Jivin J’s Life Links 9-21-10
by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat
- Operation Rescue reports troubled physician Ghevont Wartanian has taken over performing abortions at Romeo Ferrer’s abortion clinic in MD after Ferrer’s license was suspended 4 years after the death of Denise Crowe. Apparently, Wartanian has at this time only agreed to perform abortions up to September 30.OR also mentions that Ferrer’s Gynecare Center abortion clinic is affiliated with the National Abortion Federation. That makes this piece by NAF president Vicki Saporta at RH Reality Check touting NAF clinics less than a week after Ferrer’s suspension all the more ridiculous.
- The NJ Senate failed to override Gov. Christie’s veto of family planning funds. Previous reports on the removal of family planning funding mentioned that Planned Parenthood could lose up to $2.4M in funding.
- The Philadelphia Inquirer continues to report on abortionist Stephen Brigham and his late-term abortion operation. Their latest article provides details about Brigham’s phantom Grace Medical Care clinic which advertised online they would perform abortions up to 36 weeks. No address was listed and only cash would be accepted. No address was listed because it wasn’t an actual clinic – just the side operation where he would initiate abortions at the Voorhees, NJ clinic and then finish them or have another abortionist finish them in MD. The article also provides some of the reasons behind these late term abortions:
Records released Monday of 3 post-viability abortions show 1 involved a 33-week-old Down’s syndrome fetus, for which Grace Medical charged $21,900. But another case involved 25-week-old twin fetuses that the parents wanted to abort because they felt “stress” and regret that they had conceived through fertility treatment with donated sperm. In a third case, no health problems were documented – until the 20-year-old Pittsburgh woman could not go to the bathroom because of the absorbent rods.
She wound up being rushed from her hotel, in labor, to Virtua Hospital in Voorhees where she delivered a dead fetus.
- At the Abortioneers’ blog, 1 abortioneer mourns the loss and changes of feminist-based abortion clinics. She basically blames Planned Parenthood:But there’s another reason things have changed for feminist clinics. Another reason they’re busy and finding it hard to do feminist things: competition. Okay. Come on. Admit it. Clinics have competitors…. Running a business doesn’t make you less altruistic. And, honestly, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that small women-owned and operated, independent businesses, find it hard to stand tall against corporate-like competitors.
… We already know nearly all counties in the USA don’t have abortion providers. That is wrong and it sucks. But there’s another side to all of this. Clinics are closing down. Not because of obnoxious, annoying protesters and harassing laws. Not because the department of health is making things difficult (well, except in this instance!). You’re all clever. So I’ll just ask you this: were any of the clinics that closed down recently Planned Parenthoods? Not that I know of. (I could be wrong.) They were all little clinics.
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.
… We already know nearly all counties in the USA don’t have abortion providers. That is wrong and it sucks.
So is that your goal? To have an abortion mill and an abortionist in every county in the USA?? Oh, pleeeeeeeeeeze bring it. Head on out to ND and start opening up your little shops of horrors and see how the Midwest takes to ya!
Abortion is wrong and it more than sucks. It kills!
Records released Monday of 3 post-viability abortions show 1 involved a 33-week-old Down’s syndrome fetus, for which Grace Medical charged $21,900. But another case involved 25-week-old twin fetuses that the parents wanted to abort because they felt “stress” and regret that they had conceived through fertility treatment with donated sperm. In a third case, no health problems were documented – until the 20-year-old Pittsburgh woman could not go to the bathroom because of the absorbent rods.
She wound up being rushed from her hotel, in labor, to Virtua Hospital in Voorhees where she delivered a dead fetus.
There are people who want to adopt Down Syndrome babies. Couldn’t she have just waited a few weeks and placed the baby for adoption? I don’t see how anyone can go that for along in a pregnancy and feel the baby move and do something like this.
Stressed? I guess the poor babies felt stressed when their brains were sucked out.
Unbelievable. Truly unbelievable.
Is it possible that the clinics closed because abortion is becoming more rare? You know, seeing as pro-choicers always claim they want abortion to be safe, legal and rare.
I completely fail to have sympathy for anyone who has to get in a car and drive a few hours to find an abortionist. Some people have to travel to different countries to have life-saving treatment. My grandfather never complained that there wasn’t a doctor in every county who had experience treating continuing pain from WWII shrapnel wounds, and he spent over fifty years dealing with that. When he got older and the wounds combined with his diabetes to give him severe circulation problems, my mom would spend entire Saturdays driving him to see different doctors.
It always makes me angry when I read about people aborting kids with Down syndrome, or with any other mental/developmental issues. Oops, looks like you’re not smart enough to live. Might take a long time learning to talk, or be unable to read past a fourth-grade level, or look funny in the perfect family Christmas card photo. God forbid we not have a brilliant baby who could model for Gerber.
If I “aborted” everyone who made me stressed, all of my family, friends, teachers and classmates would have been gone ages ago.
”Running a business doesn’t make you less altruistic. And, honestly, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that small women-owned and operated, independent businesses…”
Which translates as: Killing unborn human children doesn’t make you less altruistic. And honestly, small, dirty, overpriced murder-for-hire business often run by bottom feeding men who couldn’t competently treat a blister but so like to kill a fetus of any age, they sure do have trouble competing against big old Planned Barenhood..
Gosh, I’m all mushy with sympathy for them.
There are people who want to adopt Down Syndrome babies. Couldn’t she have just waited a few weeks and placed the baby for adoption?
Well, of course not. The mentality is a complete mess: It’s MY baby, and no one ELSE can have it, so I’m going to KILL it!
People are not possessions.
I don’t see how anyone can go that for along in a pregnancy and feel the baby move and do something like this.
It’s mortifying, and I felt nauseous just reading it. :(
I agree Kel.
I don’t mention this often, because its so painful, but one reason I have issues with my parents is not just because they’re so pro-abortion, my father pressured my mother into having a late-term abortion because they were undergoing financial problems. She had a saline abortion (she referred to it as being “salted down”) and I remember her lying on the bed and her stomach was all red, like she had been in a fire. I was fairly young, about ten, and I really didn’t understand what abortion was, but I remember she was crying and saying that she had seen the baby; it was a little boy and had been thrown in a bucket at the hospital.
Years later, I heard my father say that they should have kept the baby, my little brother.
Too late, Dad.
I’m so sorry, Phillymiss…
OMG, Phillymiss, that’s beyond awful. I am so, so sorry.
Phillymiss, I’m sorry too.
Phillymiss, I’m at a loss for words, so I’ll just echo what the others have said. I’m so sorry!
Sorry to hear this phillymiss. I can’t imagine how you and your parents dealt with this. What a painful memory to have as a 10 year old. God loves you and your parents and wants to heal these painful memories. I will pray for you to be healed. God bless you.
Oh Phillymiss,
I am so sorry. :(
Thanks for sharing your heartbreaking story Phillymiss. I believe God is taking all that pain and turning it into Good through you and your prolife stance. We can’t know all the good that we do on this Earth as we stand up for the least among us. I am sorry for your loss and will pray for you as well.
@Phillymiss…ditto to all the above. My heart aches for your poor brother and your family.
Thank you for all the kind thoughts and prayers. Maybe my family, my parents included are so pro-abortion as a defense mechanism (and I’m not exaggerating, they are pro-abortion, not pro-choice). It really is difficult to be around them, but I guess I just have to keep on praying for them.
The strange thing is — when I was pregnant with my daughter I didn’t think I was ready to be a parent so I was thinking of placing her for adoption. My parents were livid! My mother even called me and asked me how I could even think of “giving her grandchild away.”
I didn’t get to know my baby brother in this life, but perhaps I will in the next . . .
Phillymiss, I am confident your brother will be at the head of the welcoming party when you get to paradise!
My parents were oddly enough pro-so-called-choice, tenaciously clinging to it even after our family was devestated by abortion. My dad years ago had bought a certain item in anticipation of his impending grandfatherhood, it never got used. He kept in his house for years. He took it with him when he moved. And I swear I saw it in his current house when he first moved into to that. To be pro-choice is to live in conflict with oneself and one’s very nature.
Maybe my family, my parents included are so pro-abortion as a defense mechanism (and I’m not exaggerating, they are pro-abortion, not pro-choice).
It’s highly possible. I’ve seen that before. I knew of a mom who was post-abortive and took her teenage daughter for an abortion against her will. After the abortion, the girl was suffering terribly. And the girl’s mother and father actually divorced within a year of the girl’s abortion. Very sad situation.
My parents were oddly enough pro-so-called-choice, tenaciously clinging to it even after our family was devestated by abortion.
It’s not an exaggeration to say that every family in this country has been touched by abortion in some way or another . . . after all, it is the most common surgical procedure.