Stop the madness: Georgia abortion clinic has violated regs AND waivers for two decades
In 1994, the Georgia State Planning Agency notified the architect designing Atlanta Women’s Medical Center in Atlanta, Georgia, that plans for its two-story late-term abortion clinic needed to include an elevator.
The clinic’s owner, HUMEDCO Corporation, which runs a chain of three abortion clinics, claimed it would be too expensive to add an elevator and requested a waiver.
The Georgia Department of Human Services granted the waiver, through August 31, 2005. It went on to grant another waiver, through August 31, 2012.
The terms in both cases were that AWMC had to notify prospective patients of the stairs, escort recovering patients down the stairs, and also notify 911 operators that there was no elevator in the event of an emergency.
Meanwhile AWMC raked in the cash, between $3-3.5 MILLION every year from 2008 to 2011.
On October 20, 2011, an ambulance was called to AWMC (for what later turned out to be a perforated uterus)….