Pro-life news brief 2-6-14
by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat
- This is a great paragraph in the Washington Post’s GovBeat blog regarding which states have the highest and lowest abortion rates:
The highest abortion rates recorded were in New York, Maryland, the District of Columbia, Delaware and New Jersey, with 27 to 34 abortions per thousand women ages 15 to 44. Wyoming, Mississippi, South Dakota, Kentucky and Missouri had the lowest, at one to five per thousand.
- A local Arkansas TV station has a story on a pro-life billboard and a woman who chose life for her unborn child.
- In Pennsylvania, a woman has been charged with “a felony count of medical consultation and judgment” after getting abortion drugs online and giving them to her teen daughter:
On Feb. 6, 2012, her daughter was transported to the Geisinger Medical Center emergency room with severe abdominal pain. Medical records obtained by police stated she was “treated for an incomplete abortion and a urinary tract infection.”
- At The Nation, Michelle Goldberg writes about the New Yorker piece on abortionist Steven Brigham (pictured left):
The important question, though, is what makes them vulnerable to exploitation. Without a doubt, Brigham’s ability to operate represents a legal and regulatory failure, one aided by official indifference to poor women’s health care. But, like [Philadelphia abortionist Kermit] Gosnell, his business depended on the stigma around abortion and the difficulty many women have in accessing safe procedures.
She should have stopped after the second sentence. Brigham has centered his operations in New Jersey and Maryland, both of which use state tax dollars to fund abortions and where access to abortion is not difficult.
[Photo via philly.com]
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“Brigham has centered his operations in New Jersey and Maryland, both of which use state tax dollars to fund abortions and where access to abortion is not difficult.”
Interestingly enough, both were included in the list of states with the highest abortion rates in story number one. That in of itself pretty much proves this point.
@JDC: Another interesting point is that the states with the highest abortion rates are blue and the states with the lowest numbers are red. Read into that what you will!
. . .his business depended on the stigma around abortion and the difficulty many women have in accessing safe procedures.
Say what? There are plenty of abortion clinics here in Philadelphia! The agency I work for even pays for abortions for girls in foster care or other out of home placements :-(
“The highest abortion rates recorded were in New York, Maryland, the District of Columbia, Delaware and New Jersey, with 27 to 34 abortions per thousand women ages 15 to 44. Wyoming, Mississippi, South Dakota, Kentucky and Missouri had the lowest, at one to five per thousand.”
The abortion stigma in the northeast and mid-Atlantic states can’t be all that high. Meanwhile, where are the screaming headlines of maternal deaths and women dying in droves from “back alley” or self-induced abortions in states with the lowest abortion rate? To listen to abortion supporters, you would think women are living in the bad old days here.