BREAKING - Abortionists Brigham, Riley Jailed - Awaiting Extradition To Maryland

In the summer of 2010, I relayed to you news of an abortion racket operating in Elkton, MD.   It was owned by Stephen Chase Brigham, who did not have a Maryland license.  He would start the abortion procedure in New Jersey, then haul them down to Maryland where his hatchet-people would complete the murder.  This came to the attention of Maryland authorities when they maimed a woman.  My previous posts on this matter are here.

Today Operation Rescue learned that both Brigham and Nicola Riley (one of the hatchet-people) are in jail and are awaiting extradition to Maryland.  Brigham is in Candem County Jail in New Jersey and Riley is in Salt Lake County Jail in Utah.  Both are being charged on multiple counts of first/second-degree murder.

I'll post updates as I learn of them.

OR - Brigham May Lose His NJ License

Operation Rescue broke the news that a New Jersey judge recommended that Stephen Chase Brigham's last remaining medical license should be revoked and that he pay $30,000 in fines.  Recall that nearly four years ago, it was discovered that Brigham and accomplice Nicola Riley were initiating late-term abortions in New Jersey - where that's illegal - then shipping them to a shoddy abortion facility in Elkton MD to complete the procedure.  Their cover was blown when they botched an abortion and had to take the woman to Johns Hopkins.  Doctors there were suspicious and notified the police.

So for now it seems that Brigham will be impeded from murdering babies in New Jersey.  Sadly that is not the case in Florida, Delaware and Virginia for those states don't require that abortion mill owners be licensed.

These NJ mills operated under the banner of "American Women's Services".  I believe his Maryland-owned mills will continue to see babies murdered.

Maryland - Good News And Bad News

With the insidious plot by the Messiah Most Miserable to import thousands of his "best-buds" jihadist terrorists masquerading as "refuges", I thought that Maryland (where I live) would have a massive influx.  The fact is that Maryland, for many years, has been a progressive loony bin, politically and morally speaking.  Therefore you can imagine my delight when I heard the news that Governor Larry Hogan is opposed to bringing more of these people into Maryland.  At the time of this writing, about thirty states have made moves to block the importation of these folks into their states - and they have the constitutional authority to do so.  Hogan made this very key statement: "As governor of Maryland, the safety and security of Marylanders remains my first priority."  I have friends who will be reading this who state that "Jesus would welcome the stranger so we must do the same".  I will unpack the errors of that statement in a future post.

Now the bad news.

About 3-5 years ago, an abortionist named Steven Chase Brigham ran into legal trouble in Maryland, when he was found to be aborting illegally; one woman died as a result.  I wrote a bit about it.  To make a long story short, his various abortuaries in Maryland (one of them in Silver Spring) had to close.

Operation Rescue has broken the news that Brigham has reopened his Maryland abortuaries.  He is limiting his practice to medical abortions since licensing for that is less strict than for surgical abortions.  Still, he now poses a threat to women as well as a mortal danger to many babies.  Operation Rescue suggests contacting the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to get these places closed again.  Perhaps they may listen, since Joshua Sharfstein has left that agency.  Pray that Maryland shuts down all these hell-holes.  There is no excuse for reprobates like Brigham and Carhart to be slaughtering babies and maiming women in Maryland.

Stephen Chase Brigham, Another Abortionist Hack-Loser

On August 13, at an abortion mill in Elkton Maryland, an 18 year old woman had her uterus perforated and her bowel cut.  Dr Nora Riley did the hack job.  She and Steven Brigham took her to Union Hospital in a rented car.  Mind you, they did not  call an ambulance!  According to this WJZ report, they were very cagey with hospital personnel about what happened.  The hospital called the police.

Brigham has already had his license suspended.  Thus, to operate his mills, he has to hire "circuit riders".  Riley comes in every other week from Salt Lake City, Utah.  The mill's supervisor, George Shepard, comes in from Delaware.

The state of Maryland immediately suspended the medical licenses of both Shephard and Riley.  They posted a "cease and desist" order on the door of the mill.  Elkton police raided the mill, seizing medical records and a freezer.  In the freezer they found the remains of 35 aborted babies in jars.  They were close to full term (for those skeptics who think Roe v Wade outlaws late-term abortions).

So much for "safe" abortion now that it's legal.  Read this report from Operation Rescue for more information.

Folks Who Are True Public Enemies

I received an email today, detailing a litany of the misdeeds of various abortionists.  Just take a look at the women who died as a result of this so-called "safe procedure".  Now the tome..

Abortionists have been getting some well-deserved press lately. These are usually not the stories that make the national news.

Take Massachusetts abortion doctor Rapin Osathanondh, who was recently sentenced to six months in jail after pleading guilty to one count of involuntary manslaughter in the abortion-related death of a 22-year-old
woman. Prosecutors alleged that he failed to monitor her while she was under anesthesia, delayed calling emergency services when her heart stopped, and later lied to try to cover up his actions.

Then there is Dr. Andrew Rutland who, according to the California Medical Board, "committed repeated negligent acts in his care and treatment" of a patient who died after being given drugs in preparation for a second trimester abortion at a California facility.
What about Dr. Kermit Gosnell of Philadelphia, who gave a patient two separate doses of pain killers plus anesthesia, before her abortion? Her death led agents to raid his facility where they found "blood on the floor,
and parts of aborted fetuses were displayed in jars." The Pennsylvania Department of State's Board of Medicine described his continued practice as "an immediate and clear danger to the public health and safety."

And the Maryland Board of Physicians recently suspended the license of Dr. Romero Ferrer, while investigating the death of a 21-year-old mother of a toddler. Ferrer is alleged to have given the woman an overdose of pain medications during her abortion.

Have you heard about Bertha Pinedo Bugarin, who owned of a chain of abortion centers in California? She is currently serving a prison sentence of three years and four months, convicted of pretending to be a physician and doing abortions without a medical license. She pleaded "no contest" to seven felony counts for having placed more than a dozen women at risk by doing surgical abortions or giving them the abortion drug RU-486 without medical training.

Dr. George Shepard, Jr., of Delaware and Dr. Nicola I. Riley of Utah just had their Maryland medical licenses suspended for helping another notorious abortionist, Steven Brigham, to skirt the law. Brigham runs a chain of 15 abortion facilities, under the name of "American Women's Services." He is not permitted to practice medicine in Maryland. So he reportedly initiated late-term abortions at his facility in New Jersey,
which was not licensed to do abortions past 14 weeks, and then had the women drive in a caravan to Maryland, where the other two doctors finished the abortions, under his direction.

Authorities say that when one of these women was seriously injured recently during the abortion, Brigham put the semiconscious, bleeding woman into the back of a rental car and drove her to a nearby hospital, rather than call an ambulance. Police later raided his Elkton, Maryland facility and seized 35 frozen late-term fetuses and fetal parts.

Promoters of abortion once argued that it should be made legal to protect women from notorious "back alley" abortionists. "Safe and legal" was constantly repeated as though these two words mean the same thing. In reality, abortionists simply moved from back alleys into storefronts, and some of them still retained their alley character. Enjoying the protection of law, while being virtually unregulated, the U.S. abortion industry continues to harm countless women while destroying more than a million children each year.


Now that our new health care law is slated to help expand insurance coverage that includes abortions, we should probably expect to see more abortionists in the news, and more mothers and children suffering the consequences. We will need to amend that law, so the destructiveness of abortion will not be sold as routine "health care" to more and more women in our country.

So ends the email.  Here's a link with yet more deaths of women caused by abortion.  Of course, all this doesn't even begin to count the millions of babies who were murdered.

Of course the current oligarchy that occupies Washington DC at this time enjoy their positions in part due to contributions from these baby-killers.  That's why they get off scott-free while the Obama administration tries to brand as "violent" those of us who try to save babies and their mothers from the messiah's donors.

Another Baby-Killing Center Is Defunct!

Remember Steven Chase Brigham, the abortionist mogul whose Elkton operation was busted last year?   You might recall that some of his abortionist flunkies lost their licenses.  It looks like his baby-killing empire suffered another set-back.

Comes now the news from Operation Rescue that his baby-killing center in Erie PA was foreclosed by its business condo association.  Deo gratias!  That's one less threat to babies and moms in that locality.  May Brigham's empire continue to crumble; the more these places shut down, the more babies are saved.  Moreover, may Steven Chase Brigham come to repentance before he stands before God Almighty.

Maryland - Where Butchers Continue To Get A Free Pass

Some of us were starting to think that the Maryland Board of Physicians was beginning to realize that it had a duty to the public to prevent quacks from masquerading as physicians.  We had seen some licenses at least suspended and mills closed because of unsafe conditions and even the deaths of some women.

Our elation was premature.  I suppose we momentarily forgot that most of the Annapolis legislature - and our "katholyc" governor - are beholden to pro-abortion moneybags and sugar-daddies.  Operation Rescue learned that the suspensions of two abortionists associated with Stephen Brigham have been lifted.  Iris Dominy is one of the two.  She was implicated in the death of Maria Santiago at Brigham's Baltimore facility.  On August 29th that suspension was lifted.  She is still prohibited from performing any procedure requiring the use of sedation.  If that stipulation still holds, then there is still valid concern for her overall competency.  So why was her license not permanently stripped?

I suspect the Board has had the "riot act" read to it by powers-that-be in Annapolis.  It's quite revealing to go to their websites and see how many sport endorsements from NARAL, NOW, Planned Parenthood, etc.  And yes, ladies and gentlemen, the 2014 elections are just a year away.  For those of you who are not from Maryland, all state and local officials are up for election every four years (during the times that there are no presidential races).  They cannot afford to offend their pro-abortion campaign contributors, so they will indeed do all they can to make Maryland a proverbial "mecca for murder".

Maryland Abortionist Ordered to Cease And Desist

After eight months of "practicing medicine" without a license, Steven Chase Brigham has been ordered by the Maryland State Board of Physicians cease his practice of medicine, i.e., baby-murder.  He has five Maryland locations: Baltimore, Frederick, Cheverly, College Park, Elkton. 

Unfortunately, other abortionists staff these mills so they will remain open.  There will be one less menace to babies, though.

Read the story at Operation Rescue's site, which also contains a link to the actual order.  OR will demand that criminal charges be filed against Brigham.

Abortionists Brigham And Riley Face More Consequences For Botching Abortions In Maryland - Why Not Carhart?

Abortionists Nicola Riley and Steven Chase Brigham face more legal woes in different states as those authorities take into considerations the botched abortion in Elkton MD and the scores of jars containing fetal remains.  Good for these other states.

One might wonder why, after his third certified chop-job on mothers in Germantown MD, how Leroy Carhart manages to keep his head above water.  Answer?  Friends in high places!  Boys and girls, can we say "Kathleen Sebelius"?  Thanks again to Operation Rescue, we have evidence.   Go down the page to the April 2008 dinner, with the dinner attendees.  You'll see both Sebelius and Carhart.  Could this be why Sharfstein seems to reluctant to zero in on Carhart?  It's a question worth asking, I daresay.

Maryland News: Bad And Good

First I'll give the bad news.  It appears that State's Attorney Ellis Rollins (for Cecil County MD) dropped criminal murder charges against Steven Chase Brigham and Nicola Riley.  I've blogged on the sordid careers of these two baby-killers (put their names in the search box).  Operation Rescue has more on this.  Kinda makes one wonder what pressure was brought to bear on Mr. Rollins.

Now the good news.  In summer of 2008, several members of Defend Life's Face the Truth Tour underwent false arrests in Harford County, MD.  Eventually charges against all of them were dropped (almost right after the arrests, since they weren't even formulated at the time of the arrests).  Defend Life pursued justice, and now the Maryland Board of Public Works will be paying over $385,000 to the falsely-arrested pro-lifers.  Moreover, the Maryland State Police must implement a training program within 120 days to train its officers and employees in the meaning of the First and Fourth Amendments   Yes, there is justice, and the Bill of Rights still means something!

Abortion Bill In Annapolis Needs Our Immediate Attention!

Several weeks ago Virginia's Governor McDonnell signed into law a measure that would require abortion centers in Virginia to meet the standards required of other stand-alone surgical centers.  Prior to that, they were only required to meet the standards of doctors' offices.  If the pro-abortion proponents were truly solicitous of women's safety, they'd be all for these professional standards that would increase the chances of a "safe procedure".  They show their true colors (and those of the abortuaries) by bemoaning the costs and their "fears" (our hopes) that the bulk of the Virginia abortuaries would close.

We of Maryland have that same opportunity!  In Annapolis, the House Health and Government Operations Committee has recently heard House Bill 23 and much testimony from families of abortuary victims.  They will vote on it very soon.  Maryland Right to Life has a list of Delegates who are on that committee and their contact information.  Contact these delegates and urge them to support HB 23.  If they truly care about women, as most of them claim, tell them this is one way that they can prevent the Brigham and Ferrer debacles from repeating themselves.

The parallel Senate bill is SB 505.  We'll be following that too.

Good people of Maryland showed much energy and determination with the gay marriage bills recently.  Let's bring that same commitment to bear on this matter, also.

Another Maryland Abortuary Down The Tubes

Last week I commented on Stephen Chase Brigham, a multi-state abortionist who lost his license along with two others in his employe.  While he was embroiled in trouble in Cecil County, a few miles south in Severna Park, MD, Romeo Ferrer, who ran the Gynecare Center there, was having his license suspended.

From Christian News Wire, we read that he hired another abortionist, Ghevont Wartanian, to continue his slaughter.  This man had his own problems.  He had over 18 lawsuits to his credit, and the results of his "healing arts", besides the murders of countless babies, include patient brain damage and the deaths of newborn babies.  It seems that the spectre of a 40 Days for Life Campaign was a little too much for him to endure (the 40 Days started September 22nd).  He cancelled all his appointments and made clear to the staff that he wouldn't return.  Thank you, 40 Days for Life!

We pray that no other abortionist can be found and that this closure will be permanent.

By the way - click on the 40 Days for Life link and see how you can get involved in this vital prayer witness at the mills.  You just read of one excellent result of it!

Did Carhart Attempt To Deceive MD Physicians Board?

According to Operation Rescue, the answer appears to be a resounding "YES".  In Operation Rescue's account, they detail what they saw on the copy of Carhart's MD license application that they received pursuant to their Maryland Public Information Act request.

The website in turn links to a pdf of Carhart's license application.  As you browse through it, notice that the word "abortion" appears not once.  I couldn't even see other euphamisms such as "reproductive services", "family planning" or "pregancy termination".  Of course he stated, as did Vicky Saporta of the National Abortion Federation, that his main purpose in coming to Maryland was to perform late-term abortions, which are permitted under Maryland law.

Operation Rescue has filed a complaint to the Maryland Board of Physicians, shedding the light on Carhart's real motive for his Maryland license application.  As you read the list of Carhart's many, many misdeeds, understand that this list is incorporated into the complaint; that is also linked on the OR website.

Lately the MD Board of Physicians has taken a dim view of abortionists.  Within the past few months, we have seen them suspend and/or revoke the licenses of Stephen Brigham, Nicola Riley, George Shepard and Romeo Ferrer.  We pray that with this case set before them, with its clear-cut evidence, that they'll revoke the license of LeRoy Carhart and send him packing.

State Of Maryland Toys With Abortion Clinic Regulations

The Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene is toying with the idea of regulating the abortion mills in the State of Maryland for the first time.  I've got to say it's a start, albeit a weak one.  This Gazette article states that the proposed regulations would subject abortion centers to the same standards that bind other outpatient surgical centers.  Now think about that sentence for a moment.  What it's saying is that hitherto, abortion mills have not had to meet nearly the same standards as other places that perform surgery.

Read further down the article.  The oversight of abortion mills has been so remiss that the MD Dept of Health doesn't even know where the mills are located.  A department spokesperson admits that they have to look them up in the Yellow Pages.  Well, you have to start somewhere, I suppose - but what of those shady joints who don't advertise their presence to the public?  Guess they'll just fall by the wayside, I suppose!

The Stephen Chase Brigham debacle of last year seems to have been the straw that broke the camel's back; the State of Maryland realized that they could not ignore these quacks any longer and maintain some semblance of credibility.

The proposed regulations are on line.  The Department is taking public comments on them through August 19th.  Here is information on how to make your opinions known.  My personal take is that they are so weak as to be useless.  There is too much allowance therein for the "fox guarding the hen house", so to speak.  But please read them and draw your own conclusions.

A Former Abortuary Hell Hole In MD Is Now A Pregnancy Center

Several years ago I wrote of an illegal abortion facility operated in Elkton Maryland by abortionist Stephen Chase Brigham.  The mill came under fire when an abortion was botched there.  It has been sitting vacant from 2010 until now.

LifeNews brings us the news that the Cecil County Pregnancy Center has moved into the location.  Where babies were once brutally murdered and women mutilated, now babies and moms will experience real life-saving assistance.  This is one of several former abortuaries that has been converted into places of hope and grace.

Let us thank God for this gift and pray that more follow.

Three Maryland Abortuaries See Their Licenses Suspended

As a result of the letter written by seventeen members of the Maryland House of Delegates, officials at the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (finally) started inspecting the abortuaries to whom they granted licenses.  Said Health Secretary Joshua Sharfstein to the Baltimore Sun, "the department is proceeding on the schedule it originally proposed, which called for issuing licenses in early 2013, followed by inspections. He said the system is working as it should."

So if I understand Mr. Sharfstein correctly, the "schedule" calls for issuance of licenses before ascertaining whether or not the facilities meet the standards prerequisite for those licenses?  Whatever happened to "safety for women"?  As far as "the system working as it should", that's utter bullcrap (pardon the "french" but sometimes delicacy must yield to accuracy), given not only Jennifer Morbelli's death in February, but that of another woman in Baltimore who died at another prematurely-licensed abortuary in Baltimore.  That woman died of cardiac arrest and it was discovered that the defibrillator on hand was non-functional - and the abortionist was not cpr-certified.

This second woman died at Associates in OB/GYN Care on North Calvert Street in Baltimore.  The Department suspended its license, as well as two other abortuaries that are also called Associates in OB/GYN Care; those locations are in Cheverly and Silver Spring.  Here is the website for the Silver Spring location.  Note that all three of these seem to be under the umbrella of American Women's Services.  This network is connected with Steven Chase Brigham.  Here is previously-published information about his chequered careeer.

This Silver Spring abortuary is at 9801 Georgia Avenue - the intersection of Georgia Avenue and Forest Glen Road.  Please note that this abortuary is not to be confused with Ob/Gyn Associates located at 1400 Forest Glen Road, the campus of Holy Cross Hospital.  The inversion of words in their names and their physical proximity can be confusing (deliberately so?).

Now let's see the Department get around to inspecting Germantown Reproductive Health Services and some of the other hell-holes.

Champions Of Choice?

If by "choice" we mean the unbridled license to murder helpless unborn children, then I must say that the charlatan-doctors described below are exemplars of that movement.

Onenewsnow reports that in Orlando FL, abortionist Randall Whitney was arrested for skipping out on his trial.  He had been charged with felonious assault of a patient.  He had tried and failed several times to give her an injection.  When she started complaining, he slapped her.  Is this what the pro-choice crowd calls "dignified treatment of women"?  As he was being hauled away, he could be heard telling the pro-lifers who reported him that they'd "be sorry".  Let us pray that he stays behind bars.

Closer to home in Maryland, we get a more detailed look at the background of Nicola Riley, one of the abortionists whose licenses were suspended in the Stephen Brigham debacle.  It seems that her prior career in the military was equally chequered.  While in the Army, she allegedly directed a credit card fraud and identity theft ring.  After doing time in the Ft Leavenworth military prison, she went on to obtain her degree.  It took several tries over two years to pass the first part of the exam (passing within 5 points).  After another fifteen months to finish the exam entirely, she got right into baby-killing.  By the way - her license is suspended in Maryland, but she is currently killing babies in Salt Lake City, UT.

In the medical community, abortionists are not well-regarded.  Now we know why.

Yet Another Seedy Baby-Killing Dump In Maryland

I wrote late last year about a number of abortionists who were plying their trades in Maryland, practicing such shoddy medicine that the MD Physician Board had no choice but to take notice.  We know that Maryland attracts these maggots like a carcass draws vultures owing to lax abortion laws and abortophile lawmakers in Annapolis (including the faux-katholic in the governor's mansion).

Operation Rescue has unearthed another illicit late-term operation, this one run by James Scott Pendergraft of Florida.  His license there is in its fourth suspension and he has no license elsewhere - including Maryland.          He is working with one Harold Alexander at 7610 Pennsylvania Avenue in Forestville MD.  More details can be found on the Operation Rescue site, including a video.

Mention is made of regulations of abortion facilities that are scheduled to go into effect July 23rd.  It took the Stephen Brigham debacle to get the State of Maryland to take this important matter seriously.

Maryland Revokes Abortionist's License Permanently

Nicola Riley, fellow abortionist and accomplice to Stephen Chase Brigham, has had her medical license permanently revoked in the State of Maryland.  The Board made note of her deceit in obtaining the license as well as her incompetence.  She is enjoined from ever re-applying in Maryland.  Operation Rescue has more details, as well as the link to the revocation document.

That's another one down, with many more to go until unborn babies are safe again in Maryland.

Of Lying For A Medical License

Two weeks ago, it was announced that LeRoy Carhart, late-term baby killer in Germantown, is being investigated by the Maryland Board of Physicians for lying on his license application.

Yesterday brought news that abortionist Nicola Riley surrendered her Wyoming license after coming under investigation there for - lying on her license application.  Read details here.

You might ask "what does one have to do with the other"?  Fair question, and one easily answered.  Riley was associated with Stephen Brigham, who was caught flouting licensing stipulations.  Riley's license was suspended in Maryland.  Read these articles to learn of Riley's chequered baby-killing career in Maryland.

The precedent set by the various state boards in Riley's case bodes well for the suspension and even revokation of Carhart's Maryland license.  Let us pray!