Dakota Beacon

ELKTON, MARYLAND - DEFEND LIFE will hold a Press Conference and a Mass of Remembrance on Thursday, October 21, concerning 35 babies whose bodies were discovered at a secret abortuary operated by Steven Chase Brigham, in Elkton, Maryland. Dr. Brigham's medical license has been suspended and revoked in several states. The legality of the abortions is under investigation.

 

       The news conference will be held at 3 p.m. in front of the Cecil County Court House, 129 West Main Street, Elkton, MD  21921. Speakers will include:

 

       At 7 p.m., concerned citizens from throughout the Maryland, Delaware, and Washington Metro area and beyond will gather at Immaculate Conception Church, 254 Bow Street, Elkton, Maryland 21921 (http://www.iccparish.org/contact.php) for Mass commemorating the 35 babies aborted in secret.

 

       The Mass will be celebrated by Rev. Joseph Piekarski, the pastor of Immaculate Conception Church, who decided to arrange the memorial Mass for these 35 victims of abortion. Rev. Thomas Flowers, pastor of St. Polycarp parish of Smyra, Delaware, will be the homilist. The Elkton, Maryland church is in the diocese of Wilmington, Delaware.

 

       After the Mass, at approximately 8 p.m., attendees will go the unnamed abortion mill at 126 High Street, Elkton, Maryland, where mourners will lay red roses at the door in honor of the 35 babies exterminated there in secret, controversial, and possibly illegal late-term abortions.

 

       Dr. Steven Brigham's medical license was suspended on October 13 for transporting patients from New Jersey to Maryland for late-term abortions. Brigham's illegal scheme - which involved starting late-term abortions in New Jersey and finishing them in Maryland -- was discovered when a patient suffered a life-threatening complications in Brigham's Elkton clinic and had to be air-lifted to Johns Hopkins Medical Center in Baltimore for emergency surgery. As a result of his intervention, the patient's uterus and small intestine both ruptured.

 

       To avoid scrutiny, Brigham, who owns American Women's Services clinics in several states, never published the Elkton clinic's address, nor informed the women he transported there exactly where they were going. Two of Brigham's associate abortionists, Nicola Riley and George Shepard, Jr. also have had their Maryland medical licenses suspended for aiding and abetting Brigham's illegal late-term abortion scheme and other violations.

 

       Regulators called Brigham's actions "manipulative" and "deceptive" according to an article published by the Associated Press. Brigham, who is not an obstetrician-gynecologist and has no hospital privileges in New Jersey was taking advantage of Maryland's more permissive abortion laws, even though he is not licensed to practice medicine in Maryland. New Jersey's Attorney General said that Dr. Brigham was "grossly negligent" and "plays fast and loose with the rules."

 

       Complaints against the doctor go back twenty years in several states, including New York, which also revoked his medical license.

       DEFEND LIFE was founded in 1987 to spread the culture of life and fight the culture of death through pro-life education and activism. For more information, see http://DefendLife.org.