Then there is Timothy Liveright, who was recently declared a “clear and immediate danger to the public” by the Delaware Board of Medicine. Two of his former nurses had contacted Delaware authorities repeatedly over several months, seeking to report the “absolute nightmare” occurring at his Planned Parenthood clinic in Wilmington. They testified in late May before the Delaware state senate, claiming that the clinic was unsanitary and unsafe, that he had struck a patient, and that he had left sedated patients unattended; some of them “were found outside walking down Market Street dazed and confused.” Delaware’s Division of Public Health found his clinic in violation of 14 state health regulations.

And there is the notorious Eastern-seaboard abortion tag team, Steven Chase Brigham and Nicola Irene Riley. After Riley perforated a patient’s uterus and pulled out part of her bowels at a secret late-term-abortion clinic in Elkton, Md., investigators raided the clandestine facility. They found the frozen remains of 35 late-term aborted babies. The pair were arrested on murder charges, but the charges were dropped because it could not be proved whether the children were killed in Maryland or in Voorhees, N.J., where Brigham would induce labor, then caravan the women — in mid-labor — to Maryland, where Riley would help finish the procedure under Maryland’s laxer abortion laws. Riley’s license has been revoked by the Maryland Board of Physicians, but Brigham’s cannot be — because he was never licensed to practice there to begin with.