Michigan abortionist Alberto Hodari says doctors have a "license to lie"

The Medical Students for Choice group at Wayne State University invited abortionist Alberto Hodari to speak to their group on November 9, 2007. Prolife students associated with Students for Life of America attended the event and videotaped Hodari's speech. They've posted the majority of the speech online and have also posted a short part of the speech on their website where Hodari says that doctors have a "license to lie" because patients "are more educated between CNN and the internet." He says doctors have a license to lie after explaining how he lies to prevent the boyfriends of women having abortions from being in the room during the abortion. Hodari explained that he says "the state says no" even though he knows there is no state regulation to prevent boyfriends from being in the room with their girlfriend during an abortion.

Students for Life of America also supplied Right to Life of Michigan with a transcript of Hodari's speech which they created.

Besides the numerous faulty statistical claims throughout the rambling, unstructured speech, Hodari noted that he performs abortions on women who are 20 weeks pregnant and their reason for abortion is because their boyfriend left them, he has performed 11 abortions on one woman who continually comes back to his clinic for abortions, says he doesn't wear a mask while performing abortions, washes his hands for less than a minute before performing an abortion and is proud he performs abortions.

Throughout the speech, Hodari continually discussed how rare abortion complications supposedly are. It should be noted that in 2004, a 15-year-old girl from Detroit named Tamiia Russell died after having an abortion at Hodari's Womancare abortion clinic in Southfield. Russell's death from abortion complications was never reported to the Michigan Department of Community Health and Hodari never mentioned Tamiia Russell during his speech.

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Abortionist Alberto Hodari will fight to keep Lathrup Village clinic open

A lawyer for Michigan abortionist Alberto Hodari has told the Detroit Free Press he will appear in court to fight efforts by Attorney General Bill Schuette and the Michigan Department of Community Health to close down one of his abortion clinics.

Last summer, based on the cost of fire code compliance tied to the license, Hodari decided against renewing. The doctor, whose medical license is separate and valid, applied to have the building grandfathered, as it is older than the codes, but was denied, according to legal filings.

The state, after monitoring Hodari’s practice for several months, found he was in violation of the license law, and the Attorney General’s office filed suit earlier this month. During that time, Hodari tried to submit plans to fix the fire code violation......

Hodari’s attorney said the doctor has gone to great lengths to recruit gynecological patients to keep his abortion services under 51%, and that the state is unfairly imposing itself on the clinic, which has been in the spotlight before for improperly disposing of medical records.

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Michigan abortionist being sued for forced abortion

Notorious Michigan abortionist Alberto Hodari is being sued by Caitlin Bruce, a former patient who claims he didn't stop performing an abortion when she asked him to.

Caitlin describes what happened at Flint’s Feminine Health Care Clinic on Saginaw Road as terror. She says Dr. Abraham A. Hodari forced on her an abortion she decided she did not want after seeing the ultrasound image of her unborn baby.

“He was inserting the speculum, and I told him I’m nervous. I just told him stop please,” she says. “I'm really nervous and I don't want to do this anymore.”

“When she said stop, it was too late,” Dr. Hodari told NBC25 on the phone while on a trip in Italy.

He admits he had an assistant then hold his patient down.

Hodari claims he had to continue the abortion but other doctors disagree.

Dr. Mona Hardas, M.D., a Flint obstetrician and gynecologist says when a patient asks a doctor to stop treatment, a doctor has to respect that request.

“Even if someone has signed a consent form, if someone wants you to stop you have to stop,” says Dr. Hardas.

She says in such a situation she would pause and calm her patient with empathy, not force. She would then explain what options are available to the patient.

For example Dr. Hardas says Dr. Hodari could have offered Bruce the opportunity to be transported to the emergency room for an exam and a second opinion as to whether the fetus could be saved.

“I am shocked,” said Dr. Hardas. “I can’t believe this is still happening in this day and age.”

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Related: LifeNews has an article which runs down some of Hodari's previous problems, including the deaths of at least three women.

Michigan Abortionist Fined $10,000 after a Woman Dies in his Clinic

Alberto Hodari, an abortionist who owns various abortion clinics in Michigan has been fined $10,000 after the Disciplinary Subcommittee of the Board of Medicine found that he was negligent after the death of Regina Johnson.

Regina Johnson died of anoxic encephalopathy due to cardiac arrest in September of 2003 after receiving an abortion at one of Hodari’s abortion clinics. In August of 2007, Attorney General Michael Cox filed an administrative complaint against Hodari charging that he was negligent, incompetent and lacked a good moral character. It was recently discovered Hodari resolved this complaint order in March of 2009 by pleading no contest to the charge of negligence and agreed to pay a $10,000 fine to the state of Michigan.

Alberto Hodari has previously been in the news after the bodies of aborted children were found in the dumpster of one of his clinics in the spring of 2008 and after the death of Tamia Russell, a teenager who died in 2004 after Hodari performed a late-term abortion on her without her parent’s knowledge or consent.

Infamous Michigan abortionist Alberto Hodari quietly retires

At the end of January, abortionist Alberto Hodari let his medical license expire.  Hodari is probably the most notorious abortionist and abortion clinic owner in Michigan.  He has had numerous run-ins with state authorities, was caught improperly disposing of medical records, has faced frequent lawsuits and has killed at least 3 patients.

During a presentation to a pro-abortion student group, Hodari claimed doctors have a license to lie to their patients.

Michigan becomes a much safer place now that Alberto Hodari will no longer be endangering women and killing unborn children. 

Record number of Michigan abortion businesses closed

In the last six months, the state of Michigan has seen an unprecedented number of abortion businesses shut their doors.

In January, abortionist Robert Alexander announced he had no plans to re-open his abortion clinic in Muskegon. His clinic was closed in December of 2012 by the fire department after they discovered numerous violations. Muskegon Public Safety Director Jeffrey Lewis called Alexander’s clinic a “filthy mess.” When authorities entered Alexander’s clinic they found deplorable conditions which included blood on the floor and walls, hypodermic needles in unsecured containers, a roof leaking in multiple locations, unsterilized medical equipment and uncovered buckets containing unknown fluids.

February brought the good news that two of Michigan’s more notorious abortionists would retire. Alberto Hodari and Enrique Gerbi allowed their medical and pharmacy licenses to expire at the end of January. In the late 1980's, Hodari owned more than 10 abortion clinics in Michigan. Over the years, at least three women who received abortions from Hodari have died and he had been sued for medical malpractice several times. While Hodari has sold the some of his remaining clinics to other abortionists, his clinic in Livonia remains closed.  

In March, the prolife movement learned that two abortion clinics on the southeast side of state would no longer be in operation after their owner, abortionist Reginald Sharpe, filed for bankruptcy. Sharpe filed for bankruptcy after being sued by two former patients he injured and the family of a woman who died after Sharpe performed an abortion on her. Some of Sharpe's other misdeeds including the dumping of fetal remains and patient records, negligent post‑operative practices, failure to report abortion complications and license suspensions.

In April, prolife people in Dearborn and around the state celebrated as the American Family Planning abortion clinic in Dearborn closed and its owner, 73-year-old abortionist Joon‑Nahm Ann retired. And most recently in May, the Birth Control Center in Sterling Heights announced that after 39 years it is now closed. At one time, there were 72 abortion clinics in Michigan, now there are less than 30.

With the passage of the prolife legislation known as the Prolife Bus (H.B. 5711) in 2012, abortion clinics in Michigan will no longer be allowed to operate without being licensed and inspected. The Prolife Bus will prevent women from being coerced to abort, end the shameful practice of disposing aborted babies in trash bins, and prevent the abortion chemical RU‑486 from being facilitated over the Internet. The Prolife Bus took effect on March 31 and will require Michigan’s abortion clinics to be licensed and inspected if they perform more than 120 abortions a year. Prior to the passage of this legislation only 4 of Michigan’s abortion clinics were licensed.

                               

Prolife efforts in Michigan are making a difference. Prolife efforts are saving lives! Learn more about the prolife movement and how you can become involved by visiting Right to Life of Michigan at www.rtl.org.

Abortionist Alberto Hodari putting abortion clinics up for sale

Prolife advocates have reported that “For Sale” signs have been put up on at least 3 abortion clinics owned by notorious abortionist Alberto Hodari.

Hodari was recently fined $10,000 due to the death of a woman who died in his clinic in 2003 and he was in the news after the bodies of aborted children along with women’s medical records were found in one of his abortion clinic dumpsters and he was given 6 months probation.

Hodari faces various lawsuits and has recently filed for divorce from his wife.

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Michigan Abortion Clinic Given Probation

An abortion clinic operated by Alberto Hodari, an abortionist based in Michigan, has been given 6 months probation after medical records were found in the abortion clinic’s dumpster. The clinic pleaded no contest to a charge of improperly disposing of medical records.

Alberto Hodari and his abortion clinics have a long history of endangering women with substandard care including the deaths of at least two women, Tamia Russell and Chivon Williams.

Below is a YouTube video by the Catholic News Agency which shows some of what was found in Hodari's abortion clinic dumpster and provides more information on Hodari. Some of the material includes images of the remains of aborted children.

"For sale" sign a reminder of progress on closing abortion clinics

One of Michigan's most notorious abortion clinics has gone up for sale, as reported by long-time sidewalk counselor Dr. Monica Miller in LifeNews.com.

Photo courtesy of LifeNews.com/Citizens for a Pro-Life Society

Womancare of Southfield has not been performing abortions for several months. The latest owner, abortionist Jacob Kalo, has now officially run up the white flag and admitted defeat by posting the property for sale.

The clinic itself has a long and terrible history accompanying the thousands upon thousands of lives ended in the most brutal fashion imaginable there. It was formerly owned by notorious abortionist Alberto Hodari, and at least three women have died following abortions under his care: Chivon Williams, Regina Johnson, and Tamiia Russell. It was behind this clinic that Dr. Monica Miller discovered the bodies of babies being dumped in the trash along with abortion patient records for more than 200 women. Hodari escaped truly serious consequences for anything that went on there.

Details on that and other abortion clinic abuses can be found in our landmark report on the abortion industry published in 2011.

The clinic's future changed in 2012 with passage of the Prolife Omnibus Act, forcing abortion clinics to undergo basic health and safety inspections. Hodari retired and sold the clinic to Kalo. The clinic has had numerous problems recently adhering to the health code. Now Kalo has surrendered, acknowledging the notorious clinic is incapable of being run safely or competently. Good riddance!

The final closure is a reminder of how horrible the abortion industry is and how incapable they are of following even basic rules that real medical clinics are required to follow.

Today Michigan is down to 16 facilities that advertise they perform induced surgical and medical abortions (using the abortion pill), plus five Planned Parenthood clinics that only perform medical abortions. That's a total of 21 dedicated abortion facilities in the state.

In 2010 Michigan had 34 facilities that performed surgical and medical abortions. Now we have 16. We’ve closed more than just half of the large-scale facilities in six years; many closed because our Prolife Omnibus Act forced them to adhere to basic standards. The worst of the worst have been driven out.

Despite these closures Planned Parenthood has been making an aggressive move to corner the abortion market in Michigan. For them, dealing in death is a big business. In 2007 Planned Parenthood operated 34 offices in Michigan, three of which performed abortions. Today they operate 19 offices in Michigan, yet eight perform abortions. Planned Parenthood provides more than a third of the nearly 1 million abortions done annually in the United States, and their abortion numbers have been growing even as abortions have been decreasing. In Michigan they now operate eight of the 21 total facilities, matching their "market share" nationally.

The next priority of the prolife movement is defunding them. Planned Parenthood can leverage more than half a billion dollars in taxpayer funding every year to expand their abortion services (while cutting women's health services) and muscle out the smaller competition. It's time to put a stop to millions of prolife taxpayers being forced to help advance Planned Parenthood's mission of abortion at any cost.

Michigan abortion facility set to close

LifeNews.com relates how the Womancare of Downriver abortion clinic in Southgate will soon no longer provide abortions.

Womancare of Downriver in Southgate is owned and operated by (Alberto) Hodari and the pro-life group Operation Rescue informs LifeNews.com it is in escrow to a physician whose practice does not include abortions.

Thus, once escrow closes, so will the abortion business....

Hodari has already been disciplined for abuses at his abortion centers.

He was placed on probation last February for illegally dumping medical records and, last March, was fined $10,000 for his part in the death of Regina Johnson.

Hodari has been involved in at least three additional abortion deaths.

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Michigan Abortionist Facing More Trouble

Michigan abortionist Alberto Hodari continues to face troubles as LifeNews.com reports one of his abortion clinics is at least temporarily shut down and he faces another lawsuit for negligence and incompetence.

The lawsuit alleges that Hodari performed an abortion on a woman with an ectopic pregnancy (a pregnancy where the child implants outside the uterus). Hodari failed to diagnose the ectopic pregnancy. The woman later had her fallopian tube removed at a hospital.

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Judge rules Lathrup Village abortion clinic can stay open for 2 more weeks

Yesterday, Judge Denise Langford Morris ruled that Alberto Hodari's WomenCare abortion clinic in Lathrup Village can stay open for at least two weeks to give time to both sides to develop their cases.

At issue is the Freestanding Surgical Outpatient Facilities license, required of certain medical facilities not associated with hospitals that perform surgeries and procedures such as endoscopy, cosmetic surgery and abortions, provided that abortions make up more than 50% of the patient load per year.

WomanCare of Southfield had been licensed since 2008, but in 2010, Hodari opted against renewing the facilities license.

A 2009 MDCH inspection found numerous health and safety violations, all of which Hodari fixed except one -- building an additional fire exit to service the split-level building on Southfield Road.

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Abortion clinic in Southgate, Michigan closes

The prayers of prolife sidewalk counselors were answered on April 16, 2011, when two moving trucks pulled up to WomanCare Downriver Medical Surgical Center and the equipment in the abortion clinic was loaded into the trucks. After everything was loaded into the trucks, a closed sign was taped to the door and the door was locked.

This abortion clinic was owned by infamous abortionist Alberto Hodari and formerly had been up for sale. One of Hodari's other abortion clinics is currently being sued by Michigan's attorney general and the Michigan Department of Community Health for operating without a license.

Authorities sue to close Michigan abortion clinic

The Michigan Attorney General and MDCH are suing to close an unlicensed abortion clinic in Lathrup Village operated by Dr. Alberto Hodari. Dr. Hodari has faced lawsuits in the past and said in a 2007 speech to Wayne State Medical Students for Choice that he has a license to lie to patients and doesn't always wash his hands between procedures.

ichigan Attorney General Bill Schuette says his office and the Michigan Department of Community Health are suing a Detroit-area abortion clinic that he says has operating without a required state surgical facility license since last summer.

The lawsuit filed in Oakland County Circuit Court stems from a 2009 health department investigation that found WomanCare of Southfield was violating state fire code rules applying to freestanding surgical outpatient facilities. The clinic is located in Lathrup Village.

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Retired abortionist left thousands of patients records at abandoned clinic

Infamous Michigan abortionist Alberto Hodari is coming under fire again after it was discovered that he unlawfully left thousands of patient files unattended at this former abortion clinic in Flint. 

According to the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs records, Hodari is no longer licensed to practice as a physician.

When he closed down the Feminine Health Care Clinic in 2013, he abandoned hundreds of boxes filled with very private patient information.

ABC12 News talked a pro life activist who went into the facility earlier this month.

"The door opened and for me, the rest is history. It was all right there," she said.

She said when she looked inside, she saw hundreds of boxes of medical records, papers scattered all over the floor and piles of hypodermic needles.

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Three abortion clinics in Michigan cited for violating HIPAA laws

Prolife activist Monica Miller recently received letter indicating that the Chicago Office for Civil Rights supported her allegations against three abortion clinics who violated the federal Health Information Privacy and Accountability Act by dumping patient records in their dumpsters.

In February, March and April 2008 members of CPLS (Citizens for a Pro-life Society) conducted searches of the trash dumpsters used by these clinics. The clinics repeatedly dumped whole patient records, including intake forms, abortion appointment schedule sheets, recovery room reports, lab reports, insurance forms, photo-copied driver's licenses, applications for financial aid to off-set the cost of the abortion and other documents that revealed personal health care information.

Hundreds of patient records were recovered, the largest share from the Woman Care clinic, located in Lathrup Village, MI, and owned by Alberto Hodari. In addition to the patient records, extensive bio-hazard waste and the remains of aborted unborn children were also discovered at the clinic dumpsters. Sharpes Family Planning is located in Detroit with its sister clinic, Women's Advisory, located in Livonia, MI. The latter clinics are operated by Reginald Sharpe. Miller filed the HIPAA complaints in September 2008 and OCR (Office for Civil Rights) notified the clinics of its federal investigation in December of that year. A fourth investigation is still pending regarding Eastpointe Gynecology, owned by Jacob Kalo--another Detroit abortion clinic.

Miller states: I'm glad that the OCR took these complaints seriously, but I have to say, the clinics are getting off with just another slap on the hand. Where are the real penalties for the flagrant violations they committed? Where's the justice for the women whose rights and dignity they violated? The OCR should have made these abortionists pay heavy fines and retribution. These are serious violations of HIPAA law and after two years of waiting, the outcome is rather disappointing. The OCR could have sent a real message to other abortion providers and that opportunity was missed."

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Flint abortion clinic closes

Local prolifers have informed Right to Life of Michigan that an abortion clinic called the Feminine Health Care Clinic in Flint has closed.

For years, this clinic was owned by infamous abortionist Alberto Hodari and was recently run by abortionist Theodore Roumell.

This closure continues the remarkable trend of abortion clinic closures in Michigan over the last 2 years.  Since November of 2011, there have been 10 Michigan abortion clinics which have closed their doors.  There are now 28 freestanding abortion clinics in Michigan.

Since 1987, the number of abortion businesses in Michigan has dropped from 72 to 28, and the number of abortions performed in Michigan has dropped 52.7 percent. 

The now closed Feminine Health Care Clinic in Flint

Michigan Abortionist Charged for Improperly Disposing of Medical Records

Alberto Hodari, an abortionist who operates in the Metro Detroit area, has been charged with 12 counts of improperly disposing of medical records. In March of 2008, the medical records of patients were found in the dumpster outside his abortion facility alongside the remains of aborted children. The medical records included information like patient names, social security numbers, and test results.

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