State
officials in Maryland found problems requiring three of their 16
licensed abortion clinics to be temporarily shut down. The problems
included malfunctioning defibrillator equipment and improperly trained
staff. LeRoy Carhart's late-term abortion business was not one of the
three. A woman died in February after having a late-term abortion at his
clinic.
State health officials have suspended surgical abortion procedures at three clinics, including one in Baltimore where a patient suffered cardiac arrest and later died at a hospital.
The physician who performed the abortion at Associates in OB/GYN Care LLC on North Calvert Street wasn't certified in CPR and a defibrillator at the facility did not work, state officials said in a letter Friday to the General Assembly.
Although
the cardiac arrest was caused by underlying health conditions and not
the abortion, investigators found that it raised questions whether
doctors at the clinic can handle an abortion that goes wrong.
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