Posted on 02/15/2011 3:19:06 PM PST by Second Amendment First
Gov. Tom Corbett of Pennsylvania said Tuesday that several state workers had been fired and the state’s abortion clinics would be subjected to stricter oversight as a result of an investigation into a Philadelphia clinic where, according to the district attorney, a woman and seven newborn babies were killed in deplorable conditions.
Dr. Kermit Gosnell, 69, who ran the clinic, the Women’s Medical Society, was indicted by a grand jury last month on eight counts of murder. The grand jury report found that babies were born alive in the clinic but were killed when their spinal cords cut with scissors by clinic staff members. At least two women died during abortion procedures.
“This doesn’t even rise to the level of government run amok,” Governor Corbett said in a statement. “It was government not running at all. To call this unacceptable doesn’t say enough. It’s despicable.”
Governor Corbett ordered the state’s abortion clinics to be inspected at least once a year and said clinics that fail to meet basic state health standards would be closed, at least temporarily.
Pennsylvania abortion clinics will also have unannounced inspections, including during evenings and weekends. The results will be posted online.
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I don’t know whether to laugh or cry! I guess the idea that we pay for people to engage in irresponsible sex and then fund the activity, makes it appealling to tax it.
Hey wait a minute! I would then be paying taxes that would go toward funding abortion, then I would be taxing the abortion customers, and therefore paying taxes on the taxes. That means I would be taxing myself? Hey this could catch on!
Evil always fights and never goes down easy. The only way to defeat it is to shine light on it.
Doesn't he know that these clinics prevent serious complications, and even the deaths of women, from filthy back room abortions, performed by unqualified butchers, using untrained assistants and unsterile instruments?
OH! It was a “licensed clinic”, but still filthy; the staff was still untrained, as well as mostly unlicensed...some even still in high school, but administering drugs; the instruments were still often unsterile, and even dirty; and the “doctor”, though licensed, was still unqualified...and often not even present for the procedure.
Anyone want to explain the difference between a legal abortion, and a ‘back alley abortion using a bent coat-hanger’, in practical terms?
Spot on! There is no difference whatsoever between the modern day abortuary and the so called “back alley” variety. I believe the average tattoo parlour is more regulated than are abortion clinics.
This has been a long time coming. The light is now shining...
Watch the union get their jobs back in 3, 2, 1 ...
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