Mayor Virgil Lovitt, who also serves as the President of the Sharonville Board of Health, expressed concerns about Haskell’s abortion business when it relocated to Sharonville from Cincinnati last year.
“It is the belief of the Sharonville Board of Health that this waiver/variance was improperly granted and compromises the health, safety and welfare of the general public,” Lovitt wrote to the ODH at that time. Lovitt was concerned that Haskell’s Women’s Med Center did not comply with the law requiring that abortionists maintain valid Ambulatory Transfer agreements or have admitting privileges at local qualified hospitals.
In July, Mercy Hospital informed Haskell that his courtesy privileges would not be renewed.
Fears for the safety of women were soon realized. In today’s statement, Lovitt reveals that Haskell’s Sharonville abortion clinic has already caused at least two serious abortion complications.
“Haskell’s two-day process for late term abortions has already produced one stillborn baby in a hotel toilet and another in a car on the way to an ER. These complications are difficult to track, and there are probably more than we know,” stated Lovitt.
Lovitt went on to describe a meeting that took place in August , 2011, where he and several pro-life leaders discussed the Haskell variance issue with the new director of the Ohio Department of Health, Dr. Ted Wymyslo.
“In that meeting I begged the new director not to liberalize the variance if Martin Haskell’s privileges at an area hospital changed,” he said.
ODH records dated September 13, 2011, show that the ODH has done just that. Haskell’s partner, Roslyn Kade along with two Ob/Gyns with privileges at The Christ Hospital will now be allowed to substitute for Women’s Med Center abortionists who cannot meet the legal requirements...
(Operation Rescue report, October 4)
The story adds contact info for Dr. Theodore Wymyslo, the Director of the Ohio Department of Health. The following is the e-mail I sent to Dr. Wymyslo (Director@odh.ohio.gov):
Dear Dr. Wymyslo,
The breaking story of local health officials in Sharonville bending over backwards (and quite possibly even breaking the law) in order to protect a particularly grisly abortion business certainly projects a frightening picture of women's health standards in the state of Ohio. Would you please act to remedy this unjust, unsafe and downright ugly situation as soon as possible?
Denny Hartford
Director, Vital Signs Ministries
Teaching pastor, Faith Bible Church
Omaha, Nebraska
