{"id":78470,"date":"2015-10-28T12:55:49","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T16:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=78470"},"modified":"2015-10-28T12:57:11","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T16:57:11","slug":"scandal-ridden-chicago-abortion-facility-finally-shuts-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/scandal-ridden-chicago-abortion-facility-finally-shuts-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Scandal-ridden Chicago abortion facility finally shuts down"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Pro-Life Action League is declaring victory in its 27-year battle to close down the Chicago abortion facility,\u00a0Albany Medical-Surgical Center.<\/p>\n<p>The facility finally shut down on October 17, following state safety inspections that found multiple violations, including fire, sanitation, and more, which AMSC reportedly failed to correct.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As Pro-Life Action League has <a href=\"http:\/\/prolifeaction.org\/hotline\/2015\/albanyfpa\/\">covered<\/a>, the August 2013<a href=\"http:\/\/prolifeaction.org\/docs\/2015\/AlbanyFPALifeSafetyInspection.pdf\"> inspection <\/a>was the facility&#8217;s first since 1995. Following their findings, over a year passed without the\u00a0facility\u00a0submitting an acceptable plan to correct deficiencies to the state.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/petition\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-68636 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liveactionnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DefundAd-400b.jpg\" alt=\"DefundAd-400b\" width=\"400\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DefundAd-400b.jpg 400w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DefundAd-400b-300x128.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In addition, AMSC transferred 12 patients to the hospital by ambulance in 2014, but reported zero ambulatory transfers since 2005. And three women, plus a 13-year-old girl, have died following abortions at the facility.<\/p>\n<p>Pro-Life Action League Executive Director Eric Scheidler hailed the news as &#8220;a victory for all who value human life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now that its doors have closed, this neighborhood is safer for women and their unborn children,\u201d Scheidler said.<\/p>\n<p>Pro-Life Action League has held protests, sidewalk counseling, and prayer vigils outside the facility\u00a0since its opening in 1988.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pro-Life Action League is declaring victory in its 27-year battle to close down the Chicago abortion facility,\u00a0Albany Medical-Surgical Center. The facility finally shut down on October 17, following state safety inspections that found multiple violations, including fire, sanitation, and more, which AMSC reportedly failed to correct.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":78486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3473],"tags":[19,5874,4539,5387,4537,577,4067,3876,5875],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Scandal-ridden Chicago abortion facility finally shuts down<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Pro-Life Action League is declaring victory in its 27-year battle to close down the Chicago abortion facility, Albany Medical-Surgical Center.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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