The Illinois Medical Board (IMB) suspended the license of abortionist George Backardjiev due to a complaint filed by the Pro-Life Action League in October 2018. The pro-life group learned that Dr. Backardjiev was under discipline for gruesome acts in the state of Texas, and he had failed to disclose that fact when renewing his medical license in Illinois.
In 2013, when Backardjiev was still practicing in Texas, he used a pair of forceps to forcefully deliver baby Olivia Coats against the will of her mother, Rachel Melancon. Gripping the child with forceps caused Olivia's skull to fracture. Olivia experienced brain hemorrhaging, which in turn led to multiple organ failure. Four days after her delivery, Olivia died.
Dr. Backardjiev was found guilty of wrongful death, and the Texas Medical Board filed a formal complaint against him which banned him from ever practicing medicine again in Texas.
Backardjiev fled to Illinois, where he had another medical license. When he renewed it in 2017, however, he did not report the discipline he faced in Texas. Doctors are obligated to disclose this kind of information when they renew their licenses, and Backardjiev's omission was illegal.
The Pro-Life Action League learned in 2018 that Backardjiev was employed by Aanchor Health Center, an abortion clinic in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. Knowing the abortionist's history, the group filed a complaint against Backardjiev with the IMB. Now, two years after that complaint, the IMB has suspended Backardjiev's medical license.
This would never have been exposed without the work of the Pro-Life Action League. Backardjiev, even after being found guilty of wrongful death in Texas, was allowed to continue working as an abortionist for years simply by moving to Illinois and choosing not to tell the IMB about what he had done in Texas. Abortionists are rarely regulated by state governments, and this is just another example of how this is especially true in the state of Illinois.
