Board of Health,

To ignore the 400 violations of the abortion clinics that have occurred in the last 2 years is a violation of the trust that is placed in your agency to provide sanitary and safe conditions where invasive surgery is being performed on women. Also not have space where a women who has an need for emergency medical help is not able to be taken out on a gurney is terrible. You would not tolerate hospitals or emergency clinics to operate under the same conditions. Also not disposing of the fetal remains in a proper manner is another problem With 400 violations that turns out to be at least 22 violations per abortion clinic. Would you go to one of these with the conditions that exist for any kind of procedure, including surgery. I had foot surgery in a free standing medical clinic several years ago, where everything looked sanitary and yet I ended up with a very invasive infection that almost made me lose my foot,and also with 3 months of special care in an infectious care unit as well as a nurse who came 2 x a week to care for my foot. Please make the clinics make the right connections so that no woman is harmed. Aileen Velthuis