Pensacola abortion clinic will not reopen after operator gives up license. What's next?

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https://news.yahoo.com/pensacola-abortion-clinic-not-reopen-100827014.html

Northwest Florida's sole abortion clinic has closed permanently after reaching a settlement with state regulators.

In May, the Florida Agency for Healthcare Administration (AHCA) issued an emergency order to suspend American Family Planning's license after the agency said three women were hospitalized after receiving abortions at the clinic.

The clinic disputed AHCA's account of the incidents and appealed the closure to an administrative law judge who had set a hearing for this month to determine if the clinic could reopen.

However, a little more than a week before the hearing was set to begin, American Family Planning's attorney Julie Gallagher notified the judge that a settlement had been reached between the clinic and AHCA, and the case was dismissed on Jan. 6.

No details of the settlement were available in the public docket of the case, but Gallagher told the News Journal in an email that American Family Planning has given up its license as an abortion clinic and will not reopen in Pensacola.

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1. Googled, at least Tallahassee still has 3 clinics whose sites say

they're open and provide abortions.

If the accounts of the extreme problems experienced by the 3 AFP patients are basically true, the state regulatory agency really needed to investigate before the second and third incidents could happen.

From the Pensacola Journal in May 2022:

Pensacola's abortion clinic was ordered to close by the state of Florida after three women were hospitalized in the last nine months and required major medical intervention to survive. Florida's Agency for Healthcare Administration issued an emergency order late Friday to suspend the clinic's operations until an administrative hearing can be held in Tallahassee. ...

After one procedure in August 2021, the patient had to be hospitalized and have parts of her colon removed, according to the emergency order. (Emergency surgery.)

In March, another woman started bleeding following an abortion ... When EMS personnel arrived ... they documented "pools of blood on the floor," the order said. The woman was cool to the touch, did not have a pulse detectable in her wrist and had extremely low blood pressure. At the hospital, she had emergency surgery, during which a doctor found a "big hole on the left wall of the uterus and another on the right side," along with lacerations to her cervix, according to the emergency order. After an emergency surgery failed to try to save her uterus, the woman had to undergo a complete hysterectomy and received 10 pints of blood to stabilize her.

In May, another woman arrived for an abortion, and after she was administered drugs beforehand was told to wait in her car, despite regulations requiring her vital signs be monitored in an exam room, the order said. Her procedure was halted before it was complete after she received lacerations to her cervix and a possible rupture of her uterus. The clinic staff told her and her spouse to go to a hospital in Mobile, Alabama, rather than a local one in Pensacola as the woman's spouse wanted and as required under the clinic's license, according to ACHA's emergency order. ... The woman's spouse told ACHA that the staff of the clinic was unable to get a blood pressure reading from the woman. She was driven by her spouse to the hospital in Mobile, and when she arrived, the hospital recorded she had no blood pressure and her blood oxygen level was at 80%. She was resuscitated at the hospital and had to have a blood transfusion to "replace egregious blood loss," according to the ACHA's emergency order.

The clinic disputed the regulatory agency's account but surrendered its license before the scheduled hearing.

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2. They keep voting deathsantis. His approvals are unbeatable.

No use in fighting him there.