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Pa. Workers Fired in Clinic Inquiry (11 govt. workers gone in abortion investigation)
New York Times ^ | February 15, 2011 | TIMOTHY WILLIAMS

Posted on 02/15/2011 3:19:06 PM PST by Second Amendment First

Gov. Tom Corbett of Pennsylvania said Tuesday that several state workers had been fired and the state’s abortion clinics would be subjected to stricter oversight as a result of an investigation into a Philadelphia clinic where, according to the district attorney, a woman and seven newborn babies were killed in deplorable conditions.

Dr. Kermit Gosnell, 69, who ran the clinic, the Women’s Medical Society, was indicted by a grand jury last month on eight counts of murder. The grand jury report found that babies were born alive in the clinic but were killed when their spinal cords cut with scissors by clinic staff members. At least two women died during abortion procedures.

“This doesn’t even rise to the level of government run amok,” Governor Corbett said in a statement. “It was government not running at all. To call this unacceptable doesn’t say enough. It’s despicable.”

Governor Corbett ordered the state’s abortion clinics to be inspected at least once a year and said clinics that fail to meet basic state health standards would be closed, at least temporarily.

Pennsylvania abortion clinics will also have unannounced inspections, including during evenings and weekends. The results will be posted online.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: abortion; gosnell
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1 posted on 02/15/2011 3:19:11 PM PST by Second Amendment First
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To: Second Amendment First

Sounds like the Slimes really didn’t want to report on this.


2 posted on 02/15/2011 3:25:21 PM PST by SnuffaBolshevik
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To: Tribune7

Ping!


3 posted on 02/15/2011 3:30:24 PM PST by Second Amendment First
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To: Second Amendment First
Governor Corbett ordered the state’s abortion clinics to be inspected at least once a year and said clinics that fail to meet basic state health standards would be closed, at least temporarily

This is blasphemy to the left, how dare you want to hold their shrines to the standards of medical clinics!

4 posted on 02/15/2011 3:31:29 PM PST by GeronL (http://www.stink-eye.net/forum/index.php for FR backup site!)
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To: Second Amendment First

Go Tom! Would be even better if we could outlaw abortions altogether. But this is ok too.


5 posted on 02/15/2011 3:33:33 PM PST by fatnotlazy
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To: Second Amendment First

Lets all hope the state can improve the condition of the murder site. These are supposed to be professional kills.


6 posted on 02/15/2011 3:35:59 PM PST by nicepaco
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To: Second Amendment First

What a paradoxical regulatory job?! Do a better job killing babies? Make sure they hire SEIU janitors to keep the place clean?


7 posted on 02/15/2011 3:37:35 PM PST by blackdog
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To: Second Amendment First

Abortions are demonic sacrifices.


8 posted on 02/15/2011 3:42:58 PM PST by presently no screen name
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To: presently no screen name

Actually, abortion is the untouchable sacrament of the left.


9 posted on 02/15/2011 3:49:26 PM PST by khnyny (What exactly is a CDO??)
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To: Second Amendment First
I propose a dead fetus tax. It will prevent such things in the future. Disposal in accordance with federal, state, and local standards as well as safer working conditions.

A $25 per fetus tax, with a reduced rate for poor and minorities would do the trick. Kinda like Baggage fees when you fly, only in reverse.

10 posted on 02/15/2011 3:49:25 PM PST by blackdog
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To: Second Amendment First

As earlier reports have noted, it was Republican Governor Tom Ridge, a pro-abort, who ordered that inspections of abortion clinics should cease. And his Democrat successors followed the same policy. And this is pretty common in other states, as well.

I’m glad to hear that people were fired. Also, that clinics will now face yearly inspections.

They should also face occasional unscheduled surprise inspections. But I suppose that’s too much to hope for.


11 posted on 02/15/2011 3:52:41 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Second Amendment First

Did they get severance? New jobs waitin’?


12 posted on 02/15/2011 3:54:42 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (talk to the hand)
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To: GeronL

This is going to cost the PA abortion clinic’s big. First off I’ve read the reuse things they shouldn’t, throw away medical instruments. Then there is always a lot of blood when there is an abortion. Soooooo, lot’s more clean up.


13 posted on 02/15/2011 3:58:54 PM PST by MsLady (If you died tonight, where would you go? Salvation, don't leave earth without it!)
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To: nicepaco
Lets all hope the state can improve the condition of the murder site. These are supposed to be professional kills.

Government does a fine job overseeing the slaughter of chickens. They should at a minimum include abortion clinics in the job description of slaughter house inspectors.

14 posted on 02/15/2011 4:02:07 PM PST by Louis Foxwell (For love of Sarah, our country and the American Way of Life.)
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To: blackdog

Good suggestion, did you say $25 hundred per fetus tax?


15 posted on 02/15/2011 4:05:01 PM PST by CIDKauf (No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.)
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To: MsLady

They will fight this.

They refuse to obey laws on parental notification and statutory rape reporting, they will fight this too.


16 posted on 02/15/2011 4:06:27 PM PST by GeronL (http://www.stink-eye.net/forum/index.php for FR backup site!)
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To: Second Amendment First

Don’t live anywhere near this state so don’t understand why are they even allowed to be open.


17 posted on 02/15/2011 4:35:28 PM PST by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: Owl_Eagle; brityank; Physicist; WhyisaTexasgirlinPA; GOPJ; abner; baseballmom; Mo1; Ciexyz; ...

ping


18 posted on 02/15/2011 4:42:16 PM PST by Tribune7 (The Democrat Party is not a political organization but a religious cult.)
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To: Cicero
Don't you find it interesting that the inspections by state regulators of abortion clinics which ENDED, did not result in the reduction of said inspectors? I mean how many jobs can you get where they eliminate your function, but you get to keep the job?

Just what were they doing?

19 posted on 02/15/2011 5:25:47 PM PST by blackdog
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To: CIDKauf
Obamma said everyone has to do their part. Even the unborn can do their fair share to balance the budget.

For the stubborn at heart, just make the fetus tax $25 if aborted and $2,500 if carried full term under Obammacare.

If you can't come up with the $2,500, they'll place you and your fetus into the $25 plan.

20 posted on 02/15/2011 5:29:47 PM PST by blackdog
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