Category: Provider Hall of Shame

Abortionist Paul S. Glassman’s Florida medical license was revoked in 1981 following the death of Cycloria Vangates after one of his abortions. He later recovered his license on the condition that he undergo close supervision and not perform abortions.

He moved to Missouri, but his attorney revealed to the Florida Board of Osteopathic Medical Examiners that he performed 17 abortions while visiting in Fort Lauderdale, in an effort to prove the ban against Glassman performing abortions was unnecessary.

Glassman was also convicted in Florida in 1978 for felony grand larceny involving filing insurance claims for a faked automobile accident.

Reference: Miami Herald, June 16, 1985.

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Abortionist Walker L. Whaley, who also delivered babies, attended the birth of Chad Nolan on December 14, 1981. He allowed fetal distress and tachycardia to continue for three hours, administered narcotic drugs which crossed the placenta to the unborn child, and failed to perform a C-section, resulting in the infant suffering a seizure disorder.

The Florida Board of Medical Examiners recommended suspension and probation due to Whaley’s 1984 conviction on conspiracy to manufacture cocaine. It ordered his medical license to be suspended for three years or until completion of the federal sentence, whichever was longer, with reinstatement of his license granted only under stipulations. Whaley, his brother, and the brother’s female roommate reportedly were discovered by DEA agents in a drug laboratory in Whaley’s basement.

References: DPR Case #0035663; Duval County Circuit Court Case #84-10676; and Florida Times-Union, February 9, 1986.

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Abortionist Edward Gordon lost his Florida license to practice medicine because he did not reveal his history of criminal abortion charges in Switzerland and because of his treatment of his wife.

Gordon allegedly married an alcoholic millionaire patient, transferred millions of dollars of her assets into his foreign bank accounts, and “treated her alcoholism by giving her more liquor and twice injecting her with Thorazine;” his wife sued from her nursing home to recover her $8 million. During the case, the judge ruled that Gordon had schemed to siphon off his wife’s assets.

Reference: Miami Herald, October 10, 1983.

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Abortionist Egar Gonzalez had his medical license revoked in 1983 for committing an illegal abortion on a 12-year-old girl. He was subsequently arrested in 1988 for practicing without a medical license. He and Maria Chavez, who never had a medical license, agreed to perform a $450 abortion on an undercover police officer, who testified that the abortion clinic was unsanitary.

Gonzalez was also charged with allowing unlicensed persons to perform physical examinations.

The Florida Board of Medical Examiners suspended the abortionist’s medical license after he committed an illegal 28-week abortion on a 12-year old girl, who almost died. The girl was rushed to a nearby hospital where she underwent emergency hysterectomy and colostomy. A manslaughter charge against Gonzalez was dismissed because a fetus is “not a person.”

References: The State Report. “Tragic Botched Abortion Kills Baby, Mutilates Girl.” ALL About Issues, October 1982, page 35. Frontline Update. “Miami Abortionist Loses Medical License Following Third-Trimester Abortion.” National Right to Life News, April 14, 1983, page 4; Miami Herald, March 29, 1988.

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The Florida Medical Board suspended abortionist Lewis Sidney Wolf’s medical license following allegations of grossly underestimating gestational age, resulting in perforated uterus, emergency surgery, and the removal of an ovary and fallopian tube in a 19-year-old patient, and perforation, shock, and hysterectomy in a 41-year-old woman within a three month period.

Wolf was quoted saying “I’m being blamed for something that wasn’t my fault,” and claimed that his clinic director gave him misinformation.

The Medical Board imposed an emergency suspension of his Florida medical license in July 1991 due to alcohol/drug use/addiction and/or mental condition, and his medical license was suspended again in December 1991 for the same reasons. His license was suspended and he was put on probation in March 1992 for substandard care, incompetence, or negligence.

Reference: Tampa Bay and State, February 9, 1992.

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Abortionist Saroja L. Ranpura was placed on a 36-month probation and had a fine imposed upon him in 1989 by the Florida medical board because he was “found guilty of gross or repeated malpractice or failure to practice medicine with an acceptable level of care and skill; failing to keep written medical records justifying curse of treatment of a patient; must take 50 hours of continuing medical education in anesthesia and pay $2500 fine.”

The abortionist was also disciplined by Ohio and Pennsylvania 1991 due to the Florida board actions.

Reference: Franklin County Court of Common Pleas Case #83CV-03-1398.

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Earl Baxter was sued in the death of Josefina Garcia, age 37, who was a mother of two. He also became in trouble with the law due to lewd conduct in a park restroom.

According to police documents, abortionist Earl D. Baxter, on September 10, 1982, in a park restroom, “unzipped his pants and masturbated his erect penis towards” one vice officer and grabbed the crotch of another. Baxter pleaded no contest to one of three counts, and the other two were dropped; he was fined $60 and given three months probation.

Dr. Baxter has been affiliated with Family Planning Associates Medical Group
There have been a number of deaths in this abortion clinic chain- as well as a number of major lawsuits.

Sources: Press-Telegram 4-25-88; California Death Certificate No. 85-106566, Los Angeles Municipal Court Case Number P006285.

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Abortionist Joseph Booker Jr. ran into trouble for tax evasion and improper disposal of medical waste. He also was charged with simple assault after brandishing a gun at women and children protesting outside the New Woman Medical Center abortion clinic in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

The judge dismissed charges due to discrepancies in witness’ description of the weapon and lack of corroborating witnesses. Apparently, the people targeted did not know enough about firearms to identify the gun, and there were no passers-by to validate their version of what happened.

The abortionist, the former operator of an abortion clinic in Gulfport, admitted to filing a false income tax return in 1995 for the Gulf Coast Women’s Clinic Inc. Booker claimed that his abortion clinic’s taxable income in Calendar Year 1994 was $2,350, but the actual income was $93,500.68, according to the indictment. He failed to pay over $30,000 in taxes. In November 1999, he was sentenced to five months in prison for filing a false personal Federal income tax return. Booker reported $29,000 in taxable income for 1994 year when he really made $121,000. He told the court that he didn’t realize the discrepancy when he signed the tax return, which was prepared by a Jackson accounting firm. He told the judge he would lose his job at an abortion clinic. “If I don’t have a job, I won’t be able to pay,” he stated.

On December 20, 1999, near Ocean Springs, police found a buried cooler containing plastic bags and aborted children. The cooler had originally belonged to Booker. Ocean Springs Police Chief Kerry Belk said several law enforcement agencies, including the Environmental Protection Agency, had investigated and never determined that a crime was committed.

After he finished his prison term, Booker immediately went back to committing abortions at the New Woman Medical Center clinic in Jackson. Gail Chadwick of Pro-Choice of Mississippi said Booker should be allowed to resume practicing medicine because tax charge was unrelated to his performance as a doctor.

References: Jackson Clarion-Ledger, March 21, 1994; “Mississippi: Abortion Practitioner Pleads Guilty to Tax Evasion Charges.” Steven Ertelt’s Pro-Life Infonet at http://www.prolifeinfo.org/infonet.html, July 14, 1999; “Former Mississippi Abortion Practitioner Sentenced for Tax Fraud.” Pro-Life Infonet, November 10, 1999; Biloxi Sun-Herald, July 13 and November 10, 1999; and “Mississippi: Imprisonment of Abortion Practitioner May Further Decrease Abortion Rate.” Pro-Life Infonet, December 14, 1999; Associated Press, October 16, 2000; “Tax-Evading Abortionist Back at Work in Mississippi.” Pro-Life Infonet, October 17, 2000.

 

 

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In July 1999 and April 2000, Davidson County Chancellor Irvin H. Kilcrease Jr. ordered two East Tennessee abortionists, Gary C. Boyle and Wesley F. Adams, and their businesses not to operate The Women’s Center abortion clinic without a certificate of need and a license.

The doctors apparently ignored the warning. In December 2000, Kilcrease found Boyle and Adams, of Bristol, a third abortionist, Angus M. Crook of Nashville, and several other defendants in contempt of his orders.

On March 15, 2001, Kilcrease fined the defendants nearly $60,000 for having operated the abortion mill without the required licensing.

References: Kathy Carlson. “State Urges Fines for Abortion Clinic.” The Tennessean, March 4, 2001; “Tennessee Abortion Facility Fined for Having No License.” The Tennessean, March 16, 2001; Steven Ertelt’s Pro-Life Infonet at http://www.prolifeinfo.org/infonet.html, March 18, 2001

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Laurence Reich was charged with 28 counts of battery, attempted battery, sexual misconduct, prescribing drugs without a license, coercion, and impersonating a doctor. Reich sexually assaulted two of his abortion patients, forcing them to have oral sex with him. Another patient claimed that Reich raped her and botched one of her abortions. Several court testimonies claimed that Reich sexually abused at least six of his patients and botched operations on at least four others.

Abortionist Laurence Reich was Medical Director of a chain of abortion clinics in Chula Vista, Santa Ana, Huntington Park, Baldwin Park and the Los Angeles area. These clinics were named Clinica Medica Para La Mujer De Hoy, operated on a cash-only basis, and systematically targeted Hispanic women.

In 2000, he took over from another notorious abortionist, Nicholas Braemer, who lost his medical license after years of malpractice and negligence involving abortion patients.

Reich worked with two other abortionists, each of whom has criminal convictions. John Rivera was arrested and convicted when he publicly groped a woman in the vaginal area while high on the drug ecstasy, and George D. Flanigan was convicted for stealing from the California state Medi-Cal program, and has been accused of incompetence and negligence in the traumatic death of an infant named “Baby Girl Rodriguez.”

Reich’s chain of abortion clinics were the subject of a 2005 Cable News Network (CNN) expose that was so effective that even pro-choice extremist United States Senator Barbara Boxer sent a strongly worded admonition to the California Osteopathic Board demanding that Reich’s medical license be suspended.

On February 14, 2006, pro-lifers witnessed another screaming woman being loaded onto a gurney after yet another botched abortion.

Reference: Santa Monica Municipal Court Case #M107591; Los Angeles County Superior Court Cases #C407986, #C413009, #C436254, #C522808, #C619947, and #C672949; Osteopathic Examiners Board Case #82-18; Kevin Sherlock. The Scarlet Survey. Akron, Ohio: Brennyman Books, 1997, pages 6 to 8. James McCoy. “Not a Back-Alley Clinic: This is Chula Vista.” NewsNotes [San Diego’s Catholic Newspaper], April 1999, pages 1 and 3; John-Henry Westin and Steve Jalsevac. “California Abortion Doc Convicted of Sexual Abuse Continues to Practice.” LifeSite Daily News, November 1, 2005; Steven Ertelt. “California Woman Taken to Hospital After Botched Abortion in Santa Ana.” LifeSite Daily News, February 16, 2006; “Convicted Sex-Offender Abortionist Still Practicing: De-Licensed California Doctor Allowed to Keep Clinics Open Until Mid-April.” WorldNetDaily, March 2, 2006.

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