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Originally Posted by Drolefille
This doctor wasn't running a legit clinic in the first place though, correct? Illegal clinics are illegal now and would be just as illegal under further restrictions, but still, obviously, exist either way. How would adding additional regulation to legal clinics prevent the illegality of what this guy was doing already?
In short, he was already breaking the law, I'm not sure making a new law would actually do anything but make abortion harder to access, which then makes people more likely to seek out this sort of doctor in the first place.
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Looks like it started out as "legit" - it was licensed in 1979. From the CNN report:
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Originally, he said, the clinic used another doctor as a consultant so it could receive a license to perform abortions in 1979.
Two primary state agencies, the Department of Health and the Department of State, have oversight, Williams said Wednesday at a news conference.
But a grand jury investigation found that health and licensing officials had received repeated reports about Gosnell's dangerous practices for two decades with no action taken, even after the agencies learned that women had died during routine abortions under Gosnell's care, the district attorney's statement said."