Close This Clinic: Abortionist's Trash Reveals Criminal Violations

Close This Clinic: Abortionist's Trash Reveals Criminal Violations

Public asked to help close dangerous abortion mill and bring Alberto Hodari to justice

DETROIT, March 13 /Christian Newswire/ -- Operation Rescue is asking the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality to close Womancare of Southfield, the Lathrup Village abortion clinic of Alberto Hodari in light of videotaped evidence that Hodari is violating state and federal laws regarding the disposal of aborted babies and private medical records. The possibility of pursuing criminal charges is being considered.

Dr. Monica Migliorino Miller videotaped the contents of several bags of trash retrieved from the back of Hodari's clinic. In the bags, the pro-lifers discovered bloody surgical materials, hypodermic needles, private medical records, and the remains of aborted human babies.

View Dr. Miller's Video

Michigan laws require that infections medical waste, including human remains, must be placed in puncture-proof containers and disposed of in special sterile landfills. The Federal Health Portability Protection Act (HIPPA) mandates that medical offices must take "appropriate and reasonable steps" to keep health information secure.

Scanned images of actual documents found by Dr. Miller in Hodari's trash have been posted on columnist Jill Stanek's web site.

Hodari is a troubled abortionist who has been sued 23 times in the past 20 years and was responsible for the botched second-trimester abortion death of a 15-year old girl in 2004.

Hodari also made recent headlines by stating that he would continue to use a late-term abortion procedure that he considered dangerous, rather than run the risk of being charged with violating the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act. He later shocked listeners at Wayne State University when he told them that he seldom washes his hands between patients to prevent skin chaffing even though he knew that it increased risks to his patients. He also told the same group that he believes abortionists have a "license to lie."

"Hodari is a dangerous man who is a public menace. Dr. Miller has now documented clear criminal violations by Hodari that show a complete disregard for the law, for the privacy of his patients, and for the health and safety of those around him," said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. "We are asking for the public's help to call for the closure of Hodari's nasty and unsafe abortion mill."

Those with concerns may respectfully contact:

Michigan Department of Environmental Quality and ask them to immediately close Womancare of Southfield.

John Gohlke
(517) 241-1320
gohlkej@michigan.gov

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.

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Richard Viguerie: Loss of Hastert Seat is Proof Conservatives are Prepared to Sit Out This Year's Elections

Richard Viguerie: Loss of Hastert Seat is Proof Conservatives are Prepared to Sit Out This Year's Elections

MANASSAS, Va., March 10 /Christian Newswire/ -- Republicans' loss of the House seat held for two decades by former Speaker Dennis Hastert is "proof that conservatives are prepared to sit out the 2008 elections," Richard A. Viguerie, Chairman of ConservativeHQ.com, said.

"Instead of contributing and volunteering, conservatives are closing their checkbooks and staying home. Liberals and Democrats are enthusiastic to a degree not seen in decades, and grassroots conservatives are sitting on their hands," Viguerie said.

"This is a wakeup call for John McCain. Since securing the nomination, he has done nothing significant to reach out to the conservatives who provide the vast majority of the volunteers for the Republican Party in every election. Senator McCain, and all the candidates on the ballot with him, will pay the price in November."

In fact, Viguerie said, "The farther we go down this road, the longer it will take to repair the relationship between conservatives and the Republican Party. The damage that's being done now will affect the party for years to come."

In the race for the Hastert seat, the Republican nominee, Jim Oberweis - the handpicked choice of the GOP Establishment - reportedly had difficulty getting enough volunteers. The Chicago Tribune reported that, when the primary runner-up, conservative State Senator Chris Lauzen, declined to endorse Oberweis, "his decision not to endorse Oberweis sidelined a potent grassroots organization that could have helped the Republican candidate."

So strapped for volunteers was the Oberweis campaign that, according to the newspaper The Hill, Republicans turned to congressional interns in Washington to make calls for Oberweis.

The defeat shows that the Republican Party's current political strategy is fundamentally flawed. Said Viguerie: "Rather than running on the issues, Republican leaders continue to try to buy elections by earmarking and pork-barreling and special-interest spending, by using taxpayers' own money to try to buy elections."

Viguerie noted a Hastert aide's comment regarding the billions of taxpayers' dollars he was willing to spend to save the seat of Representative Claw Shaw in 2000. "We knew" the control of the House "could come down to two seats," a Hastert aide recalled, "and if that meant we had to spend $8 billion for Mr. Shaw, that's what we were going to do."

"The more earmarks, the angrier conservatives get. They see Republican leaders corruptly, immorally spending our children's and grandchildren's inheritance, trying to buy elections. And they're fed up.

"Pork barrel spending," Viguerie said, "has turned to ashes in the mouths of the Republican leadership."

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