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The NEOWC employee who called 911 asked that the ambulance park around the back of the facility since pro-life advocates were outside the facility. When the ambulance arrived, clinic employees attempted to prevent pro-lifers from photographing the incident by holding a banner in front of the patient and the ambulance, but they were unsuccessful.
Operation Rescue also checked the Ohio Department of Health’s online records for NEOWC, which show that the facility's license expired on March 31, 2019.
“Ohio has a chronic problem of allowing abortion facilities to operate on expired facility licenses. We have seen some facilities continue to do business on licenses that have been expired for years,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. “The Ohio Department of Health has failed in its duty to ensure that Ohio abortion facilities have current licenses and meet all requirements. This puts women in danger, and may have contributed to the serious injury that recently hospitalized one of their abortion clients.”