May 27, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com)
– The Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOH) announced
on Friday that of 16 abortion clinics inspected in the state, 12 of them
have failed to meet the state’s safety regulations. The state's new
regulations for abortion facilities went into effect in July of last
year.
In a letter dated May 24, Joshua Sharfstein, the secretary of the
Maryland DOH, said that among the three most common violations
discovered was the “failure to maintain a sanitary environment at all
times and to consistently use chemical indicator strips in sterilized
equipment packing."
Other common violations included the “failure to obtain information
about the professional credentials of physicians on staff from the
National Practitioner Data Bank,” and “failure to include a discharge
diagnosis in the medical record."
As LifeSiteNews.com reported on Friday,
the emergency suspension of the licenses of four of the clinics, all
owned by Associates in OB/GYN Care, was deemed necessary earlier this
month to protect “public health, safety or welfare.”
Investigators had discovered that non-physicians at the four abortion
clinics were routinely distributing the abortion drug misprostol to
women who had never been seen by a physician and who were up to 11 weeks
pregnant. In addition, at one of the clinics an unqualified staff
member was performing ultrasounds and dispensing misoprostol.
The remaining clinics were permitted to remain open after providing
satisfactory plans of correction, outlining how they would bring their
facilities up to code.
Among the 12 abortion clinics caught violating state regulations were
all three of the state's Planned Parenthood abortion facilities, as well
as that of notorious late-term abortionist Leroy Carhart. While the
violations found at the Planned Parenthood facilities were relatively
minor, at one facility one staff member was not certified in basic life
support or trained in emergency transfer of patients to hospital or the
delivery of sedation medications via IV.
Carhart, whose abortion business was hounded of out Nebraska in 2010
after the state passed legislation banning late-term abortions, was
responsible for performing the abortion that led to the death of
29-year-old kindergarten teacher Jennifer Morbelli earlier this year.
While Carhart was cleared on Friday by the Department of Health of
wrongdoing in Morbelli’s death, the department was less impressed by
what it found when it inspected Carhart’s clinic.
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Investigators discovered some eight pages of violations, including a
nurse whose RN license had expired, nurses who weren’t properly trained
in administering sedation drugs through IV, and failure to train staff
in the emergency transfer of patients to the hospital.
In addition, investigators found that patient records did not included a
discharge diagnosis, as required, and staff were improperly cleaning
surgical instruments.
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However, according to pro-life groups, this may only be the tip of the
iceberg of violations at Carhart’s clinic. In July of last year pro-life
groups filed a complaint with
the Department of Health after they said they discovered that Carhart’s
clinic was illegally dumping biohazardous waste, private patient
medical information, and dangerous drugs.
Between August, 2011, and May, 2012, trash generated by Germantown
Reproductive Health Services was inspected and photographed by pro-life
activists. The pro-lifers said they found documents containing private
patient information, including photocopies of patient drivers licenses,
information about birth control prescriptions, and detailed information
about a 15 week abortion for which the patient was charged $2,200.
Also discovered was bloody refuse including bloody sanitary napkins and
blue pads, some of which contained blood clots and possible human fetal
remains, and partially full bottles of IV drugs that are classified as
controlled substances and other drugs.
Leading pro-abortion groups, including NARAL, Planned Parenthood, and
the National Abortion Federation, routinely oppose any and all
regulations on abortion clinics. However, the recent case of Kermit
Gosnell, whose 'House of Horrors' clinic escaped inspection for years
despite numerous complaints, has drawn attention once again to the often
subpar conditions that exist in abortion facilities.
Earlier this year, two former nurses at a Planned Parenthood abortion facility in Delaware described
what they said was a “meat-market” style of performing abortions, in
which the abortionist refused to wear gloves, surgical instruments were
reused without being cleaned, and 'bloody drainage' remained on abortion
tables between procedures, exposing women to blood-borne diseases.
As well, shortly after Gosnell was convicted on three counts of first
degree murder, three former assistants of Texas abortionist Douglas
Karpen stepped forward to describe conditions
so appalling that they were arguably even worse than those found in
Gosnell’s clinic – including the routine practice of murdering newborn
babies born alive after failed abortions.
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