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Press Release

For immediate release
January 21, 2003
Contact:
Executive Director
Mike Fichter
812-435-2238

Indiana Right to Life calls on abortion rights groups to support mandated health care standards to protect women’s health at Indiana abortion clinics

Indianapolis, IN – Indiana Right to Life today is calling on abortion rights supporters including Planned Parenthood of Greater Indiana to mark tomorrow’s anniversary of Roe vs. Wade by announcing support for legislation mandating health and safety requirements at Indiana abortion clinics. Indiana abortion clinics are not currently required to meet any state mandated health and safety requirements.

“Pet owners entering Indiana veterinary clinics may do so with the full assurance that veterinary clinic standards are in effect to guarantee basic health and safety for animals,” states Indiana Right to Life executive director Mike Fichter. “Yet women entering Indiana’s abortion clinics have no such assurances that these clinics are meeting even basic sanitation standards.”

In a press release announcing its rally at the State House on January 22, Planned Parenthood of Greater Indiana stated that one of the rally’s objectives is protecting “standards for abortion facilities” yet Planned Parenthood has consistently fought any legislative efforts aimed at mandating health and safety standards.

In December the Omaha World-Herald reported that several Planned Parenthood abortion clinics in Nebraska were placed on probation after surprise inspections by the Nebraska Health and Human Services System turned up serious health violations, including evidence that patient gowns and bed linens were not properly sanitized, that the clinics allowed staff to give injections and medications without proper training, and that the clinics lacked a program for preventing, controlling, and investigating infections and communicable diseases.

“How do we know that the health and safety violations found in Nebraska’s Planned Parenthood clinics are not present in Indiana’s abortion clinics, “ asked Fichter. “We don’t. Planned Parenthood just asks women to take its word on it. That’s not good enough.” Indiana Right to Life is calling on all Indiana abortion clinics to unilaterally and voluntarily offer Indiana Department of Health inspectors and state legislators the invitation to visit abortion clinics unannounced to verify first-hand what conditions women face at these clinics.

“If you cannot support laws governing basic abortion clinic health and safety standards for women, you have no right to claim that the best interest of women is at the top of your agenda,” notes Fichter.

Separate bills to establish basic health and safety standards at Indiana abortion clinics have been introduced in the 2003 Indiana General Assembly by Rep. Dennis Kruse, Rep. Bob Bischoff, Rep. Peggy Welch, and Senator Kent Adams.

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