From: Will Steeves <goid@zooid.guild.org>
Subject: Meet Ismail Elguindi, Abortionist
Note: Peter's newsfeed is down. This message posted by goid@zooid.guild.org.
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Organization: The Zoo of Ids
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 23:53:00 GMT


"Meet Ismail Elguindi, Abortionist" was the title of a leaflet distributed
in the neighborhood where this abort/gynecologist lives, about two weeks ago.
Since that time, it has become clear that Elguindi's license to practice
medicine is under suspension and will remain so unless he fulfills certain
requirements, such as enrolling in a one-year course in ob/gyn.  Meanwhile
his practice is being taken over by another abort/gynecologist who drives
over Saturdays from the town of Conway, SC.

The suspension is the result of the way Elguindi treated a 29 year old
woman for infertility.  According to a Final Report of the South Carolina State
Board of Medical Examiners, dated June 10, 1992:

1. He performed a laproscopy on her on Sept 6 1990, with the help of an
unlicensed medical assistant.

2. He failed to perform a pregnancy test on the patient at any time she
was under his care.

3. He inappropriately performed a D&C on her on Oct. 6, 1990; the
pathology report showed evidence of an ectopic pregnancy, a potentially
life-threatening condition, yet he failed to take appropriate measures
even after receiving the pathology report on Oct. 22, 1990.

>From the June, 1992 report:

"The Board concludes that significant portions of the respondent's
testimony were illogical, inconsistent, and void of credibility."

"His treatment of his patients did not reflect service to humanity
with full respect to the dignity of man, and did not merit the confidence
of patients entrusted to his care."

BTW this is NOT the same abortionist of COERCED ABORTION, who also
said "No freebies" to the woman described in two follow-ups of mine
along the THE SUFFERING OF SOME UNBORN AND THEIR MOTHERS thread.
That abortionist has never had his license suspended by the Board.

As you can see from this, there is more than one unscrupulous abortionist
in the Columbia, SC area.

There are five clinics altogether doing abortions in the Columbia, SC
area, and the ones done by these two abortionists account for ALMOST
EXACTLY HALF of all reported abortions in the Columbia, SC area in 1990,
the last year in which neither was suspended at any time.

[Columbia totals for 1990: 5265 altogether, 904 by Elguindi and 1709 by the
COERCED ABORTION creep.]

 I wonder whether this area is really the
victim of a statistical quirk that most talk.abortion pro-choicers
will summarily conclude that it is.  [Those fitting the foregoing
description should ask themselves whether they are more motivated by
concern for women, or for abortionists.]

The text of the leaflet follows, between two rows of asterisks, with
a pair of insertions by me in brackets.  A bit of commentary follows
the second row of asterisks.

                        ************************

Dr. Ismail Elguindi is an abortionist whose main place of practice is at
Westside Women's Services on 2301-F Bush River Road, Columbia, SC.
The existence of this clinic at this location is not as well known to the
general public as it might be because there is no sign at this location
saying "Westside Women's Clinic"; instead, the signs read
"Infertility Center" and "Fertility Center."

Despite these innocent-sounding names, there is a brisk business in
abortions at the clinic, with 904 reported for 1990 and
1028 for 1991 to the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental
Control (DHEC).

Dr. Elguindi was back in business full time after having his license to
practice medicine temporarily suspended for three months last year by the
State Board of Medical Examiners.

[The "was" in the above sentence was followed by an asterisk referring
the reader to a footnote at the bottom of the page, saying that Elguindi
was apparently suspended again for substandard care to patients, and
wondering how many more women would be victimized by him before the
Board permanently revokes his license.]

The suspension came in the wake of his pleading guilty to felony
charges stemming from the discovery, in the dumpster near his clinic,
of the body of an unborn child aborted well into the second trimester.

South Carolina law requires that all abortions performed after the
first trimester be done in either a hospital or a clinic certified by DHEC.

[1] Footnote:  44--41--20 and 44--41--80, South Carolina Code of Laws.

Dr. Elguindi's clinic has never been certified by DHEC; nor, for that
matter, has any abortion clinic been certified by DHEC in the history of
South Carolina.

Back on April 8, 1989, a clinic employee was seen to drop a plastic bag
into a dumpster near the clinic.  The bag was retrieved by witnesses
after the clinic closed and found to contain the remains of several aborted
fetuses, one of which was determined by an autopsy to be about 16 weeks
old.

[2] Footnote: _The State_ March 6, 1990, 1-B.

[_The State_ is Columbia, SC's only major daily newspaper.]

Dr. Elguindi was indicted on March 5, 1990 by the Lexington County Grand
Jury despite his claim that the fetuses had been planted in the dumpster
to discredit the clinic.

[3] Footnote: _The State_, March 6, 1990, 1-B.

On July 25, 1991 he pleaded guilty to illegally performing the
second-trimester abortion as charged, a felony punishable by up to 5 years
in prison *and* $5,000.

[4] Footnote: _The State_, July 26, 1991, 1-A.

He was sentenced to Judge Frank Eppes on September 6, 1991 to *either*
a fine of $4,000 *or* 4 years in prison,

[5] Footnote: _The State_, Sept. 7, 1991.

 and elected to pay the fine.

The State Board of Medical Examiners suspended Dr. Elguindi's license to
practice medicine for three months beginning August 13, 1991, and imposed
an additional fine of $10,000.

Between his July 26 guilty plea and his August 13 suspension, Dr. Elguindi
continued performing abortions.  Yet, in waiting until August 13, the Board
of Medical Examiners appears to have violated SC Code  40--47--200, which
contains the provision: "The license of any person who...pleads guilty
with respect to [a felony] shall be immediately temporarily suspended
pending final disposition of a disciplinary proceeding to be commenced upon
...the filing of a plea of guilty."

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NOTE: 1) A $1,000 reward is being offered for information
leading to the arrest and conviction of Ismail Elguindi and the revocation
of his medical license.  Apparently the SC State Board of Medical
Examiners [Stephen Seeling, Executive Director] considers it acceptable for
a convicted felon to practice medicine in South Carolina.

Forward any leads or information to:

         COLUMBIA RESCUE, P.O. Box ____, Columbia, SC 29250.
                        Phone: ________

NOTE: 2) Women who have been injured by Dr. Ismail Elguindi
are encouraged to file a complaint with the SC State Board of Medical
Examiners.  Call for information on the simple steps you can take
to initiate the complaint procedure.

NOTE: 3)  Any women needing emotional, medical, or legal help
after an abortion, please call the Columbia Post Abortion Ministry
________, or the American Rights Coalition_________________.

                ******************************

I have deleted PO Box and phone numbers above to avoid having
pro-abortionist mail and crank calls being sent by talk.abortion
readers; Susan Garvin, for example, has admitted to having called
The American Rights Coalition posing as a woman in need of help.

However, in response to legitimate requests, I will e-mail the
relevant numbers.  nyikos@math.scarolina.edu

The felony charge for a second trimester abortion by an unlicensed
clinic is not just a nuisance anti-abortion statute.  It was motivated,
at least in part, by the clause in _Roe v. Wade_ allowing such restrictions
on abortion for legitimate medical reasons.  Second trimester abortions
are less safe for the mother, as a general rule, than first trimester
abortions, and Elguindi did not even have the hospital privileges that
would have enabled him to assist with emergency treatment of patients
under his care.

Peter Nyikos
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