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LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska health inspectors have cleared a physician of allegations that his Bellevue clinic violated state abortion laws.
The Omaha World-Herald reports (http://bit.ly/1P5EPYD ) that a pair of inspectors from the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services found no evidence to support complaints that the clinic was violating Nebraska's ban on abortions after 20 weeks or that it was improperly handing and disposing of fetal tissue. They spent three days inspecting the Bellevue Health Clinic in early August.
Inspectors did find three lesser regulation violations. These offenses have since been corrected.
State records don't show who filed the complaints against LeRoy Carhart's clinic.
Spokesman Taylor Gage of the governor's office says Gov. Pete Ricketts didn't order the investigation of Carhart's clinic. The governor had asked the department to inspect the state's Planned Parenthood clinics last August.
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