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On Monday, Aastra Women’s Center agreed to pay a $3,000 fine as part of a settlement with the state of Florida. The state filed suit against Aastra and four other abortion facilities\u00a0late last year, alleging that they performed illegal second-trimester abortions without proper licenses. CBS Miami reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The Agency for Health Care\u00a0Administration<\/span><\/span>\u00a0in September accused Aastra and four other clinics of performing second-trimester abortions without proper licenses. The clinics filed legal challenges, arguing that the agency used a shifting definition of what constitutes the first trimester of pregnancy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Although Aastra has agreed to pay the fine, they are still claiming innocence. The settlement\u00a0states that\u00a0Aastra \u201cdenies the validity of the allegations raised in the administrative complaint\u201d and that the\u00a0Agency for Health Care Administration\u00a0\u201casserts the validity of the allegations.\u201d When a tentative agreement was reached with the state in December, an attorney for the abortion center\u00a0claimed that any settlement reached was simply a “business decision<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

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The lawsuit followed investigations launched by Florida Governor Rick Scott, who opted to investigate all Planned Parenthood abortion facilities in the state of Florida last year, following the release of videos indicating unethical behavior by Planned Parenthood officials. However, as Live Action News’ Susan Michelle reported<\/a> last August, Gov. Scott received criticism for announcing that investigations would take place – a breach of protocol:<\/p>\n

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… [A]gency protocol is to show up unannounced so clinics don\u2019t have warning to prepare.<\/p>\n

The fact that these Planned Parenthood facilities knew an investigation was occurring and didn\u2019t make attempts to cover such egregious violations as unlicensed dismemberment abortions and improper disposal of fetal remains should be a troubling sign to lawmakers in Florida.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In addition to catching several Florida abortion facilities\u00a0illegally performing second-trimester abortions, the investigation<\/a> also revealed improper disposal of fetal remains at one facility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Monday, Aastra Women’s Center agreed to pay a $3,000 fine as part of a settlement with the state of Florida. The state filed suit against Aastra and four other abortion facilities\u00a0late last year, alleging that they performed illegal second-trimester abortions without proper licenses. CBS Miami reports: The Agency for Health Care\u00a0Administration\u00a0in September accused Aastra […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":92929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3473],"tags":[8460,72,7842,3081,8461,740,14,3567],"yoast_head":"\nFlorida abortion center to pay fine for illegal abortions<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Aastra Women's Center will pay $3,000 in fines for performing illegal second-trimester abortions without proper licenses - which the center still disputes.\" \/>\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\/florida-abortion-center-to-pay-fine-for-illegal-abortions\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Florida abortion center to pay fine for illegal abortions\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Aastra Women's Center will pay $3,000 in fines for performing illegal second-trimester abortions without proper licenses - which the center still disputes.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/florida-abortion-center-to-pay-fine-for-illegal-abortions\/\" \/>\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=\"2016-04-19T17:21:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Aastra-Womens-Center.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"672\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"250\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Danny David\" \/>\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=\"Danny David\" \/>\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\/florida-abortion-center-to-pay-fine-for-illegal-abortions\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/florida-abortion-center-to-pay-fine-for-illegal-abortions\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Danny David\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/a6ce08f7970f3686ab5e5ab1d26eaed2\"},\"headline\":\"Florida abortion center to pay fine for illegal abortions\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-04-19T17:21:14+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-04-19T17:21:14+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/florida-abortion-center-to-pay-fine-for-illegal-abortions\/\"},\"wordCount\":313,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"Aastra Women's Center\",\"Florida\",\"Gov. 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