Abortion doctors charged with murder in Md.
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ELKTON, Md. — Two doctors accused of performing late-term abortions in Maryland, including one in which a woman was critically injured, have been arrested and charged with murder.
Dr. Steven Brigham, of Voorhees, N.J., was arrested Wednesday night in New Jersey and was being held in the Camden County Jail on Thursday, police told The Cecil Whig newspaper.
Authorities also arrested Dr. Nicola Irene Riley, of Salt Lake City, Utah, on Wednesday night. Riley was being held in the Salt Lake City Jail. Both are awaiting an extradition hearing.
Investigators with the Elkton Police Department say they asked police in New Jersey and Utah to arrest the doctors after a Cecil County grand jury handed up indictments against Brigham and Riley earlier Wednesday, capping a 16-month-long investigation.
Police say they began their investigation in August 2010 after a botched procedure at Brigham's Elkton clinic. Authorities say an 18-year-old woman who was 21 weeks pregnant had her uterus ruptured and her bowel injured, and rather than call 911, Brigham and his colleague Dr. Nicola Riley drove the woman to a nearby hospital, where both were uncooperative and Brigham refused to give his name.
That incident resulted in the murder case against Riley and three of the 11 murder charges against Brigham, prosecutors said. The other charges against Brigham relate to four other illegal abortions he performed at the East High Street Clinic, prosecutors added.
A search of the Elkton clinic after the botched abortion revealed a freezer with 35 late-term fetuses inside, including one believed to have been aborted at 36 weeks.
Brigham started the late-term abortions in New Jersey, where he wasn't permitted to perform them, and finished them a day later in Maryland, where the law is more permissive, authorities said.
Police say Brigham faces five counts each of first- and second-degree murder. Riley is charged with one count each of first- and second-degree murder. Brigham and Riley each also face one count of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder.
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These people are not Doctors; they are BUTCHERS.!!
They deserve the same treatment they gave these innocent babies; although our "civilized" society would not allow this.
MURDER is exactly what they should be charged with, and the women (they do not deserve to be called mothers) should be charged as accessories.
Hopefully, ther will be some justice for the innocents who were MURDERED.
There is no other way to describe this abomination.!
Your mother would have done the world a favor had she aborted you.
Murder? How is this any different from what these doctors do on a daily basis?
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And don't forget - God serves up millions of stillborns and miscarriages every year, too. It's not like He's not doing the same.
HYPOCRITES ARE THE WORST FORM OF CHRISTIANS!!!
Wow, there's no end to the garbage these God-haters are willing to come up with.
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Can't handle that your God commits millions of abortions per year?
Seriously!
uradrooler- the definition of a christian is someone who is a footstep follower of Christ.
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Yes, and I've only met a handful of them in the United States. Most are "ChINO"s - "Christians in name only".
Keep in mind that if your objection is religious, however, that your God commits tens of millions of abortions per year, so He really isn't against them.
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