Representative Melvin Everson's letter to Otis Story of Grady Memorial Hospital

I was disturbed to learn that Emory University has been performing thousands of abortions at Grady Memorial Hospital and using this taxpayer owned and funded hospital to train abortionists. Federal and state law prohibits the use of taxpayer funds for abortion other than in cases of rape, incest and life threatening conditions. I applaud your decision to shut down this abortion mill and training facility. If Emory University desires to perform abortions or train abortionists, it should do so at its own facilities and not at a public hospital owned by the taxpayers.

I was also quite disturbed to learn that at least one woman ... was killed by a botched abortion at Grady and that the hospital was forced to pay a $3 million jury verdict to her young son.

As a member of the House Special Committee on Grady, I would like to know:

1. Whether Emory University has paid rent to the Fulton-DeKalb Hospital Authority for the operation of its abortion mill and training facility.

2. Whether the Fulton-DeKalb Hospital Authority paid Emory University for the faculty members and residents who staffed and taught at this abortion mill and training facility.

3. What other hospital resources, if any, were used to support this abortion mill and training facility.

4. What steps the Fulton-DeKalb Hospital Authority has taken to make sure that Medicaid was not unlawfully billed by Emory University or the Emory Medical Care Foundation for elective or birth control abortions.

5. To what extent, if any, unlawful billings for abortions were involved in the $4.5 million refund paid by the Emory Medical Care Foundation to settle the 1998 Medicaid fraud investigation by Attorney General Thurbert Baker.

6. Who paid the $3 million jury verdict in the case of the botched abortion ...

7. Whether any other claims of malpractice have been brought against the abortion mill or Grady Health System for botched abortions.

8. How much the Fulton-DeKalb Hospital Authority has paid defending or settling malpractice actions for abortion and whether any of this expense has been borne by Emory University or its abortionists.

9. Whether any of the aborted fetuses from Grady Memorial Hospital have been used by Emory University in its highly publicized biomedical research programs.