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Originally Posted by SWTXBelle
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."
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Ah, sounds like a definite failure by the DH/DS in PA then. But I think the same query applies, does adding more regulation actually fix the problem in this case? I'm not sure it actually would have. Following the current regulations SHOULD have shut him down. (Was the third decade run underground or was his first decade in practice actually 'clean' ?). Restricting abortion to hospitals or similar facilities would be devastating to access for women, so does the law actually cause the problem it would intend to stop? It seems to me that it would.
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