{"id":261810,"date":"2022-01-28T06:37:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T12:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=261810"},"modified":"2022-01-28T00:28:49","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T06:28:49","slug":"alabama-abortion-cited-rusty-instruments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/alabama-abortion-cited-rusty-instruments\/","title":{"rendered":"Alabama abortion facility cited again for using rusty surgical instruments"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/div>

An Alabama abortion facility responsible for the death of at least one woman<\/a>\u00a0and currently facing a lawsuit<\/a> for the horrific injuries to another has failed a licensing inspection after staff were found to be using rusty, unsanitary surgical equipment on women.\u00a0The deficiency report<\/a>\u00a0from a December inspection on West Alabama Women’s Center was obtained by Operation Rescue<\/a>.\u00a0A previous deficiency report from 2020<\/a>\u00a0also found rusty and unsanitary surgical instruments.<\/p>\n

Abortionist Leah Torres serves as the medical director, though her license to practice medicine in Alabama was temporarily revoked<\/a> in 2020. The Alabama Board of Medical Examiners stated at the time that \u201cLEAH N. TORRES, M.D. may constitute an immediate danger to her patients and\/or the public.\u201d Torres was also accused of lying on her application<\/a>, on which she stated she would be working with COVID-19 patients, not committing abortions.\u00a0Torres’ eventually was granted a license to practice medicine in Alabama in 2021.<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0Shocking quotes show how abortion supporters try to disguise the reality of abortion<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

In the interview with the facility inspectors, Torres did not dispute the issues found in the December 2021 report, which included failing to discard rusty and damaged surgical instruments and failing to properly clean and sanitize surgical instruments, calling into question whether Torres had knowingly been committing abortions on women with rusty, unsanitary tools.<\/p>\n

Torres is known for her history of saying crude and offensive things about abortion on social media. She has tweeted that “God performs more abortions”<\/a> than she does (in reference to miscarriages), and has said that people who aren’t willing to commit abortions shouldn’t become OB\/GYNs<\/a>. She also claimed that “fetuses can’t scream,”<\/a> because she makes sure to “transect the cord first,” likely referring to the umbilical cord.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is sickening to learn that the West Alabama Women\u2019s Center, which has been fraught with serious health and safety issues in the past several months, would intentionally continue to engage in practices we might have expected to find in a back-alley abortion mill,” Operation Rescue President Troy Newman said in a statement. “These people are either incapable of complying with basic health rules due to incompetence or they just don\u2019t care if they comply. That attitude puts women at risk of harm from their shoddy practices every day they are open.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a>\u00a0for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An Alabama abortion facility responsible for the death of at least one woman\u00a0and currently facing a lawsuit for the horrific injuries to another has failed a licensing inspection after staff were found to be using rusty, unsanitary surgical equipment on women.\u00a0The deficiency report\u00a0from a December inspection on West Alabama Women’s Center was obtained by Operation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":230522,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[15,3473],"tags":[3283,15480,12136,1114,15481,12503],"yoast_head":"\nAlabama abortion facility cited again for using rusty surgical instruments<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"An Alabama abortion facility responsible for the death of at least one woman\u00a0and currently facing a lawsuit has failed another inspection.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/alabama-abortion-cited-rusty-instruments\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Alabama abortion facility cited again for using rusty surgical instruments\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"An Alabama abortion facility responsible for the death of at least one woman\u00a0and currently facing a lawsuit has failed another inspection.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/alabama-abortion-cited-rusty-instruments\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Live Action News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-01-28T12:37:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-01-28T06:28:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/leah-torres-twitter.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1198\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"649\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Cassy Cooke\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@liveaction\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@liveaction\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Cassy Cooke\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/alabama-abortion-cited-rusty-instruments\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/alabama-abortion-cited-rusty-instruments\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Cassy Cooke\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/16622da192101346f516b7444d125392\"},\"headline\":\"Alabama abortion facility cited again for using rusty surgical instruments\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-01-28T12:37:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-01-28T06:28:49+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/alabama-abortion-cited-rusty-instruments\/\"},\"wordCount\":406,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"Alabama Board of Medical Examiners\",\"failed inspection\",\"Leah torres\",\"Operation Rescue\",\"rusty instruments\",\"West Alabama Women's Center\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Analysis\",\"Newsbreak\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/alabama-abortion-cited-rusty-instruments\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/alabama-abortion-cited-rusty-instruments\/\",\"name\":\"Alabama abortion facility cited again for using rusty surgical instruments\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2022-01-28T12:37:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-01-28T06:28:49+00:00\",\"description\":\"An Alabama abortion facility responsible for the death of at least one woman\u00a0and currently facing a lawsuit has failed another inspection.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/alabama-abortion-cited-rusty-instruments\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/alabama-abortion-cited-rusty-instruments\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/alabama-abortion-cited-rusty-instruments\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Alabama abortion facility cited again for using rusty surgical instruments\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/\",\"name\":\"Live Action News\",\"description\":\"Covering Human Rights, Abortion, & Pro-Life Issues\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Live Action\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Live-Action-Logo-Black.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Live-Action-Logo-Black.png\",\"width\":701,\"height\":710,\"caption\":\"Live Action\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction\",\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/liveaction\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/liveactionorg\/\",\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/LiveActionFilms\/\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/LiveActionFilms\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/16622da192101346f516b7444d125392\",\"name\":\"Cassy Cooke\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8b602f8210f1a7d948ca1c0dcab11fad?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8b602f8210f1a7d948ca1c0dcab11fad?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Cassy Cooke\"},\"description\":\"Cassy has over 20 years of experience as a writer and editor, most of which have been spent covering pro-life issues like abortion, disability rights, euthanasia, and more.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/author\/cassy-fiano\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Alabama abortion facility cited again for using rusty surgical instruments","description":"An Alabama abortion facility responsible for the death of at least one woman\u00a0and currently facing a lawsuit has failed another inspection.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/alabama-abortion-cited-rusty-instruments\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Alabama abortion facility cited again for using rusty surgical instruments","og_description":"An Alabama abortion facility responsible for the death of at least one woman\u00a0and currently facing a lawsuit has failed another inspection.","og_url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/alabama-abortion-cited-rusty-instruments\/","og_site_name":"Live Action News","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction","article_published_time":"2022-01-28T12:37:00+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-01-28T06:28:49+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1198,"height":649,"url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/leah-torres-twitter.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Cassy Cooke","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@liveaction","twitter_site":"@liveaction","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Cassy Cooke","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/alabama-abortion-cited-rusty-instruments\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/alabama-abortion-cited-rusty-instruments\/"},"author":{"name":"Cassy Cooke","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/16622da192101346f516b7444d125392"},"headline":"Alabama abortion facility cited again for using rusty surgical instruments","datePublished":"2022-01-28T12:37:00+00:00","dateModified":"2022-01-28T06:28:49+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/alabama-abortion-cited-rusty-instruments\/"},"wordCount":406,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization"},"keywords":["Alabama Board of Medical Examiners","failed inspection","Leah torres","Operation Rescue","rusty instruments","West Alabama Women's Center"],"articleSection":["Analysis","Newsbreak"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/alabama-abortion-cited-rusty-instruments\/","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/alabama-abortion-cited-rusty-instruments\/","name":"Alabama abortion facility cited again for using rusty surgical instruments","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#website"},"datePublished":"2022-01-28T12:37:00+00:00","dateModified":"2022-01-28T06:28:49+00:00","description":"An Alabama abortion facility responsible for the death of at least one woman\u00a0and currently facing a lawsuit has failed another inspection.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/alabama-abortion-cited-rusty-instruments\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/alabama-abortion-cited-rusty-instruments\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/alabama-abortion-cited-rusty-instruments\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Alabama abortion facility cited again for using rusty surgical instruments"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/","name":"Live Action News","description":"Covering Human Rights, Abortion, & Pro-Life Issues","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization","name":"Live Action","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Live-Action-Logo-Black.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Live-Action-Logo-Black.png","width":701,"height":710,"caption":"Live Action"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction","https:\/\/twitter.com\/liveaction","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/liveactionorg\/","https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/LiveActionFilms\/","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/LiveActionFilms"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/16622da192101346f516b7444d125392","name":"Cassy Cooke","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8b602f8210f1a7d948ca1c0dcab11fad?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8b602f8210f1a7d948ca1c0dcab11fad?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Cassy Cooke"},"description":"Cassy has over 20 years of experience as a writer and editor, most of which have been spent covering pro-life issues like abortion, disability rights, euthanasia, and more.","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/author\/cassy-fiano\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261810"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261810"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261823,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261810\/revisions\/261823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}