Abortionist In Baltimore Fatality Identified

This past week we've been reading of the 75% of Maryland abortuaries that are not measuring up to the standards that were enacted last summer.  Four of these, affiliated with Associates in OB/GYN Care, had their licenses suspended for the second time.  The abysmal conditions in the Baltimore mill were a factor in the death of a woman.

Operation Rescue has learned the identity of the abortionist who did the procedure on the woman who subsequently died.  The abortionist's name is Iris E Dominy.  Please read the OR report for a description of her misconduct.  The first link contains a link to the Maryland Department of Health website.  That in turn contains the reports for the various mills in pdf form.  I believe you'll see an account of the death in that mill's pdf.

I looked up her license.  She has no disciplinary actions on her record - at this time.  Her primary place seems to be the mill on Georgia Avenue; that mill's license has been suspended.  She has another Montgomery County location on Falls Road in Potomac.  She's also listed on Darnestown Road in Gaithersburg and Fernwood Road in Bethesda.  I've no way of telling if these listings are current, but am certainly displeased that she seems to spend the bulk of her time in my neck of the woods.

Associates In OB/GYN Care - Suspended Again!

A little over two months ago I reported that a string of Maryland abortuaries had their licenses suspended after a number of slipshod practices were discovered - and a woman died in their Baltimore location.  It seems that shortly afterwards their licenses were reinstated.  That didn't last too long.

Today the abortuaries affiliated with Associates in OB/GYN Care had their licenses suspended again.  It seems that all four mills had been administering misoprostol to women past 11 weeks.   Moreover, they are allowing non-licensed staff to dispense the drug and perform sonograms.  Sounds rather "Gosnellian", does it not?

Yoo, hoo!  State of Maryland!  It's time to make these "suspensions" into permanent revocations!

Three Maryland Abortuaries See Their Licenses Suspended

As a result of the letter written by seventeen members of the Maryland House of Delegates, officials at the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (finally) started inspecting the abortuaries to whom they granted licenses.  Said Health Secretary Joshua Sharfstein to the Baltimore Sun, "the department is proceeding on the schedule it originally proposed, which called for issuing licenses in early 2013, followed by inspections. He said the system is working as it should."

So if I understand Mr. Sharfstein correctly, the "schedule" calls for issuance of licenses before ascertaining whether or not the facilities meet the standards prerequisite for those licenses?  Whatever happened to "safety for women"?  As far as "the system working as it should", that's utter bullcrap (pardon the "french" but sometimes delicacy must yield to accuracy), given not only Jennifer Morbelli's death in February, but that of another woman in Baltimore who died at another prematurely-licensed abortuary in Baltimore.  That woman died of cardiac arrest and it was discovered that the defibrillator on hand was non-functional - and the abortionist was not cpr-certified.

This second woman died at Associates in OB/GYN Care on North Calvert Street in Baltimore.  The Department suspended its license, as well as two other abortuaries that are also called Associates in OB/GYN Care; those locations are in Cheverly and Silver Spring.  Here is the website for the Silver Spring location.  Note that all three of these seem to be under the umbrella of American Women's Services.  This network is connected with Steven Chase Brigham.  Here is previously-published information about his chequered careeer.

This Silver Spring abortuary is at 9801 Georgia Avenue - the intersection of Georgia Avenue and Forest Glen Road.  Please note that this abortuary is not to be confused with Ob/Gyn Associates located at 1400 Forest Glen Road, the campus of Holy Cross Hospital.  The inversion of words in their names and their physical proximity can be confusing (deliberately so?).

Now let's see the Department get around to inspecting Germantown Reproductive Health Services and some of the other hell-holes.