More alleged violations of abortion laws have surfaced in connection with a New Jersey abortionist who owns 15 clinics in three states.
Steven Chase Brigham is currently under investigation in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and New Jersey. His license has also been suspended or revoked in several states. (See related story) But Marie Tasy, legislative director for New Jersey Right to Life (NJRTL), says new developments have surfaced.
"Steven Brigham has been operating under the name of Grace Medical, and he's been performing full-term abortions -- 36 weeks, which is full-term -- and it's just so disturbing and just so disgusting," she laments.
Information shows he would begin late-term abortions in New Jersey and have the women drive to his clinic in Maryland, where he is not licensed to practice medicine, to complete them. Brigham has already been reported for the 33-week abortion he performed on a Canadian woman's baby who had Down syndrome, but the procedure did not go as planned for another late-term mother.
"He performed an abortion on a woman who was 24 weeks pregnant," Tasy reports. "[She] was sent to a hotel and started bleeding profusely and had to be taken to the hospital, where she delivered the stillborn baby."
Even if New Jersey permanently revokes Brigham's license, he will still be able to operate his abortion clinics, so the NJRTL legislative director is hopeful that the abortionist will be successfully prosecuted and sent to jail.
Contact: Charlie Butts
Date Published: September 28, 2010
