Abortion and New York

 

Will scandalous indifference to abortion clinic inspection in NY be a one-day story?

By Dave Andrusko

Rob Astorino (R) is running against Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D)

If it took at outpouring of accusations that the mainstream media was censoring coverage of the Kermit Gosnell murder trial to get any coverage, it shouldn’t surprise us that pro-abortion New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the state Health Department are confident the latest abortion scandal will blow over. A one-day story, they must believe, if they refuse to comment.
As NRL News Today reported on Monday, the New York Post published a blockbuster article documenting that only 17 of the 225 abortion providers in New York had been inspected in 13 years.
To illustrate just how un-seriously the Health Department takes its job, “city eateries are inspected every year and graded, while a new law requires tanning salons to undergo inspections at least once every other year,” the Post Carl Campanile reported.

At the same time pro-abortionists acknowledge there are 225 abortion service providers in the state, Campanile noted that Health Department inspectors only “regulate 25 diagnostic and treatment clinics and surgery centers that provide abortion services.” What about those 25?
“Eight of the 25 clinics were never inspected over the 2000-12 span, five were inspected just once, and eight were inspected only twice or three times — meaning once every four or six years,” Campanile wrote. “A total of just 45 inspections were conducted at all 25 facilities during the 12-year period.”
Given that miserable track record, it came as no surprise that the New York State Department of Health told the Post that the agency had only taken legal action against one abortion clinic in all that time.

Rob Astorino is a Republican running against Gov. Cuomo. A blogger for Newsday wrote about Astorino’s latest video in which he harshly criticized Cuomo and the New York State Department of Health for saying nothing in the first 24 hours after the Post’s story ran.
Newsday’s Michael Gormley said Astorino “tr[ied] to frame his case not around abortion, but about the safety of women going to abortion clinics.” Yes, exactly. Astorino’s point was one that almost anyone but hard-core pro-abortionists would agree with. “Regardless of anyone’s feelings about abortion, these clinics must be clean and safe to protect women,” he said.
Astorino said the “State health department has completely ignored its responsibility to insure that,” adding, “That’s how the horrific Gosnell case in Pennsylvania occurred.”
Again, exactly right.

What about the “the very few inspections” that had taken place “over the past dozen years”? The health department “found egregious sanitation violations at clinics–cringe-worthy violations–yet the department refuses to tell women at which clinics these violations occurred,” Astorino charged.
No, this shouldn’t be a one-day story. Not in New York or any place else.
If Gosnell taught us anything, it’s that he was not an “outlier,” a “renegade.”
He is exactly the kind of man killing unborn babies for a living attracts.

Source: NRLC News