Abortionist Gets Plea Bargain

Bush's federal prosecutors let lying
baby murdering scum off the hook
Pendergraft To Accept Perjury Plea
OCALA -- Nearly four years after his arrest, Dr. James Scott Pendergraft IV is about to accept a plea deal likely to close the federal government's conspiracy case against him. According to documents filed in federal court Friday, Pendergraft and federal prosecutors have reached a plea agreement that will allow the operator of the Ocala Women's Center to plead guilty to one count of "making a material false statement" that "knowingly and willfully assist(ed) . . . Michael Spielvogel, in order to hinder and prevent (Spielvogel's ) trial and punishment." Under the terms of the proposed agreement, Pendergraft could face a possible maximum prison term of 2.5 years, a possible fine of $125,000 and three years of supervised release. [But] the proposed agreement notes that [Bush's] federal prosecutors will recommend a sentence at the low end of federal guidelines.

Flashback
Federal Judge Tosses Evidence For New Trial of Pendergraft
Evidence from first trial not allowed
By Rick Cundiff / Ocala Star-Banner/ January 29, 2003
OCALA - The judge presiding over the upcoming retrial of Dr. James Scott Pendergraft IV has rejected some of the evidence from Pendergraft's first trial. U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan ruled Monday that some audio tapes of conversations that Pendergraft or his business associate Michael Spielvogel had with former Marion County Commissioner Larry Cretul won't be admitted when Pendergraft's retrial begins next week. Corrigan also ruled some correspondence between Cretul and Pendergraft irrelevant to the retrial.

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Abortion Doctor in Ocala to
Plead Guilty to Impeding Justice
OCALA -- A doctor who runs [5] abortion clinics will plead guilty to impeding justice to settle a long-running fight with prosecutors who once accused him of extorting Marion County, court documents show. Dr. James Scott Pendergraft IV and federal prosecutors have agreed that the operator of the Ocala Women's Center will plead guilty to one count of impeding justice for supporting a business associate he knew was lying, the records show.

African-American Abortion:
Pro Choice, Infanticide, Or Genocide?
By Brad Lena / Black Electorate
The white population in America is in decline. The question for Black Americans is do they wish to accompany them? If the black abortion rate remains constant, it may be inevitable. The Black population in America, according to the 2000 Census, comprised 12.3% of the population (12.9% if identified as black plus another race.) It is no longer the largest minority having been surpassed by Hispanics in 2000 (5 years sooner than anticipated.) Black American women comprise 13.5% of the female population in the U.S. but have 34% of all the abortions. Black abortion rates are approximately 2.6 times higher than the white. Most of America's abortions take place in urban areas.

Cliff Notes: Abortion Contradiction
In Kansas City this week…another ruling by a different federal judge. In this case, a woman who’s five months pregnant is fighting deportation to Mexico…and this week…federal judge Scott Wright ruled that the woman’s unborn child is a U.S. citizen and therefore, says the judge, is entitled to legal protection under the law.

State at Center of 'Morning-After Pill' Fight
Albany -- Bill would allow pharmacists to dispense emergency contraception without a prescription -- The battle to make emergency contraception readily available to women has shifted from the federal government to New York and other states, where it is marked by confusion, politics and conflicting definitions of pregnancy. Advocates contend the high doses of birth control pills could prevent as many as 1.7 million unintended pregnancies and 800,000 abortions in the United States each year, while opponents say preventing a fertilized egg from attaching to the uterus is tantamount to abortion.

Legislators Mull Morning-After Pill
ALBANY -- Legislation that would make emergency contraception more widely available by enabling women to obtain it in pharmacies and from nurses through collaborative agreements with physicians has already been passed by the New York State Assembly. But it will founder if the State Senate does not deal with the bill before the end of session June 21. Much of the difficulty lies in differing definitions of when life begins.[?] Some anti-abortion activists contend that Plan B, by complicating fertilization and implantation, is not contraception but abortion.

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California Judge Rules Against
Ban on 'Partial-Birth' Abortion
SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal judge in California has declared unconstitutional a federal law that attempts to ban certain medical procedures that abortion-rights opponents call "partial-birth" abortions. Federal District Judge Phyllis Hamilton of San Francisco, in a decision handed down June 1, ruled the law -- passed last year by Congress and signed into law by President Bush -- was unconstitutionally vague in its definitions of the acts and procedures it prohibits. Hamilton accepted virtually all the arguments put forth by the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, which filed suit to block the law. (Read: Partial-Birth Ban of No Effect)

Final Arguments Being Heard In
Controversial Abortion Law Case
LINCOLN – A federal judge heard closing arguments Wednesday in one of three cases at the center of the national fight over so-called partial-birth abortion. U.S. District Judge Richard Kopf is one of three judges around the country who previously blocked implementation of a federal law banning the procedure.

Nebraska Abortion Ruling Expected In August
Judge Critical Of Politics In Case
LINCOLN, Neb. -- The judge presiding over a challenge in Lincoln of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act said he will rule by Aug. 31. U.S. District Judge Richard Kopf Wednesday heard closing oral arguments from both sides in the Lincoln case. Trials also have been held in New York and San Francisco. A judge in the California trial already ruled the law signed last year by President Bush is unconstitutional. Lawyers for the government and four abortion doctors made their closing arguments and answered questions from Kopf.

Coward in The White House Places Women in Harm's Way
Congress, Pentagon clash on sex assault
WASHINGTON -- Saying they are tired of years of foot-dragging by the military, lawmakers warned Pentagon officials on Thursday to supply Congress with more details about their plans to improve responses to sexual assault cases. They also demanded more answers about reports that military rape victims are being denied abortion services in the war zone, a trend several legislators called troubling.

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Communion with murderers?
Vatican: Be Careful on Denying Communion
NEW YORK - A top Vatican cardinal told visiting U.S. bishops they should be cautious about denying Communion to Roman Catholic politicians who support policies at odds with church teaching, according to a news report. Bishop Donald Pelotte of Gallup, N.M., said Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger spoke of proceeding cautiously on the issue, Catholic News Service reported. Ratzinger said he would like Vatican officials to meet soon with a U.S. bishops' panel reviewing how church leaders should interact with Catholics in public life.

Law School's Award to Pro-Abort
Judgette Creates Controversy
"Shame on Seton Hall" was a slogan on protesters' signs Friday outside of Seton Hall Law School as the university honored a pro-abortion judge. Those sentiments were echoed in a statement released by the Archbishop of Newark Wednesday. The university has come under fire for awarding Judge Maryanne Trump Barry the Sandra Day O'Connor Medal of Honor, named after the associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. The award honors women who have distinguished themselves in law and public service and is presented by three student groups: the Seton Hall Law Review, the Seton Hall Legislative Bureau and the Seton Hall Women's Law Forum.

New State Law Delays Abortions
'Informed Consent' 24-Hour Wait
A federal appeals court panel decided last week to allow a state law requiring women to wait 24 hours before undergoing an abortion. The law became effective immediately. As a result, dozens of abortions scheduled across the state were postponed last week, according to various news sources. The Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals dissolved Judge Scott O. Wright’s temporary restraining order, which halted last year’s abortion informed consent law (HB 156) from taking effect. (Read: Christians Murdering Babies)

Abortion Group Fights Ruling
Planned Parenthood opposes wait period
JEFFERSON CITY -- Abortion provider Planned Parenthood has asked a federal appeals court to clear a procedural path for it to again try to stop the enforcement of a new state law requiring a 24-hour wait for abortions. The court filing yesterday came after a decision last week by the Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis to lift a temporary restraining order against the law. The restraining order had been in place since October. Planned Parenthood said that by lifting the restraining order and allowing the law to take effect the appeal is now essentially moot. The group wants the appeals court to send the case back to federal district court, where Planned Parenthood could argue for a preliminary injunction against the law.

Breast Cancer-Abortion Study Flawed
While many abortion advocates are touting a recent study in the Lancet which denies the link between abortion and breast cancer, a leading expert in the field now says that the study has serious flaws. Dr. Joel Brind, president and co-founder of the Breast Cancer Prevention Institute, charges that the Lancet study incorrectly compares rates of breast cancer among women who have had abortions with women who have never been pregnant.

Why Bloody Abortion Photographs Were Displayed
Why did we show those bloody photographs May 21 in Chattanooga? Because people need to see what a child looks like after he or she has been in the hands of an abortionist at a abortion clinic. Without the pictures, the words which describe what they do to the preborn lack punch and are easily forgotten.

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Warriors management apologises for young
players' actions over abortion attack
The father of the pregnant teenager who was repeatedly kicked in the stomach by former junior Warriors player Shaun Metcalf says the team management has apologised for what happened. Last Saturday, he said, management representatives from the New Zealand Warriors, including Don Mann and Matt Kenny, arrived at his home with gifts for the baby Metcalf tried to kill, now a happy five-month-old, and made a verbal apology.

Abortion: Doctor May Face Murder Charges
The East African Standard (Nairobi)
The doctor embroiled in the abortion saga, Dr John Nyamu, is likely to face murder charges tomorrow, sources in the investigation team revealed yesterday. By last evening, a team of four doctors appointed by the Director of Medical Services, Dr James Nyikal, was conducting post-mortem on the 15 foetuses dumped along Mombasa road last week.

Posted by Editor at June 4, 2004 06:36 PM