Report: State Investigation Clears Germantown Abortion Clinic

Maryland investigators found “no deficiencies” in its review of a Germantown abortion clinic after the death of a woman who sought an abortion there, The Gazette reports.

The Office of Heath Care Quality review was triggered by a complaint following the death of New York resident Jennifer Morbelli on Feb. 7, The Gazette reports.

Maryland Coalition for Life Executive Director Michael Martelli told the newspaper that his group would still call for the doctor, LeRoy Carhart’s, medical license to be revoked.

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Morbelli, a 29-year-old elementary school teacher, was pronounced dead at Shady Grove Hospital days after having an abortion at the Germantown Clinic, Patch has reported.

The medical examiner’s office determined Morbelli’s death was “natural," Bruce Goldfarb, a spokesman for the chief medical examiner's office, told Patch.

“Disseminated intravascular coagulation” and  “amniotic fluid embolism” were the causes of death on the death certificate, Goldfarb said.