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Barrage of Additional
Charges Against Abortionist Brigham
Part Three of Three By Dave Andrusko "Since 1992,[abortionist Steven C.] Brigham's medical license has been revoked in Florida and New York, relinquished amid an investigation in Pennsylvania, and suspended for three years in New Jersey, the only state where he is currently permitted to practice medicine." "New Jersey officials
filed legal documents on Wednesday seeking to suspend the
medical license of abortion doctor Steven C. Brigham, whose main
regional clinic, American Women's Services, is in Voorhees."
According to the Philadelphia Inquirer story which ran yesterday, "Brigham would initiate abortions in Voorhees [New Jersey] and finish them surgically in Elkton [Maryland]. The two-step process was 'part of a wide-scale pattern of practice whereby terminations of pregnancy that cannot be legally performed by Respondent Brigham in his New Jersey office are begun by him in New Jersey and completed in Maryland,' the complaint said." But as it turns out "Brigham has never been licensed in Maryland, and is not authorized in New Jersey to perform abortions after 18 weeks of pregnancy," the Philadelphia Inquirer reported, referring to a complaint that had been filed. The latest horror story involved the botched abortion of an 18-year-old who was in her 21st week of pregnancy. "Referred to only as 'D.B., she was taken from Brigham's Voorhees clinic to another facility he owns in Elkton, Md., where the surgical procedure was done," according to McCullough and Goldstein. McCullough provided further detail in a story she wrote last Friday. "After one of the patients ["D.B."] was critically injured during her surgery there, Brigham put the semiconscious, bleeding woman into the back of a rented Chevrolet Malibu and drove her to a nearby hospital emergency room rather than call an ambulance." The teenager, she wrote, "'suffered a uterine perforation and small bowel injury' that were so severe and life-threatening that she had to be airlifted to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. A Hopkins doctor later filed a complaint against the abortion provider." The complaint cited two other women-- one "25 weeks pregnant with twins," and " the other who more than 18 weeks pregnant--who were both transported out of New Jersey to Maryland on August 13. Rather than paraphrase the fine reporting in the Inquirer, let me just quote part of a thorough investigation: Unlicensed medical practice by Brigham, 54, and his employees has been a recurring problem over the last two decades, regulatory records show. He also has a history of performing late-term abortions that leave patients with life-threatening complications, and of not paying state and federal employment taxes. The Maryland Board of Medicine and Elkton police launched an investigation after receiving several complaints in August, including one from the 18-year-old patient who was critically injured there. That investigation led the police to find 35 frozen fetuses, several just a few weeks shy of full term, from a freezer in the Elkton facility. Because the authorities could not find medical records for the abortions, they subsequently searched Brigham's Voorhees clinic with the cooperation of the New Jersey Attorney General's Office. The move to temporarily suspend his license in New Jersey " is the initial step in revoking a license," according to the Inquirer. Late last month the Maryland Board of Physicians ordered Brigham to stop performing abortions in the state "where he has never been licensed to practice medicine," McCullough and Goldstein reported. "By then police had raided Brigham's Elkton facility - from which they said they removed 35 'late-term fetuses and fetal parts' - as well as the Voorhees headquarters of his chain of 15 clinics, which does business as American Women's Services." In addition to all this, "The Pennsylvania Department of Health this month ordered Brigham to permanently shut his four clinics in the state for repeatedly employing unlicensed caregivers," according to McCullough. "Brigham also has to deal with the IRS. In April, it placed $234,536 in liens against him for failing to pay payroll taxes from 2002 to 2006." Please send your comments on Today's News & Views and National Right to Life News Today to daveandrusko@gmail.com. If you like, join those who are following me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/daveha. |
Last
week, when I wrote about the latest charge brought against this
notorious abortionist, I didn't understand fully why Steven
Brigham had started an abortion in New Jersey [which he botched,
according to the Maryland Board of Physicians] which he
completed in Maryland. It is a long, gruesome story, but in
brief…