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The Straight Story

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Fri Aug 2, 2013, 02:23 PM Aug 2013

Another Gosnell in Delaware?

Another Gosnell in Delaware?

Was Kermit Gosnell’s abortion clinic an aberration? Three former Planned Parenthood employees don’t think so.

Appearing at a Delaware state Senate hearing earlier this week, the whistleblowers testified about the horrifying conditions they encountered at Planned Parenthood’s Delaware clinic. What they shared struck a decidedly discordant note with the recent Wendy-palooza in which national media credulously embraced and amplified the claims of state Sen. Wendy Davis that abortion clinics don’t need more regulation. We were informed then that the only people who support such things are vicious woman haters.

Yet, two former Planned Parenthood nurses – Joyce Vasikonis and Jayne Mitchell-Werbrich – have been ringing alarm bells since April about the “meat-market-style, assembly-line abortions,”they witnessed at the Delaware clinic. Moreover, they have complained of lax regulation and a lack of government oversight of abortion clinics in Delaware.

This week they were joined by Melody Meanor, a former health-care manager at Planned Parenthood of Delaware. Meanor testified that she felt compelled to come forward because she was “offended when Planned Parenthood of Delaware attempted to discredit the (prior) testimony” of Mitchell-Werbrich and Vasikonis who described what she too had witnessed.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/wp/2013/08/02/another-gosnell-in-delaware/

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Another Gosnell in Delaware? (Original Post) The Straight Story Aug 2013 OP
Maybe if there were more abortion clinics, there wouldn't be 'assembly-line sinkingfeeling Aug 2013 #1
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