Wichita, KS — We have just updated our list of Abortion Collaborators who do business with abortionist George R. Tiller and his mill, Women’s Health Care Services. Since introducing this list, the number of companies willing to trade with Tiller has dropped a full 30%!

“Have nothing to do with the unfruitful works for darkness, but rather expose them.” —Ephesians 5:11

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Reich and Rivera are permanently out of the abortion business

Chula Vista, CA — Clinica Medica Para La Mujer De Hoy, a Southern California abortion mill chain run by the entrepreneurial Bertha Bugarin, has lost two more abortionists, leaving her troubled abortion business struggling amid scandal and legal problems.

Convicted sexual predator and abortionist Laurence Reich permanently surrendered his license on April 14, 2006, after the Board of Osteopathy filed charges against him for sexual misconduct with patients, conviction of crime, and gross negligence. Reich was convicted on two counts of sexually molesting his patients in 2002 after serving a 10-year probation for sexually abusing three of his patients in 1982.

Troubled abortionist and drug addict John Ramon Rivera, Jr., voluntarily quit the abortion business after a Chula Vista pro-lifer befriended him and encouraged him to stop killing. Luis Mendoza, a sidewalk counselor at the Clinica Medica Para La Mujer De Hoy in Chula Vista, CA, met with Rivera over lunch a number of times and helped convince him that he should no longer commit abortions. Rivera’s troubles included a criminal conviction in San Diego in 2002 after he was caught of groping the genital area of a woman and being under the influence of ecstasy at a public event.

Mendoza reported to Operation Rescue that he “providentially” ran into Rivera over the weekend and was assured by the former abortionist that he was “out of the business” for good and working temporarily at a job in the medical field until he can return to work as a gynecologist with a pro-life physician with whom he is acquainted.

Mendoza also has asked for prayers for Rivera’s wife, who is currently hospitalized and undergoing treatment for cancer.

The former abortionists were replaced by George Flanigan, another abortionist with a history of malpractice and other accusations.

Reich and Rivera are the latest in a string of troubled abortionists in the Clinica Medica Para La Mujer De Hoy Chain to loose their licenses or quit. The notorious Nicholas Braemer, surrendered his medical license under threat of revocation in 2001, after years of botched abortions and abortion deaths. Abortionist Mohamed F. Dia also surrendered his medical license in 1999 rather than have it revoked for malpractice and negligence. Physician’s Assistant Steven Turnipseed, known as “Dr. Steve”, left “Clinica Medica” employment and disappeared after complaints were filed by an Operation Rescue staff member who had documented that he was committing abortions illegally and practicing medicine without a license. Eighty-four year old abortionist Phillip Rand surrendered his medical license last year after over 40 malpractice suits, numerous botched abortions, and several license suspensions for gross negligence.

“Thankfully there are two less abortionists killing innocent babies in our country today, but one can hardly celebrate as long as that chain of chop shops continues to operate,” said Operation Rescue spokesperson Cheryl Sullenger, who has conducted years of pro-life ministry outside the Bugarin abortion mills. “This chain has a history of injury and death reaching back over three decades. We call on the State of California to investigate this abortion mill chain and shut it down before more women are molested, injured, or killed.”

Topeka, KS — Lobbyists for abortionist George R. Tiller’s political action committee, ProKanKo have failed to file mandatory monthly Employment and Expenditures Reports with the Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission, making their lobbying efforts illegal during time periods in the peak lobbying months of February, March, and April of this year.

ProKanDo director Julie Burkhart, a Tiller media spokesperson, failed to file the required documents for two consecutive months, covering employment and expenditures over February and March. Lobbying while reports are delinquent is illegal. Burkhart’s documents had not been filed as of April 19.

According to two letters sent to Burkhart by the Governmental Ethics Commission:

As provided by K.S.A. 46-280, you have 5 days from receiving this notice to comply with the reporting requirements before a ten dollar ($10) per day civil penalty is imposed for each day the required report remains unfiled. No civil penalty shall exceed three hundred ($300). Also, there are criminal penalties for intentionally failing to file. It is unlawful to lobby when a current report has not been filed or is past due. Unlawful lobbying is a class B misdemeanor.

Another ProKanDo lobbyist, Jana Mackey, also received a notice from the Commission for failure to file the same documents for employment and expenditures in January.

“This is just another example of how Tiller and his cohorts continue to act like they are above the law,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. “You can bet if pro-life supporters were engaged in illegal lobbying or any other illegal activity, it would be blasted everywhere and they would be quickly charged.”

A Grand Jury is in the process of convening at the behest of the community to investigate Tiller in the death of a Down syndrome teen last year after the Kansas State Board of Healing Arts closed its investigation against him when pro-abortion Gov. Kathleen Sebelius intervened in the case. Sebelius has received tens of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from Tiller and ProKanDo, leading the community to believe a political cover-up was in progress.

In another case, the county recently refused to file charges against Tiller for a hit-and-run on a pro-life pedestrian in spite of the fact that the incident was caught on Tiller’s own security video.

“The community is tired of this guy getting away with dangerous and illegal behavior,” said Newman. “As we have stated before, Tiller and his cohorts must be held to the same standard of law as everyone else. That is not happening in Kansas, and the people of this state deserve to know why.”