The University of Wisconsin Madison Hospital sent an email to employees last night responding to Wisconsin Right to Life’s ad in today’s Wisconsin State Journal.
Christman does not dispute any of the points in WIRTL’s ad except that employees will have to help in the event of an abortion emergency. Then Christman inexplicably concedes employees will indeed have to help in the event of an abortion emergency….
This takes us to uncomfortable ground for medical professionals, most of whom can’t envision themselves walking past a dying patient, even if given the option. This is also ground Obama will likely force nationwide medical professionals to walk. So focus on the points:
UWM refuses to define what constitutes an “emergency.” I personally was involved in 2 nonemergency situations at Christ Hospital that the attending or resident thought called for emergency abortions. The list of possibilities is endless.
UWM has already admitted late-term abortions it plans to commit are not medically necessary, so any “emergencies” arising are its own fault, a term, don’t forget, it gets to define. To begin with, these are 2-day procedures for heaven sakes (kill the baby on day 1, abort on day 2), most certainly not emergencies at the onset. Thus, the only emergencies that may arise would be self-created – by a lead abortionist, Caryn Dutton, who admitted in an email Planned Parenthood had “low confidence” in to commit late-term abortions. UWM is admitting late-term abortions will endanger women’s lives yet pursues them anyway?
Both WI and federal conscience laws give blanket, unequivocable opt outs from abortions with no caveats. UWM is violating law by stating employees have to help in what it considers emergency abortions.
UWM has also already stated in emails it will not commit abortions on Saturdays, when it is not fully staffed for emergencies. Thus, UWM is admitting that on weekdays it will rely on all staff – including nonconsenting staff – to fulfill its potential need for help with abortion “emergencies.” In other words, UWM is not fully staffing
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.
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~ Pro-life commenter Elisabeth, from Stanek post, “Bristol Palin’s mixed message,” May 27 ”
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Pickets in front of this hospital will let general medical patients know. I realize their hedonist posture on abortion will cost them donations and admitions. The older people can go to other hospitals. A drop in occupancy rates will happen.
Also I suspect Obama care will hammer down abortions on one hand to be mandatory in that a hospital must provide them and on the other hand, be done for a volume discount rate of $67.88 per head reimbursement because they only take a few minutes and can be done by student nurses.
Ask Noter Dame 2 years from now how it helped fund raising.
First, I want to make it clear that I am about as pro-life as it gets. There is no justification for a direct abortion under any circumstances, and its legalization is nothing short government sanctioned murder.
BUT, the email above is about whether or not staff at the Madison Surgery Center will be coereced into assisting in the murder of a child. In all fairness, the email says that employees would only experience coercion FOLLOWING an abortion. The issue isn’t whether staff we be required to help kill a child, but whether they will be required to help the poor woman.
It seems like they’re saying that the procedures they’re going to be performing aren’t exactly safe for the mother, and when the doctors mess up an put the mother’s life at risk, the emergency staff will be required to help her.
If I were considering having a second-semester abortion at the Madison Surgery Center, I would think long and hard about why there is such a need for back-up staff. How safe are the procedures they’re doing? Why are these women’s lives being put in such risk? Who will be liable when women start dying from botched abotions at government run facilities?
An “emergency following abortion” could also apply to a baby who doesn’t die as scheduled during the procedure, couldn’t it? Will staff be forced to provide what they consider less than humane care for an abortion survivor? Don’t know what methods the hospital will be using, so maybe it’s a non-issue.
I am sooooo glad I don’t work there. Yet another reason I won’t work labor and delivery or postpartum in anything but a Catholic hospital.
Unfortunately, I can see Obama trying to strip away the rights of even devout Catholic hospitals during his power grab.
I agree with the points made above… they obviously don’t have much faith in their own procedures!
I have to say that I agree they should have to participate in any emergency following an abortion. No they should not have an abortion but I feel every life is precious and it should only be God’s decision to end someone’s life.
I keep thinking of Carla. If she had, let’s say, hemorrhaged after her abortion and care was withheld think of all the people she would not have been around to help. It’s just compounding the tragedy.
Hi Kristen,
Whenever I go to the Cemetery of Choice website I do think, “That could have been me.”
Posted by: Carla at May 28, 2009 2:08 PM
Carla, you are very special and I think of you often. There is a special place in heaven for you.
“That rare circumstance would be no different from assistance in emergencies resulting from activities such as drunk driving or drug/alcohol abuse, when health care professionals of course administer treatment despite their personal views of the reason for injury”
This is only an accurate comparison to the abortion case if the hospital is CAUSING those cases of drunkenness or drug abuse.
Kristen,
I can’t think of anything more special than eternity with my Lord and Savior and my babies. :)
Thanks to both HisMan and Jasper… although you’ve now given me a very perplexed 16 year old daughter who can’t understand why *everyone* doesn’t understand what her three year old sister does…
And I agree… care must be provided to prevent maternal deaths. The issue is that the hospital would be causing the problems in the first place! I would be interested in knowing how far they try to stretch the word emergency to force their employees to perform or assist in the abortion itself…
THE QOTD was a great pick! I’ll bet you’re a great mom Elisabeth!
Carla, the Cemetery of Choice was one of the very first sites I found. It sure takes the “safe” out of safe, legal, and rare, doesn’t it? AND OH MY, how those poor women were treated!!