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"More than 2,000 incidents of pro-abortion
violence, from mass murder to destruction of property."
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From: The Pro-Life Infonet <infonet@prolifeinfo.org>
Reply-To: Steven Ertelt <infonet@prolifeinfo.org>
Subject: Report Details Pro-Abortion Violence, Crimes
Source: Los Angeles Lay Catholic Mission; November 2001 Issue
Report Details Pro-Abortion Violence, Crimes
By Robert Kumpel
Murder, attempted murder, manslaughter, torture, kidnapping, rape,
stalking, death threats, bomb threats (including false-threat reports from
alleged pro-lifers), sex crimes, conspiracy, drug crimes, property crimes,
medical crimes and fraud-related crimes -- are these the fruits of legal
abortion? The Abortion Crime Report, published by California Right to Life
demonstrates not only that they are, but that abortionists themselves are
responsible for such crimes. The Report, addressed to the governor,
California legislature and attorney general, came out in July and went to
every major newspaper in California, as well as to legislators on
committees reviewing related bills.
In a summary of pro-abortion violence in the United States, the report
lists a total of 2,297 incidents of pro-abortion violence and illegal
activities. The report then goes on to list crimes committed by
abortionists in California by city, citing the original sources of
information. The source for much of the information came from the Medical
Board of California, which is responsible for licensing and bringing
disciplinary action against state physicians.
The Abortion Crime Report was written as a response to a legislative
report written by Gregory De Giere, a state senate staffer, entitled
Crimes Against Reproductive Rights in California. The report alleges that
pro-life people are violent, and supplies examples. The De Giere report
was submitted to bolster support for a bill by State Senator Debbie Ortiz
of Sacramento, which would make sidewalk counseling at abortion clinics or
attempting to dissuade patients from procuring abortions an act of
harassment and would add the charge of "hate crime" to these activities.
(The Ortiz bill was signed into law by Governor Davis on Monday, October
15.)
Particularly revealing is the first part of the report, entitled THE FRANK
MENDIOLA PHENOMENON: Prone to Lying: Two key Incidents Omitted in De
Giere's Report. In the two incidents described, militant pro-abortion
activists, Frank Mendiola and David Friedman, created a media frenzy by
falsely reporting acts of violence and bomb threats made against them,
clinics and pro-abortion legislators by pro-lifers. In Mendiola's case,
the police concluded that he had made the threatening phone calls himself
-- to which he later confessed. The Los Angeles Times, based on Mendiola's
testimony, even reported the tragic details of an illegal abortion endured
by his twin sister. Mendiola later confessed that he had no twin sister.
David Friedman, a National Organization for Women organizer from Palm
Springs, claimed that he endured phoned death threats, ammunition left on
his car and even assault. He appeared at a news conference wearing an ace
bandage over his arm. Palm Springs police suspended the investigation for
lack of leads and eventually documents were found revealing Friedman's
history of phony police reports and false allegations of violence while a
resident of Concord.
The report contains 76 detailed descriptions of single or multiple
incidents with abortion providers. Of those 76 descriptions, 40 involve
physicians, clinics or pro-abortion activists in the Los Angeles area.
They include the story of Alicia Ruiz Hanna, an abortionist convicted in
1994 of murder and of impersonating a doctor.
Another disturbing case involves Bruce Steir, an abortionist with a track
record of botched abortions and disciplinary actions. While on medical
probation, he perforated the uterus of Sharon Hamptlon while performing an
abortion on her at A Lady's Choice Women's Medical Center on December 13,
1996. She later bled to death after arriving home in Barstow. Steir
surrendered his medical license in March of 1997 and was charged with
murder. Though buried in various other complaints of shoddy medical
practice from his patients -- many of whom required surgery by other
physicians to remedy Steir's bad work -- Steir's cause was taken up by the
National Organization for Women, the National Abortion and Reproductive
Rights Action League, the National Abortion Federation, and Refuse and
Resist. All of these groups argued against filing any charges against
Steir.
Of all the doctors in Los Angeles charged with malpractice, murder, fraud
and various other crimes, the runaway leader in professional incompetence
and callous disregard is probably Dr. Ivan Namihas. Charged with four
incidents of rape, 45 incidents of sexual abuse, gross negligence and mail
fraud, Namihas' record speaks of a sexual predator who used his medical
license like a hunting license. He impregnated one of his patients,
repeatedly raped his half-sister and has more than 100 patients and former
patients who have reported allegations of medical misconduct or sexual
abuse -- some of which date back to 1969.
The complaints against Namihas include: raping patients with foreign
objects, inducing patients to perform oral sex on him, sexual conduct with
a nurse while a patient was in labor, performing oral sex on his patients,
soliciting a date with a patient1s friend while performing an exam, using
verbally sexual comments (many of an extremely crude nature), and giving
false information to patients regarding their conditions and/or necessary
treatments. According to one complaint, Namihas told the patient she had
genital warts and showed her photo examples from a book. He then gave a
vivid description of a long, painful course of treatment. When the
patient's stepmother questioned him, he slammed the book shut and
defensively raised his voice. Namihas then left to attend to another
patient. When the stepmother was about to sign the consent form, a nurse
stopped her. The test was negative, said the nurse; Namihas, she said,
"was misdiagnosing many women because he needed the money."
Namihas was found guilty by the medical board of sexual abuse, sexual
misconduct, gross negligence, incompetence and immorality. He had his
license revoked. He was also charged with mail fraud for billing patients
for unneeded treatments.
Pro-abortion violence and villainy in Los Angeles is not restricted to
doctors. The report lists several incidents of pro-life protesters being
viciously mocked, kicked, beaten and bitten. Especially noteworthy is the
March 1989 case of an Orange city police officer who dragged a pro-life
demonstrator behind a wall at Family Planning Associates in Cypress to
savagely beat him, even though the pro-lifer was offering no resistance.
That same month three pro-abortionists were arrested after igniting an
incendiary device in a church filled with 2,500 pro-life activists.
Concussion grenades were also found beneath the speaking platform where
the pro-life leaders were supposed to speak. A detonation would have
gravely injured and probably killed anyone standing on the platform.
A Southern California consultant who assisted in compiling the report said
that Ortiz' bill is based on the assumption that pro-life people are
"terrorists" and the state must maximize the law in order to protect "good
abortionists" from violent people. "Of course De Giere's report got
tremendous media publicity, but it was absolutely bogus," said the
consultant. "Everyone took it at face value without even checking the
sources. The media's response to our report on abortion crimes was zero.
And the legislative people? They don't read. We gave it to [Senator] Ray
Haynes [Republican, Riverside], but what's he going to do -- pass it out?
Everybody is pro-abortion. They understand the game. They're not going to
bother to read it. Our pro-life people are not really that pro-life.
They've given up. They don't have a vote anyway, so what can they do?"
The California Right to Life consultant said that every major daily in
California received a copy of the Abortion Crime Report. Not only was
every major daily sent one copy, but they also received a copy directed to
their medical writer and another copy was sent to every one of their
bureau chiefs in Sacramento.
In a phone call to The Los Angeles Times, a city desk staffer (who would
not identify herself) repeatedly interrupted questions concerning the
publicity given DeGiere's report while ignoring The Abortion Crime Report.
She impatiently insisted on transferring the call to "the editor" and then
connected the call to the reader's representative's recorded message line.
Diana Peyton, assistant to the city editor at the Los Angeles Daily News,
was more patient, but dismissed the question why The Abortion Crime Report
was ignored. "I think what you're saying is that it was misrepresented or
that the issue wasn't given as much attention as you feel it needed. The
best thing you can do is write a letter to the editor."
A copy of The Abortion Crime Report can be obtained by writing California
Right to Life Inc., 1610 Oak Park Boulevard, Pleasant Hill, California,
94523. |
DOCUMENTED
EVIDENCE OF PRO-ABORTION VIOLENCE IN CANADA AND US
WASHINGTON, Aug 10 (LSN.ca) - A new compilation of documentation on
pro-abortion violence in Canada, the US and Puerto Rico reveals
thousands
of cases where pro-abortionists have attacked persons with guns, cars,
acid, hypodermic syringes, and baseball bats, while other pro-abortion
advocates applauded and supported some of these actions. Human Life
International's top researchers assembled Pro-Abortion Violence,
which
includes over 55 murders committed by pro-abortionists. Unlike typical
pro-abortion reports that simply allege incidents of
"anti-choice" violence
but never document their claims, the HLI report actually documents
more
than 2,000 incidents of pro-abortion violence, from mass murder to
destruction of property.
The report counts only the murders of born human beings, and finds that
pro-abortion violence far exceeds "pro-life" violence, 314 to
6.
Contrasting verifiable crimes by pro-abortion advocates against alleged
crimes by "pro-life" advocates, one finds that in the category
of "Deadly
and extreme crimes against persons (murder, manslaughter, infanticide,
attempted murder, kidnapping, torture and rape)" there are 121
pro-abortion
incidents versus 25 committed by supposedly "pro-life"
persons. In the
category of "Less serious crimes against persons resulting in
actual injury
(assault, sex crimes, reckless endangerment, and violation of civil
rights)" the ratio is 651-112.
A sampling of recent incidents of murder by pro-abortionists includes a
1993 attack in Huntsville, Alabama where pro-abortion activist Eileen
Orstein Janezic murdered 51-year old pro-life activist minister and
radio
talk show host Jerry Simon. After shooting Simon through a window of his
home, she held police at bay with a pistol for six hours while spouting
quotes out of Anton LaVey's "Satanic Bible." In
1994 a jury convicted
Los Angeles abortionist Alicia Ruiz Hanna of murder after Angela
Sanchez, a
27-year-old mother of four, died at her Santa Ana abortion mill. The
abortionist tried to stuff Angela's body into the trunk of her car in
full
view of her children, who were watching from the abortuary's waiting
room. In 1998 a jury found pro-abortionist Alfred E. Smith guilty
of
murder in the death of his ex-girlfriend Deena Moody. Smith killed Deena
because she refused to abort their preborn child.
The report also smashes the myth painted in the media of the always
heroic
abortionist who is bent on service to women. It notes that
abortionist
Vilis Kruze of Ohio was a former Nazi SS officer put who became an
abortionist for Kaiser Permanente in Ohio and Hawaii. Prominent
Chicago
abortionist Richard Ragsdale made "kiddie porn" featuring his
own
3-year-old daughter, and, when caught, blamed his prosecution on local
pro-lifers. Boston abortionist Kenneth Edelin aborted a
living and viable baby boy, deliberately smothered him, was convicted of
manslaughter but released on a technicality, and was later rewarded by
being given the post of Chairman of the Board of Planned Parenthood
Federation of America (PPFA). The report also reveals that
world-famous
American pro-abortion feminist Betty Friedan of California, a co-founder
of
the National Organization for Women (NOW), was caught by customs
officials
at an airport with a load of sado-masochistic magazines depicting women
in
extreme bondage.
The authors of the 100 page Pro-Abortion Violence report challenge that
those who demand condemnations of "anti-choice violence"
should be asked to
condemn pro-abortion violence. The report is certain to be used in
public
testimony and to educate the media, public officials and others that the
true violence- both inside and outside the abortion mills- must be laid
at
the feet of the pro-abortionists.
LifeSite was proud to see that many quotes were taken from our news
service
for this compilation.
For the complete report from HLI go to:
http://www.hli.org/issues/violence/clowesViolence.html
For a breakdown of the report see:
http://www.hli.org/issues/violence/toc.html |
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