Late-Term Abortion Business in California Shuts Down

by Steven Ertelt
11/17/11

The late-term abortion business in southern California founded by the abortion practitioner who invented the partial-birth abortion procedure has closed down for good.

The California Catholic newspaper first reported on the shuttering of the Eve Surgical Center in Los Angeles, which has a message on its answering machine saying the abortion business, which first opened in the 1980s, is now closed. James McMahon, who once boasted that he developed the partial-birth abortion procedure, first ran the abortion facility, though he quickly came under heat from the California Medical Board, which repeatedly accused him of putting the health of women at risk. the rest