Posted on 03/23/2020 6:22:36 PM PDT by Morgana
An Ohio abortion clinic is refusing to cease abortions during the coronavirus pandemic despite an order from the Ohio Department of Health.
Preterm employee Fiona Thomas confirmed to the Daily Caller News Foundation on Monday morning that the clinic will not stop performing abortions, despite a Wednesday order from the Ohio Department of Health mandating that all non-essential and elective surgeries cease in order to preserve Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for health workers.
This was followed by a Friday letter from Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost ordering two specific Ohio abortion clinics to stop providing any services that require PPE, which can include respirators, eye protection, hearing protection, protective clothing, gas masks, gloves, overalls, boots and goggles, according to the CDC.
“WE ARE OPEN,” Preterm stated on its website. “Abortion is legal in Ohio, and Preterm is still here providing the nonjudgmental care you need.”
“Preterm is continuing to provide the full range of abortion care services because it is essential healthcare,” Executive Director of Preterm Chrisse France told the DCNF in a statement.
France added: “In compliance with the order from the Ohio Department of Health, our physicians will be making individualized determinations to ensure each person gets the healthcare they need and that all healthcare providers across the state have access to the supplies needed during this pandemic.”
Preterm declined to comment on how Preterm can be in compliance with ODH’s order to cease all non-essential and elective surgeries that use PPE if the clinic continues to perform abortions.
It is unclear whether the Ohio Department of Health will pursue legal action against Preterm. AG Communications Director Bethany McCorkle told the DCNF that it is up to the ODH to determine whether ODH Director Amy Acton’s order was violated by any surgical facilities in Ohio.
If Acton’s office determines that the order was violated, “they can refer it to our office to pursue legal action on behalf of the Ohio Department of Health,” McCorkle said. “At this time no referrals have been made by the Ohio Department of Health.”
The spokeswoman added that the attorney general agrees with Acton that “we can’t allow the politics of things to get in the way of what we need to do in a state of emergency.”
“Dr. Amy Acton’s order was never to shut down operations,” McCorkle said. “It was to stop performing nonessential surgeries that use PPE. They can stay open because they perform other services.”
The Ohio Department of Health did not respond to multiple requests for comment from the DCNF.
Bulldoze the place and lock up every ‘employee’.
Why the overwhelming desire to murder babies?! How disgusting and wicked.
I just know they gonna make this virus worse
this is proof they are wicked lawless creatures
DeWine has one and only one chance to take action against that “clinic.”
DeWine will do nothing bank it.
Do a china and weld the doors shut.
Liberals are going to continue to push the envelope and then blame Trump and conservatives when anything goes horribly wrong.
It is what they do.
Evil. Keep a baby from getting a foot into life and spend billions keeping someone from dying when one foot is in the grave. Jesus offers victory over death. Read the Gospel of John.
What would He do if Churches ignored His Mandate? Just saying
Everyone, everyone...abortion is a sacred Constitutional right, enshrined in our founding document. Well, it’s not easy to find; it was discovered by black-robed justices hiding in the ‘penumbra’ of another right that’s not actually mentioned in the Constitution—the right to privacy. But it is fundamental and ‘settled law’—not silly things like leaving one’s home for a walk, or running one’s business. /s
2 for 1 sale.
Open?
I think she meant to say “Moloch is hungry!”
Too easy.
Have the utility company cut the power to their facility after midnight.
Then chain the doors shut.
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Maybe we’ll find out if governor’s orders actually have meaning.
Should defend liposuction and botox injections to the death.
“Mars Needs Women”
I hate abortions, but certain principles are being abandoned on a case-by case basis due to opinions....if they can do it because a vile, but legal, practice is being disobedient, then what can they not do to individuals?
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