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March 2004 ARTICLES
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by Jim Holman.
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He'll Make You Feel Beautiful
Infamous Abortionist Returns to Southern California
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 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 huge land to sea shipping container and later discovered by employees of the shipping company.
At first, the coroner thinks the baby might be a victim of abortionist, Dr. Gordon Goei; but records from the pathology report state that this boy was killed by another abortionist, Dr. Scott Ricke, who was working for Dr. Morton Barke at an abortion clinic, the Inglewood Women's Hospital, in the 1980's. After deaths to at least six mothers, the California department of health revoked Ricke's and Barke's licenses, and the place was sold to abortionist, Edward Allred. Scott 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 and for 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. When the baby's head became lodged during the dismemberment and extraction (D and E) abortion, Ricke asked the mother if she wanted him to just crush the child's head. In the D and E procedure, the abortionist uses a sharp curette to dismember legs and arms and chest in order to pull the body pieces out. The head comes last and is usually crushed. 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 performing an abortion on her pre-born child. In 1987 the Arizona Board of Medical Examiners suspended Ricke's physician's license for three and a half months and placed him on five years' probation for "unprofessional conduct, failure to properly examine and diagnose a patient, employment of an unlicensed individual in the capacity of a nurse, and sexual intimacy with a patient."
The board of medical examiners ordered Ricke to take a psychiatric examination and to remedy deficiencies in his practice, including documentation in medical records. He was also to employ a registered nurse, conduct appropriate lab tests and blood work, develop an emergency plan, and limit his abortions. In December 1987 he voluntarily entered an in-patient alcoholism treatment program. 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, Ricke returned to California and is now doing business as the Institute for Aesthetic Medicine at 9339 Genesee Avenue in San Diego, near La Jolla. His website (aestheticmed.com/institute.php) in February advertised a $109 special on Botox injections (to remove wrinkles) 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." He graduated in 1974 from medical school, making him about 55 years old.
Speaking to Ricke in January, I asked him 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, Ricke is on probation until October 11, 2006, is required to have "a third party present while examining or treating female patients," and "shall completely abstain from alcoholic beverages."