Abortionist Theodor Lehrer was arrested after he handcuffed his wife and forced an abortion on her that she didn’t want. Researcher Kevin Sherlock describes the case:
“Police arrested him in April 1988 for handcuffing his wife, dragging her into a bathroom, and aborting the child she was carrying.
Police said Lehrer, 52, who operated an abortion facility in Fort Lauderdale, became angry one day because his 37-year-old wife, who was 11 weeks pregnant, refused his sexual advances. He handcuffed her as she lay in bed, police said, took her into a bathroom, and performed an abortion on her without anesthesia.
The woman was so unnerved by it that she contacted us,” a police officer said… She reportedly told police that Lehrer told her if she didn’t stay still, he would inject her with something to calm her down…
Lehrer’s wife divorced him in September 1988, then she underwent chemotherapy for Hodgkin’s disease. She was too ill to testify against him when his case came up for trial in June 1989, so Broward County prosecutors dropped all charges against Lehrer.”
Sources: Associated Press 4/29/88; Miami Herald 6/20/89
Kevin Sherlock The Scarlet Survey (Akron, Ohio, Brennyman Books, 1997) 25
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