Md. board investigating late-term abortion provider

Posted: 7:06 pm Mon, April 25, 2011
By Associated Press

Maryland regulators are investigating a complaint about an abortion doctor who recently opened a clinic in suburban Washington.

The Maryland Board of Physicians says in a letter that it has launched a full investigation of a complaint about Dr. LeRoy Carhart.

Carhart is based in Nebraska and is one of the nation’s few late-term abortion providers. He opened a clinic last year in Germantown.

The complaint was filed in December by a representative of Operation Rescue, a group that tries to shut down abortion clinics. Among other allegations, it says Carhart did not disclose that he would be providing late-term abortions when he applied for his Maryland license.

An attorney for Carhart declined to comment because he had not been officially informed about the complaint or investigation.