<<<< buckets of dead aborted babies found at an unnamed abortion "clinic" in California.
Congressman John Culberson (TX-7), who represents the
Houston area had this to say about the very recent revelations of abortion
abuse in his district:
“On the heels of Kermit Gosnell’s conviction, I am
deeply saddened to learn about more atrocities committed against precious
unborn babies, this time in our own backyard. Douglas Karpen of Houston, TX,
has been accused of brutally murdering babies born after twenty weeks. He is
innocent until proven guilty, but the descriptions from his former employees
are gut wrenching and absolutely heartbreaking. Taking a baby from its mother’s
womb and terminating its life is murder. Throughout my years in public service
I have been committed to protecting the lives of the innocent, and as a Member
of Congress, I will work with my colleagues to ensure that we put an immediate
end to this practice in every corner of this nation. I will never stop fighting
to protect the lives of the most vulnerable.”
But Kermit Gosnell and Douglas Karpen are not “outliers”
within the abortion industry. Take a
look at this comprehensive report found at Susan B Anthony List:
Fact Sheet: Abortion Industry Negligence
Nationwide
Kermit Gosnell’s “house of horrors” abortion clinic in
Philadelphia is not an outlier. Reports from across the nation reveal
that such vile conditions are endemic to the abortion industry as a whole.
Delaware – Complete
Failure to Regulate Abortion Clinics and Practitioners
2011
·
Kermit Gosnell was also
an abortion provider in Delaware, where abortion facilities are not subject to
inspections.
·
After news of Gosnell’s
case broke, fellow abortion providers Drs. Albert Dworkin and Arturo Apolinario
had their licenses suspended for failing to report Gosnell for performing
late-term abortions at Atlantic Women’s Medical Services in Wilmington, DE,
where he worked one day a week.[1]
·
Apolinario, like
Gosnell, is charged with prescribing drugs illegally.[2]
·
Both Atlantic Women’s
Medical clinic locations were permanently closed (before a hearing could take
place) after an agreement was reached between the Delaware Board of Medical
Licensure and Discipline and clinic owner Panzy Myrie, a woman who portrayed
herself as a medical doctor in advertisements - though she holds no license in
Delaware.[3]
·
Both clinics were
members of the National Abortion Federation until the details of their abuses
came to the attention of the news media.
2013
·
On April 10, WPVI-TV ABC
News in Philadelphia, PA reported that two former nurses at the Planned Parenthood
of Delaware abortion clinic quit their jobs, citing unsafe, unsanitary
conditions, and “a meat-market style of assembly-line abortions.”[4]
·
Jayne Mitchell-Werbrich
and Joyce Vasikonis called the clinic conditions “ridiculously unsafe,” and
said women were at risk for hepatitis and even AIDS.
·
Planned Parenthood
Delaware has suspended surgical abortion procedures at their Wilmington and
Dover clinics as a result of ongoing investigations by the state Division of
Professional Regulation and the state Division of Public Health.[5]
·
Planned Parenthood of
Delaware has sent five women to the hospital with complications from botched
abortions since January alone.[6]
·
Disgraced former Planned
Parenthood Delaware abortionist Dr. Timothy Liveright is shown to be operating
in clinics in New Jersey,[7] Pennsylvania[8],
and California.[9]
Illinois – The
Death of Tonya Reaves
2012
·
On July 20, 24-year-old
Tonya Reaves died following a second-trimester abortion at a Chicago Planned
Parenthood.[10]
·
Autopsy results reveal
that Ms. Reaves died as a result of a hemorrhage following a botched surgical
abortion. The autopsy reported that she was a healthy woman at the time
of her abortion but that she suffered an “extensive” perforation of her broad
uterine ligament with a possible severing of her left uterine artery as a
result of the abortion procedure.[11]
·
The autopsy also revealed
that the abortion was incomplete as the medical examiner discovered that pieces
of placenta had been left attached to her womb, despite the dilation and
evacuation (D & E) abortion performed by Planned Parenthood. Reports
indicate that Planned Parenthood ignored instructions by an emergency
dispatcher to call 911.[12]
Maryland – Death at the Hands of Notorious Late-Term Abortionist Leroy Carhart, Clinic Shut- Downs, Unlicensed Abortionist Operating Out-of-State
2013
·
On February 7, Jennifer
McKenna Morbelli, a 29-year-old kindergarten teacher from New Rochelle, NY,
died “due to or as a consequence of Amniotic Fluid Embolism following Medical
Termination of Pregnancy.” The medical examiner’s office confirmed that a
botched 33-week abortion killed Mrs. Morbelli.[13]
·
When she was 31 weeks
pregnant, Mrs. Morbelli sought an abortion from Dr. Leroy Carhart in
Germantown, MD. Carhart left town shortly after the abortion procedure
and was reportedly unavailable when Mrs. Morbelli began to experience shortness
of breath and chest pains - which led to a delay in her emergency care.[14]
·
In March, the Maryland
Department of Health and Hygiene suspended the licenses of three surgical
abortion clinics. All three are affiliated with abortion business owner
Steven Chase Brigham.[15]
·
Inspections of the
abortion clinics revealed they were continuing to violate state health and
safety laws after the initial violations that prompted the state investigations
in the first place.
·
In April 2010, an
18-year-old New Jersey woman was critically injured during an abortion at a
clinic in Elkton, MD and was airlifted to Baltimore hospital from Brigham’s
facility.[16]
·
The physician who
performed the abortion at Associates in OB/GYN Care LLC on North Calvert Street
in Baltimore wasn't certified in CPR and a
defibrillator at the facility did not work, according to state officials in a
letter to the General Assembly. The other two clinics that lost surgical
privileges, located in Landover and Silver Spring, are also owned by Associates
in OB/GYN Care and also had licenses suspended for issues related to the
ability to respond to life-threatening problems during surgery.[17]
·
In November, 2011
late-term abortionist James S. Pendergraft and his accomplice Harold O.
Alexander were caught operating an illicit late-term abortion mill in
Forestville, MD through the website www.LateTermAbortion.net.
Pendergraft – who is not licensed in Maryland – was caught on tape.[18] On August 22, 2012 the Maryland State Board of
Physicians suspended Harold O. Alexander’s license for a minimum of three months.[19]
Michigan – Decrepit
Clinics Shut Down, Criminal Abortionist Covered by Board of Medicine
2013
·
In January 2013, an
abortion clinic in Muskegon, MI was shut down by the fire marshal over
conditions the city described as potentially “dangerous to human life or the
public welfare.”[20]
·
Dr. Robert Alexander’s
abortion clinic was closed after police discovered "filthy" and
unsanitary conditions throughout the clinic, including “blood on the floor and
walls in multiple locations.”[21]
·
Photos taken by the
police reveal unsanitary conditions,
including stained medical equipment near an examination chair, trash near lab
equipment and discarded in a storage room, and water stains and holes in a
leaky ceiling. The investigator also reported “blood dripping from a sink
p-trap in a room used by
patients.”[22]
·
Other violations noted
in the fire marshal’s inspection include improper disposal of syringes and
needles, unsterilized medical equipment, as well as the “dumping of chemicals
and other liquids down drains without proper authorization and approvals.”[23]
·
In May, local media
reported that in 2009, the Michigan Board of Medicine received a complaint
about botched abortions at Alexander’s clinic, including one that ruptured a
woman’s uterus, causing bleeding but still resulted in the birth of a live
child, but the board did not investigate it.
·
Then Michigan Board
Chairman Dr. George Shade Jr., Alexander’s mentor, determined that no
investigation was necessary.
·
Dr. Alexander served
prison time in the 1990’s for selling illegal prescriptions.[24]
·
Two more Michigan
clinics (in Livonia and Detroit) were closed in March. Both clinics were
owned and operated by abortionist Dr. Reginald Sharpe. The Livonia clinic
was exposed several years ago for the dumping of fetal remains in a dumpster
outside the facility.[25]
·
Dr. Sharpe’s medical
license was suspended in 2005 for performing an abortion beyond 24 weeks.
o
Dr. Sharpe was sued in
2008 after his 26-year-old patient died of complications following her
abortion. It was later revealed that the abortion had resulted in the
perforation of the woman’s uterus, cut a uterine blood vessel, and lacerated
her intestines and liver.[26]
2010
·
In February 2010, the
bodies of 17 aborted babies were discovered in a business dumpster outside the
WomansChoice abortion clinic near Lansing. Investigations revealed that the
owners were Richard and Maggie Remund, owners of another clinic where the
bodies of 47 aborted babies were discovered in a dumpster in 1989[27].
·
Additionally, the
business dumpster contained medical records, including patient logs with full
names and insurance information, bloody surgical material, and used urine
specimen cups labeled with the names of the patients.
2009
o
In March 2009, the Board
of Medicine found several of the staff (including abortionist Dr. Alberto
Hodari) to been negligent in the shocking 2003 death of Regina Johnson and they
were fined[28].
o
7 months later, a Bureau
of Health Systems inspection found the Womancare of Southfield to be
substandard.
o
The clinic was cited for
incompliance with state surgical facility standards, including no oxygen
available for patients, no emergency call system, and an insufficient recovery
room.
o
Between 2007 and 2009,
the Bureau of Health Systems cited 3 abortion clinics licensed as free standing
surgical facilities (Birth Control Center Inc. in Sterling Heights, Feminine
Health Care of Flint, and Womancare of Southfield) for noncompliance with state
regulations for surgical facilities regarding the administration and storage of
medication.
o
Violations at the
Womancare Clinic were found to be especially deplorable during a 2009
inspection[29]. Violations included:
o
No physician’s order for
a medication that had been sent home with a patient and no physician signature
verifying several other medication orders.
o
Hallway cupboards with
medications and an unsecured refrigerator with medications in patient areas
where patients are left unattended.
o
Unsecured medications
included Ketamine, an controlled substance often sold illegally as a “club
drug” and used as a date-rape drug.
o
Narcotics logs were
insufficient or nonexistent.
o
The Bureau of Health
Systems conducted 3 onsite surveys of abortion clinics (Birth Control Center
Inc. in Sterling Heights, Feminine Health Care of Flint, and Womancare of
Southfield) from 2007 to 2009.
o
All three were cited for
non-compliance with state surgical facility requirements regarding equipment
sterilization, maintenance of sterile environment, and sterile pre-operation
hand washing.
o
In one startling
example, at the Birth Control Center Inc. in Sterling Heights, the abortionist
Richard Goldfine scrubed his hands for procedures in a sink which was holding
unsterile equipment used for emptying and processing waste and fetal remains.[30]
o
A 20-year-old woman,
Caitlin Bruce, alleges that Dr. Alberto Hodari of the Feminine Health Care
clinic in Flint performed an abortion on her even though she screamed for him
to stop[31].
o
Ms. Bruce claims that
she told him to stop that she didn’t want to have the abortion anymore[32].
o
Ms. Bruce asserts she
was held down and her mouth was covered by a staff member.
o
In 2009, a Grand Rapids
Ob/Gyn filed an allegation against abortionist Robert Alexander citing his
gross negligence in attempting an abortion on a woman who was 26 weeks pregnant[33].
o
The OB/Gyn treated the
patient who came into the hospital still pregnant following the incomplete
abortion.
o
The patient told the
OB/Gyn that Dr. Alexander’s office had called her multiple times to offer her a
refund of the abortion fee, plus an additional $200.
o
The woman did not accept
and retained an attorney.
2008
·
It was uncovered in 2008
that abortion clinics in the Detroit area were disposing of biohazard waste and
patient records simply by dumping them in common trash receptacles[34].
·
Three locations
(WomanCare of Southfield in Lathrup Village, WomanCare in Sterling Heights, and
WomanCare of Downriver in Southgate) had bloody surgical material and a total
of over 200 patient records in the trash. These patient records included
photocopies of drivers‟ licenses, insurance forms, and lab reports.
o
The Lathrup Village
location had the remains of 18 aborted babies in the trash.
o
At the Woman’s Choice
Clinic in Lansing, Dr. Ronald Nichols was in the middle of performing an
abortion when he determined the gestational age to be 20 weeks and stopped the
procedure, despite already having rupturing the fetal membranes[35].
o
Dr. Nichols advised the
patient, who was bleeding and in pain, to drive 80 miles to his Bloomfield
Hills abortion clinic to complete procedure.
o
When she refused,
Nichols forced her to sign a waiver.
o
Patient drove home and
was taken by her family to the hospital where the staff confirmed the rupture
of fetal membranes.
o
The patient’s 20.5 week
baby died in utero the following day.
o
The Board of Medicine
found Nichols to be negligent and incompetent, fined him $10,000, and ordered
him to perform 100 hours of community service.
o
At the Womancare Clinic
of Southfield, a patient alleges that she received no local anesthesia and
tried to stop procedure due to her extreme pain[36].
§ The patient was allegedly held down and female
assistant put hand over the patient’s mouth.
North Carolina – Dead
Insects, Dirty Instruments and Improper Drug Use
2013
·
On May 13, 2013, A
Preferred Women's Health Center abortion clinic in Charlotte was closed after
state officials revoked its license to operate on May 10, calling it emergency
action to address "an imminent threat to the health and safety of
patients."[37]
·
Previously last
December, inspectors from the N.C. Dept. of Health and Human Services found
dead insects, blood splatters and dirty surgical instruments inside the
abortion facility.[38]
·
This time, they found
that the facility was improperly administering chemical abortions and
improperly examining post-abortive women before they were discharged from
surgery. Women were being told to drink methotrexate, originally a chemotherapy
drug now also used to abort a baby at less than 9 weeks' gestation, when it is
supposed to be administered by injection.[39]
Ohio – More Clinic
Shutdowns and Staff Failure
2013
·
In April 2013, the Ohio Department
of Health announced its intent to shut down Capital Care Network abortion
clinic in Cuyahoga Falls due to multiple health and safety violations. During
Capital Care’s annual inspection, investigators cited multiple violations under
10 various inspection categories ranging from cleanliness, surgical procedures
and staff requirements.[40]
·
Among many violations,
the abortion facility failed to perform TB testing, used unqualified and untrained
staff, failed to meet sanitary standards and failed to properly keep patient
documentation and had dozens of other operational and medical failures.[41]
Pennsylvania – Gosnell’s
House of Horrors
2009
·
On November 19, Karnamaya Mongar, a 41-year-old immigrant from
Bhutan, and a Virginia resident, died as a result of an abortion she received
at the hands of now infamous Philadelphia abortionist Dr. Kermit Gosnell. The
medical examiner’s report indicates that Mrs. Mongar died as a result of an
overdose of Demerol.[42]
·
Mongar was 19-weeks
pregnant and had been referred to Dr. Gosnell’s facility by a Washington, D.C.
area abortion clinic.[43]
·
A Gosnell clinic worker
assisted in administering local anesthesia and when Mongar’s face turned gray
and her breathing slowed, Gosnell continued to perform the abortion and did not
order that 911 be called until after the procedure was finished.[44]
·
Gosnell could not
resuscitate Mrs. Mongar himself as his defibrillator was broken.[45]
2011
·
Following Gosnell,
Pennsylvania has once again been inspecting abortion clinics. Multiple
facilities have shut down due to failure to meet the regulations. In 2011,
Abortion as an Alternative Inc., which had clinics in Bensalem and
Philadelphia, closed.[46]
·
The clinics were
operated by Dr. Soleiman M. Soli. The Department of Health found “drugs
decades past their expiration dates, inadequate or inoperable equipment, poor
record-keeping and mishandling of fetal tissue.”[47]
·
Allentown Medical
Services in Allentown was cited for “preparing to use unsterilized instruments
on patients, having drugs and single-use devices that were past their
expiration dates, and for splattering blood on the walls and on the floor of a
scrub room freezer.”[48]
2012
·
American Women's
Services, Pittsburgh[49], and Allentown Medical Services, Allentown[50],
closed because complaints revealed violations that could not be fixed.
The Department of Health said that the former owner of Allentown Medical
Services, Dr. Steven Brigham, “showed a ‘serial’ disregard for health
regulations.”[51]
·
Allegheny Women's Center
closed rather than meet the inspection regulations.[52]
Virginia – 80
Violations Even with Notice of Inspection
2012
·
Virginia Health
Commission inspection reports obtained by The Family Foundation through the
Freedom of Information Act reveal unsafe and “utterly disgusting” conditions in
Virginia abortion clinics.[53]
o
Blood-stained medical
equipment and operating tables (Falls Church Healthcare Center, Falls Church)[54]
o
A doctor doing exams
with unwashed hands (Alexandria)[55]
o
Improper disposal of
fetal remains including frozen blood and remains at the bottom of the freezer,
after contents had spilled out of a unclosed plastic bag (Tidewater Women’s
Health Clinic, Norfolk)[56]
o
Staff failure to
disinfect blood-stained equipment and recovery cots between patients (Roanoke
Medical Center for Women, Roanoke)[57]
o
Splattered, dried blood
in different colors and thicknesses on exam table and between exam table
cushions (Roanoke Medical Center for Women, Roanoke)[58]
o
Improper storage and
dispersion of drugs (Falls Church Healthcare Center, Falls Church)[59]
o
Staff failure to
properly sanitize equipment and distinguish between dirty and clean instruments
(Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Virginia, Virginia Beach)[60]
·
The director of
Tidewater Women’s Health Clinic in Norfolk, Dr. David Peters, claimed that the
inspectors’ observations were flat wrong and none of the violations affected
patient care. The violations found at his clinic included spilled blood
and “products of conception” (fetal remains) being stored in the freezer.[61]
Louisiana – More Connections
to Gosnell
2010
·
The Delta Clinic of
Baton Rouge is the former employer of Gosnell employee Eileen O’Neill, who was
also arrested in Philadelphia.[62] O’Neill was introduced to Gosnell by
Delta’s owner, Leroy Brinkley, who also owned Atlantic Women’s Services in
Wilmington, Delaware.[63]
·
In 2010, the Delta
Clinic was accused by the Department of Health and Hospitals of failing to
ensure the clinic had a “quality assurance program.” The report indicated
that the clinic did not provide women adequate protections for their privacy
and did not monitor patients receiving sedation “regarding their cardiac
status, respiratory status and level of consciousness during the medical
procedure.”[64]
Arizona – Abortionist
convicted of Sexual Abuse and Inappropriate Conduct
2003
·
Dr. Brian Finkel was
convicted on 22 counts of sexually abusing patients over 17 years. During
Finkel's three-month trial, a parade of victims told of sexual abuse that
included twisting their nipples, kissing them or fondling them inappropriately
during exams. Finkel performed more than 30,000 abortions over the past 20
years and was a national figure in the 1990s through his frequent appearances
on network talk shows.[65]
New Jersey – License
suspended in Bi-State abortions
2010
·
Steven Bingham, who has
operated facilities in Maryland, loses his only remaining medical license when
the New Jersey Board of Medical Examiners suspends it, calling him “a clear and
imminent danger to public health.” In 1996, New Jersey regulators try to revoke
Brigham's license for botching bi-state abortions. An administrative judge
reinstates the license.[66]
Florida – Late-Term
Abortionist Who Has Failed to Protect Babies Born Alive Continues to Operate
2011
·
Abortionist James Scott
Pendergraft owns five late-term abortion clinics in Florida and had his medical
license suspended five times for repeated botched abortions.[67]
o
Pendergraft's medical license
is also suspended in Virginia, and expired in Maryland and the District of
Columbia.[68]
o
In July 2011,
Pendergraft, who has also been convicted of “attempted extortion …mail fraud
... conspiracy to commit extortion, mail-fraud, and perjury[69],”
was party to a lawsuit in which the jury awarded a plaintiff $36.7 million. The
lawsuit stemmed from a 2001 botched abortion in which a baby girl was born
alive and has suffered lifelong handicaps.[70]
o
He employs abortionists
throughout the state of Florida who do late-term abortions for $2,000 and up
and the abortions take place even while his own license is under suspension.[71]
·
Pendergraft’s associate,
Randall Whitney has testified that babies have been born alive and delivered in
the toilet all the time and many times are “still alive, wiggling around in the
toilet.”[72]
2005
·
WORLD Magazine reported
that an abortion at one of Pendergraft’s clinic’s resulted in a woman giving
birth to a “live pre-term baby” who died “after abortion workers refused to
render aid or call for emergency help.”[73]
o
The woman saw her baby
curl up as though cold, then “screamed for clinic workers to call 911”. When
they wouldn’t a friend of the woman who had undergone the abortion called 911
on her cell phone.[74]
Texas – Worse
than Kermit Gosnell, Barbaric Photographic Evidence of Abortion’s Brutality
2013
·
In May, Operation Rescue
released a report revealing that 3 former staff members of the Aaron Women’s
Clinic in Houston had come forward with evidence of horrific late term
abortions conducted by abortionist Douglas Karpen[75].
·
The informants provided
photographic evidence (taken on their cell phones) of illegal late-term
abortions[76].
o
The photos depicted two
babies aborted well beyond the legal limit of 24 weeks in Texas. Their necks
had been cut. The physical condition of the babies reveals that it is
likely that the babies had already been born when they killed.
·
Testimony from the former
workers indicates that Dr. Karpen was committing both very late term abortions
and infanticide. Patients would be administered doses of Cytotec, a drug
that causes strong and unpredictable uterine contractions, to induce labor and
then the abortion would take place.
o
“When he did an
abortion, especially an over 20 week abortion, most of the time the fetus would
come completely out before he cut the spinal cord or he introduced one of the
instruments into the soft spot of the fetus, in order to kill the fetus,”
stated former surgical assistant Deborah Edge. According to Edge, babies
born alive were a common occurrence.
§ According to Edge, sometimes Karpen would kill
the babies by “twisting the head off the neck.”
§ The whistle blowers also contend that numerous
other abuses took place at Aaron Women’s Clinic including:
o
Falsification of
ultrasounds to produce younger fetal ages of babies over the legal limit or
older fetal ages to extract more money out of women.
o
Fraudulent billing
practices.
o
Surgical equipment not
properly sterilized and reuse of disposable instruments.
o
Unqualified workers
drawing and administering drugs.
o
Hiring nurses through a
temp agency to work only on days when inspections are scheduled.
o
Mistreating and
inappropriately touching women while under sedation.
o
Sexual harassment.
·
The Harris County
District Attorney’s office has announced that they are currently investigation
the matter[77].
·
Records obtained by
Texas Right to Life[78] reveal that 14 Texas
abortion clinics have been cited for serious health violations between July
2011 - 2012. Violations included:
o
Unsecured, open vials
and unlabeled syringes were stored throughout abortion facilities.
o
Methotrexate, a
dangerous drug used for abortion, was left open, unsecured, and unlocked in a
room, in violation of state and federal law.
o
Instrument packages in a
treatment room had broken sterile seals and vials
containing Lidocaine were not sterile.
o
Patient records
indicating that patients were released without vital signs being taken.
o
Expired equipment and
medications being used.
2011
·
The Texas Commission of
Environmental Quality (TCEQ) found in June that Whole Women’s Health of Austin
abortion had improperly disposed of fetuses[79][80].
o
The clinic had sent the
aborted babies to a medical waste contractor, which subjected them steam
disinfection along with other medical waste generated at the facility. The
contractor then sent the waste to a landfill.
o
The law forbids human
body parts, fetuses or products of abortions from being disposed of in
landfills.
·
TCEQ also cited and
Whole Women’s Health in McAllen, TX in September 2011 for the improper disposal
of human remains after the discovery of unborn babies in dumpsters outside the
clinic[81].
o
Private medical records
were also discovered in the dumpsters.
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