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In reply to the discussion: When if ever does abortion make you uncomfortable/uneasy? [View all]Neue Regel
(221 posts)He operated a clinic in the middle of a neighborhood. You're using the "No True Scotsman" logical fallacy. He doesn't fit your idea of a doctor so he's not a "real" doctor. Sorry, but it doesn't work that way.
You'd be surprised at how little oversight there actually is. See here, for example:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2011-01-30-abortion-clinics-oversight_N.htm
Yet Delaware regulators cannot say if Atlantic Women's Medical Center where Gosnell worked one day a week for a number of years suffers from similar health and safety deficiencies because abortion providers are not subject to the kind of routine sanitary and safety inspections that restaurants, beauty salons and tattoo parlors get.
Abortion clinics do not fall under the definition of medical facilities in the state that require routine inspections, like free-standing surgery centers, according to the Delaware Division of Public Health.
The state's Division of Professional Regulation, meanwhile, only investigates complaints against doctors, "not facilities," said Division Director James Collins.
Mark A. Meister Sr., executive director of the Medical Society of Delaware, said he did not know of any agency in the state that regulates abortion clinics or similar medical clinic facilities in Delaware, which he conceeded was "hard to believe."
"You are asking an excellent question," he said. "The answer may be at this point in time there is no regulatory authority over a clinic or organization like that."
More at the link
But go ahead, keep on believing that abortion clinics are held to a high standard of safety, cleanliness, and ethical behavior. Pennsylvania didn't inspect any abortion clinics for 15 years because it was too politically sensitive a topic.