Jivin J’s Life Links 2-10-10
by JivinJ
A General Medical Council hearing was earlier told 9 men and women, the majority of whom were suffering from the ”progressive and aggressive” form of the disabling neurological disease, consulted Dutch-trained Dr. Robert Trossel in the desperate hope they could achieve a marked improvement in their health….
The sufferers who travelled to his clinic in Rotterdam raised thousands of pounds to fund the therapy but there was ”no evidence” that the substance injected into them by Dr. Trossel contained stem cells or that it was fit for human use, the GMC earlier heard.
According to a police report, nurse Tiffany Prickett said Taylor told her in the emergency room she did not want the baby. “She had asked Christine if she just didn’t want the kid tonight, and Christine told her that she hadn’t wanted the baby all along,” the report said.
Later, the nurse brought in a doctor who asked several other questions about whether she intended to end her pregnancy.
Taylor acknowledges she was very emotional at the hospital.
“I never said I didn’t want my baby, but I admitted that I had been considering adoption or abortion,” she said. “I admit that I said I wasn’t sure I wanted to continue the pregnancy. My husband sends me money, but money doesn’t make a parent. I don’t have anybody else to turn to.”….
Taylor said if she really had wanted to end her pregnancy, she knows she could have gone to Planned Parenthood to do so.
“I believe in a woman’s right to choose, but for me personally, I just have thought I couldn’t sleep at night if I did,” she said.
[Photo via the DesMoinesRegister.com]
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.
So I clicked the link to the deathscort blog and read the post and the comments and something really bothered me. I knew that they would be saying defamitory things about sidewalk counselors but I was really surprised and upset by their reports of how the protesters act. I have never sidewalk counciled (but hopefull will someday) and every one I’ve ever talked to who has was very peaceful and sensitive towards the women going in the clinic. In the deathscort blog, they act as if it is commonplace for pro-lifers to be violent and cruel towards them and the women. I really don’t want to believe this, but I also know that there are the Scott Roeders aren’t the most peaceful and their passion gets the best of them.
So what do you think? The writer of the post said she had bruises on her arms from the pro-lifers and people in the comments confirmed that they hear a lot of cruel, vicious insults. Are they making it up? Or are thre actually sidewalk councelors out there defaming the image of Christ with hate?
Dominique,
I don’t have a huge amount of experience with praying outside of abortion facilities, but I have never witnessed a violent sidewalk counselor. I’m sure some exist, but I haven’t seen one. It seems this escort blog is painting with a very broad brush.
They are making stuff up. If they would escort a woman to a place to murder that woman’s child, and justify it as something good; they would also lie.
I have prayed outside of abortion clinics A LOT, and never – ever had anyone near me be anything but gentle and kind to the women AND the workers, EXCEPT the abortion-cam guys and they were only in South Dakota to capitalize on our abortion ban vote, for publicity and exposure. We stood on the opposite side of the street from them. They were calling out to the women and asking them to reconsider murdering their children, which of course is what we were praying for, but they were not being violent or threatening, just kind of rude. They were actually a lot ruder to us than to the girls going into the abortion business.
I like how nobody thinks the pro-abortion folks don’t think that they should apologize for telling a widow that her husband is being unfaithful while she is there trying to help keep babies from being killed. They pretty much unanimously agree that she “had it coming” for not supporting abortion.
More disgusting crap from more disgusting people. I’m not surprised.
It’s odd. I’ve heard the pro-abortion side complaining about clinic protesters before. But, during the protests I’ve seen, I’ve never witnessed any protester committing any violent acts or any hateful speech toward the women entering the clinic. What I have seen is people holding signs, praying.
So, I’m taking that blog entry and its comments with a grain of salt.