Virginia Plays Russian Roulette With Women’s Lives

002Governor Terry McAuliffe, an Obama want-a-be, with a radical pro-abortion agenda vowed to repeal Virginia’s abortion clinic standards, safety standards enacted to protect women. If repealed, Virginia may face the likes of Kermit Gosnell as the left tosses common sense to an agenda of murdering America’s future.

Steven Brigham, the owner of Virginia Women’s Wellness, has lost his license in several states, including Delaware, Virginia, Florida, Pennsylvania, and New York.   Over a period of more than two decades, Brigham has left a long history of blotched abortions, leaving women with severe bowel injuries, severed ureters and sweeping lacerations to the uterus, requiring emergency hysterectomies.

In 1992 Pennsylvania’s board of medicine cut a deal with Brigham for the surrender of his medical license in exchange for dropping an investigation against him for violating the state’s 2nd trimester abortion regulations. Two weeks later Brigham botched a 2nd trimester abortion in New York, leaving his patient with a lacerated uterus, a severed ureter and a colon so damaged that she required a colonostomy. Another botched abortion in 1993 left a patient with a lacerated cervix, uterus and uterine artery, forcing the Board for Professional Medical Conduct to concluded that Brigham was an “imminent danger to the health. . .” finding him guilty of gross negligence, and suspending his license to practice medicine.

But not having a license to practice medicine didn’t prevent Brigham from owning abortion clinics in New York. In 1996 state investigators found 17 frozen aborted babies in a freezer at his Albany clinic, where one of his doctors had been performing 2nd trimester abortions. That doctor was prosecuted for Medicaid fraud and gross negligence in the death of a patient.

By the mid 2000s, with the full backing of our current pro-death administration, Brigham’s abortion clinic network had grown with at least 17 locations in New Jersey, Florida, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Maryland, staffed by doctors, technicians and administrative employees, some of whom had already faced disciplinary proceedings from multiple state medical boards. As a prime example of Brigham’s character, in 1997, he employed an obstetrician/gynecologist who was under suspension for, among other things, sexually molesting his patients.

From 2005 to 2010, pro-death New Jersey officials turned a blind eye to the fact that Brigham was violating state law by preparing his 2nd trimester patients for abortion in New Jersey and then requiring them to go to a neighboring state to have the abortion completed, where hospitalization was not required. “Brigham would often lead a group of patients, all traveling in separate vehicles, to an out-of-state clinic, in what was described in legal filings as an abortion caravan.”  In 2010 officials were forced to “temporarily suspend” Brigham’s license for 5 years after a patient transported from New Jersey to Maryland suffered severe injuries. Brigham was allowed to keep his New Jersey clinics open.

The Maryland Department of Health and Hygiene wasn’t as accommodating and suspended the licenses of three of his clinics when inspections revealed violations and lack of safety equipment that could have prevented two deaths. In 2010, Brigham and abortion doctor Nicola Riley were arrested and charged with murder after Maryland police raided a secret late-term abortion mill where they discovered 35 frozen viable late-term babies in a freezer but charges were later dropped when their expert witness bowed out under pressure from the murder lobby.

Virginia’s pro-death governor, much like pro-death officials in New Jersey, is more than willing to overlook Brigham’s “indiscretions.”  Under pressure from the governor, the Virginia Health Department recently issued a variance to one of Brigham’s clinics, allowing it to evade the new safety standards set up to protect women, in spite of the fact that in March of this year 33 pages of violations were reported at this same clinic, violations that included lack of changing gloves between abortions, failure to maintain patient monitoring equipment, mold in the walls, failure to provide pain medications, etc.

As a matter of fact, dangerous conditions at Virginia abortion facilities are well known. The six other clinics that were granted variances are little better than Brigham’s seedy operation. Capital Women’s Health received 16 pages of violations; Amethyst Health Center for Women received 30 pages of violations; the Falls Church Center of PPMW received 10 pages of violations; the Richmond Center for Women received 39 pages of violations; the Roanoke Medical Center had 66 pages of violations and the Peninsula Medical Center had 31 pages of violations.

Brigham lost his last medical license last week when the New Jersey Board of Medical Examiners finally came to their senses and voted to revoke his license due to a pattern of deception and dangerous, abusive practices that have characterized his 30 year abortion career. And because NJ does not allow unlicensed doctors to operate medical facilities, Brigham has only 90 days to divest himself of ownership of the 8 abortion clinics he operates.  The IRS also has liens against the “good” doctor   abortion provider for nearly a half million in back taxes.

But to the pro-death crowd he’s still  nothing short of a hero, a disgraced doctor abortion provider who doesn’t mind murdering babies and the maiming or killing of a few useful idiots is justified by the end results. I think it’s pretty safe to say that to have an abortion at any of the Virginia clinics listed above is to play Russian Roulette.

 

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