Posted on 11/10/2010 11:56:53 AM PST by Hawk720
A Nebraska doctor who is one of the few in the country to perform abortions late in a pregnancy said Wednesday that he would open new clinics in Iowa and the Washington area.
LeRoy Carhart said he decided to open the clinics because Nebraska had implemented a new law that made it illegal to perform abortions beyond the 20th week of a pregnancy. Only a handful of doctors perform abortions in late pregnancy, and Carhart has been the target of antiabortion protests. George Tiller, who was one of the few doctors who were public, was fatally shot by an antiabortion demonstrator while attending church in Wichita in 2009. Carhart said he worked with Tiller for 11 years.
"The laws are more favorable in these other jurisdictions, and we're going to do the maximum the law allows," Carhart said in a telephone interview with The Washington Post. Carhart's plans were first reported by Omaha television station KETV and the Omaha World-Herald newspaper.
Carhart refused to disclose the exact locations of the new clinics, and would not say whether the Washington clinic will be in the District or one of the Virginia or Maryland suburbs, citing concerns about abortion protests. But he said that clinic would open Dec. 6.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
It’s a high risk, unpleasant life these abortion doctors live.
One has to have a particularly dark worldview in order to do what they do.
Disgusting!
From Wikipedia:
LeRoy Harrison Carhart (born 1941) is an American physician from Nebraska who became well-known for his participation in the Supreme Court cases Stenberg v. Carhart and Gonzales v. Carhart, both of which dealt with intact dilation and extraction (colloquially known as partial birth abortion), a controversial abortion procedure.
Carhart is a retired U.S. Air Force officer and one of only three abortion providers in the state of Nebraska.[1][2] He is a graduate of Rutgers University[3] and a 1973 graduate of Hahnemann University School of Medicine (now Drexel University College of Medicine).[4]
On September 6, 1991, the day of the passage of the Nebraska Parental Notification Law, arsonists allegedly targeted Carhart’s farm, setting fire to his home and a 48-stall barn, along with two other buildings and numerous vehicles. The attack killed two family pets and 17 horses. The fire, which had started in seven different locations on Carhart’s property, was never deemed arson and no one was prosecuted. Carhart stated that he received a note the morning after the fire claiming responsibility and likening the deaths of his animals to the “murder of children”. At the time of the fire, abortions had been a small part of Carhart’s surgical practice; afterwards, determined not to “cede a victory to the antis”, Carhart began performing abortions full-time.
Court cases
Carhart filed suit against the Nebraska Attorney General, Don Stenberg, because a Nebraska law banned a form of abortion, dilation and extraction (D&X), which involves partially delivering a fetus from the uterus and is referred to by critics as “partial-birth abortion.” In Stenberg v. Carhart the United States Supreme Court struck down the Nebraska law with Sandra Day O’Connor providing the swing vote for the five-to-four decision because the law did not allow for the use of the procedure even when the mother’s health would be put at greater risk by another abortion procedure.
Carhart later filed suit against U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales seeking to strike down the 2003 Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, a federal law that is similar to the state law struck down in Stenberg, but while the Court did not officially reverse Stenberg, it upheld the federal ban as not imposing an undue burden on women, the test established in Planned Parenthood v. Casey.[6] O’Connor’s successor, Samuel Alito, sided with the four Justices who dissented in Stenberg, creating a five-to-four majority. In the Gonzales v. Carhart case, his attorney was Priscilla J. Smith.
We need to figure out where this is going to be, so protests can start Dec 6.
There are a couple vague clues in the story:
The location was selected based on a combination of factors, including which jurisdiction had the most favorable laws.
“That's not the only consideration,” Carhart said. “We also considered things like being near the Metro and good transportation and access to airports.”
There is a special place in hell reserved for Mr. Carhart and his baby butcher partners.
There is a special place in hell reserved for Mr. Carhart and his baby butcher partners.I certainly agree with you, and since hell is not just for a lifetime, nor can one escape once there, this is an eternity of absolute misery for this man, just so he can kill babies during his lifetime. Seems Dr. Carhart hasn't a clue as to how he is being taken advantage of through Satan.
Just how late? Obama is not yet 50...
What a despicable human being—if he’s human. Iowa cannot allow this to stand—first “gay marriage” and now this travesty.
Maybe it will be in the Omaha/CB area. This man is subhuman!!
Yes, Council Bluffs. It is time to fight for children’s lives.
http://www.omaha.com/article/20101110/NEWS01/711109883
“”Late-term abortions moving, By Jonathon Braden, Omaha WORLD-HERALD”
“A Bellevue doctor who once provided late-term abortions in Nebraska will begin offering them in Council Bluffs and Maryland and will expand a clinic in Indianapolis.
Dr. LeRoy Carhart said he wants to offer the abortions in other communities because a new Nebraska law prevents him from performing the operations here.
Legislative Bill 1103, which went into effect Oct. 15, bans abortions at 20 weeks after fertilization or later. The law permits abortions at 20 weeks or later only to protect a woman’s life or prevent major physical problems.
“This sort of forced us. We had to do it,” Carhart said of expanding elsewhere. “In Iowa and Maryland, we can do the later cases.”
He still plans to challenge LB 1103, but he’s working on an effective approach, and it could be months before he and others file a challenge. “We feel it’s definitely unconstitutional,” Carhart said.
Asked how he thought people would respond to his planned expansion, Carhart said, “I don’t really worry much about that. I’m more worried about the ability for women to have a place to go.”
Julie Schmit-Albin, executive director of Nebraska Right to Life, said the out-of-state expansion shows the strength of Nebraska’s new law.
“This shows that LB 1103 was the right strategy,” she said. “It’s interesting to us that Carhart needed to expand to three other states to apply his late-term abortion trend.”
Schmit-Albin said Carhart’s plans show how important late-term abortions are to his business.
“The bulk of his business has been late-term abortions,” she said. “Why else does he need three new places in three states to be flying around doing abortions, those abortions that can’t be done in Nebraska?”
Carhart said he plans to open the abortion clinic in Council Bluffs sometime after Jan. 1. He’s looking at two locations in south Council Bluffs.
He plans to open the Maryland clinic, just outside Washington, D.C., by Dec. 6.
Carhart wants to expand an existing clinic in Indianapolis and offer adoption and family-planning programs.
Opening the Council Bluffs and Washington-area clinics would cost about $1.5 million, he said. He plans to pay for the clinics with “some financing and a lot of fundraising.”””
As nice as it was that those three justices were voted out, in reality it accomplished very little. Now we have this travesty facing us. Something must be done.
You’re damned right it’s high risk, when people unjustly claim the pro-life mantle and murder them. I won’t deny there are certain benefits that follow these crimes — fewer and fewer doctors being willing to performing abortions is certainly a good thing. Still, as someone in the medical profession, it makes me quite uneasy to hear of colleagues being gunned down. I think we need to work to overturn Roe v. Wade and change the state laws to ban abortion, and that is the proper way to put these guys out of business. I watched a few abortions during my rotations in the third year of school, and they were disturbing. Didn’t watch any late term ones — I think the latest one I saw was 11 weeks. Still, as disgusting as these abortionists may be, they’re still operating within the confines of the law at present, and it’s not up to us to dispense justice. That’s God’s job.
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