UPDATE, Feb. 3, 2012, 11:00 AM CT: ABC News is reporting that the Koman Foundation has issued an apology for defunding Planned Parenthood and has said it will restore funding. Operation Rescue continues to denounce Planned Parenthood’s corrupt practices and is disappointed at Komen’s caving in to pro-abortion bullying.
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Wichita, KS – The following statement is attributable to Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue and Pro-Life Nation:

We commend the Susan G. Komen Foundation for its decision to halt grants to Planned Parenthood in the wake of funding scandals that have resulted in a Congressional investigation of Planned Parenthood.

For years, the pro-life movement, including Operation Rescue, has protested Komen’s distribution of an estimated $700,000 a year to Planned Parenthood. This money only went to enabling Planned Parenthood to continue prey on women in order to sell them abortions.

Planned Parenthood does not always follow the law. Let’s not forget that in Kansas, Planned Parenthood’s abortion clinic in Overland Park faces 58 criminal charges related to illegal late-term abortions. Operation Rescue and other pro-life groups have conducted investigations that show Planned Parenthood fails to report child sex abuse and trafficking. Planned Parenthood of Golden Gate in California was disbanded due to financial improprieties.

While Planned Parenthood claims that abortions account for only three percent of their business, documents show that abortion fees account for 40% of its income. Furthermore 97.6 percent of pregnant women going to Planned Parenthood are sold abortions while less than 2.4 percent of pregnant women receive non-abortion services. Planned Parenthood remains America’s largest abortion supplier, responsible for 27.6 percent of all abortions done nationally.

But those abortions present serious dangers to women. Botched abortions that are being documented at Planned Parenthood abortion clinics across the country are landing women in the hospital, while they lobby against safety regulations and promote the dangerous telemed or webcam abortion pill distribution scheme, first uncovered by Operation Rescue.

Planned Parenthood abortionists are facing serious charges. For example, one of Planned Parenthood’s California abortionist Jesse James Joplin, recently had his medical license revoked after years of documented substance abuse. He worked for Planned Parenthood doing abortions for over 20 years. In Arizona, Planned Parenthood’s abortionist David L. Child, was banned from the practice of medicine last September after he had been disciplined for botched abortions and other surgeries four other times. In Maryland, abortionist Nicola I. Riley, who was trained in abortions at Planned Parenthood clinics in Colorado, was charged with murder in the death of a viable baby during an illegal late-term abortion. And the list goes on.

With this kind of sordid history, Komen was right to sever ties with Planned Parenthood. It is our hope that this will give Congress the incentive to completely defund Planned Parenthood and stop our tax dollars from propping up this failing and dangerously corrupt abortion enterprise.

Wichita, KS – The new web site AbortionDocs.org continues to add documentation daily, detailing abuses at abortion clinics in order to draw attention to the history unsafe and illegal abortion-related practices across America.

“Abortionists have been able to hide their dirt until now, thanks to AbortionDocs.org,” said Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue and Pro-Life Nation. “Finally, the truth is available to everyone.”

One example is a set of recently added documents related to Nevada abortionist Adam Vincent Levy, who works at A-Z Women’s Center in Las Vegas.

According to public record documents obtained by AbortionDocs.org, Levy paid out $20,000 last year in a case alleging his negligence in the death of a patient during a botched abortion in 2007.

In 2007, Levy paid out a whopping $6 million to settle a 1995 case brought by the family of a brain-damaged child who suffered injuries as the result of Levy’s misinterpretation of ultrasound findings.

In 2004, Levy settled a personal injury case for $7,500 after he allegedly inflicted second and third degree burns to a patient’s private organs by inserting a hot weighted speculum during surgery.

In spite of all this, Levy has never been disciplined by medical regulators. In fact, he continues to train abortionists at the University Medical Center in Las Vegas even though his abortion practices have proven deadly to at least one patient.

“Information about Levy’s malpractice history would never be readily available to the public without AbortionDocs.org,” said Newman. “We are doing a public service by putting the documentation into the public forum so women can be warned about abortion abusers like Levy, who despite killing a woman, has flown under the radar of public and regulatory scrutiny.”

Read Levy’s profile on AbortionDocs.org.

Levy is just one example of abortionists who have abortion deaths and injuries in their pasts. More information about violations and other abuses at abortion clinics around the nation can be easily found by searching AbortionDocs.org.

“We continue to upload new documents daily, and are seeking those who can contribute more information to our database in order to make it as accurate and comprehensive as possible,” said Newman.

To submit information or apply to become a contributor, please visit AbortionDocs.org/join.

Elkton, Maryland – Abortionist Nicola Irene Riley was arraigned this morning in a Cecil County court on charges that she murdered a healthy, viable pre-born child during an illegal late-term abortion last year. She has been ordered held on a $300,000 bond at the Cecil County Detention Center.

“Riley is charged with murder in the first degree, the most serious of criminal charges. It is inappropriate for her to be released on bail of any amount. It is our hope that she cannot make bail and will remain behind bars where she belongs,” said Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue and Pro-Life Nation.

UPDATE: Riley posted bail just hours after her hearing and has been released from jail.

Riley’s attorneys have filed motions to dismiss the case and have made public statements that the charges were inappropriate since abortion is legal in Maryland.

However, Maryland law does provide for murder charges if a viable pre-born baby is killed in the commission of a crime. The case is feared by abortion advocates because they are concerned that the issues in this case could strike at the heart of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision that decriminalized abortion in America. The 39th memorial of that decision will be marked this weekend.

Also charged is her employer, the notorious Steven Chase Brigham, who was released on $500,000 bail on January 6, 2012.

Brigham and Riley were indicted after a 16-month Grand Jury investigation prompted by a severely botched late-term abortion on a 21-week baby boy that landed the mother in the hospital with injuries that required emergency surgery to save her life. Medical personnel notified police after Riley and Brigham transported the injured women to a nearby emergency room in a private vehicle and then delayed her care while they behaved suspiciously. Police raided the Elkton abortion clinic and discovered the bodies of 35 late-term babies stored in a freezer.

Brigham never held a Maryland medical license. Riley’s Maryland license was suspended in September, 2010. It was later discovered by Operation Rescue that Riley had misrepresented to medical boards in three states a previous criminal felony conviction that led to her serving three years in a Federal Military Prison. That information was reported to authorities. Since then, Wyoming forced Riley to surrender her license, the Maryland Board of Physicians file additional charges against her for lying to obtain licensure, her home state of Utah has banned her from doing abortions in that state.

View Riley’s profile at AbortionDocs.org
View Brigham’s profile at AbotionDocs.org