Three weeks ago, physician Steven Brigham led a car caravan of
patients from his Voorhees abortion clinic to his facility in Elkton,
Md. After one of the patients was critically injured during her surgery
there, Brigham put the semiconscious, bleeding woman into the back of a
rented Chevrolet Malibu and drove her to a nearby hospital emergency
room rather than call an ambulance.

Those details are contained in documents issued over the last 10 days by
the Maryland Board of Physicians and Elkton police. The two agencies
have launched a wide-ranging investigation into Brigham's long-troubled
abortion business, which he conducts in New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Maryland, and Virginia.

On Aug. 25, the Maryland Board of Physicians ordered Brigham, 54, to
stop performing abortions in that state, where he has never been
licensed to practice medicine. By then police had raided Brigham's
Elkton facility – from which they said they removed 35 "late-term
fetuses and fetal parts" – as well as the Voorhees headquarters of his
chain of 15 clinics, which does business as American Women's Services.

Maryland authorities seek missing medical records, and are looking into
Brigham's habit of sending late-term patients across state lines after
initiating their abortions in Voorhees.