Posted on 10/02/2017 5:45:18 PM PDT by Morgana
Germantown, MD – Nebraska’s all term abortionist LeRoy Carhart is suing the former owners of the now-shuttered Germantown Reproductive Health Services, a Maryland abortion business where he once worked, for custody of all GRHS’s medical records.
Carhart is seeking declaratory judgement, which is a simple statement from the court to settle a dispute. No monetary damages are involved.
In the case filed on September 14, 2017, Carhart asserts that he is the rightful owner of the medical records because the women were his patients, and not the patients of Germantown Reproductive Health Services where he conducted “advanced gestation abortions” between December 4, 2010 and August 24, 2017.
Despite the reality that other abortionists also worked at GRHS on and off during that same time period, Carhart is demanding all medical records currently in GRHS’s posession.
When Carhart asked for the records prior to filing the lawsuit, GHRS refused to hand them over.
GRHS owners Nancy Samuels and Todd Stave, who are siblings that inherited the abortion business from their father in 2000, refute the notion that the medical records belong to Carhart, and note that GRHS has a legal responsibility to maintain the records – a responsibility they believe cannot be unilaterally transferred to Carhart.
However, in their answer to Carhart’s suit, Samuels and Stave have offered to transfer the medical records in question to Carhart’s custody, as long as the court approves of the transfer and absolves them of any legal liability.
In the complaint document, Carhart claimed he was the subject of pro-life harassment and expressed fears over the unlikely prospect that with the purchase of the Germantown Reproductive Health Center office by the Maryland Coalition for Life, the medical records may “fall into the wrong hands.”
“As usual, Carhart hysterically argues that the Boogie Man is after him, making outlandish claims that pro-life organizations have tried to do him and the GHRS staff harm, which, of course, is simply not true,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman.
Operation Rescue first discovered that Carhart was hiring on as an independent contractor with GHRS in 2010, after his efforts to conduct “advanced gestation abortions” on babies in the late-second and third trimesters of pregnancy failed in Kansas and Nebraska due to opposition from pro-life groups, including Operation Rescue.
Based on fifteen years of experience with Carhart, Newman suspects there are suspicious motives behind his suit.
“Carhart may be trying to control the documents because he has been known to falsify entries on medical records in the past. If those charts were to fall into the hands of the Maryland Board of Physicians, he may find himself in a heap of trouble. So, it is more likely he is looking out for his own interests in this suit above all else,” said Newman. “I doubt that Stave and Samuels really want the responsibility or cost associated with maintaining GHRS records, and are just trying to avoid any legal pitfalls in transferring them.”
But, there is good reason to ascribe nefarious motives to Carhart’s actions.
In 1993, Carhart entered into an agreement with the Nebraska Department of Health promising he would no longer engage in unacceptable behavior, including “[t]he act of a doctor falsifying entries on a patient chart.”
In 2009, Operation Rescue conducted an undercover investigation that found Carhart was training clinic workers to falsify ultrasound results by manipulating the transducer to achieve the desired gestational age.
One former Carhart employee submitted a sworn affidavit to the Nebraska Attorney General’s office later that year, indicating that Carhart falsified the fetal ages. She recounted the incident of a minor girl who was beyond the legal gestational limit for an abortion in Nebraska, according an ultrasound examination by his nurse. The former employee alleged that Carhart falsified the fetal age so he could conduct the abortion illegally.
A hearing date in the records case has been set for October 18, 2017.
ooooooh the fun!
maryland freak state ping
abortionist fighting for records.
In reality they should be the records for a mass murder investigation.
This is case # 436978V in Montgomery County Maryland... it deserves to have an amicus curiae filed... Carhart is not legally entitled to the records and has a history of destroying and altering records.
This is like our Founding Fathers when they were faced with the reality of slavery. They could not stop it but they knew it was wrong. In order to pass our Founding documents they had to work around some hot-headed, loud mouths from SC and GA.
The best they could do was to vote that they would stop slaves from being imported to the United States after 1808.
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