Life Links 1-30-12
by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat
- Lawyer Gloria Allred is apparently contacting television stations which are planning on airing Randall Terry’s Super Bowl ads and asking them for time to appear on the stations and react to the ad and “express the pro-choice right to safe and legal abortion position.” I don’t know if the stations should allow someone who can’t spell the name of her country properly (“United Sates”) the time of day.
- Feministe’s Jill Filipovic is promoting the meme that won’t die:
The United States has one of the highest abortion rates in the developed world — that is in large part because of lack of birth control access.
Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. There are various reasons the United States’ abortion rate is higher than some other nations in the developed world. “Lack of access to birth control” is not one of them.
Noticeably absent from Filipovic’s pronouncement is any evidence for it. Typical.
- Newt Gingrich has announced he would ban all embryonic stem cell research and create a commission to study the ethics of in-vitro fertilization if elected president.
- The New York Times published an article from the Texas Tribune on the state’s new ultrasound law. Here’s a boo-hoo part about the poor abortionists and the logistics nightmare it creates for traveling abortionists:
For the clinics, however, it has been a bureaucratic nightmare. Now the physician performing the abortion — not an ultrasound technician, for example, or a secondary doctor — must conduct the sonogram on a separate day, a scheduling struggle when doctors providing elective abortions are in short supply and rotate between clinics.
“They’ve had to set aside a whole other day doing ultrasounds, visits that in most parts of medicine would be dedicated to people with less training than a physician,” Ms. Hagstrom Miller said. “The effect on their travel schedule, on their reimbursement, on patients’ access to them has been tremendous.”
[Image via texastribune.org]
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.
One reason the abortion rate may be so terribly high in the US could be our attitudes toward risk. Americans may be more prone to take risks than Northern and Western Europeans.
Oh no! People will have to give the lives of their children AN ENTIRE ADDITIONAL DAY OF CONSIDERATION BEFORE THEY HAVE THEM KILLED! OMIGOSH!
And…and…the abortionists might not be able to keep up with their yacht payments!
THIS IS TERRIBLE!
“Here’s a boo-hoo part about the poor abortionists”
You chuckle about the inconvenience for the professionals and the women. Once again, you demonstrate why so many, in the pro-choice community, see you folks as absolute women haters.
Amanda Marcotte is so right. At the end of her article, “In Bad Faith: New Study Further Underscores Lack of Truth in Anti-choice claims,” she says
“Just don’t believe the feigned concern for women or children. When you look at what anti-choicers do rather than what they say, it becomes clearl that when it comes to actual people, the anti-choice movement doesn’t give a hoot.”
Maybe when you cut out half of the equation and deem them “not actual people”…but by that same token, it seems like you guys also don’t consider women who have been physically or emotionally harmed by their abortions “not actual people” either. Which makes it even that much more rich when you go on about concern for EITHER women OR their children. They could die in “safe, legal, rare procedures” all day long and you guys wouldn’t bat an eye or lose sleep fighting safety regulations, and they can throw aborted children in the buckets all day long and you won’t give a toss.
PUH. LEEZE.
Yes, abortionists love women, they love them to death!
Well informed consent be damned. Scheduling conflicts, people! Scheduling conflicts! You cannot worry about if women truly understand what they’re about to do and make sure they have all the facts. There are SCHEDULING CONFLICTS. I am wringing my hands.
And about birth control access. I totally agree. There is NO ACCESS to birth control in the US. I mean, if you try to go into Walmart and buy condoms, they actually have preachers standing in front of the prophylactics with big Bibles preaching about the dangers of fornication! Its like, impossible to buy some rubbers these days! Sheesh.
For Sydney M.: Why is the abortion rate higher here than in Western and Northern Europe?
Could it be because of our attitudes toward risk?
Agreed, Sydney! My mom always told my sister and I there was no excuse for not using birth control, because “Walmart always has condoms, and you can even find them in gas stations!”
Seriously, I don’t know anyone who doesn’t know where to get birth control, and we’re a bunch of poor college kids.
Naaa….. WE don’t care about women at all! That’s why we volunteer our time at CPCs, and help women find doctors (OB/GYNs AND pediatricians), help them with housing, child care, diapers, clothes, baby equipment, etc. AND EMOTIONAL SUPPORT.
Because we just don’t care.
Denise, there are more restrictions on abortion in Europe than one would think. Most countries have 12 week limits, for one. I would guess that is why.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6235557.stm
Kate says:
January 30, 2012 at 4:36 pm
Denise, there are more restrictions on abortion in Europe than one would think. Most countries have 12 week limits, for one. I would guess that is why.
(Denise) I believe that 80% of abortion in the U.S. are in the first trimester.
However, it may be that the 12 week limit accounts for the difference.
Shy of chaining bc pills around women’s necks and having daily postal deliveries of condoms in every mailbox exactly how do these people think we can have *more* access to contraceptives in America??? I can think of, off the cuff, at least half a dozen places-other than stores- within normal daily range of my house where one could get condoms, and at least a couple where one could access female hormonal contraceptives for next-to-nothing as well. And that ignored the fact that almost every convience store, grocery store, pharmacy, and general store sells them AND even if you assume there is some timy little 14 person town where the local convience store doesn’t carry condoms…I can think of 2 websites where one can get free condoms and any number where you can get them for sale. (And yes, tiny towns now have internet access pretty much anywhere). A 6 year old is capable of getting a condom from a mall bathroom dispenser for 50 cents. seriously do these people who think we need *more* contraceptive acces think everyone of reproductive age needs to call some government run hotline every morning at 8am to verify they got their daily delivery of birth control through certified messenger?
Jespren, the college I went to before I transferred actually had a service that did deliver condoms to your mailbox!
Don’t you silly pro lifers understand? Women are far too stupid to figure out all that complex stuff like condoms and pills let alone how to raise a baby, next you’ll be telling me they can have a family and a job at the same time HAHA don’t be ridiculous….
U-104, yeah, isn’t that the irony? We pro-lifers actually believe women are equal to men *as they are naturally*, while pro-abortionist liberals think they have a *chance* to be equal *if* they are given free/reduced by the taxpayers frequent or daily powerful hormonal drugs and further hormonal or surgical procedures as ‘needed’. And of course many also think they need special protections, special rights, and state-funded childcare too.
It’s truly laughable that they think we are ‘anti-woman’. I am *so* glad I never bought the mysogynistic feminist lie that I *need* all these extra things to be equal to a man. And I feel sorry for women who think so little of their own abilities and bodies that they are convinced they have to pump themselves full of drugs or submit to painful (and unethical) procedures just to *try* to obtain “sameness” with a man because they think they have to be male to be equal to a male.
Jespren-
some women, like our friend law, are just terrified of having a baby because they’ve obviously been told how “horrific” it is, or maybe they have a friend who had a baby and then got….GASP…fat! ICKY!
But yeah, being afraid of pain/getting fat is like, totally pro-woman and stuff. It shows how tough we are, and how we’re absolutely not shallow and stuff. 9_9