Brigham has lost his medical license in California, Florida, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and New York over the course of his two-decade abortion career.

New Jersey’s Board of Medical Examiners has suspended the license of abortionist Stephen Brigham after concluding that he had seriously endangered patients by illegally ferrying them mid-abortion into Maryland to evade New Jersey law.

Brigham, 54, was found to be “a clear and imminent danger to the public health and safety” following a hearing on Wednesday night that lasted nearly nine hours.

The board found not only that the abortionist began abortion procedures in New Jersey and lead a caravan of patients to Elkton, Md., but also that the patients themselves were not aware of where they were being taken, or who would perform the abortion. Brigham, who kept accomplices on hand who also performed abortions, is not authorized to perform abortions later than 14 weeks in New Jersey and is not licensed to practice medicine in Maryland.

Brigham’s attorney Joseph Gorrell asked that the case be appealed to an administrative law judge and expedited, but there are conflicting reports as to whether the board granted the expedition request. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that as the decision was being pronounced at 10pm., Brigham was scribbling rapidly and a faint smile appeared on his lips for a moment.

Earlier this week, the New Jersey attorney general’s office called Brigham’s attempt to justify his actions “ludicrous.” The abortionist had claimed that because the board had allowed him to keep his license in a similar case in the 1990s, it was no longer able to penalize him.

At the hearing Wednesday, Brigham argued that he was merely “consulting” at the Maryland clinic, and therefore did not need a license; however, he admitted that he “did the care” of the patient. Brigham said that an 88-year-old disabled OB-GYN named George Shephard would come into the operating room and “consult” with Brigham as he performed the abortion. “He would ask me questions so we were engaging in consultation,” said Brigham, who admitted that Shephard lost the use of one arm following a stroke.

Brigham said that he has killed unborn children as old as 36 weeks, and would only kill late-term children on account of a significant health defect. Clinic records, however, show that he aborted the 25-week twins of a woman who was embarrassed that they had been conceived from donated sperm, reports the Inquirer.

Two fellow abortionists, Gary Mucciolo of New York City and Rengan Rajan from Philadelphia, defended Brigham’s scheme at the hearing, even supporting his decision to transport a patient with severe internal injuries to the hospital by car rather than by ambulance.

The Inquirer reports that, towards the end of the hearing, Brigham asked the board not to allow their feelings on abortion sway them, calling it “a very incendiary issue.” “I would just ask you to recognize the efforts I’ve made over 24 years to comply with the board’s rules,” he said.

The board concluded that Brigham “has consistently and repetitively engaged in manipulative and deceptive behavior designed to circumvent the requirements of the board’s termination of pregnancy regulation and to eviscerate the protections that those regulations seek to afford to New Jersey patients.”

Operation Rescue president Troy Newman noted that performing the procedures in Maryland without a medical license constitutes a felony. He called for criminal charges against the abortionist, saying that “criminal charges are necessary because traditional discipline does not work on Brigham.”

Brigham has lost his medical license in California, Florida, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and New York over the course of his two-decade abortion career.

“The only thing that will stop his crime spree is to put him in jail where he belongs,” said Newman. “In addition, his abortion mills need to be closed in the interest of public safety. As long as they remain open, women remain at risk from Brigham’s dangerous and deceptive

Source: http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/oct/10101405.html

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