INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The Indiana Medical Licensing Board has rejected an Illinois abortion doctor's request for a summary judgment in his favor and instead will hold a full hearing on a complaint accusing him of 1,833 violations at clinics in Gary, South Bend and Fort Wayne.
The board voted 4-0 to deny the motion by Dr. Ulrich Klopfer of Crete, Illinois, with one member abstaining. The date for the full hearing wasn't immediately set.
The Indiana Attorney General's Office filed a complaint last September charging Klopfer with 1,818 counts of submitting incomplete and incorrect abortion reports, two counts of not filing reports for 13-year-old patients within three days of procedures and 13 counts of failing to ensure counselors obtained proper consent.
Klopfer's attorney argued Indiana law didn't support the alleged paperwork violations.
