{"id":204731,"date":"2019-06-17T11:46:17","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T16:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=204731"},"modified":"2019-06-17T13:54:21","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T18:54:21","slug":"florida-abortionist-wrong-abortion-violating-patient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/florida-abortionist-wrong-abortion-violating-patient\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida abortionist fined for doing wrong abortion, ‘violating’ patient’s body"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Abortion advocates have frequently claimed abortion should be “between a woman and her doctor.” But pro-lifers have pointed out on multiple occasions that abortionists have little, if any, history with their patients before they commit an abortion on those patients. An abortionist in Florida’s Broward County has been fined by the state licensing board more than three times the recommended penalty for a major medical mistake. Harvey Craig Roth was supposed to provide a medication abortion (abortion pill) to his 35-year-old patient, but committed a surgical procedure on her instead. Florida state health attorneys recommended a $3,000 fine, but the Florida Board of Medicine felt differently, and more than tripled the fine.<\/p>\n

The South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported on the case<\/a>, pointing out that Roth violated state surgical rules. One of them is the so-called “pause” rule, requiring that surgeons pause before any procedure, making sure they have the right patient, the right site, and the right procedure. They must repeat the process again if they leave the operating room for any reason.<\/p>\n

Roth, who commits abortions at A Woman\u2019s Center of Hollywood, admitted to not following this rule because he didn’t think it affected his work. Yet the patient, identified only as “K.N.M.,” was only supposed to take abortion pills.<\/p>\n