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From Abortion to Botox

Former Abortionist Opens Cosmetic Medicine Clinic in San Diego

BY BETTY MILLER

It is February 9,1982. The little boy's body twisted on its side, lies on the slab in the Los Angeles Coroner's office. The inhumanity committed against this child is so heinous that even the most calloused person wants to turn away. The baby had squeezed his eyes shut in permanent agony from torture. The boy's legs, which had been sliced off prior to death, are now positioned next to the torso. The coroner weighs the baby boy and determines the weight to be two pounds and the age to be between 27 and 29 weeks gestation -- about seven months of pregnancy. Then the Coroner gives the child the only identity he will ever have -- Coroner Case No. 82-1901-1. This is but one baby amongst about 14,000 whose bodies were found dumped into a shipping container and later discovered by employees of the shipping company.

Records from the pathology report state that the boy was killed by abortionist, Scott Ricke, M.D., who was working for Morton Barke, M.D. at the infamous Inglewood Women's Hospital in the 1980s. After the deaths of at least six mothers, the California Department of Health revoked their license and the place was sold to mega-abortionist, Edward Allred.

Ricke went to Arizona to open his own abortion business in Tucson. The Arizona Medical Board then disciplined Ricke for two incidents of sexual abuse with female patients, three incidents of gross malpractice and practicing medicine without a license. The board took action against Ricke when he killed a 2.4 pound unborn child and jeopardized the mother by failing to minimize risks. Records state that when the baby's head became lodged during the abortion, Ricke asked the mother if she wanted him to just crush the head. The mother cried out for pain relief, but Ricke said he had no medication. It took him three hours to decapitate the baby because he was intermittently doing abortions on other women. Finally, he had the woman driven in an employee's car to a hospital with the baby's head wrapped in a towel.

In May 1987, Ricke had sexual intercourse with a patient four days after aborting her unborn child, even though his own orders stated no intercourse for one week. Then in November 1987 Ricke allegedly had sex with a patient right before committing an abortion on her preborn child. In 1987 the Arizona Board of Medical Examiners suspended Ricke's physician license and placed him on probation. In 1988, two analysts recommended that Ricke undergo extensive therapy for his drug and alcohol problem. Ricke was also investigated by police when human remains of unborn babies were found in a trash receptacle by an apartment complex.

Ricke then opened a weight loss business and in 1996 was disciplined by Arizona authorities for prescribing drugs without being registered as a dispensing physician.

In July 2001, Scott Ricke, M.D. returned to California and is now doing business at the Institute for Aesthetic Medicine at 9339 Genesee Avenue in San Diego near La Jolla. His website, aestheticmed.com, advertizes Botox injections for $109 and states that the Medical Director (Scott Ricke) "has over 25 years experience in the area of helping women look and feel beautiful." Ricke states that they "specialize in non-surgical cosmetic treatments."

When asked if he now repudiates abortion and his career as an abortionist, Ricke replied, "I have no regrets. I am pro-choice."

According to the California Medical Board, Scott Ricke, M.D. is on probation until October 11, 2006 and that he is required to have "a third party present while examining or treating female patients," and "shall completely abstain from alcoholic beverages."

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