FLINT, MI, March 31, 2015 (LifeSiteNews.com) — Tens of thousands of patient records from the former Flint, Michigan abortion facility belonging to notorious abortionist Abraham Alberto Hodari were discovered March 15 unsecured and easily accessible in the run-down site. Discarded syringes still containing needles were also found on the floor of the defunct “Feminine Health Care Clinic.”
An anonymous tip provided to the Pro-Life Detroit group led to the discovery, a statement from Citizens for a Pro-Life Society said.
“This is truly an outrage,” Citizens for a Pro-Life Society’s Monica Migliorino Miller said. “Hodari is responsible for the proper maintenance and security of that building, especially since he decided to use it as storage of medical files.”
Pro-Life Detroit’s Lynn Mills said this was yet another example of the harm done by the lack of oversight of abortion facilities.
“Where is the government oversight on this?” Mills asked. “And why are their laws not being enforced?”
It’s not the first time Hodari has been linked to improper care of personal medical records or medical waste.
The remains of aborted children have been found in a dumpster behind one of his abortion mills and he was sentenced to probation in February 2009 for illegally dumping abortion records.
Two of his facilities were investigated by the state for dumping the bodies of aborted children outside of the buildings, and in 2008 six clinics were found to be “disposing of biohazard waste and patient records simply by dumping them in common trash receptacles.”
This latest case draws the spotlight once again to Hodari’s sordid record.
The Michigan Board of Medicine denied Hodari’s application for relicensure in 2014, specifying an absence of “good moral character.” In doing so, the Board struck a contrast to Hodari, stating that Michigan licensees must exhibit the inclination to serve the public “in a fair, honest and open manner.”
Hodari had let his license expire the preceding year and sold his abortion facilities, which had numbered for a time as many as six.
At least four women have died at his abortion mills. One of them was a 15-year-old girl whose pregnancy was the result of statutory rape, which Hodari did not report. He was fined $10,000 in 2009 for the 2003 death of one of his patients.
Numerous other women have reported the same experience in Hodari’s abortion mills.
He was accused in 2009 of tricking a 16-year-old girl into an abortion in 1988 by faking a prenatal exam, and then forcing an abortion on her against her wishes, before returning her to the adult man who had been sexually abusing her, and leaving the statutory rape unreported.
Hodari told medical students at Wayne University in 2007 that doctors have a license to lie.
Pro-life group Operation Rescue has reported that Hodari has been sued more than 50 times, often with case results sealed.
Hodari remains unlicensed to practice as a physician, according to the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs.
Mills and Migliorino Miller documented the findings for Flint police March 15 and later notified the Genesee County Sheriff between March 23 and 24. The pro-life advocates also attempted to speak with Genesee County Attorney’s office to discuss possible criminal violations in the case.
They had found several avenues by which the clinic was open or accessible, including an unlocked door. Stacks of boxes with files marked “charts” and “records,” many also marked with abbreviated names of Hodari’s various abortion facility locations, were visible from the outside of the building, and folders with patient names were visible as well.
Michigan state law states, “Records shall be maintained in such a manner to ensure their confidentiality and proper use and to ensure their accessibility and availability to each patient or his or her authorized representative.”
Patient records were also strewn on the floor amidst trash, along with piles of syringes.
When Mills and Migliorino Miller returned to Hodari’s former abortion facility March 23 and 24 to meet with authorities, they observed that the files marked identifiably with Hodari had been removed from the facility. Hundreds of records remained, however, as did the syringes and needles.
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The property changed hands in the afternoon of March 27, according to ABC, and the new owners said Hodari had arranged to have 573 boxes removed from the building.
“Anyone looking at the sorry condition of Hodari’s Flint abortion facility can see immediately that this building has been sorely neglected,” Migliorino Miller said. “This abortionist allowed his former clinic to degrade to such an extent that anyone could easily go in and out of that building while stacks and piles of medical records of women who have had abortions are exposed and accessible.”
“This isn't the first time medical records and patient files have been found, but it should be the last,” Mills said. “Patients have the expectation of privacy when they go to any doctor, even an abortion doctor.”
The women said the Flint police had assured them a detective would be sent to the run-down former abortion mill to investigate potential violations of law.
The sign on the property is still there, Migliorino Miller pointed out, saying “Dedicated to Upholding the Dignity of Women.”
“The dignity of women cannot be upheld,” she said, “if their private medical records are left vulnerable to any vagrant going in and out of that abandoned building.”
Mills said the improper handling of the women’s personal records adds to the injury caused by abortion.
“These woman were victimized in their abortion,” she said, “and again now because of this careless record keeping.”
Hodari would be liable for $10,000 in fines if he were to be found to have not destroyed or stored medical records properly.