12 of 16 Maryland
Lifesite News – John Jalsevac
– 5/27/2013
The Maryland Department of
Health and Mental Hygiene (DOH) announced on Friday that of 16 abortion clinics
inspected in the state, 12 of them have failed to meet the state’s safety
regulations. The state's new regulations for abortion facilities went into
effect in July of last year.
In a letter dated May 24,
Joshua Sharfstein, the secretary of the Maryland DOH, said that among the three
most common violations discovered was the:
- Failure to maintain a sanitary environment at
all times
- To consistently use chemical indicator strips in
sterilized equipment packing.
- Failure to obtain information about the
professional credentials of physicians on staff from the National
Practitioner Data Bank
- Failure to include a discharge diagnosis in the
medical record.
As LifeSiteNews.com
reported on Friday, the emergency suspension of the licenses of four of the
clinics, all owned by Associates in OB/GYN Care, was deemed necessary earlier this month to protect “public health,
safety or welfare.”
- Non-physicians at the four abortion clinics were
routinely distributing the abortion drug misprostol to women who had never
been seen by a physician and who were up to 11 weeks pregnant.
- Aat one of the clinics an unqualified staff
member was performing ultrasounds and dispensing misoprostol.
- Among the 12 abortion clinics caught violating state regulations were all three of the state's Planned Parenthood abortion facilities, as well as that of notorious late-term abortionist Leroy Carhart.
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