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Posted on 06/22/2008 12:18:01 PM PDT by wagglebee
Contact: Troy Newman, President, 316-841-1700; Cheryl Sullenger, Senior Policy Advisor, 316-516-3034; both with Operation Rescue, info@operationrescue.org
SAN DIEGO, Calif., June 21 /Christian Newswire/ -- Bertha Bugarin was arrested on Thursday and jailed in San Diego on ten felonies and one misdemeanor for practicing medicine and prescribing drugs without a license. If convicted, she faces nine years in jail.
Bugarin, who has no medical training, owns five abortion mills in Southern California, including one in Chula Vista, a southern suburb of San Diego. She had been posing as a doctor, performing abortions illegally for $500.
Nine women came forward with stories of botched abortions received at Bugarin's hand. Many women suffered from incomplete abortions and were forced to return to have their abortions done again. One woman was hospitalized three times, and birthed a live baby that died three hours later.
Bugarin made a court appearance yesterday dressed in blue jailhouse garb and shackled at the waist. She was being held on $500,000 bond. Her arraignment is scheduled for July 2.
These charges add to Bugarin's legal woes. In August, 2007, Bugarin was arrested in Los Angeles after the police raided four of her clinics. She was charged in Los Angeles County with 18 counts of committing abortions without a medical license. Her sister, Raquel, was charged with four counts of aiding and abetting her sister in their illegal abortion operation. In addition one of Bugarin's hired abortionists, Laurence Reich, was also arrested after he was found to be doing abortions months after losing his medical license for sexually molesting his patients.
Bugarin's abortion chain, Clinica Medica Para La Mujer De Hoy, preys on Hispanic women, and would often pass out abortion discount coupons in Hispanic neighborhoods.
Operation Rescue began working to expose and close these dangerous abortion mills 1999. As a result six of Bugarin's clinics have closed, at least five of her hired abortionists lost their medical licenses, and three abortionists have received discipline from the California Medical Board.
"The only way to stop someone like Bugarin from hurting people is to put her in jail, because she obviously has no respect for the law or for the lives of the women she seeks to exploit," said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. "We thank God that Bugarin is being brought to justice. We have worked for years, along with the faithful pro-lifers in San Diego, to close her shop of horrors, and now it looks like those prayers are being answered."
About Operation Rescue
Operation Rescue is one of the leading pro-life Christian activist organizations in the nation. Operation Rescue recently made headlines when it bought and closed an abortion clinic in Wichita, Kansas and has become the voice of the pro-life activist movement in America. Its activities are on the cutting edge of the abortion issue, taking direct action to restore legal personhood to the pre-born and stop abortion in obedience to biblical mandates.
In other words, she is a typical abortionist.
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Wow, I can’t believe a major newswire picked this up. Oh, wait...
First degree planned murder of the most helpless!
Hey, don't they know about "anchor babies?"
In addition one of Bugarin's hired abortionists, Laurence Reich, was also arrested after he was found to be doing abortions months after losing his medical license for sexually molesting his patients.
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Unbelievable. Just unbelievable.
People who kill other people get the death sentence. Abortionist and drug dealers are killers - spending tax dollars to rehabilitate these monsters is a waste of money and living space.
Let me guess....NARAL would go ballistic if that ever happened?
Lime5 should be required reading...
http://www.prolife.com/lime5.htm
abortionists are the bottom of the barrel.
They couldn’t hack it in real medicine, so they hack away at women in babies for the quick cash.
“safe and legal” is a myth.
“prescribing drugs without a license. “
I don’t understand this. What pharmacy would fill the prescriptions written by someone who is not a doctor?
But I thought we had to have abortion legal to avoid stuff like this? What was all that coat hanger abortion arguments?
“Why can’t this unlicensed abortionist be charged with one count of murder for each unborn child she killed?”
Quit thinking with logic.
You must employ liberal-think when pondering such matters.
The answer is that a fetus is not a “person” unless the mother wants it to be.
Since these mothers wanted their babies to die, the abortionist cannot be charged with their murders.
One man who made that argument admits he made it all up...
http://www.aboutabortions.com/Confess.html
It is because of incidents like this that abortion became legal in the first place. The argument that women were going to get them regardless of the legality, even if they were ‘back alley coat-hanger’ butcher jobs, was an effective piece of public persuasion.
Sociopathy to the extreme. Hang them all.
Because, the Democrat left is now lead by Barak Obama and his position is, anyone contracting for an abortion is entitled to a dead baby, even if the baby is born alive.
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