{"id":35382,"date":"2013-05-24T11:08:03","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T15:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=35382"},"modified":"2013-05-24T14:46:08","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T18:46:08","slug":"delta-abortion-clinic-of-baton-rouge-linked-to-gosnell-in-more-ways-than-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/delta-abortion-clinic-of-baton-rouge-linked-to-gosnell-in-more-ways-than-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta Abortion Clinic of Baton Rouge linked to Gosnell in more ways than one"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Women Lined up Outside Delta Abortion Clinic in Baton Rouge, LA. Photo reproduced with permission of owner,\u00a0 Kandace Landreneau.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

There has been much coverage lately about abortionist and convicted murderer Kermit Gosnell, but very little about his co-defendant Eileen O\u2019Neill\u00a0on charges of conspiracy, racketeering, perjury, and false swearing.<\/p>\n

Mrs. O\u2019Neill worked for Gosnell\u2019s clinic for eight years, despite having no medical license, and was a witness to Gosnell\u2019s horrific crimes against innocent children (according to the Grand Jury Report<\/a>). She began working for Gosnell after being introduced to him by Leroy Brinkley<\/a>, owner of the Atlantic Women\u2019s Services Clinic, where Gosnell would begin some of his illegal abortions. Leroy Brinkley is also the owner of the Delta Abortion Clinic in Baton Rouge, where O\u2019Neill worked from 1998-2000.<\/p>\n

Does Mrs. O\u2019Neill\u2019s previous employer – the Delta Clinic, which is just miles away from my own home – deserve further coverage? Is this clinic another Gosnell clinic?<\/p>\n

The earliest documentation on Delta is a lawsuit in 1974 by Kathleen R., whose heavy bleeding after an abortion at Delta led surgeons to discover that she had a perforated uterus. Kathleen required a hysterectomy to treat her injury (4th<\/sup> Circuit Louisiana Court of Appeals No. 9083).<\/p>\n

Next there was a lawsuit in the 1984 death of 27-year-old Sheila Hebert. The suit alleged that Delta failed to monitor Mrs. Hebert while in recovery, failed to react properly when her condition was discovered, failed to call 911 promptly, and failed to have adequate emergency equipment available (East Baton Rouge Parish District Court Case No. 289518).<\/p>\n

Also in 1984, Michelle P. filed a lawsuit alleging that she suffered from a retained fetal leg and a lacerated uterus following an abortion at the Delta Clinic (Baton Rouge Parish District Court Case No. 281159).<\/p>\n

In 1990, a lawsuit was filed in the death of Ingar Lee Whittington Weber<\/a>, who died of kidney failure following an abortion at the Delta Clinic.<\/p>\n

In 1998 an investigation by Baton Rouge news station WAFB<\/a> led to the discovery that a former patient, \u201cRoxy D.,\u201d suffered injuries at Delta that required her to wear a colostomy bag for eight months. This led to an investigation by Governor Mike Foster, and affidavits<\/a> were gathered attesting to the filthy conditions at the clinic.<\/p>\n

At the time of the WAFB investigations, Eileen O\u2019Neill was an employee at Delta and after two years, in 2000, she relinquished her Louisiana medical license<\/a>, saying that she had \u201cpost-traumatic stress syndrome\u201d.<\/p>\n

Two years later, Delta\u2019s abortionist James Whitmore III<\/a> lost his medical license after the board found that Whitmore used improperly sterilized equipment, reused single-use items, let tissue float in the sterilizing solution, and failed to provide proper care to a woman whose uterus he had perforated during an abortion, requiring her to receive a hysterectomy. Whitmore had previously been on probation for three years (starting in 1992), after his actions led to the death of one infant, the permanent injury of another infant, and other actions injuring at least five women.<\/p>\n

In 2007<\/a>, an unannounced inspection of the Delta Clinic found that patient records in 90% of the cases inspected were incomplete and lacked documentation of physical exams performed prior to abortions. No fines were assessed at this time.<\/p>\n

In 2009<\/a>, an unannounced inspection of the Delta Clinic found the following violations, and the clinic was fined $3,000:<\/p>\n