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(National Review<\/a>)\u00a0It has been almost 25 years\u00a0since\u00a0pro-life<\/a>\u00a0activist Cathie Humbarger sounded alarms with local officials in Fort Wayne, Ind., after noticing that women were often stumbling out of an abortion clinic near her office. The events that followed continue to power her activism decades later.<\/p>\n

It was 1998, and Humbarger had strategically situated her office right next door to the abortion facility. As she watched women leave the facility time after time, she began to question why the building did not have any wheelchair ramps. She ultimately filed a complaint with local officials saying the facility was not complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act. But officials waved her off, according to Missy Martinez-Stone, the CEO of Reprotection, the pro-life nonprofit Humbarger founded in 2020.<\/p>\n

Humbarger continued to investigate the facility using open-records requests,\u00a0and worked with a team of activists to file more than 2,000 complaints against its physician, Ulrich Klopfer, for violating\u00a0state health codes that require qualified staff members, medical records, and counseling, according to Reprotection.<\/p>\n

She discovered that Klopfer failed to report both the abortions he performed on minors, and the child sexual abuse that caused their pregnancies \u2014 a violation of state law. All of the minors involved were younger than 14, per Reprotection.<\/p>\n

Martinez-Stone said Klopfer was forced to appear before the Indiana medical board and doubled down, insisting that he would not report in the future, either.\u00a0The medical board suspended his license, resulting in the closure of three facilities in Indiana that he was running, three years after Humbarger first noticed the facility\u2019s ADA violation.<\/p>\n

After Klopfer died, authorities\u00a0uncovered the remains<\/a>\u00a0of 2,411 aborted babies hidden at his Illinois home and in his car.<\/p>\n

That investigative work planted a seed in Humbarger\u2019s mind that germinated over 20 years of activism in varying roles at the Right to Life of Northeast Indiana and ultimately led to the January 2020 birth of\u00a0Reprotection<\/a>, a nonprofit dedicated to catching abortion providers breaking laws and using local authorities to bring them to justice.<\/p>\n

\u201cIndeed, Klopfer was especially villainous, but the legal transgressions his abortion businesses engaged in are carried out daily at other facilities across America,\u201d Reprotection said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Humbarger, who is both the group\u2019s founder and public-policy analyst, began testing out the concept of Reprotection in 2019 before officially launching one year later. The group realized quickly that pursuing cases of violations requires significant time and patience,\u00a0Martinez-Stone told\u00a0National Review<\/span>\u00a0in a recent interview.<\/p>\n

The group began testing in Louisville, Ky., with the support of national pro-life leader David Bereit and with hopes that it could work alongside members of the existing pro-life community to investigate local abortion providers.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut what they found was nobody has time,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s so time-intensive and meticulous that the people are busy running the pregnancy centers or sidewalk counseling or doing policy. This needed to be something that stood on its own because it takes so much time and effort and follow-up.\u201d<\/p>\n

READ:<\/strong>\u00a0Report: Over 100 abortion facilities in 31 states cited for violations involving controlled substances<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Reprotection is currently juggling 44 cases in 25 states. Martinez-Stone said taking on any given case means pulling historical records, gathering information on medical and other professional licenses, researching the history of health-department inspections, looking for lawsuits that may have already been filed against the provider, and interviewing pro-lifers in the area.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe kind of cast our net really wide, get all the information we can, and then we have to sift through all of it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Finding a violation is only the first step in a long, laborious process.<\/p>\n

The group must find what code was actually violated, who is responsible for the enforcement of the code, and what the reporting protocol is.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe hardest part is follow-up because you\u2019re dealing with bureaucracy,\u201d she said. \u201cThe bulk of our work comes on the back end of every couple weeks or months: \u2018Hey, how\u2019s it going? Where\u2019s our investigation? Where\u2019s our investigation? Why have you not moved on this?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Reprotection has become a go-to reporting agency for many abortion patients and on-the-ground pro-life activists because the nonprofit offers a \u201cconfidential safe place\u201d for people to bring their cases, Martinez-Stone said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have trauma-informed researchers because we realize that the nature of the violations and the complaints we\u2019re dealing with are very sensitive,\u201d she said, adding that Reprotection is the official reporting group for the Sidewalk Advocates for Life organization, as well as several post-abortion ministry groups that are working with one of the country\u2019s largest pregnancy-center affiliations.<\/p>\n

So far, the group has not had to seek out cases on its own; activists who minister outside of facilities or work with abortion patients have approached Reprotection after hearing stories of patients\u2019 experiences that raise red flags.<\/p>\n

The most stark example was when a patient came running out of a Florida facility screaming, \u201cCall 911!\u201d because she was afraid for her life….<\/p>\n

Continue reading entire article at National Review.<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Editor\u2019s Note: This article was published at\u00a0<\/i>National Review<\/a>\u00a0and is reprinted here in part with permission.<\/i><\/p>\n

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