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Orlando, FL, June 13, 2013 (OperationRescue.org) – The pro-life group Operation Rescue says it has learned that property is currently being seized from the Orlando Women’s Center. They have also confirmed that the abortion clinic, the flagship office of James Scott Pendergraft IV’s five office abortion chain, has been closed.

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Michelle Herzog of Pro-life Action Ministries told Operation Rescue she witnessed authorities removing one of the abortion tables and other abortion equipment and loading it into a large moving truck.

Pendergraft was hit with a whopping civil medical malpractice judgment of $36,737,660.16 in compensatory and punitive damages in 2011 in a case involving a botched 20 week abortion. That abortion resulted in the live birth of a child physically damaged by Pendergraft’s incompetent abortion process, amid what was described as “third world conditions.”

The abortionist has refused to pay the judgment.

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It is thought, but not yet confirmed, that the seizure may be related to that judgment.

A clinic receptionist is telling callers the Orlando Women’s Center is “closed for maintenance” and is unsure whether the clinic will reopen at this time.

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Pendergraft has a long history of legal issues that have included multiple suspensions of his Florida medical license.  

Earlier this year his license was suspended for the fifth time after he failed to pay the Florida Board fines from a previous disciplinary action that totaled over $120,000. However, despite the suspension, he continued to operate five abortion clinics in Florida, primarily in the Orlando area.

In 2010, the Florida Board of Medicine suspended his license after it found that Pendergraft allowed an employee to administer narcotics to patients without a license, and, although Pendergraft knew the employee had a drug problem, allowed her to order drugs under his name, and prescribed steroids to her for no apparent reason. In the past his license has been suspended for botched abortions, committing illegal late-term abortions, and dispensing drugs without a license.

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