Abortionist Remains Licensed Despite Botched Abortion.(Andrew Gbinigie)

Despite finding him guilty of gross professional conduct for a botched abortion, a committee of the British General Medical Council (GMC) refused to take away abortionist Andrew Gbinigie's right to practice medicine, allowing him to continue performing abortions. The case has caused a huge amount of controversy, with the British press and public calling for a more thorough investigation and harsher penalties.

A 21-year-old woman, identified only as Miss A, sought to abort her 20-week-old unborn baby at the Calthorpe Clinic in Birmingham in November 2000, according to Press Association (PA) News. During the abortion, Gbinigie perforated her uterus and removed her right ovary and fallopian tube, PA News reported.

Not realizing anything was wrong, Gbinigie continued to use forceps to pull tissue from Miss A's abdomen. When he noticed the tissue was a pinkish brown color, he realized he was pulling out her bowel. "I said, `oh what a disaster. I have perforated the uterus,'" Gbinigie testified at the medical council hearing, according to PA News.

Miss A was sent by ambulance to Birmingham Women's Hospital. At the hearing, prosecutor Vivian Robinson told the council that surgeons found her abdomen "full of blood and floating on top was a 20-week-old foetus, largely intact apart from a missing arm and a missing leg," PA News reported.

The woman also lost a kidney, and doctors do not think she will be able to have more children, according to The Sun.

Nigerian-born Gbinigie immigrated to Britain in 1984, The Sun reported. At the committee hearing, he claimed to have performed over 1,000 abortions in his career.

However, officials at hospitals and clinics where he was employed told the Evening Chronicle he was not qualified to abort babies older than 14 weeks.