SUBJECT: DOCTOR GETS 16 YEARS FOR ILLEGAL ABORTIONS ON LOVERS.

CASE NAME: REGARDING DR. PRAVIN THAKKAR

FACTS OF CASE: Dr. Thakkar was sentenced to sixteen years in prison for illegally aborting fetuses from two former lovers and attempting to do so with a third, without the women’s consent.

Dr. Pravin Thakkar was convicted on June 12, 1992 on one count of attempted illegal abortion and two counts each of performing an illegal abortion, battery and criminal recklessness.

He was sentenced to 24 years with 8 years suspended.

He allegedly performed illegal abortions after telling the women he was giving them routine pelvic examinations. One woman was eight months pregnant.

Two patients testified that Thakkar aborted their fetuses without their permission. Both said Thakkar had gotten them pregnant.



SUBJECT: DOCTOR ACCUSED OF FATHERING PATIENT'S CHILDREN.

CASE NAME: REGARDING DR. CECIL JACOBSON

FACTS OF CASE: An infertility specialist was accused in a fraud indictment of fathering at least seven of his patient's children by artificially inseminating them with his own sperm.

Dr. Cecil B. Jacobson was accused in a 53-count indictment of fraud by telling woman that they would be inseminated with the sperm from donors who had not known the identity of the mothers.

The indictment returned by a Federal Grand Jury in Alexandria, Virginia, charged that Jacobson fathered numerous children including those of at least seven couples, according to U.S. attorney Richard Cullen.

Jacobson operated reproductive genetics Center in Tysons Corner, Virginia until 1989.

The 55 year old doctor is accused of falsely telling couples that he operated a donor program that selected sperm from carefully screened men, official's said.

The 53 count mail fraud, wire fraud and perjury indictment also charged that Jacobson falsely led other women to believe they were pregnant and later told them that they had miscarried.


SUBJECT: NO INDICTMENT IN LEUKEMIA SUICIDE CASE

CASE NAME: REGARDING DR. TIMOTHY QUILL


FACTS OF CASE: In Rochester, New York, a grand jury declined to indict Dr. Timothy Quill, who wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine about how he prescribed barbiturates for a leukemia patient's suicide. Prosecutors said that closed the book on the case. Dr. Quill had published a letter in March describing how he prescribed sleeping pills for the terminally ill woman and told her how many she needed to take to kill herself.