Panorama City, CA — Abortionist Laurence Reich agreed Tuesday to surrender his license and stop performing abortions in order to avoid a disciplinary hearing stemming from his “no contest” pleadings on two criminal counts of sexually abusing his patients.
However, Reich will be allowed to continue as Medical Director of Clinica Medica Para La Mujer De Hoy until April 14, in an effort to allow him to “close or sell his practice.”
“We’ve been awaiting this day for many, many years,” said Operation Rescue spokesperson Cheryl Sullenger. “Reich posed a danger, not only to the pre-born babies he killed through abortion, but also to the women he sexually preyed upon. We wish he was banned from the medical profession effective immediately, but we relieved to know that he will soon be out of the killing business for good.”
Read News Story from LA Daily News, Feb. 16,2006
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Sen. Barbara Boxer Demands Immediate Suspension of Abortionist’s License
Convicted Sex Offender Continues to Assault Women at Abortion Mill
Don’t you love it when a (good) plan (eventually) comes together! Now if Sen. Boxer and colleagues will set their sights on Santa Ana’s Clinica Medica Para La Mujer De Hoy office. . .KEEP UP THE PRESSURE AND THE GOOD WORK!
Yeah, he’s out of practice. In theory, anyway. Nabil Ghali lost his license but turned up in Ohio, doing abortions and raping patients. It’s like playing Whack-a-Mole with some of these guys; they just keep popping up.
It is the Republican Party that has always led the way for women to have reproductive choice. President Eisenhower was the first, In 1953 he nominated one of the greatest men to fill the vacancy of chief justice Earl Warren who helped give women the legal freedom of contraception in Griswold vs Connecticut in 1965. Eisenhower also nominated judges William Brennan and Potter Stewart to the Supreme Court, both of them voted for Roe vs Wade in 1973. They were joined by 3 of the 4 judges appointed by President Richard Nixon, Judges Warren Burger, Harry Blacmum and Lewis Powell in legalizing abortion in 1973. President Gerald Ford followed the lead in 1975 when he appointed judge John Paul Stevens and Ronald Reagan appointed judges Sandra Day O’conner and Anthony Kennedy. Geogre H.W. Bush put David Souter on the Court. I am a Pro-Choice Republican and am proud of my party’s part in legalizing abortion and you people will not control the Republican Party for long The Republican Main Street Partnership, The Republican Majority For Choice, The WISH List, Republicans For Choice and Its My Party Too are going to fight you every step of the way to return the Republican party to common sense again before you scare the voters away into voting for Democrats (as is happening in the western states).
to Maverick and associates;
“Reproductive choice”–What a crock! Legalized abortion is not, has never been, and will never be, about giving women ‘freedom to choose’. It is, and has always been, about the STATE, in collusion with the medical profession, arrogating to themselves the right to KILL those they deign “subpar”, “expendable,” and other demeaning designations too cruel (think for just a second how you would feel if it were YOUR entire being referenced in such terms) and numerous to go into here. Never forget that the state, in collusion with the medical profession, murdered some 12 million Jews and other “expendables” in Nazi Germany, and the dispatching of the victims to their deaths in the gas chambers was called “selections”, just as the dispatching of unborn children to their deaths in abortion chambers is called “choice”– in both cases, to protect the psyches of the killers, and to further the killing agenda.
The co-founder of NARAL admitted, after his 180 turn on abortion (funny how we only hear the truth from poor-choice leaders AFTER they have changed to pro-life positions. . .) that he knew just how cynical these slogans were when he coined them in order to make the mass slaughter of innocent little children in utero acceptable, if not palatable, to Americans on whom the Supreme Court would impose the Roe v. Wade holocaust, with all the gore, injustice, murder, mayhem and mutilation in the name of “medicine” not just upon the children, but upon many of their mothers as well. How many? According to at least one independent survey, over 90% of post-abortive women bitterly regret their abortions, while very few, if any, women who have chosen life wish that they could turn back the hands of time and abort the children they have either come to know and love, or at least given a chance at life via adoption, however difficult the circumstances were for her personally.
But don’t just take it from me: It was Dr. Bernard Nathanson who made up the early slogans — “Freedom of choice”, “Women must have control over their own bodies,” and the like. Here are his own words:
“I remember laughing when we made those slogans up,” recalls Nathanson, reminiscing about the early days of the abortion-rights movement in the late ’60s and early ’70s. “We were looking for some sexy, catchy slogans to capture public opinion. They were very cynical slogans then, just as all of these slogans today are very, very cynical.”
This inherent cynicism is clear enough to any thinking person of conscience who will stop long enough to consider these observations, borne out by 33 years, now, of infinite loss of human life, health and happiness as a direct result of Roe v. Wade:
* Frederica Mathewes-Greene wrote, years ago, “There is tremendous sadness, loneliness in the cry, A woman’s right to choose.’ No one wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal, caught in a trap, wants to gnaw off its own leg.” This quote has been quoted by a number of poor-choice advocates, even making it’s way onto the front of Planned Parenthood’s Public Affairs Action Letter boxed as “Quote of the Week”. Even they could not gainsay the truth of this, their “pro-choice” rhetoric notwithstanding. Aside from the obvious, that an act of such desperation is the molecular opposite, so to speak, of a real act of volition, it demonstrates yet another dark side of this “right to choose”; the “right” of the father of the child to abandon his mate, his child, and, ipso facto, his manhood. Sorry, but that is, in itself, a gross wrong, not a right; and a gross violation of normal female sexuality.
This is because, as Mathewes-Greene has further pointed out, women’s sexuality is deeply tied to commitment and emotional stability, and in this bad bargain women lose. Abortion severs two relationships at once, the woman from her lover and from her child. No wonder pro-choice slogans ring with first-person-singulars: my right, my decision, my body, my choice. The flip side of autonomy is loneliness. Abortion promises to make a woman unfettered, empowered and free; instead she finds herself isolated, endangered and sad.
It’s a sadness condoms can’t cheer. Contraception fails to make everything dandy, because it is a technological solution for an emotional problem. Where the balance of sexual power is so far off, throwing a few condoms into the mix isn’t going to improve anything. In fact, half of all women having abortions say they weren’t using any form of birth control at all—despite the low-cost availability of condoms in every small town across the nation, and their use promoted as nearly a patriotic act.
Abortion is the handmaiden of the sexual revolution, that great male victory in the war between the sexes. As feminist poet Adrienne Rich says, “The so-called sexual revolution of the sixties [was] briefly believed to be congruent with the liberation of women…it did not mean that we were free to discover our own sexuality, but rather that we were expected to behave according to male notions of female sexuality.”
Scientists have finally discovered the cause of unplanned pregnancy: sex. When sexual relations take place in a relationship lacking emotional commitment, any unsought pregnancy is much more likely to be difficult. Abortion allows the Playboy-friendly status quo to continue, disposing of the ties that might bind. [In keeping with this, the Playboy empire of Hugh Hefner and Planned Parenthood have been very intimate bedfellows for decades, despite the rightful antipathy of early feminists towards the degradation and exploitation of women inherent in that thralldom.
True respect for "women's choice" (face it; women frequently intentionally try to get pregnant because they, naturally, want to have children; virtually no woman tries to get pregnant so that she can get an abortion. . .think about it) means restoring that sexual balance-of-power, with respect for women’s need for commitment and security—in short, abstinence before and fidelity within marriage. It also means supporting women who get pregnant nevertheless, with pregnancy care services and adoption counseling.
* Abortion has proven to be the "choice" that ends all real choices not only for millions of women who could be making legitimate choices of all sorts if they had not been aborted, but for many of their mothers as well.
[It never fails to amaze me how so many poor-choice women born since Roe are so inept at making the simplest of connexions, namely, that had their moms chosen to abort them instead of carrying them to term (and beyond), it is not a "mere fetus" that would not be here now, but the individual young woman that each of them has become. . .and will yet become, given normal care...]
Many of these post-abortive mothers would be glad to testify as to the cruelly cynical difference between what they were misled to expect of their abortions and what actually occurred, but they can’t, you see, because they DIED – FROM “SAFE, LEGAL” ABORTION. For what remains of their stories, please go to ldi.org and read the Blackmun Wall; all of it. Many others have found, to their lifelong grief, that they cannot have children when they want them because of damages to their reproductive systems caused by–surprise, surprise– so-called “reproductive choice”. And sterility is not the only threat to wanted children; other abortion-related threats to future pregnancies include increased risk of future miscarriage; ectopic pregnancy(which has also proven to be life-threatening to women), placenta previa, infant handicap/premature birth. Real freedom to do anything, whether it’s create an art masterpiece, publish a book, get a degree, run a marathon, reproduce, etc., necessarily includes these essential factors; the ability, the opportunity, and the means to achieve the objective. Induced abortion is so very destructive to a woman’s ability to conceive and bear children that it should never be referenced as having any part of “reproductive freedom”; further, the emotional damage is not infrequently so great as to cut the woman off emotionally from future opportunities to have children without doing the aforementioned violence to her own womanhood, though she may still be able, physically, to do so.
* I noticed that you repeatedly use the term “choice” as a euphemism for abortion. Why not just say you’re pro-childkilling, since that is, in fact, the only option your notion of “choice” recognizes, at least in this context. If you have difficulty with this, then I must question your honesty with yourself, first, and then with other people.
* Phrases like “pro-choice”, “freedom of choice”, etc. represent the ultimate linguistic perversion/distortion in using the language of freedom, volition, and civil rights to very cynically, and falsely, reference the ultimate oppression, and the vilest, most blatant attack on the most fundamental civil right, the right to life. Without life, no one has any choice, though without the “choice” you promote, many more people would have life.
* Aside from the linguistic perversion, the wrong you so proudly flout as a “right” represents a huge legal, constitutional perversion in that a.) of the millions of registered American voters, exactly nine of them were allowed to vote on the matter of legalized childkilling; the rest were given no choice; b.) the constitutional rights to life, and other protections, were taken from the most vulnerable, and most innocent Americans.
You know, stuff like no execution without DUE process of law, which clearly does not mean such draconic acts of judicial fiat as Roe & Doe. It means a fair trial by jury, preceded by a WARRANTED arrest and resulting in conviction of a capital offense, none of which can be read into “Roe” or “Doe” by any stretch of reasonable imagination.
* If, in view of all the above, you still remain proud to have helped the Repugnican Party become just as Nazified as the Demonratic one, you may just scare the pro-life majority into voting Constitution Party, just in order to have, as one writer put it several decades ago, “A Choice (!), Not an Echo.”
While you’re free to embrace any idiocy you wish, try, just for the novelty, NOT imposing it on others…like the unborn, who don’t want it at all, or their mothers, who arguably “want” it with so many reservations as to render any real consent meaningless…or the rest of society, who, having seen a social agenda in which the Hippocratic definition of the doctor’s role has been abandoned carried to it’s logical conclusion in Nazi Germany, don’t want that agenda imposed on us. So the perversion of the medical profession, from healing to killing, constitutes an additional travesty of the agenda you promote. That perversion was crucial to the implementation of the Nazi holocaust, and it is a matter of historic fact that only twice in modern history has the standard of medicine embodied in the Hippocratic Oath (and it’s more recent counterpart, the Geneva Code) been so viciously attacked, then disregarded: by the Nazi Socialist Party in Germany, and by the pro-abortion movement, most notably in the U.S.
* Whenever you attack such fundamental rights of some, you jeopardize the rights of all; and the Ten Commandments of God have always made, and will always make, for a much freer, more humane, and just society than the tens of thousands of rules, regulations, laws, injuctions, penumbras, and related diseased fancies of His enemies.
I think most Americans know that “choice” has become just a code word for butchering babies. However, anyone having any doubt after all the above, would do well to ponder the ferocity with which the “pro-choice” lobby has opposed informed consent legislation every time, and in every place, that it has been proposed.
Informed consent makes for more real choice, but, typically, fewer abortions. Just more proof that choice and abortion are polar opposites…at least for the victims submitting, and submitted, to them.
reality 101 said better than anyone else!
Good points, Reality, jt;
If I might add just one more to the mix, and that is that a woman who is pregnant has already exercised her freedom to reproduce. The question then becomes, will she nurture the child she now has, or murder him/her?
Reproductive choice has already been made; when they say this, it’s an attempt to evade that fact. They really mean, of course, the freedom to murder an innocent human being. But this Orwellian double-speak, (referenced in Isaiah 5:20-23), is typical of those who hate God and love death. Like applying the phrase “celebrate diversity” in reference to same-sex unions. The true celebrants of sexual diversity (Vive la difference!) are those who appreciate it enough to commit to life-long heterosexual marriages. As for the others…a songwriter from the 60s, Tim Buckley, described it aptly in the lines,
“And the men who aren’t men leave the women alone;
See them all faking love on a bed made of knives;
Afraid to discover or trust in their bodies,
And in secret divorce they will never survive…
And I wave good-bye to the ashes, and smile hello to a girl”
Legitimate diversity scares the bejivas out of perversity; that’s why they run from it, seek to destroy it; and “reproductive choice”niks hate real reproductive freedom, that’s why they seek to curtail it everywhere they can with abortion and other birth control measures.
If a so called doctor would come to work and kill every day, that and sexual abuse of the woman go hand in hand anyway.The abortion clinic advertisments always say that they have a kind compassionate doctor on staff. Ya right. They should say A MAIMING BABY KILLING PERVERT on staff that only wants to take your $ and scar you for life.