The abortion industry is setting a new record – one that pro-lifers should consider as a positive sign.
Basing its decision on two dozen serious health and safety violations, the North Carolina Department of Health has suspended the license of Femcare, an abortion clinic in Ashville. That marks the 42nd abortion clinic to close so far this year, eclipsing the 24 that closed during all of 2012.
Troy Newman, president of Operation Rescue, likes the trend.
"If you look around at the abortion industry, there's not one single abortion clinic opening – they're all closing," he remarks. "And it shows that from a high watermark in 1991 of about 2,200 abortion clinics, we're down to 625; and the rate of them closing has sped up like never before."
The violations at the North Carolina abortuary were revealed during a routine inspection on July 18-19. Those violations ranged from anesthesia masks and tubing being held together with tape, to failure to sweep and mop the operating room floor.
While the shuttering of Femcare was not directly related to the state's just-signed law requiring abortion clinics to meet the standards of an outpatient surgery center, Newman believes it is still a good example of how effective state laws are establishing minimum standards for those clinics – if they are enforced.
"They cannot comply with normal ambulatory, medical, common-sense standards of medicine," he contends, "and when they're inspected, like this particular one was for the first time in six-and-a-half years, they're forced to close. They lose their medical license."
In addition, since the murder conviction earlier this year of Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell and the convictions and plea deals of his employees, abortion clinic workers are leaving the industry believing they might be next.
Contact: Charlie Butts, Source: OneNewsNow.com
