Claim: Bill White has presided over the construction of what may be the world's largest abortion clinic.
Verdict: REFUTES

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title: Troy Newman (activist)
text: Scott Roeder's collection. In 2006, according to documents at the Sedgwick County, Kansas, Register of Deeds office, Alison White purchased the building formerly housing Central Women's Services, an abortion clinic in Wichita. White donated the former clinic to her father's anti-abortion organization, Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust. Today, the building operates as Operation Rescue's National Headquarters and contains a memorial to aborted fetuses. On September 11, 2006, the IRS revoked Operation Rescue West's 501(c)(3) nonprofit, tax-exempt status. Newman's organization now operates under the name "Operation Rescue." Following his assassination of George Tiller in 2009, Scott Roeder was interviewed by Amanda

title: Barbara Pyle
text: Sexual Health in New York City. The clinic was, at the time, the largest free-standing abortion facility in the world and the opening was scheduled to coincide with the first day that abortion up to 24 weeks became legal under a newly enacted New York State law. Pyle served as the clinic's first administrator. Barbara Pyle Barbara Y. E. Pyle is an American executive producer, filmmaker, environmental activist and media innovator who pioneered the use of broadcast programming to inform critical social and environmental issues on a global scale. She co-created and served as the executive producer on the animated

title: Rebecca Gomperts
text: was bringing non-surgical abortion services and education to countries all around the world that didn't have them. The Women on Waves mission transcends the boundaries between law, medicine, seafaring and art. Using the grant from the Mondriaan Foundation, Women on Waves rented the "Aurora", a 130-foot sport fishing boat that would host the mobile clinic. Its cargo included a thousand condoms, 120 IUD’s, 250 morning-after pills, and 20 doses of the abortion pill RU-486, along with two doctors and one nurse. Many media outlets were shocked that Gomperts was not at all concerned with her ship being detained, impounded or

title: Rebecca White
text: 2023, and would come with a package to help pubs and clubs transition to other forms of revenue. In February 2018 she declared the ALP would not be supporting the Liberals in attempting to re-introduce the state's anti-protest laws. White promised in the campaign to fund abortion clinics, after the Liberal government cut all funds to them. White married her partner, Rod Dann in a ceremony in November 2017. She has one daughter, Mia, who was less than a year old when she was elevated to the leadership, and is regularly with White on the campaign trail. Rebecca White Rebecca

title: Merle Hoffman
text: he was performing an illegal procedure. To cover for himself, he cut her up in pieces and put her remains down the drain." Hoffman co-founded and helped run Flushing Women's Medical Center (forerunner of Choices Women's Medical Center) in the borough of Queens in NYC in the spring of 1971, two years before Roe v. Wade legalized abortion nationwide. Hoffman considered many standard medical practices of the day sexist, invasive, and paternalistic. In response, she developed many of the patient-centered tenets and practices that have since become standards of female and feminist healthcare and implemented them at Flushing Women's. Hoffman's

title: Rebecca Gomperts
text: that was transformed into an abortion clinic and sailed across international waters. Rebecca Gomperts Rebecca Gomberts (born 1966) is a doctor based out of Amsterdam. She specializes in providing reproductive health services for women in countries where it is not provided. A trained abortion specialist and dedicated activist, she is generally considered the first abortion rights activist to cross international borders. Founder of Women on Waves, and Women on Web, Gomperts has dedicated her life towards saving women from illegal abortions. Unlike most medical activists, Gomperts has a background in the world of art. Using these talents to help her

title: Troy Newman (activist)
text: and from the federal Department of Justice (under the terms of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act). In 1999, following White's resignation, Newman became president of Operation Rescue West, and for the first time was able to draw a salary from his anti-abortion work, having previously had to rely on donations from supporters. In 2002, Newman moved the headquarters of Operation Rescue West from California to Wichita, Kansas, and later changed the name of the organization to simply Operation Rescue. The name change was later the subject of an unsuccessful lawsuit from Randall Terry, the founder of the

title: Center for Reproductive and Sexual Health
text: Center for Reproductive and Sexual Health Center for Reproductive and Sexual Health (CRASH), at the time the largest freestanding abortion clinic in the world, opened in New York City after New York legalized abortion in 1970. It was run for a time by Bernard Nathanson. CRASH was ordered closed for 60 days by the New York State Health Department on September 30, 1988, following the death of a 19-year-old patient from anesthesia errors. A department spokesman said that the 60-day closure was the most they were empowered to do, and that they would push for revocation of the facility's permit.

title: Jane Nelson
text: Article II workgroup, which increased the women's health budget by $100 million and made significant new investments in mental health and Child Protective Services. In July 2013, Nelson presided over a 16-hour hearing on an abortion bill that drew testimony from over 3,800 people, including 357 who provided oral testimony. The bill, HB 3, sought to ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. The bill also required abortion facilities to upgrade to ambulatory surgical standards. Nelson and her husband, Mike Nelson, have five adult children and nine grandchildren. Jane Nelson Jane Gray Nelson (born October 5, 1951) is an American

title: Molly White
text: has since spoken out about how abortion has negatively impacted her life. She criticises the national media for not reporting on post-abortion trauma as she personally experienced. White annually lobbies before the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women in an attempt to push the organization into a conservative direction. Prior to her legislative service, she worked for passage of parental-consent laws impacting under-age women who procure an abortion and for the defunding of taxpayer money to the abortion provider Planned Parenthood. She has lobbied for mandatory medical ultrasonography screening before a woman can receive an abortion. She has

title: Henry Morgentaler
text: Sciences Centre. In 2006, Morgentaler had to stop performing abortions after undergoing a heart bypass surgery. He continued, however, to oversee the operation of his six private clinics. In 1969, Morgentaler opened an abortion clinic in Montreal. He said that he applied for status as a model abortion clinic and proposed to the federal and provincial governments that abortions could be safely done outside hospitals. He recounts that neither the provincial nor the federal government was interested. Each said it was the other's responsibility. No one came to inspect the clinic. Instead, they sent the police. On June 1, 1970,

title: T. R. M. Howard
text: committee. Through this period, he became well known as a leading abortion provider, although the procedure was still illegal until 1973, when the Supreme Court ruled that women had a right to this procedure. He was arrested in 1964 and 1965 for allegedly performing abortions in Chicago but was never convicted. Howard regarded this work as complementary to his earlier civil rights activism. In 1972, Howard founded the multi-million-dollar Friendship Medical Center on the South Side, the largest privately owned black clinic in Chicago. The staff of about one hundred and sixty included twenty-seven doctors in such fields as pediatrics,

title: Denis E. Dillon
text: the Bill Baird Center, a Hempstead abortion clinic. Dillon's actions led to his candidacy being disavowed by the Liberal Party and its Nassau County Chair, Jack Olchin, and to the decision of Bill Baird, the clinic's namesake and a well known reproductive rights activist, to mount a write-in campaign against Dillon. Dillon publicly welcomed Baird's challenge, but used his lack of a law license to criticize his supporters, saying "it will be interesting to see how many pro-choice people will vote for a non-lawyer for D.A." Baird's challenge, as well as an appeal from the Nassau chapter of the National

title: Operation Rescue (Kansas)
text: Operation Rescue (Kansas) Operation Rescue (formerly Operation Rescue West or California Operation Rescue) is an American anti-abortion organization. The organization originated in California and is now based in Kansas. Operation Rescue West was founded by Operation Rescue's tactical director, Jeff White, as a branch of Randall Terry's original Operation Rescue organization. Under Jeff White, Operation Rescue West maintained its focus on abortion. White stepped down in 1999 following an $880,000 judgment against his organization for harassment and intimidation of Planned Parenthood staff and handed the organization over to the leadership of Troy Newman. In 2002, Newman moved the headquarters to

title: Rick Snyder
text: States in 2016. In December 2012, Snyder signed legislation requiring facilities where at least 120 abortions are performed annually to obtain a state license as freestanding surgical facilities. Planned Parenthood had urged Snyder to veto the bill claiming it unnecessarily increases costs. In January 2013, Snyder traveled to Israel to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He was last in Israel in 1999 as a venture capitalist. "I had a chance to see the start of high-tech boom in Israel and that's great to see. This is really a startup nation. They've done a great job of being entrepreneurial, innovative,

title: Frank A. Hoffmann
text: impregnation through rape and incest. On July 6, 2011, Governor Bobby Jindal came to Hoffman's home church to sign Hoffman's latest legislation, HB 636, which requires the six abortion clinics in Louisiana to post information to clients on alternatives to abortion. The law requires that signs be posted about abortion clinics to inform clients that it is illegal to coerce a woman into procuring an abortion, that the father must provide child support, that certain agencies can assist during and after the pregnancy, and that adoptive parents are available and can pay some of the medical costs involved. Hoffmann is

title: Evelyn Gigantes
text: In November 1990, Gigantes announced that the province would set up fully funded free-standing abortion clinics to ensure that abortion services remained available. In January 1991, Gigantes and fellow cabinet minister Anne Swarbrick led a delegation that appeared before the legal affairs committee of the Senate of Canada that was discussing the bill. Eventually the bill was defeated on a tie vote in the Senate and the federal government never reintroduced the legislation. On April 19, 1991, Gigantes resigned from cabinet after inadvertently revealing the name of a Toronto man who had been sent to the United States for drug

title: Operation Rescue (Kansas)
text: Mahoney (media director), Jeff White (tactical director) have signed a statement in support of Newman. "We now feel compelled to speak up because Randall's actions are hurting the work of Troy Newman and Operation Rescue in their efforts to see George Tiller end his barbaric abortion practices in Wichita, Kansas. Additionally, we can no longer remain silent while Mr. Terry continues to fleece unsuspecting pro-life people out of hundreds of thousands of dollars for his personal and selfish gain." The organization lost its non-profit, tax-exempt organization status which was revoked by the Internal Revenue Service in September 2006. Operation Rescue

title: Bernard Nathanson
text: in 1949 from McGill University Faculty of Medicine in Montreal. Nathanson was licensed to practice medicine in New York state in 1952 and became board-certified in obstetrics and gynecology in 1960. He was for a time the director of the Center for Reproductive and Sexual Health (CRASH), then the largest freestanding abortion facility in the world. In 1974 Nathanson wrote: "I am deeply troubled by my own increasing certainty that I had in fact presided over 60,000 deaths." He also wrote that he performed an abortion on a woman whom he had impregnated. Originally a pro-choice activist, Nathanson gained national

title: Robert J. White
text: on medical ethics. He established the Vatican's Commission on Biomedical Ethics in 1981 after his appointment to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. Under White's leadership, the Commission influenced the church's stance on brain death and in vitro fertilization. He nicknamed himself Humble Bob. White founded Metro's neurosurgery department. Many people know him for being the leading target for protesters. A PETA activist went as far as to call him "Dr. Butcher" and described his experiments as "epitomizing the crude, cruel vivisection industry." For 40 years, White was a neurological surgery professor at Case Western Reserve University medical school, a well-liked