[Pflienews] PharmFacts E-News Update: Unlicense Abortionist arrested AGAIN in CA

Sat Jun 21 14:20:03 MDT 2008

*PharmFacts E-News Update -- 21 Jun 2008 AD #2

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Unlicensed Abortionist Bertha Bugarin Arrested and Jailed After Botched 
Abortion Victims Come Forward

SAN DIEGO, Calif.,  June 21 /Christian Newswire/ -- Bertha Bugarin was 
arrested on Thursday and jailed in San Diego on ten felonies and one 
misdemeanor for practicing medicine and prescribing drugs without a 
license. If convicted, she faces nine years in jail.

Bugarin, who has no medical training, owns five abortion mills in 
Southern California, including one in Chula Vista, a southern suburb of 
San Diego. She had been posing as a doctor, performing abortions 
illegally for $500.

Nine women came forward with stories of botched abortions received at 
Bugarin's hand. Many women suffered from incomplete abortions and were 
forced to return to have their abortions done again. One woman was 
hospitalized three times, and birthed a live baby that died three hours 
later.

Bugarin made a court appearance yesterday dressed in blue jailhouse garb 
and shackled at the waist. She was being held on $500,000 bond. Her 
arraignment is scheduled for July 2.

These charges add to Bugarin's legal woes. In August, 2007, Bugarin was 
arrested in Los Angeles 
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after the police raided four of her clinics. She was charged in Los 
Angeles County with 18 counts of committing abortions without a medical 
license. Her sister, Raquel, was charged with four counts of aiding and 
abetting her sister in their illegal abortion operation. In addition one 
of Bugarin's hired abortionists, Laurence Reich, was also arrested after 
he was found to be doing abortions months after losing his medical 
license for sexually molesting his patients.

Bugarin's abortion chain, Clinica Medica Para La Mujer De Hoy, preys on 
Hispanic women, and would often pass out abortion discount coupons in 
Hispanic neighborhoods.

Operation Rescue began working to expose and close these dangerous 
abortion mills 1999. As a result six of Bugarin's clinics have closed, 
at least five of her hired abortionists lost their medical licenses, and 
three abortionists have received discipline from the California Medical 
Board.

"The only way to stop someone like Bugarin from hurting people is to put 
her in jail, because she obviously has no respect for the law or for the 
lives of the women she seeks to exploit," said Operation Rescue 
President Troy Newman. "We thank God that Bugarin is being brought to 
justice. We have worked for years, along with the faithful pro-lifers in 
San Diego, to close her shop of horrors, and now it looks like those 
prayers are being answered."

/About Operation Rescue
Operation Rescue is one of the leading pro-life Christian activist 
organizations in the nation. Operation Rescue recently made headlines 
when it bought and closed an abortion clinic in Wichita, Kansas and has 
become the voice of the pro-life activist movement in America. Its 
activities are on the cutting edge of the abortion issue, taking direct 
action to restore legal personhood to the pre-born and stop abortion in 
obedience to biblical mandates./

Christian Newswire 
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	To: National Desk

Contact: Troy Newman, President, 316-841-1700;

Cheryl Sullenger, Senior Policy Advisor, 316-516-3034;

both with Operation Rescue, info at operationrescue.org

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