{"id":177673,"date":"2018-01-12T11:04:35","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T16:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=177673"},"modified":"2018-01-11T18:21:45","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T23:21:45","slug":"women-risk-abortion-failed-inspections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/women-risk-abortion-failed-inspections\/","title":{"rendered":"Women at risk: Former abortion workers speak out about failed inspections"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Earlier this month, Live Action News\u00a0published an article<\/a> about the Delta Clinic, an abortion facility where former abortion worker Shelley Guillory, RN, worked. In a webcast<\/a> sponsored by the pro-life group And Then There Were None,<\/a> Guillory spoke about the horrible conditions at Delta, which put women at risk:<\/p>\n

[I]t was horrendous. I mean, it was filthy. You still had blood splattered from, I mean, weeks of procedures ago that were still on the wall. This building was not cleaned on a daily basis. It wasn\u2019t even cleaned on a monthly basis.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Despite the disgusting conditions at Delta, the facility never failed an inspection. This was because the abortion workers knew in advance when the inspectors were coming. Workers were able to prepare for the inspections. In fact, according to Guillory, the only time the abortion facility was ever cleaned was right before inspectors were scheduled to arrive:<\/p>\n

Our buildings got cleaned when we knew the state was coming in. And the way we knew the state was coming in was because we always got a phone call from within the State Department that they were coming in, so we knew what day they were coming in, what time they would be there and what charts they wanted pulled. So we never failed an inspection. Although we were, I would say, the most unhealthy place to have a human body have to go through any sort of procedure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Abby Johnson, who managed a Planned Parenthood abortion facility, comments in the webcast,<\/a>\u00a0“Shelley, you just said that you knew when the inspector was coming…. They let you pull the charts; you were able to scrub the charts. You could get cleaned up for that one day inspection,” adding that her own Planned Parenthood worked the same way with regard to inspections:<\/p>\n

We had something very, very similar. We always knew when they were coming. We were able, they allowed us to pull our own charts. We scrubbed the charts. We never gave them a chart with a complication or anything like that, or a woman who had to be transported. So, in fact, our inspector would leave us the list of things that she was looking for so that we would know exactly what to pull the next year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Johnson and the other workers were able to choose which patient charts they showed inspectors, instead of having the inspectors pull charts at random. Therefore, it was very easy for abortion workers to hide injuries to women. All the abortion workers had to do was select the charts of women who had no complications. In a 2016 public Facebook post, Johnson revealed that there were<\/em> in fact injuries at her facility, and that the facility never called ambulances when women were hurt. But the inspectors never knew of these complications. By pre-selecting the charts inspectors saw, abortion workers were able to hide botched abortions and women\u2019s injuries from inspectors.<\/p>\n

These facilities weren’t the only ones who injured women and acted as if nothing had happened. An undercover Live Action investigation caught several Planned Parenthood facilities lying about whether women had been harmed there<\/a>:<\/p>\n