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20 baby’s die in Rockford this past wk; Details about Raided Abortion Clinics in LA ; Abortion moratorium has met favorable public response from nations as diverse as Spain and India....

On Friday February 8, ten babies died at Rockford's abortion mill. A few sidewalk counselors braved the cold but no mothers were willing to accept their help.

On Tuesday February 12, 12 children died at Rockford's abortion mill this morning. One sign of hope was a car that stopped to take information from a sidewalk counselor at 7:30am. They stayed in the car and looked over the brochures but decided to go in the clinic. About twenty minutes later they came out and smiled and waved as they drove away!!!

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LA Times Reveals Horrific New Details about Raided Abortion Clinics
By
Thaddeus M. Baklinski
LOS ANGELES, February 8, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - An article published today in the LA Times gives new details about five abortion mills in southern California, owned by Bertha Bugarin, that were raided last summer by a special unit of the Los Angeles Police Department, the Health Authority Law Enforcement Task Force (HALT). At the time of the raids Bertha Bugarin and her sister were arrested and then released on bail. They have now been charged with practicing medicine without a license on five patients in February and March 2007. The LAPD charges Bertha Bugarin "with five felony counts of practicing medicine without certification and two misdemeanor counts of dispensing medication without a license," while Raquel "is charged in the same complaint with five felony counts of aiding or abetting the practice of medicine without certification."
When arrested last summer, both women were ordered to stay away from the LA county abortion mills in the
Clinica Medica Para La Mujer De Hoy abortion chain; however, Bertha Bugarin was later photographed at the abortion chain's Chula Vista office in San Diego County, wearing a stethoscope around her neck. Operation Rescue President Troy Newman, who helped expose the dangerous abortion practices at the clinics, said, "
Bugarin has had a heck of a time keeping abortionists over the years and has always hired the very bottom of the barrel. It looks like when she couldn't get one of her quack abortionists in the office, she did the job herself. Bertha is a predator who has a mercenary attitude about abortions. Laws mean nothing to her, as is the case with so many abortionists. She has been quoted as preferring to target Hispanic communities with her mills, presumably since women there may not be in the country legally and will be less likely to report problems. The sooner Bertha and all of her cohorts are behind bars, the better."
According to the Times report a woman, identified only as Angela P., had gone to the Clinica Medica Para la Mujer de Hoy in Santa Ana in the summer of 2004 for an abortion. Dr. Phillip Rand, then in his early 80s, performed a vaginal suction procedure, despite having determined that Angela was about 20 weeks pregnant, well into her second trimester. She was given no anesthesia or painkillers.
According to the National Abortion Federation, vacuum aspiration procedures are normally performed on women who are up to 14 weeks pregnant. After 14 weeks, a more complicated procedure, known as dilation and evacuation, is standard.
"A suction abortion is not appropriate at 20 weeks," said Vicki Saporta, president of the federation By the time paramedics arrived, the patient was lying in a pool of her own blood, her pulse racing and her blood pressure dangerously low.
Rand was among a number of abortionists employed by Bugarin with histories of malpractice complaints, criminal convictions, drug or alcohol addictions or medical board actions.
Rand's negligence was called "barbaric" and a "severe departure" from a reasonable standard of care by the medical board, which revoked his license in 2005. He had previously been involved in 40 malpractice suits, numerous botched abortions, and several license suspensions for gross negligence.
The Times report names other doctors who performed abortions at the clinics:- Nicholas Braemer, who lost his medical license after numerous botched abortions, one of which resulted in a woman's death. - Laurence Reich, who lost his license after a second conviction of sexually molesting his abortion patients. Sherman Oaks resident Yvette Chambers said that Reich groped her breasts and asked explicit questions during an abortion. Accusations which led the medical board to put Reich on probation for 10 years included Riech asking women to masturbate and rubbing their genital areas while examining them. - Mohammed Dia surrendered his license after charges of malpractice and billing fraud. He admitted to the medical board that he used a van to bring a bleeding patient to a hospital after perforating her uterus and leaving part of the fetus in her body.
- Glenn Edward Miller, an admitted alcoholic whose license was revoked by the medical board in 2005 due to repeated substance abuse relapses. Miller was on probation for performing obstetrical procedures while under the influence of alcohol.
- George Dalton Flanigan, who was put on probation for five years for delivering a dead baby using a vacuum procedure, after refusing to perform a cesarean section.
Miller and Rand had settled a malpractice lawsuit filed by a woman who said they gave her an abortion at a non-Bugarin clinic in 2002, even though she was not pregnant, rupturing her uterus in the process.
The Bugarin sisters are scheduled to appear in court on March 3, 2008. Each could face up to six years in state prison if convicted.
Related LifeSiteNews.com articles:
Even Pro-Abortion Senator Wants this Abortion Doc's Licence Suspended
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/dec/05122005.html

Prominent Abortionist Pleads Guilty to Child Porn - Many Abortionists Involved in Sexual Abuse
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/nov/07113003.html

California Abortion Doc Convicted of Sexual Abuse Continues to Practice
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/nov/05110111.html

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Call for abortion moratorium has met astounding and favorable public response from nations as diverse as Spain and India
by Mary Jo Anderson

February 5, 2008 (InsideCatholic.com) - Hot-button pro-life and pro-family issues have the power to define politicians and their campaigns. Yet the campaign debates on pro-life matters have centered largely on domestic policy. Now, in a strange twist of events at the global level, politicians may find themselves pressured to answer an international demand for a worldwide moratorium on abortion.

Just a month old, the call for an abortion moratorium has already met an astounding and favorable public response from nations as diverse as Spain and India. Advocates report that the moratorium has persuasive force with people of all backgrounds. "It is a human matter, yes? Not only for people of religious faith," said Lola Velarde, president of the European Network Institute for Family Policies in Spain.

The moratorium arose as an unexpected response to a United Nations' resolution calling on its member states to submit to a voluntary moratorium on the death penalty. The resolution, a "landmark step" passed in December, justified its call for the moratorium because the death penalty "undermines human dignity." Furthermore, the resolution states, the moratorium contributes to a "progressive development of human rights."

Support for the UN's death penalty moratorium included the Holy See Mission to the UN. The delegation's statement read, in part,

"In welcoming the adoption of this draft resolution, the Holy See once again calls on all States to take a consistent view on the right to life, in a way that their support for this important draft resolution would equally mean their support for the protection of the life of the unborn."

UN delegates and staffers are used to ignoring the Holy See's call for a "consistent ethic of life" in dealing with humanitarian issues, it being an open secret that the UN uses these agencies to aggressively promote abortion. So it perhaps came as a surprise even to the Holy See when a secular Italian journalist, Giuliano Ferrara, founder and director of the opinion newspaper il Foglio, used the opportunity to call for an abortion moratorium as well.

Ferrara, once a leader in the Italian Communist Party, appeared on television the day after the resolution on the death penalty passed, arguing that the logic of the death penalty being "unjust" and an offense against "human dignity" leads to the logical defense of innocent life in the womb. The Italian bishops saw a blessed opportunity here and promptly endorsed the moratorium in the Italian bishops' own publication, Avvenire.

Politically, a moratorium is an inspired vehicle for peaceful change. Because the UN's death penalty moratorium is strictly voluntary (the resolution being non-binding), compliance is achieved by pressure from within the international community. In a similar manner, the abortion moratorium does not call for overturning laws in nations where the procedure is legal. Rather, it calls on policymakers to oppose it as social policy. Social pressure becomes political pressure.

Velarde points out that the moratorium is the perfect tool to raise public awareness about what abortion really is. "It is a pro-life moment for us," she said, "as we move toward our national election on March 9." The incumbent president, José Zapetero, is "the radical pro-choice candidate," and "he does not want to address the issue of the moratorium in the platform. Before now, abortion was never mentioned in the [political] debate. But now, the topic is on the television."

Meanwhile, in South Korea, Rev. Casimiro Song, Secretary of the "Life 31 Movement" of the Korean Bishops Conference, gave an interview to AsiaNews concerning the moratorium. "We welcome the UN adoption of the moratorium on the death penalty, passed on December 17, 2007 and we think it is a logical conclusion to extend it to a moratorium on abortion. As matter of fact, human life begins from the very moment of the conception."

Father Song continued, "To give a direct example, the number of serious criminals executed every day is only a tiny proportion compared with the thousands of innocent human lives that are silently killed by abortion every day throughout the world." The Korean priest also added a call to include embryonic stem cell research in the moratorium.

Other voices have quickly come on board. The Missionaries of Charity's Sister Nirmala, Mother Teresa's successor, urged nations to support the UN's moratorium and the moratorium on abortion. Her countryman, Lenin Raghuvanshi, an avowed atheist and human rights activist awarded the Gwangju Prize for Human Rights, concurs: "It is ridiculous and absurd to suggest that abortion is a solution to hunger, in order to control population growth. What's more the concept -- typical of UN organizations -- that overpopulation represents the greatest danger to the health of a nation has no basis at all in reality."

The call for a moratorium on abortion was certainly never the goal of the UN resolution on the death penalty. That resolution is scheduled as an agenda item again at the 63rd meeting of the General Assembly in 2008. Perhaps by then the logical connection between "undermining human dignity" via the death penalty and abortion will become more apparent -- even for global politicians.
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