New Woman All Women in Birmingham Alabama is the abortion clinic bombed by Eric Rudolph in 1998 resulting in the death of a police officer and the maiming of a nurse. It has now been "bombed" by the Alabama Department of Public Health under the direction presumably of anti-abortion Governor Robert J. Bentley, a Dermatologist.
In February, the clinic transferred 2 patients to the hospital because of a medication error. The transfer was routine and based on good medical care. The anti-abortion protesters followed the ambulance, harassed the patients and got their private medical information. The patients were never in any danger and were released with no complications. The protesters then pressured the Alabama Department of Public Health to investigate the clinic. ADPH spent over 4 weeks in the clinic investigating and digging and coming up with 76 violations, one of which was failure to read the doctor's handwriting and cited 10 or so different ways. They ordered the clinic closed by May 18th.
The owner Diane Derzis, a longtime friend of mine, reached an agreement with the State for someone else to take over the management of the clinic by granting a license to another party to keep the clinic open. Now, the State is saying that they are denying the license because the new owner is closely involved with Diane, and Diane stands to still profit from the clinic because rent is tied to revenues, a process that happens in many malls in this country. More below the orange squiggly lady part.