Category: Provider Hall of Shame

Pro-life researcher Kevin Sherlock exposed the following:

“The LA County grand jury indicted abortion provider Morton Barke on two counts of conspiracy, one count of grand theft and five counts of filing false claims (all felonies) in connection with an insurance overbilling scheme. Barke and a partner were accused of bilking the state Medi-Cal program and the Blue Shield insurance company of money by charging for excess surgery time on the abortions of at least 22 women.

Barke’s lawyer plea bargained the charges down to a single misdemeanor receiving stolen property count. Barke pleaded NO CONTEST to the misdemeanor charge in 1976: LA County District Attorney’s Office prosecutors dropped the eight felony charges against him. Barke received a $1000 fine and two years probation for his criminal activity.”

(Source: Los Angeles County Superior Court Case No. A 308288)

Sherlock also wrote:

“Morton Barke was the operator of Inglewood Women’s Hospital, an abortion facility whose license California officials revoked in 1988 in the wake of scores of health code violations and at least five young women’s abortion related deaths. Barke also operated an abortion facility chain named West Coast Medical Group. Barke and his staffers were the targets of dozens of malpractice cases in LA County, according to court records.”

Kevin Sherlock The Scarlet Survey (Akron, Ohio, Brennyman Books, 1997) 37 – 38

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From a yelp Review of Planned Parenthood New Haven Center:

“Staff is callous and insensitive. Smells of urine, blood and fecal matter. I will NEVER go back here not even if it were the last place on earth. I highly recommend going elsewhere.”

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Researcher Kevin Sherlock found that:

San Vicente Hospital was investigated for Medi-Cal fraud in 1978 by agents from the State Department of Health Services. It was a 17-bed abortion facility near Beverly Hills. They charged:

• Hospital room billing irregularities (including charging women for rooms they didn’t use)
• Insurance billing for doctor rates for “pregnancy counseling” even though non-doctor “counselors” were doing the “counseling.”
• Microscopic studies charged for, but not done in over half of the postabortion pathologies.
• X-rays charged for, but not given.
• Unnecessary readmission billing. (A staffer released a woman from San Vicente after aborting her baby, then charged her almost $300 for readmission when she complained of postabortion complications).
• Apparent overbilling for drugs and other abortion-related services.
• Overbilling for abortions, operating room time, and anesthesia.

From the author:

“The agents estimated the doctors and owners of San Vicente hospital may have cheated the state’s taxpayers out of at least $500,000 over the previous three years for the billings on pregnancy counseling, x-rays and pathologies alone. They did not even try to estimate the amount of money San Vicente’s doctors and owners may have overbilled for abortions, anesthesia, operating room time, hospital rooms, drugs, and other items…

The agents also questioned San Vicente’s management for failing to provide women with follow-up care, for doing abortions questionably (at an average of one abortion every eight minutes, the agents questioned whether or not the staffers of the largely second trimester abortion facility were observing proper sanitation procedures) and for slipshod medical records keeping.”

Source: Department Of Health Services Report No. SUR 78 – 0067

Kevin Sherlock The Scarlet Survey (Akron, Ohio, Brennyman Books, 1997) 39

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Researcher Kevin Sherlock tells the story of sex offender Nabil Ghali and his many malpractice suits for botched abortions:

“Nabil Ghali used to practice as an OB/GYN in Kentucky. But his repeated cases of malpractice and his convictions for sex offenses stemming from charges three young girls made against him led Ghali to start performing abortions on girls and young women… Since his move to abortion, Ghali has been accused of killing a woman with an abortion and has been sued for abortion-related malpractice seven times.

Interviews with law enforcement and health officials, and review of court cases, agency documents, and newspaper articles reveal the following facts about Ghali:

Ghali, a clear malpractice liability to two Northern Kentucky hospitals that staffed him, reportedly resigned from both hospital staffs in 1981 following an internal investigation at one of the hospitals for malpractice. Ghali later took a staff position with the Cincinnati Health Department. But Ghali resigned from the Cincinnati Health Department in late 1982 just before then-Councilman Ken Blackwell…could get him fired for professional incompetence and for his sex crimes conviction.

Ghali’s four-count sex offenses conviction caused him much more trouble with Kentucky and Ohio State medical regulators than his numerous malpractice cases did. Kentucky officials revoked Ghali’s doctor’s license in 1983, and Ohio officials suspended his doctor’s license indefinitely in 1984 because of his sexual crimes…

Florida granted Ghali a doctor’s license in 1981. However, Ghali evidently did not actively practice in the Sunshine State until about 1985… About 1985, Ghali apparently switched the focus of his practice to performing abortions. Florida medical officials revoked Ghali’s license for misconduct in 1987, but Ghali continued to operate as an abortion provider in that state while he appealed his license revocation.

Ghali also went to court to get his Ohio license unsuspended… Ohio health officials gave Ghali a new license in 1988. Ghali later started performing abortions in Akron and Cleveland.

Ohio health officials decided to revoke Ghali’s doctor’s license in 1991 because of Ghali’s repeated lying about his track record on applications. However, Ghali kept his license for a couple of more years while he appealed the ruling. He kept on performing abortions until late 1996 – when Cleveland police arrested him on suspicion of practicing without a license and sexual assault…

Ghali was charged with five counts of unlawful transaction with a minor in 1982 because he sexually exploited one or more young girls. The girls, ranging in age from 14 to 8, accused Ghali of the following crimes:

• fondling girls as young as five years old at parties in his home.

• pulling a girl’s swimsuit off of her and having sexual intercourse with her.

• repeatedly having sex with a girl in his bedroom and in an outdoor whirlpool bath.

In a judge–only juvenile court trial, Campbell County District Court Judge Leonard Kopowski found Ghali guilty of four counts of unlawful transaction with a minor in November 1982. He sentenced Ghali to a year in jail (and suspended all but 30 days, 30 days of inpatient psychiatric treatment in lieu of the 30 day jail sentence, and two years probation. The judge also ordered Ghali to pay $2000 to a local women’s facility, and pay for one girl’s treatment.

(Tom Calme, then the investigator of the case…told me in an interview Ghali refused to undergo inpatient psychiatric treatment and served 30 days in jail instead.)…

[Calme] noted prosecutors had felony – weight evidence of Ghali’s sexual misconduct against young girls. But he said the parents of the girls were afraid of the publicity a felony trial would bring their daughters, so authorities had to settle for trying the case in secret in the confidential arena of juvenile court.”

Sources: Kentucky Post, 11/11/82; Cincinnati Enquirer, 11/11/82, 11/12/82, and 1/13/83

Kevin Sherlock The Scarlet Survey (Akron, Ohio, Brennyman Books, 1997) 16-17

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Researcher Kevin Sherlock writes about abortionist Dr. Vikram Kaji:

“An abortion provider who may have been performing as many as 800 abortions a month was sidelined in 1993 for his sexual performances with women who were his patients.

New Jersey Board of Medical Examiners officials suspended the license of Vikram Kaji…who operated in Trenton and Bordentown, New Jersey and also in Yardley, Pennsylvania, for sexually abusing three women who were his patients and for indiscriminately prescribing steroids and sleeping pills to one of them…

One woman said Kaji sexually abused her while performing a rectal exam on her. Another woman said Kaji molested her while performing a breast exam on her. The third woman said Kaji persuaded her to have sex with him in his facility, then prescribed her steroids illegally and routinely measured her in the nude after she started an exercise program.

The third woman, who’d been sexually abused by a relative for years, said she was easy prey for Kaji. She said he knew she had been a sexual abuse victim and had a low opinion of herself, so he took advantage of her.

She said she became severely depressed and couldn’t sleep, and Kaji prescribed her Seconal. She said she nearly died after using the barbiturates…

“I felt like I was the bad person, not him. As I’ve gotten better, I’ve realized this man has got to be stopped.”

Kaji admitted to having sex with the third woman. He denied the other charges the other two New Jersey women filed against him. Burlington County prosecutors refused to prosecute Kaji for criminal wrongdoing for the two reported assaults… The third woman went to the medical board on her own.

New Jersey medical board officials suspended Kaji’s license for three years in October 1993. They ordered him not to practice medicine in the state for a year, and then would put him on probation for the remaining two years.…

Kaji said he would shut down his Yardley, Pennsylvania office (New Jersey officials made him shut down his two garden state offices) and try to start a new career in hospital management instead.”

Source: The Trentonian, 10/28/93 and 10/29/93

Kevin Sherlock The Scarlet Survey (Akron, Ohio, Brennyman Books, 1997) 27-28

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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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According to a report issued by Americans United for Life, the following abortion facilities have violations in the way they stored or gave controlled substances or other drugs.

The violations included:

• Staff failing to record the amount of medications given to patients, including controlled substances and narcotics;
• Unsupervised, untrained staff handling medication for patient use;
• Keeping the medication storage room and crash cart unlocked;
• Failure to ensure proper security policy for crash cart, medications, needles, narcotics, and controlled substances;
• Failing to document the correct number of controlled substances and narcotics at the facility;
• Providing patients with controlled substances or narcotics in amounts that exceeded the recommended dosages.

Here are the states and facilities implicated in this:

ALABAMA

Alabama Women’s Center for Reproductive Alternatives

Beacon Women’s Center, Montgomery

New Woman All Women Health Care

Reproductive Health Services, Montgomery

ALASKA

Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest

ARIZONA

Camelback Family Planning, Phoenix

Planned Parenthood, Flagstaff

Planned Parenthood, Glendale

ARKANSAS

Little Rock Family Planning Services, P.A.

CALIFORNIA

Planned Parenthood Antioch

CONNECTICUT

Hartford GYN Center

Planned Parenthood, New Haven

Planned Parenthood of Connecticut, Inc., Danielson

Summit Women’s Center

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Washington Surgery Center

FLORIDA

All Women’s Health Center of Gainesville

All Women’s Health Center of North Tampa

All Women’s Health Center of Orlando

Orlando Women’s Center

Planned Parenthood of Greater Orlando, South Tampa

Women’s OB-GYN Center of Countryside, Inc.

GEORGIA

Cliff Valley Clinic

Savannah Medical Clinic

Summit Medical Associates

ILLINOIS

Access Health Care Center

Advantage Health Care

Forest View Medical Center

Hope Clinic for Women

Whole Woman’s Health of Peoria

Women’s Aid Clinic (Now operating as Women’s Aid Center)

INDIANA

Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, Bloomington

Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, Georgetown

Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, Lafayette

Women’s Med Group, Professional Corporation

Women’s Pavilion

KENTUCKY

EMW Women’s Surgical Center

LOUISIANA

Bossier City Medical Suite

Delta Clinic of Baton Rouge

Hope Medical Group for Women

MARYLAND

Associates in OB/GYN Care, Baltimore

Germantown Reproductive Health Services

Gynemed Surgical Center

Hagerstown Reproductive Health

Hillcrest Clinic, Baltimore

Planned Parenthood of Baltimore

Potomac Family Planning

Prince George’s Reproductive Health Services

Silver Spring Family Planning (American Women’s Center)

MASSACHUSETTS

Four Women

MICHIGAN

Heritage Clinic for Women, Grand Rapids

Northland Family Planning Center, East

Northland Family Planning Center, West

Planned Parenthood Mid and South Michigan, Kalamazoo

Scotsdale Women’s Center, Detroit

Summit Women’s Center, Detroit

Woman Care of Southfield

Women’s Center of Flint

Women’s Center of Saginaw

Women’s Center of Southfield

Women’s Medical Services, Muskegon

MISSISSIPPI

Jackson Women’s Health Organization

MISSOURI

Comprehensive Planned Parenthood

Reproductive Health Services of Planned Parenthood, St. Louis

NEVADA

Birth Control Care Center

Safe and Sound for Women

NEW JERSEY

Cherry Hill Women’s Center

Metropolitan Surgical Associates

Pilgrim Medical Center

NEW MEXICO

Curtis Boyd, M.D., P.C.

NEW YORK

Unnamed (Redacted) (Redacted) New York Abortion Clinic

NORTH CAROLINA

A Preferred Women’s Health Center, Charlotte

A Preferred Women’s Health Center, Raleigh

A Woman’s Choice of Greensboro

A Woman’s Choice of Raleigh

Planned Parenthood of Wilmington

Planned Parenthood of Winston-Salem

Women’s Health Alliance/Chapel Hill Obstetrics and Gynecology

OHIO

East Health Central Ohio (Planned Parenthood)

Planned Parenthood, Bedford Heights

OREGON

Lovejoy Surgicenter

PENNSYLVANIA

Allegheny Reproductive Health Center

Allentown Health Services (Planned Parenthood)

Allentown Medical Services

Allentown Women’s Center

Berger and Benjamin

Philadelphia Women’s Center

Planned Parenthood of Keystone, Reading

Planned Parenthood of Western Pennsylvania

Planned Parenthood Southeastern Pennsylvania, Far Northeast Health Center

Planned Parenthood Southeastern Pennsylvania, Locust Street Health Center

Planned Parenthood Southeastern Pennsylvania, West Chester Health Center

Women’s Medical Society

SOUTH CAROLINA

Charleston Women’s Clinic Columbia Health Center (Planned Parenthood)

Greenville Women’s Clinic

TENNESSEE

Knoxville Center for Reproductive Health

Planned Parenthood Memphis

Planned Parenthood Nashville

TEXAS

Houston Women’s Clinic

Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast (Aaron Women’s Clinic (“Aaron”), Texas

Ambulatory Surgery Center, Women’s Pavilion and Northpark Medical Group

Whole Woman’s Health Fort Worth

Women’s Health Center Houston

UTAH

Wasatch Women’s Center, Inc.

VIRGINIA

A Capitol Women’s Health Clinic

A Tidewater Women’s Health Clinic

Alexandria Women’s Health Clinic

Amethyst Health Center for Women

Annandale Women and Family Center

Charlottesville Medical Center for Women

Falls Church Healthcare Center

NOVA Women’s Healthcare

Peninsula Medical Center for Women

Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington, Falls Church

Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Virginia

Virginia Health Group

Virginia Women’s Wellness

Whole Woman’s Health of Charlottesville

WASHINGTON

Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and Northern Idaho

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A pro-choice author describes an abortion clinic where she visited:

“In all the years I have spent writing and thinking about a woman’s right to choose, I have never set foot in an abortion clinic, because I have never needed to. In my mind, I had always pictured a clean and comfortable place. This was no Westchester clinic. The place was dirty and dark and the women in the room outside were standing, as there were no chairs. A woman beside me was crying… In the press, the issue of the right to choose will be reduced to the terminology of precedent and privacy. But the visceral reality of abortion–the grimy clinic, the sobbing and hapless young woman — cannot be understood by such desensitized vocabulary.”

“The real state of abortion rights, before Alito.” Raw Story January 12, 2006

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Kevin Sherlock writes about a member of the Nazi SS, Dr. Vilis Kruze, who later became an abortionist:

“Kruze was a member of the Nazi SS during World War II. He emigrated to Ohio after the war. He was convicted in connection with botching an abortion performed on a 19-year-old Cleveland go-go dancer. The teen hemorrhaged and passed the baby away from his office, then she committed suicide a few days later. Ohio authorities sent Kruze to prison, and then made him receive psychiatric treatment at a hospital for the criminally insane. Later, Ohio authorities made Kruze receive treatment in a mental hospital for reportedly locking his secretaries in closets and for forcing them to urinate in bottles at their desks.…

Later, Kruze moved to Hawaii, got a contract as a fill-in doctor for Kaiser, and reportedly treated a child so negligently that the child suffered permanent brain damage. The child’s parents brought suit, and eventually, Kruze’s evil past was revealed. But by now Kruze himself was dead. The brother of a teenage girl who overdosed on drugs Kruze gave her in exchange for giving him sex tracked Kruze down and stabbed the Nazi abortionist to death to punish him for exploiting and nearly killing his sister…

Kruze’s conviction for criminal abortion was overturned after the Roe V Wade decision made abortion legal throughout America in 1973.”

Source: Transcript of a 60 Minutes broadcast on November 4, 1990 Quoted in: Kevin Sherlock The Scarlet Survey (Akron, Ohio: Brennyman Books, 1997 pgs 5 – 6

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Cheryl Sullenger of Operation Rescue describes an abortion facility that her group purchased. When they entered the building, they discovered that conditions inside were filthy. She describes below:

“I was working with Operation Rescue when it purchased an NAF approved abortion facility in Wichita, Kansas, in 2006 and evicted the abortion business. When Troy [Newman] ==took possession of the building, he and I, along with a couple of our friends, went in to take our first eager look around. The clinic was filthy. From the carpet to the walls to the ceiling, everything was worn, outdated, and dirty. Plumbing leaked. Mold grew in the ceiling where the roof chronically dripped. The electrical system was hazardously out of code. The junction box could not be closed due to the obstruction of a water pipe that extended from the water heater, which had been dangerously installed under it.

The entire office was permeated with a putrid odor. Under a dirty sink was an industrial garbage disposal that was clogged with rotting material, possibly human in origin. That sink was the source of the stench.

In the 23 years that the abortion business had occupied that building, never had a representative from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment ever darkened the doorway of that clinic, and it showed. However, on the window separating the receptionist from the patient waiting area, there was a proudly displayed sticker indicating that the facility had met NAF’s so-called “standards” that same year.”

Cheryl Sullenger The Trial of Kermit Gosnell (World Ahead Press, 2017) 58 – 59

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