Posted on 12/01/2006 6:22:57 PM PST by wagglebee
An abortion business in Huntsville, Ala., should be closed down after the state Health Department cited the location for violating 10 state laws, according to the front-line pro-life Operation Rescue.
According to officials, the Alabama Women's Center for Reproductive Alternatives was found to have been forwarding after-hours medical emergencies to non-medical personnel, routinely failing to document the gestational age of the unborn baby, and releasing abortion patients without following the mandatory 20-minute recovery period, according to a statement from Operation Rescue.
It's just the latest in a string of abortion businesses that have been cited – or even closed down – when they are inspected for their compliance with state laws and medical regulations.
Rick Harris, of the Alabama Bureau of Health Provider Standards, said it just made him wonder what other rules aren't being followed.
Operation Rescue officials, however, said this business, at this time, was allowed to remain open.
"This abortion mill has shown a blatant disregard for the laws of Alabama and for the health and safety of women. There is no question that this mill should be closed," said President Troy Newman.
Two other Alabama abortion businesses now are operating under probationary status, while another clinic in Birmingham earlier this year was closed down.
"The abortionists are worried that if they are inspected they may be forced to shut down," said Newman. "That should send a real wake-up call to women that American abortion mills are predatory in nature and are willing to sacrifice the health and safety of women in order to compete for the ever-dwindling abortion dollar. If they kill babies for a living, they really are not going to care about the woman, either, except in how they may exploit her and her wallet. Abortion is a real cut-throat business – pun intended."
He said Alabama should be more concerned about saving lives than keeping abortion businesses open.
"They have the tools to close them with their strict regulations. Now, they need to have the courage to strictly enforce them," Newman said.
Word of the violations in Alabama came at the same time as a report from Milwaukee, Wis., where an ambulance was summoned to an abortion business, and a woman transported apparently to a hospital.
Matt Trewhalla of Missionaries for the Pre-Born said the ambulance was called to Affiliated Medical Services, then transported a woman who reportedly suffered a perforated uterus.
Operation Rescue is one of the leading pro-life Christian groups in the country, and it recently made headlines by purchasing and closing down an abortion clinic in Wichita, Kan.
In recent months, more than a dozen abortion businesses in Illinois, Ohio, California, Alabama and Florida have been closed over a variety of issues, including workers without medical licenses performing medical procedures, the misuse of drugs, babies allegedly killed after being born alive, and the disappearing abortionist.
They include:
Infanticide IS NOT a "reproductive alternative," IT IS MURDER.
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Operation Rescue is doing wonderful work shutting down abortion mills.
AS A NURSE, I am amazed these places are able to pass the multitude of inspections required by the many regulatory organizations. I worked in a hospice home care organization and had to go through inspections by the state, Medicare, and the health department to get licensed. We had to spend $100,000's to put in adequate "safety" measures to open. Gosh, I guess they are more worried about people who are dying than those coming to life.
Praise to You, Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ!
I just saw the news about the Huntsville slaughterhouse. New Womens in Birmingham is in trouble, Summit is closed! We have prayed and worked so hard here in Birmingham. So have the Huntsville Faithful.
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Our brilliant liberal judges and legislators have basically insured that there are no health inspections, regulations, or limitations on abortion clinics.
The only way they can be closed is if someone like Operation Rescue actively goes after them, or succeeds in publicizing it when they kill one of their "patients."
In some states law enforcement is complicit. George Tiller, for instance, probably the bloodiest abortionist in the country, is currently off the hook because of the recent Democrat election victories that put a prosecutor he contributed to into office.
In accordance with the politics of Roe v. Wade, the abortionists were basically given carte blanche: no limitations, no inspections, no regulations, no parental permissions, no requirements to report, because that might infringe on women's freedom to choose. It's been a tough fight for the pro-life organizations.
From Dictionary.com (which is not necessarily right):
noun 1. the act of closing; the state of being closed.
2. a bringing to an end; conclusion.
3. something that closes or shuts.
4. closer (def. 2).
5. an architectural screen or parapet, esp. one standing free between columns or piers.
6. Phonetics. an occlusion of the vocal tract as an articulatory feature of a particular speech sound. Compare constriction (def. 5).
7. Parliamentary Procedure. a cloture.
8. Surveying. completion of a closed traverse in such a way that the point of origin and the endpoint coincide within an acceptably small margin of error. Compare error of closure.
9. Mathematics.
a. the property of being closed with respect to a particular operation.
b. the intersection of all closed sets that contain a given set.
10. Psychology.
a. the tendency to see an entire figure even though the picture of it is incomplete, based primarily on the viewer's past experience.
b. a sense of psychological certainty or completeness: a need for closure.
11. Obsolete. something that encloses or shuts in; enclosure.
12. Parliamentary Procedure. to cloture.
Thanks for posting this. I'm just tickled pink to see some creative solutions being used to end infanticide. I think buying the building and evicting the infanticide clinic was my favorite to date, though.
I don't think that partisan politics is the best way to end infanticide. This article shows several other alternatives that are delivering results Right Now. And if you think about it, the strategies used compliment other (political) strategies.
"I don't understand why conservatives don't demand that abortion clinics close at once, and threaten to march for the unborn if they don't."
There's a huge march every year on January 22, didn't you know? It's been held for over thirty years now.
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