Thursday, January 27, 2011

Pennsylvania's governor wants answers on abortion clinic debacle

Governor Tom Corbett of Pennsylvania has given the state health department a week to come up with answers to how they could have allowed abortionist Kermit Gosnell's abortion clinic to stay open and go without inspections for since 1993.
Gov. Tom Corbett said Friday that he gave the Health Department and the secretary of State a one-week deadline to report to him on what happened in the bungled oversight of a squalid abortion clinic that a Philadelphia prosecutor described as a "house of horrors," where babies born alive were killed with scissors.

Corbett told the Tribune-Review that he asked for a "detailed report" about how to prevent such a tragedy.

"You can imagine from my role coming as attorney general that we're going to find out exactly what happened on this side," said Corbett, the former state attorney general and one-time U.S. attorney in Pittsburgh, who was sworn in as governor Tuesday.


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