The Lake Superior Treatment Center uses methadone to treat opiate addictions. A Human Services Department inspection last month found health and safety violations discovered in March had not been corrected. An official with the company that runs the for-profit clinic predicts its clients will die, overdose, or go to jail.

Three months before the Minnesota Department of Human Services recommended a methadone clinic in Duluth be shut down, a nonprofit accrediting agency said the Lake Superior Treatment Center "met or exceeded standards in many areas," the Duluth News Tribune. However, state investigators inspected the clinic in early August and found 56 violations of standards.

The House and Senate passed separate bills that would place new restrictions on abortion providers. One bill would require a doctor to be present when a patient takes the abortion medication, RU-486. The other would require abortion providers to have licenses and be subject to random inspections.

Supporters of the bill say inspections are also necessary after dangerous conditions were found at a Pennsylvania clinic. Opponents criticize the legislation when other outpatient medical clinics are not regulated. A similar bill is progressing in the Senate.

The legislation would have required clinics that perform abortions to have a special license and undergo biannual inspections. Gov. Mark Dayton says any new standards should apply to all clinics.