Abortion clinics should be inspected at least as frequently as pizzerias, tanning salons and movie theaters, according to new radio ads decrying the sanitary conditions at some of New York's facilities.
The 30-second and 60-second spots paid for by the pro-life Chiaroscuro Group quote what the organization claims are scathing reviews culled from social-media Web sites and penned by horrified patients who visited some of the clinics.
A sample of the reviews: "Avoid at all costs"; "The Waiting Room is dirty and smelled of dried urine"; "DO NOT EVER GO HERE"; "Filthy Medical Equipment looks like it's from the 1970s"; and "She Balanced Her Tool Tray on a Garbage Can."
The narrator says: "New York inspects everything: pizzerias, nail and tanning salons, movie theaters. But for more than a dozen years, it's failed to inspect women's clinics around the state."
The Post reported last year that eight of New York's 25 abortion clinics had not been inspected at all between 2000 and 2012, and five others were inspected only once in a dozen years.
The Health Department released that data — without identifying the names of the clinics — in response to a lawsuit filed by Chiaroscuro.
Following the outcry over the lack of inspections, the Health Department said last year it would re-inspect all 25 diagnostic and treatment facilities.
"The overwhelming number of inspections have been completed. All will be finished by the end of the month — well within the time prescribed by law," a spokesperson for the State Health Department said.
Meanwhile, Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis (R-S.I.) and Sen. Martin Golden (R-Brooklyn) have just proposed legislation requiring the state Health Department to inspect abortion clinics at least once every two years.
"This is legislation everyone should get behind — whether you're pro-life or pro-choice," Malliotakis said. "If you require biennial inspections for tanning salons, why wouldn't you do it for abortion clinics?
"This measure should acquire broad consensus as the intended goal is to afford women the proper protection and higher standards befitting a facility that conducts such sensitive procedures," she said.
Chiaroscuro is now battling the Cuomo administration to obtain records on abortion-clinic inspections conducted by the Health Department last year and in 2013.
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