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Planned Parenthood Referred Sex Traffickers to Shoddy Abortion Center Trenton, NJ -- During the discussion captured on video of a Planned Parenthood staffer helping alleged sex traffickers obtain abortions for young women, the staffer referred them to another abortion facility to better conceal the abortions. However, the abortion center in question has a shoddy history and once put a woman in a coma after a botched abortion. http://www.lifenews.com/2011/02/02/planned-parenthood-referred-sex-traffickers-to-shoddy-abortion-center/

Metropolitan Medical Associates in Englewood, among the state’s largest abortion clinics, reached a $1.9 million settlement with a woman who suffered massive hemorrhaging, a coma, a stroke and a hysterectomy after she had an abortion at the facility in 2007.  The incident led to an inspection by the state, which shut the facility down for more than a month until improvements were made.  The settlement includes $1 million from the facility, $575,000 from one of the doctors involved in the case and $325,000 from another doctor who had assisted. The settlement was first reported in the New Jersey Law Journal.Rasheedah...

The state Health Department failed to inspect New Jersey's largest licensed abortion clinic for five years, despite the department's own rules that require visits every other year.  The extended lull ended abruptly last month, after a Newark hospital filed a complaint about a clinic patient who appeared in the emergency room, hemorrhaging badly. She eventually fell into a four-week coma.   State officials followed up with a series of inspections that led them to shut down the Englewood clinic on Feb. 23, citing violations that posed "immediate and serious risk of harm to patients."The clinic, Metropolitan Medical Associates, has worked fiercely...

The state's Supreme Court and public advocate dealt dual blows to abortion rights opponents Wednesday, rejecting their arguments on two separate issues. Public Advocate Ronald Chen said he will not seek out all patients who may have been hurt at clinics -- including those that perform abortions -- that have not been inspected every two years, as required by state law. A clinic in Englewood that performed abortions went five years without a state inspection. The Supreme Court, meanwhile, ruled unanimously that doctors are not required to tell patients considering abortions that an embryo is an "existing living human being."...

Yesterday's U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding a federal ban on partial-birth abortion was cheered by New Jersey activists who hope it will open the door to additional abortion restrictions and denounced by those who fear it will do just that. Abortion opponents applauded the ruling at an afternoon news conference in front of Metropolitan Medical Associates, an abortion clinic in Englewood. "The practical consequences of today's decision take place right here in Englewood," said Richard Collier, president of the Morristown-based Legal Center for the Defense of Life. "This is the place that does 1,500 partial-birth abortions a year. We're here...

Activists on Friday protested the reopening of an abortion clinic here shut down in February after state health officials found "immediate and serious" health code violations. As part of their protest, the activists deployed a motor home equipped with ultrasound equipment across the street from Metropolitan Medical Associates and offered pregnant women who approached the clinic free images of their fetuses. The activists believe the images will persuade women to reconsider having an abortion. On Friday, 16-year-old Michelle Younger of Jersey City was one of them. The teen, who arrived with her mother, said she had an appointment at the...

NJ Abortion Clinic Reopens:  Pro-Life Groups To Hold Press Conference New Jersey Right to Life, 113 North Avenue West, Cranford, NJ  07016 PRESS ADVISORY Contact:  Marie Tasy,  (908) 276-6620 PRO-LIFE GROUPS TO HOLD PRESS CONFERENCE FRIDAY, MARCH 23rd AT 11 A.M. UPON REOPENING OF ENGLEWOOD, NJ ABORTION CLINIC   NJ ABORTION CLINIC SCHEDULED TO REOPEN DESPITE REPORTS OF BOTCHED ABORTION, FILTH, INFECTION CONTROL VIOLATIONS, AND FIVE YEAR NO-SHOW HEALTH INSPECTIONS     March 22, 2007   New Jersey Right to Life, Crossing Over Ministries and Expectant Mother Care-EMC FrontLine Pregnancy Centers traveling with EMC Mobile Clinic 1, along with...

A state appeals court Wednesday declined to sanction an Englewood abortion clinic that was accused of filing a frivolous lawsuit against an antiabortion group. Metropolitan Medical Associates -- known for dramatic protests it attracted in the 1990s -- sued the Legal Center for Defense of Life two years ago, saying the group organized pickets who intimidated patients and blocked public access to the clinic. The clinic also sued the city for not enforcing ordinances against obstructive sidewalk activities, and sought a protest-free buffer zone around the Engle Street facility. A state Superior Court judge in Hackensack dismissed the lawsuit, saying...

Chris Slattery waiting for clients in his mobile ultrasound center along a street in the Bronx. He hopes that pregnant women will forgo abortions after seeing ultrasound images of their fetuses. Antiabortion activists are unveiling the newest weapon in their arsenal: a motor home with an ultrasound machine, which they plan to park outside Englewood's abortion clinic when it reopens.  The goal is to persuade women to abandon their scheduled abortions after seeing the visual image of the growing life within them.  "When women later see ultrasounds of babies that are at the same stage as their baby was,...

Metropolitan Medical Associates, an Englewood clinic that performs thousands of abortions a year. The clinic was ordered closed on by state health officials until it corrects the "immediate and serious" risks. State health officials found forceps encrusted in "brownish blood-like residues," rusty crochet hooks used to remove IUDs, and a quarter-inch of dark red "dirt and debris" under an exam table at an Englewood abortion clinic, according to records released Tuesday.  The records revealed publicly for the first time why the clinic was closed on Feb. 24, after a two-day investigation.  Health officials found that the clinic "could not...

I'm so excited! The National Day of Appreciation for Abortion Providers is just three days away – Saturday, March 10! We will not likely get to celebrate this unholiest of unholy days with the actual dirty deed doers themselves, since I anticipate their inspirational work ethic will compel them to labor (pardon the pun) on coincidentally the most profitable day of their week. But we can certainly show our support through the sincerest form of flattery, imitation, except … hmm … there's not much to imitate that won't get us thrown in prison. Well, at least we can wear red!...

ENGLEWOOD, NJ, March 6, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com/Operation Rescue) - Two more women have come forward and told of their life-threatening abortion injuries at Metropolitan Medical Associates since news broke last week of the clinic's closure in response to a botched abortion on 20-year old Rasheedah Dinkins that left her comatose for four weeks and unable to bear any more children. Metropolitan is one of the largest abortion mills in New Jersey, and is affiliated with the National Abortion Federation. One of the women, Gloria Mozas, 36, is suing Metropolitan for an abortion she had in 2003. Mozas alleges that abortionist Nicholas...

Near-Fatal Abortion Reminds Us What's at Stake In what can only be called an abortion horror story, a New Jersey woman is recovering in the hospital from a severely botched procedure that could have cost her life. Twenty-year-old Rasheedah Dinkins spent the last month in a coma after she visited the Metropolitan Medical Associates (MMA) in Englewood for an abortion that made her dangerously ill. En route to the hospital, medics say Rasheedah died, but they were able to resuscitate her in time for doctors to give her blood transfusions and surgically remove her uterus. Despite the MMA's claim that...

Pat Mullen of Fair Lawn, left, and Bill Foster of Ridgewood protesting with other antiabortion activists in a rally outside Metropolitan Medical Associates in Englewood on Thursday. ENGLEWOOD -- Antiabortion activists gathered in front of Metropolitan Medical Associates on Thursday and called for the clinic to be permanently shut down.  Metropolitan Medical has been closed temporarily by the state amid allegations of malpractice and deficient care after a woman who had an abortion at the clinic suffered massive hemorrhaging and fell into a four-week coma.  Rasheedah Dinkins, 20, filed a lawsuit Thursday alleging that the clinic and its physicians...

A Newark woman who said she spent a month in a coma after undergoing an abortion at a Bergen County clinic sued the facility and several doctors there on Thursday, alleging medical malpractice that seriously injured her. Rasheedah Dinkins, who is still recovering in a hospital, filed suit in Superior Court in Essex County against Metropolitan Medical Associates, an Englewood clinic that performs thousands of abortions a year. The clinic was ordered closed on Tuesday by New Jersey health officials until it corrects the “immediate and serious” risks. “We expect to get to the bottom of why this incredible results...

The state Health Department investigated conditions at Metropolitan Medical Associates in Englewood. State health officials have shut down one of New Jersey's largest abortion centers after finding violations at an Englewood clinic that posed "immediate and serious risk of harm to patients."  Metropolitan Medical Associates will remain closed until it corrects the deficiencies that prompted the closure, state officials said. State reports show the clinic performs more than 10,000 abortions a year.The shutdown order cited problems "including but not limited to infection control, instruments, equipment used for sterilization of patient care use items and the processing of equipment."  The...

Please Join Newark, NJ, Archbishop John J. Myersfor theStations of the Cross For Life March Good Friday April 9, 2004 10:45 am at the Metropolitan Medical AssociatesEnglewood, NJ#1 Partial-Birth Abortion Provider in NJAssemble at the Parking Lot at Demarest and Dean StreetsDo NOT bring signs or PicturesThe Stations will wind around the center of Englewood and end in front of the Englewood Abortion Mill.  Five decades of the Rosary will be recited across from this clinic again led by the Archbishop.The Nuns from the Rose Garden Home were inspired to do their sidewalk counseling ministry at the Englewood Abortion Mill after the 2002...

Discredited Myths About Partial-Birth Abortion - - and Some Journalists Who Won't Let Go of ThemBy Douglas JohnsonNRLC Federal Legislative DirectorLegfederal@aol.comSeptember 6, 2003[Note to reader: Copies of any of the articles or other documents cited below, if not available on the Internet at a location specified below, are available on request to NRLC at 202-626-8820 or Legfederal@aol.com.]Before long, Congress is expected to complete action on the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, a bill that National Right to Life helped to initiate in 1995. President Bush will sign the bill into law.When these events occur, we can expect to see a...

Archbishop joins 1,000 Catholics in procession of faith Saturday, March 30, 2002 By DOUGLASS CROUSE Staff Writer ENGLEWOOD, NJ By half past noon Friday, the faithful streamed along the sidewalks on either side of West Palisade Avenue, a flock of nearly 1,000 Catholics who had come to recommit themselves to a faith and a mission on behalf of the unborn. Archbishop John J. Myers marched near the head of the Good Friday procession through Englewood's downtown, a five-year tradition of hymns and prayers that links Jesus Christ's crucifixion with the mainline Catholic Church's campaign against abortion. The event typically attracts...