Posted on 04/27/2020 12:00:29 PM PDT by Morgana
Orlando, FL – Three Florida abortion facilities with ties to the disgraced abortionist James Scott Pendergraft IV, have recently been placed up for sale.
The facilities include EPOC in Orlando, Women’s Center of Ft. Lauderdale, and Women’s Center of Hyde Park in Tampa.
Operation Rescue verified that the Tampa and Ft. Lauderdale facilities halted abortions and closed earlier this month.
The EPOC clinic, located at 609 Virginia Drive in Orlando, closed in 2018. Several months later, it was leased to Green Relief, a medicinal marijuana business, which was owned by one of Pendergraft’s former abortion clinic security guards. The marijuana business initially used one of Pendergraft’s long-time abortionists, Frank Rodriguez, as its medical director until he quit months after the business opened. Green Relief shut down and moved out in 2019, leaving the building vacant.
“The James Pendergraft abortion empire is CRUMBLING!” reported Michele Herzog, Central Florida Branch Manager for Pro-Life Action Ministries. “God has and is hearing our prayers!”
Pendergraft lost his Florida medical license in December 2018, after Operation Rescue reported his arrest and conviction in South Carolina for operating an illegal rolling abortion business out of his van, from which he also sold illegal drugs. Pendergraft was not licensed to practice in South Carolina.
Because of the license revocation, Pendergraft was forced to transfer ownership of his four abortion facilities, although he maintained ownership of the property and was suspected of continued involvement in the abortion businesses based on evidence compiled by Operation Rescue with the aid of local pro-life activists. Ownership was transferred to his former wife, Denise Williams.
Pendergraft’s flagship abortion facility, the Orlando Women’s Center, now known as the Center of Orlando for Women, is the last of Pendergraft’s former abortion chain to remain open. It specializes in late-term abortions.
In 2011, a jury ordered Pendergraft to pay a stunning $36,737,660.16 in compensatory and punitive damages in a malpractice case brought by a woman who suffered a traumatic, Gosnell-like late-term abortion attempt at the Orlando Women’s Center in 2001, in which her baby daughter survived, but suffered several serious disabilities.
Nineteen years later, attorneys are still trying to collect on that judgment.
It is possible that proceeds from the sale of the three former abortion facility properties will go to the plaintiff in order to with her daughter’s medical bills.
Attorneys have aggressively attempted to collect from Pendergraft over the years. In June 2013, police raided Pendergraft’s Orlando Women’s Center and assisted in the seizure of all office furnishings and equipment to help satisfy the malpractice judgement. He reopened a few days later using what he said was “borrowed” equipment.
“We are grateful for the good news that two abortion facilities closed this month and that Pendergraft’s profiting from the killing of innocent babies may soon be coming to an end,” said Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue. “We pray the Center of Orlando for Women will soon close for good as well.”
Wow they must not be doing it right. /s
ABORTION CLINICS SHUT DOWN
CORONAVIRUS SAVES LIVES
Planned Parenthood for sale. If hell had a franchise...
“Planned Parenthood for sale. If hell had a franchise...”
that sums it up
Praise God!!
After many years of prayer, the mill in Bridgeport (CT) closed down three years ago - and is now a child care center.
We have the abortion mill in New Haven squarely in our sights. We pray the very walls of that dark place would be torn asunder as the walls of Jericho.
Good.
I hope all of you understand that he reason for keeping the abortion mills
operating is that the left KNOWS that keeping things shut down leads
to them going bankrupt.
This is precisely their hope for ALL of our Hospitals. That way, government
Healthcare can take over.
And it’s happening already. Medical practices all over are going under.
They can be transformed into Crisis Pregnancy Centers.
Nineteen years later, attorneys are still trying to collect on that judgment.
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That is a long time for a PI attorney to wait on his payday. I am guessing that interest is accruing.
Seems to me that a RICO case could have been brought against Pendergraft/grift. But what do I know?
My hope is that if anyone buys one of these buildings they will immediately knock it down and put a tombstone on the property.
Abortion Clinics are a for profit enterprise. Killing babies and selling their parts is very lucrative. However, if they can’t generate a profit, they close. They have no other reason to exist.
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