{"id":239529,"date":"2021-02-09T17:58:15","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T23:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=239529"},"modified":"2023-11-14T20:23:48","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T02:23:48","slug":"second-largest-late-term-abortion-uk-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/second-largest-late-term-abortion-uk-closed\/","title":{"rendered":"CLOSED: Second largest late-term abortion facility in UK is out of business"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(Right to Life UK<\/a>) The second-largest late-term abortion centre in the UK, which has performed over 1,200 abortions on unborn children at 20 weeks or over in the last three years, has\u00a0closed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This abortion centre, situated in Streatham, South London and also known as\u00a0\u2018The Lodge\u2019<\/a>, has\u00a0performed<\/a>\u00a013,114 abortions between 2017 and 2019, including 2,235 abortions of unborn babies between 13 and 19 weeks\u2019 gestation, as well as 1,297 abortions at 20 weeks\u2019 gestation or over.<\/p>\n

Aerial footage<\/a>\u00a0from the estate agency that is selling the property shows the \u2018Victorian Mansion House\u2019 where tens of thousands of abortions have been peformed on unborn children over the past couple of decades.<\/p>\n

Controversy at Streatham abortion centre<\/strong><\/p>\n

The closure comes in the aftermath of a series of controversies and scandals at the clinic. In 2019, a\u00a0surprise inspection<\/a>\u00a0by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) found incompetent staff who had not completed life support training and \u201cnot all equipment was in good working order\u201d.<\/p>\n

The CQC noted that two serious incidents and 76 clinical incidents were\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0at the clinic between April 2018 and April 2019. However, this is likely only the tip of the iceberg as inspectors discovered that \u201cstaff did not always report incidents as they felt there was a blame culture\u201d.<\/p>\n

One staff member even disclosed to an inspector, \u201cif you raise concerns then you have to face the consequences. I have learnt to keep quiet\u201d.<\/p>\n

Alarmingly, only nine of the clinic\u2019s twenty-four members of staff had received training to spot and treat sepsis, which is the\u00a0leading cause of maternal death in the UK<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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