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Bakersfield First-Degree Murder, Assault (10 incidents), Death Threats (6 incidents) and Drug Pushing (4 incidents)        Conroy James Hayes was a typical pro-abortion "user." He only had a relationship with a person if he could extract something out of that person, and he gave absolutely nothing back. He was a drug dealer and had a violent nature, as many people could and did testify.        Rochelle Mackey, Hayes' girlfriend, was living in an apartment with her cousin Avanae Eddington. Hayes moved in with them and immediately began to live off of their work. Hayes did not have a job, and Rochelle cooked and cleaned for him, ironed his clothes and even washed his car for him — even though she was pregnant. Rochelle even bought Hayes a Cadillac to go with his Monte Carlo, and frequently gave him money. Hayes refused to do any work around the house, and was basically just a parasite. He would also prepare crack cocaine in Rochelle's apartment and sell it from there.        Avanae Eddington testified that Hayes often beat Rochelle, and on two occasions threatened her life with a gun. Hayes threatened Rochelle's life on many occasions, and stated that he would kill her. Avanae intervened on four occasions when Hayes was beating Rochelle. Rochelle's son testified that he had seen Hayes beating up Rochelle at least ten times, and that she often fled the apartment. Out of sheer meanness, Hayes killed the boy's goldfish by pouring bleach into their tank. On another occasion when Hayes was beating his mother, the boy grabbed a knife and told Hayes to stop the beating. Hayes said that he would shoot Rochelle if the boy did not put down the knife.        Naturally, Hayes had many other girlfriends, and would often talk to them on his cell phone after locking Rochelle out of their bedroom. He had at least four other children by other women.        Another of Hayes' girlfriends had previously experienced the same abuse that Rochelle had. He moved in with her and controlled everything she did. He threatened to kill her if she left him and also threatened to blow up her grandmother's house. On one occasion, he tore her clothes off, poured cold water on her, and threatened to pour hot oil on her. At other times, he held a knife to her throat, threw objects at her, hit her in the face, and pushed her.        Hayes told Rochelle that she "better have an abortion" because he did not want a baby by her. On July 9, 2005, Rochelle had finally had enough abuse, and told Hayes to leave.        Two days later, early on the morning of July 11, 2005, Hayes shot Rochelle in the chest, killing her. Then he urinated on his hands to remove any gun residue left on them and claimed that Rochelle had committed suicide.        A jury convicted Hayes of first-degree murder and possession of cocaine for sale. References:  The People v. Conroy James Hayes, Fifth Appelate Court for the District of California, case number F050460, (Superior Court Number BF110986A); "California Man Won't Be Charged for Killing Pregnant Woman's Baby." LifeNews.com, August 26, 2005. Solicitation to Commit Murder        In April 1973, abortionist Xavier Hall Ramirez initiated a third-trimester saline abortion at Greater Bakersfield Hospital. The patient expelled a live 4½ pound infant. Nurses called Ramirez, who ordered them to discontinue oxygen to the baby, but another doctor countermanded this order, and the infant survived to be adopted. Ramirez was indicted for solicitation to commit murder. Reference:  Philadelphia Inquirer, August 2, 1981. Assault and Death Threat        This incident is one of the most astounding examples of police bias for pro-abortionists and against pro-lifers we have ever heard of.        On June 13th, 1995, Carlotta Fondrin was sidewalk counseling outside the Family Planning Clinic abortion mill in Bakersfield, California. One young man dropped off a young lady and Carlotta tried to give him some literature. He swore at her and then pulled a gun on her, then drove away. Carlotta called the police and they found the man at his home. He showed the police the gun, which turned out to be a pellet gun. He was not arrested.        Tim Palmquist, the pro-life leader in Bakersfield, went to the police station with his wife and children to ascertain why this man was not arrested. He asked for the police report and was refused because his name was not on the report. He then made it clear that there was a double standard being applied by the Bakersfield police. The District Attorney in Bakersfield had often stated that people who counsel for life at abortion mills should expect mistreatment because abortion is such a "volatile" issue.        The next thing Tim knew, the policeman had gone from around the counter and grabbed him. He threw him down on his face and handcuffed him. Tim asked, "Why are you doing this?" The policeman said, "You have a pen in your hand and you were making stabbing motions." Tim was thrown in the Bakersfield Jail in lieu of $25,000 bail and was charged with assault with a deadly weapon on an officer, disturbing the peace, and resisting arrest.        Needless to say, the charges were thrown out in court, but there were absolutely no consequences for the policeman who assaulted Tim — or for the man who made threats with his pellet gun. Reference:  Operation Rescue National Newsletter, July 1995. Barstow Murder, Manslaughter, Stalking and Assault (4 incidents)        According to police and prosecution documents and witness testimony, the following events occurred in and around Barstow, California and New South Wales, Australia.        Lawrence Rivera (aka Lawrence Hale) killed his pregnant girlfriend, Kristina Garcia of Leawood, whose body was found in Yermo on May 22, 2002. He immediately fled to Australia.        Rivera's former wife, Michele Grant, described to the Desert Dispatch how he would consistently assault and stalk her. According to Grant, Rivera often choked her when he was angry while they were married. She said "His best manuver was putting his thumbs in the middle of your neck and just squeezing until you stopped breathing or he realized what he did. He would squeeze my hand so hard that the wedding bands would literally bend on my finger. Then when he hid in the trunk of my rental car in April 1996. that was really scary."        She said that once, he choked her until she passed out and went to the hospital. She also described other bizarre behavior by Rivera, including stalking. On one occasion Rivera allegedly hid in the trunk of her car to keep tabs on her while she ran errands.        When she became pregnant, Grant said Rivera was unhappy. She said that "Lawrence told me that if I didn't get an abortion that he would pull it out of my stomach."        Sergeant Gerrit Tesselaar of the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department described Rivera's possible motive for killing Garcia: "She shunned him and he couldn't handle it." Tesselaar also revealed that Rivera has a manslaughter conviction on his record, involving another girlfriend. Additionally, Rivera was also implicated but never charged in the manslaughter death of a child in Germany in 1998. The child was the daughter of his live-in girlfriend, according to military records.        His former wife said "Pray for whoever crosses his path the wrong way."        Rivera was placed on the Most Wanted List. He was arrested in New South Wales, Australia in December 2002 and, as of August 2007, is still sitting in jail and fighting extradition in what Australian authorities call "an embarassment" of a case. References:  Ercum Over. "Murder Suspect's Ex-Wife Tells of Abuse." The Desert Dispatch [Barstow, Dagget, Fort Irwin, Hinkley, Lenwood, Newberry Springs and Yermo, California], June 8, 2002; Lee Glendinning. "Murder Suspect Ordered to Be Sent Back to US." Sydney Morning Herald December 17, 2002; "US Extradition Case an 'Embarassment'." ABC News, August 19, 2007. Chico Assault (5 incidents)        The Northern California Feminist Womens Health Center (FWHC) retained the services of a contingent of "clinic escorts" — a team of activists whose sole purpose was to clear pro-lifers from the sidewalks. The "escorts" were led by Alison Gude, who at the time was associated with both the violent homosexual group AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT-UP) and the Bay Area Coalition against Operation Rescue (BACAOR). The BACAOR "clinic defense handbook," written by Gude, states: "Our best work is done before police arrive, or when there are not enough police there to prevent us from doing what we have to do. ... Get in place before cops can mess with it: establish balance of power early, do key acts requiring physical contact with [pro-lifers] as much as possible before the cops have enough people to intervene."        Videotapes of BACAOR confrontations depict Gude and other activists taunting, spitting, shoving, body-blocking, and throwing punches at pro-life sidewalk counselors.        The BACAOR manual continues: "Chivalry is not dead with these people — and that means they have an inordinate sense of 'honor' about being accused of touching women. ... There are innumerable instances of clinic defenders neutralizing male [pro-lifers] by shouting 'get your hands off me, don't you dare touch me' all the while they are tugging or pushing [pro-lifers] out of line." Specialized "escorts" called "doggers" are deployed for the purpose of getting into "loud, expletive-filled physical confrontations" with pro-lifers. Reference:  William Norman Grigg. "The Abortion Underworld." The New American, January 15, 2001 [Volume 17, Number 2]. Forced Abortion and Malpractice        This pitiful case shows just how little radical feminists and other pro-abortionists care about "choice," and how much they care about performing as many abortions as possible. In 1985, they railroaded a developmentally disabled young girl into an abortion without telling anything to her mother, and without even hinting at other alternatives. This is cowardice at its worst.        The radicals at the Chico Feminist Womens Health Center even went so far as haranguing a grieving mother about "choice" while she was still in shock over her daughter's secret abortion.        Erin Preston was a developmentally disabled 14-year-old girl. She had learning disabilities, low verbal comprehension, and psychological and emotional impairment.        Due to the problems Erin had, her school had promised "to keep her [mother] informed of everything that happened relating to Erin, no matter how trivial or insignificant," and that the principal had developed a program of written daily reports to keep her apprised of Erin's school situation.        In 1985, when Erin's class was presented with sex education, the teachers learned by questioning Erin that she might be pregnant. These two teachers encouraged Erin to have a secret abortion, assuring her "that abortion was quick and easy."        Typically, they did not even mention any alternatives to Erin, and they "implied that parental involvement in the decision was unnecessary or improper and effectively prevented Erin from communicating with her parents."        The teachers arranged a pregnancy test at an off-campus center, with the knowledge and approval of the school's principal, and a teacher took Erin for the test, paying for it herself, and filling out the forms since Erin was unable to do so, and forging school documents and the report to Erin's parents to conceal the fact that the girl had been taken off the premises without her parents' knowledge or consent.        The facility that did the pregnancy test, Oroville Family Health Center, knew that the adult accompanying Erin was her teacher and that the pregnancy test was being done during school hours to avoid notifying her parents. Yet Oroville did not advise Erin to inform her parents, nor did any of its personnel inform Erin of alternatives, but instead joined the teacher in urging a secret abortion.        Oroville also urged Erin to proceed with the abortion within a matter of days or it would be too late, which was false and misleading. The teacher and Oroville staff then met to plan how to secure Erin's abortion without parental knowledge or consent. The principal and superintendent were informed that the pregnancy test was positive and supported the decision to pursue secret abortion and all steps necessary to carry out the act.        During school hours, the teacher took Erin to the welfare department and with the complicity of staff there procured a Medi-Cal card to pay for the abortion, giving a teacher's name and the school address, with knowledge that the Medi-Cal card was for use in obtaining a secret abortion. Erin's school records and daily report were falsified to appear as though Erin had attended her regular classes.        Oroville, the abortion clinic, and the school made arrangements with Rape Crisis to have Erin transported by a rape crisis counselor for pre-abortion testing. The rape crisis counselor took Erin for four and a half hours during the school day to the abortion clinic, and she presented herself to Erin as "a person experienced in and knowledgeable about gynecological and reproductive matters." She filled out the forms and read them to Erin, who was unable to do so herself, "deliberately and purposefully remained with Erin continuously throughout the entire procedure and voluntarily assumed the fiduciary role of spokesperson and advocate for Erin, effectively controlling and limiting the information Erin received and keeping Erin in a passive, non-speaking role;" she also "volunteered information and offered opinions to Erin, ... and voluntarily assisted FWHC in the explanation of the abortion procedure."        She told Erin about her own abortion and urged her to proceed. She and the clinic workers "gave Erin inaccurate, incomplete, and misleading information concerning ... the nature of the abortion procedure, the time period within which the abortion could be performed, and the inherent risks of abortion.        School records were again falsified to keep knowledge of the proceedings from Erin's parents. Erin's teacher sent a note to Erin's mother stating that she wanted Erin to baby-sit for her March 23, 1985, and that she would keep Erin at her home overnight because she would be out late. The teacher again advised the principal and superintendent of the plans, which they supported.        On March 23, Erin's teacher took her for the abortion, identifying herself as the girl's teacher and filling out forms for her because Erin was unable to do so herself. Abortionist Diane Pemberton performed the abortion on Erin.        At no time did any agents of the clinic, Rape Crisis, Oroville, or the school inform Erin of alternatives to abortion, or of the risks associated with abortion, but at all times all parties involved continued to encourage secret abortion as safe and easy.        Erin spent the night at her teacher's home, and again school records were falsified to conceal the fact that she had been off the premises. On March 27, Erin's mother was called by the school and asked to come there immediately. Upon her arrival, she was informed of the abortion and that complications had arisen. The teacher took Erin and her mother to a doctor's office, where Erin was examined and immediately rushed to a hospital for emergency surgery.        While Erin was in emergency surgery, and her mother paced the floor in front of surgery, Chris Parker from the abortion mill arrived at the hospital, "confronted [Erin's mother], explained that she was from FWHC, and repeatedly told [her] that Erin had a right to have an abortion because it was every woman's right to choose what to do with her body. [Erin's mother] repeatedly asked Parker to leave her alone, informing Parker that she was very worried about her daughter and very angry at those who had assisted in the abortion. Parker ignored [her] requests and continued harassing, haranguing, and berating her, despite [her] recent shock, obvious distress, and repeated requests to cease."        Parker simply would not let up, and finally Erin's mother finally knocked her to the floor.        Erin's parents "are informed and believe ... it is the policy and practice" of the school district to procure secret abortions for pregnant students. Erin's mother sued the school district, Oroville, Rape Crisis, the welfare department, the clinic, and their agents for deceit in leading her to unwittingly relinquish care, control, and custody of Erin to them under circumstances she never would have consented to, and for misinforming Erin about abortion and her options.        Erin's mother also found cause of action in that the parties involved refused to consider the religious and/or philosophical beliefs of the family and of Erin herself, "thus imposing the Defendants' own beliefs on the minor child and family." Erin suffered "great physical harm and injury and emotional distress," and her family over $7,000 in medical bills. Reference:  Butte County Superior Court Case No. 89930. Fairfield Murder (2 counts) and Suicide        Una Brady was just days from delivering a healthy baby. She had been married to Shane Brady for two years. On March 4, 2005, the couple began to argue. Then, in front of Una's two teenaged daughters from a previous marriage, Shane Brady shot his wife in the face and chest, then turned the gun on himself.        Paramedics were unable to save Una's preborn child.        Fairfield police Sergeant John, a 22-year veteran of the force, said "It's one of the worst I ever heard of. It doesn't get much worse than shooting a pregnant woman." Reference:  Demian Bulwa. "Murder-Suicide Also Claims Fetus." San Francisco Chronicle, March 8, 2005, page B-3. First-Degree Murder, Parole Violation and Possession of Stolen Property        According to police and prosecution documents and witness testimony, the following events occurred in and around Fairfield, California.        19-year-old Antonio Williams' girlfriend Shearell Kenyata Dillon was four months pregnant with his child. On February 20, 2008, Williams shot Shearell once in the chest with a handgun, killing her. He then left the scene in a hurry.        On February 21, 2008, the intense manhunt came to an end when Williams' mother brought him to a police station, where he surrendered without incident. On February 26, he was charged with first-degree murder and parole violation.        Despite his youth, Williams had already been arrested for possession of marijuana, petty theft, and possession of stolen property. He served 115 days in prison for the latter conviction. References:  "Boyfriend Arrested In Pregnant Teen's Murder." KTVU Television [San Francisco Bay area], February 21, 2008; Brian Hamlin. "Court Arraigns Defendant, 19, in Murder Case." The Reporter [Vacaville, California], February 26, 2008. Premeditated Murder        According to police and prosecution documents and witness testimony, the following events occurred in and around Travis Air Force Base in California.        Saner Wonggoun, a sergeant at Travis Air Force Base in California, murdered his wife Sopha, who was eight months pregnant, on January 7, 1994. He stuffed her battered body into a sleeping bag and dumped it in Marin County near U.S. Highway 1, then abandoned his two small children and ran back to Thailand, where he was born, before he could be questioned on the murder.        An autopsy later determined that Sopha died of "blunt force trauma to the head consistent with the shape of a hammer." Wonggoun hid away in Thailand until 2006, when he was arrested by Royal Thai Police as he was working as a charcoal seller. He confessed to reporters from the Phuket Gazette that he had murdered Sopha.        Wonggoun fought extradition, claiming to be a Thai citizen. However, in December 2007, Thailand's Appeals Court found that, because the murder took place in the United States, and because Wonggoun is legally a U.S. citizen, he should stand trial here. Wonggoun was finally brought back to the United States on February 15, 2008 by Federal marshals. For twelve years, he was the top fugitive named by the Air Force.        On March 19, 2008, Air Force prosecutors charged Wonggoun with premeditated murder, and will try him under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ). Jason Kobely. "Travis Sergeant Charged in 1994 Murder of Pregnant Wife Returned from Thailand." Channel 10 Television News [ABC, Sacramento, Stockton and Modesto, California], February 27, 2008; "Saner Wonggoun," entry in Wikipedia, the on-line encyclopedia. Fresno First-Degree Murder (10 counts)        20-year-old Nath Ouch was eight months pregnant and was looking forward very much to the birth of her little girl. On January 16, 2006, she could not have known that the act of walking out of her South Fresno apartment would lead to her death — and the death of her near-term preborn daughter.        As she left her front door holding a pot of soup in her hands, she saw several members of the Asian Boyz street gang standing before her with guns. She turned, and they opened fire on her with AK-47 assault rifles and .45 caliber pistols. Dozens of shots hit buildings and nearby vehicles, but only one hit Ouch in the back. It was enough to instantly kill her.        Prosecutor Jon Skiles said that "Her unborn child, her daughter, did not die from being struck by the bullet. Her death was not caused by metal ripping through flesh. That child died when her mother's heart stopped beating."        Gang members Sokmorn Chea, Sokol Yann and Boualy Mangsanghanh were the thugs who opened fire on a helpless Ouch, and, according to police, Jonathon Abenido Perkins tried to steal a getaway car.        Eventually, ten gang members and associates were charged with first-degree murder in the slaying, and several trials had to be conducted to accommodate all of them.        Perkins was acquitted.        On July 20, 2007, two of the men charged with first-degree murder, and who had agreed to cooperate with prosecutors, were sentenced to prison. Panya Channita was sentenced to 21 years and Peter Khounvixay got 15 years.        On November 21, 2007, Fresno County Superior Court Judge Gary Orozco sentenced the only female charged in the incident, Boualy Mangsanghanh, to life in prison for first-degree murder. She had driven two gang members to a spot near where Ouch was murdered.        In July 2006, a jury found Boualy Mangsanghanh, Sokmorn Chea and Sokol Yann guilty in July of first-degree murder, and they were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.        Keo Keep Som, Laja Ouphthame, Panya Channita and Peter Khounvixay also entered guilty pleas to first-degree murder and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors in building a case against their fellow gang members. Ouphthame was sentenced to 16 years in prison, Som and Channita to 21 years, and Khounvixay to 15 years. References:  Andres Araiza. "Murder Trial Begins for Gunned Down Mother-to-Be." KFSN Television 30 [ABC, Fresno, California], June 13, 2007; "Two Suspects Charged with Murder of Pregnant Fresno Woman Headed to Prison." The Fresno Bee, July 20, 2007; John Ellis. "Sentence is Life in Ouch Slaying: Woman not Gang Member, but She Drove 2 Shooters to Spot Near Crime Scene." The Fresno Bee, December 1, 2007. Murder (2 counts) [Del Rey]        On September 21, 2004, Richard Daniel Hernandez murdered his girlfriend America Gonzalez because she was four months pregnant with another man's child. He used a sawed-off, 12-gauge shotgun to shoot her several times as she sat in the back seat of a friend's car in an isolated spot near the town of Del Rey, California. Then the friend, Daniel Archan Jr., and Hernandez pulled America from the back seat of the car and dumped her body in a vineyard. Then they drove the car to another location and burned it.        Archan pled guilty to being an accessory to murder after the fact.        America already had a six-month-old daughter by Hernandez and a six-year-old daughter by another man, and was looking forward to the birth of her son.        Her older sister, Adriana Ross, said that America "was such a happy, wonderful, kind-hearted person who had a long ways to go in her life. ... I know they [Hernandez' family] love him. At least they will be able to see him in prison. We just get to see America's [grave] stone. There's no conversation. No birthday parties. Nothing."        On April 18, 2006, a Fresno County jury convicted Hernandez of two counts of murder. Prosecutor Greg Anderson said that, since Hernandez was found guilty of multiple counts of murder, he would be sentenced to mandatory life in prison without the possibility of parole. Reference:  "Man Found Guilty in Pregnant Girlfriend's Murder" KFSN Television 30 [ABC, Fresno, California], April 18, 2006; Pablo Lopez. "Man Convicted in 2004 Killing." The Fresno Bee, April 19, 2006. First-Degree Murder        In November 1981, 27-year-old Michael Hamilton gunned down his pregnant wife Gwendolyn with a shotgun on a rural Tulare County road near Fresno. Her preborn child was killed in the assault as well. Then he tried to collect on her $100,000 life insurance policy.        In 1982, he was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death. Since that time, he has languished on death row in San Quentin Prison.        As of early 2004, Hamilton was still fighting his conviction in a lengthy appeal process. Reference:  Jerry Bier. "Valley Man Appeals Death Penalty in '81 Murder." The Fresno Bee, December 4, 2003. Assault (4 incidents)        On March 28, 1981, at the Family Planning Associates Medical Group abortion mill, four pro-abortionists attacked pro-life picketers, wrenching picket signs away from them and beating several of them with the signs. Reference:  "Anti-Abortion Pickets Claim Signs Taken by 4 Assailants." The Fresno Bee, March 30, 1981. Vandalism [Silver Lake]        Pro-abortionists defaced a pro-life church with red paint, red coathangers, and posters accusing the church of "crimes against women" in March 1989. Reference:  Bill Soucie, comments in personal videorecording of the incident. Los Angeles First-Degree Murder (10 counts), Attempted Murder (4 counts), Conspiracy to Commit Murder, Assault on a Police Officer, Drug Pushing, Death Threats (4 incidents), Firearms Violations (3 incidents), Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution and Parole Violation (2 counts)        Los Angeles Police Department Detective Andy Teague described the "Monster of Atwater," Timothy Joseph McGhee, perfectly when he said that "He likes killing people. It's his high and he does it for kicks." McGhee, the leader of the 200-strong Toonerville Gang, killed anyone who displeased him, whether it was men, women, or pregnant mothers.        McGhee began his extensive criminal career by assaulting a police officer in 1994. He was convicted and spent three years in prison. He was released in 1997 but was sent back to prison in 1997 and 2000 for parole violations. In October 1997, he shot a rival gang member, Ronnie Martin, 27 times. In 1999 he also murdered the bodyguard for a rap artist in 1999.        Upon his release from prison in 2000 after serving three months for his second parole violation, McGhee took up a new hobby — hunting human beings. On June 3, 2000, he went "out hunting" with some of his gang members, and murdered 16-year-old Ryan Gonzales simply because the boy had the same nickname as McGhee. Teague said that "When they go into rival territory, it's like a hunter going into a big-game preserve." On July 4 of that same year, McGhee ambushed and shot at two LAPD officers who were chasing Toonerville gang members. Just two months later, on September 14, 2000, McGhee murdered 17-year-old Marty Gregory Roybal, who was sketching a picture at the Los Angeles River. Then McGhee saw a homeless man, David Lamont Martin, and shot and killed him as well because he might have been a witness.        During the Summer of 2001, McGhee picked up the pace. On June 12, 2001, he murdered 21-year-old Manuel Apodaca and almost killed Nina Guerrero, his pregnant girlfriend. Nina suffered severe brain damage, but her baby survived and was born. In July, McGhee ordered the murder of 21-year-old Carlos Velasco, and in August, he personally murdered three people — 38-year-old Bryham Robinson, 46-year-old Cheri Wisotsky, and her 64-year-old mother Mary Ann Wisotsky, as revenge for Cheri telling police about drug dealing at McGhee's sister's house.        In November of 2001, McGhee and some of his gang members went hunting again. They went into rival gang territory but could not find any rival gang members, so they randomly selected an SUV and murdered mother of two Margie Mendoza and wounded her husband. Teague said that "They murdered the first people they saw. For them, it didn't matter if it was a guy watering his lawn or a kid skateboarding down the street. All that's necessary is that the victim is in the rival gang's territory."        McGhee went on the run, and made it onto the list of the United States Marshals Service's 15 most wanted fugitives. While hiding, he continued to direct the Toonerville gang's activities, which included firearms violations, drug pushing and use of death threats. He was finally captured on February 13, 2003, in Bullhead City, Arizona. The Marshals Service charged him with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution.        McGhee was extradited to California. He was put on trial for three of his murders and, on October 25, 2007, a Los Angeles jury found him guilty of three counts of first-degree murder and four counts of attempted murder. References:  United States Department of Justice, United States Marshals Service. "US Marshals' Service 15 Most Wanted Fugitive Apprehended in Arizona." Press release dated February 13, 2003; Greg Krikorian. "Jury Convicts L.A. Gang Leader of Three Murders." Los Angeles Times, October 26, 2007. Murder (10 counts), Rape (11 counts), Theft and Drug Possession        Convicted rapist Chester D. Turner appears to be one of the deadliest serial killers in Los Angeles history.        On November 1, 2005, Superior Court Judge William R. Pounders ruled that there was sufficient evidence to put Turner on trial for the murders of ten women between 1987 and 1998. Two of the women were pregnant — one was 6½ months pregnant and one was between four and five months pregnant.        The 38-year-old Turner was serving an eight-year prison term for an unrelated 2002 rape conviction. He had also been jailed on theft and drug possession convictions.        Police scientific investigator Carl Matthies testified that Turner's DNA was matched to sperm found on the bodies of all ten victims, and said that the probability that someone other than Turner raped the victims was about one in one quintillion.        Deputy District Attorney Alan Jackson said that "Clearly those kind of statistics strongly indicate not only did this defendant have sex with them, he killed them."        Medical examiner Lisa Scheinin testified that all ten women were strangled and nine had cocaine in their systems. She also said that the preborn child of one of the murdered women was viable. Prosecutors charged Turner with eleven counts of murder and added the possibility of enhanced penalties for multiple murder and murder committed during rape. The district attorney's office charged Turner with murdering Annette Ernest, 26; Anita Fishman, 31; Regina Washington, 27; Paula Vance, 31; Mildred Beasley, 45; Andrea Tripplett, 29; Desarae Jones, 29; Natalie Price, 31; Brenda Bries, 31; and one unidentified woman who appeared to be in her 20s. They also said that Turner may have been involved in as many as twenty murders.        On November 15, 2005, Turner pleaded not guilty to all charges.        Turner's defense centered around the excuse that he was a drug dealer, and the DNA evidence was explained by the fact that his customers were all prostitutes who often paid with sex. However, a jury saw through his subterfuge, and found him guilty of all eleven murders (including one count of second-degree murder for killing a viable preborn child) on April 30, 2007, recommending the death penalty in May 2007.        On July 10, 2007, Superior Court Judge William A. Pounders agreed with the jury and sentenced Turner to death.        Dorothy Patterson was only eleven years old when Turner strangled her mother Regina, who was nearly seven months pregnant, with an electrical cord. She grew up as an only child, but would have had a little sister if not for Turner. Now 28, she said "I came for closure. It's been a very long time. I just want justice to be served." References:  "Rapist Accused In Murders of 10 Los Angeles Women: Two Were Pregnant When They Died." KPRC Channel 2 Television News [Houston, Texas], November 2, 2005; Associated Press. "Man Pleads Not Guilty to Murdering Women, Fetus in LA." November 15, 2005; Greg Risling. "Trial Begins in LA Serial Killings Case." The Herald [York, Chester, and Lancaster Counties], April 3, 2007; Greg Risling. "LA Man Sentenced to Die for 10 Murders." Associated Press, July 11, 2007. First-Degree Murder (7 counts), Murder, Attempted Murder, Conspiracy to Commit Murder (7 counts), Kidnapping, Armed Robbery (2 counts), Aggravated Assault, Rape, Sodomy, Prostitution, Assault, Death Threats (5 incidents), Burglary (3 incidents), Grand Theft Auto (6 incidents), Theft, Conspiracy to Distribute Narcotics, Narcotics Possession, Fraud (2 counts), Credit Card Fraud (2 incidents) and Destruction of Property        Nobody more perfectly typifies the narcissistic, selfish, "anything goes" anti-life mentality better than homosexual Charles Manson of "Helter Skelter" fame. To people like this, people are mere commodities, to be used and discarded as they see fit.        Manson had a long criminal record before his gang's spectacular murders. At the tender age of 13, he committed two armed robberies with another teenager. He repeatedly burglarized homes and stole cars. When he was 17, he held a razor blade to another teenager's throat and sodomized him, and was classified as "definitely homosexual" by a psychiatrist. In 1955, he was caught stealing a car and was sent to prison. Upon his release in 1958, he took up pimping, and a year later was arrested and sentenced to probation for two federal charges of stealing a check from a mailbox and attempting to cash a United States Treasury check. Two months later, he was arrested for stealing cars and using stolen credit cards. Late in 1959, he defrauded a young woman of $700 and drugged and raped her roommate, and was sent to prison for ten years. In 1967, he was finally free again.        Charlie was a man with a plan. A Hell of a plan, actually. With drugs and his magnetic personality, he easily gathered a number of weak-minded, mentally defective individuals around him. By 1968, these included Patricia Krenwinkel, Susan (Sadie) Atkins, Leslie Van Houten, Lynette "Squeaky" Fromm and Charles "Tex" Watson.        Manson's plan called for the bloody and spectacular murder of a number of famous movie personalities, which would supposedly precipitate an all-out race war (how a bunch of White crazies slaughtering White movie stars was supposed to accomplish this was never really adequately explained). This race war would be won by Black people, but, as the racist Manson saw it, the victory would not last because of the innate inferiority of the Blacks. This race war could be closely followed by an Armageddon Manson called "Helter Skelter." He and his followers would hide in the Mojave Desert, and would emerge afterwards, taking over what was left of the world with Manson as one of the "Five Angels" — the other four being the Beatles, whom he adored.        The "Helter Skelter" grand plan would begin with the murder of Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate. Then other movie stars would be killed. For example, Manson planned to have his gang murder Elizabeth Taylor, then carve the words "helter skelter" on her face with a red-hot knife and gouge her eyes out. Then Richard Burton would be castrated, and his penis and Taylor's eyes would be mailed to Eddie Fisher. Frank Sinatra was next. He would be skinned alive while listening to his own music. Manson's gang would make purses out of his skin and sell them. Tom Jones would be forced to have sex with Susan Atkins, and then would have his throat slit.        By 1968, after bumming around the San Francisco area in an old school bus, the Manson "family" was living at the home of music teacher Gary Hinman. On July 31, 1969, Charles Manson told Susan Atkins and Bobby Beausoleil to get some money from Hinman. When he would not cooperate, they imprisoned him in his house, then stabbed him to death and used his own blood to write "POLITICAL PIGGY" on his living room walls.        Director Roman Polanski and movie star Sharon Tate lived on Cielo Drive near Hollywood. Sharon was eight months pregnant and Polanski was away in Europe working on a film.        On August 9, 1969, Sharon was having a party with coffee empire heiress Abigail Folger and her boyfriend Voytek Frykowski, and internationally known hair stylist Jay Sebring.        First, the Manson gang cut the telephone wires to the house. Then they found 18-year-old Steve Earl Parent parked in his Rambler in front of the house. He had come to visit the caretaker at the Polanski-Tate home. They shot him four times.        Then they entered the house. They looped a rope around Sharon's and Jay's necks to keep them from escaping, then murdered Voytek Frykowski. They battered in his head and face with 13 heavy blows, and savagely puncturing the rest of his body with 51 stab wounds, in addition to shooting him twice.        Next, Susan Atkins approached Sharon Tate. She said "Sharon was the last to die. [She said] "Please don't kill me. Please don't kill me. I don't want to die. I want to live. I want to have my baby. I want to have my baby." [I said] "Look, bitch, I don't care about you. I don't care if you're going to have a baby. You had better be ready. You're going to die and I don't feel anything about it." ... In a few minutes I killed her." Sharon was found with 16 stab wounds all over her body.        Atkins said that she had wanted to cut the preborn baby out of Sharon's abdomen, but "there was not enough time."        The gang also murdered Abigail Folger by stabbing her many times and dumping her body on the front lawn. Jay Sebring was shot and stabbed seven times.        The Manson "family" concluded their night's deadly activities by scrawling the word "PIG" on the front door of the Polanski-Tate home in the blood of one of the victims.        But their killing spree was not yet over.        Leno and Rosemary LaBianca lived at 3301 Waverly Drive in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles, and were visited by Charles Watson and Leslie Van Houten. Police found Leno in his pajamas, lying with a blood-drenched pillow over his head and a lamp cord tied tightly around his neck. One of the Manson gang had tied his hands tightly behind his back with a leather thong, and a carving fork protruded from his stomach. He had been stabbed at least 26 times. One of the gang had carved the word "WAR" on his abdomen. Rosemary's body was in the bedroom on the floor, a pillowcase over her head and a lamp cord tied tightly around her neck. She had been stabbed at least 41 times by Leslie Van Houten.        The Manson gang had written various words on the walls of the house in the victim's blood: "DEATH TO PIGS," "RISE," and "HEALTHER SKELTER."        The trial of the Manson "family" began in June 1970, and its attempts at murder and mayhem did not cease even at this point. One of the prosecution's witnesses was Barbara Hoyt, whom the "family" threatened with death and then attempted to murder with a lethal dose of LSD. At one point, Manson threatened presiding Judge Charles Older, screaming that "Someone should cut your head off!" Ronald Hughes, attorney for Leslie Van Houten, quit the case and disappeared. A few months later, his body was found, and a Manson "family" member confessed to murdering him.        On January 15, 1971, the jury began its deliberations and, nine days later, found Manson, Krenwinkel, Atkins and Van Houten guilty of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder. All were sentenced to death. Later, Watson was convicted of the same crimes.        Eventually, Robert Beausoleil, Charles Manson, Charles Watson, Bruce Davis and Steve Grogan were tried and convicted for the murders of two other people: Gary Hinman and Donald ("Shorty") Shea.        In 1975, Lynette "Squeaky" Fromm, a Manson "family" member, attempted to assassinate President Gerald Ford and was sentenced to life in prison.        Manson is by no means a model prisoner. He has been charged with destruction of property, plotting to kill the President of the United States, conspiracy to distribute narcotics, narcotics possession, assault, and at least three death threats against prison staff. Reference:  Court TV's Crime Library has a 29-part series by Marilyn Bardsley entitled "Charles Manson and the Manson Family," a very detailed and thorough history of the Manson "family" and the hideous crimes it committed. The Crime Library is at http://www.crimelibrary.com. Murder (8 counts), Grand Theft, Perjury, Conspiracy and Fraud (2 counts)        In 1989, abortionist Milos Klvana was sentenced to 53 years in prison after being found guilty of the mass murder of eight newborn babies and the stillbirth of another infant.        The State of New York Department of Health revoked the abortionist's license to practice medicine, noting his many convictions, including second-degree murder; aiding and abetting the unlicensed practice of medicine; conspiring to practice medicine without a license; preparing fraudulent insurance claims; presenting fraudulent insurance claims, grand theft and perjury. References:  Associated Press, August 9, 1995; HLI Newswire, August 11, 1995; State of New York Department of Health. "Monthly Report on Professional Misconduct and Physician Discipline," April and May 1996. Murder (4 counts) [San Fernando]        In July 1998, Sandi Dawn Nieves told her four young daughters, Jaqlene Marie, Kristel Dawn, Rashel Hollie, and Nikolet Amber, that they were going to sleep in the kitchen in a kind of "slumber party." She bedded the girls down comfortably, and, as all little children do, they chatted happily away until they finally became too sleepy to continue, and they drifted off to slumberland one by one.        Then their loving mother, who had just had an abortion, set fires at several points throughout the house to make sure that her little daughters could not escape. All of them suffocated and burned to death in the fire.        However, her teenaged son, who was sleeping elsewhere in the house, escaped with his life and testified against his mother.        Prosecutors said that Nieves mailed her two ex-husbands suicide notes on the day of the crime. She explained that her actions were meant to punish her former spouses "for all their sins, real or imagined."        Nieves claimed that hormones were wreaking "havoc" in her life on the day of the murders because of complications resulting from her recent abortion. She said that she was "barely conscious" when she set the house ablaze.        But jurors didn't buy it. How do you carry out such a well-planned multiple murder, complete with suicide notes, while "barely conscious?"        The San Fernando jury deliberated for less than a day before finding Nieves guilty of four counts of murder on July 24, 2003. Reference:  "Mother Convicted of Murdering Daughters: Hormone Defense Falls Flat With Jury." Yahoo! News, July 28, 2003. First-Degree Murder (2 counts), Suicide, Rape, Rape with a Foreign Object, Kidnapping, Oral Copulation by Force, Sexual Battery, Assault with a Deadly Weapon, Assault (2 incidents), Indecent Exposure, Burglary (4 incidents), Attempted Burglary (2 incidents), Vandalism and Theft [Riverside]        On March 12, 2005, Tony Lee Reynolds was released from prison for a 2003 burglary. He didn't waste any time going back to his old ways. He broke into a woman's house later in the day and raped her. Then he went on a burglary spree, breaking into at least two other homes.        Just three weeks later, on March 31, he broke into the Fairmount Boulevard home of Estela Perez, who was the mother of two small children, and who was five months pregnant with a baby girl she had already named Michelle. Nobody was home at the time, but she returned to her home and surprised him. Reynolds stabbed her repeatedly in the chest, stomach and legs, and finally slashed her throat, killing her.        On June 23, 2005, Reynolds was charged with two counts of first-degree murder, rape with a foreign object, four counts of burglary, two counts of attempted burglary, oral copulation by force, kidnapping to commit sexual assault, and sexual battery.        While he had been in prison, Reynolds pled no contest to indecent exposure and battery on a peace officer. He also pled guilty to domestic battery in December 2002 after punching his half-sister, Teresa Etcheson, in the face. He had also pled guilty to many other crimes, including assault against his father, assault with a deadly weapon after he slashed another man so severely he required sixty stitches, vandalism and theft.        In 2007, the bloody saga of Tony Lee Reynolds came to an end. In January, he pleaded guilty to murder and rape, was sent to San Quentin in May, and, on June 10, 2007, he hanged himself in his death row cell. References:  "Sexual Assault Suspect Charged with Fairmount Blvd. Homicide." Riverside Police Department Official Press Release dated June 23, 2005; "Charges Expected in Slayings of Mother with Child." The Press-Enterprise [Inland Southern California], June 24, 2005; Paige Austin and Sonja Bjelland. "Inland Killer on San Quentin Death Row Hangs Self." The Press-Enterprise, June 11, 2007. Murder (2 counts), Fatal Botched Abortion, Grand Theft and Illegal Abortion (15 counts)        One of the most colorful and unscrupulous characters the "pro-choice" movement has ever given us is "Dr." Harvey Leroy Karman. He was idolized by pro-choicers, perhaps because he epitomized their values and standards.        Karman didn't have much of an education, but then education is not really necessary for an abortionist. He was a UCLA School of Theatrical Arts dropout, so at least he had the background to bluff his way into medicine. But first he needed a prestigious degree, so he awarded himself a fake Ph.D. from a nonexistent European university.        He quickly distinguished himself by being convicted of nine felonies in Los Angeles, and was sent to jail for killing Joyce Johnson with an illegal botched abortion committed with, of all things, a nutcracker in a motel room. He aborted Joyce on April 6, 1955, and she died of a massive infection on April 21. He was jailed, but as soon as Governor Jerry "Moonbat" Brown was elected, the virulently pro-abortion Brown pardoned him.        As soon as Karman was released, he went to work for an abortion mill in California despite his complete lack of medical credentials. There, he invented a new type of intra-uterine device (IUD) he named the "Super Coil," a plastic spring that was supposed to induce an abortion.        Karman was also the inventor of an early abortion technique called "menstrual extraction" or ME, which is widely used to circumvent pro-life laws in developing nations. The Federation of Feminist Womens Health Centers (FWHCs) adopted Karman's techniques, which are still used in "home abortion parties" by feminists today.        Back in the day when even feminists were more truthful, Ms. Magazine said in its September 1976 issue that [Harvey] Karman is the developer of the menstrual extraction technique. His three-page police record includes an arrest for murder in the death of an abortion client and a prison term for illegal abortion and grand theft. One of his other abortion arrests was in connection with a West Los Angeles clinic where he was associated with one Dr. John Gwynne. [Abortionist] Gwynne has since been convicted of the murder of his nineteen-year-old girlfriend.        Karman joined up with the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) to test ME on women in Bangladesh. It is quite common for the racist abortionists and population controllers to test abortion and contraceptive techniques on poor women in developing nations before they try them out on North American or European women. A large number of the poverty-stricken women nearly died, and Karman quickly returned to the USA. There he joined forces with the Jane Network in Chicago, which helped women get abortions before it was legalized in the United States.        On Mother's Day in 1972, things came to a head. Karman received a busload of Jane Network clients at his Philadelphia abortion mill. He had invited the media to be present so he could be arrested and challenge the abortion law in Pennsylvania. While Harvey and his associates started putting "Super Coils" in the clients, other feminists protested outside and even let the air out of the bus tires.        One of the fifteen women had to be hospitalized due to a lacerated uterus. Several others had to be hospitalized when they returned to Chicago. Of these, the Centers for Disease Control found that one patient required a hysterectomy, one was hospitalized for twenty days with infection, and another continued to bleed until she became anemic. In all, nine of the 13 patients who could be tracked down suffered complications, some of them life-threatening.        Karman then returned to California and was arrested at least three times for running illegal abortion mills. He faded into obscurity after Roe v. Wade in 1973. References:  District Court of Appeal, Second District Division 3, California. The People of the State of California, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. Harvey Leroy Karman, Defendant and Appellant. Cr. 5583, November 13, 1956; New York Times, December 13, 1972; Judith P. Bourne, R.M., et.al. "Medical Complications from Induced Abortion by the Super Coil Method." Health Services Report, Volume 89, Number 1 [January-February 1974]; Bernard N. Nathanson. Aborting America (Life Cycle Books, 1979); Mark Crutcher. Lime 5 (Denton, Texas: Life Dynamics, Inc.), 1996; Laura Kaplan. The Story of Jane (University of Chicago Press, 1997). The information in this summary was largely condensed from the four-part series on Harvey Karman on the Real Choice Web site. Murder (2 counts), Child Abuse (2 counts) and Drug Possession [Glendora]        Lorie Renee Hurd is a good example of how a person hardened to abortion can cross the line to infanticide without as much as a pang of conscience.        According to police and prosecution documents and witness testimony, the following events occurred in and around Los Angeles, California.        On November 10, 2001, Hurd gave birth to full-term twin baby girls in the bathroom of her home. Then she stuffed them into a plastic bag, cinched it closed, and abandoned her dying babies.        At the age of 15, she aborted her first pregnancy.        At the age of 17, she began to use speed and methamphetamine, and soon began drinking heavily. She also aborted her second pregnancy during this year.        Despite her heavy drug use, she became pregnant again in 1992 and gave birth to a daughter.        In 1993, she gave birth to a son and gave him up for adoption.        In 1994, she had another abortion.        In 1995, she became pregnant again and delivered a son.        In 1996, she became pregnant again and miscarried in her bathroom.        Hurd was also charged with two counts of child abuse and methamphetamine possession, and went on trial in Pomona Superior Court. Reference:  Bill Hetherman. "Murder Suspect Testifies On Drug Habit." San Gabriel Valley Tribune, April 15, 2003. Murder (2 counts)        According to police investigations and witness statements, the following events occurred in the Watts section of Los Angeles.        On September 23, 2007, Stephen Mark Picart, his pregnant girlfriend Sharon Carter, and her two sons, ages 14 and 4, were traveling in Watts in a sport utility vehicle and got into an argument. He pulled out a gun and shot her in the head right in front of her two sons, then exited the vehicle and ran. Sharon died at the scene.        Picart was captured the next day and was subsequently charged with two counts of murder for killing Sharon and her preborn child.        The Los Angeles Police Department stated that "there was a history of domestic violence" in the relationship. References:  "Suspect in Pregnant Woman's Murder Surrenders." CBS Channel 2 News [Los Angeles, California], September 24, 2007; "Two Murder Counts Filed In Pregnant Woman's Slaying." KNBC Television 4 [Los Angeles, California], September 26, 2007. Murder [Pasadena]        On November 11, 1999, pediatrician Kevin Paul Anderson strangled his business partner, neonatologist Dr. Deepti Gupta, 33, a mother of two young children who was expecting her third. They were involved in an extramarital affair, and she was carrying his baby. In fact, she had informed him of this fact the day before he killed her.        Anderson was arrested by the police when a passerby noticed him pushing Gupta's Mercedes off a 450-foot cliff in the San Gabriel Mountains, after dousing her with gasoline, to make it appear that she had been killed in an accident. They caught him when his getaway car got bogged down in heavy mud. He admitted to police that he killed her in a moment of rage following a dispute over a business deal gone bad, but lab reports showed that she had been dead for about eight hours.        An excerpt from Anderson's confession reads: "I just grabbed her and I got ... I think I ... I was just choking her. I ... I have a tie that I wore, a Snoopy tie, that I wore to work, but I had taken it off by that time, but it was still in the truck and ... and I grabbed it and I just started pulling it on her. Being a physician, I know, I would check her pulse or something and I .. I just didn't. I didn't even touch her. I just ... I just assumed that she was (dead). So I thought, well, since we're up here, maybe ... maybe I could make it look like it was an accident, like she drove off the cliff or something, which was kind of inane. But, I mean, I just .. in that state of mind I didn't ... I wasn't thinking, you know, logically."        Vijay Gupta, the husband of the murdered woman and a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of California in Los Angeles, exhorted the Indian American community to express its "outrage" and write letters to the prosecutors, demanding that Anderson be given the maximum punishment.        On December 11, 2000, Anderson was convicted of second-degree murder by a Pasadena jury.        Sandy Gibbons, a spokesperson at the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office, said that "The prosecution had pressed the charge of first degree murder, but the defense argued for a manslaughter charge and after five days of deliberations the jury convicted him for second degree murder." References:  R.S. Shankar. "Many Unanswered Questions in Doctor's Murder." Indiainfo.com, November 24, 1999; Richard Winton. "Defense Rests, Mistrial Bid Denied in Doctor's Slaying Case." Los Angeles Times, November 22, 2000; Suman Guha Mozumder. "U.S. Doctor Convicted." December 9, 2000. Downloaded from The India Tribune Online at http://www tribuneindia.com/20001211/world.htm on February 19, 2001. Murder [Van Nuys]        A jury found pro-abortionist Alfred E. Smith guilty of second-degree murder in the death of his ex-girlfriend Denna Moody. Smith killed Moody in April 1997 because she refused to abort their preborn child. The jury heard evidence that Moody had been pregnant by Smith before, and that he had pressured her to have an abortion in that case as well. Moody adamantly refused in this case. Her charred body was found in her burned car near the Van Nuys Amtrak station the next morning. Deputy District Attorney Alan Yochelson said Smith, 41, probably killed Moody at a park in Sherman Oaks after an argument, then drove the body to a business area near the train station and set the fire. Reference:  "Jury Convicts Man in Abortion-Related Killing." Los Angeles Times, May 21, 1998. Murder and Impersonating a Doctor [Santa Ana]        Abortionist Alicia Ruiz Hanna was convicted in 1994 of second-degree murder after Angela Nieto Sanchez, a 27-year-old mother of four, died at Hanna's Santa Ana abortion mill in January 1993. Hanna owned and operated the abortion facility under the license of Dr. Anthony Lee Cappelli, who rarely visited the two-room facility, according to court testimony. Prosecutors asserted that Hanna posed as a doctor, performing up to 20 abortions with no doctor present. Sanchez suffered seizures after Hanna injected her with an unknown drug; Hanna later prevented a receptionist from calling 911, court testimony revealed. Sanchez had told family members only that she was getting a checkup. Two of her children sat in the waiting room for hours after she died. Later, they saw Hanna trying to stuff their mother's body into the trunk of a car in order to dump her body across the border in Tijuana, Mexico, according to court testimony. Hanna told them that Angela had just collapsed after being attacked by unidentified man who had run away, but the coroner indicated that Angela had been dead for at least six hours at that point.        Hanna's abortion facility was financially ailing when she began performing abortions herself to eliminate the middleman (the abortionist), prosecutors said. On January 28, 1995, Santa Ana, California Superior Court Judge Everett Dickey described her as "callous and self-serving" before sentencing her to 15 years to life in prison.        In January 2000, the United States Supreme Court turned back a challenge to the abortionist's conviction and sentence. References:  Rene Lynch. "Ex-Worker Tells of Attempt to Cover Up Death." Los Angeles Times, August 24, 1993; Rene Lynch. "Clinic Operator Sentenced for Murder." Los Angeles Times, January 28, 1995; Tim Graham and Clay Waters. "Roe Warriors: The Media's Pro-Abortion Bias." Media Research Council report dated July 22, 1998; Tony Gosgnach. "Cases Reveal a Path of Destruction Through Women, Children, and Society." The Interim, September 1998; Richard Marosi. "Santa Ana Clinic Owner's Murder Conviction Stands: Supreme Court Denies Alicia Ruiz Hanna an Appeal in Botched Abortion." Los Angeles Times, January 11, 2000. Murder        Daniel Pagsisihan Aguba had lived with Fatima Bumatay in Santa Ana for several years and had two young sons by her. But their relationship had apparently ended during the Summer of 2004 amid accusations of domestic abuse.        On June 23, 2005, Fatima told Aguba that she was pregnant by another man, and he stabbed her thirteen times in the abdomen with a ten-inch carving knife, killing her in front of her one-year-old son. He fled the scene but was arrested six hours later as he slept in his car.        On August 17, 2007, Superior Court Judge Carla Singer told Aguba that he had committed a vicious, brutal murder and that she hoped he would never be paroled. Some people who had watched the trial noted that he had not shown the slightest remorse. Judge Singer sentenced Aguba to 25 years to life in prison for murder. References:  "Diamond Bar Man Convicted of Fatally Stabbing Ex." CBS Channel 2 News, June 22, 2007; Larry Welborn. "Life Sentence in Murder of Ex-Girlfriend in Brea." The Orange County Register, August 17, 2007. Fatal Botched Abortions (2 incidents)        Even before Roe v. Wade, the Bel Air abortion mill in Los Angeles specialized in late-term abortions. But sometimes someone other than the agonized preborn baby would die at Bel Air.        Katherine M. Morse traveled to Los Angeles from Texas for a saline abortion at the hands of abortionist John DuPont, which took place at the Bel Air abortion mill on September 1, 1972. She complained of severe pain and a 102 degree fever 24 hours later. Her preborn baby was expelled just after noon on September 3, two days later. The coroner's report stated "Patient fretful, uncooperative throughout night. Hypotension, tachycardia, anuria noted 7:00 a.m. progressing to irreversible shock and death at 9:40 a.m." Preliminary diagnosis of sepsis was listed as the cause of her death, but the final cause of her death was determined to be shock due to gangrene of the ovary. The autopsy showed strangulation of the ovary and tube, hemorrhagic necrosis and edema.        Just two months later, on November 13, 1972, Twila Coulter traveled from her home in Colorado to the Bel Air Hospital abortion mill in Los Angeles for a saline abortion. She died from the experience.        Her autopsy report shows that she was admitted to a real hospital the next day and passed her unborn child. Her blood pressure fell and she went into cyanosis. Doctors administered oxygen, and she began bleeding profusely from IV sites and vagina. She received 3 units blood and was transferred to another hospital in a comatose condition. A D&C removed retained pregnancy tissues. Her lab results were highly abnormal, and she was transferred to an intensive care unit (ICU). Doctors undertook aggressive treatment to address problems with her bleeding and clotting. Twila's parents were contacted and flew in from Colorado. They had been "unaware of her trip to Los Angeles or her plans for a therapeutic abortion. ... They were fully aware of the gravity of the patient's condition prior to her demise." Twila died the morning of November 15. An autopsy revealed a clot and extensive hemorrhage in her brain and in her internal organs and eyes. Her death was attributed to the hemorrhage in her brain. References:  Los Angeles Times, November 10, 1972 and September 15, 1973; Los Angeles County Coroner Case #72-9587; Los Angeles County Coroner Case #72-12165. Fatal Botched Abortion and Negligence (8 incidents)        On August 13, 1986, abortionist Mahlon Douglas Cannon botched an abortion and killed Covina preschool teacher Donna Heim, 20, at the HER Medical Clinic. Heim was asthmatic and began to suffer extreme respiratory distress during Cannon's abortion procedure. Instead of treating this breathing problem, Cannon chose to ignore it and complete the abortion.        In June 1991, the California Medical Board adopted the decision of administrative law judge Richard J. Lopez that Cannon had been incompetent and negligent in treating at least eight abortion patients, including Heim. Cannon continued to perform abortions at the Family Planning Associates abortion mill on South Westmoreland Avenue in Los Angeles until he surrendered his medical license on July 10, 1991.        Judge Lopez found that Cannon routinely did not perform required physical exams on his abortion patients, take medical histories or administer standard tests. In one case, the abortionist aborted one woman and sent her home despite severe bleeding. She later rushed to a hospital emergency room in severe distress. When the hospital called Cannon, he said that she should be sent home and come in for an office visit in a week or two. Fortunately, the hospital disregarded the abortionist's advice and performed emergency surgery, which revealed a perforated uterus and severe hemorrhage that required an emergency hysterectomy. References:  Betsy Bates. "For Three Women, a Safe Medical Procedure Turned Deadly." Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, February 22, 1988, page A7; Claire Spiegel. "Physician in Abortion Case Loses License." Los Angeles Times, June 17, 1991, page B1. Involuntary Manslaughter and Botched Abortions (3 incidents)        Abortionist Bruce Steir, according to the Associated Press, "with a history of disciplinary actions, was charged with murder after state regulators determined that he punctured a woman's uterus during an abortion." Deputy District Attorney Kennis Clark told Riverside County Judge Dennis McConaghy that Sharon Hamptlon bled to death after Steir ignored a danger he knew he had created.        Steir was on medical probation at the time of the abortion because of his previous botched abortions, which included uterine perforations. He perforated Hamptlon's uterus during the December 13, 1996, abortion. After Hamptlon was discharged from A Lady's Choice Women's Medical Center, her mother drove to Barstow, where she and her daughter lived. But Doris Hamptlon could not waken her daughter when they arrived at the mother's home. Hamptlon, 27, was dead before paramedics got her to Barstow Community Hospital. Her son, Curtis Bullorck, was 3 when his mother died.        At the time of the abortion, both Steir and another abortionist, Joseph Durante, who owns the abortion facility, were on medical probation stemming from ethical problems and medical errors in previous abortions. Steir surrendered his medical license in March 1997 amid complaints about negligence during abortions, including three that required surgery to repair injuries. In one case, surgeons had to remove a fetal skull found protruding through a huge tear in a patient's uterus, according to complaints filed with the Medical Board of California. Another woman discovered that Steir had left behind a four-inch piece of wire in her abdomen during an abortion. She suffered for 13 years before the wire, and the abscess that surrounded it, were surgically removed.        In 1985, Steir, who at the time was a Naval Reserve physician "moonlighting" as an abortionist, botched a cesarian section by leaving a placenta fragment inside his patient. In response, the Navy revoked his license to practice medicine.        In 1987, the Florida Department of Professional Regulation ordered Steir to relinquish his license to practice medicine in that state and "never again to apply for licensure as a physician in the State of Florida."        In 1988, while under probation with the California Medical Board, Steir perforated the uterus of an abortion client. An official review found that Steir "made no operative report or post-operative report [of the incident] until approximately eight months later, and this was in response to an investigation." Steir's behavior in that case prefigured, in detail, his actions in the death of Sharon Hamptlon.        A 1990 malpractice suit filed by one of Steir's clients recounted how the abortionist had "informed [the woman] that there was a fetal mass that could be aborted when in fact no such mass was present." Despite the absence of a child to abort, Steir proceeded with the abortion, causing permanent uterine damage and a condition know as Asherman's Syndrome.        Attorneys said key testimony during the Hamplton trial came from Nancy Myles, an ultrasound technician who assisted Steir in the abortion. Myles recalled that Steir looked up during the abortion and said, "I think I pulled bowel." The bowel cannot be reached without perforating the uterus, Clark said. If Steir thought he had grabbed the bowel with a clamp during the procedure, he had to know he had perforated the uterus, she said.        Showing a callous and total disregard for the safety of women, pro-abortionists raised money for Steir's defense on the Internet, encouraged their friends to put pressure on elected officials and the California Medical Board, and urged the Riverside County prosecutor to drop the charges.        Pro-abortionists even set up a professional-looking Web site in Steir's defense at http://www.steirsdefense.org.        The Chico Feminist Womens Health Center (FWHC), where Steir was Medical Director, set up the grandly-named "Dr. Bruce Steir Constitutional Litigation Fund." E-mail fundraising letters from this group are a showcase of paranoia and a conspiracy theorists's delight. According to the pro-abortionists, the fault lies everywhere except with the incompetent, bungling abortionist. How typical. How utterly predictable. What do you expect?        The "Fund's" February 28, 1998 letter, entitled "Medical Board of California Exploits Woman's Death," said "In March 1996, Carol Downer, founding director of the Feminist Women's Health Center, organized a group of providers and supporters concerned about escalating attacks on second trimester abortion providers. Community Access to Reproductive Services (CARES) has been actively investigating the harassment and discrimination of abortion doctors by the Medical Board of California (MBC). CARES found in a recent study that nearly 90% of doctors of freestanding abortion clinics are on probation with the Medical Board [Editor's note: Could this have anything to do with the fact that abortionists are generally incompetent, negligent hacks?]. One doctor had to battle the MBC six years to retain his license. During this time, he uncovered facts that document that the MBC participated in a campaign to selectively harass and close later abortion doctors [Editor's note: Naturally, such documents were never made available to the naturally curious, who wanted to see evidence of such charges]. ... Jeanette Driesbach, referred to in a Riverside newspaper ad an "anti-abortion spokeswoman," has a ten year history of collaborating with the Medical Board of California to eliminate abortion doctors from practice. ... Through testimony it became evident that the Hamptlon family was the target of Driesbach's anti-choice crusade. Doris Hamptlon, Sharon's mother, testified that she was working with Driesbach regarding her daughter's death. Hamptlon also testified that Driesbach connected her with anti-choice attorney, Jack Schuler, for a civil law suit against Dr. Steir on the family's behalf [Editor's note: Why is it a crime for pro-lifers to attack abortion by working with a victim's family when their daughter dies — but it is all right for pro-abortionists to work with the family of a girl (Becky Bell) who died of an alleged "illegal abortion" for the purpose of supporting abortion? This is just more pro-abort two-faced hypocrisy]. ... Although Judge McConaghy insisted, before the hearing, that he could be "fair," it has been learned that he holds strong anti-abortion views and regularly participated in Christian Fundamentalist prayer meetings [Editor's note: Gee, what a crime! Apparently no Christian can be "fair" in the feminist's eyes. Of course, if the guy had been a practicing Satanist and drag queen, he would have been perfectly acceptable to them. Just another ordinary guy]. ... What You Can Do: .. Contribute or raise money to help pay for trial expenses Attend court this summer or fall in Riverside Urge national and local pro-choice groups you belong to take a position of support for Dr. Steir. ... Send tax-deductible contribution to: Dr. Bruce Steir Constitutional Litigation Fund c/o Feminist Women's Health Center 1469 Humboldt Road Suite 200 Chico, Ca 95928 (530) 891-1911 (530) 893-9347 Fax."        A breathless e-mail letter sent out by the "Steir Defense Fund" on March 4, 1998, said, in part, "Dear Pro-Choice Supporter: The nightmare of Dr. Bruce Steir, abortion physician, continues. ... On February 18, 1998 Judge Dennis A. McConaghy, an anti-abortion judge in conservative Riverside County, California has held him over for trial. ... Dr. Steir's nightmare could happen to any provider of late abortions, especially one who travels a distance to provide abortions in a conservative community. He has surrendered [his medical] license, being unable to fight three legal battles at once - the battle to retain his license, the battle to prove he was not negligent, and the battle to stay out of jail. For several years California abortion providers have been alarmed at the California Medical Board's relentless attack on physicians who do later abortions. No one could foresee these outrageous criminal charges. In hindsight, it is easy to see how, given the climate of fear, suspicion, ignorance and pressure from the largest contingent of anti-abortion forces in the state, the California Medical Board could inflame the community justice system into bringing such harsh charges. Representatives from abortion clinics have attended all hearings and have examined all the medical records and the chart. We are fully satisfied that Sharon Hamptlon, the patient who died from an undetected perforation that bled into the abdominal cavity, was provided with competent medical treatment that met or exceeded that standard of care. This attack is serious. The effects of this attack, even if Dr. Steir is charged with the lowest criminal charge, Involuntary Manslaughter, can have a devastating effect on the availability of later abortion care nationally. Abortion providers understand this. We must take the lead in standing by Bruce and educating our pro-choice community about the fact that abortion is a comparatively safe procedure, but serious, sometimes fatal, complications can happen, even with excellent care. The Dr. Bruce Steir Constitutional Litigation Fund welcomes your questions, your ideas, your participation, and your financial support."        Shauna Heckert, executive director of the Feminist Women's Health Centers in Northern California, where Steir worked for 12 years, said "he really did have a bigger goal in mind ... to help women."        In this case, he certainly did help Sharon Hamptlon — right into the grave.        Specifically, the national leadership of the National Organization for Women (NOW), the National Abortion Federation (NAF), Refuse and Resist, and the California chapter of the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARRAL, now NARAL Pro-Choice America), argued against filing any charges at all against Steir. The Chico [California] Feminist Women's Health Center (FWHC) went so far as to set up a "Dr. Bruce Steir Constitutional Litigation Fund." Naturally, they blamed the murder charge on pro-lifers, claiming that the charges were "trumped-up" and brought for "political" reasons, and, despite Steir's own admissions, claimed that the complications he caused during the abortion were "undetected" [see excerpts from the above letter].        During his hearings, several workers for the Feminist Womens Health Centers (FWHCs) appeared in the courtroom wearing large "STEIR, OUR HERO" buttons, and one was ejected from the courtroom. The FWHC in Chico, California, was Steir's primary employer.        The National Organization for Women (NOW) followed FWHC's lead. A letter of support from the Sacramento chapter of NOW said that "It is an inequitable tragedy that a doctor, who has dedicated so many years of his practice to providing abortion services, now faces such unjust harassment. The charges against Dr. Steir must be dropped, not only because we believe that he is not guilty of murder but also because we must send the message that we cannot be bullied by the anti-choice movement." A 1998 letter from the National Abortion Federation (NAF) urged that the murder charge be set aside and that any action against Steir be taken through "medical peer review and civil court." The NAF, which "sets and maintains quality care standards for abortion services," insisted that there was no evidence that "Dr. Steir deliberately put aside all his years of training and experience in order to cause harm to this patient."        A report by the Northern California chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which had filed amicus briefs on Steir's behalf, insisted that the prosecution of Steir was part of a vast conspiracy by "anti-choice" activists. The ACLU report whined that "Through harassment and violence, anti-choice groups have tried to frighten women out of seeking abortions and to frighten doctors out of providing them. ... Recent years have seen the rise of another tactic: Using the legal and regulatory systems to intimidate abortion providers and drive them out of business."        Refuse & Resist!, a radical and extremely violent Marxist group headquartered in New York's Cathedral of St. John the Divine, designated Steir "a true hero" as it conferred its supposedly coveted "Courageous Resister" award upon Steir during its March 10, 1998 "National Day of Appreciation for Abortion Providers." Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Dorothy Fadiman, who attended the Refuse & Resist! ceremony in San Francisco, described Steir as "part of a sacred circle who have put their lives on the line for us." Meanwhile, Steir, like so many other abortionists, blamed the women for their problems when he said that "They were all second-trimester abortions. The patients put themselves at risk by waiting so long."        Showing its utter disregard for the lives of women, the abortion industry, while canonizing Steir, resolutely ignored the women who had been maimed by him. Steir's defenders dismissed the death of Sharon Hamptlon as a "tragic complication," rather than another episode of gross negligence on his part. What was really important, maintained the abortion establishment, were the supposed motives of Steir's opponents. For example, a letter from Eleanor Smeal's Feminist Majority Foundation (FMF) to the California Medical Board asserted that "We believe the murder charge against Dr. Bruce Steir is part of an orchestrated campaign by anti-abortion extremists that targets health care workers and continues to harass them until they quit. We urge you to consider the possibility of ulterior motives of those accusing Dr. Steir and to respond accordingly."        In summary, it is significant that none of the self-proclaimed "champions of women's rights" considered it worthwhile to hold Steir accountable for his gross ineptitude.        In a February 15, 1989 deposition, Steir admitted that he spent an average of seven seconds with each patient before aborting them. He said that his total interaction with the women consisted of the words "Hello, my name is Bruce and I'm here to perform your abortion. How are you?"        Phyllida Burlingame of the American Civil Liberties Union authored a "study" concluding that legitimate doctors were not treated as harshly as Bruce Steir. State officials dismissed the allegations, calling the study a flawed review and a rehash of arguments that failed Steir's defense team in court. In a written statement, a medical board official assailed the ACLU study. The review contains no information on how Burlingame evaluated the cases, said Ron Joseph, the board's executive director. And it ignored the fact that the medical review process includes independent examinations by doctors, prosecutors and administrative judges.        Burlingame's study also accused the California Attorney General's Office of inappropriately providing information about the Steir investigation to a pro-life organization before the information was made public. That information was used to lobby for criminal charges, she said. Deputy Attorney General Jose Guerrero said no information was released before it was included in public records. Many of the study's conclusions were raised as defense issues by Steir's attorneys. Judges rejected the arguments before Steir accepted a plea bargain. "How many times do we get to chew this cud?" Riverside County prosecutor Kennis Clark asked, calling the study an attempt to generate publicity just before Steir's sentencing. Clark said Steir's remark that he had "pulled bowel" was the key to the prosecution. "If that statement had never been made, we never would have prosecuted that case," she said. "When you make a statement that you've done something bad and don't do anything to fix it, that's when you're in trouble. ... Because [Steir] had so many prior bad acts and lies in his background ... we know that he knew."        Dr. Dennis Christensen of the Madison Abortion Clinic in Wisconsin wrote that "since [Steir] has relinquished his medical credentials, there is no way he can be considered a threat to the community. Any other medical mishap that didn't involve abortion or intentional abuse would never have seen the inside of a criminal courtroom. I am convinced that Dr. Steir is being crucified on the tree of political ambition. ... The practice of medicine is an imperfect and often unpredictable undertaking which doesn't always follow a happy ending script and I believe justice would be best served with a minimal judicial penalty."        In an interview with the publication Inland Empire, Steir said, "My incarceration proved nothing." He maintained he was guilty only of failing "to make the diagnosis of her (Hamptlon's) condition." "I'm absolutely not sorry," he told the Inland Empire. "I'm sorry I ended up in jail. I'm sorry I had to surrender my license and I'm sorry a woman died. I would like not to have done that abortion that day." His order of priorities is telling; he apparently sees himself as the primary victim in the matter.        Jack Schuler, the Hamptlon family's attorney, said "I don't understand why the pro-choice people want to rally around the cause of a shoddy physician. If I were in their shoes, I would do as much as possible to distance myself from the likes of Steir ... rather than having him be the poster boy for my cause."        At the last possible minute, as jury selection was about to begin, Steir pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter. He entered the plea in Riverside County Superior Court. Pro-aborts continued to support him. Despite the crushing weight of evidence, Carol Downer ignored all reality and said "I'm incredibly sad. There was no case. "I'm sure this will give heart to people who want to attack doctors."        Steir's defense had suffered a series of losses in court while arguing that he was a victim of selective prosecution, targeted because he performed abortions. Despite a total lack of evidence, defense attorneys also alleged that state officials and prosecutors pushed for a murder charge because of pressure from abortion opponents. In pretrial hearings, Judge Vilia Sherman said she saw no indication that pro-life pressure led to the charge. A state official denied the selective-prosecution allegation and said abortion opponents hold no sway in any investigation into medical wrongdoing. Candis Cohen, spokeswoman for the Medical Board of California, said that "Mr. Steir's record ... of mispractice speaks for itself."        Hamptlon's mother, Doris, said that Steir should go to prison for a "long, long, long, long time. My child's never coming back."        Doris Hamptlon and her husband now care for Hamptlon's son, Curtis Bullorck, who is 7 years old and attends first grade. In 1999, the family agreed to a settlement worth up to $2 million in a civil lawsuit against Steir.        The clinic where the abortion was performed is owned by Dr. Joseph Durante, who was placed on two months' probation last year for failing to disclose previous disciplinary actions taken against him.        On November 30, 1998, the San Diego Union stated that "The shadow of Dr. Bruce Steir hangs over the Medical Board of California like a cloud — a constant reminder of how an incompetent and dangerous physician slipped through the cracks. ... Beginning in 1985, when he was thrown off staff at the Naval Hospital on Camp Pendleton, Steir repeatedly was disciplined for harming California women."        Steir was spared a prison sentence. His punishment for killing Sharon Hamptlon was a year in the county jail, 60 months of probation, and 1,000 hours of community service. The sentencing judge suspended 180 days of the sentence, thus reducing the term to six months. On September 16, 2000, after serving 114 days, Steir was released. This was done for his ostensible good behavior, which apparently did not require the slightest expression of remorse. References:  "Abortion Doctor." Associated Press, October 24, 1997; "Abortion Practitioner to be Tried for Second-Degree Murder." The Press-Enterprise [Riverside, California], December 19 anad 21, 1996, and February 19 and July 11, 1998; American Life League's Communiqu‚, November 14, 1997; Raymond Smith. "Funds Raised for Abortion Doctor." The Press-Enterprise, December 1, 1997, pages B1 and B2; "Woman's Death From Legal Abortion Continues to Cause Concern." Los Angeles Times, December 1, 1998; "Woman's Death From Abortion Makes for Explosive Case." Steven Ertelt's Pro-Life Infonet at http://www.prolifeinfo.org/infonet.html, July 31, 1998, December 2, 1998 and February 19, 1999; "Legal Abortion Death Continues to Make Headlines," Sacramento Bee, February 18, 1999; "Abortion Practitioner Who Killed Woman Will Face Murder Trial." Pro-Life Infonet, April 6, 2000; Raymond Smith, The Press-Enterprise. "Plea Changed to Guilty in Abortion Case: An Agreement to a Lesser Charge is Reached as the Murder Trial was About to Begin." Inland Empire Online, April 10, 2000; "Abortionist Changes Plea to Guilty in Murder Trial." Pro-Life Infonet, April 7, 2000; "Abortionist Pleads Guilty: First Such Conviction Ever in State." San Diego News Notes, May 2000, pages 1 and 3; "News." Los Angeles Lay Catholic Mission, May 2000, pages 10 and 11; "ACLU Says Bias Led to Prosecution of Bruce Steir." Riverside Press-Enterprise, May 26, 2000; "ACLU Says Bias Led to Prosecution of Bruce Steir." Pro-Life Infonet, May 28, 2000; "Steir Gets Only One Year for Abortion-Related Death." Pro-Life Infonet, May 30, 2000; Maggie Garcia. "Caught Off Guard: Abortionist Sentenced to Jail." Los Angeles Lay Catholic Mission, July/August 2000, page 1; Julie Foster and Michael P. Ackley. Jailed Abortionist to be Released Early. Doctor Who Botched Procedure: 'My Incarceration Proved Nothing'." WorldNetDaily.com, September 16, 2000; William Norman Grigg. "The Abortion Underworld." The New American, January 15, 2001 [Volume 17, Number 2] [this is a wonderful description about how pro-abortion groups fully supported a butcher]; "Abortion Practitioner Convicted of Manslaughter in Legal Abortion Death." Arizona Republic, May 5, 2001; Pro-Life Infonet, May 5, 2001. Infanticide (2 counts) [Santa Ana]        On March 2, 1977, abortionist William Waddill, Jr. committed a third-trimester abortion saline abortion and delivered alive a viable baby girl, whom he then strangled to death. This was the second time he had been charged with infanticide. References:  "Defense Rests in Dr. Waddill Trial Despite 'Missing' Evidence." National Right to Life News, June 1979, page 5; Omaha World-Herald, October 19, 1979; Los Angeles Times Magazine, January 7, 1990; Philadelphia Inquirer, August 8, 1981; Orange County Superior Court Case Number C-37815, Case Number 28-84-14. Infanticide        Nurse witnesses stated that an abortionist from San Vicente Hospital, California, aborted a 7-month old preborn baby live. Some time later, he noticed that the baby was still moving, and drowned the little child in a vat of formaldehyde. Reference:  "Technician Alleges Aborted Baby Drowns." National Right to Life News, March 25, 1982, page 5. Fatal Botched Abortions (3 incidents) and Medicare Fraud        Abortionist Leo Kenneally botched a December 19, 1992 abortion on Estella Gonzales at the HER abortion mill. After she left the abortion mill, she collapsed and was rushed to an emergency room for surgery to correct a lacerated uterus and intestines. Estella reported that while she was hospitalized, clinic employees visited her and offered her $10,000, and later $5,000 and a Cadillac; HER's attorney called this "a humanitarian gesture."        Kenneally was charged with negligence by the medical board in the 1986 death of Donna Heim following an abortion at his HER Medical Clinic by Mahlon D. Cannon.        Kenneally aborted Liliana Cortez on September 20, 1986 at his HER Medical Clinic. She went into cardiac arrest after abortion and there was a 40-minute delay before paramedics arrived. She was transported to a hospital, where she died five days later. Her death was ruled a "therapeutic misadventure," which a coroner's spokesman called "a nice medical term for a mistake." The attorney for the abortion mill said that "If something like this happened at a hospital, people would just say it was bad luck, one of those fluky things. But all of a sudden they make it seem like these (abortion clinics) are terrible places where terrible things happen."        Kenneally's medical license was suspended after his negligence resulted in several deaths and injuries. He was investigated after the death of another woman (possibly Maria Soto, who died at the HER Medical Clinic on September 9, 1985). The California Medical Board attributed the deaths of Donna K. Heim, Liliana Cortez, and Michelle Thames to his neglect or incompetence.        His medical license was suspended in 1975 for federal narcotics records-keeping violations and in 1979 for Medi-Cal theft. The California Medical Board voted to allow Kenneally to keep his medical license despite finding him guilty of incompetence and negligence because he works in an "underserved" neighborhood. References:  Los Angeles Times, June 17, 1991 and January 31, 1993; Betsy Bates. "For Three Women, a Safe Medical Procedure Turned Deadly." Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, February 22, 1988, page A7; Los Angeles County Superior Court Case #SWC30375; Claire Spiegel. "Physician in Abortion Case Loses License." Los Angeles Times, June 17, 1991, page B1. Fatal Botched Abortions (5 incidents) and Malpractice (21 incidents) Introduction.        There are several examples of high-volume abortion mills in the United States that have killed women repeatedly, whose abortionists have botched literally dozens of abortions, and which have failed inspection after inspection — but which operate for years or even decades. These 'front-alley' abortion mills are always loudly defended by the press, the State, and the pro-abortionists regardless of how many women die or are butchered at them.        A prime example of this kind of legalized butchery is presented by the Inglewood Women's Hospital, in Los Angeles, California. This huge abortion mill killed an incredible 12,000 preborn children a year, making it one of the largest clinics in the United States. It was also operated so sloppily that deaths and maimings were inevitable.        Inglewood abortionists worked quickly and efficiently, and each patient spent just five minutes in Inglewood's single operating room. This five minute time period included not only the abortion, but the preparation of the room for the next patient, which meant cleaning the floor and procedure table and suction machine. This five minutes also included counseling. Belinda Byrd was aborted at nineteen weeks gestation, which means the abortionist had perhaps three minutes to dismember and extract a preborn baby that weighed about a pound.        Abortionist Steven N. Pine botched two abortions so badly that both of his patients died: Yvonne Tanner in 1984 and Belinda Ann Byrd in 1987, both at the Inglewood Women's Hospital abortion mill. Several other women died at the high-volume clinic over the years, including Kathy Murphy, Lynette Wallace, Cora Mae Lewis and Elizabeth Tsuji. The Unlamented Death of Belinda Byrd.        Belinda Byrd, young mother of three, died at the hands of abortionist Steven N. Pine at the Inglewood abortion mill in 1987. But the abortion mill continued to butcher women unimpeded by the State, the media, or feminists. Belinda was the 74th abortion of the day in Inglewood's single procedure room.        Belinda's mother, Mattie Byrd, tried hard to get justice for her little daughter, but nobody would listen to her. Finally, she resorted to putting posters up in her Watts neighborhood urging the State to take action against the Inglewood abortion mill. She finally wrote a letter to a Los Angeles district attorney; I am the mother of Belinda A. Byrd, victim of abortionists at 426 E. 99th Street in Inglewood. I am also the grandmother of her three young children who are left behind and motherless. I cry every day when I think how horrible her death was. She was slashed by them and then she bled to death. ... She has been stone dead for two years now, and nobody cares. I know that other young Black women are now dead after abortion at that address — Cora Mae Lewis and Yvonne Tanner. Where is [the abortionist] now? Has he been stopped? Has anything happened to him because of what he did to my Belinda? Has he served jail time for any of these cruel deaths? People tell me nothing has happened, that nothing ever happens to White abortionists who leave young Black women dead. I'm hurting real bad and want some justice for Belinda and all other women who go like sheep to slaughter. Sincerely, Mrs. Mattie Byrd        As a partial result of this botched abortion, the Inglewood Women's Hospital had its license revoked by the State of California and closed down a month after Belinda's death. However, money is a great motivator, and it opened only two weeks later with a different name: The West Coast Women's Medical Group. It was now a freestanding clinic, meaning that it did not have to have a State license. It was subsequently bought by mega-abortionist Edward Allred (who has also killed several women), and still functions to this day. Women Who Died at Inglewood.        On August 24, 1973, Kathleen Denise Murphy was aborted at the Inglewood Women's Hospital abortion mill. After the abortion, she drifted in and out of consciousness. She stayed at Inglewood until the staff finally transferred her by ambulance to Centinela Hospital on September 7, two full weeks after her abortion. On that same day, the hospital transferred her back to Inglewood, where abortionist John Dupont pronounced her dead at 1:20 on the morning of September 8. Her autopsy showed that she died of massive cervical and uterine infections caused by the abortion. Her cervix in particular was covered with greenish-black pus.        On September 13, 1975, 22-year-old Lynette Wallace was aborted at the Inglewood Women's Hospital abortion mill. Two weeks later, on September 27, she reported to a hospital emergency room, complaining of severe abdominal pain. She became hysterical, and died of cardiopulmonary arrest at 10:53 AM. Her autopsy revealed what Inglewood abortionists should have detected — that she had had an ectopic pregnancy. Her Fallopian tube had ruptured, causing a massive infection.        On February 2, 1978, Elizabeth Tsuji had a saline abortion at the Inglewood Women's Hospital abortion mill and died three days later.        On November 11, 1983, Cora Mae Lewis was aborted at the Inglewood Women's Hospital abortion mill. After the abortion, she developed fever and chills and was admitted to a real hospital, where she died on December 3. She died of pneumonia and lung abscesses caused by uterine and cervical inflammations caused by her abortion, but the death was classified as "natural" and an "accident."        On July 10, 1984, Steven Pine and/or Morton Barke aborted Yvonne Tanner at Inglewood. She immediately went into a coma after the abortion and died on August 14, 1984.        Last to die at Inglewood was Belinda Byrd, who was aborted at Inglewood by Steven Pine on January 24, 1987. She was 19 weeks pregnant. She went into a coma and died on January 27 due to bleeding from a punctured uterus. Other Botched Abortions at Inglewood.        Many other women alleged malpractice and various other injuries at the hands of Steven Pine or other abortionists at Inglewood. These women included; 1971: Joyce B., aborted at the West Coast Medical Group, as Inglewood was called at that time, on October 29, 1971. 1972: Debra V., at hands of abortionist Richard B. Tepper. Debra said in her suit that Inglewood seemed designed "to get me through the operation as quickly as possible as opposed to ensuring my well being and safety, both before, during and after the operation;" Tami R., aborted on June 1-2, 1972; and Jean K., for a Planned Parenthood-referred abortion at the hands of Dennis Perlow. Jean said that "They told me that the abortion was a quick and simple procedure and that no problems could result. I wasn't warned that the doctors performing the abortion had so many other abortions to do that realistically it would be hard for them to do anything with care. ... I was sent to an abortion mill." 1973: Janet C., Gladys G. and Gloria D., at the hands of abortionist John Dupont on June 9, 1973, July 11, 1973, and September 4, 1973, respectively; Sharon M., at the hands of Maclyn Wade and/or Dennis Perlow in May 1973; and 13-year-old Cynthia T., at the hands of Leo Kenneally in April 1973. According to her lawsuit, little Cynthia suffered "post-abortal clostridia sepsis, diffuse intravascular coagulation, and acute tubular necrosis. ... Some necrotic material was found in the uterus, draining of the cul-de-sac revealed pus, and the uterus was found to be quite involved by a suppurative process as were the tubes and ovaries. The plaintiff also suffered acute renal failure. ... [The plaintiff] has suffered severe emotional, nervous, mental and psychological shock resulting from the complete abdominal hysterectomy, and demonstrated by prolonged periods of depression and lethargy." The little girl must take medications for the rest of her life, and will never have children, thanks to the Inglewood assembly-line abortion mill. 1974: Patricia J., at the hands of abortionist John Dupont on November 30, 1974; and Laura M. at the hands of abortionist Floyd Gray and/or Jacobs Noghrian on January 15, 1974; 1975: Aliner P., at the hands of abortionist Fred D. Parrott on April 25, 1975; 1978: Deborah S., at the hands of Morton Barke on September 29, 1978. Elizabeth Tsuji also died at Inglewood in 1978. 1979: Karen C., at the hands of John Dupont on July 28, 1979, and Linda L., at the hands of Scott Ricke on October 20, 1979. Also, the Philadelphia Inquirer, on August 2, 1981, published a story of live births after abortion at Inglewood, and described a 1979 case where a 1-pound 11-ounce infant was born after a saline abortion and subsequently died. 1980: Mia C., at the hands of abortionist P. Scott Ricke on June 12, 1980. 1981: Sandra Applegate; and Dorothy A., aborted on June 27, 1981. 1982: Vicky Rabourn; Betty Matthews; Shannette D., aborted at Inglewood on February 17, 1982; Betty M. and Vicky R., aborted at the hands of Steven Pine on September 29 and November 24, respectively; and Stella G., aborted at Inglewood on November 14, 1982. 1983: Patrice C., aborted by Morton Barke and/or R. Weaver and/or C. Von Dippe at Inglewood on April 27, 1983. 1984: Tracy M. Medley, Susan Lee Minyo, Shanti Friend, Leslie M. Thompson and Kathryn Ann Hummell [the last by Steven Pine at Women's Care Hospital]; Shanti F., at the hands of Steven Pine on June 19, 1984; Leslie T., at the hands of Lola Barke and/or Steven Pine and/or Bruce Shiffman on January 5, 1984; Dianne C., at the hands of Morton Barke on September 11, 1984; Tracy M., at the hands of Steven Pine and/or Morton Barke on June 1, 1984; and Susan M., at the hands of Steven Pine and/or Morton Barke on April 17, 1984. 1986: Juana Nunez; Penny P., aborted by Bruce Schiffman on August 2, 1986; Juana N., aborted by Edward Wilson on September 13, 1986, and winding up being hospitalized for five weeks; Kate A., at the hands of Bennett Weiss on October 12, 1986; Debra W., sterilized and then aborted by Steven Pine; and Dayna H., at the hands of Bruce Schiffman and/or Chand Aryasingha in December 1986. 1987: Debra Weaver; Mary Y., 22 weeks pregnant, aborted on January 22, 1987 by Morton Barke and/or Steven Pine, and/or Theresa Zumwalt; Edith H., aborted at Inglewood in June 1987; Teresa C., at the hands of Teresa Zumwalt and/or Morton Barke on June 2, 1987; Christina G., aborted at Inglewood on June 26, 1987; Monique D., at the hands of David Lieu on November 11, 1987; and Rosette M., aborted by John Kaplan on December 11, 1987. 1988: Donnetta G., failed abortion on May 21, 1988. One Inspection After Another Failed.        The "Inglewood Women's Hospital" abortion mill is the perfect example of exactly how unconcerned abortionists are about women's health. Inspection after inspection turned up life-threatening deficiencies. After the death of Elizabeth Tsuji, a March 1978 inspection found: • no pulmonary function testing available; • missing radiology equipment; • required equipment not in recovery room; • no identification of infections evident at time of admission; • no documentation that the physician director was coordinating respiratory care services; • respiratory care diagnostic and therapeutic procedures were not being provided; • facility conducting outpatient surgical services without having applied for a license to do so; • dietetic supervisor not qualified to do the job. This was very important, since many of Inglewood's late-term abortion patients had to stay overnight in the abortion mill; • syringes and needles not being rendered unusable in the recovery room; and • facility had an inadequate disaster plan.        Three days after Cora Mae Lewis died at Inglewood in November 1978, another inspection found • radiology equipment missing; • required equipment not in recovery room; • unqualified staff inserting laminaria and performing physicals; • no nursing care plans for seven patients; • standing orders not signed; • medical records charting not all signed; • facility still using an unqualified dietetic supervisor; • facility still failing to render syringes and needles unusable; and • forms for sterilizations did not have physician signature, date, and time.        A February 1980 inspection found that conditions had not improved. Obviously, the abortionists at Inglewood had learned that the State of California was not going to impede their mad rush for money in any meaningful way. This inspection found; • no documentation that a registered nurse was always available; • there was not always an RN assigned to the recovery room; • two of three nursing plans reviewed were identical, and had not been individualized for each patient; • there were more problems with the charts and documentation, including notes not being signed by the person making the observation; • there were also irregularities of standing orders; • "surgery log had white out and a different procedure performed written over;" • "history and physician exams as recorded were less than adequate in a number of charts;" and • consent forms for sterilizations still did not have physician's signature, date, and time.        Inglewood continued to operate unimpeded. A year later, a February 1981, inspection found; • no documentation of pre- and post-anesthesia instructions; • only one crash cart available for both nursing and surgery; • cloth-wrapped sterile supplies were marked with a six-month expiration date rather than a thirty-day expiration date indicated in policies; • ECG machine not on written preventive maintenance program; • electromedical equipment not tested as scheduled; • no control panel for nursing call station; and • diet orders unclear.        A September 24, 1982 inspection found; • post-anesthesia notes dated later than the time the observation was supposedly made; • records face sheets were signed off by the physician with blank spaces later stamped with final diagnosis, surgery, and complications; • date and time of orders were not documented; • patient records were charted by aides but signed by a registered nurse; • improper documentation of IVs