Pro-Choice Violence in Kentucky
A report by Dr. Brian Clowes, Director of Research and Training at Human Life International, for the website www.prochoiceviolence.com.
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“Pro-Choice” Violence and Illegal Activities in Kentucky
Covington Frankfort Lexington Louisville Paintsville Covington, Kentucky
Criminal Mischief (7 counts), Theft by Unlawful Taking (7 counts) and Criminal Solicitation 2006 was the year pro-abortionists all across the United States decided that they did not want to allow pro-lifers to exercise their free speech rights on college campuses, even if the pro-lifers had the sanction of the colleges. There were dozens incidents of pro-abortionists from various colleges and universities destroying pro-life displays and even physically assaulting pro-lifers at Harvard, Princeton, Northern Kentucky University, Western Washington University, and on many other campuses. In every case, the pro-abortionists seemed to believe that it was their absolute right to commit this kind of violence, and, without exception, they were astonished when they were charged with crimes. They would also be astonished if any pro-lifer was stupid enough to assert that destroying a 'pro-choice' display was 'protected free speech.' Pro-life students at Northern Kentucky University organized a "Cemetery of the Innocents" display on their campus in April 2006. The newly-organized group, called Northern Right to Life, planned to erect 400 crosses, representing ten percent of the human toll of abortion every day, on their campus from Sunday, April 9, 2006, to Saturday, April 15. They received permission from the campus to erect the crosses. Pro-abortion literature professor and head of the Women's Studies Department Sally Jacobsen, who has been teaching at Northern Kentucky University since 1980, found the display "offensive," and so decided that her right not to be offended was more important than the pro-lifer's freedom of speech. During a break in class, Jacobsen told others that she asked "if any students wanted to participate in practicing their freedom of speech in destroying the very offensive right to life, anti-abortion display in the central plaza. ... Some [students] did." Pro-abortionists are always outraged when pro-lifers compare abortion to the Holocaust, but have no
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trouble themselves with comparing pro-lifers to Nazis. Jacobsen said that destroying the display was similar to citizens destroying a display by Nazis. She said "Any violence perpetrated against that silly display was minor compared to how I felt when I saw it. Some of my students felt the same way, just outraged." After Jacobsen and about a dozen other pro-abortionists had destroyed the display, campus police recovered the crosses from campus trash cans. A police report valued the crosses at about $600. Jacobsen would not comment on whether or not she had been directly involved in the vandalism, but a student photographer caught her in several photos doing just that. NKU President Jim Votruba said that police would investigate the vandalism and would turn the matter over to Campbell County, Kentucky prosecutors and the university administration for action. He said that "In my mind, this is a serious violation of a faculty member's responsibilities and undermines what a university is established to do." Sophomore Lauren Macke, a member of Northern Right to Life, said that the group would put up the crosses as many times as necessary, and she said that "It really shocked me because of course we're pro-life, but we try to respect other people's opinions, and people who are pro-choice. If anything, it will just increase our resolve and help us keep going with our mission." Jacobsen sniveled that she felt "horribly violated" by the display, and said that any woman considering abortion "should not be slapped in the face by her university by calling her a scarlet woman." She had sent an e-mail message to NKU officials demanding that the display be removed right away, and alleged that the crosses violated the principle of separation of church and state, which is what pro-aborts say when they can't think of any relevant arguments. NKU President Jim Votruba disagreed, saying that "If people are occasionally offended by points of view on a campus, that's what a university is all about. We're a place where ideas get vetted." Very shortly after apologizing for her vandalism, Jacobsen e-mailed her fellow vandals, instructing them to "make it hard" for the police investigating the vandalism to find them, and telling them that they should avoid her office. Campbell County Attorney Justin Verst said that Jacobsen and six pro-abortion students were charged with criminal mischief and theft by unlawful taking. The students were Michelle Cruey, Katie Nelson, Heather Nelson, Stephanie Horton, Sara Keebler and Laura Caster. Jacobsen was also charged with criminal solicitation for encouraging her students to commit the vandalism. Jacobsen hired Margo Grubbs to be her lawyer, and Grubbs said "She never wanted to harm her university or her students at all. ... The intent was just an expression of freedom of speech. She saw harm coming from it [the display], and she was just expressing her attitude toward the harm." We wonder if Jacobsen or Grubbs would protect a pro-lifer's right to "practice freedom of speech" by vandalizing a local abortion clinic by, say, spray-painting slogans on it or breaking a few of its windows. Of course they wouldn't. After all, pro-choicers get to live by different rules than the rest of us mere mortals. They're special. Just ask them.
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Freedom-loving “pro-choice” Professor Sally Jacobsen of Northern Kentucky University is just one of many elitists who have decided, in their own lofty opinion, that speech that she does not agree with should be either censored or destroyed. Here she is destroying a pro-life display that was fully authorized by the University. She, of course, demands that “pro-choice” students should be allowed to speak and act without restriction. References: Stephenie Steitzer. "Crosses Removed at NKU." The Cincinnati Post, April 14, 2006; Steven Ertelt. "College Professor Leads Students in Vandalizing Pro-Life Display on Abortion." LifeNews, April 14, 2006; Steven Ertelt. "University Prepares Response to Abortion Display Vandalism, Prof to Retire." LifeNews, April 16, 2006; "Free Speech on Campus." The Cincinnati Post, April 18, 2006; Steven Ertelt. "Professor Who Trashed Pro-Life Abortion Display Apologizes, Will Retire." LifeNews, April 19, 2006; Steven Ertelt. "Professor Who Trashed Abortion Display Attacks Pro-Life Advocates in Email." LifeNews, April 19, 2006; Steven Ertelt. "College President: Reaction Good to Handling of Professor's Abortion Vandalism." LifeNews, April 20, 2006; Steven Ertelt. "Professor and Pro-Abortion Students Charged in Destroying Pro-Life Display." LifeNews, April 27, 2006; Associated Press. "College Professor Charged with Dismantling Anti-Abortion Display." April 27, 2006.
Frankfort, Kentucky
Assault “Pro-choicer” Robert Hollis chased his screaming wife into a barn, shoved his hand into her uterus, and manually tore her 7-month preborn baby from its wall. The 2-pound baby was delivered dead later in the day. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sided with Hollis and wrote a friend of the court brief on his behalf, saying that all charges regarding the death of the baby should be dropped. Wayne Circuit Court Judge Leonard E. Wilson agreed with the ACLU, dropping the pending murder charge against Hollis. The Kentucky Civil Liberties Union showed that, like all “pro-choice” groups, all it cares about is preserving the “right” to unlimited abortion, and cares nothing about the health or the suffering of women. KCLU Board member Tom Stickler said that “Right to Life just wants to have some kind of
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club to hit pro-choice people over the head with. If there’s any way to restrict the right of abortions, they will use it.” References: Frontline Update. "American Civil Liberties Union Sides With Man Who Abused Wife and Killed Unborn Baby." National Right to Life News, April 14, 1983, page 4; “Case Before Supreme Court May Have Effect on State Abortion Law.” Harlan [Kentucky] Daily Enterprise, February 14, 1983, page 1.
Lexington, Kentucky
First-Degree Murder, Conspiracy to Commit Murder (2 counts), Evidence Tampering and Witness Tampering [Georgetown] Roger Lee McBeath killed his former girlfriend, Ashley Lyons, who was 5½ months pregnant with a preborn baby boy she had already named Landon. He shot her in the head three times with a handgun to make absolutely sure she was dead. Ashley kept a journal for her little boy. On October 31, 2003, she wrote "Your father wanted me to have an abortion. Your father told me he was going to commit suicide, that you would ruin his life." McBeath was charged with first-degree murder and evidence tampering, the latter charge for disposing of the handgun he used to murder Ashley. In October 2004, a jury convicted him of first-degree murder. On April 3, 2006, Thomas Williams pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit murder because he supplied the 9 millimeter handgun McBeath used to murder Ashley. He admitted that McBeath had originally paid him $1,000 to assault Ashley in order to cause a miscarriage. The previous year, Williams' twin sister, Dena Williams, pleaded guilty to the same charge and was sentenced to 25 years in prison. Their father, Nevel Williams, faced charges of witness tampering in the case. Ashley's parents, Buford and Carol, subsequently lobbied the state legislature to pass a law making it a crime to harm a preborn baby while committing a crime. They also pushed for a federal fetal-homicide law. With other parents, they lobbied members of Congress, which passed the Unborn Victims of Violence Act signed by President George Bush in March 2004. Buford and Carol attended the signing ceremony. References: "Slain Ky. Teen's Ex-Boyfriend Arrested: Young Woman Was Five Months Pregnant." WLKY Television 32 [Louisville, Kentucky], March 30, 2004; Steve Lannen. "Lyons Killing Suspect Pleads Not Guilty: Former Boyfriend Charged with Teen's Murder." Lexington Herald-Leader, March 31, 2004; Paul Nowak. "Kentucky Man Pleads Not Guilty in Case That Prompted Unborn Victims Bill." LifeNews, April 1, 2004; Steve Lannen. "Man Pleads Guilty; Supplied Gun to Kill Pregnant Teen." Kentucky Herald-Leader, April 4, 2006.
Louisville, Kentucky
First-Degree Rape (2 incidents), Kidnapping (2 incidents), Impersonating a Public Servant (2 counts), Forcible Sodomy and Death Threats (5 incidents) Anthony Harvell, chief of security for the EMW Womens Services abortion mill, impersonated a
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police officer and used threats of deadly force with his gun in order to lure women into the abortion mill when it was closed. Barbara Stinson said that he raped her and, after she filed charges, several different women called her and threatened her life. Stinson holds the abortion clinic responsible for the rapes. She said "he controlled the premises, he unlocked fences, he unlocked the back door. He knew he could take me there. And when the case first started, I had harassing phone calls coming from the abortion clinic calling me a liar, calling me a whore. I had a lot of harassment from the abortion clinic." Police traced these calls back to the abortion mill. This is entirely typical of pro-abortionists, who all place the 'right' to abortion above women's rights. Whenever there is a conflict between the rights of a woman who has been raped or sexually assaulted by an abortion mill worker and the assailant, they always back the assailant. Abortionist Brian Finkel, who was accused of molesting more than one hundred women, was also supported by the National Organization for Women (NOW) against his many victims. After DNA testing tied him to both assaults, Harvell pleaded guilty to two counts of rape and was sentenced to ten years in prison. The local media, ever eager to protect the abortion industry, never mentioned that Harvell was a security guard for an abortion mill. References: Shannon Tangonan. "Police Say Security Guard Raped 2 After Impersonating Police Officer." The Courier-Journal [Louisville, Kentucky], January 6, 2001; LifeTalk (Life Dynamics, Inc.), April 2002; "Woman Raped at Abortion Clinic." CCNWashDC, April 26, 2002; "Woman Raped at Abortion Clinic to Sue." LifeSite Daily News, May 1, 2002. Sexual Abuse (20 incidents) In the 1960s, a man who identified himself as "Father James Aloysius Brown" sexually abused a teenaged girl repeatedly, beginning when she was about 13 years old. The abuse occurred in motels, in cars and even in the children's home where the girl stayed and where Brown was assigned, according to a lawsuit filed in April 2003 against the Diocese of Covington in Boone County Circuit Court. The suit claims that 21 priests in the diocese abused dozens of children. Brown sexually abused the girl in a motel at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, in cars "while parked or while driving" near the airport and while travelling to restaurants in Boone County, the suit said. The woman was a resident of the Diocesan Children's Home in Fort Mitchell from 1963 to 1966, when Brown was assigned to counsel children there, the suit said. Brown gave her alcohol and had sex with her in the boy's infirmary at the children's home, it said. The girl became pregnant, and "Father Brown arranged for an abortion to be performed outside the United States," the suit said. However, the Diocese of Covington said Brown cannot be found in any of its records. Tim Fitzgerald, a diocese spokesman, said that "We can find no records or reference to Father James Aloysius Brown in diocesan records. If there were a Father Brown who did work at the orphanage as a counselor in the early '60s, then it sounds like he came from another diocese where he was ordained or from another religious order." Fitzgerald said he could provide no other information on Brown. Stan Chesley, the Cincinnati lawyer who filed the suit, said "Hard to believe they have no records on Father Brown, in view of the lengthy period of time that he worked with the diocese and counseled children. I think this is the kind of person that they need to know the most about." If Brown had ever been a priest, he is not one now. He is married and living in Canada. Reference: Dylan T. Lovan. "Priest Accused of Arranging Teenage Abortion is Living in Canada, Says Lawyer." Canadian Press, April 23, 2003.
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Wrongful Death (2 incidents), Gross Negligence (4 incidents), Practicing Medicine without a License (5 incidents), Inadequate Record Keeping (15 incidents) and Violation of Health and Safety Standards (43 counts) For years, abortionist Ronachai Banchongmanie ran a filthy abortion mill in Kentucky. His Relsco facility was obviously geared to accomplish one objective: To rake in as much money as possible as quickly as possible. His case is also a perfect example of how state medical authorities, which are supposed to protect the health of patients, instead bend over backwards to protect abortion at any cost over even the lives of women. Banchongmanie's abortion mill was repeatedly cited for many violations, including; • • • • Failure to implement infection control (keeping the facility and equipment clean); Failure to have adequately trained and qualified staff; Failure to prepare for surgical complications by having emergency supplies and arrangements for ambulance transportation and hospital admitting; and Failure to maintain proper medications, failure to properly monitor patients and inadequate documentation of patient care/condition;
A May 1979 inspection found the following deficiencies; • • • • • • • • • • • • • No lavatory or handwashing sinks in exam rooms; Sinks in patient care areas not able to be shut off without using hands; No tracheotomy set available; No transfer agreement with any hospital; No job descriptions for the nursing staff; Employee files lacking resumes of training and experience; Urinalysis not performed prior to surgery; No written infection control measures; Scrub sink area "in need of a thorough cleaning;" No system for patients to summon attendant; Drugs not stored safely; Excessive temperature in area where oxygen and nitrous oxide tanks were stored; and 24-hour waiting period for abortions not adhered to.
The Relsco Corporation did not correct any of these deficiencies, which obviously placed the lives and health of women at risk. Instead, it asked for a waiver that would allow the abortion mill to operate in its hazardous condition. The State did not grant this waiver, but it still allowed the abortion mill to operate without making any corrections. This was made obvious by the results of the July 14, 1980 inspection; • • • • • • No documentation of physician with hospital privileges; Inadequate housekeeping in scrub sink area; "Written procedures which govern the use of the aseptic technique of scrubbing for performing a surgical procedure was incorrect;" Expired sterile supplies stored on dirty shelf; No evidence of continuing infection control training; Inadequate documentation in operating room;
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Emergency drugs outdated; Improper storing of drugs; Illegible entries in medical records; and Legal documents in medical records did not identify the facility by name or address.
The State continued to inspect Banchongmanie's abortion mill, but he had learned by now to completely ignore its recommendations, because there were absolutely no consequences for doing so. A May 1, 1984 inspection showed the following deficiencies; • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Counselor, office clerk, receptionist, and bookkeeper performing pregnancy tests; Sterile supplies outdated or not dated; Sterilized equipment stored in dirty, dusty areas; Gas sterilization equipment needed cleaning and it could not be determined whether or not it was functioning effectively; Outdated laboratory supplies; Lab equipment needed to be cleaned and monitored for proper calibration; Outdated medications throughout the facility; Infection control minutes noted growth of culture on an abortion instrument pan; Procedures did not specify what solutions were being used as disinfectants; Infection control meetings were sporadic, and no physician was documented as attending; The abortion mill had an unqualified administrator; It kept incomplete employee records; A physician did not remain at the facility until all patients are discharged. One document noted the physician left at 4:15 but was called back, arriving at 5:15, to attend to a patient with complications; There was still no agreement for ambulance services; Not all medical records were legible; There was no documentation of medications administered or ordered; There was a lack of pre- and post-operative nurses' notes, including vital signs; There was only one registered nurse on duty to supervise both surgery and recovery; There were no arrangements for adequate blood supply; and There were unidentified and unlabeled cups of pills in the recovery room.
The inspectors returned less than two months later, on June 29, 1984, and found; • • • • • • • • • Six of ten patient recliners did not have a protective covering; Autoclave room cluttered with boxes, equipment, tissue specimens; Autoclave room sink had loose linoleum around top and sides; Specimens were prepared by an assistant without gloves; Surgeon did not perform total scrub between patients; Date anesthetic vials were opened was not noted; There were no full-time nurses for operating room and recovery room; Incomplete and/or illegible medical records; records show patients were administered Sublimaze but did not document orders; and Five of five records reviewed by the inspectors had been signed by an RN, not an MD, for medications.
After all of these inspections, abortionist Banchongmanie continued to ignore the State, continued to
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run a filthy abortion mill, and continued to rack up the cash. Among the deficiencies found in an inspection performed on April 12, 1985 were; • • • • • • • • • • • Unlabeled medications stored in open containers on top of a recovery room medicine cabinet; Surgeon performing surgery without a protective gown; Uncovered tubing on abortion suction machines; Single-use inhalation mask and tubing re-used, once after falling to the floor; Dates that injectables vials were opened were not noted; Surgery was performed on a patient with an elevated white blood count without documenting the rationale for proceeding with an abortion before investigating the cause of the abnormal blood test; "Floor of clean linen storage room was in need of a thorough cleaning and sweeping;" A soiled item bag was left next to the autoclave; it was stained and full of holes; Dirty ash tray and cup of what appeared to be coffee was found in the lab; Post-operative examination records were incomplete; and There was insufficient nursing supervision of the operating room and the recovery room.
One month later, the inspectors returned and found, among other violations: • • • • • • • • • • • • • Single-use inhalation masks were reused, some with lipstick smudges still on them; Medications were opened but dates were not noted; Clean linen room had "lint and other debris" on their shelves and dirt build-up around the baseboards; A bottle of Brevitol was opened and not covered; The autoclave door frames were "heavily coated with dust;" A soiled linen container was left next to the autoclaves and was uncovered and overfilled with soiled surgical linens; There were many expired or undated sterile supplies, including speculum packs and dilators; Patient gowns and linens were laundered in staff homes rather than by a professional laundry; An operating room technician assisted in abortions while wearing the same gloves he wore when handling a radio; There were still improperly stored medications; The post-operative examination records were still incomplete; Two patients were documented as being discharged at 1:30 PM, even though the clock said 1:10 PM and the patients were still present; and There was still insufficient nursing supervision of the operating room and recovery room.
The abortionist's mill continued to remain filthy as he defied the state of Kentucky. On June 12, 1990, an investigation verified that Banchongmanie's abortion facility was operating illegally. The inspection found that; • • • • Rather than using a lab, the abortion mill receptionist would do a pregnancy test at her desk and would orally give the patient her results in the waiting room with no privacy; The receptionist did not wash her hands between tests and pregnancy tests were performed with kits that were out of date; There was absolutely no counseling for the abortion patients; Physicians still did not remain on the premises until all patients were discharged. Instead, the abortionists told his staff to page him if there were any complications.
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Patients were not given complete post-operative instructions before discharge, and physicians did not perform any post-operative evaluations of patients unless his staff asked him to examine a particular patient. The discharge instructions and medications were given to patients by whatever staff happened to be available, regardless of their qualifications; The investigation also could not find out if Banchongmanie and his other physicians were washing their hands for examinations or surgery, because they refused to answer any questions about the issue; The pre-operative area was supervised by a registered nurse, the post-operative area had only a licensed practical nurse, and the operating room had only a technician; Pitocin was administered intravenously pre-operatively by a licensed practical nurse without any physician present; Improperly trained and supervised staff, including the front desk staff, were participating in all aspects of patient care, including surgery; Clinic staff had no job descriptions, no criteria for performance evaluations, and no formal chain of command for responsibilities within the abortion clinic; Patients and their mothers were observed crying in the hallway and reception area. They were not provided with counseling or even with a private area; The investigation report described the facility as "dark, dirty, and drafty," with loose or missing floor tiles in the hallways of both the first and fourth floors. Carpets were littered and filthy. Ceiling tiles were dirty, missing, or water stained. Rooms were cluttered with unused furniture and supplies. The restrooms were dirty, with missing or broken toilet tissue holders. The room for preparing sterile supplies was filthy, "cluttered with unused, discarded equipment and stock supplies." The walls were chipped, peeling, and dirty. Garbage was overflowing from trash cans onto the floor. Equipment was wrapped for sterilization in stained wrappings, and too much equipment was loaded into the autoclave when it was used. The patient dressing room had brown stains, consistent with blood or Betadine, on the chair. Blankets and recliners in the recovery room were not changed between patients, and staff were not sure if pillow cases were changed between patients. Clean and soiled linens were stored together. In other words, Banchongmanie's clinic looked just like a classic "back-alley abortion mill." The investigation found that the facility had no policy for how areas were to be cleaned after surgery; Surgical equipment, including forceps and dilators, were expired; Surgical equipment was lying about on dirty, dusty trays; Medications were stored in a dirty, unlocked cabinet in the recovery room; Discharge medications were in packets on a desk. Whatever staff happened to be working in recovery would prepare discharge medication packets from bulk jars of medicines; The staff also did not perform many required tests, such as coagulation tests; The equipment used to test for gonorrhea was not working properly; Improperly labeled and out-of-date tissue specimens were found in the refrigerator; There was no written policy on the examination of abortion tissues; The autoclaves were not checked or tested; Staff handled blood and body fluids without wearing gloves; One registered nurse's personnel file had no documentation that she was licensed in the state, or that she was trained in CPR; Another nurse, this one an LPN, also had no verification of CPR training, and had an out-of-date verification of license; and Yet another LPN was found to not be currently licensed.
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Banchongmanie botched several abortions in his filthy abortion mill. The only real surprise is that more women did not die or go home with terrible injuries or infections under such battlefront conditions; • • • In July of 1990, Banchongmanie aborted "Deann." She later claimed that he had performed an incomplete abortion, and that, on August 2, she required emergency care. She also sued for violation of laws against deceptive trade practices. In January of 1991, Banchongmanie left fetal tissue inside Amy Powell Duncan. She had to be transported to a local emergency room two days after her abortion, and she was hospitalized for five days. Banchongmanie aborted "Aileen" on January 23, 1991. She alleged that he did not give her informed consent, and did not secure a pathology report or inform her that her abortion was incomplete. Her lawsuit said that "Plaintiff carried around in her body the parts of the rotted corpse of her dead baby's body for approximately two days." On January 25, she went to an emergency room suffering bleeding, cramping and fever, and an examination revealed a "foul discharge" and products of conception as well as a severe infection. In February 1998, a Kentucky court ordered Banchongmanie to pay a woman $21,000 for botching her abortion.
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Finally, in 1999, two decades after his abortion mill failed its first inspection, and under intense pressure from the State of Kentucky, abortionist Banchongmanie finally gave up his grisly and deadly trade and decided to do what he should have been doing all along ― promoting the cause of life by delivering, not killing, babies. Unfortunately, his years of cavalier treatment of the health of women was a hard habit to break, and he began to botch deliveries, killing babies in 2003 and 2005. In both cases, the families filed wrongful death lawsuits against him. References: Statements of Deficiencies and Plans of Correction dated March 3, 1979, March 7, 1979, July 14, 1980, May 1, 1984, June 29, 1984, April 12, 1985, and May 11, 1985; Memorandum in Support of Findings ABO#-22113, Investigative Reports ARO-1, Reference No. 21451 & 22113; Jefferson Circuit Court Cases Number 81CI-00963, 87-CI-08790, 89-CI-06286, 90-C0-4922, 90-CI-05439, 91-CI-04951 and 91-CI-07679; Jefferson Circuit Court Action No. 87-CI-0640-MR; Kathryn Jean Lopez. "Making It Rare." Human Life Review, Winter 2001; Steven Ertelt. "Former Kentucky Abortion Practitioner Faces Wrongful Death Lawsuit." LifeNews, May 18, 2006. For a much more detailed study of Banchongmanie's filthy abortion mill, from which most of the information in this summary was derived, see the Real Choice Web site at http://realchoice.0catch.com/. Assault, Intimidation, Terroristic Threatening and DUI On January 30, 2011, Anthony Bloomer got into a shouting match with his girlfriend, who was about 8 to 10 weeks pregnant. He threw a basketball at her and shouted that she should get an abortion. She tried to call 9-1-1, but Bloomer took her cell phone and destroyed it. There were three children in the home at the time. Then she fled the house to a gas station to get help, but Bloomer followed her there, grabbed her by the arm and pushed her out the door. When police arrived, a worked-up Bloomer threatened one of them, saying that "I know your name and address, and when I get out I will work you." Police arrested Bloomer and charged him with assault, intimidating a participant in the legal process and terroristic threatening. There was also an outstanding bench warrant on a charge of DUI against him. Reference: Matthew Thomas. “Police: Man Assaults Girlfriend after Verbal Argument.” WLKY Television (Louisville, Kentucky), January 31, 2011.
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Extortion (3 counts), Perjury (2 counts) and Witness Retaliation There are many sleazy “pro-choicers” featured in this database, but Karen Sypher has to be one of the sleaziest. In 2003, she met former New York Knicks and University of Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino in a restaurant, aggressively enticed him, and ended up having sex on a table with him. She became pregnant, and demanded money from him for an abortion. He gave her $3,000, and she had the abortion. Pitino was married. Thinking they had a good thing going, Sypher and her husband Tim attempted to blackmail Pitino, demanding ten million dollars, cars and a house for their continued silence. Instead of caving in to their demands, Pitino reported her to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and she then accused him of raping her (six years after the alleged event occurred). The FBI began to call her credibility into question when she could not remember many key details of the alleged incident. The FBI charged Sypher with three counts of extortion, two counts of lying to the FBI, and one count of retaliating against a witness. During an eight-day trial, Sypher declined to testify, and, in fact, the defense called no witnesses at all. On August 4, 2010, a jury found Sypher guilty on all six counts. Judge Charles Simpson, saying that she was motivated by “pure greed,” sentenced her to seven years and three months in Federal prison. He said that she was "brazen, driven by sheer greed and desire for money, and for a lifestyle which the defendant must have desired." Louisville Athletic Director Tom Jurich said “She was on a mission to get him. It’s been very taxing because he loves his family. He knows he let them down that night.” References: Anna Prendergast. “Karen Sypher's Ex-Husband and Former Attorney Questioned in Trial on Friday.” WHAS Television Channel 11 (Louisville, Kentucky), July 30, 2010; Bennett Haeberle and Chris Turner. “Sypher Sentence: 7 Years, 3 Months.” Fox Channel 41 News (Louisville, Kentucky), February 22, 2011. Vandalism (8 incidents) During the period January 22 to February 1, 2001, pro-abortionists vandalized the Right to Life office in Louisville, Kentucky three times. The damage was the usual unimaginative pro-abortion nonsense ― obscenities spray-painted on the building. Some of the vulgarities were spray-painted in green across the front of the brick building and was directed at "God and his slaves," John Graham, administrative assistant for Kentucky Right to Life said. On January 22 workers arrived to find pink paint splattered on the office's front windows. Graham said it looked as if paint balls had been shot at the glass. It caused $300 damage. On February 1, employees at a business across the street alerted the Right to Life office that a similar message, this time aimed at "the right," had been painted on a side window. Because it was not severe, it was not reported to police, Graham said. Both times the messages included the usual pro-abortion profanities. Graham, who has worked at the office for seven years, said vandals have targeted the office before. The front windows have been shot out five times over the years, leading the pro-life organization to install shatterproof glass, he said.
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References: "Right to Life Office in Kentucky Vandalized Three Times." Louisville Courier Journal, February 2, 2001; Pro-Life Infonet, February 4, 2001; "News Notes: Call the Hate Crime Squads." The Wanderer, February 15, 2001, page 3.
Paintsville, Kentucky
Gross Negligence and Illegal Drug Prescriptions (200 incidents) Abortionist Frederick Cohn turned a former Paintsville, Kentucky supermarket into an abortion mill in 2000. Cohn said in a 2001 interview that he and an associate signed up more than 9,000 patients in less than a year. Overall, authorities said, the pair collected nearly $1 million and prescribed more than 5 million doses of controlled substances before being arrested. Their files showed "no evidence of even a basic attempt to practice medicine," the medical board said in the order suspending Cohn's license. Cohn had a long career in New Mexico before that state's medical board found him "grossly negligent" while doing an abortion. He was put on probation. Three years later, he quit medicine to sell real estate. He won his medical license back in 1992. Kentucky accepted him in 1993, imposing a shorter probation. Cohn declined comment, but in a 2001 interview, he said he was tricked by some patients. "I'm a very believing kind of guy," he said. Reference: Charles B. Camp and Lee Mueller. "Questionable Practices: Prospect of Docs Dealing Drugs Pressures Medical-Licensing Board." Lexington Herald-Leader, January 31, 2003.
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Covington Frankfort Lexington Louisville Paintsville Covington, Kentucky
Criminal Mischief (7 counts), Theft by Unlawful Taking (7 counts) and Criminal Solicitation 2006 was the year pro-abortionists all across the United States decided that they did not want to allow pro-lifers to exercise their free speech rights on college campuses, even if the pro-lifers had the sanction of the colleges. There were dozens incidents of pro-abortionists from various colleges and universities destroying pro-life displays and even physically assaulting pro-lifers at Harvard, Princeton, Northern Kentucky University, Western Washington University, and on many other campuses. In every case, the pro-abortionists seemed to believe that it was their absolute right to commit this kind of violence, and, without exception, they were astonished when they were charged with crimes. They would also be astonished if any pro-lifer was stupid enough to assert that destroying a 'pro-choice' display was 'protected free speech.' Pro-life students at Northern Kentucky University organized a "Cemetery of the Innocents" display on their campus in April 2006. The newly-organized group, called Northern Right to Life, planned to erect 400 crosses, representing ten percent of the human toll of abortion every day, on their campus from Sunday, April 9, 2006, to Saturday, April 15. They received permission from the campus to erect the crosses. Pro-abortion literature professor and head of the Women's Studies Department Sally Jacobsen, who has been teaching at Northern Kentucky University since 1980, found the display "offensive," and so decided that her right not to be offended was more important than the pro-lifer's freedom of speech. During a break in class, Jacobsen told others that she asked "if any students wanted to participate in practicing their freedom of speech in destroying the very offensive right to life, anti-abortion display in the central plaza. ... Some [students] did." Pro-abortionists are always outraged when pro-lifers compare abortion to the Holocaust, but have no
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trouble themselves with comparing pro-lifers to Nazis. Jacobsen said that destroying the display was similar to citizens destroying a display by Nazis. She said "Any violence perpetrated against that silly display was minor compared to how I felt when I saw it. Some of my students felt the same way, just outraged." After Jacobsen and about a dozen other pro-abortionists had destroyed the display, campus police recovered the crosses from campus trash cans. A police report valued the crosses at about $600. Jacobsen would not comment on whether or not she had been directly involved in the vandalism, but a student photographer caught her in several photos doing just that. NKU President Jim Votruba said that police would investigate the vandalism and would turn the matter over to Campbell County, Kentucky prosecutors and the university administration for action. He said that "In my mind, this is a serious violation of a faculty member's responsibilities and undermines what a university is established to do." Sophomore Lauren Macke, a member of Northern Right to Life, said that the group would put up the crosses as many times as necessary, and she said that "It really shocked me because of course we're pro-life, but we try to respect other people's opinions, and people who are pro-choice. If anything, it will just increase our resolve and help us keep going with our mission." Jacobsen sniveled that she felt "horribly violated" by the display, and said that any woman considering abortion "should not be slapped in the face by her university by calling her a scarlet woman." She had sent an e-mail message to NKU officials demanding that the display be removed right away, and alleged that the crosses violated the principle of separation of church and state, which is what pro-aborts say when they can't think of any relevant arguments. NKU President Jim Votruba disagreed, saying that "If people are occasionally offended by points of view on a campus, that's what a university is all about. We're a place where ideas get vetted." Very shortly after apologizing for her vandalism, Jacobsen e-mailed her fellow vandals, instructing them to "make it hard" for the police investigating the vandalism to find them, and telling them that they should avoid her office. Campbell County Attorney Justin Verst said that Jacobsen and six pro-abortion students were charged with criminal mischief and theft by unlawful taking. The students were Michelle Cruey, Katie Nelson, Heather Nelson, Stephanie Horton, Sara Keebler and Laura Caster. Jacobsen was also charged with criminal solicitation for encouraging her students to commit the vandalism. Jacobsen hired Margo Grubbs to be her lawyer, and Grubbs said "She never wanted to harm her university or her students at all. ... The intent was just an expression of freedom of speech. She saw harm coming from it [the display], and she was just expressing her attitude toward the harm." We wonder if Jacobsen or Grubbs would protect a pro-lifer's right to "practice freedom of speech" by vandalizing a local abortion clinic by, say, spray-painting slogans on it or breaking a few of its windows. Of course they wouldn't. After all, pro-choicers get to live by different rules than the rest of us mere mortals. They're special. Just ask them.
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Freedom-loving “pro-choice” Professor Sally Jacobsen of Northern Kentucky University is just one of many elitists who have decided, in their own lofty opinion, that speech that she does not agree with should be either censored or destroyed. Here she is destroying a pro-life display that was fully authorized by the University. She, of course, demands that “pro-choice” students should be allowed to speak and act without restriction. References: Stephenie Steitzer. "Crosses Removed at NKU." The Cincinnati Post, April 14, 2006; Steven Ertelt. "College Professor Leads Students in Vandalizing Pro-Life Display on Abortion." LifeNews, April 14, 2006; Steven Ertelt. "University Prepares Response to Abortion Display Vandalism, Prof to Retire." LifeNews, April 16, 2006; "Free Speech on Campus." The Cincinnati Post, April 18, 2006; Steven Ertelt. "Professor Who Trashed Pro-Life Abortion Display Apologizes, Will Retire." LifeNews, April 19, 2006; Steven Ertelt. "Professor Who Trashed Abortion Display Attacks Pro-Life Advocates in Email." LifeNews, April 19, 2006; Steven Ertelt. "College President: Reaction Good to Handling of Professor's Abortion Vandalism." LifeNews, April 20, 2006; Steven Ertelt. "Professor and Pro-Abortion Students Charged in Destroying Pro-Life Display." LifeNews, April 27, 2006; Associated Press. "College Professor Charged with Dismantling Anti-Abortion Display." April 27, 2006.
Frankfort, Kentucky
Assault “Pro-choicer” Robert Hollis chased his screaming wife into a barn, shoved his hand into her uterus, and manually tore her 7-month preborn baby from its wall. The 2-pound baby was delivered dead later in the day. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sided with Hollis and wrote a friend of the court brief on his behalf, saying that all charges regarding the death of the baby should be dropped. Wayne Circuit Court Judge Leonard E. Wilson agreed with the ACLU, dropping the pending murder charge against Hollis. The Kentucky Civil Liberties Union showed that, like all “pro-choice” groups, all it cares about is preserving the “right” to unlimited abortion, and cares nothing about the health or the suffering of women. KCLU Board member Tom Stickler said that “Right to Life just wants to have some kind of
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club to hit pro-choice people over the head with. If there’s any way to restrict the right of abortions, they will use it.” References: Frontline Update. "American Civil Liberties Union Sides With Man Who Abused Wife and Killed Unborn Baby." National Right to Life News, April 14, 1983, page 4; “Case Before Supreme Court May Have Effect on State Abortion Law.” Harlan [Kentucky] Daily Enterprise, February 14, 1983, page 1.
Lexington, Kentucky
First-Degree Murder, Conspiracy to Commit Murder (2 counts), Evidence Tampering and Witness Tampering [Georgetown] Roger Lee McBeath killed his former girlfriend, Ashley Lyons, who was 5½ months pregnant with a preborn baby boy she had already named Landon. He shot her in the head three times with a handgun to make absolutely sure she was dead. Ashley kept a journal for her little boy. On October 31, 2003, she wrote "Your father wanted me to have an abortion. Your father told me he was going to commit suicide, that you would ruin his life." McBeath was charged with first-degree murder and evidence tampering, the latter charge for disposing of the handgun he used to murder Ashley. In October 2004, a jury convicted him of first-degree murder. On April 3, 2006, Thomas Williams pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit murder because he supplied the 9 millimeter handgun McBeath used to murder Ashley. He admitted that McBeath had originally paid him $1,000 to assault Ashley in order to cause a miscarriage. The previous year, Williams' twin sister, Dena Williams, pleaded guilty to the same charge and was sentenced to 25 years in prison. Their father, Nevel Williams, faced charges of witness tampering in the case. Ashley's parents, Buford and Carol, subsequently lobbied the state legislature to pass a law making it a crime to harm a preborn baby while committing a crime. They also pushed for a federal fetal-homicide law. With other parents, they lobbied members of Congress, which passed the Unborn Victims of Violence Act signed by President George Bush in March 2004. Buford and Carol attended the signing ceremony. References: "Slain Ky. Teen's Ex-Boyfriend Arrested: Young Woman Was Five Months Pregnant." WLKY Television 32 [Louisville, Kentucky], March 30, 2004; Steve Lannen. "Lyons Killing Suspect Pleads Not Guilty: Former Boyfriend Charged with Teen's Murder." Lexington Herald-Leader, March 31, 2004; Paul Nowak. "Kentucky Man Pleads Not Guilty in Case That Prompted Unborn Victims Bill." LifeNews, April 1, 2004; Steve Lannen. "Man Pleads Guilty; Supplied Gun to Kill Pregnant Teen." Kentucky Herald-Leader, April 4, 2006.
Louisville, Kentucky
First-Degree Rape (2 incidents), Kidnapping (2 incidents), Impersonating a Public Servant (2 counts), Forcible Sodomy and Death Threats (5 incidents) Anthony Harvell, chief of security for the EMW Womens Services abortion mill, impersonated a
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police officer and used threats of deadly force with his gun in order to lure women into the abortion mill when it was closed. Barbara Stinson said that he raped her and, after she filed charges, several different women called her and threatened her life. Stinson holds the abortion clinic responsible for the rapes. She said "he controlled the premises, he unlocked fences, he unlocked the back door. He knew he could take me there. And when the case first started, I had harassing phone calls coming from the abortion clinic calling me a liar, calling me a whore. I had a lot of harassment from the abortion clinic." Police traced these calls back to the abortion mill. This is entirely typical of pro-abortionists, who all place the 'right' to abortion above women's rights. Whenever there is a conflict between the rights of a woman who has been raped or sexually assaulted by an abortion mill worker and the assailant, they always back the assailant. Abortionist Brian Finkel, who was accused of molesting more than one hundred women, was also supported by the National Organization for Women (NOW) against his many victims. After DNA testing tied him to both assaults, Harvell pleaded guilty to two counts of rape and was sentenced to ten years in prison. The local media, ever eager to protect the abortion industry, never mentioned that Harvell was a security guard for an abortion mill. References: Shannon Tangonan. "Police Say Security Guard Raped 2 After Impersonating Police Officer." The Courier-Journal [Louisville, Kentucky], January 6, 2001; LifeTalk (Life Dynamics, Inc.), April 2002; "Woman Raped at Abortion Clinic." CCNWashDC, April 26, 2002; "Woman Raped at Abortion Clinic to Sue." LifeSite Daily News, May 1, 2002. Sexual Abuse (20 incidents) In the 1960s, a man who identified himself as "Father James Aloysius Brown" sexually abused a teenaged girl repeatedly, beginning when she was about 13 years old. The abuse occurred in motels, in cars and even in the children's home where the girl stayed and where Brown was assigned, according to a lawsuit filed in April 2003 against the Diocese of Covington in Boone County Circuit Court. The suit claims that 21 priests in the diocese abused dozens of children. Brown sexually abused the girl in a motel at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, in cars "while parked or while driving" near the airport and while travelling to restaurants in Boone County, the suit said. The woman was a resident of the Diocesan Children's Home in Fort Mitchell from 1963 to 1966, when Brown was assigned to counsel children there, the suit said. Brown gave her alcohol and had sex with her in the boy's infirmary at the children's home, it said. The girl became pregnant, and "Father Brown arranged for an abortion to be performed outside the United States," the suit said. However, the Diocese of Covington said Brown cannot be found in any of its records. Tim Fitzgerald, a diocese spokesman, said that "We can find no records or reference to Father James Aloysius Brown in diocesan records. If there were a Father Brown who did work at the orphanage as a counselor in the early '60s, then it sounds like he came from another diocese where he was ordained or from another religious order." Fitzgerald said he could provide no other information on Brown. Stan Chesley, the Cincinnati lawyer who filed the suit, said "Hard to believe they have no records on Father Brown, in view of the lengthy period of time that he worked with the diocese and counseled children. I think this is the kind of person that they need to know the most about." If Brown had ever been a priest, he is not one now. He is married and living in Canada. Reference: Dylan T. Lovan. "Priest Accused of Arranging Teenage Abortion is Living in Canada, Says Lawyer." Canadian Press, April 23, 2003.
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Wrongful Death (2 incidents), Gross Negligence (4 incidents), Practicing Medicine without a License (5 incidents), Inadequate Record Keeping (15 incidents) and Violation of Health and Safety Standards (43 counts) For years, abortionist Ronachai Banchongmanie ran a filthy abortion mill in Kentucky. His Relsco facility was obviously geared to accomplish one objective: To rake in as much money as possible as quickly as possible. His case is also a perfect example of how state medical authorities, which are supposed to protect the health of patients, instead bend over backwards to protect abortion at any cost over even the lives of women. Banchongmanie's abortion mill was repeatedly cited for many violations, including; • • • • Failure to implement infection control (keeping the facility and equipment clean); Failure to have adequately trained and qualified staff; Failure to prepare for surgical complications by having emergency supplies and arrangements for ambulance transportation and hospital admitting; and Failure to maintain proper medications, failure to properly monitor patients and inadequate documentation of patient care/condition;
A May 1979 inspection found the following deficiencies; • • • • • • • • • • • • • No lavatory or handwashing sinks in exam rooms; Sinks in patient care areas not able to be shut off without using hands; No tracheotomy set available; No transfer agreement with any hospital; No job descriptions for the nursing staff; Employee files lacking resumes of training and experience; Urinalysis not performed prior to surgery; No written infection control measures; Scrub sink area "in need of a thorough cleaning;" No system for patients to summon attendant; Drugs not stored safely; Excessive temperature in area where oxygen and nitrous oxide tanks were stored; and 24-hour waiting period for abortions not adhered to.
The Relsco Corporation did not correct any of these deficiencies, which obviously placed the lives and health of women at risk. Instead, it asked for a waiver that would allow the abortion mill to operate in its hazardous condition. The State did not grant this waiver, but it still allowed the abortion mill to operate without making any corrections. This was made obvious by the results of the July 14, 1980 inspection; • • • • • • No documentation of physician with hospital privileges; Inadequate housekeeping in scrub sink area; "Written procedures which govern the use of the aseptic technique of scrubbing for performing a surgical procedure was incorrect;" Expired sterile supplies stored on dirty shelf; No evidence of continuing infection control training; Inadequate documentation in operating room;
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Emergency drugs outdated; Improper storing of drugs; Illegible entries in medical records; and Legal documents in medical records did not identify the facility by name or address.
The State continued to inspect Banchongmanie's abortion mill, but he had learned by now to completely ignore its recommendations, because there were absolutely no consequences for doing so. A May 1, 1984 inspection showed the following deficiencies; • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Counselor, office clerk, receptionist, and bookkeeper performing pregnancy tests; Sterile supplies outdated or not dated; Sterilized equipment stored in dirty, dusty areas; Gas sterilization equipment needed cleaning and it could not be determined whether or not it was functioning effectively; Outdated laboratory supplies; Lab equipment needed to be cleaned and monitored for proper calibration; Outdated medications throughout the facility; Infection control minutes noted growth of culture on an abortion instrument pan; Procedures did not specify what solutions were being used as disinfectants; Infection control meetings were sporadic, and no physician was documented as attending; The abortion mill had an unqualified administrator; It kept incomplete employee records; A physician did not remain at the facility until all patients are discharged. One document noted the physician left at 4:15 but was called back, arriving at 5:15, to attend to a patient with complications; There was still no agreement for ambulance services; Not all medical records were legible; There was no documentation of medications administered or ordered; There was a lack of pre- and post-operative nurses' notes, including vital signs; There was only one registered nurse on duty to supervise both surgery and recovery; There were no arrangements for adequate blood supply; and There were unidentified and unlabeled cups of pills in the recovery room.
The inspectors returned less than two months later, on June 29, 1984, and found; • • • • • • • • • Six of ten patient recliners did not have a protective covering; Autoclave room cluttered with boxes, equipment, tissue specimens; Autoclave room sink had loose linoleum around top and sides; Specimens were prepared by an assistant without gloves; Surgeon did not perform total scrub between patients; Date anesthetic vials were opened was not noted; There were no full-time nurses for operating room and recovery room; Incomplete and/or illegible medical records; records show patients were administered Sublimaze but did not document orders; and Five of five records reviewed by the inspectors had been signed by an RN, not an MD, for medications.
After all of these inspections, abortionist Banchongmanie continued to ignore the State, continued to
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run a filthy abortion mill, and continued to rack up the cash. Among the deficiencies found in an inspection performed on April 12, 1985 were; • • • • • • • • • • • Unlabeled medications stored in open containers on top of a recovery room medicine cabinet; Surgeon performing surgery without a protective gown; Uncovered tubing on abortion suction machines; Single-use inhalation mask and tubing re-used, once after falling to the floor; Dates that injectables vials were opened were not noted; Surgery was performed on a patient with an elevated white blood count without documenting the rationale for proceeding with an abortion before investigating the cause of the abnormal blood test; "Floor of clean linen storage room was in need of a thorough cleaning and sweeping;" A soiled item bag was left next to the autoclave; it was stained and full of holes; Dirty ash tray and cup of what appeared to be coffee was found in the lab; Post-operative examination records were incomplete; and There was insufficient nursing supervision of the operating room and the recovery room.
One month later, the inspectors returned and found, among other violations: • • • • • • • • • • • • • Single-use inhalation masks were reused, some with lipstick smudges still on them; Medications were opened but dates were not noted; Clean linen room had "lint and other debris" on their shelves and dirt build-up around the baseboards; A bottle of Brevitol was opened and not covered; The autoclave door frames were "heavily coated with dust;" A soiled linen container was left next to the autoclaves and was uncovered and overfilled with soiled surgical linens; There were many expired or undated sterile supplies, including speculum packs and dilators; Patient gowns and linens were laundered in staff homes rather than by a professional laundry; An operating room technician assisted in abortions while wearing the same gloves he wore when handling a radio; There were still improperly stored medications; The post-operative examination records were still incomplete; Two patients were documented as being discharged at 1:30 PM, even though the clock said 1:10 PM and the patients were still present; and There was still insufficient nursing supervision of the operating room and recovery room.
The abortionist's mill continued to remain filthy as he defied the state of Kentucky. On June 12, 1990, an investigation verified that Banchongmanie's abortion facility was operating illegally. The inspection found that; • • • • Rather than using a lab, the abortion mill receptionist would do a pregnancy test at her desk and would orally give the patient her results in the waiting room with no privacy; The receptionist did not wash her hands between tests and pregnancy tests were performed with kits that were out of date; There was absolutely no counseling for the abortion patients; Physicians still did not remain on the premises until all patients were discharged. Instead, the abortionists told his staff to page him if there were any complications.
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Patients were not given complete post-operative instructions before discharge, and physicians did not perform any post-operative evaluations of patients unless his staff asked him to examine a particular patient. The discharge instructions and medications were given to patients by whatever staff happened to be available, regardless of their qualifications; The investigation also could not find out if Banchongmanie and his other physicians were washing their hands for examinations or surgery, because they refused to answer any questions about the issue; The pre-operative area was supervised by a registered nurse, the post-operative area had only a licensed practical nurse, and the operating room had only a technician; Pitocin was administered intravenously pre-operatively by a licensed practical nurse without any physician present; Improperly trained and supervised staff, including the front desk staff, were participating in all aspects of patient care, including surgery; Clinic staff had no job descriptions, no criteria for performance evaluations, and no formal chain of command for responsibilities within the abortion clinic; Patients and their mothers were observed crying in the hallway and reception area. They were not provided with counseling or even with a private area; The investigation report described the facility as "dark, dirty, and drafty," with loose or missing floor tiles in the hallways of both the first and fourth floors. Carpets were littered and filthy. Ceiling tiles were dirty, missing, or water stained. Rooms were cluttered with unused furniture and supplies. The restrooms were dirty, with missing or broken toilet tissue holders. The room for preparing sterile supplies was filthy, "cluttered with unused, discarded equipment and stock supplies." The walls were chipped, peeling, and dirty. Garbage was overflowing from trash cans onto the floor. Equipment was wrapped for sterilization in stained wrappings, and too much equipment was loaded into the autoclave when it was used. The patient dressing room had brown stains, consistent with blood or Betadine, on the chair. Blankets and recliners in the recovery room were not changed between patients, and staff were not sure if pillow cases were changed between patients. Clean and soiled linens were stored together. In other words, Banchongmanie's clinic looked just like a classic "back-alley abortion mill." The investigation found that the facility had no policy for how areas were to be cleaned after surgery; Surgical equipment, including forceps and dilators, were expired; Surgical equipment was lying about on dirty, dusty trays; Medications were stored in a dirty, unlocked cabinet in the recovery room; Discharge medications were in packets on a desk. Whatever staff happened to be working in recovery would prepare discharge medication packets from bulk jars of medicines; The staff also did not perform many required tests, such as coagulation tests; The equipment used to test for gonorrhea was not working properly; Improperly labeled and out-of-date tissue specimens were found in the refrigerator; There was no written policy on the examination of abortion tissues; The autoclaves were not checked or tested; Staff handled blood and body fluids without wearing gloves; One registered nurse's personnel file had no documentation that she was licensed in the state, or that she was trained in CPR; Another nurse, this one an LPN, also had no verification of CPR training, and had an out-of-date verification of license; and Yet another LPN was found to not be currently licensed.
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Banchongmanie botched several abortions in his filthy abortion mill. The only real surprise is that more women did not die or go home with terrible injuries or infections under such battlefront conditions; • • • In July of 1990, Banchongmanie aborted "Deann." She later claimed that he had performed an incomplete abortion, and that, on August 2, she required emergency care. She also sued for violation of laws against deceptive trade practices. In January of 1991, Banchongmanie left fetal tissue inside Amy Powell Duncan. She had to be transported to a local emergency room two days after her abortion, and she was hospitalized for five days. Banchongmanie aborted "Aileen" on January 23, 1991. She alleged that he did not give her informed consent, and did not secure a pathology report or inform her that her abortion was incomplete. Her lawsuit said that "Plaintiff carried around in her body the parts of the rotted corpse of her dead baby's body for approximately two days." On January 25, she went to an emergency room suffering bleeding, cramping and fever, and an examination revealed a "foul discharge" and products of conception as well as a severe infection. In February 1998, a Kentucky court ordered Banchongmanie to pay a woman $21,000 for botching her abortion.
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Finally, in 1999, two decades after his abortion mill failed its first inspection, and under intense pressure from the State of Kentucky, abortionist Banchongmanie finally gave up his grisly and deadly trade and decided to do what he should have been doing all along ― promoting the cause of life by delivering, not killing, babies. Unfortunately, his years of cavalier treatment of the health of women was a hard habit to break, and he began to botch deliveries, killing babies in 2003 and 2005. In both cases, the families filed wrongful death lawsuits against him. References: Statements of Deficiencies and Plans of Correction dated March 3, 1979, March 7, 1979, July 14, 1980, May 1, 1984, June 29, 1984, April 12, 1985, and May 11, 1985; Memorandum in Support of Findings ABO#-22113, Investigative Reports ARO-1, Reference No. 21451 & 22113; Jefferson Circuit Court Cases Number 81CI-00963, 87-CI-08790, 89-CI-06286, 90-C0-4922, 90-CI-05439, 91-CI-04951 and 91-CI-07679; Jefferson Circuit Court Action No. 87-CI-0640-MR; Kathryn Jean Lopez. "Making It Rare." Human Life Review, Winter 2001; Steven Ertelt. "Former Kentucky Abortion Practitioner Faces Wrongful Death Lawsuit." LifeNews, May 18, 2006. For a much more detailed study of Banchongmanie's filthy abortion mill, from which most of the information in this summary was derived, see the Real Choice Web site at http://realchoice.0catch.com/. Assault, Intimidation, Terroristic Threatening and DUI On January 30, 2011, Anthony Bloomer got into a shouting match with his girlfriend, who was about 8 to 10 weeks pregnant. He threw a basketball at her and shouted that she should get an abortion. She tried to call 9-1-1, but Bloomer took her cell phone and destroyed it. There were three children in the home at the time. Then she fled the house to a gas station to get help, but Bloomer followed her there, grabbed her by the arm and pushed her out the door. When police arrived, a worked-up Bloomer threatened one of them, saying that "I know your name and address, and when I get out I will work you." Police arrested Bloomer and charged him with assault, intimidating a participant in the legal process and terroristic threatening. There was also an outstanding bench warrant on a charge of DUI against him. Reference: Matthew Thomas. “Police: Man Assaults Girlfriend after Verbal Argument.” WLKY Television (Louisville, Kentucky), January 31, 2011.
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Extortion (3 counts), Perjury (2 counts) and Witness Retaliation There are many sleazy “pro-choicers” featured in this database, but Karen Sypher has to be one of the sleaziest. In 2003, she met former New York Knicks and University of Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino in a restaurant, aggressively enticed him, and ended up having sex on a table with him. She became pregnant, and demanded money from him for an abortion. He gave her $3,000, and she had the abortion. Pitino was married. Thinking they had a good thing going, Sypher and her husband Tim attempted to blackmail Pitino, demanding ten million dollars, cars and a house for their continued silence. Instead of caving in to their demands, Pitino reported her to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and she then accused him of raping her (six years after the alleged event occurred). The FBI began to call her credibility into question when she could not remember many key details of the alleged incident. The FBI charged Sypher with three counts of extortion, two counts of lying to the FBI, and one count of retaliating against a witness. During an eight-day trial, Sypher declined to testify, and, in fact, the defense called no witnesses at all. On August 4, 2010, a jury found Sypher guilty on all six counts. Judge Charles Simpson, saying that she was motivated by “pure greed,” sentenced her to seven years and three months in Federal prison. He said that she was "brazen, driven by sheer greed and desire for money, and for a lifestyle which the defendant must have desired." Louisville Athletic Director Tom Jurich said “She was on a mission to get him. It’s been very taxing because he loves his family. He knows he let them down that night.” References: Anna Prendergast. “Karen Sypher's Ex-Husband and Former Attorney Questioned in Trial on Friday.” WHAS Television Channel 11 (Louisville, Kentucky), July 30, 2010; Bennett Haeberle and Chris Turner. “Sypher Sentence: 7 Years, 3 Months.” Fox Channel 41 News (Louisville, Kentucky), February 22, 2011. Vandalism (8 incidents) During the period January 22 to February 1, 2001, pro-abortionists vandalized the Right to Life office in Louisville, Kentucky three times. The damage was the usual unimaginative pro-abortion nonsense ― obscenities spray-painted on the building. Some of the vulgarities were spray-painted in green across the front of the brick building and was directed at "God and his slaves," John Graham, administrative assistant for Kentucky Right to Life said. On January 22 workers arrived to find pink paint splattered on the office's front windows. Graham said it looked as if paint balls had been shot at the glass. It caused $300 damage. On February 1, employees at a business across the street alerted the Right to Life office that a similar message, this time aimed at "the right," had been painted on a side window. Because it was not severe, it was not reported to police, Graham said. Both times the messages included the usual pro-abortion profanities. Graham, who has worked at the office for seven years, said vandals have targeted the office before. The front windows have been shot out five times over the years, leading the pro-life organization to install shatterproof glass, he said.
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References: "Right to Life Office in Kentucky Vandalized Three Times." Louisville Courier Journal, February 2, 2001; Pro-Life Infonet, February 4, 2001; "News Notes: Call the Hate Crime Squads." The Wanderer, February 15, 2001, page 3.
Paintsville, Kentucky
Gross Negligence and Illegal Drug Prescriptions (200 incidents) Abortionist Frederick Cohn turned a former Paintsville, Kentucky supermarket into an abortion mill in 2000. Cohn said in a 2001 interview that he and an associate signed up more than 9,000 patients in less than a year. Overall, authorities said, the pair collected nearly $1 million and prescribed more than 5 million doses of controlled substances before being arrested. Their files showed "no evidence of even a basic attempt to practice medicine," the medical board said in the order suspending Cohn's license. Cohn had a long career in New Mexico before that state's medical board found him "grossly negligent" while doing an abortion. He was put on probation. Three years later, he quit medicine to sell real estate. He won his medical license back in 1992. Kentucky accepted him in 1993, imposing a shorter probation. Cohn declined comment, but in a 2001 interview, he said he was tricked by some patients. "I'm a very believing kind of guy," he said. Reference: Charles B. Camp and Lee Mueller. "Questionable Practices: Prospect of Docs Dealing Drugs Pressures Medical-Licensing Board." Lexington Herald-Leader, January 31, 2003.
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(updated June 9, 2011)
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