Los Angeles, CA — The Eve Surgical Center, the Los Angeles abortion clinic where late-term Partial Birth Abortions were invented, has closed. The California Catholic Daily has published an article about the closure that we have posted for your convenience below.
Eve was once a secret abortion clinic where women in their latest terms of pregnancy would submit to experimental abortion procedures inflicted upon them by abortionist James McMahon, who died of a brain aneurysm in 1995. His techniques are still in general use today by late-term abortionists who have modified the process to now begin with a fatal injection into the baby’s heart in order to kill the baby before extraction of his or her body.
Operation Rescue discovered and exposed the clinic through protests, like a recent one by the Survivors, which was attended by Operation Rescue President Troy Newman.
The abortionist who had worked there for years, Josepha Seletz, quit her job at Eve last year and now operates the Pro-choice Medical Center in Beverly Hills.
“The closure of this abortion clinic where grisly experiments were done on women and their viable babies is a huge victory for the pro-life movement. It closes a dark chapter of history that eventually led to the outlawing of the barbaric partial birth abortion procedure,” said Newman. “Exposing the secrets of Eve Surgical Center helped bring a greater awareness of the horrific nature of abortion to the American people.”
We are including a recording of the Eve Surgical Center phone message informing callers of the closing.
Killing babies since the 1980s
Eve Surgical Center, a late-term abortion business in Los Angeles, closes
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The telephone message for the infamous Eve Surgical Center in Los Angeles says that the business is now closed.
Eve Surgical Center at 10150 National Boulevard has been open for killing unborn babies since the 1980s. It was first run by Dr. James McMahon, who had no specialty training and boasted that he “developed” the Partial Birth Abortion method.
In a 1990 Los Angeles Times feature article, reporter Karen Tumulty, provided this description:
McMahon has developed his own method that he calls intrauterine cranial decompression. He arranges the fetus so that he can remove it feet first. Before the skull emerges, he “collapses” it by inserting a three-millimeter instrument known as a cannula and extracting its fluid. By keeping the fetus intact, he says, he runs less risk of internal injury to the woman.
“I want to deal with the head last, because that’s the biggest problem,” he adds levelly. “From my point of view, the fetus is a potential problem to the patient.”
“Frankly,” he adds, “I don’t think I was any good at all until I had done 3,000 or 4,000.”
In 1990 the California Medical Board filed an Accusation against McMahon for six cases of negligence against female patients.
In 1992 the California Secretary of State suspended Eve Surgical Center, but McMahon ignored this.
Dr. McMahon further stated that he did 1,200 abortions annually until his death in 1995 from a brain aneurysm. Shortly before his death he was given last rites and a Catholic burial at Holy Cross Cemetery (Field of Martyrs section). A few days before his death McMahon provided key testimony to Sen. Ted Kennedy to read in Congress in support of Partial Birth abortion.
Cardinal Mahony defended the abortionist’s burial in a Catholic cemetery this way: “Do you think we should start judging everyone who is buried in the cemetery?”
In 1996, McMahon’s wife, Gail, sold Eve Surgical to Dr. Christopher Columbus Dotson, a graduate of Howard University Medical School.
In October 1997 Dotson filed articles of incorporation with the California Secretary of State for Eve Surgical Center. On December 2, 1997, the Secretary of State suspended the Eve Surgical corporation.
Like McMahon, Dotson paid no attention and kept the abortion business going. He secretly operated under the name of Youlom Medical Corp.
Dotson has lived at an elegant mansion in Beverly Hills. The exclusive property, with luxury amenities, is for sale for $ 9 million.
Dotson is currently 80 years old. He has had a total of 63 civil cases filed against him in Los Angeles County Superior Court, including 17 for medical malpractice, one for divorce, and one for paternity.
The medical board disciplined Dotson for causing the death of Ramona Jackson in 1992, but ignored the death of Oriane Shevin in 2005, despite a $1 million settlement in the wrongful death case against Dotson.
Dotson last made headlines when he agreed to be the “practice monitor” for his friend, Dr. Andrew Rutland, who was accused of causing the death of Ying Chen in 2009 during an abortion in an acupuncturist office.
In 2010 the Medical Board dropped Dotson as a monitor when they were reminded of Dotson’s history of discipline. Rutland surrendered his license.
Real progress. I only wish Cardinal Mahony thought more about the victims then about the abortionists? As a Catholic it is very disheartening to learn that the cardinal would defend the life this doctor chose to live. God help the cardinal.
Valeri we must no forget about how the good thief confessed of his sins on the cross next to Jesus. If he recieved last rites we do not know the nature of his confession and cannot judge his soul. We must hope that at his final hour he had a change of heart if only known by his confessor and God. I am glad to see that this house of despair has closed, and let’s not forget to pray for the closure of the new clinic in Beverly Hills.
Real progress is made any time a slaughter house is closed. Where one is buried is of little importance in regard to eternity. I would not want to stand before God and have to explain why I murdered thousands of innocent children. Only God can judge, but a real repentent person would have stopped the killing long ago. What this man did is not different than the medical experiments done by Nazi doctors on children during WW2. “Some were executed, and others only escaped for a while.”
I agree with you Valerie. Especially after reading “A few days before his death McMahon provided key testimony to Sen. Ted Kennedy to read in Congress in support of Partial Birth abortion.”
I agree with Sara, though I understand the feelings of others. We must leave the eternal judgement to our Lord. What bothered me the most was that shortly before his death, he provided key testimony to Ted Kennedy to read in Congress in support of Partial Birth abortion; Another Catholic who disgraced his religion in public service. I suggest to all that you read, “The Hand Of God”, by Dr. Bernard Nathanson, who ran the largest abortion mill in America in the ’70s and 80s in Manhattan, later gave it all up, and converted to the Catholic faith. Then follow that by reading “Pillar Of Fire” by Karl Stern, both stirring true stories.
In Christ,
John Fortin
Rochester, NH
I wonder if James McMahon had a death bed conversion. I actually read that he did at the last minute. It is very ironic that he would be buried in a Catholic grave yard.
For an abortionist to be buried in the portion of the grave yard dedicated to the victims of abortion is a good thing. It sends the message that God wins when all is said and done.
The links on the names are not working. Thank you.
I do find sad when Church authority, in their ministry of guiding the faithful to the fullness of faith, do not act on public practice of intrinsic evil by members of the Church. I would have hoped that individuals would also be publicly excommunicated, of course after a few private and public attempts to bring the poor individual into communion with the Church. He/She would not be able to partake of the Church’s sacraments until a public retraction through whatever modalities. But being quiet and inactive in a member’s public parley with sin does no good to the body of Christ nor serves as witness to the rest of mankind! I find this really sad. I’m not saying that every detail of public can be administered individually but that in relation to the public visibility of the individual and the weight of the sin there must be definite stance taken by Church authority. I offer a personal prayer for all those in and outside the church that have actively and passively partaken of this evil consort, that God’s mercy be with them, in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.