Court Upholds Suspension of Florida Late-Term Abortion Practitioner's License

A Florida appeals court has upheld the suspension of the license of late-term abortion practitioner James Pendergraft. In 2007, he was fined $10,000 and has his licensed revoked for one year over an illegal late-term abortion he did in 2005. The Florida Board of Medicine also placed Pendergraft's license on a three year probationary period following the suspension. Pendergraft runs five abortion facilities and his abortion centers in Ocala, Tampa, and Fort Lauderdale were shut down for a brief time during an investigation into alleged illegal activities. Pendergraft appealed the decision and, in an opinion filed yesterday, the Florida District Court of Appeals rejected all of Pendergraft's arguments and stated that they "found no reversible error" in the Board's suspension order. LifeNews