Pro-life news brief 7-25-13
by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat
- The Washington Post discovers that most people (including the majority of Democrats) would prefer abortions to be restricted after 20 weeks. The poll also found that only 1% of people volunteered the opinion that abortion should be “always legal” compared to 8% who volunteered “never legal.”
- Michael J. New has encouraging news about the rate of sexual activity among teens, as well as information regarding public support of 20-week abortion bans.
- A Green Bay, Wisconsin clinic which performed abortions will no longer do so after being bought. The abortionist, Robert DeMott, agreed to no longer perform abortions after selling his Ob/Gyn Associates clinic to Bellin Health System. His clinic was the only abortion provider in Green Bay:
In the declaration by DeMott, he acknowledges the sale to Bellin, indicates he will become an employee of Bellin, and as a condition of employment with Bellin he says, “I may not provide abortion services to any patient.” - In light of the J.J. Redick abortion contract, New York Magazine’s Kat Stoeffel writes that the idea has “practical potential”:
Abortion can be kind of heavy, so abortion contracts should be lighthearted and verbal — along the lines of “our objective is not procreation, pinky swear” — and definitely precoital. When they are hashed out after the fact, abortion contracts can become contentious, expensive, and even a little supernatural, as it did for abortion-contract pioneer and NBA player J.J. Redick.
Jul.25, 2013 4:35 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.
Abortion can be kind of heavy, so abortion contracts should be lighthearted and verbal — along the lines of “our objective is not procreation, pinky swear” — and definitely precoital.
Oh, really? This makes me feel so much better about abortion. I mean, why wait until it comes up, when you can make sure before you get busy that any resulting baby will be snuffed, no discussion required. It’s so much easier, isn’t it, than just postponing sex, or in any way using behavior to avoid pregnancy. Naw, we’d rather write a contract to kill children rather than abstain from that oh-so-uncontrollable urge.
this was kind of interesting, it seams ‘reproductive coercion,’ as they call it, doesn’t always end up in an abortion, sometimes it ends up in a live-birth! http://nymag.com/thecut/2013/05/when-men-sabotage-birth-control.html
Interesting link, City. Most notable: the push for more secretive birth control and abortion pills rather than …behavior such as getting out of the relationship. If you don’t want to have children, stop having sex with an abusive partner who does. That’s the insane answer to everything: more chemicals, iuds, etc. but not more attention paid to the very hard work of creating healthier relationships.
The “abortion contract” idea could start showing up in pre nuptial agreements.