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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -- Health code violations led officials to close the city's only abortion clinic, a state health department spokesman said. State inspectors began conducting a full survey of Alternatives on Pacific Avenue on Monday after they found problems with infection control, documentation and "the facility itself," said Health and Human Services spokesman Tom Slater. An anonymous complaint about change of ownership issues prompted the investigation, which was first reported in Tuesday's editions of The Press of Atlantic City. Slater would not say what the original complaint was about, but said that it was unfounded. Instead, he said, problems...

Atlantic City, NJ (LifeNews.com) -- Another abortion business has been shut down in New Jersey for violating the state's health codes -- this time in the gambling capital of the Northeast. The Atlantic City abortion center known as Alternatives, located on Pacific Avenue, is the latest one to be closed. State officials forced the abortion facility to shut down last week after inspectors found several violations, according to a state health department representative. The Atlantic City Press reports that officials returned to the abortion business on Monday to continue their probe. Health Department spokesman Tom Slater spoke with the newspaper...

Topeka, KS (LifeNews.com) -- A pro-abortion Kansas state lawmaker who received only a slap on the wrist for attacking a pro-life advocate at a campaign rally for Gov. Kathleen Sebelius is now the subject of a lawsuit. Rep. Vaughn Flora, a Democrat, was found guilty of battery and fined $100 but the pro-life protester says that was a light punishment. Flora attacked pro-life advocate Troy Newman at the rally while Newman poked fun at Sebelius over the issue of abortion. During the September 9 rally, Newman dressed up in a cockroach outfit and donned a Sebelius mask and pretended to...

James Pendergraft (Photo courtesy Operation Rescue) When a sidewalk counselor at James Pendergraft's Orlando, Fla., Women's Center abortion clinic encountered a man who told her he was delivering his baby's body to the clinic, she called police but they declined to investigate, and there is reason to believe that decision violated at least two laws that should have been controlling in the situation, according to an expert on the issue. Officials with the Orlando police department declined to return multiple messages left by WND, and declined to respond to a written question officials told WND to submit about the...

NEW HOPE, Pennsylvania, October 17, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The National Pro-Life Action Center (NPLAC) in Washinton D.C. is calling for an investigation after a private school sponsored a field trip to a nearby abortuary, triggering outrage in the local community.More than a dozen high school students from Solebury School, near Philadelphia, were taken by bus to the Planned Parenthood location in Warminster, Catholic News Service reported, where they spent several hours touring the clinic. According to CNS the students wore vests used by abortion staff when escorting women into the building. Jason Gordon, social science teacher for the school...

Abortion center ordered to close East Side clinic cited with violations Saturday, September 09, 2006Regina McEneryPlain Dealer Reporter An East Side abortion clinic will be forced to close this month after state regulators uncovered more than a dozen health code violations, prompting officials to reject the center's request for a new license. In a lengthy compliance report issued in June, the Ohio Department of Health cited the Center for Women's Health in Cleveland for failing to have patient transfer agreements with hospitals in case of emergency, among other violations. In what seemed to be the most serious infraction, the...

Orlando, FL (LifeNews.com) -- The Orlando Women's Center abortion facility run by embattled abortion practitioner James Scott Pendergraft isn't supposed to be doing abortions. The state health department suspended abortions there last week after saying he did two illegal late-term abortions in violation of state law. But abortions may still be happening there.Florida officials suspended abortions at Pendergraft's two abortion facilities in Orlando, including the Women's Center and temporarily halted abortions at three other abortion centers in the state.The state suspended Pendergraft's medical license last Wednesday in an emergency order that says he showed a "flagrant disregard for the...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Alabama Department of Public Health is moving to revoke the license of an abortion clinic — its second such action in three months — after an investigation found several violations, including not having a backup physician, inadequate record keeping and shoddy follow-up care for patients. The department issued an emergency license suspension for Reproductive Health Services on Monday and a complete Statement of Deficiencies was delivered to the Montgomery clinic on Friday afternoon, said Rick Harris, director of the department's Bureau of Health Provider Standards.

Orlando, FL - The Florida Department of Health has shut down abortion clinics in Orlando, Tampa, Ocala and Ft. Lauderdale, and issued an emergency order suspending the medical license of clinic owner James Pendergraft for performing two late-term abortions at one of his Orlando clinics. Performing third-trimester abortions outside of a hospital is a crime in Florida because of the increased risks to the life of the mother. Pendergraft's license was suspended by an emergency order stating he committed malpractice and showed "a flagrant disregard for the laws of the State of Florida and a willingness to endanger the lives...

An abortion clinic has been banned from conducting abortions and the center's license has been suspended because it did not have a backup physician as required by the state, health officials announced Tuesday. The Alabama Department of Public Health issued an emergency suspension order against Reproductive Health Services on Monday, saying it failed to have its regular doctor backed up by a physician with admitting privileges at a local hospital. The department said that "constitutes a danger to public health and welfare." Health officials are still reviewing records from the clinic's Aug. 2 inspection and a complete Statement of Deficiencies...

The Hialeah, Fla., clinic, A GYN Diagnostic Center, which provides abortion services, has surrendered its license to the state's Agency for Health Care Administration, rendering the center ineligible to practice medicine in the state, John Travers, the city's licensing administrator, said, the Miami Herald reports. Hialeah authorities revoked the clinic's occupational license Tuesday after Hialeah police last month responded to a report that a woman at 23 weeks' gestation seeking an abortion at the clinic had given birth inside the clinic and that the fetus was found in a biohazard container nine days later. "What led them to surrender their...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - State health officials have determined Alabama's rules for abortion clinics are not clear enough and will be revised, a move that comes just months after a clinic was closed amid allegations of numerous rules violations. Rick Harris, who directs the department's Bureau of Health Provider Standards, would not specify the areas of Alabama law that women's clinics are having trouble understanding. But he said Wednesday proposed amendments should be ready in about 45 days. He commented after representatives from anti-abortion groups, including former Chief Justice Roy Moore, met with state health officials on the issue. "This is...

Wichita, KS (LifeNews.com) -- Pro-life advocates who purchased a building that formerly housed a Wichita, Kansas abortion facility say they have employed chemicals normally used to investigate crime scenes and found the walls of the room where abortions were performed completely covered in unseen blood. Members of Operation Rescue, a pro-life group that purchased the former Central Women's Services abortion business building, conducted blood trace tests. The group decided to test various surfaces and walls inside the building, which has remain unchanged since the pro-life group purchased it in June. The abortion business occupied the facility for 23 years. Using...

Baby Born in Waiting Room Murdered at Florida Abortion Clinic Officials "put the baby in a bag and walked away with it" HIALEAH, Florida, July 31, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An investigation is underway at a Florida abortion clinic after police found the body of a baby, following a tip that the child had been killed after birth. NBC6 News reported Friday on the discovery by Hialeah police, who said they had received a call alleging that someone at the abortion clinic had killed a baby born alive on the premises July 20. An initial search revealed nothing, police said, but...

(CBS4 News) HIALEAH Hialeah Police Homicide Detectives are investigating the gruesome discovery of a dead baby’s body inside of an abortion clinic [Isn't that what abortion clinics do?] but conflicting stories may prove there's more to the discovery than meets the eye. The body was found at “A Gynecologists Diagnostic Center,” 3671 West 16th Avenue in Hialeah. Witnesses tell police that a young woman, whose identity has not been released, arrived at the clinic last Thursday at roughly 22 weeks pregnant for an abortion procedure. Police say the woman arrived the next day after the procedure complaining of severe pain....

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Wichita, KS – Operation Rescue has announced that it has purchased the building that housed Central Women’s Services, an abortion mill located at located at 3013 E. Central in Wichita, Kansas. The building will be renovated and serve as Operation Rescue’s headquarters, and will feature a memorial to the pre-born. Quick action closes mill Operation Rescue learned in late April that Central Women’s Services had not been able to pay its rent in months, and that the property was for sale. OR acted quickly to make an offer on the building through a third party, and specifically requested that the...

WICHITA, June 29, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The pro-life group Operation Rescue has announced that it has purchased the building that housed Central Women's Services, an abortion mill located at 3013 E. Central in Wichita, Kansas. Central Women's Services had not been able to pay the rent, and the property was put up for sale. When Operation Rescue purchased the property, under the stipulation that the current tenant not be allowed to remain, it forced the mill to close.The facility is to be renovated and serve as the pro-life group's corporate headquarters, and will feature a memorial to the pre-born victims of...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Abortion opponent Janet Spear walked up to the door of the defunct Summit Medical Center on Wednesday and taped up the sign she had longed to see for years: "This death camp stays closed." Spear joined about three dozen activists at a ceremony to celebrate the closing of the downtown clinic, which surrendered its license last week rather than fight state charges that a worker was improperly allowed to perform an abortion without a doctor being present. Sweating under the noontime sun outside the darkened clinic building, Spear and the others prayed for the thousands of women...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - A Birmingham abortion clinic has surrendered its license amid allegations that a woman delivered a nearly full-term stillborn baby after a clinic staffer gave her an abortion-inducing drug and performed other medical treatments without a doctor present, health officials said Wednesday. The Alabama Department of Health issued a suspension order against Summit Medical Center on May 17, citing numerous violations of state health rules. The center has been closed since it was shutdown the next day and will not reopen, said Rick Harris, director of the state health agency's bureau of provider standards. Wednesday's move avoids a...