Posted on 07/15/2023 2:22:58 AM PDT by Morgana
Florida health officials fined two abortion facilities a total of $40,000 on Wednesday for allegedly violating a state law that requires women to be informed about abortion risks and alternatives.
Like many states, Florida requires abortion facilities to provide informed consent to patients, including information about abortion risks, the development of an unborn baby, the baby’s ultrasound image and pregnancy/parenting resources at least 24 hours prior to the abortion procedure.
But, according to the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration, A Woman’s Choice in Hialeah and A Woman’s Care in Miami failed to follow the law with dozens of their patients, maybe more.
On Wednesday, the agency published final orders that fine the Miami abortion facility $20,000 and the Hialeah abortion facility $20,000. Both orders pointed to health inspections in 2022 that found the abortion facilities failed to provide evidence that they followed the informed consent law with dozens of patients.
Initially, the agency fined the Miami facility $40,000 and the Hialeah facility $32,000, but all parties agreed to $20,000 fines as part of case settlements, according to the agency.
Florida officials have been cracking down on abortion facilities’ health and safety violations under Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’s administration.
In February, the state health agency fined another abortion facility, A GYN Diagnostic Center in Hialeah, $7,000 for allegedly failing to properly obtain women’s informed consent before aborting their unborn babies.
In 2022, the agency issued another fine of nearly $200,000 to the Orlando Women’s Center, known legally as the Center of Orlando for Women, after state health inspectors said it violated the informed consent law.
Most disturbing of all, that same year the agency forced a Pensacola abortion facility to close after state health authorities said three women nearly died when its abortionist seriously injured them in botched abortions.
Within a nine-month period, state health officials said three women suffered life-threatening abortion complications at the former American Family Planning in Pensacola: one required resuscitation, another had parts of her colon removed and a third needed an emergency hysterectomy, the News Journal reported in 2022.
The pro-life investigative group Reprotection has been working with health authorities in Florida and other states to make sure abortion facilities are following safety regulations and states are enforcing them. The organization was instrumental in the investigation and closure of the Pensacola abortion facility last year.
Ok. Waiting for them to be charged with murder of a child next. Waiting....
They don’t care....they make a lot of money murdering and dismembering little babies!! God says ...they will pay the price one day and it’s going to be very HOT!
Yep.
Well said.
It might not happen now, but it WILL happen on Judgement Day!
Gotta say, your second statement contradicts your first.
They do care, because money is all they care about--which is the problem to begin with.
It's not just the 20K now. What they also care about--and you can bet the industry is huddling about it right now--is the precedent it sets, which endangers their marketing.
And worse than that is the risk that their enemies' lawyers and political friends can use their violation of a regulation or statute as an occasion to pry into their other problems. Such as a renewed focus on women crippled or dead because of sloppy, indifferent treatment.
Which occurs because money is all abortionists care about.
This is a minor victory to be emulated and expanded.
Let’s get real. How about 4M$!? Shut em down, like the rats do to small businesses.
Well said.
Who doesn’t still cringe at the audio from years ago of an abortionist who bragged that every murdered baby brought her closer to a Ferrari?
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