Pro-Choice Violence and Illegal Activities in Oklahoma

Chickasha Elk City Oklahoma City Tulsa Weatherford Chickasha, Oklahoma

First-Degree Murder (2 counts), Assault (6 counts) and Death Threat This pitiful case is a testimony to how the "pro-choice" mentality coarsens people's outlook towards children. After all, if they can be legally and profitably put to death a few days before birth, why not a few days or months after birth? James Malicoat was a typical "pro-choice" male, absolutely ruthless and domineering. His own brother testified in court that he was cruel and that he liked to beat women. His estranged wife could certainly corroborate this claim, because he once grabbed her wrist and fractured it. She also testified that, shortly before their marriage, Malicoat told her that he did not like children and did not want children. When she became pregnant shortly after they were married, Malicoat told her to get an abortion or he would kill the child when it was born. On February 2, 1997, Malicoat's new girlfriend, Mary Ann Leadford, and her thirteen-month-old daughter, Tessa, moved in with him. Malicoat immediately began to severely abuse the little girl. He confessed that he frequently punched and poked her hard in the chest, and bit her as "discipline." He also admitted that, on February 19, he slammed her head on a bed frame. Finally, her poor little body gave out under the terrible abuse, and she died. On February 21, 1997, Malicoat punched her twice hard in the chest early in the afternoon. She stopped breathing and he gave her CPR. She started breathing again and he went to sleep. When he woke up at about 5:30 PM, she was dead. Malicoat and Leadford took her to the county hospital emergency room. The little girl's face and body were covered in severe bruises, there was a large mushy closed wound on her forehead, and she had several human bite marks on her body. Tessa also had severe internal injuries, including broken ribs, internal bruising and bleeding, and a torn mesentery. Malicoat had literally beaten her to death. The medical examiner described her injuries as "non-survivable," and that her chest injuries would have been agonizing. Whenever she breathed or

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moved, the bruises she suffered to her lungs and diaphragm, along with her broken ribs, would have caused her pain. She also suffered terribly from her bleeding liver and kidneys. Perhaps this is what "pro-choicers" sometimes refer to as "post-natal" or "fourth-trimester" abortion. Both Malicoat and Mary Ann Leadford were convicted of first-degree murder for the killing of little Tessa. Leadford received a sentence of life in prison for not protecting the child that she was keenly aware was being brutalized, and Malicoat was sentenced to death. On August 31, 2006, the State of Oklahoma executed James Patrick Malicoat by lethal injection. Witnesses said that he died peacefully. Grady County District Attorney Bret Burns, who helped prosecute Malicoat, said that "He died within a few seconds of injection. You can't say that for his victim. Tessa took 19 days to die." References: "Execution Date Requested for Malicoat." Office of the Oklahoma Attorney General Press Release dated June 5, 2006; "Okla. Man Executed for Baby Daughter Beating Death." Reuters, August 31, 2006; "Toddler's Killer is Put to Death." Tulsa World, September 1, 2006; Murray Evans. "Chickasha Man Executed." Shawnee News-Star, September 1, 2006.

Elk City, Oklahoma

Arson In April 1999, a pro-abortion arsonist burned the Elk City Crisis Pregnancy Center to the ground. The inside was totally destroyed, to include a large stock of goods intended to help pregnant mothers: Baby clothes, cribs, diapers and formula. The city helped clear the rubble from the ashes, and a beneficiary offered the CPC two rent-free months of occupancy. Not one pro-choice group condemned the arson. Reference: "Another Pro-Life Center Burned." Right to Life Educational Foundation of Cincinnati Bulletin, May 1999.

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Murder (3 counts) and Gross Negligence (4 incidents) The lurid case of abortionists J.W. Elsiminger and Richard E. Thacker demonstrates that many illegal abortionists cared even less for the lives of women than legal abortionists do now. It may stretch the imagination but it is true. One or both of these two abortionists killed Mrs. Isobel F. Ferguson on April 14, 1932. The very next day, one or both of them killed Ruth Hall. Three days later, Thacker killed Robbie Lou Thompson and was charged with murder. Only six days after Ruth's death, Elsiminger killed Virginia Lee Wyckoff on April 24, 1932, and the abortionist was charged with murder in her death. On that same day, one or both of the abortionists killed Mrs. F.S. Roach. The very next day, April 25, 1932, Thacker killed Mrs. Frank Lee and was subsequently charged with murder. This means that, in their insane rush to make money, these two abortionists killed a total of six women over a period of just eleven days. One or both of them had previously killed Marie Epperson in 1930.

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References: New York Times, April 29, 1932; A detailed story on abortionists Elsiminger and Thacker is on the Real Choice Web site at http://realchoice.0catch.com. It is entitled "1932: A String of Abortion Deaths in Oklahoma City." First-Degree Murder (2 counts) and Death Threats (2 incidents) Many women seem to have very hard lives, and fall victim to all kind of tragedies. They are often suckers for unscrupulous and lying "pro-choice" men. Melody Wuertz was one of those unfortunate women. And Jimmie Ray Slaughter was one of those "pro-choice" men. He cheated incessantly on his three wives, and often used abortion as a coverup. In fact, he carried on a ten-year affair with a woman doctor who had seven abortions after becoming pregnant by him. Melody had overcome epilepsy that began during her junior high school years, and in 1991 had moved to Oklahoma City for a new job. She met Slaughter there. He was more than ten years older than Melody, and had been married three times. He told her he was divorced and began an affair with her, but he was lying, because he was still married to his third wife. Soon they had a daughter, whom they named Jessica Rae Wuertz. Slaughter had demanded that she have an abortion, but she was pro-life and refused, even ceasing to take her anticonvulsant drugs in case her preborn child might be harmed by them. Ten days after she was born, Slaughter signed an affidavit of paternity on July 17, 1990, Slaughter had a long history of manipulating and exploiting insecure and vulnerable young women. He failed to support Melody and Jessica, and Melody's insistence that Slaughter provide for his child was irritating him greatly. Slaughter joined the army and before leaving for active duty at Fort Riley, Kansas, he said to at least two co-workers that "he was actually glad to be leaving ... and that he was especially glad to get away from Melody because she was getting pushy, and if she kept pushing him, he'd have to kill her. ... They would know who did it but they would never be able to prove it." Slaughter was concerned that any legal actions by Melody could besmirch his reputation as an Army Reserve officer. Melody finally caught on. In October 1990, she discovered that Slaughter was married and called his wife about his adultery. Slaughter was incensed by this, but explained the call away to his wife, and said to a co-worker that "he would do anything to keep her [his wife] from finding out." Melody then began to pursue child support payments through the Oklahoma Department of Human Services, though Slaughter had told her that he would kill her and Jessica if she ever tried to do such a thing. In fact, Melody confided to several people that she was now afraid for her life. Despite the fact that Slaughter had already acknowledged paternity of Jessica, on June 30, 1991, he called Melody and told her that there was no way the baby was his, and he would never pay child support. On July 2, 1991, Slaughter carried out his threats. The day before Melody and the baby were to fly to her parents' home for a two-week visit, Slaughter visited them instead. He shot Melody in the spine, and she watched, fully conscious, as Slaughter shot her little baby twice in the head. Then he returned to Melody, shot her in the head, and then stabbed her in the chest and genitalia and carved symbols into her abdomen and breasts with a knife. Slaughter used hollow-point bullets to cause maximum damage. Then he scattered various "evidence" around the murder scene to try to make it look like Melody had been sexually assaulted by a Black male, since he did not like Black people. Melody's father said that Slaughter knew what he was doing when he shot and paralyzed her. I don't imagine she

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could speak, but in her mind she was screaming 'no, please no' when he killed her baby. It's time he was removed from this earth. He's not a man. He's an evil "it" and he must be destroyed. What this man has dumped into our lives is nothing short of a toxic bomb of evil. Slaughter confessed to two inmates that he had killed Melody and Jessica, but he tried to cast suspicion on his wife Cecilia Johnson. When she learned this, she committed suicide. Melody's mother Susie Wuertz said "He manipulated her just like he had so many others in his life." The State of Oklahoma executed Jimmie Ray Slaughter by lethal injection on March 15, 2005. References: Sean Murphy. "State Executes Guthrie Man for Double Murder." Lexington Herald Leader, March 15, 2005; "Oklahoman Executed Despite 'Brain Fingerprinting.'" Reuters, March 15, 2005; Doug Russell. "Family's Nightmare Ends as Murderer Executed." McAlester News-Democrat, March 16, 2005. First-Degree Murder (2 counts) Lauren Jay Barnes was five months pregnant and, according to her friends, was ecstatic about it. Vanessa Ghiassi, said that "She was excited. She was ready. She would have been a great mother." Another friend, Fashion Burch, said that "She was happy to be pregnant very happy. Every time she talked about it, she'd glow every time. If she was still around, she'd be, like, "Wow, people care about me that much"." Lauren's aunt, Sheli Lemieux, said that "Lauren was the light of everyone else's party. She was always funny, always laughing." But it was not to be. On November 23, 2007, Lauren set out to meet the father of her preborn child, Eric Kennedy Phan, at Eldon Lyon Park to discuss her pregnancy with him. Before leaving, Lauren sent a text message to her sister saying that she was meeting the baby's father. At 8:34, she sent another text message to her sister: "Oh, God, I think he just pulled up." This was the last time anyone heard from her, and she just disappeared. Her mother turned in a missing persons report the next day. Phan told his best friend David Huynh that he had choked Lauren and that he thought he had broken her neck. He also said that "the last thing she said to him was that she would get an abortion," apparently in a futile attempt to save her own life. Huynh said that Phan started crying and told him that he had dumped Lauren's body at the Stinchcomb Wildlife Refuge. After a week-long search, Lauren's body was found buried in a yard-deep grave and covered with debris. On August 21, 2008, Phan pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder in the death of Lauren Barnes and her preborn child. He was sentenced to two terms of life in prison without the possibility of parole. References: "Mourners Gather To Remember Slain Bethany Woman." Channel 5 KOCO Eyewitness News [Oklahoma City, Oklahoma], November 26, 2007; Affidavit of Probable Cause, filed by police Sergeant Sharon Cadle in the District Court of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, November 30, 2007; "Phan Pleads Guilty To Killing Bethany Woman, Unborn Child." Channel 5 KOCO Eyewitness News [Oklahoma City, Oklahoma], August 21, 2008. First-Degree Murder, Death Threats (5 incidents), Domestic Assault (3 incidents) and Attempt to Intimidate a Witness

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Introduction Prominent Oklahoma City abortionist John Baxter Hamilton was having an affair with a topless dancer, and his wife, 55-year-old Susan Shibley Hamilton, was considering leaving him. Just two days before Valentine's Day 2001, they spoke of divorce. The Hamilton's marriage had been in trouble for some time before the murder. Two months before Susan's death, they fought over Hamilton giving his son money without her knowing about it. Susan Hamilton suspected her husband was having an affair with a patient and stripper whose telephone number turned up 60 times on the defendant's cell phone bills. Alliena Aguirre, a topless dancer, testified she had performed table dances at two Oklahoma City clubs for the abortionist. She said he paid her $100 and $80 for the dances that usually cost $20 each. Aguirre, also known as Nina, said she first went to the defendant for an abortion in the early 1990s, but she also saw him at his gynecology office. She denied having an affair or any type of personal relationship with Hamilton. Aguirre said he called her 10 or more times a day. On February 8, after his wife learned of the cell phone calls, Hamilton wrote Aguirre a letter saying he could no longer be her doctor, she said. During his trial, Hamilton claimed the dancer was a manic-depressive, suicidal patient whom he was trying to help. Shary Coffey, Susan Hamilton's best friend for 37 years, testified that she told her February 7 that she thought her husband was having an affair. On Valentine's Day [February 14], the couple got into another argument. It ended decisively when Hamilton choked his wife with a necktie, beat her over the head with a heavy blunt object hard enough to smash a hole in her skull, and then slammed her face repeatedly onto the marble floor of the master bathroom in the couple's posh Quail Creek home. Hamilton was arrested later that day after police found the body of his wife in their home. Shortly after 11 a.m., police responded to a "trouble unknown" call at the couple's house, and found a woman with "visible trauma to the body," said Captain Jessica Cummins, a police spokeswoman. Susan was pronounced dead at the scene. When police rushed up the pebble stone drive at 3056 Brush Creek Road, they found a white Corvette and a beige Jaguar XJ6 parked as usual in front of the Hamilton house. But inside, they found the abortionist barefoot in the kitchen wearing a bloody black sports coat, green dress slacks, white dress shirt, and no tie. In a bathroom, they discovered the dead body of society-page and country club regular Susan Hamilton lying nude in a pool of blood with a man's dress tie looped around her neck. Her forehead had been bashed in with a blunt object. At a May 25, 2001 hearing, several witnesses testified that the abortionist regularly abused his wife, and that she had been seen in public with bruises a number of times. One witness said that she had first met Susan Hamilton at a domestic abuse support group in 1995. On December 19, 2001, an Oklahoma County jury convicted Hamilton of murdering his wife. In light of the overwhelming evidence against Hamilton, the seven women and five men of the jury reached their verdict in less than two hours. The abortionist displayed no reaction to the guilty verdict. District Judge Ray Elliott announced the recommended punishment: Life without parole. Raking in the Millions Hamilton purchased the Oklahoma City Clinic for Women abortion mill in 1980 and did abortions there for more than twenty years (a fact never mentioned by the "mainline" press in its coverage of this story). Oklahoma City authorities found that he aborted 15 to 20 preborn children at his abortion mill every Tuesday and Thursday, and each Wednesday and Friday he deposited about $3,000 into his bank. The math shows that, in twenty years, he would have aborted between 30,000 and 40,000 preborn babies

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and made about six million dollars from his abortions during this time period. His murdered wife worked alongside him at the abortuary as a physician's assistant. Authorities believe that he killed her between two surgeries he had scheduled at Mercy Medical Center. An investigator said that "We believe he left the surgical center after the first surgery, killed [Mrs. Hamilton], returned to the hospital, performed the second surgery, then went home and pretended to discover the body. It was a brutal, very violent crime." Despite all of this evidence, pro-abortionists immediately began to speak out in Hamilton's defense. With no sense of irony whatever, Diane McDaniel said "If asked if he could do it, I'd say there is no way he could have killed anything. He is a very kind man. I wouldn't think he would hurt a fly." Incredibly, at a March 16, 2001 hearing, Hamilton's lawyer, Mack Martin, said that police should be investigating local pro-lifers as suspects in the murder, not the abortionist! Oklahoma City pro-life activist Stan Engle said the murder-one charge against Dr. Hamilton "... seemed normal. Someone who makes a living taking the lives of the unborn is only one step away from taking the lives of the born." Oklahoma City physician Dominic Pedulla believes the brutality of abortion penetrates the abortionist's soul, rendering him capable of other brutal acts. "The abortionist lives an intrinsically violent lifestyle sanitized because the doctor is making a nice living, dresses well, and lives in an upper social stratum," said Dr. Pedulla, who described Hamilton as "one of the most well-known abortionists" in the city. "An abortion doctor is confronted with an irreconcilable conflict. ... How can he compartmentalize and say, 'On the one hand it's okay to kill these babies, and on the other hand it's not okay to solve my anger problems with violence'?" This blindness may have afflicted John Hamilton. A former associate to whom World Magazine granted anonymity because she feared for her family's safety said, "At first [Dr. Hamilton] was gung-ho on abortion. He really felt like he was doing women a service. But after time, he did not want to let [his abortion practice] go because it was such a moneymaker. He didn't care anymore." The "Pro-Choice" Death Threats Begin In July 2001, pro-abortionists sent death threats to at least three Oklahoma City news agencies, threatening violence against Oklahoma County District Attorney Wes Lane or a state witness against abortionist Hamilton. The threats, received by The Oklahoman newspaper, KWTV NEWS 9 and another television station, warned of retribution if Lane did not drop the charges against Hamilton. The letter to The Oklahoman was typed in capital letters and dated July 9, 2001. It was mailed from within Oklahoma City and carried no return address. The newspaper's address appeared to have been cut from an issue of the paper and taped to the envelope. "You all will have a big news story soon ... if Wes Lane doesn't drop charges against Dr. Hamilton," the letter reads. "One of his witnesses will be dead we have tried to warn her."

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KWTV NEWS9 received a similar letter on July 10, 2001, and KFOR Channel 4 received a letter in June of 2001. The letter sent to KFOR threatened Lane's life. The letter warned that Lane would die if he didn't drop charges against Hamilton. The letter said that Lane's witness would also be murdered, and warned that the threat it communicated was "very serious." All three news agencies turned the letters over to police or the district attorney's office. As Hamilton's preliminary hearing ended June 25, Oklahoma County sheriff's deputies questioned and photographed court spectators. Lane said the measure was part of an investigation into the written threats. Subsequently, death threats were received by retired district attorney Bob Macy, and another was given to the key witness after someone discovered it in the rest room of her church. The letter writer could face felony charges of attempting to intimidate a witness, which carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison. Lane said "I think that anybody who would engage in a kind of long-distance terrorism and without being willing to look me in the eye and say that they have got a problem ... are gutless cowards." Amazingly, Hamilton's defense attorney Mack Martin blamed the letters on pro-lifers! "They aren't anyone associated with Dr. Hamilton because they are hurting us more than them," Martin said. "As far as I am concerned, it is probably some anti-abortion activist or someone who is out to hurt the doctor."

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At Hamilton's preliminary hearing, the female witness, whom local media sources agreed not to identify because of safety concerns, testified she and Susan Hamilton swapped stories of spousal abuse for about five years. The women joined other abused women in a first-names-only "support group," she said. Hamilton pleaded not guilty to the murder of his wife. District Judge Ray Elliott said he requested a metal detector and additional armed deputies after the "pro-choice" death threats. The abortionist testified in his own defense, telling jurors he loved his slain wife "more than anything in the whole wide world" and "could never have hurt her." The media, as always, sympathized with the abortionist/wife-murderer, and was harsh to pro-lifers in general. As one example, MSNBC aired a five-part Dateline series on the Hamilton murder entitled "Valentine's Day Mystery." During the 27 minutes of the series, it prattled on about how "as you might guess, it [running an abortion mill] was a a job that came with a little danger, and how "threats against the clinic only brought the Hamiltons closer together." All of the smoke thrown up by the abortionist and his pro-abortion supporters didn't help him in the end, though; a jury found Hamilton guilty of murder and, on January 8, 2002, he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, and was ordered to pay $11,104 for the cost of his incarceration in the Oklahoma County jail. This was the first time an inmate in Oklahoma County has been ordered to pay for his stay. But Hamilton, killer of tens of thousands of preborn children, could certainly afford it. References The Oklahoman Ken Raymond. "Doctor Arrested in Wife's Death." February 16, 2001. "Few Details Released on Arrest of Doctor." February 16, 2001. "Doctor to Attend Wife's Service." February 17, 2001. "Doctor Leaves Jail for Funeral - Obstetrician Permitted to Attend Wife's Services." February 21, 2001. "City Obstetrician Charged in Fatal Beating of Wife." February 22, 2001. "Doctor, Slain Wife Argued About Affair, Police Say - Evidence Taken from Home Where Woman's Body Found." February 27, 2001. Ken Raymond. "Document Describes Crime Scene." March 2, 2001. "Slaying Shocks Neighborhood." March 4, 2001. "Suspect Loses Bail Appeal - Doctor Charged in Wife's Death to Remain in Jail Pending Trial." May 9, 2001. "Doctor's Wife Fought Strangler." May 12, 2001. "Prosecutors Say Doctor Abused Wife." May 26, 2001. "Hamilton to Face Charges: Testimony Begins in Hamilton Murder Hearing." June 25, 2001. "Hamilton Murder Investigation: Judge Decides Physician Will Stand Trial in Slaying." June 26, 2001. "Media Receives Threats in Case of Abortion Practitioner Killing Wife." July 18, 2001. Diana Baldwin. "Murder Trial for City Doctor to Begin December 3." July 24, 2001. Diana Baldwin. "Hamilton Jury Told of Love and Death." December 7, 2001. Diana Baldwin. "Colleagues Say Doctor Was Late for Surgery on Day Wife was Slain." December 11, 2001. Diana Baldwin. "Attack Held Intense Violence." December 13, 2001. Ken Raymond. "Doctor Guilty in Wife's Death." December 20, 2001. Diana Baldwin. "Oklahoma Abortion Practitioner Sentenced for Murder." January 8, 2002.

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Pro- Life Infonet "Jury Questioned in Abortionist's Murder Case." December 6, 2001. "Testimony Begins in Abortion Practitioner's Murder Trial." December 12, 2001. "Abortion Practitioner's Murder Trial Continues in Oklahoma." December 16, 2001. "Abortion Practitioner Testifies in His Murder Trial." December 19, 2001. "Abortion Practitioner Convicted of Killing His Wife." December 21, 2001. Also see July 22, 2001 and January 10, 2002. Other References Lynne Vincent. "One Murder Too Many?" World Magazine, April 7, 2001; Paul Likoudis. "New York State Medical Board Goes Easy on Abortionist Who Stalked Patients." The Wanderer, June 21, 2001 "District Attorney Receives Death Threat to Drop Case Against Abortionist." LifeSite Daily News, July 19, 2001; "Letter Threatens Oklahoma County District Attorney." July 23, 2001. KFOR News [Oklahoma City, Oklahoma], July 23, 2001; "Abortionist Sentenced to Life for Murder, Ordered to Pay Jail Costs." LifeSite Daily News, January 8, 2002; First-Degree Murder (2 counts), Manslaughter (2 counts) and Death Threat Nathaniel Dee Smith killed his girlfriend Lorena Rivera because, as Assistant District Attorney Don Deason told jurors, "she refused to have an abortion and he didn't want to pay child support." Smith was charged with first-degree murder in Rivera's death and manslaughter in the death of their unborn child. Rivera, 21, was at least 21 weeks pregnant when she disappeared from South Oklahoma City on April 29, 1997. Her body was found more than a month later, buried in a garbage bag in a shallow Pottawatomie County grave near Pink. She had been beaten and shot twice. Witnesses testified that Smith had pressured Rivera to have an abortion and had threatened to kill her. Smith had another girlfriend, Virginia "Vickie" Rameriz, 17, who was also charged with first-degree murder and manslaughter for helping murder Rivera. Smith was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. References: Pro-Life Infonet, May 31, 1999; "Woman Killed for Refusing To Get Abortion, Jurors Told." The Oklahoman, May 21, 1999 and June 2, 1999. Manslaughter, Gross Negligence, Malpractice (2 incidents), Practicing Medicine without a License (2 incidents) and Violation of Health and Safety Standards (3 counts) Abortionist Joe Bills Reynolds performed breast implants, a hysterectomy, and numerous liposuction procedures on his wife. His 60-year-old anesthetist had originally been hired as a janitor, and an untrained orderly was acting as his nurse. His operating room was littered with dirty cups and papers. He tried to collect $500,000 on his wife's life insurance after she bled to death after he opened a 25-inch incision in her abdomen, ostensibly for liposuction, on September 7, 1989. Reynolds would not allow paramedics to aid her until he had finished stapling the huge incision. He told his wife's father that she was assisting in surgery and just "fell dead." He was found guilty of second-degree manslaughter and voluntarily surrendered his Oklahoma

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medical license. Reynolds allegedly had two suits filed over liposuction malpractice, including the near death of his housekeeper Betty Adams August 11, 1989, due to perforated intestines. Reynolds was also sued over the death of 21-year-old abortion patient Gaylene Golden on September 30, 1985. The punishment the abortionist received for killing his wife? A one dollar fine! References: The Daily Oklahoman, April 22, 1991; Christina Dunigan. "Back Alley Butchers vs Main Street Maimers." Dateline, September 1, 2000. Robbery, Assault with a Deadly Weapon (ADW), Aggravated Assault, Battery, Public Drunkenness, and Driving Under Cancellation When pro-abortionists physically attack other people, they invariably pick on the weak and helpless, especially small children and women (preferably pregnant women). Sometimes they are so cowardly that they even hire others to attack pregnant women. This incident, though vicious, seems as if the criminals were deliberately trying to win some kind of "stupid crook" competition. Erin Blythe Gardner was pregnant by her ex-boyfriend, Shawn LaTray Lawrence. On August 8, 2003, Lawrence called her several times and urged her to meet him after work. Police Sergeant Kevin Southerland said When she got off [work], he called and said he'd be 20 minutes late, but he was insistent she not leave and stay there. While she was waiting on her boyfriend, another person wearing a mask walked up from behind her car, stuck a gun through the open window, then made her get out. He pistol-whipped her, knocking her to the ground, where he then started kicking her in the abdomen. The attacker took Erin's purse and fled. Police found Lawrence, who appeared to be intoxicated, wandering around the parking lot, Southerland said. While speaking to him and Erin, they noticed a car pull into a driveway down the street. The driver had no license, and a search of the car turned up the mask and a gun. Andrel E. Singleton, 18, the driver, was arrested on complaints of robbery, assault with a deadly weapon, aggravated assault and battery and driving under cancellation. Singleton said that Lawrence hired him and another person to assault Erin in an attempt to cause a miscarriage. Lawrence was arrested on a complaint of public drunkenness. Fortunately, Erin survived the attack without suffering a miscarriage. Reference: "Police Say Beating Meant To Induce Miscarriage: Woman Says Boyfriend Arranged Attack." Downloaded from http://www.ChannelOklahoma.com on August 11, 2003. Assault (3 incidents), Criminal Abortion and Death Threat Abortionist Richard Mucie killed 19-year old Nancy Ward, a student at the University of Oklahoma, on February 7, 1968. Mucie was convicted June 8, 1968 on a charge of manslaughter-abortion in performing an abortion not "necessary to preserve the life" of the patient. Mucie served 14 months of his sentence before being released on parole. Mucie's medical license was revoked May 4, 1971, due to his

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felony conviction in the death of Nancy Ward. The Missouri abortion law was found unconstitutional in the wake of Roe v. Wade, and Mucie sued to overturn his conviction and restore his medical license on the grounds that since Missouri abortion law was unconstitutional, his conviction was unconstitutional as well. Mucie persisted until he was finally successful in 1977, on the grounds of a December 22, 1976 order declaring Roe v. Wade and related cases retroactive; it was decided by the court that Nancy Ward's abortion "was performed by a licensed physician in a medically accepted manner under medically accepted conditions," and the state therefore could not have validly prohibited it "in terms of its interest in maternal health." Mucie was released from probation and his record expunged of the manslaughter-abortion conviction. Abortionist Robert Crist testified on Mucie's behalf. Another lawsuit alleged that Mucie accompanied a woman to his office, whereupon his employee and her husband and son assaulted the plaintiff, "striking her, dragging her by her hair ... restraining her to enable [husband and son] to continue their brutal assault, and by threatening to kill her;" that Mucie stood by and ignored plaintiff's pleas for assistance or to call for help; that plaintiff "was severely disfigured, beaten and bloodied" and that plaintiff "may yet require surgery to repair the disfigurements." References: United States District Court, Western District of Missouri, Western Division Civ. #73CV497-W-3; and Jackson County Circuit Court Case #CV90-33157. Criminal Abortion (11 incidents), Drug Diversion, Medicaid Fraud, Violation of Health and Safety Standards (8 counts) and Improper Disposal of Medical Waste [Shawnee] Abortionist Sidney C. Laughlin committed illegal third-trimester abortions in the bedroom of his home, which was across the street from an elementary school, and investigators discovered the bodies of some of his victims in his garbage. He sterilized his surgical instruments in his dishwasher. Laughlin was also investigated for drug diversion and Medicaid fraud. Police found a dismembered 16-week preborn child in the abortionist's household trash. An autopsy noted that the right and left arm were dismembered at the shoulder, and found organs, legs and feet, and a macerated and opened head containing fragments of brain tissue. The medical examiner also noted other embryonic tissues, blood-stained pads, rubber gloves, and an empty syringe in bags collected by the police. A nurse who claimed to have assisted in several abortions in his home said Laughlin sterilized abortion instruments in his dishwasher. The nurse said she quit assisting in these abortions after she observed Laughlin aborting a 28-week old fetus, 4 weeks past the 24-week legal limit. She also said Laughlin owed her $3,000 in back wages. Equipment found in Laughlin's home included a suction machine, medications, and an exam table. A former employee also said that she is now embarrassed to have worked for Laughlin, and that "He laughed about dismembering babies." Laughlin denied disposing of the preborn child found in his household trash, saying "I've always disposed of them through a medical [waste company]." Laughlin also denied that it would be improper or illegal to perform abortions in his house, because a law restricting second-trimester abortions to hospitals had been found unconstitutional by the state attorney general in 1984, so no law could prevent abortions from being committed in a home or in the restroom of a convenience store, for that matter. References: Bobby Trammell and Nolan Clay. "Doctor Investigated in Abortion Allegations." The Sunday Oklahoman, July 5, 1992, pages 2-A and 8-A; Christina Dunigan. "Back Alley Butchers vs Main Street Maimers." Dateline, September 1, 2000.

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Sexual Abuse (4 incidents), Oral Sodomy, Sexual Assault, Sexual Harassment (2 incidents), Criminal Abortion, Malpractice, Improper Distribution of Controlled Substances and Improper Disposal of Medical Waste [Shawnee] In order to save money, abortionist Nareshkumar Gandalal Patel burned the bodies of 55 aborted babies in an open field in April 1992. The abortionist was reprimanded by the medical board of Oklahoma for abandoning patient E.S.B. on June 10, 1989 after a surgical procedure in order to take a friend to the airport. It stated that he "left [the] patient in post-operative condition in the treatment room under anesthesia, and the patient's blood pressure dropped and the patient required emergency medical treatment." He was reprimanded by the Oklahoma medical board in 1989 for failure to comply with regulations regarding prescribing and monitoring controlled substances. The abortionist's patient Ashley Trent accused him of asking her to meet with him to discuss her mental condition following abortion, and then trying to grab and kiss her. He also faced criminal charges (oral sodomy and sexual battery) for allegedly trying to kiss and fondle an abortion patient who was nude and sedated on an examining table on March 25, 1993. She awoke from anesthesia to find him attempting "to force her to sodomize him." She said he then drove her home and called several times "to determine if she remembered anything about the incident." She taped the conversations, and police seized her medical records. Two of his female employees complained of unwelcome sexual advances and sexual harassment. Patel was also ordered in 1989 to pay damages of $240,000 to a 15-year old girl injured in a botched abortion attempt in 1989. He was reprimanded by the Ohio medical board in 1992 due to the actions taken in Oklahoma. In 2003, Patel was investigated for aborting a 29- to 30-week preborn baby, six weeks past the legal limit in Oklahoma. References: Oklahoma Medical Board Case #87-7-514; Oklahoma Medical Board Investigation #90-09-1129; Oklahoma County District Court Case #CJ94-5938-65; USA Today, April 16 and 17, 1992; The Sunday Oklahoman, July 5, 1992; The Daily Oklahoman, May 28, 1993; Dallas Morning News, June 11, 1993; "OKC Doctor Subject of Investigation Again." KOCO Television Channel 5 [Oklahoma City, Oklahoma], February 12, 2003; "Doctor Under Investigation for Aborting Past-Due Fetus." LifeSite Daily News, February 12, 2003; Pro-Life Infonet, February 13, 2003.

Tulsa, Oklahoma
First-Degree Murder and Second-Degree Murder Aletheia Kikugawa was 15 weeks pregnant and looking forward to having her first child. Her ex-husband Tad said that "All she talked about was having that baby." But her live-in boyfriend, Jesus Francisco Hernandez, was apparently not too happy with the situation. On January 9, 2007, Hernandez stabbed Aletheia ten times, killing her, and then went for a drive in her car still wearing the bloodstained clothes he was wearing when he murdered her. Hernandez was subsequently arrested and, on January 17, 2007, was charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Aletheia and her preborn baby under Oklahoma's new Unborn Victims of Violence Act. Aletheia's ex-husband had found her dead at her home in the Colonial Park Apartments. During the Hernandez trial, Assistant District Attorney Michelle Keely said there was evidence that

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he was violent and unhappy about the pregnancy. On June 6, 2008, Tulsa County jurors convicted Hernandez of first-degree murder and second-degree murder (for the preborn child), and he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. References: References: Nicole Marshall. "Pregnant Woman's Boyfriend is Arrested in Her Slaying." Tulsa World, January 11, 2007, pages A-9 and A-11; Nicole Marshall. "Charge is Filed in Death of Fetus." Tulsa World, January 18, 2007; Bill Braun. "Man Convicted of Murdering Pregnant Girlfriend and Unborn Child." Tulsa World, June 6, 2008. Willfully Making a Threat with an Explosive Device This is one of many incidents documented in this database where pro-choicers employ a tactic known as a Moby, named after the electronic music producer. In February 2004, Moby suggested that left-wing activists resurrect the ploy first suggested by Saul Alinsky. He said that "For example, you can go on all the pro-life chat rooms and say you're an outraged right-wing voter and that you know that George Bush drove an ex-girlfriend to an abortion clinic and paid for her to get an abortion. This tactic can take one of two forms: (1) Committing an act of violence and then blaming it on pro-lifers. This makes us wonder how many unsolved clinic bombings and similar acts were actually committed by lying prochoice people; and (2) Generating outrageous propaganda and attributing it to pro-lifers. This tactic is ideally suited to pro-choicers, precisely because it is so completely immoral and deceitful, and because there is a very low probability of being caught.

Linda Meek was director of the Reproductive Services abortion mill in Tulsa, Oklahoma. On August 13, 2010, she called police and reported that an explosive device was placed in a trash container near the abortion mill. Tulsa Police Officer Leland Ashley said that "She told us that the box in the trash can didn't look like trash the clinic usually throws away in that trash can," but would not confirm reports that Meek told officials she heard the package "ticking." When they received the fake bomb scare, police evacuated the abortion mill and a nearby building. Meeks was charged in US District Court with Willfully Making a Threat With an Explosive Device. The filing stated that Meeks did intentionally convey false and misleading information that a bomb had been placed in the trash can of her place of employment, under circumstance where such information may reasonably be believed In October 2010, Meek pleaded guilty to making false or misleading statements. She confessed that she bought an egg timer and placed it in the trash can and then called police to report a bomb scare. She was sentenced to five years of probation. Oklahoma State Representative Mike Ritze said that the incident is typical of the trend of abortion advocates trying to make pro-life people appear violent or extremist. He said that "Either she did it maliciously to harm the opposition or is trying to draw attention away from the abortion industry." Planned Parenthood of Oklahoma City chief executive Anita Fream made many pro-life activists split their sides with laughter when she said that she did not have enough facts on the bomb scare, and said that it isnt the policy of abortion rights activists to make pro-life advocates appear violent or dangerous. But Fream certainly didnt condemn Meek or her sneaky attempt to make pro-lifers look like violent fanatics.

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References: Steven Ertelt. Oklahoma Abortion Center Director Charged With Lying About Bomb Threat. LifeNews.com, September 6, 2010; Steven Ertelt. Abortion Center Director Falsely Reporting Bomb Threat Gets 5 Years Probation. LifeNews.com, January 1, 2011.

Weatherford, Oklahoma
First-Degree Murder (4 counts), Driving Under the Influence (DUI) and Burglary 16-year-old Vanessa Youngbear was 7 months pregnant by her boyfriend, Trevor Wayne Benson, who did not want the baby. Vanessa asked Benson to take a paternity test. So, on July 22, 2002, Benson and 32-year-old Kelly D. McCarney took Vanessa for a ride. They drove her to a deserted field near Weatherford, shot her once in the head, and pushed her body into a ditch. A passing farmer found her body the next morning. Police arrested Benson and McCarney the next day and charged them both with two counts of first-degree murder. Custer County assistant district attorney Dan Jacobsma said the pair could be charged with two counts of first-degree murder, for the mother and her preborn child, if the baby was found to be viable by a medical examiner (courts have set a general guideline for 24 weeks, well before the time of Vanessa's baby). The Oklahoma Medical Examiner's office found that Vanessa was 25 to 28 weeks into her pregnancy. McCarney had previously been convicted of second-degree burglary and driving under the influence, according to state Corrections Department records. Reference: "Body of Pregnant 16-Year-Old Girl Found: Execution-Style." ChannelOklahoma.com, July 23, 2002. Police Say Pregnant Teen Shot

End of Oklahoma Listing

(updated March 31, 2011)

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