No charges against Carhart in extremely late-term abortion death of kindergarten teacher
MAYLAND, May 27, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Maryland Department of Health announced Friday that it had found
“no deficiencies” in late-term abortionist Leroy Carhart’s treatment of
deceased abortion client Jennifer Morbelli. The decision by the
Department of Health comes days after Maryland police announced that
they also would not be bringing criminal charges against Carhart.
Twenty-nine-year-old Morbelli, a kindergarten teacher, died in February after an extremely late-term abortion at Carhart’s Germantown facility.
The notorious abortionist, whose late-term abortion business was hounded out of Nebraska, with that state’s attorney general labeling him “one sick individual,” performed a four-day abortion on Jennifer Morbelli at 33-weeks gestation. Witnesses said Morbelli appeared progressively “weak and pale” each day. Despite her distress, after the abortion was complete, Carhart reportedly caught a flight out of Maryland – and out of contact.
Just hours later, Morbelli’s condition worsened. Attempts by the family
to contact Carhart, as instructed in the event of an emergency, were
futile. Morbelli was finally taken to a local hospital where attempts by
staff to reach Carhart and the Germantown clinic where he works also
reportedly failed.
In February, the medical examiner ruled that complications from the abortion were responsible for Morbelli’s death.
The pro-life group Operation Rescue had asked the Maryland Attorney General and the Montgomery County State Attorney’s office to file second degree murder charges against Carhart.
Troy Newman, president of Operation Rescue, asked that the charges be brought under the state’s “depraved heart murder” doctrine that allows for second degree murder charges when a person engages in conduct that shows a reckless disregard for human life, even if resulting harm is unintentional.
According to Operation Rescue, Carhart’s inaccessibility resulted in a break in the continuity of patient care and led to a delay in appropriate treatment as hospital physicians struggled to understand Morbelli’s condition.
The pro-life group also filed a formal complaint on February 19, seeking license revocation for Carhart.
But while Carhart has been cleared by authorites of wrongdoing in Morbelli’s death, inspectors were less impressed when they recently investigated his clinic for compliance with the state’s new abortion clinic regulations.
In a report made public last week, health officials said that the deficiencies found at the Germantown Reproductive Health Services clinic, while not directly linked to Morbelli's death, were sufficiently serious to warrant a "Notice of Current Deficiencies" with a demand for a "Plan of Correction."
The deficiencies ranged from lapses in providing information about the professional credentials of clinic physicians to a lack of procedural policies for emergencies if patients had to be transferred to a hospital.
The report states that nursing staff at Germantown were not properly trained to give sedation medication, that the clinic had not properly verified the medical director’s credentials, that one nurse’s license had expired in January of 2012, that staff were filling syringes multiple times from vials of medicine intended for one-time use, and leaving some filled syringes with no identification as to what they contained.
Investigators found that staff failed to pre-clean dirty surgical instruments properly using an enzymatic cleaner, but instead washed them with bleach, water and dish soap, before sterilization.
Investigators also found that none of the 10 patient clinical records that were reviewed during the inspection included a discharge diagnosis.
Germantown's Plan of Correction states that the clinic administration believes most of the "deficiencies" identified by the State inspectors "had no negative impact on patients."
Source: LifeSite News
Twenty-nine-year-old Morbelli, a kindergarten teacher, died in February after an extremely late-term abortion at Carhart’s Germantown facility.
The notorious abortionist, whose late-term abortion business was hounded out of Nebraska, with that state’s attorney general labeling him “one sick individual,” performed a four-day abortion on Jennifer Morbelli at 33-weeks gestation. Witnesses said Morbelli appeared progressively “weak and pale” each day. Despite her distress, after the abortion was complete, Carhart reportedly caught a flight out of Maryland – and out of contact.
Jennifer Morbelli
In February, the medical examiner ruled that complications from the abortion were responsible for Morbelli’s death.
The pro-life group Operation Rescue had asked the Maryland Attorney General and the Montgomery County State Attorney’s office to file second degree murder charges against Carhart.
Troy Newman, president of Operation Rescue, asked that the charges be brought under the state’s “depraved heart murder” doctrine that allows for second degree murder charges when a person engages in conduct that shows a reckless disregard for human life, even if resulting harm is unintentional.
According to Operation Rescue, Carhart’s inaccessibility resulted in a break in the continuity of patient care and led to a delay in appropriate treatment as hospital physicians struggled to understand Morbelli’s condition.
The pro-life group also filed a formal complaint on February 19, seeking license revocation for Carhart.
But while Carhart has been cleared by authorites of wrongdoing in Morbelli’s death, inspectors were less impressed when they recently investigated his clinic for compliance with the state’s new abortion clinic regulations.
In a report made public last week, health officials said that the deficiencies found at the Germantown Reproductive Health Services clinic, while not directly linked to Morbelli's death, were sufficiently serious to warrant a "Notice of Current Deficiencies" with a demand for a "Plan of Correction."
The deficiencies ranged from lapses in providing information about the professional credentials of clinic physicians to a lack of procedural policies for emergencies if patients had to be transferred to a hospital.
The report states that nursing staff at Germantown were not properly trained to give sedation medication, that the clinic had not properly verified the medical director’s credentials, that one nurse’s license had expired in January of 2012, that staff were filling syringes multiple times from vials of medicine intended for one-time use, and leaving some filled syringes with no identification as to what they contained.
Investigators found that staff failed to pre-clean dirty surgical instruments properly using an enzymatic cleaner, but instead washed them with bleach, water and dish soap, before sterilization.
Investigators also found that none of the 10 patient clinical records that were reviewed during the inspection included a discharge diagnosis.
Germantown's Plan of Correction states that the clinic administration believes most of the "deficiencies" identified by the State inspectors "had no negative impact on patients."
Source: LifeSite News
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