Archive for July, 2011

Germantown, MD – Operation Rescue and the rest of the leadership team for the Summer of Mercy 2.0 has confirmed that Germantown Reproductive Health Services, where Carhart is employed, will be closed for the week.

“This is a huge victory,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. “While this event is in progress no babies will die in Germantown. That is an answer to our prayers.”

The Summer of Mercy 2.0 nine-day pro-life event kicked off over the weekend with two well-attended rallies and prayer vigils featuring powerful national speakers, a live-ultrasound of a pre-born baby, and testimony from a woman who was scheduled for a late-term abortion at Carhart’s but instead gave birth to a healthy daughter.

With the clinic closed, Summer of Mercy 2.0 participants are drawing attention to Carhart’s true track record including:

  • A criminal investigation in his home state of Nebraska based on affidavits from his former employees who allege Carhart engaged in criminal conduct.
  • A medical board investigation in Maryland for allegations he misled authorities to gain licensure in that state. Carhart claimed to be a university professor, but was stripped of any formal duties by the University of Nebraska in the 1990s. He claimed to be an emergency room physician even though he has had no relationship with any hospital since 1987. Never once did he mention his long work history at abortion clinics around the country or his defense of partial-birth abortion in two cases that were decided by the U.S. Supreme Court.
  • A non-disciplinary agreement made with Nebraska authorities where Carhart agreed to stop falsifying medical records, falling asleep during abortions, and interrupting abortions to take personal phone calls.
  • Shoddy abortion practices resulting in numerous emergency hospitalizations.
  • At least one patient death from a botched third-trimester abortion.
  • Evidence that Carhart and his nurse falsified ultrasounds to avoid complying with late-term abortion restrictions.
  • Carhart committed late-term abortions illegally referred by Ann Kristin Neuhaus, who faces possible license revocation in Kansas for failing to provide proper patient evaluations and making unfounded psychiatric diagnoses for late-term abortion patients so they could “qualify” for abortions under a mental health exception.
  • Other devious practices that are meant to deceive patients, authorities, and the public. Most recently, Carhart told the Washington Post that he only did late-term abortions in Germantown for fetal anomalies. However, personal testimony from Dr. Grace Morrison and a former Carhart patient named Keisha, who recently gave birth to a healthy daughter, prove that many of Carhart’s late-term abortions are for no medical reason whatsoever.
  • “After years of investigation, we can confidently say that Carhart is a dishonest man who is a danger to the public that belongs behind bars. We can document everything we say about him. He cannot do the same,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman.

    “Twenty years ago during the original Summer of Mercy, Operation Rescue led protests in Wichita, Kansas, that resulted in over 2,500 arrests for peaceful civil disobedience. Today, our tactics have changed and now we are using every legal tool available to expose abortion abuses and see to it that abortionists like Carhart are arrested and jailed and their clinics closed. One of the goals of the Summer of Mercy 2.0 is to encourage authorities to act now to bring Carhart to justice and shutter his shady late-term abortion business for good.”


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    Summer of Mercy 2.0 Starts Tomorrow! Powerful Webcast Recording Now Online

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    Germantown, MD – Activists from all across the nation are making their way to Germantown, Maryland for tomorrows kick-off of the Summer of Mercy 2.0, a nine-day event focusing on the late-term abortion practice of the notorious LeRoy Carhart.

    If you missed last night’s powerful web cast, it is now available online. Just click here to listen to such pro-life heroes like Fr. Frank Pavone of Priests for Life, Joe Scheidler of the Pro-Life Action League, Troy Newman of Operation Rescue, David Bereit of 40 Days for Life, and Rev. Patrick J. Mahoney of the Christian Defense Coalition and others make a moving case for pro-lifers everywhere to come to Germantown for nine days of prayer and prophetic public witness for life.

    In Germantown, late-term healthy, viable babies are killed through abortion by Carhart, who has tried to tell reporters that he only does them in cases of fetal anomaly. On the web cast you will hear from Keisha, a woman who was scheduled for a late-term abortion by Carhart until caring pro-lifers reached out to her. You won’t want to miss her powerful story that blows the lid off the late-term abortion lies!

    Twenty years ago, God’s Spirit moved in Wichita, Kansas, during the original Summer of Mercy, which exposed another late-term abortionist and revitalized a struggling pro-life movement. Now, twenty years later, we encourage you to come and be part of what promises to be a powerful and life-saving event in Germantown. We sense God’s Spirit is moving. Now is the time and Germantown is the place to lift our voices and our prayers!

    We are excited to see what God will do!

    For more information on the Summer of Mercy 2.0 and for a full event schedule and speaker list, please visit SummerofMercy.com.

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    Deep Sixed! Committee Will Not Consider Steve Six’s Nomination

    Washington, DC – As the Senate Judiciary Committee was set to vote on Pres. Obama’s nomination of Steve Six to the Federal Appeal Court today, committee chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) issued a statement that the nomination would not be considered by the committee.

    That move essentially scuttled Six’s nomination.

    Operation Rescue was the first to express opposition to Six’s nomination, noting his interference in abortion investigations and his efforts to gag a District Court judge and bury incriminating evidence against Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri, which faces 107 criminal charges. On June 27, Operation Rescue called on Obama to withdraw Six’s nomination.

    “Six repeatedly allowed his personal and political biases to influence his professional judgment, and that alone makes him unfit for the Federal Appeals Court,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. “Today we are celebrating this victory for the cause of justice.”

    The Associated Press reported that on Monday, Kansas Senators Pat Roberts and Jerry Moran sent a letter to Leahy asking him not to take up Six’s nomination. It also reported that Roberts has signaled initial approval, but later changed his position, issuing a statement opposing Six’s nomination. Both Roberts and Moran had issued an earlier statements opposing Six.

    Several other local and national pro-life and conservative groups also stepped in to oppose the nomination.

    “We want to thank everyone from around the nation that called and wrote their Senator in opposition to the Six nomination,” said Newman. “This victory truly belongs to the grassroots who rose up to make their voices heard. It made all the difference.”

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