This is a recent picture of the front of West Alabama Women’s Center, Tuscaloosa’s abortion business. Notice the signs that say, “Bring only Love”.
The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines “Love” as a “Strong affection for another arising out of kinship or personal ties. Example: Maternal love for a child.”
It is our prayer that God will use these signs to prick the conscience of all the women going in there for an abortion. Join with us to pray that these signs will serve as a reminder to these women that to give their child LIFE is to show real LOVE.
A bloody abortion cannula was improperly discarded by the West Alabama Women’s Center. It contains a bit of flesh, likely from an aborted baby.
(Operation Rescue) When Fr. Terry Gensemer and his wife returned to their Birmingham, Alabama, home one evening earlier this month, they discovered mysterious back trash bags left anonymously on their property. Curious, they inspected the contents of the bags and were shocked by their grisly discovery.Inside were documents and bloody refuse from the West Alabama Women’s Center, (WAWC), an abortion facility in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Included were suction abortion cannulas that contained blood. One had a bit of what appeared to be human tissue.
Documents included patient names, remittance receipts from credit cards used to pay for abortions, and ultrasound images of babies inside their mothers’ wombs with the name of the abortion facility clearly printed at the top.
The items represented obvious violations of state and federal laws, including the illegal dumping of infectious medical waste and privacy violations under HIPAA.
Life Legal Defense Foundation was notified and has filed complaints on behalf of Fr. Gensemer, Director of the pro-life organization CEC for Life, and several other pro-life groups and individuals, including Operation Rescue.
The complaints against the WAWC went to the following governmental officials and agencies:
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall,
Alabama Lt. Governor Will Ainsworth,
Alabama Department of Environmental Management.
Click here to read letter to the Steve Marshall Attorney General of Alabama.
The West Alabama Women’s Center has been fraught with problems and tragedy since it was purchased by the Yellowhammer Foundation in the spring of 2020. The same week the new management took over, April Lowery, died from internal injuries received during a botched abortion by Louis Payne. Soon after, Payne was forced to surrender his medical license.
Sad discovery: This ultrasound image of a baby in the womb was one of many found in trash bags discarded by the West Alabama Women’s Center, It is likely the baby was aborted. This represents a violation of HIPAA privacy laws since the woman’s name was printed on the image. (Redacted by Operation Rescue.)
Seven months after Lowery’s death, another woman suffered similar life-threatening injuries during an abortion she barely survived. The woman, going under the pseudonym “Jane Stone,” sued the WAWC and abortionist Tamer Middleton for her life-altering injuries and for ignoring her pleas for an ambulance as her condition deteriorated.
The WAWC hired abortionist Leah Torres as the facility’s medical director soon after Stone’s botched abortion. But Torres’ temporary Alabama medical license was suspended by the Alabama Department of Public Health after it discovered she had committed fraud by repeatedly lying on her license application. Torres has since been granted a permanent medical license and has resumed abortions.
It was Torres that admitted to Department of Health inspectors last December that she was using rusty medical instruments and other unsanitary surgical supplies during abortions, and that clinic workers often did not change gloves or wash hands in accordance with CDC protocols. The WAWC was cited for nearly identical violations in 2020, as well.
(CEC For Life) West Alabama’s Women’s Center in Tuscaloosa seems dedicated to endangering patients.
Last week, a coalition of national pro-life organizations, including CEC For Life, Life Legal Defense Foundation and Operation Rescue, sent newfound evidence of shocking HIPAA and medical waste violations to state officials: Lt. Governor Ainsworth, Attorney General Marshall and the Alabama Department of Environmental Management (ADEM).
Fr. Terry Gensemer recently found large black garbage bags left anonymously in the driveway of his Birmingham residence. When opened, he found ghastly medical waste — surgical pads soiled in blood and fluids, tubes also containing fluids, and one tube that contained what appeared to be a small piece of human tissue. There was also paperwork which included patient names and private information, ultrasound photos, and the header “West Alabama Women’s Center.”
(CEC For Life) Yet another alarming discovery was made last week regarding the West Alabama Women’s Center in Tuscaloosa — the highest performing abortion clinic in Alabama.
Recently, Fr. Terry Gensemer and his wife Patti came home to find large black garbage bags left anonymously in their driveway.
When opened, their hearts broke. They found surgical pads soiled in blood and fluids, tubes also containing fluids, and one tube that contained what appeared to be a small piece of human tissue. There was also paperwork which included patient names and information, ultrasound photos, and the header “West Alabama Women’s Center.” It was clear that however this medical waste and information ended up in Birmingham, it originated from the West Alabama Women’s Center in Tuscaloosa and had not been properly discarded. Names and dates of birth, photos of patient’s children in the womb, and unsafe bodily fluids had been left somewhere that HIPAA laws clearly do not permit.
It is illegal to tear apart, or chemically kill, an out-of-the-womb child or an adult. Why is it ok to do this to an unborn child?
How does traveling a few inches down a birth canal make a baby more “human”? A baby is fully human in the womb, as much as out, and is deserving of full protection no matter their size or location.
We are working hard to see that West Alabama Women’s Center, Tuscaloosa’s killing business, is shut down and the killing of women AND children stopped!
Pray for an end to abortion in Tuscaloosa & all over Alabama!
This is the last known photo taken of April Lowery. It shows her leaving the West Alabama Women’s Center in Tuscaloosa after an abortion on May 7, 2020. Hours later, she would be dead from a perforated uterus and other internal injuries.
(Operation Rescue) For the second time in a row, an Alabama abortion facility that was responsible for the death of one woman and horrific injuries to another, has failed a licensing inspection that included citations for conducting abortions with rusty, unsanitary surgical equipment.
The West Alabama Women’s Center, located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, was inspected by the Alabama Department of Public Health on December 14, 2021, during which it was cited for the following:
Failure to render patient care in accordance with all applicable laws.
Failure to discard rusty and damaged surgical instruments.
Failure to properly clean and sterilize surgical instruments.
Failure to properly test and maintain autoclaves where surgical instruments are sterilized.
Failure to follow CDC handwashing guidelines.
The six-page deficiency report was signed by the WAWC’s new Operations Director, Robin Marty, whose background is in communications and not in any area of medicine or medical facility oversight.
Also referenced in the report was abortionist Leah Torres, who serves as the abortion facility’s medical director. The ADPH suspended Torres’ temporary medical license in August 2020 for committing fraud by lying on her license application and was ordered to cease and desist the practice of medicine. Torres was finally issued a permanent Alabama medical license on March 24, 2021, after which she resumed her position as medical director, which includes conducting abortions.
Page six of the 2021 deficiency report notes that Torres was interviewed by the health inspector and confirmed the conditions for which the facility was cited and agreed they should be corrected. However, this shows that Torres had to know that she was using rusty, unsanitary instruments on women during abortions – and probably had been for months.
“It is sickening to learn that the West Alabama Women’s Center, which has been fraught with serious health and safety issues in the past several months, would intentionally continue to engage in practices we might have expected to find in a back-alley abortion mill. These people are either incapable of complying with basic health rules due to incompetence or they just don’t care if they comply. That attitude puts women at risk of harm from their shoddy practices every day they are open.”
The State of Alabama has passed a resolution calling for private citizens to lower their flags on January 22, the anniversary of legalized killing of babies in the US, in honor and remembrance of the over 65 MILLION children who have lost their lives to abortion in the United States since 1973.
January 22, 2022 marks the 49th year since babies have “legally” been killed by abortion. How about this Sunday you do one thing to draw attention to this at your church?
If possible, talk to your pastors, elders, teaches ahead of time and make sure every realizes that over 65 MILLION babies have been killed since 1973. This is like wiping out the ENTIRE STATES of California & Florida! If you need ideas of how your church can get involved, go to lovelife.org for more information. If the church won’t take a stand for LIFE, then who will?
And, if you happen to be in the McCalla, AL area, please consider attending the “Life Rally” at Oasis of Praise Church in McCalla, Jan. 23 at 4 p.m. (oasisofpraise.org).
THIS SATURDAY, JANUARY 8TH AT 10:00 AM – Citizens and National Pro-Life Organizations Call on the ADPH to Shut Down Tuscaloosa Abortion Clinic Immediately.
On Saturday, January 8th at 10:00 AM, the Alabama-based organization CEC For Life, along with other national pro-life groups Life Legal Defense Foundation and Operation Rescue, will hold a press conference in front of Tuscaloosa’s West Alabama Women’s Center, located at 535 Jack Warner Parkway. The same abortion clinic recently sued for letting a patient nearly bleed to death after a botched abortion.
Last month, under the pseudonym of Jane Stone, a woman filed suit against WAWC for an abortion that took place on December 28, 2020.
The lawsuit alleges that Dr. Tamer Middleton’s medical mistakes resulted in a lacerated cervix, perforated uterus, and other life-threatening injuries that caused Stone to hemorrhage internally. In the hours that followed, Stone alleges she was left to bleed in a recovery chair, despite loss of consciousness and pleas to call an ambulance. According to the complaint, an ambulance was only called when staff could no longer detect Stone’s pulse. Once at the ER, an emergency hysterectomy was the only way to save her.
Abortionist Tamer Middleton, who is being sued by “Jane Stone” for causing her life-threatening injuries during a terribly botched abortion at the West Alabama Women’s Center last year.
These harrowing events took place just seven months after another patient, April Lowery, died of similar injuries from a botched abortion. At that time, pro-life citizens repeatedly implored the Alabama Department of Public Health to investigate the death and revoke the clinic’s license, especially as it had just come under a new owner with no prior experience running a medical clinic.
ADPH largely ignored these requests, taking little to no action. And, though the Alabama Board of Medical Examiners did launch an investigation into the abortionist Louis Payne — who suddenly surrendered his license thereafter — the clinic itself escaped any blame or consequences.
Now, a second woman has sustained similar injuries, despite hiring a different abortionist, which should raise concerns regarding how the clinic itself operates. In fact, just a few months before Jane Stone’s injuries, the newly hired medical director was suspended by the Board due to fraud and unprofessional conduct. At the time of Stone’s abortion, the director’s medical license was invalid.
Fr. Terry Gensemer of CEC For Life states, “Once again, our coalition has helped organize complaints with ADPH and the Board of Medical Examiners and are awaiting their responses. We wonder how many women WAWC has to maim or kill before ADPH acknowledges the danger to Alabama citizens. ADPH has the ability, the authority and obligation to hold this clinic accountable for its detrimental actions — today.”
Cheryl Sullenger of Operation Rescue adds, ”The WAWC staff has displayed a shocking disregard for the law and for the lives of women. Their willingness to lie to regulators and engage in conduct that has killed and maimed women should be ample reason to shut this dangerous abortion facility down.”
“It is absolutely deplorable that the ADPH has turned a blind eye to the illegal business practices of the West Alabama Women’s Center,” states Allison K. Aranda, Sr. Staff Counsel for the Life Legal Defense Foundation. “The ADPH must shut down the WAWC now!”
Contact: Fr. Terry Gensemer, Charismatic Episcopal Church for Life, 205.253.0159
(Operation Rescue) An Alabama woman has filed a medical malpractice suit against the West Alabama Women’s Center (WAWC) abortion facility in Tuscaloosa and one of its abortionists, Tamer Middleton, after she endured a near-fatal botched second trimester abortion last December.
Her complaint detailed her injuries that bear similarities to those that resulted in the death of WAWC patient April Lowery in May 2020.
The plaintiff filed her suit on November 11, 2021, under the pseudonym Jane Stone. Her true name is sealed under a protective order.
Jane Stone was lucky to survive her ordeal, which included being misled about the abortion process and its potential complications, forced dilation of an inadequately prepared cervix that resulted in cervical lacerations and perforation, uterine perforation, sliced broad uterine ligament and arteries, massive internal hemorrhaging, and a refusal of WAWC staff to heed her pleas for an ambulance to transport her to the hospital until she lost consciousness.
