PITTSBURGH (WordNews.org) June 19, 2012 – Pennsylvania’s new abortion clinic licensing law that went into effect today requires abortion clinics to submit to inspections and meet minimum safety standards.

Pro-life group Operation Rescue said one abortion clinic, Allegheny Women’s Center, voluntary closed on June 15 and five others were forced to stop all surgical abortions as of today, but are permitted to dispense abortion pills.

A recorded telephone message at Allegheny Women’s Center in Pittsburgh informed callers that the abortion clinic closed “due to circumstances beyond our control.”

Operation Rescue said last year two abortionists at Allegheny Women’s Center, John Barrett and Alton Lawson, were charged with illegally prescribing drugs.

Out of Pennsylvania’s 22 abortion clinics, only one met all state requirements and received a full license, Operation Rescue.

“All but one clinic could not initially meet all the standards. That fact alone speaks volumes to the shoddy conditions that exist at abortion clinics, not only in Pennsylvania, but across the nation,” said Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue and Pro-Life Nation, who has long supported clinic regulation legislation. “These laws are important tools with which we can hold accountable an abortion industry that has run amok for over three decades.”