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Wednesday October 23, 2002
UNINSURED MORGENTALER ABORTUARY SUSPENDS OPERATIONS
Morgentaler alleged to have cheated on insurance to increase profit-margin
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EDMONTON, October 23, 2002 (LSN.ca) - Abortions were suspended in Henry Morgentaler's Edmonton branch sometime during the past few weeks after a contract dispute over its liability insurance.
Steve Buick, spokesman for Capital Health, Edmonton's regional health authority, said a two-year contract with the Morgentaler clinic required it to have liability insurance of $2 million. But while the contract was being renegotiated recently, Capital Health noticed the clinic's insurance had "slipped" to $1 million -- presumably so that Morgentaler could boost his profit-margin. Capital Health then imposed a $5 million liability (in keeping with rates at the Royal Alexandria Hospital, which also performs tax-funded abortions), but Morgentaler refused and suspended his clinic's operations.
"They are giving us funding and they think they have power over us," Morgentaler raged. He said complication rates in his abortion chain are low, and added there has not been a death in the past 34 years. He was referring only to the mothers, of course, not the babies.
Local coverage appeared on:
http://www.canoe.ca/EdmontonNews/
For previous LifeSite coverage see:
MCLELLAN-MORGENTALER POSITION SPELLS END OF MEDICARE
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2002/oct/02101603.html
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