{"id":200943,"date":"2019-04-25T08:16:27","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T13:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=200943"},"modified":"2019-04-25T09:20:30","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T14:20:30","slug":"abortionist-shouts-pro-lifers-rape-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortionist-shouts-pro-lifers-rape-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortionist shouts at pro-lifers: &#8216;Rape them and send them here&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Abortionist Ashutosh &#8220;Ron&#8221; Virmani is raising eyebrows yet again, after pro-lifers caught him on camera yelling &#8220;rape them and send them here&#8221; as he pulled into his abortion facility earlier this month. Virmani is already well-known to many, as he has expressed racist views in the past, has previously had his medical license suspended, and was even arrested for rape.<\/p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/prochoicecharlottetruth\/videos\/2325636754360586\/\">video<\/a>, which was published on Facebook last week, Virmani pulls into A Preferred Women&#8217;s Health Center, the facility where he commits abortions. He slows down and stops in front of a group of pro-lifers who are filming, and shouts at them, &#8220;Rape them and send them here!&#8221; Before anyone can respond, he repeats it again, and then speeds off.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fprochoicecharlottetruth%2Fvideos%2F2325636754360586%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Virmani already had a troubling history before this video surfaced. In 2012, he was caught <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortionist-refers-black-babies-as-ugly-potential-murderers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">espousing racism<\/a> to a group of pro-lifers, saying that taxpayers shouldn&#8217;t be forced to pay to support Black babies, that he doesn&#8217;t want them \u201cto be born and brought up and kill those people in Colorado,\u201d and asked if the pro-lifers he was talking to would be willing to adopt those &#8220;ugly Black babies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, he did <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JjvSYtWII8E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">release a video apologizing<\/a>, but he spent most of the video criticizing the pro-lifers who filmed him, and also pointedly ignored taking responsibility for portraying Black babies as nothing more than future criminals and murderers.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s not even the most disturbing part of his history; Virmani was previously <a href=\"http:\/\/abortiondocs.org\/clinic\/abortionist\/702\/ashutosh-ron-virmani\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">accused of rape<\/a>, although the charges were eventually dropped due to insufficient evidence. He also had his license suspended due to &#8220;improper sexual relations&#8221; with a patient. He also had his privileges <a href=\"https:\/\/caselaw.findlaw.com\/nc-court-of-appeals\/1205972.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stripped by a North Carolina hospital<\/a> after seriously botching a surgical procedure. While Virmani accused the hospital of racism, a peer-review committee examined over 100 of his cases, and &#8220;found 24 of them to be problematic in one of three areas: procedures performed without indication, documentation discrepancies, and medical management issues.&#8221; Virmani repeatedly sued, but the courts refused to uphold his lawsuit each time.<\/p>\n<p>It is unconscionable that someone could have such a callous, cavalier attitude while treating women in crisis, including women who very well may be survivors of rape or sexual assault.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveactionnewsonline\/\">\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a> for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abortionist Ashutosh &#8220;Ron&#8221; Virmani is raising eyebrows yet again, after pro-lifers caught him on camera yelling &#8220;rape them and send them here&#8221; as he pulled into his abortion facility earlier this month. Virmani is already well-known to many, as he has expressed racist views in the past, has previously had his medical license suspended, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":200985,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[2793,3473],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Abortionist shouts at pro-lifers: &#039;Rape them and send them here&#039;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The abortionist has expressed racist views in the past, has previously had his medical license suspended, and was even arrested for rape.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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