{"id":82417,"date":"2015-12-14T13:04:56","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T18:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=82417"},"modified":"2016-01-26T01:01:56","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T06:01:56","slug":"georgia-tv-station-uncovers-health-violations-at-multiple-abortion-clinics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/georgia-tv-station-uncovers-health-violations-at-multiple-abortion-clinics\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia TV station uncovers health violations at multiple abortion clinics"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A local media outlet in Georgia combed through five years of state health inspections from local abortion clinics and found several disturbing violations. WSB-TV Channel 2 Atlanta spent a month looking at the health documents after the release of undercover videos showing Planned Parenthood’s baby parts operation.<\/p>\n

In their investigative report, after they learned<\/a> that these abortion facilities were not improperly disposing of aborted babies, Channel 2 wanted to see exactly what the state had found after performing a complete inspection of abortion facilities\u00a0and\u00a0how often inspections are done. The station then filed an open records report with the state, asking for state inspection reports of licensed abortion clinics dating back five years.<\/p>\n

\"Georgia<\/p>\n

What WSB-TV discovered would horrify the public. According to their report, the following violations were documented during state health inspections of these so-called “safe and legal” abortion facilities – and this isn’t the complete list: Expired medications and medical instruments, unsterilized equipment, sterile and nonsterile supplies stored in the same room, the vent in a biohazard room taped off with cardboard, stirrups wrapped in duct tape, iodine swabs used to prevent wound infections expired by 10 years, and soiled linens in surgical rooms.<\/p>\n

In addition, the TV station discovered <\/a>that one of the abortion clinics cited by the state was a Planned Parenthood facility in Augusta, which\u00a0had 23 health or safety violations<\/strong> in one year alone and was fined $1,400 by the state. However, they also discovered that health inspectors waited two years<\/em> before returning to the Planned Parenthood\u00a0to see if the violations had been corrected.<\/p>\n

\"Abortion<\/p>\n

Virginia Gallaway with the Faith and Freedom Coalition told WSB-TV\u00a0that she was shocked, because restaurants are inspected more frequently than abortion clinics. Interestingly, Staci Fox, Planned Parenthood’s Southeast CEO (which heads the Planned Parenthood mentioned in the report), claimed the inspections might be deceiving because some inspectors’ may be biased\u00a0against Planned Parenthood – though she didn’t specify how a bias could create a health or safety violation:<\/p>\n