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Carhart to Perform
Late-Term Abortions in Existing Abortion Clinic in Maryland
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I should have known by now that abortionist LeRoy Carhart would have at least a couple of additional cards up his sleeve. The Washington Post is reporting that Carhart is not opening a new clinic in the Washington, DC metropolitan area--as was anticipated-- but will ply his gruesome trade in an existing abortion clinic in Germantown, Maryland. Carhart, one of the abortionists who perform late-late-late abortions, reportedly is pulling up stakes in Nebraska now that the state has a law which won't allow him to kill unborn babies capable of feeling pain which lawmakers have recognized as beginning at 20 weeks. Carhart did not respond to inquiries from the Post's Rob Stein. Instead Vicki Saporta, president of the National Abortion Federation, confirmed that as of Monday Carhart will begin working at the Germantown Reproductive Health Services, which already aborts children earlier in pregnancy. The clinic is a NAF affiliate. Meanwhile, despite local opposition, there appears little that can be done to stop Carhart from opening an abortion clinic in Council Bluffs, Iowa. The City Council did everything it could do last week, responding to rumors that Carhart wanted a vacant city-owned lot. The City Council stipulated that a 24, 393-square-foot-vacant lot cannot be used as an abortion clinic, according to Jon Leu of the World-Herald News Service. "That restriction remains with the land 'no matter how many times it is sold,' said City Attorney Richard Wade. It can be removed only with action by the City Council." Leu added, however, that "The city cannot force private property owners to impose similar restrictions, and the city's zoning rules permit an abortion clinic in any commercial zone or in an area zoned for administrative-professional uses." Julie Schmit-Albin is executive director of Nebraska RTL and along with National Right to Life's Director of State Legislation Mary Spaulding Balch was the driving force behind Nebraska's new protective abortion law. She knows Carhart's habits and history as well as any pro-lifer could. "We have to remember that Carhart moonlighted for George Tiller for ten years," she said, referring to the Kansas abortionist who also performed very late-term abortions. "When asked, Carhart refuses to be put in a corner and say what is the upper limit on the gestational-age at which he does abortions. " |
