Jivin J’s Life Links 5-11-10
by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat
In a May 13, 1997, memo from the White House domestic policy office, Kagan and her boss, Bruce Reed, told Clinton that abortion rights groups opposed Daschle’s compromise. But they urged the president to support it, saying he otherwise risked seeing a Republican-led Congress override his veto on the stricter bill…..
”We recommend that you endorse the Daschle amendment in order to sustain your credibility on HR 1122 and prevent Congress from overriding your veto,” they wrote.
Here’s some more information on that amendment from National Right to Life including a Washington Post article entitled, “Daschle Bill May Not Ban Anything” which notes how the bill would allow abortionists to decide whether or not they broke the law:
In effect, the draft measure would give a doctor, or nonphysician allowed to do abortions, the last word on the likelihood a fetus would survive outside the uterus, as well as calculating risks of “grievous injury” to the mother if she continues the pregnancy.
The article also notes that Kagan urged Clinton to support a ban on human cloning.
A draft document of the new policy obtained by The Vancouver Sun indicates that while fetal gender determination is not normally included in the ultrasound, “at the patient’s request, it will be included in the radiologist’s report … [and] a charge of $50 will be levied for this additional service.
“The ultrasound staff will not disclose this information to the patient. Rather, [the pregnant patient] will obtain it from the referring physician after 20 weeks gestation [when abortion is no longer an available option].”
The time period after which such information is disclosed is important to prevent women from aborting if they are disappointed by the news of the gender of their fetus.
[Boy/girl graphic via DanielleFreelances]
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
In the early 90’s there was an obstrecian in Blaine, Washington who catered to the Seik community in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada who desired to know the gender of their prenatal child.
Seiks favored male children over female children. The ob/gyn did not perform abortion, he just did the ultra sound exam and left it up to the Seiks as to how they would proceed.
Sounds like the Vancouver hospital is just trying to exploit an existing demand in the market place.
There was a butcher by the name of Baird Bardason in Renton, Washington who advertized in the surrrounding states, British Columbia and Alaska that he performed abortions thru the second trimester or 20 weeks.
But just a little creative questioning of Bardason’s staff revealed he had no firm ‘cut off’ date.
At the time the canucks were a little queasy about these late term post viable abortions and as a result most of these Seiks probably made the less than 200 mile drive to Renton to Bardason’s house of horrors to have their female chidren dismembered.
I would venture to guess that if Hal checked his greater Seattle yellow pages there is a similar advertisement today for late term abortions.
I think you mean Sikh, Ken.
“Back in 1997, current Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan urged President Clinton to support a loop-hole-ridden amendment by then-Senator Tom Daschle to ban post-viability abortion as a way of stopping Clinton’s veto of the ban on partial-birth abortions from being overridden…”
Could this sentence be any more confusing? I don’t think so. (Sorry, Jivin J)
In the last few years in our state it’s like one miracle after another. As a state the fighting of animals is no longer allowed. Smoking in hospitals and restaurants is banned. And now this expecting abortion clinics to obey the law. My hope is that the next miracle will be all abortion clinics closing and ladies whose lives are truly at risk receiving real medical help at a real hospital. What if instead of abortion clinics there were hospitals where mothers lives who were really at risk could be treated. I started to right the preceding sentence and then realized wait there already are. There called hospitals and the technology already exists to do just that. No the baby doesn’t always make it but as a nation we could say that a real effort was made to rescue both mom and baby.
Elena Kagan White House “Interview” Riles Reporters
Posted by Brian Montopoli
‘www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20004724-503544.html’
In the interview, conducted by a White House staffer who produces videos for the administration, Kagan discusses her childhood, parents and professional career.
At one point she jokes that people get confused between her job as solicitor general arguing cases before the Supreme Court and the attorney general, who puts “the labels on the cigarette packages.”
The decision to post an interview with Kagan conducted by a government employee – not a journalist – is in line with the Obama administration’s policy of regularly using new media tools to go around traditional media.
Doing so allows the administration to better control its message – and, in this case, avoid any uncomfortable questions for their Supreme Court nominee.
[So much for ‘transparency’. The press corps will be allowed selected peeks thru the key hole.]
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The byline should read, ‘b.o. stiffs White House press corps…..again.’
I don’t smoke but I am pretty sure the warning label on cigarette pacakges does not say the Attorney General or the Solicitor General but the
SURGEON General has determined…
Perhaps some of the Senators on the Judiciary Committee will yield a portion of their time to the disaffected members of the MSM to allow them the opprotunity to interview missy Kagan.
Posted by: len at May 11, 2010 2:10 PM
“I think you mean Sikh, Ken.”
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Perdoname!
My crack staff of paid full time researchers and proof reader have disappointed me yet once again.
This oversight will be reflected in their year end bonus, or lack thereof.
Or you may be using the American spelling and I was using the Canadian spelling.
Hal,
Never mind. I did the job for you.
Cedar River Clinics
4300 Talbot Rd S Suite 403
Renton, WA 98055
Surgical Abortion & The Abortion Pill,
Second Trimester Abortion,
Interpreters,Free Shuttle
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Heres the link to the Vancouver, B.C., Canada Yellow pages for the Cedar River Clinic in Renton, Washington
http://www.yellowpages.ca/bus/British-Columbia/Renton/Cedar-River-Clinic/325717.html?adid=&tabSelect=&dymList=&origWhat=true&how=onlyonefound
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ken @ 10:32 PM,
Attorney General, Surgeon General, Colonel Sanders, Burger King….
they’re all pretty much the same. Why spoil a good appointment with the facts?
For those who care, antiwar.com article on Elena Kagan.
You know that people aren’t really liberal if they support Elena Kagan who is not against the wars, not a supporter of free speech and a legal lackey for Obama’s capitalist cronies at GoldmanSachs.