Former abortionist now head of one of the largest pro-life medical practices in the U.S. | LifeSiteNews.com: Dr. Nathanson’s passing reminds us of the powerful testimony of the dozens of doctors who have left the squalor of their abortion facilities and committed themselves to life-giving and authentic health care.
Dr. John Bruchalski is one of these doctors. A former abortionist in his ob/gyn residency, the 50-year-old Virginia native has now become a leading light in pro-life medicine. Through his unique Tepeyac Family Center, one of the largest free-standing pro-life medical practices in the country, Dr. Bruchalski’s team offers a safe haven for women in crisis pregnancies, spreading hope through authentic health care that respects the natural processes of the woman’s body, the right to life of the unborn child, and the eternal end of the mother’s soul.
After Closing Clinics, Golden Gate Community Health Makes Plea for Funding
After Closing Clinics, Golden Gate Community Health Makes Plea for Funding - The Bay Citizen: Just one day after laying off dozens of employees and shuttering four clinics, officials from Golden Gate Community Health issued an ultimatum — give us money, or else we’re gone for good.
With $800,000, board members said GGCH could immediately reopen for several more weeks. With an extra $1.2 million, board members said the organization could reopen for the long term. But clinic officials are not optimistic.
With $800,000, board members said GGCH could immediately reopen for several more weeks. With an extra $1.2 million, board members said the organization could reopen for the long term. But clinic officials are not optimistic.
Editor: Think what four PCCs could do with $800,000 to $1.2 million.
San Francisco Abortion Biz Closes After Losing Planned Parenthood Tie
San Francisco Abortion Biz Closes After Losing Planned Parenthood Tie | LifeNews.com: Planned Parenthood Golden Gate was dropped as an affiliate of the national abortion business following allegedly massive financial mismanagement. Responding to the decision, the California abortion business changed its name to Golden Gate Community Health and fired CEO Dian Harrison.
Several employees of Golden Gate Community Health posted on their Facebook accounts earlier this week that the former Planned Parenthood affiliate based in San Francisco will close this week. Satellite centers in San Rafael, Oakland, Hayward and San Mateo are expected to close immediately and all remaining abortion appointments will be routed to the main San Francisco center for two more weeks until it will close as well.
In a statement, Golden Gate Community Health said the closures came because of problems maintaining support from donors, which have split off to the new Planned Parenthood abortion clinics.
Several employees of Golden Gate Community Health posted on their Facebook accounts earlier this week that the former Planned Parenthood affiliate based in San Francisco will close this week. Satellite centers in San Rafael, Oakland, Hayward and San Mateo are expected to close immediately and all remaining abortion appointments will be routed to the main San Francisco center for two more weeks until it will close as well.
In a statement, Golden Gate Community Health said the closures came because of problems maintaining support from donors, which have split off to the new Planned Parenthood abortion clinics.
NYC Council passes PCC gag law
Breaking: New York City Council passes pregnancy center gag law | LifeSiteNews.com: A bill designed to gag pro-life pregnancy resource centers passed the New York City Council Wednesday afternoon in a 39-9-1 vote. Int. No. 371, which would force pregnancy centers to prominently state whether they provide abortions, is expected to meet a court challenge by representatives of the state’s 24 pro-life centers.
Holder: No Prosecution In Connection With Planned Parenthood Video 'Sting'
Holder: No Prosecution In Connection With Planned Parenthood Video 'Sting' | TPMMuckraker: Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday that the FBI has declined to prosecute in connection with a series of incidents where a man entered Planned Parenthood and claimed to be a pimp operating a sex trafficking ring. Those incidents were later revealed to be part of a video 'sting' by the anti-abortion group LiveAction. 'It is my understanding that the FBI actually has looked at that matter' and 'prosecution was declined in that matter,' Holder's commented in a hearing of the House Appropriations subcommittee.
Abortion Practitioner Pulling Gun on Pro-Lifers Goes to Trial
Abortion Practitioner Pulling Gun on Pro-Lifers Goes to Trial | LifeNews.com: A South Carolina magistrate ruled that enough evidence exists for the case against Gary Boyle, 62, of Blountville, Tennessee, to move forward. Boyle lives in Tennessee but does abortions at the facility near Charleston. Apparently upset at the fact that local pro-life advocates had been participating in the national 40 Days for Life campaign, Boyle met their peaceful presence by pulling a gun.
Death Sought for Patient-Killing Abortion Doc
Death Sought for Patient-Killing Abortion Doc - TIME: Prosecutors in Philadelphia say they will seek the death penalty against a doctor charged with killing a patient and seven babies at his abortion clinic. Dr. Kermit Gosnell is charged with running a filthy medical practice that allegedly served as a pill mill by day and an abortion mill by night. City prosecutors cite as aggravating circumstances the multiple deaths and the tender age of the babies allegedly killed with scissors after being born alive.
Part 8: How the politics of abortion protects bad clinics
The problems exposed in Florida's fight over abortion clinics—state neglect, pro-choice denial, and the relegation of abortion to the shadows of medicine—didn't end there. They have surfaced in other states, too.
On Sept. 2, 1989, two weeks before the Miami Herald exposé in Florida, the Boston Globe disclosed that Dr. Howard Silverman, the owner of Massachusetts' biggest chain of abortion clinics, had admitted to sexual misconduct with a female patient. . . . Like the exposed clinic operators in Florida, Silverman portrayed his unmasking as an attack on abortion rights. And, as in Florida, the Globe found that colleagues had known of his misconduct, as well as his generally bad reputation, but had kept it secret. . . .
A few days later, Chicago abortionist Arnold Bickham was arrested for practicing medicine less than a year after losing his license for gross malpractice. In the malpractice case, a woman had hemorrhaged and gone into shock after an abortion at Bickham's clinic. . . . No one could be sure how rare these offenses were, since abortion clinics in Illinois hadn't been regulated or inspected for four years, thanks to a court injunction like the one in Florida.
Another horror story surfaced in Maryland a week after the fight in Florida began. A woman lapsed into respiratory trouble while under anesthesia for an abortion at the Hillview Women's Medical Surgical Center. Despite having no anesthesiologist on hand, the clinic's medical director continued the operation. The patient went into cardiac arrest and died. . . . The clinic's owner, Barbara Lofton, blamed reports of her recklessness on the pro-life views of the local paramedic chief. He denied that he held such views. . . .
Over the years, similar cases have turned up in other states. Pennsylvania's Kermit Gosnell scandal may be the latest and biggest of these regulatory failures, but it isn't the only one. . . . For five months last year, New Jersey regulators received complaints that abortion doctor Steven Brigham, 54, was running a secret, cash-only, late-term abortion business using a risky interstate scheme—one for which he was disciplined in the 1990s. Just as in the Gosnell case, regulators took no public action against Brigham—until a police raid forced them to.
Brigham's case is still unfolding. . . . Despite the raid, a trail of botched abortions, and license suspensions in New York and New Jersey, Brigham is still operating clinics in New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. Last year, Pennsylvania's Department of Health, fresh from the gruesome discoveries at Gosnell's uninspected facility, approved Brigham's transfer of his clinics to his mother's company, thereby helping him evade an order that was supposed to bar him from owning abortion clinics in the state. The order forbidding clinic ownership "does not apply" to Brigham's mother's company, a health department spokeswoman told the Inquirer. And guess where Brigham has opened his latest franchise? Florida. Slate
On Sept. 2, 1989, two weeks before the Miami Herald exposé in Florida, the Boston Globe disclosed that Dr. Howard Silverman, the owner of Massachusetts' biggest chain of abortion clinics, had admitted to sexual misconduct with a female patient. . . . Like the exposed clinic operators in Florida, Silverman portrayed his unmasking as an attack on abortion rights. And, as in Florida, the Globe found that colleagues had known of his misconduct, as well as his generally bad reputation, but had kept it secret. . . .
A few days later, Chicago abortionist Arnold Bickham was arrested for practicing medicine less than a year after losing his license for gross malpractice. In the malpractice case, a woman had hemorrhaged and gone into shock after an abortion at Bickham's clinic. . . . No one could be sure how rare these offenses were, since abortion clinics in Illinois hadn't been regulated or inspected for four years, thanks to a court injunction like the one in Florida.
Another horror story surfaced in Maryland a week after the fight in Florida began. A woman lapsed into respiratory trouble while under anesthesia for an abortion at the Hillview Women's Medical Surgical Center. Despite having no anesthesiologist on hand, the clinic's medical director continued the operation. The patient went into cardiac arrest and died. . . . The clinic's owner, Barbara Lofton, blamed reports of her recklessness on the pro-life views of the local paramedic chief. He denied that he held such views. . . .
Over the years, similar cases have turned up in other states. Pennsylvania's Kermit Gosnell scandal may be the latest and biggest of these regulatory failures, but it isn't the only one. . . . For five months last year, New Jersey regulators received complaints that abortion doctor Steven Brigham, 54, was running a secret, cash-only, late-term abortion business using a risky interstate scheme—one for which he was disciplined in the 1990s. Just as in the Gosnell case, regulators took no public action against Brigham—until a police raid forced them to.
Brigham's case is still unfolding. . . . Despite the raid, a trail of botched abortions, and license suspensions in New York and New Jersey, Brigham is still operating clinics in New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. Last year, Pennsylvania's Department of Health, fresh from the gruesome discoveries at Gosnell's uninspected facility, approved Brigham's transfer of his clinics to his mother's company, thereby helping him evade an order that was supposed to bar him from owning abortion clinics in the state. The order forbidding clinic ownership "does not apply" to Brigham's mother's company, a health department spokeswoman told the Inquirer. And guess where Brigham has opened his latest franchise? Florida. Slate
Part 7: How the politics of abortion protects bad clinics
Grizzle [the pro-choice Florida state Senator] was mystified by the opposition. She feared for every woman in South Florida whoopened the Yellow Pages to find an abortion clinic. To her, the issue wasn't choice; it was safety. And hadn't the political war of the last year proved the dominance of the abortion rights lobby? She saw no need to be so defensive. But the clinic operators and their allies refused to take chances. "Once you compromise, they chip away at everything, and you're compromising women's lives," NOW's lobbyist argued.
Her opponents [the abortion lobby] said the state had "not presented one shred of evidence showing that any clinics are dangerous." In a terse order issued six weeks later, Gonzalez threw out the state's request. "What I think this means," said Carres, triumphantly, "is that nothing will be changed, ever." For the most part, she was right. It took Florida 15 years to enact new clinic regulations, and those regulations apply only after the first trimester. For 90 percent of the state's abortions, nothing has changed. Slate
Her opponents [the abortion lobby] said the state had "not presented one shred of evidence showing that any clinics are dangerous." In a terse order issued six weeks later, Gonzalez threw out the state's request. "What I think this means," said Carres, triumphantly, "is that nothing will be changed, ever." For the most part, she was right. It took Florida 15 years to enact new clinic regulations, and those regulations apply only after the first trimester. For 90 percent of the state's abortions, nothing has changed. Slate
Part 6: How the politics of abortion protects bad clinics
Sen. Mary Grizzle, a pro-choice Republican, sent a survey to every abortion clinic licensed by [Florida]. She requested a list of the clinic's active doctors and staff "to determine the numbers and types of health care professionals" involved in abortions. Many providers recoiled. For years, pro-life extremists had identified, tracked down, and harassed doctors who performed abortions. The providers feared that the lists would fall into the hands of those extremists. They protested and contacted the ACLU and Protectors of Women's Abortion Rights, an alliance of 34 Florida clinics. [The ACLU] advised them to withhold the names and [said Grizzle's office] would have to subpoena the lists to get them. . . .
Planned Parenthood's Florida affiliates referred several thousand women to abortion providers each year. If any of those providers screwed up, her organization could be sued. For that reason, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America regularly and thoroughly inspected any clinic or doctor's office that sought patient referrals for abortions. This responsibility made Planned Parenthood fairly tolerant of clinic regulation. How could it oppose standards less stringent than its own? . . .
Clinics frequently failed to disclose to Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services the names of all their doctors. Sometimes, on patient-treatment records, they concealed the names of the responsible physicians. HRS staff seldom, if ever, checked with Florida's Department of Professional Regulation to make sure that the doctors listed by the clinics were licensed. And although the best way to detect bad treatment was to review patient records, often the only records examined by inspectors were those selected by clinic staff. If a clinic had botched a few cases, the inspector would never find out. Slate
Planned Parenthood's Florida affiliates referred several thousand women to abortion providers each year. If any of those providers screwed up, her organization could be sued. For that reason, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America regularly and thoroughly inspected any clinic or doctor's office that sought patient referrals for abortions. This responsibility made Planned Parenthood fairly tolerant of clinic regulation. How could it oppose standards less stringent than its own? . . .
Clinics frequently failed to disclose to Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services the names of all their doctors. Sometimes, on patient-treatment records, they concealed the names of the responsible physicians. HRS staff seldom, if ever, checked with Florida's Department of Professional Regulation to make sure that the doctors listed by the clinics were licensed. And although the best way to detect bad treatment was to review patient records, often the only records examined by inspectors were those selected by clinic staff. If a clinic had botched a few cases, the inspector would never find out. Slate
Part 5: How the politics of abortion protects bad clinics
Pro-choice lawmakers in Florida insisted on treating abortion just like other medical procedures. Then they demanded exceptions. Then they complained that a new law to make that authority clear would be unconstitutional. They said Florida should wait for the U.S. Supreme Court to clarify which regulations were constitutional. And when a moderate pro-choice legislator proposed to spend public funds to help poor women offset the cost of new regulations the vice president of the Florida Abortion Council declined the offer.
One bill under consideration copied the standards of the National Abortion Federation almost verbatim. Despite this, [the FAC] refused to accept it. The proposed regulations were "too rigid." Either that, or they were "too vague." . . .
Perhaps abortion rights lobbyists could have killed the bill on their own. But the failure of clinic regulation in Florida, as in Pennsylvania, was a collaborative tragedy in which each camp played its part. Hours before the committee was to vote, Florida's top pro-life lobbyist told reporters that if any clinic safety bill reached the Senate floor, pro-lifers would amend it to restrict abortions generally. When Malchon heard about his threat, she was furious. The deal was off. Slate
One bill under consideration copied the standards of the National Abortion Federation almost verbatim. Despite this, [the FAC] refused to accept it. The proposed regulations were "too rigid." Either that, or they were "too vague." . . .
Perhaps abortion rights lobbyists could have killed the bill on their own. But the failure of clinic regulation in Florida, as in Pennsylvania, was a collaborative tragedy in which each camp played its part. Hours before the committee was to vote, Florida's top pro-life lobbyist told reporters that if any clinic safety bill reached the Senate floor, pro-lifers would amend it to restrict abortions generally. When Malchon heard about his threat, she was furious. The deal was off. Slate
Pro-aborts want an international right to abortion
Pro-aborts want an international right to abortion: that’s completely upside-down! | LifeSiteNews.com: Advocates of legal abortion not only want to keep Roe vs. Wade intact. They want to establish an international right to abortion, enforced on an international level, and overriding the decisions of individual nations to protect their own preborn children. As usual, they have it completely upside-down. The international right that has to be proclaimed and protected is the right to life.
Missouri Senate Holding Bill for PCCs Hostage
Missouri Senate Holding Bill for Pregnancy Centers Hostage | LifeNews.com: Although SB 204 has 25 co-sponsoring state Senators in the 34-member Missouri state Senate, the bill failed to move forward. SB 204 continues an existing tax credit that Missouri residents can claim when making a contribution to a pregnancy resource center to help women find abortion alternatives. However, the legislation faces an uncertain future.
The pregnancy resource center credit allows a donor to take a tax credit for up to 50% of their donation and has been responsible for helping pregnancy centers save the lives of unborn children by providing pregnancy testing, counseling, emotional and material support and other services to assist women in carrying their pregnancies to term.
The pregnancy resource center credit allows a donor to take a tax credit for up to 50% of their donation and has been responsible for helping pregnancy centers save the lives of unborn children by providing pregnancy testing, counseling, emotional and material support and other services to assist women in carrying their pregnancies to term.
Resource in pregnancy center
Resource in pregnancy center - Letters to the Editor - Modbee.com: Facing an unplanned pregnancy is often a time of significant emotional upheaval and medical need. The Modesto Pregnancy Center, a licensed medical clinic offering free and confidential care, exists specifically to offer help and support in just these circumstances. A woman coming to the center can be confident that 1) she will receive medically-accurate information concerning all available options; 2) no one will try to profit from her crisis; and 3) all support and services offered will affirm the value of her life and that of her precious baby."
Abortion pill kills 3 women in Ghana
Ghana News :: Abortion kills 3 women at Goaso ::: Breaking News | News in Ghana | health: Three young women at Goaso in the Asunafo Municipality in the Brong Ahafo Region lost their lives when they attempted to terminate their pregnancies using a drug known as Cytotec. The Asunafo North Municipal Directorate of Health Services has issued a stern warning to all chemical and pharmacy shops which are selling the drug to women for the purpose of termination of pregnancies to stop forthwith, since it is illegal to do so.
‘De-fund Planned Parenthood Video Contest’
Live Action, Students for Life, others sponsoring ‘De-fund Planned Parenthood Contest’ | LifeSiteNews.com: Pro-life advocate Lila Rose revealed Monday that pro-life groups are teaming up to put up cash prizes for young people who make the best videos explaining why Planned Parenthood should be defunded. The grand prize is $1,000 cash, and there are two runner-up prizes, including $500 cash. The deadline for the videos, which should be no longer than five minutes, is Monday March 7. Anyone between the ages of 14-25 may participate.
Canadian abortion activists worried about growing March for Life
During a “March for Choice” held in Toronto last Saturday, abortion advocates stressed the need for pro-choice action in the face of a growing and increasingly strong pro-life movement. Speaker Olivia Chow recounted to the group of about 65 participants her thoughts on stumbling on last year’s March for Life on Parliament Hill. “I walked out of my office and the entire Parliament Hill was filled with people, anti-choice people,” she emphasized. LifeSiteNews
Gosnell-Associated Abortion Practitioners in Delaware Suspended
Gosnell-Associated Abortion Practitioners in Delaware Suspended | LifeNews.com: Delaware’s Secretary of State and the President of the Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline agreed with Attorney General Beau Biden’s ruling that Albert Dworkin’s license be suspended. They did not agree Arturo Apolinario's license should be immediately suspended but revoked his ability to prescribe controlled substances.
Family of Jane Russell Asks for Donations to Care Net PRC
Reflections of a Paralytic » Family of Jane Russell Asks for Donations to Care Net PRC: From her obituary -- "In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made in her name to either the Care Net Pregnancy and Resource Center of Santa Maria or the Court Appointed Special Advocates of Santa Barbara County." The blog goes on to explain her pro-life views.
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