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Alabama Medical Clinic Closed by State
Citing "multiple and serious violations of the rules," the Alabama State Board of Health closed Summit Medical Center, an abortion clinic, in Birmingham May 17, according to the Birmingham News.
The state took action when a woman delivered a stillborn six-pound, four-ounce baby six days after the clinic, claiming the baby was only six weeks old, began the RU486 abortion process. The unidentified woman sought an abortion February 20, and was given an ultrasound by a non-physician. The staff member told her she was six weeks pregnant, the News reported.
Again without a physician present, clinic staff gave the ...