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He Said He Was Christian

A Less Than Devout Abortionist

BY MARIA ELENA KENNEDY

"He said he used to deliver babies," the young woman told me in a telephone interview. She was referring to Malverse Martin with whom she had had a long discussion about his line of work. Martin is an abortionist.

The young woman, who did not want to be identified, said she had called Martin to ask him why he performed abortions. "I asked him how was it to go from delivering babies to killing babies." The young mother of three spent two hours talking to Martin, asking him pointed questions about how he went from being a doctor working with pre-born children to an abortionist killing babies for a living. Ironically this interview occurred during Holy Week of 2004 when Mel Gibson's blockbuster film, The Passion of the Christ, was grossing more box offices sales than any other movie in previous history.

"I asked him if he was a Christian, and he said, 'yes,'" said the young woman. "He said he goes to church once a year. He told me there was something wrong with his brother, so I asked him if it would have been better had he been aborted, and he said it probably would have been better. So again I asked him whether or not it would have been better had his brother not been alive, and he agreed. This happened on Good Friday at 3 p. m. I asked him, had he seen The Passion of the Christ? And he said, no. I then asked him how Jesus would feel with him killing babies, and he got nervous and started beating around the bush."

But how could Martin go from giving pre-natal care for women to killing their unborn children? "He said he was helping them," the young woman replied. "He was helping them because they had no money. But then, in the next breath, he would say, 'none of them come in because they don't have money. They have money. They come in because they don't want to get fat.' He was very inconsistent. He seemed very unhappy with his life but seemed resigned to it; it was like the evil had been so manifested in his mind that he has resolved it. He knows it's killing, but he's almost schizophrenic about it. It was very clear to me that he had been taken over by this evil.

"He bragged to me how many abortions he has done. He said, 'I do ten or more a week times 52, for 30 years; you do the math.' When I asked him if it made him sad to do abortions, he said they [the children] were not human but were just a blob. I told him that I had three children and that I knew they were not just blobs."

Although this conversation occurred two years ago, this young woman says she is still troubled by her encounter with Martin.

A public records search for Malverse Martin shows that he may not only be emotionally troubled, he is facing legal problems as well. Martin seems to do well financially, although his legal woes may be taking an unaccounted toll on his finances. According to a Dunn and Bradstreet report (Dunn and Bradstreet gives profiles of companies to size up their assets), Martin makes approximately $500,000 per year. The Medical Board of California filed an accusation against Martin on March 10, 2005 because he had falsified medical records of patients he was seeing during the years 2001 and 2002.

The young woman who interviewed Martin gave me several phone numbers to call for Martin. One of the numbers was for an abortion clinic called Westwind Women's Services. The woman who answered the phone identified herself as Susan Burger. When I asked for Martin, she replied, "he's not at this number. He comes down and does my terminations but has never had this number."

Because of the accusation against Martin, I again called Burger to ask her advice on whether or not it was safe to go to Martin for a "pregnancy termination." A woman who identified herself as "Terry" answered the phone. I said I was concerned about whether or not it was safe to use "a certain doctor who has an accusation against him from the California Medical Board, but I won't name him to protect his privacy." She laughed and said, "we know who that is!" Terry said that this doctor was located in their building. Public records show that Martin is located at 22110 Roscoe Boulevard, #203, in the West Hills area of the San Fernando Valley.

Public records also show that Susan Burger's medical office is also located at the same address, one floor below Martin's office. Terry said that Burger "has been in the business for 35 years" and has used Mohammed Bararsani and a Dr. Kasby for her terminations. Mohammed Bararsani is a well known abortionist who has worked for other non-physicians, such as Bertha Bugarin. The California medical board's website had no records for a Dr. Kasby.

Because Berger is identified as a nurse practitioner, it would be illegal for her to own a medical business. Candis Cohen, spokeswoman for the California medical board, confirmed this. "No one but a physician may own a medical practice or employ physicians. If a medical corporation is formed to own the practice, then some licensed healthcare professionals may be minority stockholders, but they may not be the majority stockholder. The physician must own 51 percent of the stock, and the remaining 49 percent may be owned by the licensed healthcare professionals enumerated in the law. (Corporation Code section 13401.5(a) includes podiatrists, psychologists, registered nurses, optometrists, marriage and family therapists, clinical social workers, physician assistants, chiropractors, acupuncturists, and naturopaths.)"

The 2005 accusation against Martin by the California Medical Board confirms that Martin has done pre-natal work. According to the accusation, during the period between 2001 and 2002, Martin falsified patient information for three women on a medical chart, the "Prenatal Obstetrical Record."

One patient, who is only identified as Jamie G., had a chart made under Martin's supervision, dated January 30, 2001. On February 15, 2002, either Martin or someone under his supervision called in a prescription for Terazol 7, which is classified as a dangerous drug. This was done without any indication that Martin examined Jaime G. On February 19, a prescription was again phoned in for Jaime G. for ampicillian, which is also classified as a dangerous drug. Again there is no indication that Martin examined Jaime G. before he prescribed the medication. Similarly, he created a chart for Georgia H. on July 5, 2002 and another one for Monica S on August 2, 2002. The accusation alleges that both charts contained "false, generic values" -- that is, Martin is accused of making up data on the charts. On June 28, 2002, the California medical board issued a citation, to which was attached a $1,000 fee. On August 6, 2002, Martin paid the fee.

Long-time San Bernardino County-based sidewalk counselor, Judy DeVries, said it would be a concern if women went to an abortionist who had problems with the California medical board as well as medical malpractice lawsuits against him. "It stands to reason," she said, "since [the doctor has] been blundering through his usual practice that he has to go down to doing abortions. Sounds typical to me. I tell the girls that I sidewalk-counsel about the lawsuits against the abortionist and that a perfect place to hide is an abortion clinic. In all of the years that I have sidewalk-counseled, I have never met one woman who looked up the doctor before coming to the clinic."

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