Jivin J’s Life Links 8-18-09
by JivinJ
IVF has brought joy to millions of parents. But it has also fueled the hedonism front of the coup de culture. Moreover, because the reproductive industry, feminists, bioethicists, and others in the anything goes crowd resist any reasonable regulation, it has also opened the door to treating nascent human life as mere ore taken from a mine, set the Brave New World project on its trajectory, led to women becoming so many paid brood mares, caused the death, disability, and serious illness of egg donors and sellers, and transformed reproduction into a mercantile transaction in which people believe they have the right not only to a baby, but to the baby – or many babies – they want….
If coverage for abortion is eliminated from health care reform, the poor and communities of color will bear the consequences.
“The consequences” clearly meaning “more children.” And apparently having more children isn’t good for the future of families and communities….
Already, a low-income woman is 4 times as likely to have an unintended pregnancy and 5 times as likely to have an unintended birth as her higher income counterpart. Lack of access to abortion services perpetuates inequality and compromises the future of women, their families and their communities.
So poor women and women of color have the future of their families compromised if they can’t have abortions paid for with tax-dollars. I think just the opposite is true. In communities where abortions are paid for with tax dollars, my guess is there is likely to a greater breakdown in families and communities….
In this religiously pluralistic nation, our health care system should be inclusive and respectful of diverse religious beliefs and decisions regarding childbearing.
And by “inclusive” and “respectful of diverse religious beliefs,” RCRC means, “Take the ultra-liberal position of making abortions part of a public health care plan and pay no attention to the position of those who oppose this.”
Lawyers for the Department of Health say a formal notice that Planned Parenthood is violating the state’s informed consent law does not mean the abortion provider will lose its license anytime soon.
PP last week asked U.S. District Judge Karen Schreier for a temporary restraining order, which would prevent the state from suspending its license until the judge rules on a lawsuit concerning disclosure forms they provide to pregnant women. They said they could lose their license as soon as Aug. 22.
In a response filed Monday, state lawyers say that if the Department of Health takes administrative action Aug. 22, it only will set in motion the steps required to suspend PP’s license.
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.
I’m as mad as a wet hen.
“ABORTION IS NOT A RELIGIOUS ISSUE!!!!”
I hear ya, X. Sadly, the following proposition is imbedded into the minds of many people:
“If it is a religious issue, then it can be blown off without giving it a moments thought.”
Hence, all you have to do is claim that abortion is a religious issue, and BOOM, it automatically becomes a good thing and you never have to worry about it again. I believe this falls under the category of intellectual laziness, and that’s being pretty generous.
Kudos to the people of South Dakota for challenging the power and influence of the “abortion monster” Planned Barrenhood. Their informed consent law is a well crafted approach to the task of taking the mask off of abortion.
I was fortunate enough to work with many of them in one of their campaigns to outlaw abortion outright, and it was like being on David’s side against Goliath, except that Goliath won. Now, however, their new law gives them a “better slingshot”.
Went to the license branch today to register my new car and got my “Choose Life” license plate :-)
The CDC’s own research — originally designed to document the opposite — found that states that picked up the tab for abortions after the Hyde Amendment had HIGHER rates of abortion-related hospitalizations among Medicaid eligible women than states that didn’t fund these abortions.
Government funded abortions means more hospitalization for abortion complications, partly because those states had more unintended pregnancies but also because government-pay patients have higher complication rates than private-pay patients, even after you adjust for other factors.
So it’s truly all about pushing abortion, not pursuing women’s safety, well-being, or happiness.
Are you sure this woman used IVF? Fertility drugs are usually responsible for this type of thing. With IVF they usually only transfer a few embryos at a time.
There is a reference to the CAPPS Amendment, as though it somehow limits coverage for abortions. A lot has been said about this amendment, in that it is a classic bait and switch–allowing some private carriers to exclude coverage for abortions, but at the same time punting the costs of abortions for women in those plans over to the public option.
RH (sur)Reality Check will only allow comments on that post from registered users now. I guess their reality is subjective. :X
Posted by: lily at August 18, 2009 6:28 PM
Hardly. In most countries, the maximum is 3, but not in America; you can implant as many as you want, and seeing as these things run 10k a pop people usually stick in over eight.
Just read that this woman is a fraud.
Rachael,
Happy travels with your Choose Life plate!! That is so cool!!
If you go the CDC report on fertility clinics, the average number of embryos tranfered at each clinic is two to four. More are usually fertilized, but they don’t have to be transfered at the same time.