Abortion Clinic Reopens Despite Charges of Malpractice and Filthy Conditions.(Metropolitan Medical Associates)

After only one month, New Jersey authorities allowed an abortion clinic accused of filthy conditions and malpractice to reopen March 23, calling the clinic's corrective plan "satisfactory," the Newark Star-Ledger reported. The State Department of Health and Senior Services had closed Metropolitan Medical Associates in Englewood February 24.

Protesting the quick reopening of the clinic, pro-lifers parked a motor home across the street and invited women approaching the clinic for abortions to have an ultrasound. One girl, 16-year-old Michelle Younger, told the Associated Press (AP) that the ultrasound images convinced her not to abort her 24-week-old unborn baby.

"I didn't think I was that far along," she said. "That changed my whole opinion."

Metropolitan Medical is one of the largest abortion clinics in the state, aborting more than 10,000 babies each year. Investigating the clinic in February, state officials found "forceps encrusted in 'brownish blood-like residues,' rusty crochet hooks used to remove IUDs, and a quarter-inch of dark red 'dirt and debris' under an exam table," according to The Record.

In addition, according to a report quoted in The Record, "there was a large dark orangish-yellow stained area, dirt, debris, and syringe caps found under the operating tables in operating rooms #1, 2, 3 and 4. Employee #2 stated, 'We do not usually move these tables. The housekeeper cleans around the O.R. tables a couple of times a week.'"

The investigation began after the hospital treating Rasheedah Dinkins, 20, reported her injuries to officials. Dinkins had a hysterectomy and laid in a coma for over three weeks after her abortion at the clinic on January 27. She went to Metropolitan Medical, one of the few abortion clinics in the state to do second-trimester abortions, because her unborn baby was 15 weeks old, according to The Record.

Dinkins, who has since filed a ...