Disturbing: NY Health Dept. doesn’t inspect its 25 abortion clinics very often

Coat hanger feminists
Say no to coat hangers, because vacuum suction is so much more ‘safe and humane.’ Foolish protests like this play a large role in lax abortion clinic inspections across America.
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I wish I could say I was shocked by this news but, sadly, I’m not (bolded emphasis added by me):

The state Health Department is failing to inspect many of New York’s abortion clinics β€” with some facilities escaping scrutiny for more than a decade, bombshell documents obtained by The Post reveal.

Health inspectors regulate 25 diagnostic and treatment clinics and surgery centers that provide abortion services β€” though pro-choice advocates say there are 225 abortion service providers in New York state.

Eight of the 25 clinics were never inspected over the 2000-12 span, five were inspected just once, and eight were inspected only twice or three times β€” meaning once every four or six years.

A total of just 45 inspections were conducted at all 25 facilities during the 12-year period.

By comparison, city eateries are inspected every year and graded, while a new law requires tanning salons to undergo inspections at least once every other year.

Frightening. Remind y’all of anything?

Disclosure of the state’s failings came after a Freedom of Information request by the New York-based Chiaroscuro Foundation. The organization was concerned about the safety of the state’s abortion clinics following the trial and conviction of Philadelphia late-term abortionist Kermit Gosnell.

Last May, Gosnell wasΒ convictedΒ of first-degree murder in the deaths of three infants who were born alive after botched abortions performed in his run-down West Philadelphia clinic. He was also found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Karnamaya Mongar, a 41-year-old woman who died from an overdose of anesthetic drugs during an abortion procedure.

Prosecutors and former clinic workers had testified to the decaying, dangerousΒ operating roomsΒ of Gosnell’s clinic, stocked with β€œfilthy, corroded” instruments and outdated machines. Yet, as the almost 300-pageΒ grand juryΒ report noted, Gosnell’s clinic had gone uninspected by state department of health officials for over 16 years.

Unfortunately, Gosnell’s β€œhouse of horrors” isΒ not uniqueΒ in the abortion industry. Abortion clinics across the country areΒ under investigationΒ for dangerous, unsanitary conditions that jeopardize women’s lives and health.

I’m sure the “women’s health advocates” like NOW, NARAL, and other so-called “feminist” groups will be all over this demanding more inspections and a crackdown on the lax oversight — just as soon as they get done protesting in states like TX and North Carolina over legislation designed to make abortion clinics safer for women by way of using ambulatory surgical center standards. /sarc

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