Alabama clinic under investigation

Yikes.

Summit Medical Center, a Birmingham abortion clinic, on Wednesday yielded its license in response to a suspension order issued by the Alabama Department of Public Health on May 17, the AP/Washington Post reports.

The clinic has been closed since May 18, Rick Harris, director of the state health agency's bureau of provider standards, said.

According to state health officials, a clinic staff member in February performed an ultrasound on a woman seeking abortion and determined she was at six weeks' gestation, when she actually was almost full-term.

A nurse practitioner gave the woman mifepristone, which when taken with misoprostol can cause a medical abortion, even though her blood pressure was too high.

The woman six days later went to an emergency department and delivered a six-pound, four ounce stillborn infant, according to the health department.

The clinic is under investigation for possible criminal charges by state Attorney General Troy King (R) and the Alabama Board of Medical Examiners, the AP/Post reports.

A nurse providing an ultrasound is no big deal, even the fake "Crisis Pregnancy Centers" give them by untrained, non-medical personel on a daily basis.

What is truly bizarre is how a nurse could not tell the woman was physically near full-term! I just don't get it. You don't have to be a professional to see this. WTF???

The anti's are gonna have a field day with this, when in fact this case is obviously isolated. So isolated in fact, that it is near non-existent in terms of frequency.