal communication with Lynn K. Murphy of Life Research Institute. Assault (8 incidents) [San Mateo] On July 17, 1993, at the local Planned Parenthood abortion mill, pro-abortionists attacked several pro-lifers and threw them to the ground. They also picked up several other pro-lifers and dragged them away from the area. Reference: Bill Newsome, personal video recording of the incident (in possession of Life Research Institute). Assault (5 incidents) [San Rafael] In the Summer of 1989, pro-abortionists pushed and shoved pro-lifers and sprayed them with a bottle of urine. Reference: Tom Vivian, October 12, 1994 personal communication with Lynn K. Murphy, Life Research Institute. Assault (5 incidents) [Oakland] On March 3, 1989, at a Planned Parenthood abortion mill, pro-abortionists spit upon and shoved

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pro-lifers. Police stated that they feared for the safety of the pro-lifers. Reference: Tom Vivian, personal communication with Lynn K. Murphy, October 12, 1994. Assault [Walnut Creek] On June 6, 1981, at the local Planned Parenthood abortion mill, one of the clinic staff struck pro-lifer Raul Gomez. Reference: "Pickets Slugged, Then Charged With 'Trespass' at PP Clinic." International Life Times, June 10, 1981. Assault [San Jose] On July 24, 1993, at the local Planned Parenthood abortion mill, pro-lifer Robert Collins was videotaping a female pro-lifer in order to prevent pro-abortionists from harming her. They were trying to surround her to render the taping ineffective. The pro-abortionists tried to remove him from the public sidewalk. Collins wrapped his arms around a pole, and the pro-abortionists repeatedly struck his arms so that he would release the pole. Reference: Chet Gallagher and Robert Collins, October 12, 1994 personal communication with Lynn K. Murphy of Life Research Institute. Assault [Los Gatos] On July 20, 1993, pro-abortionist Charles Minster stamped on sidewalk counselor Elizabeth Foster's feet and hit her with his elbow. Reference: Operation Rescue National, Violence and Disruption Report, December 10, 1994. Malpractice In October 1997, a woman Yugoslavian immigrant went to a Planned Parenthood-Golden Gate abortion mill to have a first-trimester abortion. She was pregnant with twins. The abortionist botched the procedure, leaving one of the children alive but mutilated. Abortuary mill personnel told her that the abortion was "complete." During the follow-up exam, the woman said that she still felt pregnant. She called the abortion mill several times for advice, but each time was told that her symptoms were "normal." Finally, on February 18, 1998, she demanded a urine test. The same nurse who had told her that all was well had to admit that the woman was still pregnant, and 6 months along. Planned Parenthood issued her an apology and finally agreed to pay for her second abortion. During the ultrasound, the woman saw that her child had had one arm and one leg cut off during the previous abortion. She then suffered an emotional collapse. She had to go through a three-day abortion procedure to kill the remaining twin. The woman has continual visions of babies being killed, cries uncontrollably at the sight of young children (particularly twins), and has contemplated suicide. The woman has been diagnosed as suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. She has also been unable to get in close proximity to a man without

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shaking and, sometimes, vomiting. On February 4, 2001, a jury awarded her $650,000 for mental anguish, $1,870 in past medical costs, $14,500 for future psychiatric expenses and $6,240 in lost earnings. Because of a 1975 California law which limits non-economic damages in medical malpractice cases to $250,000, the award will have to be reduced. Planned Parenthood Golden Gate, which owns nine abortion mills in the San Francisco area, said it would appeal the jury's verdict. References: The Justice Foundation. "California Woman Wins Abortion Malpractice Lawsuit," March 16, 2001; and "San Francisco Woman Wins Abortion Malpractice Case," March 23, 2001.

Santa Cruz, California
Rape (4 incidents), False Imprisonment (4 incidents), Sexual Battery (4 incidents), Death Threats (4 incidents), Assault (3 incidents), and Attempted Forced Abortion Augencio Jasso, 40, of Santa Cruz, raped and sexually battered a young girl over a period of three years. At a preliminary hearing on July 29, 2002, he was ordered to stand trial on four charges of forcible rape, four counts of false imprisonment, four counts of sexually battering her while she was restrained, one count of physically assaulting her, and other charges. Prosecutor Jeff Rossell says the charges represent only a partial list of Jasso's crimes against the woman. Detective Aaron Tripp testified that the woman reported that Jasso had begun molesting when she was 7 years old and living in Mexico. Some time after she moved to Santa Cruz in the summer of 2000, Jasso grabbed her from behind while she was cooking, threw her to the floor and raped her. The victim was 17 at the time. The woman also told interviews the details of two other times Jasso raped her in Santa Cruz. The victim kept quiet about the crimes because Jasso repeatedly threatened to kill her and her family members if she turned him in. The victim testified that she believed he was capable of killing them. The woman said that, after a rape during the 2000 Christmas holiday, she thought she had become pregnant and confronted Jasso about it. Jasso took her to a Planned Parenthood abortion mill, planning to force her to get an abortion, but the office was closed. Jasso then allegedly threatened to send her back to Mexico and force her to have the baby and not tell anybody what happened. When the woman refused to go back to Mexico, Jasso punched her in the stomach, causing her to have a miscarriage. Reference: Jason Schultz. "S.C. Man Will Face Trial on Multiple Rape Charges." Santa Cruz Sentinel, July 31, 2002.

Santa Rosa, California
Harassment On November 6, 1993, at the Women's Choice Clinic abortion mill, pro-abortionist Glenn Johnson dumped a bucket of urine where pro-lifers were intending to picket. Reference: Love Opincar, February 8, 1994 communication with the Life Legal Defense Foundation.

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Stockton, California
Assault In 1990, while a pro-life rescuer blocked a Planned Parenthood abortion mill entrance, a mother escorting her daughter grabbed a sign from the rescuer and hit him with it. Reference: Law offices of Cyrus Zal, November 7, 1994 personal communication with Lynn K. Murphy, Life Research Institute.

Victorville, California
Lewd Acts with a Child under 14 This is another example of the dozens of cases described in this database where child molesters find that abortion is their best friend. It allows them to “erase” the physical evidence of their crimes and continue to molest their victims. Abortion mills almost never report such molestation. In fact, “prochoice” groups routinely battle any attempt to make abortion clinics mandatory reporters so that they would be required to report such molestation. “Pro-choicer” Phillip Cooper repeatedly raped two young sisters, who were only eleven ad fourteen years old. When the older girl got pregnant, he took her to an abortion mill, where she had the abortion. Nobody at the abortion mill asked any questions when they saw a forty-year-old man accompanying a young pregnant girl. They just took his money and sent her back home with her molester. Police arrested Cooper in June 2007 and charged him with continuous sexual abuse, lewd acts with a child under 14, and lewd acts with a child 14 or 15 years of age Detective James Wiebeld of the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department’s Victorville station, said that the abuse was exposed when one of the girls told a family member what was happening, Wiebeld said.that, "According to (the older) victim, Mr. Cooper was sexually touching her and having sex with her over the past three to four years." On June 21, 2007, Cooper pleaded guilty to one count of lewd acts with a child under 14, and was sentenced to six years in prison, 85 percent of which he must serve. The father of the girls said that "I was in so much rage, but I knew I couldn’t say anything [during the trial]. Now I’ve got to fix my girls after what he did. I’ve got to get it back in their life that it’s OK to have boyfriends." References. Kaatherine Rosenberg. “Man Arrested for Allegedly Raping Girls for Four Years.” Victorville Daily Press, June 19, 2007; Ryan Orr. “Man Pleads Guilty to Lewd Acts with Girls.” Victorville Daily Press, June 21, 2007.

― End of California Listing ―
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