PRESS RELEASE MARCH 5-6, 2013
Citizens for a Pro-Life Society
TWO MORE MICHIGAN ABORTION CENTERS HAVE CLOSED
ABORTED BABIES WERE FOUND IN THE DUMPSTER OF ONE THESE CLINICS IN 2008
These clinics are 2 of 4 abortion clinic-closings in Michigan within the last 6 months
As of Saturday, March 2, 2013, after being in operation for 31 years, the Women’s Advisory abortion center located at 27549 Six Mile Road, Livonia MI. has closed its door permanently.
In addition—its sister clinic, Sharpe’s Family Planning at 16738 East Warren in Detroit, is also NOW CLOSED and the building up for sale! Both clinics were owned and operated by abortionist, Reginald Sharpe. The clinic closings were discovered by Livonia native and veteran pro-life activist Lynn Mills, who has focused much of her pro-life efforts at the Women’s Advisory clinic since it opened 3 decades ago.
The Livonia Women’s Advisory clinic is the very same abortion center were in 2008 members of CPLS found the remains of aborted babies tossed in the clinic’s trash dumpster, as well as excessive bio-hazard waste and patient records all in violation of Michigan State Statutes and federal HIPAA law.
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| Foot of unborn baby discovered in Women’s Advisory trash dumpster. |
The discovery of the closing of the Livonia clinic was made Saturday morning March 2nd when Lynn Mills and seven other pro-lifers were praying outside of the facility. Noticing very little activity at the usually busy clinic Mills asked a friend to call the clinic and see if the clinic was taking appointments. To the utter astonishment of the pro-lifers, the clinic staff member said over the phone that the clinic was “permanently closed.” The clinic had appointments up until March 2nd. Mills had already been doing research on abortionist Reginald Sharpe and discovered that he had filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in October 2012.
Reginald Sharpe’s Detroit and Livonia clinics have not been free of conflict and controversy in their decades long history. In addition to the 2008 discovery by CPLS of the aborted babies disposed of in the Women’s Advisory dumpster, Sharpe has been the subject of disciplinary action on the part of the Michigan Department of Licensing and several civil suits were recently filed against him for alleged botched abortions.
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| Reginald Sharpe- Michigan abortionist. |
Below is a partial summary of Sharpe’s medical practice difficulties:
A) In 2005 Sharpe’s medical license was suspended due to a 3rd trimester abortion at 27 weeks, an abortion performed in violation of Michigan state law that permits elective abortions “only” through the 24 week. The order of Summary Suspension charges Sharpe with “negligence, incompetence, and actions that constitute lack of good moral character.” The clinic informed the woman that she was “only” 23 weeks gestation. After the abortion the women experienced severe physical trauma. She delivered a dead baby at the clinic while Sharpe had already left to do abortions at his Detroit facility.
B) The late term abortion incident occurred Feb. 24-25, Sharpe’s license was suspended April 1st and his Livonia clinic mysteriously burnt four days later on April 5th. Numerous patient records were blown all over the property. The abortion clinic was rebuilt and soon back in business. Proof of arson was never determined.
C) On January 11, 2008 at his Warren Avenue clinic in Detroit, Sharpe performed an abortion on a 26 year old woman, 15 weeks pregnant who later died of complications. The civil complaint filed against Sharpe states that he: “perforated [the woman’s] uterus, cut a uterine blood vessel, lacerated her intestines, and liver.” The woman experienced a series of seizures and heart attacks, had to have a total hysterectomy and a “neurological evaluation determined that she had massive swelling of the brain due to long periods of oxygen deprivation.” The woman died January 19th— eight days after the abortion began.
D) Also at his Detroit clinic, April 2, 2011 Sharpe performed an abortion on a woman whom he told “your pregnancy is barely visible.” It turns out that the woman had an ectopic pregnancy that Sharpe failed to diagnose. Fifteen days later the woman’s fallopian tube burst, causing the woman to pass out with pain, hit her head and fall on the bathroom floor. The bursting of a fallopian tube, due to an ectopic pregnancy is potentially fatal for the woman. The fallopian tube was subsequently removed. This is not the first time Sharpe failed to detect an ectopic pregnancy. When doing abortions at Renee Chelian’s Northland Family Clinic in Westland, MI. Sharpe failed to diagnose such a pregnancy which resulted in a March 2006 $50,000 settlement paid to the woman.
E) At Women’s Advisory in Livonia, August 5, 2011 Sharpe performed an abortion on a 23 year-year-old woman, 19 weeks pregnant. The woman complained that the procedure was extremely painful— “that it felt like he was stabbing her.” Sharpe called 911, the woman was taken to the nearest emergency room, where an ultra sound showed that the baby’s fetal head was left in her uterus. Exploratory surgery discovered the woman’s uterus was punctured at least seven times and that fetal parts were found outside of the uterine wall. The woman also suffered lacerations of the cervix and vaginal walls. The woman’s uterus needed to be removed, resulting in permanent sterility.
Civil suits filed against Sharpe for botched abortions may have led to his decision to file for bankruptcy last Oct.15, 2012 which may also have triggered dismissals of the civil suits 2 weeks later.
The closing of these two abortion centers comes on the heels of the 2012 retirement of two Michigan abortionists, Enrique Gerbi and Alberto Hodari, one of the most notorious abortionists in America. In addition, Hodari’s Woman Care clinic on Five Mile Road in Livonia closed its doors in late 2012 and abortionist Robert Alexander’s Muskegon, MI. abortion center was forcibly closed in December 2012 by order of that municipality’s fire marshal for unsafe and unsanitary conditions. That brings the total of closed abortion clinics in Michigan to four in less than 6 months.
It is believed that Sharpe may now be doing abortions at the Summit Women’s Center in Detroit—as Women’s Advisory staff, since the clinic’s closing March 2nd, have referred prospective clients to that address. Summit also made use of the services of Robert Alexander in the wake of the shut-down of his Muskegon facility-but Summit has since let him go.
Monica Migliorino Miller, director of CPLS states: “In 2008 I saw with my own eyes the tragic evidence of the abortion victims we pulled from the dumpster of Sharpe’s Livonia clinic. Any time one of these places closes is cause for rejoicing. Hopefully these abortion clinics will remain forever locked against the killing of the innocent unborn, and the Sharpe clinics will be a sad, but ended chapter in Michigan abortion history.”
Veteran Livonia pro-life activist Lynn Mills stated: “Livonia for the first time in 31 years is abortion-free.” She adds: “I think Sharpe’s clinics have closed because of the law suits and just from plain old mismanagement. But really I don’t care why they have closed. All that matters, is that they are closed. Babies will not be killed here any more—and women not maimed here anymore.”
In the coming weeks Citizens for a Pro-Life Society plans to hold a memorial service at the Women’s Advisory clinic for all the unborn killed at that the facility in the last 30 years.
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For more information call:
Monica M. Miller 248 444-9096
Lynn Mills 734 516-1948
Women’s Advisory Clinic, Livonia (734) 261-3430
Summit Women’s Health clinic
15801 McNichols Rd. W.
Detroit, MI 48235
