LifeNews.com – Dave Andrusko –
4/17/2013
The callous killing of
babies outside the womb, the routinely performed third trimester abortions, the
deaths of at least two patients, and the grievous health risks inflicted on
countless other women by Gosnell and his unlicensed staff are not the only
shocking things that this Grand Jury investigation uncovered. What surprised the
jurors even more is the official neglect that allowed these crimes and
conditions to persist for years in a Philadelphia
THE STATE DEPARTMENT
OF HEALTH NEGLECTED ITS DUTY TO ENSURE THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF PATIENTS IN
PENNSYLVANIA
We discovered that
Pennsylvania Pennsylvania
Significant difference
exists between how DOH monitors abortion clinics and how it monitors facilities
where other medical procedures are performed. Indeed, the department has shown
an utter disregard both for the safety of women who seek treatment at abortion
clinics and for the health of fetuses after they have become viable. State
health officials have also shown a disregard for the laws the department is
supposed to enforce. Most appalling of all, the Department of Health’s neglect
of abortion patients’ safety and of Pennsylvania
State health officials
knew that Gosnell and his clinic were offering unacceptable medical care to
women and girls, yet DOH failed to take any action to stop the atrocities
documented by this Grand Jury. These officials were far more protective of
themselves when they testified before the Grand Jury. Even DOH lawyers,
including the chief counsel, brought private attorneys with them – presumably at
government expense. Gosnell’s clinic – with its untrained staff, its unsanitary
conditions and practices, its perilously lax anesthesia protocols, its
willingness to perform late-term abortions for exorbitant amounts of cash, and
its routine procedure of killing babies after they were delivered by their
unconscious mothers – offers a telling example of how horrendous a Pennsylvania
facility can be and still operate with DOH
“approval.”
The Department of
Health conducted sporadic, inadequate inspections for 13 years, and then none at
all between 1993 and 2010.
During the next 16
plus years – as Gosnell collected fetuses’ feet in jars in his office and
allowed medical waste to pile up in the basement; as he replaced his few
licensed medical assistants with untrained workers and a high school student; as
his outdated equipment rusted and broke and he routinely reused instruments
designed for single-use; as he allowed unqualified staff to administer
anesthesia and to deal with babies born before he arrived at work for the day;
and as he caused the deaths of at least two patients while continuing to perform
illegal third-trimester abortions and to kill babies outside their mothers’
wombs – DOH never conducted another on-site inspection at the Lancaster Avenue
facility.
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