Are you old enough to remember the
argument that we needed to legalize abortion because women were in harms way due
to back-alley abortions? The alarming stats
presented by the defenders of pro-choice … before the U.S. Supreme Court in the
decision of Roe v. Wade … was
fabricated out of whole-cloth; there was no documented evidence to the
claim. Well, here we are 42-years hence
and we have some alarming stats. Read
this …
Nearly two-thirds of all licensed
abortion facilities in Illinois have not been inspected by the state’s
Department of Public Health in two to three-and-a-half years, while some haven’t
been inspected for over a decade, according to a new report.
The 66-page study report, released
by Illinois Right to Life, says that 63% of licensed Illinois women’s clinics
have not received a health and sanitary inspection for up to
three-and-a-half-years. “The failure of
the Department of Public Health to conduct regular health and sanitary
inspections leaves women open to the prospect of unsterile surgical tools,
dirty operating rooms, incomplete medical attention, infections, and possibly
more deaths,” the group says.
When the group requested a copy of
the sanitary inspection policy for licensed women’s clinics, they were told no
such policy exists. “It’s quite scary,”
Emily Zender, the group’s executive director, says in the report. “While news reports warn of MRSA [Methicillin-resistant
Staphylococcus aureus], urge flu
vaccination, and praise hospital Ebola training, abortion providers are allowed
to perform invasive surgical procedures in unsanitary conditions.”
The report also reveals that 40% of
the clinics licensed between 2000-2014 went without health inspections for 14-17
years. It adds that the state’s five
Planned Parenthood clinics that perform abortions are not licensed, and
consequently did not receive health and sanitary inspections between 2000-2014.
“What is even more unconscionable is
that the Department of Public Health failed to produce any documentation
showing that women who had abortions in unsterile clinics were warned of the
potential risks,” Zender added. “No
woman should leave an abortion clinic needing HIV testing, a tetanus shot or hospital
emergency treatment, yet for 15-years the Illinois Department of Public Health
has abdicated all responsibility to ensure licensed abortion clinics are safe
and sanitary.” The state requires even
tanning salons to go through annual inspections and nursing homes to receive
inspections every 15-months; but abortion clinics in Illinois are inspected an
average of once every 9-years, the group says. Besides, there’s no sanitary inspection policy
for licensed women’s clinics, it adds.
The report carries some health
violations documented at various Illinois women’s clinics. The violations included: “No registered nurse
was employed ... Medical personnel were observed retrieving a paper towel from
the garbage to cover food trays ... Reportedly gynecological cannulas were
stained with a brown substance ... Suction machine in the operating room
contained clear water with specks of floating debris in it.”
The grand jury report on West
Philadelphia’s “house of horrors” acknowledged that lack of inspection allowed
Kermit Gosnell to kill women and newborn babies. [read my March 17, 2014 blog entitled – “They Say Abortion Is About the ‘Safety’ of
Women – An Unsubstantiated Argument” and my May 10, 2013 blog entitled – “Gosnell is By no Means the Exception”]
“The State of Illinois has failed
women. Refusal to immediately enact
reform abandons women to the prospect of unsterile surgical tools, dirty
operating rooms, and inadequate medical attention,” Zender said. “Two clinics have already shutdown after
health inspections revealed dangerously unsanitary conditions inside. Gosnell-esque abortion clinics are not welcome
in Illinois.”
Rev.
Dr. Kenneth L. Beale, Jr.
Chaplain
(Colonel-Ret), U.S. Army
Pastor, Ft. Snelling Memorial Chapel
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