(Prolifer)ations 6-18-08
by JivinJ
Federal authorities are investigating the actions of a Catholic charity in Richmond which helped a 16-year-old Guatemalan girl to receive an abortion in January, in possible violation of VA law….
The unnamed girl, who already had one child, had been fitted with a contraceptive device provided by CCR two months earlier, the letter said. CCR members signed the consent form necessary for a minor to have an abortion and had someone drive her to and from the abortion clinic.
It is illegal in VA for a social worker to sign a parental consent form for an abortion. The state’s notification law stipulates that at least one parent, grandparent or adult sibling must give consent.
[Photo of Richmond Bishop Francis DiLorenzo, with Bishops John Wester and Michael Driscoll, is courtesy of the AP. The 3 wrote a secret letter, later intercepted and made public, detailing events leading up to the abortion.]
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.
“Federal authorities are investigating the actions of a Catholic charity in Richmond which helped a 16-year-old Guatemalan girl to receive an abortion in January, in possible violation of VA law….”
I’m betting it was either one of the priests kids or they were being actual human beings and didn’t want her to mess up her life anymore with two children at 16 years old.
“Federal authorities are investigating the actions of a Catholic charity in Richmond which helped a 16-year-old Guatemalan girl to receive an abortion in January, in possible violation of VA law….”
I’m betting it was either one of the priests kids or they were being actual human beings and didn’t want her to mess up her life anymore with two children at 16 years old.
A recent study from researchers at the University of MI published in the Journal of Immunology has found that taking misoprostol vaginally (Planned Parenthood’s previously preferred way) as a way of completing an RU-486 abortion “may undermine the body’s immune response” and “can allow a normally non-threatening bacterium, Clostridium sordellii, to cause deadly infection.”
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…And childbirth can cause the exact same Clostridium sordellii infection to turn lethal:
Fatal infections after RU-486 use or childbirth
Clostridium sordellii may be emerging threat
By Mary Kugler, R.N., About.com
Updated: May 26, 2006
About.com Health’s Disease and Condition content is reviewed by our Medical Review Board
At least 14 women
There have been some delightful advances with cord blood and adult stem cells lately. However, as the anti-research camp often forgets to mention, adult stem cells have been available for research for decades and embryonic stem cells weren’t isolated until 1998. A timeline of ten or fifteen years from petri dish to patient is not unusual in medical research.
Yes, PP recognized the dangers of vaginally applied RU-486 and now endorses only oral. Surgical abortions are still safer than either of these.
Did they make certain that those women who died after childbirth and while menstruating hadn’t previously aborted or attempted to abort with RU486? Sometimes it’s what you don’t know about a situation that makes all the difference, not what you know. Sometimes it’s easy for those with an agenda to skew data by holding back important facts. Also, I’d like to comment on something from another thread for someone:
SoMG:
And how do you deal with someone like me? Someone who IS pro-life, and doesn’t fall back on religion to justify myself; someone who IS pro-life and believes that contraception does save lives, and should be considered indispensable by the pro-life movement? Someone who feels that consent to sex should be a lawful invitation to a “fetus” to reside within that woman for as long as it might require, and that those blood components of mother and that fetus are community property?
Also, you never answered my comments on the thread about the “pro-life” pharmacies. I really am curious to know the answers to the questions I asked.
What’s your point Laura? These infections occur after routine gyn procedures, childbirth, trauma etc.
The fact is that the Ru-486/Misoprostol protocol was touted as a safe way to abort. Apparently they didn’t anticipate this effect:
“Fatal cases of acute shock complicating Clostridium sordellii endometritis following medical abortion with mifepristone (also known as RU-486) used with misoprostol were reported. The pathogenesis of this unexpected complication remains enigmatic.”
The fact is that the Ru-486/Misoprostol protocol was touted as a safe way to abort. Apparently they didn’t anticipate this effect:
“Fatal cases of acute shock complicating Clostridium sordellii endometritis following medical abortion with mifepristone (also known as RU-486) used with misoprostol were reported. The pathogenesis of this unexpected complication remains enigmatic.”
Posted by: Patricia at June 18, 2008 8:16 PM
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The pathogenesis of lethal Clostridium sordellii infection after childbirth isn’t understood and is also an “unexpected complication.”
What’s your point? That RU-486 abortions and childbirth should be outlawed because infections can occur?
The pathogenesis of lethal Clostridium sordellii infection after childbirth isn’t understood and is also an “unexpected complication.”
What’s your point? That RU-486 abortions and childbirth should be outlawed because infections can occur?
Posted by: Laura at June 18, 2008 8:32 PM
As usual, more Laura-logic. These infections have been known in child birth but were unexpected for RU-486. The point is that RU-486 has been anything but the safe fast convenient abortion method its advocates claimed it was.
DRF: “However, as the anti-research camp often forgets to mention, adult stem cells have been available for research for decades and embryonic stem cells weren’t isolated until 1998.”
First of all, what the frig is “the anti-research camp”? If you support research on adult stem cells, you are very clearly PRO-research.
Second of all, HUMAN ESCs were isolated in 1998. Animal ESCs, however, were isolated as far back as 1981, and they’re still nowhere near the point of progress that adult stem cells have reached.
Third of all, that embryonic stem cells in humans weren’t successfully isolated until 1998 further demonstrates that they’re far more difficult to isolate and to work with than adult stem cells are.
Well, you can’t expect proaborts to get excited about the use of adult stem cells to save lives. After all, there’s no excitement in it for them, because no one has to die. If no one has to die, then they don’t care about it.
…and it must not be “pro-science,” either, Doyle, unless an embryo is killed. We must not have had science in the world until the late twentieth century…
Patricia, are you shouting about RU486 and clostridium deaths again?
How many deaths have there been so far? Is the number up to twenty yet?
The number of RU486 abortions done is now more than twenty MILLION. A lot more.
You should stop embarrassing yourself.
It is nonsensical to act like RU486 presents some “huge danger,” when giving birth in the first place is much more dangerous to women.