Nova Healthcare Center abortion clinic in Fairfax, VA, shown with its disgraced owner, abortionist Mi Yong Kim.
"In 1991, there were 2,176 surgical abortion clinics in America. After the closure of Nova at the end of this month, there will be only 630 surgical abortion clinics left. While we still have a long way to go to end the barbaric practice of abortion in this nation, we have shown real progress.”
Operation Rescue had publicized a medical emergency at Nova involving a 35-year old diabetic patient suffering from heavy bleeding after an abortion who was rushed to the hospital on March 3, 2012. Operation Rescue says it had reason to believe that the clinic owner, Mi Yong Kim, may have been involved in the botched abortion even though her medical license had been surrendered in 2007 amid findings that she improperly sedated a patient in 2005 and failed to realize that the woman had gone into cardiac arrest. Kim did not attempt to resuscitate her and the woman died as a result. Operation Rescue filed complaints against Kim and the clinic.
An unannounced inspection of Nova was conducted by state officials two months later, which revealed numerous health and safety violations, generally substandard care, and an additional botched abortion patient that required emergency hospitalization.
Public pressure brought by local pro-life activists, including Ruby Nicdao, helped bring about the closure by exposing the harm caused by the clinic.
“A short battle has been won, but the war continues,” Nicdao told Operation Rescue.
“Nova will be closing due to the dogged determination of a core of local activists who pursued every available opportunity – from prayer to public protest – to expose this heinous abortion mill and protect the public from its dangerous practices,” said Newman. “Ruby Nicdao and her fellow activists are to be commended.”
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