Pro-life blog buzz 4-30-13
by Kelli
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- At Abortion Pill Risks, Monty Patterson interviews “Isis,” a college student who recently had a terrifying experience with RU-486, the abortion pill.
- Abortion in Washington compiles a post on the plethora of lawsuits against birth control manufacturers for various complications, including a possible 1,000 soon to be filed against Nuvaring.
- Big Blue Wave says an Australian doctor is under fire from pro-choicers for refusing to refer a couple for a sex-selective abortion. Again, we see just how “open” pro-choicers are to the idea of medical professionals asserting their conscience rights when it comes to abortion. They’re not.
- At Bound4Life, Natalie Brumfield discusses the completion of Students for Life’s Planned Parenthood Project, “a two-week bus tour [to eight] college campuses… [to] educate students on Planned Parenthood’s real agenda and where people can go for real help.” At each campus were 916 pink crosses (representing the number of abortions performed by PP daily) and eye-catching pink signs featuring facts on PP as well as other options for healthcare.
- At The Leading Edge, Chelsea Houghton gives reasons why she believes women should be more open to motherhood:
We live in a world where everything is over planned and in our control. We plan and choose a life for ourselves. A specific career, marriage (or not marriage) at a certain age, this number of children at this age, travel, a house… Whether it is through this or from the negatives people are quick to say, this has created rather a fear of parenthood in our culture.
- Saynsumthn’s Blog reports on the conflicting statements given by Pennsylvania Planned Parenthood CEO Dayle Steinberg (pictured right) on Kermit Gosnell’s abortion practice. Did she or didn’t she know about the shoddy conditions and women’s deaths occurring there? In 2010, Steinberg said “she hadn’t heard of any problems at clinic until the allegations surfaced in recent days,” but later stated that women were leaving Gosnell’s clinic and “would complain to staff about the conditions there.” Patients were then allegedly encouraged to report Gosnell to the health department.
- Euthanasia Prevention Coalition shares an article by Susan Martinuk which points out that assisted suicide affects more than just the person seeking death:
So there it is — the classic left-wing argument against almost everything. Not based on facts or statistics, or what has happened in other countries, but on emotional narratives that are loaded with words like compassion, “I feel,” and claims of “my body, “my choice” and the ignorant and naive assumption that this “will only affect me.”In sharp contrast, the reality is that giving individuals the right to die “on their own terms” has plenty of public implications. First of all, it involves the assistance of another and the assurance that society will not stand in the way. Therefore, it is very much a public, not private, act. By giving doctors the right to help their patients die, the legalization of euthanasia would also influence the kind of medical care that the rest of society receives.
[Photos via Bound4Life and Saynsumthn]
Apr.30, 2013 3:30 pm |
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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.
That medical abortion story is appalling. I know someone who nearly had a medical abortion at that clinic. I was very disturbed by the fact that when you google the address, you get two different “clinics” – Best Women’s Medical Care, and The Women’s Choice – and I told her that at the very least, I thought that was a dangerous sign. I mean, to me that seems like an attempt to get away from bad reviews or PR, or something just not quite right. She attempted to book an appointment with them – she filled out the form online and also left a voicemail – she got an “appointment confirmation” DAYS AFTER the “appointment” she had tried to book had already passed. Like, the e-mail confirmation came through and said, “Your appointment is confirmed for xx time on xx date” and that date was days in the past already. It was bizarre.
Unfortunately she still had an abortion; she ended up going to another clinic because she admitted that BWMC seemed really unprofessional and weird. She had called it in the first place because it was the cheapest price she could find, but she did eventually decide to pay more to go to another place.
But regardless of all of that I was appalled and creeped out by this place, not even ever having seen it, and I am not at all surprised to see it mentioned in this interview about such a negative experience, let alone one that had the patient using the medication in a manner not approved by the FDA without even telling her. That “instruction sheet” is laughable, or would be if people weren’t relying on it for their health. I especially love Step 5: “Stay in bed for the remainder of the night.” Having had a miscarriage I can say that at least for some people, that kind of pain is more manageable if you are sitting up or walking at times. But I guess it’s hard to talk about that without talking about the pain itself, so yeah, just stay in bed, lie back and think of England maybe.
How infuriating. This is NYC; aside from a protestor or two at the entrances to these buildings (and there are not many at these kinds of places – the unseen, unmentioned clinics squirreled away on upper floors of large buildings), there is not really much organized opposition to safe and legal abortion. And still this crap happens. No one can blame this clinic’s behavior on pro-lifers interfering with the safety of abortion. So what is the excuse? Why let these places fester in plain sight? Why don’t more women have the sense of basic entitlement that Isis has? She does not seem to regret her abortion; but she is angry and upset and scared that she was treated so wrongly and so dangerously – so needlessly. Why is she one of the few women willing to say that? Why do more pro-choice women not demand safety as much as they demand legality and accessibility?
Dr Hobart, who has recently featured in the Aussie media, could be in far worse trouble than just riling up the pro-aborts for his refusal to refer a woman for an abortion her husband had requested at 19wks because their baby was a girl (another doctor performed the abortion a few days later.) Dr Hobart practices in the state of Victoria, where it is currently illegal for a doctor to refuse to refer for an abortion, and could lose his license.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/melbourne-doctors-abortion-stance-may-be-punished/story-e6frg6n6-1226631128438
Right now, the state of Tasmania is currently working to pass similar legislation to Victoria’s which would also make it illegal for counsellors with a conscientious objection to abortion to speak to a pregnant woman or face a $32K fine, which will effectively shut down the pregnancy centers. The proposed law also prohibits people going within 150 meters of an abortion clinic to pray etc (eg 40 DFL) lest they be arrested on the spot without a warrant, fined and jailed for up to a year.
http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/tasmanias_intimidating_abortion_bill?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+mercatornet%2Fsite_rss+(MercatorNet)
Meanwhile, our federal health minister (of EMILY’s List) is likely to succeed in gaining government funding for RU 486, reducing the cost of medical abortion to literally pocket change. Australian taxpayers have already been subsidising surgical abortions since 1976.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/health/abbott-wont-oppose-subsidy-of-abortion-pill-ru486/story-fn59nokw-1226629979611
We have about 20 life-affirming pregnancy centres/helplines serving a population of 22 million that aborts around 100000 little ones each year, one of the highest per capita abortion rates in the western world. Partial birth abortion is still legal here, and there’s no BAIPA. Our repeat abortion rate is over 40%, meanwhile there are less than 100 children released for adoption in the entire country each year.
If you haven’t prayed for the Aussie prolifers before, could you please start now? Perhaps you could consider ‘adopting’ an Aussie PRC. We need your support. We are a small band of faithful warriors, fighting a huge uphill battle, and would be discouraged except that we know whose side we are on :)
Here’s the blog post of one of the “photobombers” gloating about her immaturity:
http://adventuresofanenglishgirl.wordpress.com/2013/04/25/the-southern-college-experience-pro-life-protesters/
Wow, after 4 young women died in the US from medical abortion complications, there are still abortion staff telling women to vaginally insert misoprostol (which reduces the body’s resistance to infection)!?
Way to go, abortion providers.
Why does nobody ever comment on the number of women who die in childbirth and from having miscarriages? Not to mention women whose bodies undergo permanent damage from birth after birth or miscarriage after miscarriage. Whatever one’s views on abortion are I think people need to stop acting like childbirth is all rainbows and fairy dust. How about some prayer vigils and public weeping for women who die giving birth? Also, I tend to doubt the accuracy of the RU-486 woman’s report. She sounds like a whining 13 year-old, not an adult who should be taking responsibility for her own health care. She regrets her abortion and wants to blame everybody but herself. If miscarriages (which is basically what she had although it was chemically induced rather than natural) are this dangerous then we need to be warning women about the hazards of pregnancy, period.
Go for it Tenn.
Cite your sources.
Make your signs, start a movement.
Something along the lines of Joan Crawford……
NO MORE PREGNANCIES EVAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRR!!
You do know the difference between an abortion and a miscarriage right?
Tenn, there is a huge movement to deal with the absurdly high infant and maternal mortality and morbidity rate in the U.S., unfortunately it largely gets ignored by the liberal lobbyists/media who can’t let the mantra of ‘abortion is reproductive healthcare’ fall silent for even a second. All over the country women are trying, begging, desperately attempting to get evidence based maternal care which will lower the morbidity and mortality rate. There are support groups, websites, books, protests, quilts, etc. U.S. mortality/morbidity is extremely high for a developed country. Legalized abortion does NOTHING to help this problem and in countries where abortion is severly restricted (developed countries) mortality and morbidity is much lower. Women desperately want REAL health care, real REPRODCUTIVE care, like for actual reproduction, but to fight for that is to fight *against* abortion, which does horrible damage to a woman’s reproductive organs and future pregnancies so the media and feminists are against it. They will happily give away the lives of mothers and infants if it means keeping the right to take the life of unborn humans.