On February 13, 1978, the Chicago Sun-Times, aided by pro-life activist Joe Scheidler, published the first of a seven part series titled “Abortion Profiteers” that exposed unsafe and downright horrifying conditions at Chicago area abortion mills.
The result?
Two abortion mills were closed, one abortionist lost his license and a grand jury convened to investigate them further.
If anything, conditions at America’s abortion mills are even worse today.
Operation Rescue has followed Scheidler’s example and worked hard to document and “expose the unfruitful works of darkness” as manifested in the abortion industry, and now the word is finally starting to get out.
The LA Times published a shocking story about a Southern California abortion mill chain last week, and the Chicago-Tribune ran a front-page story on the grand jury investigation of late-term abortionist George Tiller earlier this week. These are just the latest in a growing number of news articles that have revealed the seedy reality of today’s shockingly hazardous abortion industry. We pray such exposés will help our nation to wake up to the dangerous and predatory nature of America’s abortion mills, and bring a permanent end to decriminalized abortion.
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http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/history/790873,CST-NWS-high13.article
1978: Series exposed unsafe abortions
February 13, 2008
In 1978, the Chicago Sun-Times wasn’t interested in the morality of abortion when it spent five months looking at the procedure. The paper wanted to know: Were women who had abortions here receiving the safe, competent care the U.S. Supreme Court said they were entitled to back in 1973?
What Sun-Times investigative reporters Pam Zekman and Pamela Warrick — working with the Better Government Association — found in their series “The Abortion Profiteers” was, in some cases, downright terrifying.
RELATED PDF: Sun-Times front page from 1978
The Sun-Times/BGA team had people work undercover in six Michigan Avenue clinics. The team uncovered incompetent and unqualified doctors who performed abortions without giving their patients anesthetics. Sometimes, it made no difference if a woman was actually pregnant — she’d still be sold an abortion.
In one truly horrifying case, a couple was sent to a disreputable Detroit abortionist whose dog accompanied the nurse into the operating room — then lapped up blood from the floor.
The series prompted immediate action. Within two weeks, two abortion clinics were closed down, a doctor’s license was revoked, a criminal investigation was launched and a governor’s task force was appointed to re-evaluate the state’s regulation and licensing of abortion clinics and counselors.
One abortion doctor highlighted in the Sun-Times’ series renounced his work and became a member of the Moody Church on North La Salle. The doctor, Arnold Bickham, once described himself to Zekman as “the most notorious physician in this city.” He indicated he made $1 million a year performing abortions. His medical license was temporarily suspended because, according to the state, he had operated on women who weren’t pregnant and rushed abortions so much that he didn’t even wait until the anesthesia set in.
Bickham eventually quit the church and returned to performing abortions. His medical license was revoked in 1988. He later became an administrator at Chicago Public Schools.
Like math?
>> Since 1973-now, about 48m abortions done in the USA; that’s roughly
>> 1.5m/year.
>> Assuming an aver.workforce entry age of 18, every year since 1991, 1.5m
>> have not hit the clock(cause they couldn’t).
>> 2007-1991=16 years…..X1.5m = 24m.
>> And the most frequently cited estimate of the # of illegals here
>> is…?…is? Ahhhshucks, mere coincidence, cause we all know in USA
>> there’s no such thing anymore as consequence.
>> Cool math,huh? It gets better. The final straw is in midair.
>>
>> In the next 10 years(google IBD art.) 45% of our workforce will retire;
>> 80m/10yrs=8m boomers per year. Who will replace them? In fact economists
>> are projecting a 10m labor shortage in 2010 ( -2007 = 3 years ) Weeeeeeee!
>> Ain’t this fun??
>>
>> And lest you forget, the 1973 graduating class of Roe v. Wade Univ. would
>> have had about 15 years experience in the working world, ready to replace
>> the boomers(and some would have kids soon to be highschool grads). And
the
>> class of 1974 and 1975, 1976..well, you get the picture, don’t you?
>>
>> And during the decade the boomers are hitting the beach, well, that’s
>> 10X1.5m=15m MORE graduates of R.v.W, who wont be hitting the clock.
>>
>> Roll another one, fire it up, do the math.
>> The lib’ lemmings never counted on the law of unintended consequences.
>> Today, however, we can count, and do the math.
>> Cool. We’ve aborted our future..culturally and perhaps politically.
>>
>> I forgot something!
>> If you’ve found yourself undergoing frequent fits of rapture re the
much
>> heralded multicultural utopia that’s soon to arrive, you might want
to do
>> some reading on circumstances in southeastern Europe leading up to 1914.
>> Ohhh, today they call that area Bosnia,Croatia,Serbia and so on and so
>> forth.Yeaaa man, like, it’s really beautiful. Good luck!!
if any other branch of the medical profession were as unsafe & unethical as abortion, it would be shut down yesterday. that dog thing is just disgusting. i am in awe that pro aborts can defend murdering children, filthy conditions, corrupt “doctors”, & killing/maiming women after they read stories like this.
Although the situation regarding abortion appears bleak at times, I am personally thankful for Operation Rescue and other groups like them who continue to fight for the lives of our unborn. I feel secure that God will bless them in their endeavors and the job they are doing is important in the eyes of God. They are appointed by God to speak out for our babies who cannot speak for themselves. Please continue the good work as I feel blessed in the knowledge that you are increasing the knowledge which will help women see abortion for what it really is.
The abortion lobby is like the tobacco lobby. As the truth comes out, they lose ground.