One of Greenville’s two abortion clinics is closed. The Palmetto State Medical Center on Laurens Rd. closed in July. This killing center had been the object of much prayer and pro-life activity over the years. Pastors for Life opened a crisis pregnancy center next to the abortion clinic. Sidewalk counselors maintained a presence at the clinic for years. According to abortionist William Lynn, the straw that broke the camel’s back was the safety regulations required by the Abortion Clinic Regulation Act of 1994. The law was challenged in the courts by pro-abortion groups for years. They finally went into force in 2003. The regulations were the result of unsafe conditions reported by patients and clinic workers. Some of these complaints are listed below:

* complaints to DHEC by clinic employees of the late Jesse Floyd, M.D., that he ground up the bodies of aborted babies in a sink disposal and washed these human remains into the public water system in his Charleston facility.

* a malpractice lawsuit against Floyd before his death stated that his abortion center in Columbia was filthy and that he failed to complete an abortion on a client who several hours later delivered her dead baby at home.

* A 1994 Richland County Grand Jury investigation of a Marion County abortionist Dr. Elliot Finger, more than 80 years old at the time, who performed an abortion in Columbia on a woman 16 weeks pregnant and left the baby's upper torso inside the mother's body.  The Grand Jury refused to take action after the Solicitor Dick Harpootlian allowed Finger to testify that he didn't believe the woman was more than 6-8 weeks pregnant.

* the SC Board of Medical Examiners suspended the license of abortionist Ishmail Elguindi to practice medicine after he failed to diagnose and treat an ectopic pregnancy. Elguindi was ordered to undergo further medical training to diagnose and treat an ectopic (tubal) pregnancy.

* a criminal investigation of Dr. Jim Oliver after a nurse informed him the abortion he was performing was illegal -- that is the baby was more than 12 weeks old and therefore the abortion had to be performed in a hospital.  The nurse seized the aborted baby's body and turned it over to authorities. The case was not prosecuted because the nurse died.