Non-doctor accused of providing abortions in Calif
Jun 20, 10:51 PM (ET)

CHULA VISTA, Calif. (AP) - The owner of a clinic has been charged with posing as a doctor to perform abortions, some of them unsuccessful or resulting in severe complications and hospitalization, prosecutors said Friday.

Bertha Pinedo Bugarin, 48, was arrested Thursday after a yearlong investigation, San Diego County district attorney spokesman Paul Levikow said.

She was charged with 10 felony counts, including performing medical procedures without a license and grand theft, he said. She faces more than nine years in prison if convicted.

Prosecutors said Bugarin at one time operated six clinics in Southern California that provided abortions. For her clinic in Chula Vista, near the Mexican border, she advertised her service on Spanish-language television and charged $500 for an abortion.

"This defendant preyed on women in the Hispanic community," district attorney Bonnie M. Dumanis said in a statement. "By passing herself as a doctor, she put these women's lives in serious danger."

At least nine women have identified Bugarin as the person who performed medical procedures on them, prosecutors said. In one case, a patient suffered severe complications and had to be hospitalized three times. She eventually delivered her baby prematurely.

Another woman had to return for a second procedure because the abortion was unsuccessful the first time, prosecutors said.

Exercitus wrote:Safe: 1.5 million people choose to have an abortion each year and about one in 100,000 die.  50%?  Where'd you get that?

Exercitus wrote:Oh, well then why not call it 120%, for all of the bacteria squashed by the procedure?  Yes, it's alive; but is it a human yet?  Its about the welfare of the society and those in it not the bundle of cells that has less life than the rodents we kill every day.  Why don't you give them rights, they certainly can feel more pain, they can feel more fear, at least they can live outside of the womb.  God, we couldn't keep most of the aborted embryos alive.

Exercitus wrote:Oh, well then why not call it 120%, for all of the bacteria squashed by the procedure?  Yes, it's alive; but is it a human yet?  Its about the welfare of the society and those in it not the bundle of cells that has less life than the rodents we kill every day.  Why don't you give them rights, they certainly can feel more pain, they can feel more fear, at least they can live outside of the womb.  God, we couldn't keep most of the aborted embryos alive.

paleocon wrote:

Exercitus wrote:Oh, well then why not call it 120%, for all of the bacteria squashed by the procedure?  Yes, it's alive; but is it a human yet?  Its about the welfare of the society and those in it not the bundle of cells that has less life than the rodents we kill every day.  Why don't you give them rights, they certainly can feel more pain, they can feel more fear, at least they can live outside of the womb.  God, we couldn't keep most of the aborted embryos alive.

This is how liberals feel about children!  Never forget this is what they really believe about children and humans.  

Remember this post the next time some liberal idiot tells you "it is all about the children."  Liberals believe bacteria have more rights than unborn, human children.  Liberals believe unborn children have "less life than the rodents we kill every day."  Exercitus has ignored the medical and scientific advances of the past 30 years that demonstrate life is life and humans are human.  Hospitals are commonly saving children born at 25 weeks.  

This despicable denial of the humanity of the unborn is medically and scientifically wrong and pure evil.  Remember Exercitus' own words when liberals talk about "caring for the most vulnerable members of society."