West Virginia Legislator Calls for Disciplinary Action Against Anti-Choice Doctor

[MinneapolisMatt]

A West Virginia legislator has filed a complaint against Dr. Byron Calhoun, a well-known anti-choice activist who has made unfounded claims about injuries relating to abortion in that state.

State Delegate Nancy Peoples Guthrie (D-Kanawha) filed the complaint with the West Virginia Board of Medicine, the agency charged with disciplining medical doctors licensed to practice in the Mountain State.

“In light of Dr. Byron Calhoun’s alarming claim that he sees “botched abortions” on a weekly basis … and given that the West Virginia Board of Medicine has no record of any claims in reference to any hospital visits regarding alleged injuries stemming from abortions, it is my opinion that he is in breach of at least two codes of conduct,” Guthrie wrote in her complaint.

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“As professor and Vice-Chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at West Virginia University at the Charleston Area Medical Center, Dr. Calhoun must be aware that reports of incompetence or substandard care should be made to the appropriate clinical authority to assess the potential impact on patient welfare,” she wrote.

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[liberalhistorian]

1. If the good idiot doctor wants to see

botched abortions, he should either go to a country where abortion is illegal, buy a time machine to go back to the pre-Roe v. Wade days in this country, or wait until it's made illegal again here in this country. Then the lying idiot will REALLY see botched abortions, and the women's deaths that too often result from them, far more than he'd ever want to see.

I love people who think that if you make abortion illegal that there will be no more abortions, or who think that they're not safe now. They need to get back on Planet Reality.

[BrotherIvan]

4. What you said!

I always get so worked up over these liars in the name of gawd, I was going to rant about it here. But you said it perfectly. Though I fear they've left the solar system of Planet Reality quite a long time ago.

[idwiyo]

2. k&r

[mercuryblues]

3. I love it

he is basically guilty for lying about women's health issues or guilty of breaking the law and not reporting the problem. Either way the guy is in some hot water. . As a professor and Vice chair of the OBGYN dept, he has some explaining to do. I hope this gets followed through