Albuquerque, NM – As part of its nearly year-long investigation, New Mexico Alliance for Life (NMAFL) found that Curtis Boyd, owner of one of the nation’s largest late-term abortion facility, is receiving free medical malpractice coverage by the state of New Mexico. A search of the
Patient Compensation Fund, an index of physicians covered by the NM Medical Malpractice Act, reveals that neither Curtis Boyd nor Southwestern Women’s Options has coverage, yet Boyd is covered under an agreement with University of New Mexico School of Medicine. Southwestern Women’s Options, owned by Boyd, and the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center (UNMHSC) are currently under congressional investigation for the harvesting of aborted baby parts. NMAFL asks, is this how UNMHSC provides compensation to Boyd in exchange for aborted baby organs and tissue from his late-term clinic?
“Late last year, UNM Health Sciences Center ended its second-trimester
abortion training rotation at Boyd’s facility, yet they continue to retain Boyd as an assistant clinical professor in violation of national accreditation standards and UNM policy since he is not even a board certified physician nor trained in OB-GYN,” said Elisa Martinez, executive director of NMAFL. ” How it that Boyd, who is not a board certified physician anywhere, is not only teaching at UNM School of Medicine but receiving taxpayer-funded medical malpractice coverage as a benefit? New Mexicans should be appalled that a non-board certified physician is given special treatment for faculty status and on top of that, the late-term abortionist Curtis Boyd is receiving a tremendous benefit from taxpayers in the form free malpractice coverage via his faculty appointment at UNM, while other private doctors have to pay thousands of dollars to obtain.”
The late-term abortion procedure performed at Boyd’s clinics are highly dangerous abortions and according to his own
consent form, abortions after 16-18 weeks gestation are more dangerous than continuing the pregnancy. It may even be the case, since late-term abortions are so dangerous, as women are left vulnerable and sent off to hotel rooms during the process, that no insurance provider would offer coverage.
Martinez added “Does UNMHSC expect us to believe that private late-term abortion business owner, Boyd, is going out of his way to harvest fresh, intact organs for UNM’s experimental studies, purely out of the goodness of his heart? Without any compensation or renumeration whatsoever? Yet other abortion businesses receive compensation upwards of $850 per body part or organ such as livers, heart vessels, lungs and eyeballs that UNM uses in their studies. Despite UNM’s repeated denials that Boyd is not being compensated for harvesting aborted baby body parts and organs at his abortion business, New Mexico Alliance for Life found New Mexico taxpayers are funding, at minimum, his medical malpractice insurance as an “assistant clinical professor” and that poses alarming concerns for taxpayers, students and patients.”
UNMHSC and Boyd’s abortion center, Southwestern Women’s Options are currently under congressional investigation for its harvesting and transfer of aborted baby parts. Both organizations have been uncooperative in turning over documents to the congressional Select Panel on Infant Lives and both have been subpoenaed.
In addition to immediately ending Curtis Boyd’s faculty appointment and malpractice coverage, NMAFL calls for disciplinary action against UNM OB-GYN Chair Eve Espey for violating ACGME, ABOG and UNM policies by appointing an unqualified and non-board certified faculty member teach in her program at the School of Medicine and for an immediate suspension of the Department of OB-GYN’s Family Planning Program pending an investigation by the Medical Board and state Higher Education Department.
