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On August 13, 1986, abortionist Mahlon Douglas Cannon botched an abortion and killed Covina preschool teacher Donna Heim, 20, at the HER Medical Clinic. Heim was asthmatic and began to suffer extreme respiratory distress during Cannon’s abortion procedure. Instead of treating this breathing problem, Cannon chose to ignore it and complete the abortion.

In June 1991, the California Medical Board adopted the decision of administrative law judge Richard J. Lopez that Cannon had been incompetent and negligent in treating at least eight abortion patients, including Heim. Cannon continued to perform abortions at the Family Planning Associates abortion mill on South Westmoreland Avenue in Los Angeles until he surrendered his medical license on July 10, 1991.

Judge Lopez found that Cannon routinely did not perform required physical exams on his abortion patients, take medical histories or administer standard tests. In one case, the abortionist aborted one woman and sent her home despite severe bleeding. She later rushed to a hospital emergency room in severe distress. When the hospital called Cannon, he said that she should be sent home and come in for an office visit in a week or two. Fortunately, the hospital disregarded the abortionist’s advice and performed emergency surgery, which revealed a perforated uterus and severe hemorrhage that required an emergency hysterectomy.

References: Betsy Bates. “For Three Women, a Safe Medical Procedure Turned Deadly.” Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, February 22, 1988, page A7; Claire Spiegel. “Physician in Abortion Case Loses License.” Los Angeles Times, June 17, 1991, page B1.

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Ester Pimentel was one of the physicians sued for standing around doing nothing while Diane Watson went into cardio-respiratory arrest during an abortion.

Ester Pimentel was one of the physicians sued for standing around doing nothing while Diane Watson went into cardio-respiratory arrest during an abortion.

Pimentel and her husband, Henry, were arraigned on charges of allowing a non-physician to practice medicine on public aid patients. A former employee also said that Henry Pimentel would perform surgery but sign it off as being performed by Ester for billing to public aid, including 7 abortions performed while Ester was in the Philippines. (Channel 5 News at Ten WMAQ-TV Chicago, 1989; Chicago Tribune 7-28-90, 2-8-91)

The Illinois Department of Professional Licensing has disciplinary actions on file against both Ester and Henry. Esther was put on probation in 1994 for “Alleged fraudulent billing and lack of quality of care rendered.” Henry’s license was suspended in 1991 for “Performed several operations in which he signed another doctor’s name to the Public Aid forms because, at that time, he was not eligible to participate in the Medical Assistance Program. In addition, for approximately seven Years, he prescribed controlled substances on a non-renewed license. On May 11, 1990, he pleaded guilty to vendor fraud in Cook County.” His license was restored on probation in 1994.

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Dr. Neville Duncan, an abortionist who currently practices obstetrics and gynecology in Milwaukee, has spent time in jail for assaulting his wife, possessing drugs and refusing to pay child support.

Abortionist Neville Duncan was arrested on September 21, 1998 and charged with battery and possession of cocaine. The December 10, 1998 Milwaukee Sentinel reported that “Duncan was arrested after allegedly punching his wife in his car, then pinning her to the ground, and slapping her after she climbed out of the window of the vehicle, according to the criminal complaint. When he was arrested, according to the complaint, officers found crack cocaine in his pocket in a vial and a plastic bag.” He was found guilty and sentenced to 30 days in jail, and also served a 90-day prison sentence for civil contempt for refusing to pay child support to his previous wife.

Note: His current wife has been convicted of indecent exposure and threatening to shoot pro-life picketers.

References: “News Notes.” The Wanderer, December 24, 1998, page 7; “Abortionist Jailed for Wife Battery and Drug Possession.” Lifesite Daily News, January 15, 1999; “Wisconsin Abortion Practitioner Faces Battery, Drug Charges.” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, December 10, 1998;
Steven Ertelt’s Pro-Life Infonet, December 11, 1998.
Lisa Sink. “Woman Who ‘Mooned’ Protestors Has History With Police.” Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, January 23, 1998; “Abortionist’s Wife “Moons” Protesters.” The Wanderer, January 29, 1998, page 3.

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Abortionist Ronald C. Margolis has served time in jail for Medicaid fraud. He was also cited by the medical board for various safety violations in his practice.

He submitted claims for $55,000 for which he was not entitled. The medical board stated that he instructed his staff to administer expired injectable medications, reused gynecological instruments without sterilization, failed to follow sanitation procedures such as washing his hands and using gloves, regularly recorded tests as negative when the tests had not actually been performed, and that his emergency supply kit lacked certain essential drugs.

Reference: Seattle Post-Intelligencer, September 14, 1991; Seattle Times, February 5, 1990.

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Dr. Anthony A. Dunkwu was found “grossly careless” by a medical board after a severely botched abortion on a woman in his care- but the hospital was able to avoid reporting him to the National Practitioner Data Bank, so prospective patients may not know of his history.

In March 2000, Dunkwu estimated that one of his patients was about 10 weeks pregnant. He did not order a sonogram, and began the abortion. Dunkwu thought that he might have perforated the woman’s uterus, and stopped the procedure. A member of his staff took the patient to Inova Alexandria Hospital so that he could complete the abortion under general anesthesia. He examined her again, and estimated her pregnancy at 12 to 13 weeks. He felt a separate mass, which he identified as a fibroid. But the “mass” he had mistaken for a tumor was actually the woman’s uterus! He cut open the uterus and removed a lifeless male fetus weighing about 2.7 pounds. Dunkwu estimated that it was 20 to 22 weeks old. In fact, it was 30 weeks old and probably viable.

Alexandria Hospital placed Dunkwu’s clinical privileges on probation for 29 days, one day short of the punishment that has to be reported to the National Practitioner Data Bank.

An informal board committee found Dunkwu to have been “grossly careless,” according to the board order, and reprimanded him.

Reference: Liz Szabo. “Patients in Peril: How Virginia’s Medical System Lets Questionable Doctors Continue to Practice.” Landmark News Service, February 2, 2003.

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