Adios to Alternatives
I reported in July the New Jersey Health Department had closed the Alternatives abortion mill in Atlantic City for multiple health and safety violations, including this, lifted directly from the 116-page report, which I received:
The soiled utility room… is equipped with a garbage disposal. Staff member #6 stated the garbage disposal was used for the “disposal of tissue”….
Today came word the fetal garbage dump has disposed of itself. According to The Press of Atlantic City….
The decades-long presence of an embattled city abortion clinic has finally come to an end.
A New Jersey Health Department spokesman confirmed Tuesday that the Alternatives abortion clinic has opted to surrender its license to the state instead of correcting the list of violations detailed in a report that caused the sudden closing of the clinic more than three months ago.
Atlantic City Councilman John Schultz, who leased the facility to Alternatives, said the clinic’s equipment was emptied out of the building last month and the space is available for lease.
“They moved out, everything is out of there,” Schultz said in a phone interview. “My lawyers just sent them a letter telling them they’re like a month behind on their rent.”
The state’s report detailed a slew of violations at the clinic, including bloodstained operating tables, expired drugs and the absence of a sterilization sink.
All worried that women’s access to safe, legal, and rare abortions may be encumbered by this closure need not fear. According to The Press:
Alternatives owner Dr. Alan Kline… also owns the Princeton Women’s Center in Princeton….
This is located just three miles from Princeton University. I’m sure, given his upscale clientele, Kline runs this chop shop much cleaner and safer than he did the Alternatives mill.
[HT: Operation Rescue]
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
I’m so glad this clinic is closed. I can’t believe that ANYONE could dispose of an aborted baby down a garbage disposal. It makes me heart sick. The poor child’s mom and dad didn’t want him/her, and now the abortionist/staff is abusing the corpse:(
Isn’t the # of abortion clinics dropping?
Heather –
I read that it is. The Pro-Choice crowd is blamming it on the Pro-life people harrassing the doctors so they won’t want to do abortions. However, they seem to forget that when an abortion clinic is closed by a county/state health department, pro-life harrassment had nothing to do with it. The health depts have to follow rules and regulations and have to prove any of these they found have been broken.
Abortion mills seem to want to operate under different regulations than other outpatient clinics. It is ironic considering that say they want to be treated like any other clinic, but in the next breath fight any attempt to make them follow the standards that other outpatient facilities have to follow. I am referring to PP Missouri’s lawsuit to stop a new law that ” designates facilities performing 2nd and 3rd trimester abortionsor 5 or more 1st trimester.as ambulatory surgical centers.”(8/23/07 Medical News Today)
valerie, don’t you find it ironic that we are always being referred to as the “loony pro lifers.” Excuse me? Only a lunatic would put an aborted baby down a garbage disposal, and only loony followers would support it. It’s the other way around. Great post, BTW.
One more thing, only loony women would support an organization that kills children and maims and kills their mothers.
I dunno…I’ve been to a seedy doctors office before that had nothing to do with abortion. Some people just don’t care about sanitation, serves them right if they get a staph infection.
The doctors office i went to that was absolutly disgusting wasn’t my regular doctor, it was a different pediatrician. There was dried blood on a cabinet door and I remember the bathroom being appauling. Most of the people there were teen moms with their kids and most of those kids just looked filthy. I remember my Mom and I actually just looked at each other and laughed, we were just shocked and really didn’t know what we’d see next.
Um, the jist of my story is that abortion clinics aren’t the only ones with problems.
I dunno…I’ve been to a seedy doctors office before that had nothing to do with abortion. Some people just don’t care about sanitation, serves them right if they get a staph infection.
The doctors office i went to that was absolutely disgusting wasn’t my regular doctor, it was a different pediatrician. There was dried blood on a cabinet door and I remember the bathroom being appalling. Most of the people there were teen moms with their kids and most of those kids just looked filthy. I remember my Mom and I actually just looked at each other and laughed, we were just shocked and really didn’t know what we’d see next.
Um, the jist of my story is that abortion clinics aren’t the only ones with problems.
No actually you know what it is? People don’t take woman’s health seriously anymore. I mean too many doctors and nurses I know just assume women are natural hypocondriactes (sp). What can we do to change it?
“One more thing, only loony women would support an organization that kills children and maims and kills their mothers.”
And how many doctors maim and kill women by just throwing around c-sections cause they couldn’t be bothered to learn about high risk labor/ they don’t want to wait for labor naturally. That is why if I give birth I would express that I do not want a c-section unless it is absolutely the last resort.
And how many doctors maim and kill women by just throwing around c-sections cause they couldn’t be bothered to learn about high risk labor/ they don’t want to wait for labor naturally. That is why if I give birth I would express that I do not want a c-section unless it is absolutely the last resort.
I agree with you there, Jess. I think that there are way too many unnecessary c-sections being done by doctors who care more about convenience than the mother’s health, and I think that is wrong. And I would like to see unnecessary c-sections stopped, personally. They are very dangerous to women’s health, but many do not actually realize how much so. Also, I many times wish I had not taken my old doctor’s advice and induced labor with my previous three (another impatient doctor thing – I don’t feel I was well enough informed on the pros and cons before agreeing blindly to my doctors’ advice). I sometimes think that perhaps that was part of the reason for my miscarriages. I’ll never know for sure though.
“And how many doctors maim and kill women by just throwing around c-sections cause they couldn’t be bothered to learn about high risk labor/ they don’t want to wait for labor naturally. That is why if I give birth I would express that I do not want a c-section unless it is absolutely the last resort”
Jess, more c-sections are being done because the doctors are afraid of being sued by seedy lawyers, you know, like John Edwards.
And on top of that we have no respect for pregnant women. We encourage pregnant women to lie around and just eat thus becoming debilitated and making the actual birth far more painful and dangerous.
http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/abstract/71/5/1242S
“The prevalence of obesity is currently rising in developed countries, making pregravid overweight one of the most common high-risk obstetric situations. Although the designs and populations of published studies vary widely, most authors agree that pregravid overweight increases maternal and fetal morbidity. Even moderate overweight is a risk factor for gestational diabetes and hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, and the risk is higher in subjects with overt obesity.”
” Preconception counseling, careful prenatal management, tight monitoring of weight gain, and long-term follow-up could minimize the social and economic consequences of pregnancies in overweight women.”
Bethany, I’m sorry your doctor didn’t give you the proper care. It feels really bad to just be blown off, the elderly (especially women) aren’t taken seriously either. My friend who is in a nursing home recently told me a nurse once answered her question about a medical problem with, “oh you always complain.” And another doctor brushed my Grandma’s complaints of severe back pain off as arthritis (it turned out to be lime disease).
jess, true about nursing homes. In today’s society, the elderly are sadly chalked up to “senile old coots.”…it’s sad. Thanks for the post on C-sections. The hospital I went to for the births of my 3 kids really didn’t want you to have a C-section. They pride themselves on having the lowest rate of C- sections.
jess, if you and your mom went to a filthy clinic, did you report them? I sure would have.
Well heather my Mom and I knew the doctor. We could have, I think they changed locations though.
jess, that nurse you mentioned could be turned in for verbal abuse. I knew a nurse who had her license revoked for doing the very same thing to patients. Verbal abuse is not taken lightly in my state.
Jess, good point about abortion mills not being the only substandard facilities. I did some volunteer work at a veteran’s hospital many years ago and was shocked by the condition of it. It was very sad.
Valerie,
So the abortionists quit because they are harassed by pro-lifers. Puh-leeze!
Has the PC crowd ever seen the dangerous and sometimes life threatening conditions under which doctors, nurses, and other medical personnel function in some of our big city emergency rooms?
Jess,
I think you should have reported that doctor. Apparently no one else had and until someone did, the appalling situation you describe would only continue.
Carrie,
You’re right about the VA hospitals. My father was in one years ago. They thankfully tore that old dungeon down and replaced it with a beautiful new building. Long overdue. It gives us a taste of government run health care.
Bethany,
I read that there was a time when a hospital had a full blown investigation if the c-section rate was 5%! Now it approaches 50% in some hospitals.
I know many are done solely for convenience and have even read that women are given this option. Doesn’t it seem like every celebrity has a c-section? I find this totally unacceptable and yes, dangerous.
Well, if that is indeed the condition that clinic was in then it’s a good thing it was shut down! Medical environments should be positively sterile, if you ask me. Abortion clinics are absolutely no exception.
More c-sections are being done because mothers are now really willing to sue doctors for everything they’ve got if they make a mistake.
Don’t get me wrong, real problem doctors should be prosecuted, but this is ridiculous. We got people, esp in more rural areas, being forced to give birth at a hospital in a separate town because they don’t have an OB-GYN near their town. It’s hard to find people who want to practice it much anymore–when I have told doctors its a possible field to me, everytime they tell me, “well we desperately need people in that field. Just be careful about malpractice insurance.”
Don’t just blame the doctors. Blame the malpractice insurance. With high-risk pregnancies and births, comes the higher risk of mistakes and possible deaths or long term health consequences. Most won’t like to even touch that if they know they can be sued at the drop of a hat. Often they are sued for conditions that haven’t been verifiably proven to be caused by a delivery mishap.
Just sad.
PIP: You pretty much summed up what I wanted to say on the matter.
Mary, on celebs and c-sections, I hear that Britney Spears demanded 2, because she was afraid of labor pain.
“And how many doctors maim and kill women by just throwing around c-sections cause they couldn’t be bothered to learn about high risk labor/ they don’t want to wait for labor naturally. That is why if I give birth I would express that I do not want a c-section unless it is absolutely the last resort.”
I agree with Jess, Bethany, and Jasper on this one.
Heather,
I had a c-section and I wouldn’t wish one on anyone, it’s a very painful healing process, and once you get one you are more likely to get another if you go to a hospital. The hormones are different from those you would get after a natural birth from what I hear also. You probably know all this….
rosie-
Doctors aren’t impatient. They just don’t want to be sued every time something goes wrong during a high risk delivery.
“Oh those stupid doctors!” is not going to help. Helping OB/GYNs stay in business might.
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