CARE – Bethesda, MD (Formerly AbortionClinics.org)

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She Screamed in Pain During a Near-Fatal Botched Late-term Abortion. Now She Agrees to Dismiss Federal Malpractice Suit to Refile in State Court, 11/29/2021

Woman Who Screamed in Pain During Botched Late-Term Abortion Sues LeRoy Carhart, posted 9/29/2021.

Elizabeth Fink Swallow is a former abortionist at AbortionCinics.org, now CARE.  She worked there from August 2019 to February 2021.

Malpractice Suit: Carhart, Abortion Staff “Covered in Blood” during Horrific Botched Late-Term Abortion, 8/23/2021

Carhart’s Botched 21-Week Abortion Sends 23rd Woman to the Hospital Since 2012, 6/16/2021

Whistleblower: 2 Women Suffered Gruesome Injuries, Retained Baby Parts, Emergency Surgery after Late-Term Abortions in Maryland, June 18, 2020

Carhart’s Full-Term Maryland Abortion Mill Loses Third Waste Disposal Company in Two Years, 11/18/2020

This facility changed its name to CARE (Clinics for Abortion and Reproductive Excellence) per website.

NIH Ambulance Used to Transport Carhart Abortion Patient to Walter Reed Medical Center, 3/22/2018

Opened in October 2017, as a replacement location for Carhart’s late-term abortion business after Germantown Reproductive Health Services closed.

Carhart Cancels Abortions After Operation Rescue Exposed His Failure to Comply with Maryland Law, 10/17/2017

Confirmed: Carhart’s New Late-Term Abortion Facility in Bethesda is Illegally Unlicensed, 10/13/2017

Carhart to Open New Late-Term Abortion Facility in Maryland Next Week, 10/12/2017

AbortionClinics.org has two sister clinics — one in Bethesda, MD, and one in Bellevue, NE.

This clinic has halted surgical abortions since last fall (2021). There is no date when surgical abortions might resume.

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Misc Documents

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  381088011-BWS-Letter-to-ACO-06052918

  June 5, 2018 letter from Biomedical Waste Services cancelling its contract with LeRoy Carhart's late-term abortion facility AbortionClinics.org (ACO) to pick up aborted baby remains.
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  Abortion-Clinics-termination-letter

  June 23, 2018, letter from Biomedical Recovery Systems terminating contract with LeRoy Carhart's late-term abortion facility AbortionClinics.org (ACO) to pick up aborted baby remains.

License

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  AbortionClinics.Org initial licensure survey 10 2017(1)

  Note: This survey took place on Monday, October 16, 2017, just 1 day before abortions were to begin at this facility. As of Friday, October 13, 2017, the facility was not licensed. In "world record" speed, the license was suddenly granted on Oct. 17, 2017. The compliance letter wasn't even penned until October 30, 2017.

License Restrictions

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  AbortionClinics.org -- 2017 Maryland Surgical Abortion Facility license application

  Maryland abortion clinic license application. Note physical "agency address" is in Bethesda, MD, while mailing address is in Bellevue, NE (site of another sister clinic).

Deficiency Report

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  Deficiency Report - November 2018
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  Abortionclinics.org (Bethesda, MD) -- 2018-07-05 Maryland Health Dept Inspection

  Maryland Health Dept inspection; no violations found.

Malpractice History

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  Aragaw v Carhart Complaint 7-12-2021

  Federal Medical Malpractice case number 8:21-cv-01739 against LeRoy Carhart, Anh-Chi Dang Do and AbortionClinics.org in which a woman suffered massive injuries during a mishandled suction abortion on a 23-week baby. Needed multiple transfusions and emergency surgery at Shady Grove Hospital in Rockville, MD.
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  Norris v Carhart et. al. - Complaint

  Federal medical malpractice suit filed by Ashley P. Norris on September 23, 2021, after a life-threatening D&E abortion done at 25 weeks of pregnancy. Norris suffered a ripped uterus, torn bowel, retained baby parts, massive blood loss, respiratory arrest, and more. Elizabeth Swallow was the primary abortionist, assisted later in the procedure by LeRoy Carhart at his late-term abortion facility in Bethesda, MD.