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Source: LifeSiteNews.com
            
        Date: 02/09/2008

LA Times Reveals Horrific New Details about Raided Abortion Clinics
   
   
      An
article published today in the LA Times gives new details about five
abortion mills in southern California, owned by Bertha Bugarin, that
were raided last summer by a special unit of the Los Angeles Police
Department, the Health Authority Law Enforcement Task Force (HALT).

At
the time of the raids Bertha Bugarin and her sister were arrested and
then released on bail. They have now been charged with practicing
medicine without a license on five patients in February and March 2007.
The LAPD charges Bertha Bugarin "with five felony counts of practicing
medicine without certification and two misdemeanor counts of dispensing
medication without a license," while Raquel "is charged in the same
complaint with five felony counts of aiding or abetting the practice of
medicine without certification."

When arrested last summer, both
women were ordered to stay away from the LA county abortion mills in
the Clinica Medica Para La Mujer De Hoy abortion chain; however, Bertha
Bugarin was later photographed at the abortion chain’s Chula Vista
office in San Diego County, wearing a stethoscope around her neck.

Operation
Rescue President Troy Newman, who helped expose the dangerous abortion
practices at the clinics, said, "Bugarin has had a heck of a time
keeping abortionists over the years and has always hired the very
bottom of the barrel. It looks like when she couldn’t get one of her
quack abortionists in the office, she did the job herself. Bertha is a
predator who has a mercenary attitude about abortions. Laws mean
nothing to her, as is the case with so many abortionists. She has been
quoted as preferring to target Hispanic communities with her mills,
presumably since women there may not be in the country legally and will
be less likely to report problems. The sooner Bertha and all of her
cohorts are behind bars, the better."

According to the Times
report a woman, identified only as Angela P., had gone to the Clinica
Medica Para la Mujer de Hoy in Santa Ana in the summer of 2004 for an
abortion. Dr. Phillip Rand, then in his early 80s, performed a vaginal
suction procedure, despite having determined that Angela was about 20
weeks pregnant, well into her second trimester. She was given no
anesthesia or painkillers.

According to the National Abortion
Federation, vacuum aspiration procedures are normally performed on
women who are up to 14 weeks pregnant. After 14 weeks, a more
complicated procedure, known as dilation and evacuation, is standard.

"A suction abortion is not appropriate at 20 weeks," said Vicki Saporta, president of the federation.

By
the time paramedics arrived, the patient was lying in a pool of her own
blood, her pulse racing and her blood pressure dangerously low.

Rand
was among a number of abortionists employed by Bugarin with histories
of malpractice complaints, criminal convictions, drug or alcohol
addictions or medical board actions.

Rand’s negligence was
called "barbaric" and a "severe departure" from a reasonable standard
of care by the medical board, which revoked his license in 2005. He had
previously been involved in 40 malpractice suits, numerous botched
abortions, and several license suspensions for gross negligence.

The Times report names other doctors who performed abortions at the clinics:

– Nicholas Braemer, who lost his medical license after numerous botched abortions, one of which resulted in a woman’s death.

–
Laurence Reich, who lost his license after a second conviction of
sexually molesting his abortion patients. Sherman Oaks resident Yvette
Chambers said that Reich groped her breasts and asked explicit
questions during an abortion. Accusations which led the medical board
to put Reich on probation for 10 years included Riech asking women to
masturbate and rubbing their genital areas while examining them.

–
Mohammed Dia surrendered his license after charges of malpractice and
billing fraud. He admitted to the medical board that he used a van to
bring a bleeding patient to a hospital after perforating her uterus and
leaving part of the fetus in her body.

– Glenn Edward Miller, an
admitted alcoholic whose license was revoked by the medical board in
2005 due to repeated substance abuse relapses. Miller was on probation
for performing obstetrical procedures while under the influence of
alcohol.

– George Dalton Flanigan, who was put on probation for
five years for delivering a dead baby using a vacuum procedure, after
refusing to perform a cesarean section.

Miller and Rand had
settled a malpractice lawsuit filed by a woman who said they gave her
an abortion at a non-Bugarin clinic in 2002, even though she was not
pregnant, rupturing her uterus in the process.

The Bugarin
sisters are scheduled to appear in court on March 3, 2008. Each could
face up to six years in state prison if convicted.