1986: Brigham graduates from Columbia University with a Ph.D. in medicine, but no special training in obstetrics or gynecology.

July 1990: A Wilkes-Barre office building cancels Brigham's lease three weeks after signing it because Brigham did not disclose his plans to open an abortion clinic in the lease agreement.

August 1991: Brigham admits to accepting personal property (jewelry, etc.) as payment for abortions at his clinic in Wyomissing, PA. The clinic performed second-trimester abortions.

September-October 1991: Brigham is ordered to stop performing abortions at the Wyomissing clinic. The judge ruled that Brigham concealed his intentions when he signed a lease for office space in August 1990. "The practice of general medicine does not include performing abortions," wrote the judge, noting that Brigham had claimed he planned to use the office for general medical practice. Brigham moved to a basement in Sinking Springs, but failed to obtain required permits from the Department of Health. The Sinking Springs office is forced to close.

May 1992: Brigham is charged with botching a procedure and damaging a woman's uterus and bowels. Under investigation stemming from practices at his Wyomissing clinic, Brigham signs a consent agreement with the Pennsylvania State Board of Medical Licensing, voluntarily retiring his Pennsylvania medical license and agreeing never to apply for reactivation, renewal, or reissuance.

November 1993: Brigham performs an abortion on a 20-year-old New York woman and her 26-week-old unborn child. In the process of killing the child, the uterine artery is severed. Brigham keeps the woman in his office for three hours before finally calling an ambulance for assistance. The woman is forced to undergo an emergency hysterectomy at a nearby hospital to save her life.

June 1994: Brigham estimates that he has performed about 15,000 abortions since 1986, and has on occasion performed more than 40 in a single day.

October 1994: Brigham opens American Women's Services in Colonie, New York, without the required state license. Bank statements show Brigham's was the authorizing signature on bank accounts for AWS. A grand jury investigates whether or not unlicensed practitioners perform abortions at the clinic. The spokesman for AWS is Eric Harrah. The Colonie clinic and another Brigham-owned abortion clinic, American Medical Services in Nanuet, New York, close after a grand jury investigation into alleged Medicaid fraud involving double-billing of patients and the government.

December 1994: The New York Medical Board revokes Brigham's medical license for endangering the lives of two patients. A Committee from the board says that Brigham is "guilty of deviation and, in some instances, gross deviations, from accepted medical practice." The committee report says that Brigham "used inexcusably bad judgment and that his negligence was life-threatening and caused injuries to the patient." The committee also says that Brigham repeatedly exaggerated his medical training, experience and skill, displaying a tendency to inflate and embellish the truth'.

May 1996: Local New York newspapers report on the Colonie, NY abortion clinic where Eric Harrah works for Brigham. Seventeen fetuses were found stored illegally in a freezer at the facility. The landlord says that Brigham signed a lease without disclosing that the clinic would be performing abortions.

August 1996: After Brigham botches at least three abortions in New Jersey, the State Attorney General seeks to have Brigham's license revoked. The New Jersey Medical Board rules that Brigham must stop using the terms "safe" and "painless" in his advertising and be limited to performing first trimester abortions.

January 1997: Brigham is indicted on one count of first degree scheming to defraud, a felony, before an Albany County judge. He is also charged with two counts of misdemeanor tax evasion for the years 1994 and 1995. He is arraigned and posts $50,000 bail.

Pennsylvania requires all medical clinics that perform abortions to have a legal transfer agreement with a local hospital. The Centre Community Hospital denied Brigham's clinic this agreement, but stated in their denial letter: "There should be no question that the hospital will provide necessary and appropriate emergency and in-patient care to all persons presenting themselves at the hospital, including without any hesitation patients of your proposed clinic."

The State Department of Health has ruled that Brigham's clinic does not need a legal transfer agreement with the local hospital, claiming that new federal laws forbid hospitals from denying care to pregnant women or those with gynecological problems. So the legal protections for women included in Pennsylvania's Abortion Control Act have been effectively bypassed.

The landlord, HFL Corporation, has filed an eviction notice, stating that Brigham did not disclose that he was planning to open an abortion clinic. The HFL lease states that "At any time or times and from time to time ... (HFL may) make such rules and regulations as in (HFL's) judgment may ... be necessary for the safety, care and cleanliness of the premises, and for the preservation of good order therein. Such rules and regulations shall, when notice thereof is given to the Lessee, form a part of this lease."

On July 2, 1997, in an unsigned memorandum on HFL stationery, tenants in the Beaver St. facility were given notice that "No tenant shall perform abortions of any nature in leased premises ..."

HFL's attorney also wrote to Brigham, charging him with deception. He stated that Brigham had specifically denied that elective abortions would be performed at the leased premises.

UPDATE: The abortion center opened by Stephen Brigham and Eric Harrah is about to close. ( Harrah left the industry after his conversion to Christianity. He experienced a conversion while acting as the administrator of the facility.) The center had been opened under false pretenses, with the landlord, HFL Corporation being told by abortionist Stephen Brigham, that it would be an all-purpose medical clinic. Since HFL found out Brigham's true intentions to do abortions in June of 1997, HFL has been attempting to evict the center from its property. That battle was won in court and the abortion facility must vacate the premises by September 23, 1998. No other site has been found in State College as of yet.