{"id":58640,"date":"2015-01-24T10:02:50","date_gmt":"2015-01-24T15:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=58640"},"modified":"2015-01-23T19:22:15","modified_gmt":"2015-01-24T00:22:15","slug":"medical-negligence-in-illinois-abortion-clinics-risk-womens-health-and-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/medical-negligence-in-illinois-abortion-clinics-risk-womens-health-and-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical negligence in Illinois abortion clinics risk women’s health…and lives"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Perhaps the most astounding aspect of the shoddy care of abortion clinics is the claim they all make to provide quality health care for women. A recent example of the hypocrisy<\/a> in Illinois is not only disgusting, but also dangerous to the women it purports to serve.<\/p>\n

The study from Illinois Right to Life <\/a>revealed:<\/p>\n

63% of licensed Illinois women\u2019s clinics have not received a health and sanitary inspection in between two and three-and-a-half-years. The failure of the Department of Public Health to conduct regular health and sanitary inspections leaves women open to the prospect of unsterile surgical tools, dirty operating rooms, incomplete medical attention, infections, and possibly more deaths.<\/p>\n

\u201cIllinois Right to Life researchers requested a copy of the Illinois Department of Public Health\u2019s sanitary inspection policy for licensed women\u2019s clinics. No such policy exists<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The report, which has spawned a petition to the Illinois Department of Public Health<\/a>, reminds us that abortion providers and the government that supports them are often willing to compromise patient safety \u2014 even to the point of risking infection and disease\u00a0 \u2014in the name of easy abortion access. Sanitary instruments? No, thanks. We\u2019ll just float some debris in our suction machine. As long as we suck the baby out, we don\u2019t care what else happens. Need some Motrin? Okay, but you get crumbs with it. We don\u2019t mind storing our TV dinners with human tissue.<\/p>\n

Sounds like a bad horror movie or sci-fi episode of a science experiment gone wrong, doesn\u2019t it? But it\u2019s the reality of what was found in abortion clinics in Illinois, where 40% of licensed abortion clinics went between 14 and 17 years without a single health inspection.<\/p>\n

It took 66 pages to detail the problems<\/a> with negligence and incompetence in Illinois clinics. The overarching conclusion is that Illinois operates \u201csubstandard women\u2019s reproductive health facilities \u2026 with virtually no oversight,” says Illinois Right to Life.<\/p>\n

But Illinois does offer oversight for other important medical facilities. You know, like tanning salons, which are inspected every year. As Emily Zender, executive director of Illinois Right to Life, notes, it\u2019s a scary situation because:<\/p>\n

…[w]hile news reports warn of MRSA, urge flu vaccination, and praise hospital Ebola training, abortion providers are allowed to perform invasive surgical procedures in unsanitary conditions<\/span>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Women in the state of Illinois are not assured medical safety when they walk into an abortion clinic. Receiving an abortion in Illinois might mean a woman loses her life \u2014 or her ability to ever reproduce.<\/p>\n

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Abortion advocates insist that safety standards at abortion clinics are just a method of \u201canti-abortion control\u201d and not really about safety. But this report shows a troubling trend toward eschewing safety . As the report notes, here\u2019s a summary of what they found<\/a> in Illinois abortion clinics \u2014 facilities that are legally licensed in the state:<\/p>\n