If Abortion is Legal, Let's At Least Make it Safe

At abortion clinics throughout Ohio, emergency calls are made multiple times per year to help women who are experiencing severe complications with or from their abortion procedure.  These calls are recorded and emergency dispatch public records are available on every call.  Calls usually include minimal descriptions, but typically describe situations involving post-abortive women experiencing hemorrhaging or seizures. 

Women's Center of Dayton, now a Planned Parenthood location, has been operating without a State License for more than three years!  Why hasn't the Ohio Department of Health approved their license application?  Why does the ODH allow them to continue operating for so long without a license, when all other types of Ambulatory Surgical Facilities (ASFs) are up to date on their licenses?

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When the "Reproductive Freedom Amendment" was passed in Ohio in 2024, the language unfortunately allowed challenges by abortion clinics of many previously enacted protections for women, some of which are still tied up in court.  Especially for surgical abortions, regardless of gestation, basic protections such as adequate and proper staffing, hygiene and cleanliness standards, and layout and instrument requirements need to be provided to ensure the best possible care for women during this invasive surgical procedure.

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Abortion providers are naturally against any regulations or protections which would cost them money to enact or impose any type of additional burden on them, such as property renovations, staffing or even reporting requirements.  But the State of Ohio is supposed to protect us from the failure of medical facilities to operate in a safe and transparent manner.

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​We believe that abortion, like almost every other outpatient surgical procedures, should be subject to basic rules and protective regulations to protect women during and after this potentially dangerous procedure.