Judge Roy Moore and Foundation Ask Alabama Health Officials to Crack Down on Health Code Violations by Abortion Clinics
August 9, 2006

On August 8, 2006, Judge Roy Moore and Foundation President Rich Hobson, along with other pro-life leaders in Alabama, met with Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH) officials and strongly encouraged them to tighten up enforcement of state health code regulations for abortion clinics. The meeting, which included Rev. James Henderson of the Alabama Alliance Against Abortion and representatives from Sanctity for Life, Physicians for Life, United for Life Foundation, the Christian Coalition of Alabama, and Citizens for Life, was held with ADPH officials in the wake of a tragedy at an abortion clinic in Birmingham.

The abortion clinic in question, The Summit, was eventually shut down by the state in June for unlawful and dangerous practices. A woman visiting the clinic in February of this year was told she was only 4-6 weeks pregnant and was unlawfully administered abortion drugs (RU-486) by a staff member who was not a doctor. The woman then delivered a dead and foul-smelling — but nearly full-term — 6 lb., 4 oz. baby three days later at a local Emergency room. Thankfully, the clinic was shut down by the state, but ADPH oversight of Alabama's remaining 9 abortion clinics is still woefully inadequate.

The Foundation for Moral Law calls on the Alabama Department of Public Health to fulfill its duty under the law by strictly and regularly monitoring and inspecting — and where appropriate, shutting down — Alabama's abortion clinics. The lives of Alabama's women and unborn children depend on it.