Pro-Choice Violence and Illegal Activities in Mississippi

Gulfport Jackson Gulfport, Mississippi

Assault, Bankruptcy Fraud, Falsification of Medical Records (12 incidents), Improper Disposal of Medical Waste and Income Tax Evasion Abortionist Joseph Booker Jr. was charged with simple assault after brandishing a handgun at women and children protesting outside the New Woman Medical Center abortion mill in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The judge dismissed charges due to discrepancies in witness' description of the weapon and lack of corroborating witnesses. The abortionist, the former operator of an abortion mill in Gulfport, admitted to filing a false income tax return in 1995 for the Gulf Coast Women's Clinic Inc. Booker claimed that his abortion mill's taxable income in calendar year 1994 was $2,350, but the actual income was $93,500.68, according to the indictment. He failed to pay over $30,000 in taxes. In November 1999, he was sentenced to five months in prison for filing a false personal Federal income tax return. Booker reported $29,000 in taxable income for 1994 year when he really made $121,000. He told the court that he didn't realize the discrepancy when he signed the tax return, which was prepared by a Jackson accounting firm. He told the judge he would lose his job at an abortion mill. "If I don't have a job, I won't be able to pay," whined Booker.

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Abortionist Joseph Booker tax dodger. On December 20, 1999, near Ocean Springs, police found a buried cooler containing plastic bags and aborted children. The cooler had originally belonged to Booker. Ocean Springs Police Chief Kerry Belk said several law enforcement agencies, including the Environmental Protection Agency, had investigated and never determined that a crime was committed. After he finished his prison term, Booker immediately went back to committing abortions at the New Woman Medical Center abortuary in Jackson. Gail Chadwick of Pro-Choice of Mississippi said Booker should be allowed to resume practicing medicine because the tax charge was unrelated to his performance as a doctor. Booker was as bad at keeping abortion mill records as he was at paying taxes. Affidavits from several of his former employees include statements that he routinely falsified medical records, destroyed clinic appointment books and sign-in sheets, and accepted only cash or money orders from patients. Dana Hogan stated that As a result of the Health Department's first inspection, Dr. Booker instructed me not to classify the patients as abortion or gynecology when they made appointments. He stated that he was concerned that the Health Department would classify the Clinic as an abortion facility. He said that he would not report to the Health Department all the abortions actually performed so that the Clinic would not be so classified. In another affidavit, Amy states that "Dr. Booker routinely reported less than 50% of the abortions performed at the clinic to the Mississippi Health Department, Office of Vital Statistics." References: Jackson Clarion-Ledger, March 21, 1994; "Mississippi: Abortion Practitioner Pleads Guilty to Tax Evasion Charges." Pro-Life Infonet, July 14, 1999; "Former Mississippi Abortion Practitioner Sentenced for Tax Fraud." Pro-Life Infonet, November 10, 1999; National Legal Center for the Medically Dependent & Disabled, transcripts excerpted from 1999 issues of Law & Medicine; Report of Peter R. Uhlenberg, Ph.D, March 22, 1999, filed in Civil Action No. 6-94-374-W4, State of Mississippi; Biloxi Sun-Herald, July 13 and November 10, 1999; and "Mississippi: Imprisonment of Abortion Practitioner May Further Decrease Abortion Rate." Pro-Life Infonet, December 14, 1999; Associated Press, October 16, 2000; "Tax-Evading Abortionist Back at Work in Mississippi." Pro-Life Infonet, October 17, 2000.

Jackson, Mississippi

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Manslaughter, Gross Negligence and Gross Malpractice (4 incidents) In April 1998, abortionist Malachi DeHenre, the primary abortionist at the New Woman Medical Center abortion mill in Jackson, Mississippi, murdered his wife, Mysha Rose DeHenre, who worked with him, by shooting her once in the head with a handgun. DeHenre, who had lost his license to practice medicine in New York, Alabama and Mississippi due to bungled abortions, pleaded not guilty at his first trial in 2002, and the jury's deliberations ended in a mistrial. The prosecution retried DeHenre in 2008 based on new evidence. On January 31, 2008, a Jones County Circuit Court jury unanimously convicted DeHenre of manslaughter after deliberating for just 45 minutes. Prosecutor Ronald Parrish called DeHenre "despicable" because of the shooting and the numerous botched abortions and accusations from women that he raped them before doing abortions. Parrish said that "He has committed innumerable crimes that he hasn't been convicted for. Of course, we were only concerned about one today."

Abortionist Malachi DeHenre Convicted wife murderer In October 2007, a Jones County jury acquitted DeHenre of the rape of a female patient in March 1992. Earlier, on March 20, 2003, DeHenre, working at the New Woman Medical Center abortion mill in Jackson, Mississippi, botched an abortion so badly that his patient began to bleed uncontrollably and had to be transferred to the University of Mississippi Medical Center, where she had to have a total hysterectomy. On November 25, 2003, the abortionist, working at the Summit Medical Center abortion mill in Birmingham, Alabama, discharged Leigh Ann Stephens Alford only 20 minutes after he had aborted her. Six hours later, Leigh Ann's husband contacted the abortuary and reported that his wife had abdominal pain and a low temperature. She was rushed by ambulance to a Birmingham hospital, where she died of an unrecognized uterine perforation suffered during the abortion. In August 2004, the Alabama State Board of Medical Examiners concluded that DeHenre, 53, practiced medicine in a way as to "endanger the health of patients," and that he committed "repeated

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malpractice." It also said that his actions in several cases were "immoral, unprofessional or dishonorable." The Board revoked his license to practice medicine. In two of the four cases cited by the Board, DeHenre instructed paramedics to wait at the rear entrance of his abortion mill for the women he had butchered. As always, when punished for their deadly and careless actions, pro-abortionists (and especially the rich abortionists) whine that they are victims, and that pro-lifers are the ones to blame. In an interview with the Associated Press after the board's decision, DeHenre said that "I don't know what is immoral in doing what is legal in the country." He said that abortion has become "politically charged," and blamed pro-lifers for wanting to overturn Roe v. Wade. DeHenre said that he had committed more than 35,000 abortions since the late 1990s. He also whined that I found work in Jackson, and it happened to be an abortion clinic in which an obstetrician was needed. I needed money to pay expenses and education for my children. It was supposed to be temporary, but it turned out to be longer. I was in a position I didn't want to be in, but I needed work. ... I ask your forgiveness. I don't want to be an outcast. I want to be among the medical community. References: Tony Gosgnach. "Cases Reveal a Path of Destruction Through Women, Children, and Society." The Interim, September 1998; Andy Kanengiser. "Abortion Death Cited in Action Against Doctor." The Clarion-Ledger [Jackson, Mississippi], August 14, 2004; Andy Kanengiser."Miss. Suspends Abortion Doc Eyed in Ala. Death." The Clarion-Ledger [Jackson, Mississippi], August 20, 2004; "Mississippi Abortionist's Medical License Suspended for Malpractice: Charged with Wrongful Death of Abortion Victim in Alabama." LifeSite Daily News, August 20, 2004; John Fuquay. "Ala. Suspends Indefinitely Miss. Abortion Doctor." The Clarion-Ledger, December 18, 2004; Steven Ertelt. "Abortion Practitioner Loses Medical License, Won't Perform Abortions Again." LifeNews, December 20, 2004; Steven Ertelt. "Abortion Practitioner Malachy DeHenre's Trial on Murder Charge Continues." LifeNews, January 30, 2008; Steven Ertelt. "Former Abortion Practitioner DeHenre Found Guilty of Killing His Wife." LifeNews, January 31, 2008. Kidnapping, Child Rape, Production of Child Pornography (3 incidents), Possession of Child Pornography, Conspiracy to Produce Child Pornography and Making False Official Statements Abortionist Milan D. Chepko, who killed preborn children at the amusingly-named New Woman Medical Center, is an example of a good upstanding infantilist. "What on Earth," you may ask, "is an infantilist?" Chepko was arrested and charged in Federal court with forcing minors to engage in "kiddie porn" movies, producing the movies, conspiracy with others to produce the movies, and shipping them across state lines. The movies involved children of four years of age in many cases being sodomized by adults, having sex with adult men and women, and also depicted oral sex between men and very young boys. According to an affidavit filed in Federal court, Chepko's van contained evidence that he and his correspondents "... are members or supporters of the National and International Diaper Pail Foundation, in which the members are infantilists who enjoy wearing diapers, defecating in the diapers, and smearing the defecation on the body while masturbating. They are also interested in the defecation of small children." As comedian Dave Barry often says, I swear I am not making any of this up. The charges against the abortionist included inducing or coercing a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing movies, knowingly shipping the movies across state lines, and using a false name or making a false statement to a U.S. agency.

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Federal authorities found child pornography in Chepko's house, including videos with titles like "Diaper Dump." An FBI affidavit also states that Chepko admitted to mailing and receiving through the mail child pornography. The tapes contained scenes with children as young as four years old in sexual conduct with adult males and females. One incident allegedly involved children and adults engaged in sodomy. Chepko was also fined for taping FBI telephone conversations in the investigation of the disappearance of a Jackson, Mississippi woman. The abortionist's medical license was revoked in Georgia in 1990, in Mississippi in 1991, in North Carolina and New Jersey in 1992. His medical license was permanently revoked at the Federal level on January 17, 1991. Reference: Mississippi Board of Medical Licensure vs. Milan Chepko; Jackson Herald, September 30, 1989; Associated Press, September 30 and October 3, 1989; Clarion-Ledger, September 30 and October 3 and 19, 1989; "Just a Coincidence?" Focus on the Family Citizen, February 1990, page 5; Paul Likoudis. "Investigators Cast a Wide Net To Find Abortionist's Murderer." The Wanderer, December 10, 1998, pages 1 and 10. Rape, Carnal Knowledge of a Child Under 14 Years of Age, Accessory to Statutory Rape, Destruction of Evidence and Obstruction of Justice This is another example of the dozens of cases described in this database where child molesters find that abortion is their best friend. It allows them to erase the physical evidence of their crimes and continue to molest their victims. Abortion mills almost never report such molestation. In fact, prochoice groups routinely battle any attempt to make abortion clinics mandatory reporters so that they would be required to report such molestation. Xavier Sherron was raping his twelve-year-old daughter and, in 2002, she became pregnant. His wife, Charlotte Sherron, took their daughter to the Womens Clinic abortion mill in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, to have her preborn grandchild killed, and, of course, nobody there asked any questions, but instead just erased the evidence against her husband. She was charged with obstruction of justice and, in 2004, was sentenced to three years in prison and two years of post-release supervision. Xavier Sherron was convicted of statutory rape and was sentenced to 27 years in prison without the possibility of parole. Charlotte Sherron appealed the sentence of the lower court to the Mississippi Supreme Court on the grounds that she had given parental consent for the abortion, but in 2006 the Mississippi Court of Appeals unanimously upheld her conviction. Appeals Court Judge Larry Roberts wrote that "In this case, Sherrons conviction did not restrict her daughters right to an abortion, it established a restriction on Sherrons right to conceal the fact that her husband committed statutory rape of her own daughter." References: In the Court of Appeals for the State of Mississippi, No. 2004-KA-01668-COA, Charlotte Sherron, Appellant v. State of Mississippi, Appellee; Steven Ertelt. Mississippi Court Rules against Mother Using Abortion to Cover Up Incest. LifeNews.com, July 3, 2007. Attempted Forced Abortion Pro-abortionists laugh when pro-lifers claim they see parents dragging their daughters into their abortion mills.

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But such coercion is not at all uncommon. In March 2003, a pregnant 16-year-old called "A.S." for purposes of anonymity contacted the American Family Association's Center for Law and Policy in Tupelo and said that her parents were trying to force her to have an abortion. The AFA attorneys had to go to court, and on March 28, 2003, the day before she was scheduled to have an abortion at the Jackson Women's Health Organization, Judge William H. Barbour issued a temporary restraining order to halt the procedure. Barbour's order said Forcing A.S. to have an abortion against her will would violate her constitutional right to privacy and bodily integrity and cause irreparable harm. There are no medical complications to plaintiff's pregnancy that would require an abortion for health reasons. Nor is there any evidence before the Court to indicate that plaintiff lacks maturity or is otherwise unable to make an informed decision on her own behalf, especially one of the magnitude at issue in this case. Reference: "Court Halts Teen Abortion." WLBT Television 3 [Jackson, Mississippi], April 2, 2003; "Court Halts U.S. Forced Abortion." LifeSite Daily News, April 2, 2003; Jackson Clarion-Ledger, April 3, 2003; "Judge to Decide Monday if Parents Can Force Teen to Abort." Pro-Life Infonet, April 4, 2003.

End of Mississippi Listing

(updated May 30, 2011)

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