Beyond the Philadelphia Horror
It’s been more than a week since the Philadelphia Horror was exposed.
President Obama has felt no compulsion to weigh in on the baby serial-killing spree committed in the name of “choice.” And the Beltway press corps has felt no compulsion to query him about the systemic failures of pro-abortion enablers in government to stop the massacre.
As I said last week, the Philadephia Horror is the tip of a blood-stained iceberg. In addition to a clinic in Delaware, Philly Dr. Death Kermitt Gosnell is also tied to a scandal-plagued abortion clinic in Louisiana.
Fortunately, the alternative media and local press remain vigilant in covering the stories that the national MSM prefer to whitewash.
Via Steven Ertelt of LifeNews, here’s another bone-chilling butcher M.D. who fostered the grisly climate of death in his Southern California abortion clinic. Despite having his license revoked once before for botching a delivery that left a baby with a severed spinal column, he went on to kill a pregnant woman during a botched abortion. The California Medical Board will administer another slap on the wrist — revoking his license for three years, which allows him to evade criminal charges:
Andrew Rutland, a southern California abortion practitioner, has agreed to give up his medical license a second time over a case involving his killing a woman in a botched abortion. Rutland killed an Asian woman in a failed abortion — as the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office ruled the death of Ying Chen a homicide.
The botched abortion was done in July 2009 at a filthy and ill-equipped acupuncture clinic in San Gabriel that Rutland ran where he also did abortions. Rutland killed Chen by administering anesthesia to her and not knowing the proper dosage. He injected lidocaine, a local anesthetic, in her cervix and the woman began to have an immediate reaction. The abortion practitioner began to perform CPR but state medical board documents say there was a “significant delay” in him calling 911 for emergency medical help for the woman.
Ying was in cardiac arrest when the ambulance arrived and was taken to a hospital, where she died six days later. An autopsy revealed Rutland gave the woman the wrong dosage of the anesthesia.
According to the orange County register, Rutland will surrender his medical license on February 11 rather than face disciplinary proceedings on the allegations of gross negligence related to Chen’s death. He did not admit his guilt related to the botched abortion in making the agreement with the California Medical Board, which says Rutland acknowledges the board could establish “factual basis” for one or more charges other than the homicide.
This is the second time Rutland has surrender his license — as he did so in 2002 for severing a baby’s spinal column during a forceps delivery, then lying to the parents by telling them that their baby suffered a stroke. The baby later died. His license was reinstated in 2007 and Rutland was placed on five years probation with the restriction that he operate only under the supervision of another physician. Rutland’s Los Angeles attorney Paul Hittelman would not comment to the newspaper about whether Rutland would pursue a medical license after the three year period is up during which he can’t practice medicine.
Meanwhile, in Maryland, another quack abortionist who had had his license revoked in several other states has been put in the spotlight:
Maryland lawmakers will consider legislation to ban the sort of interstate abortions performed last year by a New Jersey doctor whose license has since been suspended.
Dr. Steven Brigham operated an abortion clinic in Elkton. New Jersey regulators suspended his license after finding that he was starting late-term abortions in that state, then ferrying patients to Maryland to complete the procedures in an apparent bid to skirt New Jersey’s more restrictive abortion laws.
Delegate Michael Smigiel, R-Cecil, has introduced three bills intended to prevent anything similar from happening in the future. One would mandate that an abortion begun in Maryland must be concluded in the state except during an emergency.
More:
Documents filed in Maryland suggest that Brigham and his staff frequently performed late-term abortions. A search of the Elkton clinic revealed a freezer with 35 late-term fetuses inside, including one believed to have been aborted at 36 weeks. Police who searched Brigham’s offices in Voorhees found only two medical records related to those fetuses, documents show…Allegations against Brigham first surfaced in 1992 in Pennsylvania, where he agreed to give up his license amid an investigation of his practice, according to published reports.
In 1993, he botched two late-term abortions in New York, and his license was revoked for gross negligence. According to public records, a 20-year-old patient had to undergo an emergency hysterectomy, and the other patient had her colon removed.
His Florida license was revoked in 1996 after he secretly took over for a colleague who was killed by an anti-abortion activist.
And in July, the Pennsylvania Department of Health ordered him to close his four clinics in the state, saying he employed unlicensed caregivers.
He’s also had tax problems. In 1998, he was sentenced to four months in jail for failing to file corporate income tax returns and bilking insurance companies in New York.
In April, the IRS placed more than $234,000 in liens against him for failing to pay payroll taxes. He’s also subject to tens of thousands of dollars in state tax liens.
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Tell me again if we restrict abortion there will be women getting abortions with coat hangers in dirty garages.
What’s the difference other than millions of children saved?
My neighbor (a newpaper reporter, bless her heart) told me she was so sad that this evil man will cause so many, many American women to rethink their right to choose.
Stories like this don’t fit bho’s narrative. He lives in a fantasy world where stories are there to make him look impressive.
Doesn’t the left know that each baby aborted is a potential Union Member?
Let me guess, her initials are LC?
Her sadness needs to be redirected where it counts, on the bodies of the babies aborted and the women whose health and safety were sacrificed on the altar of the ‘right to choose’.
That’s full term.
Safe? Legal? Rare?
Well I guess the baby killers are okay with one out of three…
Silence from the Left.
Oh, obama is soooo evil!
One out of three is better than average for leftists.
Show some respect! LC isn’t a reporter, she’s a J O U R N A L I S T !
{Besides, no, it isn’t her. I’m the only Haole on my street.}
My beautiful 18 y/o daughter was born at 36 weeks gestation, she was almost 7lbs, and no, she wasn’t a glob of cells.
Rutland attended Howard University medical school?! Why am I not surprised?
There are no abortion mills in my town. But we do have a “Women’s Clinic.”
All these guys should be sentenced to having their spinal cords snipped.
When a baby is reduced to a mere clump of cells-almost an infection-life is meaningless. When humans are nothing but a biological niche from the primordial swamp life is meaningless. The gulag, concentration camp, Pol Pot, Mao and Planned Parenthood become rational for that Life Unworthy of Life.
With Social Security and Medicare is crisis how long before Death with Dignity become mandatory?
Fascism with a happy face?
Millions of women exercising their “right to choose” while ignoring the rights of the father?
Oh, wait! Silly me. I thought liberals actually gave a damn about men’s rights.
This is the saddest news story and it is beyond me that the msm just ignores it. There is an evil prevailing across this country and innocent babies are dying. Along with the black and white ribbons worn by everyone last night at the SOTU they should wear pink and blue to remember all the little humans lost to abortion.
Why yes, it is.
What would the press say about a woman who died from a botched mastectomy? They’d probably try to prove the surgeon was a Republican.
But a botched abortion? No such thing. It’s just one early term abortion and one very late term abortion.
Wise thou art.
Michael Jackson’s doctor only killed ONE person. Who gets all the media attention?
Please don’t flame me, but I must correct you, John. 36 weeks is NOT full term. I agree that a baby at 36 weeks gestation is, without a doubt, a “viable baby” (a horribly callous term) and is a complete human being, not a “glob of cells”. Thank you, FLmom, for confirming that for us!!
A term pregnancy is 40 weeks (9 months and one week). Additionally, “full term” is considered 38-42 weeks, medically speaking (40, +/- 2 weeks).
As appalling as a “36 week abortion” is to me, we must keep our arguments factual. We must not sink to their level.
But hey, according to the Dear Leader at least she was spared the indignity of being “Punished with a Baby.”™ Surely a fate worse than death, no?
Murder, pure and simple and in a gross degree. Somewhere here in SC, a woman is being charged with a felony for killing a pit bull dog. She could get up to 7 years in prison!
These mass murderers, cutting off feet disgusting people hiding behind “someone’s right to choose” get off scott free!! Sorry, he lost his license–awww.
Definitonally, 40 weeks is the “full” term.
Essentially and practically, you are correct.
I agree with you.
This guy needs to be given a one-way trip into the Okefenokee.
I got me one of them degrees. Cost me $19.95 plus postage.
Did it have a picture of Moe, Curly and Shemp on it?
In a strip mall in my town, a “Women’s Clinic” is right next to a Veterinary Clinic.
People pay hundreds, sometimes thousands of dollars to have medical procedures done on their little purse-dogs right nextdoor to where women spend a few bucks to get an abortion.
Having a human baby is waaaaay too expensive, and keeps you from being able to pamper your poodle. I wonder how many women driving their Peek-a-poos and Lhasa Apsos around in their SUV’s are able to do so because they have aborted their babies.
I have one each from Columbia and Harvard. And since you can’t view my transcripts, as far as you know, the framed sheepskins on my wall means that I actually did attend those colleges.
Nudge, nudge! Wink, wink!
Howard University is in Washington DC–that’s why I’m not surprised…and
that they apparently teach practical usage of eugenics.
Hey! Where’s the love for The Stooge in the Middle?
Nyuk, nyuk.
(gag)
Another item for Rand Paul’s list.
This just keeps getting worser and worser…not to jest. This stuff makes me sick beyond belief. I just wish we could get Roe v. Wade overturned today.
Look on the “bright side”, Michelle: the eventual return of his license means the Obama-idiot can count this as a job saved or created!
Forgive my lack of precision with the full term comment. My point was that there was nothing to keep this baby from living a full life except some freak with a head full of bad wiring who chose to find the one venue where he could perform his Dahmer-esque activities with the full support and protection of the legal system.
Actually, they do. Obama said of Roe that abortion is a private family matter. Presumably he meant one where the government shouldn’t interfere by regulating/restricting abortion.
So not overseeing these butcher shops is precisely his narrative. After all, who are we to interfere with women who choose to go to a quack so long as the result is a dead baby?
Obama doesn’t care if women die, just so long as Amanda Marcotte et. al. will continue voting for him.
Where’s the outrage from Jessie and Al? Aren’t the majority of women being cared for at this clinic and Philly minorities?
I can’t imagine why they are silent. /sarc off
A fine Stooge he was….Larry Fine, The other three were the Howards of the assorted trio members. : )
But they get to tell you what you should feed any surviving children.
Here’s a quote from Walter Williams.
You can read the full interview here.
That’s ok. After everyone elects me King, I’ll go back and review cases like this. Not only will the doctor be delt with,but the people who decided to allow him to turn in his License will have to answer also.
Given enough time, the left will have us back to when “physicians” treated everyone by bleeding them with leeches and using maggots to eat away dead tissue. We’re slowly reverting back to the dark ages, thanks to the neo-feudalistic serfdom.
This so sick! Liberals will attempt to protect abortion no matter the cost. You can bet if it were the Repubics who wanted abortion and the Libs did not, these Doctors would be front page news. But since it doesn’t fit the template the Libs just hope no one reads about it. This is why Liberalism is a mental disorder. How sick do you have to be not to be concerned that this is going on in 21st century America??
And what does one say to God when one dies in the act of murdering ones child?