New Orleans, LA – The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals (DHH) has revoked the license of the Gentilly Medical Clinic for Women and ordered it to shut down after a new inspection discovered “repeat violations that posed significant health and safety risks to clients.”
The order was issued Wednesday, and the clinic was forced to close the following day.
“This is just one more example of how abortion clinics defiantly disregard the law and sacrifice the health and safety of women because they think that laws don’t apply to them and that women don’t deserve any better treatment,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. “We have found this kind of attitude to be rampant inside the abortion cartel, in spite of their phony public relations claims to the contrary.”
This is the second time the state has attempted to revoke Gentilly’s license after repeated health and safety violations were discovered there. In January, 2010, the clinic was ordered to close, but the clinic’s owner abortionist Ifeanyi Charles Anthony Okpalobi (pronounced ok-PAH-luh-bee), a Nigerian national, appealed the ruling and a judge ordered that the clinic could stay open during the long appellate process.
However, DHH Secretary Bruce D. Greenstein indicated in a press statement issued yesterday that the new revocation and closure order was issued under a new law passed last year that gives the DHH Secretary the authority to close abortion clinics when circumstances warrant it. That order was not in effect when the previous revocation order was issued.
This is the second abortion clinic closed under the new law. In September of last year, the DHH closed the Hope Medical Group for Women in Shreveport for violations discovered there.
“This goes to show that pro-life legislation that is regulatory in nature has great impact when it is enforced,” said Newman. “The new pro-life laws that are sweeping legislatures will undoubtedly serve to protect women and their pre-born babies from abortionists like Okpalobi, and that is a step in the right direction toward total abolition and protection for the pre-born.”
Operation Rescue has Louisiana officials to also asked close the Delta Clinic of Baton Rouge after a botched abortion revealed numerous abuses, including the alleged illegal non-reporting of abortion complications.
GOOD! When I went to get an abortion from him in 2004, the bastard SEXUALLY ASSAULTED ME by inserting his finger in my vagina after telling me to come back for a check up in which he would use his X Ray machine to check and see if I still had the fetus in me. It was only supposed to be the X ray machine that was supposed to check and see if I still was pregnant, NOT HIS FINGER! I recall when he stuck his finger and wiggled it in my vaginal area, the nurse yelped, “What are you doing?” in shock and horror cause she knew he had done something wrong! Thanks for reporting this and shutting him down! I am still pro choice ie pro right to choose an abortion if that is what you want and I would want to do it to if I feel the need to and part of the reason why I said nothing at the time was because of how lackadaisical laws in Lousiana are concerning sexual violence, especially sexual assault and sexual harassment against womyn are and I felt like I would be shutting one of the few needed abortion clinics down if I had complained. As the daughter of a cop, I should have complained against this rapist piece of crap!
To all you out there, I just want to say that I don’t agree with your position, but than you for shutting THIS piece of rapist scum down and protecting all unsuspecting, esp. young womyn by your actions! Thank you!