Post Script: Former Illegal Birmingham Abortion Clinic Demolished

By Cheryl Sullenger
Operation Rescue


Birmingham, AL - It was for years the focus of the abortion wars in the South. The non-descript red brick building in Birmingham once housed the most notorious abortion business in Alabama. In a final post script to decades of pro-life efforts, it was razed to the ground the weekend by new owners who have other - better - plans for the property.

Operated by the "Abortion Queen" Diane Derzis, New Woman All Women was a poorly-maintained abortion facility that became well known for shoddy practices and deceptive tactics that kept it operating well beyond its legal ability to do so.

A coalition of pro-life groups, including the CEC for Life, Life Legal Defense Foundation, and Operation Rescue, worked to expose and report below-standard patient care, dangerous facility conditions, and in the end, illegal abortions done by long-time Derzis employee Bruce Elliot Norman.

Continue reading the story of how unified pro-life groups worked together to shut down the most notorious abortion clinic in Alabama!