Abortion Violence




Elk City -- Arson In April 1999, a pro-abortion arsonist burned the Elk City Crisis Pregnancy Center to the ground. The inside was totally destroyed, to include a large stock of goods intended to help pregnant mothers: Baby clothes, cribs, diapers and formula. The city helped clear the rubble from the ashes, and a beneficiary offered the CPC two rent-free months of occupancy. "Another Pro-Life Center Burned." Right to Life Educational Foundation of Cincinnati Bulletin, May 1999.
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Oklahoma City -- Mass Murder During the time period 1983 to 1985, researchers at Oklahoma Children's Memorial Hospital attempted to extend "abortion rights" to the "fourth trimester" as they murdered thirty-three babies having spina bifida by denying treatment to the babies, all whom would have lived if they had been given food and water. The hospital is part of University of Oklahoma's medical school, and the killers called this atrocity "medical research." The thirty-three babies and several other babies were guinea pigs in a project to determine whether untreated spina bifida babies would die faster than treated ones. They did. The parents of the 33 were not informed that their children would not receive treatment. Those babies which were treated lived. Those that did not receive treatment died of thirst and starvation. Although there was a formal investigation by the university which resulted in reprimands, the district attorney did not prosecute because he determined that he would likely be unsuccessful in that effort. This was because the scientific community was divided over the proper way to treat spina bifida. Six sets of parents of the dead babies prevailed in lawsuits against the Hospital. Curtis Harris, M.D., President of American Academy of Medical Ethics, telephone conversation with Lynn K. Murphy, December 6, 1994. Debra Braun. "Oklahoma Hospital Allegedly Withholds Life-Saving Treatment From Handicapped Babies." National Right to Life News, May 16, 1985, pages 1 and 8. David H. Andrusko. "Death By the Numbers." National Right to Life News, May 16, 1985, page 2. Leslie Bond. "Federal Court Allows Suit to Continue in Case of Oklahoma Infanticide." National Right to Life News, July 16, 1987, page 2 and 9. Joyce Price. "Doctors Cleared In Deaths Of Spina Bifida Babies." National Right to Life News, February 12, 1990, page 6. Oklahoma City -- First-Degree Murder and Death Threats (5 incidents) Prominent Oklahoma City abortionist John Baxter Hamilton was having an affair with a topless dancer, and his wife, 55-year-old Susan Shibley Hamilton, was considering leaving him. Just two days before Valentine's Day 2001, they spoke of divorce. The Hamiltons' marriage had been in trouble for some time before the murder. Two months before Susan's death, they fought over the defendant giving his son money without her knowing about it. Susan Hamilton suspected her husband was having an affair with a patient and stripper whose telephone number turned up 60 times on the defendant's cell phone bills. Alliena Aguirre, a topless dancer, testified she had performed table dances at two Oklahoma City clubs for the abortionist. She said he paid her $100 and $80 for the dances that cost $20 each. Aguirre, also known as Nina, said she first went to the defendant for an abortion in the early 1990s, but she also saw him at his gynecology office. She denied having an affair or any type of personal relationship with Hamilton. Aguirre said he called her 10 or more times a day. On February 8, after the victim learned of the cell phone calls, Hamilton wrote Aguirre in a letter saying he could no longer be her doctor, she said. During his trial, Hamilton claimed the dancer was a manic-depressive, suicidal patient whom he was trying to help. Shary Coffey, Susan Hamilton's best friend for 37 years, testified the victim told her February 7 that she thought her husband was having an affair. On Valentine's Day [February 14], the couple got into another argument. It ended decisively when Hamilton choked his wife with a necktie, beat her over the head with a heavy blunt object hard enough to smash a hole in her skull, and then slammed her face repeatedly onto the marble floor of the master bathroom in the couple's Quail Creek home. Hamilton was arrested later that day after police found the body of his wife in their home. Shortly after 11 a.m., police responded to a "trouble unknown" call at the couple's house, and found a woman with "visible trauma to the body," said Captain Jessica Cummins, a police spokeswoman. She was pronounced dead at the scene. When police rushed up the pebble stone drive at 3056 Brush Creek Road, they found a white Corvette and a beige Jaguar XJ6 parked as usual in front of the Hamilton house. But inside, they found the abortionist barefoot in the kitchen wearing a bloody black sports coat, green dress slacks, white dress shirt, and no tie. In a bathroom, they discovered the dead body of society-page and country club regular Susan Hamilton lying nude in a pool of blood with a man's dress tie looped around her neck. Her forehead had been bashed in with a blunt object. At a May 25, 2001 hearing, several witnesses testified that the abortionist regularly abused his wife, and that she had been seen in public with bruises a number of times. One witness said that she had first met Susan Hamilton at a domestic abuse support group in 1995. On December 19, 2001, an Oklahoma County jury convicted Hamilton of murdering his wife. In light of the overwhelming evidence against Hamilton, the seven women and five men of the jury reached their verdict in less than two hours. The abortionist displayed no reaction to the guilty verdict. District Judge Ray Elliott announced the recommended punishment: Life without parole. Hamilton purchased the Oklahoma City Clinic for Women abortion mill in 1980 and did abortions there for more than twenty years (a fact never mentioned by the `mainline' press in its coverage of this story). Oklahoma City authorities found that he aborted 15 to 20 preborn children at his abortion mill every Tuesday and Thursday, and each Wednesday and Friday he deposited about $3,000 into his bank. The math shows that, in twenty years, he would have aborted between 30,000 and 40,000 preborn babies and made about six million dollars from his abortions during this time period. His murdered wife worked alongside him at the abortuary as a physician's assistant. Authorities believe that he killed her between two surgeries he had scheduled at Mercy Medical Center. An investigator said that "We believe he left the surgical center after the first surgery, killed [Mrs. Hamilton], returned to the hospital, performed the second surgery, then went home and pretended to discover the body. It was a brutal, very violent crime." Despite all of this evidence, pro-abortionists immediately began to speak out in Hamilton's defense. With no sense of irony whatever, Diane McDaniel said "If asked if he could do it, I'd say there is no way he could have killed anything. He is a very kind man. I wouldn't think he would hurt a fly." Incredibly, at a March 16, 2001 hearing, Hamilton's lawyer, Mack Martin, said that police should be investigating local pro-lifers as suspects in the murder, not the abortionist! Oklahoma City pro-life activist Stan Engle said the murder-one charge against Dr. Hamilton "... seemed normal. Someone who makes a living taking the lives of the unborn is only one step away from taking the lives of the born." Oklahoma City physician Dominic Pedulla believes the brutality of abortion penetrates the abortionist's soul, rendering him capable of other brutal acts. "The abortionist lives an intrinsically violent lifestyle [that isn't] sanitized because the doctor is making a nice living, dresses well, and lives in an upper social stratum," said Dr. Pedulla, who described Hamilton as "one of the most well-known abortionists" in the city. "An abortion doctor is confronted with an irreconcilable conflict. ... How can he compartmentalize and say, `On the one hand it's okay to kill these babies, and on the other hand it's not okay to solve my anger problems with violence'?" Similar blindness may have afflicted John Hamilton. A former associate to whom World Magazine granted anonymity because she feared for her family's safety said, "At first [Dr. Hamilton] was gung-ho on abortion. He really felt like he was doing women a service. But after time, he did not want to let [his abortion practice] go because it was such a moneymaker. He didn't care anymore." In July 2001, pro-abortionists sent death threats to at least three Oklahoma City news agencies, threatening violence against Oklahoma County District Attorney Wes Lane or a state witness against abortionist Hamilton. The threats, received by The Oklahoman newspaper, KWTV NEWS9 and another television station, warned of retribution if Lane did not drop the charges against Hamilton. The letter to The Oklahoman was typed in capital letters and dated July 9, 2001. It was mailed from within Oklahoma City and carried no return address. The newspaper's address appeared to have been cut from an issue of the paper and taped to the envelope. "You all will have a big news story soon ... if Wes Lane doesn't drop charges against Dr. Hamilton," the letter reads. "One of his witnesses will be dead -- we have tried to warn her." KWTV NEWS9 received a similar letter on July 10, 2001, and KFOR Channel 4 received a letter in June of 2001. The letter sent to KFOR threatened the life of Lane. The letter warned that Lane would die if he didn't drop charges against Hamilton. The letter said that Lane's witness would also be murdered and warned that it was "very serious." All three news agencies turned the letters over to police or the district attorney's office. Police said they are investigating the threats. As Hamilton's preliminary hearing ended June 25, Oklahoma County sheriff's deputies questioned and photographed court spectators. Lane said the measure was part of an investigation into written threats that were made against his office and against a witness. Subsequently, death threats were received by retired district attorney Bob Macy, and another was given to the key witness after someone discovered it in the rest room of her church. The letter writer could face felony charges of attempting to intimidate a witness, which carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison. Lane said "I think that anybody who would engage in a kind of long-distance terrorism and without being willing to look me in the eye and say that they have got a problem ... are gutless cowards." Amazingly, Hamilton's defense attorney Mack Martin blamed the letters on pro=lifers! "They aren't anyone associated with Dr. Hamilton because they are hurting us more than them," Martin said. "As far as I am concerned, it is probably some anti-abortion activist or someone who is out to hurt the doctor." At Hamilton's preliminary hearing, the female witness, whom local media sources agreed not to identify because of safety concerns, testified she and Susan Hamilton swapped stories of spousal abuse for about five years. The pair joined other abused women in a first-names-only "support group," she said. Hamilton pleaded not guilty to the murder of his wife. District Judge Ray Elliott said he requested a metal detector and additional armed deputies after the above threats were made to District Attorney Wes Lane and to one of the state's witnesses. The abortionist testified in his own defense, telling jurors he loved his slain wife "more than anything in the whole wide world" and "could never have hurt her." All of the smoke thrown up by the abortionist and his pro-abortion supporters didn't help him in the end, though; on January 8, 2002, Hamilton was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, and was ordered to pay $11,104 for the cost of his incarceration in the Oklahoma County jail. This was the first time an inmate in Oklahoma County has been ordered to pay for his stay. Ken Raymond. "Doctor Arrested in Wife's Death." Oklahoman Online, February 16, 2001; "Few Details Released on Arrest of Doctor." The Oklahoman, February 16, 2001; "Doctor to Attend Wife's Service." The Oklahoman, February 17, 2001; "Doctor Leaves Jail for Funeral - Obstetrician Permitted to Attend Wife's Services." The Oklahoman, February 21, 2001; "City Obstetrician Charged in Fatal Beating of Wife." The Oklahoman, February 22, 2001; "Doctor, Slain Wife Argued About Affair, Police Say - Evidence Taken from Home Where Woman's Body Found." The Oklahoman, February 27, 2001; Ken Raymond. "Document Describes Crime Scene." The Oklahoman, March 2, 2001; "Slaying Shocks Neighborhood." The Oklahoman, March 4, 2001; Lynne Vincent. "One Murder Too Many?" World Magazine, April 7, 2001; "Suspect Loses Bail Appeal - Doctor Charged in Wife's Death to Remain in Jail Pending Trial." The Oklahoman, May 9, 2001; "Doctor's Wife Fought Strangler." The Oklahoman, May 12, 2001; "Prosecutors Say Doctor Abused Wife." The Oklahoman, May 26, 2001; Paul Likoudis. "New York State Medical Board Goes Easy on Abortionist Who Stalked Patients." The Wanderer, June 21, 2001. "Hamilton to Face Charges: Testimony Begins in Hamilton Murder Hearing." The Oklahoman, June 25, 2001; "Hamilton Murder Investigation: Judge Decides Physician Will Stand Trial in Slaying." The Oklahoman, June 26, 2001; "Media Receives Threats in Case of Abortion Practitioner Killing Wife." The Oklahoman and KFOR Radio, July 18, 2001; "District Attorney Receives Death Threat to Drop Case Against Abortionist." Lifesite Daily News at http://www.lifesite.net, July 19, 2001; Steven Ertelt's Pro-Life Infonet at http://www.prolifeinfo.org/infonet.html, July 22, 2001; "Letter Threatens Oklahoma County District Attorney." July 23, 2001. Downloaded from http://www.kfor.com/Global/story.asp/?s=405237 on July 23, 2001; Diana Baldwin. "Murder Trial for City Doctor to Begin December 3." Oklahoman Online, July 24, 2001; "Jury Questioned in Abortionist's Murder Case." Pro-Life Infonet, December 6, 2001; Diana Baldwin. "Hamilton Jury Told of Love and Death." The Oklahoman, December 7, 2001; Diana Baldwin. "Colleagues Say Doctor Was Late for Surgery on Day Wife was Slain." The Oklahoman, December 11, 2001; "Testimony Begins in Abortion Practitioner's Murder Trial." Pro-Life Infonet, December 12, 2001; Diana Baldwin. "Attack Held Intense Violence." The Oklahoman, December 13, 2001; "Abortion Practitioner's Murder Trial Continues in Oklahoma." Pro-Life Infonet, December 16, 2001; "Abortion Practitioner Testifies in His Murder Trial." Pro-Life Infonet, December 19, 2001; Ken Raymond. "Doctor Guilty in Wife's Death." The Oklahoman, December 20, 2001; "Abortion Practitioner Convicted of Killing His Wife." Pro-Life Infonet, December 21, 2001; "Abortionist Sentenced to Life for Murder, Ordered to Pay Jail Costs." LifeSite Daily News, January 8, 2002; Diana Baldwin. "Oklahoma Abortion Practitioner Sentenced for Murder." The Oklahoman, January 8, 2002; Pro-Life Infonet, January 10, 2002. Oklahoma City -- First-Degree Murder (2 counts) and Manslaughter (2 counts) Nathaniel Dee Smith killed his girlfriend Lorena Rivera because, as Assistant District Attorney Don Deason told jurors, "she refused to have an abortion and he didn't want to pay child support." Smith was charged with first-degree murder in Rivera's death and manslaughter in the death of their unborn child. Rivera, 21, was at least 21 weeks pregnant when she disappeared from South Oklahoma City on April 29, 1997. Her body was found more than a month later, buried in a garbage bag in a shallow Pottawatomie County grave near Pink. She had been beaten and shot twice. Witnesses testified that Smith had pressured Rivera to have an abortion and had threatened to kill her. Smith had another girlfriend, Virginia "Vickie" Rameriz, 17, who was also charged with first-degree murder and manslaughter for helping murder Rivera. Smith was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. "Woman Killed for Refusing To Get Abortion, Jurors Told." The Oklahoman, May 21, 1999 and June 2, 1999; Steven Ertelt's Pro-Life Infonet at http://www.prolifeinfo.org/infonet.html, May 31, 1999. Oklahoma City -- Manslaughter and Fatal Botched Abortion Abortionist Joe Bills Reynolds performed breast implants, a hysterectomy, and numerous liposuction procedures on his wife. His 60-year-old anesthetist had originally been hired as a janitor, and an untrained orderly was acting as his nurse. His operating room was littered with dirty cups and papers. He tried to collect $500,000 on his wife's life insurance after she bled to death after he opened a 25-inch incision in her abdomen, ostensibly for liposuction, on September 7, 1989. Reynolds would not allow paramedics to aid her until he had finished stapling the huge incision. He told his wife's father that she was assisting in surgery and just "fell dead." He was found guilty of second-degree manslaughter and voluntarily surrendered his Oklahoma medical license. Reynolds allegedly had two suits filed over liposuction malpractice, including the near death of his housekeeper Betty Adams August 11, 1989, due to perforated intestines. Reynolds was also sued over the death of a 21-year-old abortion patient on September 30, 1985. The punishment the abortionist received for killing his wife? A one dollar fine! The Daily Oklahoman, April 22, 1991; Christina Dunigan. "Back Alley Butchers vs Main Street Maimers." Dateline, September 1, 2000. Oklahoma City �� Robbery, Assault with a Deadly Weapon (ADW), Aggravated Assault, Battery, Public Drunkenness, and Driving Under Cancellation When pro-abortionists physically attack other people, they invariably pick on the weak and helpless, especially small children and women (preferably pregnant women). Sometimes they are so cowardly that they even hire others to attack pregnant women. This incident, though vicious, seems as if the criminals were trying out for some kind of "stupid crook" competition. Erin Blythe Gardner was pregnant by her ex-boyfriend, Shawn LaTray Lawrence. On August 8, 2003, Lawrence called her several times and urged her to meet him after work. Police Sergeant Kevin Southerland said "When she got off [work], he called and said he'd be 20 minutes late, but he was insistent she not leave and stay there. While she was waiting on her boyfriend, another person wearing a mask walked up from behind her car, stuck a gun through the open window, then made her get out. He pistol-whipped her, knocking her to the ground, where he then started kicking her in the abdomen." The attacker took Gardner's purse and fled. Police found Lawrence, who appeared to be intoxicated, wandering around the parking lot, Southerland said. While speaking to him and Gardner, they noticed a car pull into a driveway down the street. The driver had no license, and a search of the car turned up the mask and a gun. Andrel E. Singleton, 18, the driver, was arrested on complaints of robbery, assault with a deadly weapon, aggravated assault and battery and driving under cancellation. Singleton said that Lawrence hired him and another person to assault Gardner in an attempt to cause a miscarriage. Lawrence was arrested on a complaint of public drunkenness. Fortunately, Erin survived the attack without suffering a miscarriage. "Police Say Beating Meant To Induce Miscarriage: Woman Says Boyfriend Arranged Attack." Downloaded from http://www.ChannelOklahoma.com on August 11, 2003. Oklahoma City -- Assault and Criminal Abortion Abortionist Richard Mucie killed 19-year old Nancy Ward, a student at the University of Oklahoma, on February 7, 1968. Mucie was convicted June 8, 1968 on charge of manslaughter-abortion in performing an abortion not "necessary to preserve the life" of the patient." Mucie served 14 months of his sentence before being released on parole. Mucie's medical license was revoked May 4, 1971, due to his felony conviction in the death of Nancy Ward. The Missouri abortion law was found unconstitutional in the wake of Roe v. Wade, and Mucie sued to overturn his conviction and restore his medical license on the grounds that since Missouri abortion law was unconstitutional, his conviction was unconstitutional as well. Mucie persisted until he was finally successful in 1977, on the grounds of a December 22, 1976 order declaring Roe v. Wade and related cases retroactive; it was decided by the court that Nancy Ward's abortion "was performed by a licensed physician in a medically accepted manner under medically accepted conditions," and the state therefore could not have validly prohibited it "in terms of its interest in maternal health." Mucie was released from probation and his record expunged of the manslaughter-abortion conviction. Robert Crist testified in Mucie's behalf. A lawsuit alleged that Mucie accompanied plaintiff to his office, whereupon his employee and employee's husband and son assaulted the plaintiff, "striking her, dragging her by her hair ... restraining her to enable [husband and son] to continue their brutal assault, and by threatening to kill her;" that Mucie stood by and ignored plaintiff's pleas for assistance or to call for help; that plaintiff "was severely disfigured, beaten and bloodied" and that plaintiff "may yet require surgery to repair the disfigurements." United States District Court, Western District of Missouri, Western Division Civ. #73CV497-W-3; and Jackson County Circuit Court Case #CV90-33157. Oklahoma City Area [Shawnee] -- Illegal Abortions (11 incidents), Drug Diversion and Medicaid Fraud Abortionist Sidney C. Laughlin committed illegal third-trimester abortions in the bedroom of his home, which was across the street from an elementary school, and investigators discovered the bodies of some of his victims in his garbage. He sterilized his surgical instruments in his dishwasher. Laughlin was also investigated for drug diversion and Medicaid fraud. Police found a dismembered 16-week preborn child in the abortionist's household trash. An autopsy noted that the right and left arm were dismembered at the shoulder, found organs, legs and feet, and a macerated and opened head containing fragments of brain tissue. The medical examiner also noted other embryonic tissues, blood-stained pads, rubber gloves, and an empty syringe in bags collected by the police. A nurse who claimed to have assisted in several abortions in his home said Laughlin sterilized abortion instruments in his dishwasher. The nurse said she quit assisting in these abortions after she observed Laughlin aborting a 28-week old fetus, 4 weeks past the 24-week legal limit. She also said Laughlin owed her $3,000 in back wages. Equipment found in Laughlin's home included a suction machine, medications, and an exam table. A former employee also allegedly said she is now embarrassed to have worked for Laughlin, and that "He laughed about dismembering babies." Laughlin denied disposing of the preborn child found in his household trash, saying "I've always disposed of them through a medical [waste company]." Laughlin also denied that it would be improper or illegal to perform abortions in his house, because a law restricting second-trimester abortions to hospitals had been found unconstitutional by the state attorney general in 1984, so no law could prevent abortions from being committed in a home. Bobby Trammell and Nolan Clay. "Doctor Investigated in Abortion Allegations." The Sunday Oklahoman, July 5, 1992, pages 2-A and 8-A; Christina Dunigan. "Back Alley Butchers vs Main Street Maimers." Dateline, September 1, 2000. Oklahoma City Area [Shawnee] -- Illegal Disposal of Aborted Babies, Sexual Abuse (4 incidents) and Malpractice In order to save money, abortionist Nareshkumar Gandalal Patel burned the bodies of 55 aborted babies in an open field in April 1992. The abortionist was reprimanded by the medical board of Oklahoma for abandoning patient E.S.B. on June 10, 1989 after a surgical procedure in order to take a friend to the airport. It stated that he "left [the] patient in post-operative condition in the treatment room under anesthesia, and the patient's blood pressure dropped and the patient required emergency medical treatment." He was reprimanded by the Oklahoma medical board in 1989 for failure to comply with regulations regarding prescribing and monitoring controlled substances. The abortionist's patient Ashley Trent accused him of asking her to meet with him to discuss her mental condition following abortion, and then trying to grab and kiss her. He also faced criminal charges (oral sodomy and sexual battery) for allegedly trying to kiss and fondle an abortion patient who was nude and sedated on an examining table on March 25, 1993. She awoke from anesthesia to find him attempting "to force her to sodomize him." She said he then drove her home and called several times "to determine if she remembered anything about the incident." She taped the conversations, and police seized her medical records. Two of his female employees complained of unwelcome sexual advances and sexual harassment. Patel was also ordered in 1989 to pay damages of $240,000 to a 15-year old girl injured in a botched abortion attempt in 1989. He was reprimanded by the Ohio medical board in 1992 due to the actions taken in Oklahoma. Oklahoma County District Court Case #CJ94-5938-65; Oklahoma Medical Board Case #87-7-514; USA Today, April 16 and 17, 1992; Dallas Morning News, June 11, 1993; The Daily Oklahoman, July 5, 1992 and May 28, 1993; and The Sunday Oklahoman, July 5, 1992; Oklahoma Medical Board Investigation #90-09-1129.
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Weatherford -- First-Degree Murder (2 counts) and Burglary 16-year-old Vanessa Youngbear was 7 months pregnant by her boyfriend, Trevor Wayne Benson, who did not want the baby. Youngbear asked Benson to take a paternity test. So, on July 22, 2002, Benson and 32-year-old Kelly D. McCarney took Youngbear for a ride. They took her to a deserted field near Weatherford, shot her once in the head, and pushed her body into a ditch. A passing farmer found her body in the ditch the next morning. Police arrested Benson and McCarney the next day and charged them with first-degree murder. Custer County assistant district attorney Dan Jacobsma said the pair could be charged with two counts of first-degree murder, for the mother and her preborn child, if the baby was found to be viable by a medical examiner (courts have set a general guideline for 24 weeks, well before the time of Youngbear's baby). The Oklahoma Medical Examiner's office found that Youngbear was 25 to 28 weeks into her pregnancy. McCarney has previously been convicted of second-degree burglary and driving under the influence, according to state Corrections Department records. "Body of Pregnant 16-Year-Old Girl Found: Police Say Pregnant Teen Shot Execution-Style." ChannelOklahoma.com, July 23, 2002.
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