Pro-life vid: ND Measure 1 ad notes need for informed consent
by Kelli
Our own former lead moderator at JillStanek.com, Carla Stream, ministers regularly to those with post-abortion regret. In today’s video, which is an ad in favor of North Dakota’s Measure 1, she discusses how informed consent laws like those in ND could have saved her baby from abortion and spared her a lifetime of regret.
ND’s Measure 1 seeks to keep in place common-sense pro-life laws passed in the state, where even physicians have voiced their support for the measure. Says NDChooseLife.com:
Reflecting our community values of supporting life, North Dakota’s legislature has passed a variety of strong, common-sense pro-life laws. These include ensuring that women are given full disclosure of information prior to an abortion, providing that abortion can only be performed by licensed physicians with hospital admitting privileges to protect women in case of emergencies, making sure parents are notified if their daughter is seeking an abortion, and prohibiting the gruesome partial-birth abortion procedure.
In North Dakota and over a dozen other states, out of state interest groups have filed lawsuits seeking to invalidate these common sense pro-life laws and impose an unlimited right to abortion that goes beyond Roe v. Wade. Last year, these outside groups convinced a judge in Fargo to overturn a pro-life law passed by the Legislature. The judge ruled that the state constitution contains a “right” to abortion that jeopardizes every pro-life law in North Dakota.
By passing the Human Life Amendment, we will protect our common-sense pro-life laws and prevent this type of judicial activism from happening in the future.
Watch the ad, featuring Carla, below:
[youtube]http://youtu.be/hdp7Vts6V6w[/youtube]
Be sure to watch the full interview with Carla as well, here.
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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.
Are you checking in, Carla?
You are very cute!
I just want to tell you that.
Missouri former governor John Ashcroft explains the experience of other states after passing measures like North Dakota Measure 1.
Real-world results overwhelm the pro-bort scare tactics. 8 minutes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq2mxBycDcQ#t=49
Way to go, Carla!
Bravo, Carla!
Well done, Carla!
You look wonderful!
Oh I am always watching…heh heh
Thank you so much!
It was an honor to do this ad!
Please pray that Measure 1 passes.
An interview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CijGCcvL8M&feature=share
Carla,
You’re beautiful. Physically, and in every other way that matters!
Great job Carla!
Carla, this is wonderful. <3
All the polls I've seen have Measure 1 likely projected to pass. And the opposition is getting scared. I hear plenty of talk about end-of-life care and IVF. But no TV/radio commercials, newspaper ads, or mailers on their side seem to mention abortion…
And of course, most of their funding comes from PP. Which is hysterical because PP doesn't even have a clinic anywhere in ND.
A friend of mine said yesterday that about 40 pastors had gathered in his area of ND in support of Measure 1, for what was supposed to be a press conference.
Media decided not to show up.
Big surprise.
Everything I have read from those that oppose Measure 1 are lies.
Big surprise there too.
Thank you Ann Marie and Mary! :)
Thank you Kate! True that. One mill in Fargo. PP does not have a piece of that pie.
So many poor ND women dying daily for “lack of access.”
eyeroll
PS This was filmed in my living room. So I finally got to have you all over. :)
I wanted to add a couple things after watching the full interview.
Full disclosure, and this is shameful to admit, but when I found out I was pregnant with my son back in January, I actually had an appointment for an abortion scheduled at the Fargo clinic. So this is what I know from that:
The interview mentions ultrasound and informed consent requirements. Neither of these are really “requirements” under current ND law. I was told I could be given the opportunity to view one (at a separate facility, I think) but it was stressed that it was not necessary. And I was given pamphlets, but I didn’t have to read them and no one went through them with me. They were sent to my e-mail address as a way to have them provided ahead of the 24 hour waiting period without me actually having to travel down there.
Its the law Kate. Doesn’t mean an abortion mill obeys the law. I mean they kill children and harm women for profit! What’s a little law breaking??
Are you ok?
Did you go through with it?
No, I didn’t. :)
When I scheduled the appointment, they didn’t have an opening for nearly another 2 weeks (I think because they fly in the doctors?). So, obviously it was on my mind a lot.
I had been pregnant twice before and miscarried both times, so I had this idea that maybe that would “just” happen again and I wouldn’t have to deal with any of it. One of my previous losses was found via ultrasound, so I figured that if I had an u/s and found another, I could cancel the appointment and just follow up with my OB.
So I went here: http://gfwpc.org/
And I scheduled an ultrasound. I “knew” what kind of place it was (one of those evil, evil CPCs, of course), but figured that I could deal with the pro-life rhetoric for a free u/s. Clearly, someone upstairs had a hand in that one…
I wasn’t uneducated about fetal development, to be honest, but…that still doesn’t prepare you for when it is YOUR baby on the ultrasound screen. I was 9 weeks pregnant, and my son looked like a cute little gummy bear–he was waving his arms and legs, wiggling, and practically doing flips in there already. And I just knew I couldn’t do it.
I went home and canceled the appointment (side note: the receptionist got really rude with me at that point, which really made me start thinking about how pro-“choice” they really were). My son was born August 7th and is the most beautiful, chubby-cheeked little guy I have ever seen. :)
Oh Kate!!!
I am so grateful to God to hear that you and your son were spared from abortion!! How wonderful that you got to see him on ultrasound and couldn’t go through with an abortion! (Which is why Big Abortion works against ultrasound legislation) And the receptionist? You are money walking out the door to her. One choice. Abortion.
I love your story. I love your passion for life. Your voice is needed and I am so glad you shared it here.
When I speak there are always women that come up to me and “confess” that abortion was their back up plan. That they thought they were pregnant and scheduled the appt. only to find out they weren’t pregnant. Women that changed their minds in the mill. Women that somehow feel guilt and shame over ever CONTEMPLATING abortion.
But that is where we are as a society. We deem what is evil, good and what is good(CPC’s)evil.
God bless you Kate! You made my day!! :)
Congrats on the baby boy Kate.
You go Carla!
Great Ad, Carla!