How Liberals protect women...

[Captain Ray]

State closes Birmingham abortion clinic after investigation

By JAY REEVES
Associated Press Writer


An abortion clinic was shut down Thursday after the state suspended its license amid allegations that a worker administered an abortion-inducing drug and performed other medical treatment on the patient without a doctor.

According to state health officials, the woman was told she was only six weeks pregnant but delivered a nearly full-term stillborn infant.

An order from the State Board of Health called the violations by Summit Medical Center in Birmingham "egregious," and the state health officer, Dr. Donald Williamson, said the clinic might not reopen.

"We feel we need to move toward revoking their license," said Williamson.

Officials from the clinic did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment. Neither did a lawyer who has represented Summit in past cases.

Williamson said an order issued Wednesday suspending the clinic's license was the result of a six-week investigation into the treatment of a woman who went to Summit seeking an abortion on Feb. 20.

The patient, who was not identified in the suspension order, received an ultrasound examination from a clinic worker rather than a physician, as Williamson said is required by the law.

A staff member then gave the patient RU-486, an abortion-inducing drug, and follow-up medications that are supposed to be administered only by doctors, he said.

While the patient was told during the examination that she was only six weeks pregnant, she went to a hospital emergency room six days later and delivered a stillborn infant that weighed six pounds, four ounces, according to the order.

"It was nearly full term," said Williamson.

Once state health officials were notified, they found that Summit's records indicated that the ultrasound and medications were handled by a doctor, even though the physician was not present at the clinic that day, he said.

The state scheduled a public hearing for June 20 to determine whether Summit's license should be revoked.

State records show 11,370 abortions were performed in Alabama in 2004, the last year for which records are available. The state doesn't release records showing how many abortions are performed by individual women's clinics.

Thank goodness we have Roe vs. Wade to protect women and unwanted children from this kind of horrible abuse!

Times Daily

Raymond

[Siobhra]

This time you and I are on the same side. I always wondered if the reason for Roe vs Wade was to protect the woman from being "forced into a back alley abortion". Then instead of opening clinic's we should go after the person that forced the woman at gun point into the alley.


[sarcasm] Instead of killing an innocent baby why don't we wait until the child is about 12 or 13 and we see what we got before deciding if we need to get an abortion?[/sarcasm]

[Captain Ray]

I am not sure that I see the sarcasm...

Raymond

[one-eyed-fatman]

Was the woman a Republican or a Democrat?

[Captain Ray]

Originally Posted by one-eyed-fatman

Was the woman a Republican or a Democrat?

That is an interesting comment! Now if I were a heartless POS that only lent myself to causes which furthered my own political agenda.. I would be all for abortions... Since liberals are the ones who push abortion so hard, then it stands to reason that abortion=less liberals!!

But, as much as I dislike liberals.. I would rather have their children live so that I might talk some sense into them than have them sucked into a vacume cleaner bag and thrown into the trash.

Raymond

[one-eyed-fatman]

So you hate liberals, blame everything on liberals but you don't mind if one is born? OK...

[Captain Ray]

Originally Posted by one-eyed-fatman

So you hate liberals, blame everything on liberals but you don't mind if one is born? OK...

I dislike liberals intensely.. I even hate them at times. I feel no animosity toward children though. Babies are not born liberals...... ill minded idiots turn babies into liberals.

I'd gladly accept thousands of stupid liberals being stupid, than have one innocent child murdered.

Raymond

[one-eyed-fatman]

ill minded idiots turn babies into liberals.

Slight correction.

ill minded idiots turn babies into politicians.

[Don]

No, fraternities turn men into politicians.