U.S. House committees move to examine state oversight of abortion clinics

The House Energy and Commerce Committee and the House Judiciary Committee have sent letters to the state health departments and attorney generals, respectively, to better understand how states regulate abortion clinics and how states enforce laws regulating abortion clinics.  Congressman Fred Upton (R-MI) is the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. 

Energy and Commerce Committee Vice Chairman Marsha Blackburn said, "Planned Parenthood called Gosnell's 'House of Horrors' an 'outlier,' but we're learning Gosnell is not an aberration: approached by women who complained about the disgusting conditions at Gosnell's facility, they didn't report it. When the Pennsylvania Department of Health found out about Gosnell they sat on their hands and the media was silent. Now we're discovering that other big abortion businesses refuse to give medical treatment to babies who survive botched abortions and we're finding out the truth from former pro-choice nurses who called their own Gosnell-like clinics 'ridiculously unsafe' where 'meat-market style of assembly-line abortions' happen. Oversight and enforcement are desperately needed so we can help stop these Gosnell scenarios from continuing."

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