Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Maryland temporarily shuts down three abortion clinics

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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