by Billy Atwell
After four previous criminal convictions and suspensions of his medical license, James Pendergraft, a Flordia abortionist who owns five abortion clinics, will keep his license even after being found guilty of two more charges. He will serve a one-year suspension for distributing drugs to an employee and for allowing her to give narcotics to a patient. When his suspension expires next year, he will serve three years of probation.
Pendergraft is a career criminal who has even served time in prison. Regardless of his malfeasance, the Florida Board of Medicine determined that he is fit to help women make the consequential decision as to whether or not they should keep their baby. With his criminal past in drug distribution, performing of late-term abortions, killing babies born babies, and lying under oath, does anyone believe he is fit to counsel others on medical ethics?
There’s another question at hand here that needs consideration: should he be allowed to keep his five businesses?
The skills necessary to be a doctor are the foundation of the skills needed to supervise other doctors. If Pendergraft is not able to keep his personal actions compliant with the Florida Board of Medicine’s code of conduct or that of state and federal law, then why should we think he is qualified to run a medical practice where he supervises other abortionists? Pendergraft has demonstrated that he is personally incapable of staying complaint with basic laws (like don’t hand out drugs like Chiclets or kill babies in the third trimester), so what faith do we have in his management of these regulations within his businesses?
What do you think? Should Pendergraft be allowed to keep his license OR his businesses?
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Billy Atwell contributes to Catholic Online, and blogs for The Point and the Manhattan Declaration. From the perspective of a two-time cancer survivor he encourages those afflicted with pain and struggling with faith. You can find all of his writings at For the Greater Glory.