Kansas may discipline doctor over 13-year-old's abortion
Source: Associated Press
Jim Suhr and John Hanna, Associated Press
Updated 6:11 pm, Thursday, August 10, 2017
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A doctor facing possible disciplinary action over allegations that he broke Kansas law in handling a 13-year-old girl's abortion at a Planned Parenthood clinic told medical regulators Thursday he was unaware of the patient's age and that the clinic's staff was to blame.
Dr. Allen Palmer, a part-time Planned Parenthood contractor who only performed abortions for patients in their first trimester, is accused in a petition seeking revocation, suspension or other action against his medical license that he failed to preserve fetal tissue from the abortion and submit it to the Kansas Bureau of Investigation or a KBI-approved lab. Kansas state law and regulations require such action for abortion patients younger than 14.
Planned Parenthood self-reported the violation to the state.
During a hearing Thursday, after which the Kansas State Board of Healing Arts deferred its ruling, Palmer insisted he relied on Planned Parenthood's employees to inform him if the patient during the December 2014 procedure was younger than 14, saying he didn't do abortions on patients so young.
Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Kansas-scrutinizes-doctor-over-13-year-old-girl-s-11748268.php
pnwmom
(109,020 posts)of childbirth at that age.
Botany
(70,627 posts)If a woman has an abortion that is between her, her God, her Dr.
and maybe the child's father. Just because you believe in a diety
does not give you the right to act like a diety and tell others how
to live their lives.
Warpy
(111,405 posts)to find out who impregnated her. On the surface, a good thing, but it involves letting everybody she knows that she not only got pregnant, she committed the ultimate sin of having an abortion. This can be very dangerous, too, especially in a god besotted state like Kansas. THINK of the social media bullying by all the godly.
Botany
(70,627 posts)My late Aunt and Uncle were "church people" and they saw thier work
besides running an Episcopal Ghurch in a small town in S.W. OH as trying
to help people and that they did.
This is their legacy to the area:
http://samaritanoutreachservices.com
hamsterjill
(15,224 posts)You expressed my exact thoughts. Thank you.
MontanaMama
(23,364 posts)He blames PP staff and they get the shaft no matter how this shakes out. Come on Kansas!!! Get a fucking grip. Not to mention this doctor states he doesn't do abortions on patients so young...guess they can just go ahead and give birth and take their babies to middle school with them. JFC, this is messed up on so many levels.
christx30
(6,241 posts)They don't care about the life of the mother in any way. As long as the baby survives.
MontanaMama
(23,364 posts)Women are disposable. I forgot.
christx30
(6,241 posts)who cares what happens to human lives?
MontanaMama
(23,364 posts)The joke is on them however...I'm guessing their sky pal isn't impressed with the shit these idiots do in her name. Meanwhile, women continue to suffer.
truthisfreedom
(23,160 posts)A victim's wishes.
sandensea
(21,698 posts)Since Nixon anyway.
uppityperson
(115,681 posts)to increase difficulty in obtaining an abortion. What it's done with that info, how it exposes the teen, is a problem.