Jivin J’s Life Links 2-7-11
by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat
- CNN has a story of another woman who obtained an abortion from Kermit Gosnell. LaToya Ransome had to have open heart surgery a month after her abortion and now she suspects she got an infection from Gosnell’s clinic.
- David Kahane writes satirically in the National Review on abortionist Kermit Gosnell:You bet no one put a stop to it. Because if there’s one thing we can’t have, it’s inspectors traipsing around abortion clinics, making sure all the bureaucratic niceties are observed — as if docs have time for stuff like that when there’s a world of babies about to be “born,” waiting to be scissored to death. Give a provider a break! Oversight would just scare away the poor, often underage, mostly minority women who brave the throngs of screaming hate-filled “pro-lifers” in order to exercise their Right to Choose.
- NARAL is in a tizzy over conscience rights in the Protect Life Act:“This new Congress, in just its first month of work, has taken perhaps some of the most radical positions against abortion that I have ever seen,” said NARAL policy director Donna Crane.
However, a Pitts spokesman said the bill’s language is similar to “conscience rights” protections provided by other abortion legislation, including the 1976 Hyde Amendment and the 2004 Hyde-Weldon Amendment. The Hyde Amendment, which must be approved by Congress each year, bans the use of federal funds to pay for abortion. The Hyde-Weldon Amendment, passed by a Republican-controlled Congress in 2004, ensures that the federal government could not withhold funds from caregivers opposed to providing abortions.
“NARAL and other abortion rights groups have vigorously opposed any conscience protection legislation,” Pitts spokesman Andrew Wimer told The Hill. “It is no surprise that they would attack the Protect Life Act with the same old talking points.”
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.
“Is it truly Rep. Pitts’ position that a woman should die at the entrance of a hospital that refuses to provide abortion care necessary to save her life?” Crane said.”
That’s not what conscience protection means at all. Crane should be aware that a hospital will do everything it can to bring a good outcome for BOTH mother AND baby. Does NARAL Policy Director, Crane, really think a woman would show up at a hospital emergency room shouting “Kill my baby before I die, please!” only to be thrown to the street by hospital staff?
With regards to that d-bag Gosnell: all of this makes me so sad. I’m trying to think about this without being infuriated to the point of compromising my rationality, but aside from the fact that he’s a low-life murderer, does anyone else think about what Gosnell’s “practice” has told us about abortion, racism, and the abuse of women of color or immigrant women? I read somewhere (I can’t recall where now, sorry) that Gosnell intentionally chose a neighborhood where most of his “patients” (ugh, for lack of a better word- Gosnell is no healer) would be illegal immigrants or women of color who lack substantial financial means. Essentially because “white women are more likely to report.” It’s so horrible. I was just curious as to what others thought of this.
In my opinion, it means that we all have a lot of work to do.
The abortionists are and always have been compulsive liars and complete con artists.
They lie about everything, they twist and distort the truth, they act as though minor changes will cause the world to end, they twist and distort the language and offer nothing but empty drivel, doublespeak and euphemisms.
They are deceitful and intellectually dishonest in the extreme. They engage in demagoguery, demonizing and fearmongering on a grand scale because they do not have any arguments that would pass any serious logical test.
We have biology, logic, philosophy and religion all on our side. They have NOTHING.
Their movement is not a moral movement because they stand for killing human beings and lying about it.
Their movement has no intellectual or moral credibility and never has.
Especially now. Those who excuse PP for failure to follow reporting mandates are hardly in a position to be dictating to the consciences of others.
Donna Crane ,
NARAL and abortionists don’t have a conscience, so of course putting conscience laws in place to regulate abortion would seem radical to you.
Oh, and the “protect life act” – it goes much farther than the odious Hyde (he, a Knight of Columbus who had “youthful indescretions”) Amendment (let the poor have babies) as it attempts to take away tax exemptions for any federally subsidized heatlh benefit plan that covers abortion. Hyde doesn’t do that. Marie Antoinette said “let them eat cake.” Today’s “pro-life” lobby says “let them have babies.” (Right, they’ll be rich, tomorrow but meanwhile there’s rent and bills to pay…)But I’m sure that the “one, true, church” will be there to pay that rent…
If a woman is in dire medical need, the baby can be delivered by C-section and cared for like any other human patient. There is NO medical condition affecting a mother for which a viable baby MUST be slaughtered. If a mother is getting medical treatment for her health, and the baby accidently dies in the process, that is sad and tragic enough.
CC, why doesn’t Planned Parenthood help women with ectopic pregnancies? Hm?? I guess they like dead women.
Hey, Chris, how’s that RI “right to life” thing going – LOL!!!!
CC, I witnessed with my own ears and eyes at a PP office many years ago: they sent away a woman with an ectopic pregnancy. It was the second PP clinic she went to that day. THEY DIDN’T EVEN TELL HER TO GO DIRECTLY TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM. Another patient in the waiting room had to get up out of her seat and go speak to the woman. The patient told her, “you need to go to an emergency room right way, don’t go home first.” The Planned Parenthood staff? They had already washed their hands of her.
CC, if Planned Parenthood is so awesome, why don’t they have delivery rooms for healthy babies and their mothers? Why? Why no delivery rooms? Huh, CC? Why not? I mean if it’s Planned Parenthood, how come no body can plan to become a parent there? Why not CC? CC? Why not???
Why only 1 adoption referral for every 1,200 abortions? Why?
Why no real healthcare?? Why not? If PP is the “primary health care” provider, why can’t I get help for bronchitis or food poisoning or varicose veins or even a migraine? Huh? Why not?? Why doesn’t PP tell women they have to take the birthcontrol pill at the same time everyday?? Why do they tell girls they can ‘make up’ a forgotten pill or even two forgotten pills by taking them all when they realize they’ve forgotten? What? That’s not how the pill works?? Gee, it’s almost like PP knows that girls will slip up and get pregnant. Gosh, I don’t want to speak badly about the Holy Temple of PP, but it almost seems like they want birth control to fail because they make so much more money killing babies. Oh, but that can’t be true. They’re so pro-woman, after all.
CC? *** crickets chirp **** tumbleweed blows by *****
(Right, they’ll be rich, tomorrow but meanwhile there’s rent and bills to pay…)But I’m sure that the “one, true, church” will be there to pay that rent…
Here in the Archdiocese of New York they will. Cardinal O’Connor, and his successors have all pledged it. “If you are pregnant and in trouble, come to us and we will care for you.”
$8 now for the archdiocesan fund. Keep it up CC, and you’ll save an unborn baby whether you like it or not!