Friday August 6, 2010
Late-term Abortionists Dump Kansas Licenses, Will Avoid Discipline
Albuquerque, NM, August 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two Albuquerque late-term abortionists who worked for George Tiller’s Women’s Health Care Services (WHCS) in Wichita, Kansas, before it permanently closed last year have dumped their Kansas medical licenses.
Troy Newman, the president of Operation Rescue, has speculated that the move was deliberately made in order to place the pair outside the disciplinary jurisdiction of the Kansas State Board of Healing Arts (KSBHA).
Tiller and his employees have come under intense scrutiny from the KSBHA for engaging in practices of questionable legality.
The first of the two Tiller abortionists, Shelley Sella, cancelled her Kansas license the same week that the KSBHA notified Operation Rescue that an eleven-count disciplinary petition had been filed against former Tiller associate Ann Kristin Neuhaus, who allegedly provided improper late-term abortion referrals to Tiller’s abortion business.
The second abortionist, Susan C. Robinson, voluntarily put her Kansas license on “Inactive” status a month after WHCS closed.
Newman said that the abortionists’ decision “says a lot about their legitimate concerns that they could also have faced discipline for abortion abuses in which they may have participated while in Kansas.”
At the time of the closure of WHCS following Tiller’s murder, Tiller himself had faced an eleven-count disciplinary petition filed by the KSBHA for alleged illegal late-term abortions referred to him by Neuhaus. Under Kansas law, an second opinion from an independent physician is required to authorize a late-term abortion; however, records show that Neuhaus worked exclusively for Tiller, rubber-stamping his every request for a second opinion, and making WHCS a "one-stop shop" for abortion. Sella and Robinson would also have profited from what Operation Rescue contends was an illegally close relationship between Neuhaus and Tiller. The KSBHA closed their case against Tiller only because of his death in May, 2009.
Both Sella and Robinson are now operating in Albuquerque, New Mexico, at Southwestern Women’s Options, a late-term abortion mill operated by former back-alley abortionist Curtis Boyd. Boyd boasts of having done thousands of criminal abortions prior to Roe v. Wade and acknowledges that he is aware that he is killing by doing abortions.
“The people of New Mexico, where Sella and Robinson have relocated, need to be aware that these two have a history of shady abortion practices. Sella, Robinson, and their new employer, Curtis Boyd, all have flouted the law and placed the lives of women at risk,” said Newman. “Sella and Robinson’s recent efforts to place themselves outside of the disciplinary jurisdiction of Kansas show they are defiant and are unwilling to amend their ways or submit to justice. Their above-the-law attitude is a dangerous one that could cost women their lives.”
Operation Rescue has deployed a Truth Truck to Albuquerque to help expose dangerous late-term abortions there and help women make decisions to save the lives of their babies.