Posted on 02/03/2017 5:49:35 PM PST by jonno
A government inspection has found that the United Kingdom’s largest abortion chain, Marie Stopes International (MSI), was coercing women to abort and violating safety procedures, leading them to suspend nearly half of the abortions they were performing. More than 2,600 violations were found, according to inspectors.
The inspections were detailed in a report published in December by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). The report included a letter from the Chief Inspector of Hospitals, Professor Sir Mike Richards, stating that in order to avoid “urgent enforcement action” by the CQC, Marie Stopes voluntarily agreed to:
“Suspension of the termination of pregnancy for children and young people under age 18 and those aged 18 and over who are vulnerable, to include those with a learning disability, “Suspension of all terminations using general anesthesia or conscious sedation. “Suspension of all surgical terminations at the Norwich Center.” In particular, the report found that at the Norwich Clinic, “Only 40 percent of the center staff had received consent training. None of the staff had received safeguarding training at level 3. This meant that we were not assured that staff taking consent had the appropriate knowledge, skills and competence to support patients who may be vulnerable or lack capacity to make a decision.” Further, the report also found that doctors at the clinic were pre-signing batches of approval forms for abortions without seeing patients beforehand, and that forms were signed by assistants without being countersigned by a physician, violating policies.
The report also described a case in which a woman with a learning disability was given an abortion even though “consent to treatment was not carried out in a way they could understand and we observed the situation was poorly and insensitively handled by doctors.”
(Excerpt) Read more at afterabortion.org ...
I don’t imagine the conditions & treatment are any better here in the US.
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