New Stanek WND column, “Collusion in the Heartland”
Planned Parenthood of the Heartland has taken Nike’s “Just do it” challenge to tackle life with gusto and run the other way with it.
Without checking with any ruling body in the state of IA whether their plan was legal, PP abortionists 2 years ago began dispensing RU-486 abortion pills by computer screen to mothers scattered throughout Iowa, some hundreds of miles away….
It is a felony in IA for anyone other than licensed physicians to commit abortion. Since physical contact is never made with telemed abortions, or even possible in most cases, PP’s scheme was questionably legal at best, criminal at worst….
Operation Rescue, through the IA Open Records Act, has received 900 pages of e-mails sent between officials and staff members at the Attorney General’s office, IA Board of Medicine and PP of the Heartland. They smell of collusion.
Example: Citizen’s Information Center is a Boston, MS, citizen’s watchdog group that investigates the medical industry through public-records requests.
In July, CIC formally requested from IBOM copies of the licenses of PP of the Heartland’s abortionists as well as any record of complaints and disciplinary actions against them. These are supposed to be available to the public.
But the Board gave PP a heads up and ample time to file an injunction to stop the release of records to CIC.
Here’s an e-mail from PP attorney Mike Falkstrom to Kent Nebel, IBOM’s director of legal affairs (click to enlarge):
The Board then informed CIC it couldn’t give it the records because PP said no….
Continue reading my column today, “Collusion in the Heartland,” at WorldNetDaily.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.
In reading WND, you refer to Tom Ross as an abortionist, next to Sue Haskell. I’m pretty sure Tom Ross is not an abortionist, in the sense that’s he’s not been trained as one. As far as I’m aware, he’s a D.O. without OBGYN/Abortion training. He’s merely sitting on the other side of the Skype to pretend to fulfill the Iowa legal requirement. So not only is there no doctor there to physically examine the patient, the doc on on the webcam isn’t even fully educated to meet the girl’s needs, professionally, should she have questions of reservations about the abortion.
Telemedicine isn’t the enemy. Iowa law has specific requirements for abortion. Telemedicine doesn’t fit into the rules. The Iowa Board will either have to work to change existing abortion law to include telemedicine or stop Planned Parenthood. But as it sits, what they are doing is only legal in murky waters.
So………..what happens when one of these young ladies sees her baby in the toilet or the bleeding doesn’t stop? Tom Ross is going to do follow up care RIGHT?? On Skype RIGHT??
Oh and if you tell me that seeing your baby doesn’t happen. here you go
Warning GRAPHIC
A mom videotaped her baby after having a chemical abortion. 9 weeks along
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1HK5PARFX4
Nick,
You know for a fact that OR is doing this for fundraising? Let’s hear it.
Carla,
I couldn’t watch the whole thing. I started crying as soon as the pictures came on the screen. :(
Thanks for posting the link, Carla. Some of the comments under it were just awful, so cold-hearted. Several people said, “What did you expect” and “you should have done more research” When you ask people whom you’ve been told are professionally trained, you think you’re getting information but no, just lies.
I just read the Iowa law. It says that a licensed doctor must PREFORM an abortion. An abortion, even using prescription pills, is a serious procedure and shouldn’t be treated so lightly. The possibility of serious complications needs to be considered. With the sensitivity to the issue of a woman terminating her pregnancy, a webcam is just totally inappropriate and dangerous. Women have died from RU-486. If a woman has complications, which is not uncommon, and is in a rural area, as Planned Parenthood has purported to be the purpose of the webcam, despite it’s use otherwise, her travel distance to an emergency room could spell death. Abortion is not an acceptable use for telemedicine.
Thank you, Carla for the link. I’ve wondered when women would start coming forward with the trauma of RU-486.
As for fundraising, nearly 60 pro life organizations are trying to stop this, I happen to lead one and was at the first part of the Iowa Board of Medicine meeting. O.R. came on board, but Iowa Right to Life has been working on this for nearly two years. And no one has asked me for a penny, no mention has been made of funds whatsoever.
I am sorry Mary Rose. :(
It is hard but good for me to watch. I delivered my 10 week old baby into my hand and saw the same thing. Not a “bunch of cells!!” I love seeing that image though just as I love seeing Bethany’s Blessing. If that makes any sense. Confirms for me the lies that I was told about my baby.
Ninek,
Yep. Sigh.
I held my I Regret My Abortion sign and one young lady looked at me and said, “Well, you shouldn’t have gotten one then!!” Pathetic
Tell that to the families of the 20 women who have died, Nick. I am sure they would say, “Oh yeah. Nick’s right. Look how much good RU 486 has done for us!!”
Not just unlucky, Nick. DEAD. If it were your wife or daughter how “unlucky” would you be? dude
Ah, compassion where fore art thou??
Jocelyn,
THANK YOU FOR FIGHTING!! THANK YOU FOR BEING THERE!
Praying for you!!
Whatevs Nick.
Why no compassion, Nick?
Unlucky??
Holly Patterson, from San Francisco, California, was given RU-486 by Planned Parenthood, and when her baby was incompletely expelled, she experienced severe cramping and pain. Holly made several attempts to inform Planned Parenthood of her complications and visited an emergency room, but she was only advised to take more painkillers. Holly passed away on September 17, 2003, as a result of her use of RU-486.
That’s not a lack of luck. That’s Planned Parenthood putting profits above patients. They got what they wanted from her- $500 (or her insurance company’s $1000). They referred her to an ER, who PP expects to clean up their messes. The only luck, I suppose, involved here, is that she was close enough to one, unfortunately, that was not enough to help her. Perhaps if PP had listened to her and treated her like a human being, she could have received help.
Women who have died after a medication/RU-486 abortion died from:
• Clostridium sordelli: a bacterial infection, like toxic shock
• Hemorrhaging to death
• Ruptured ectopic pregnancy
• Massive heart attack
Again, when dealing with women in rural areas, we are bound to see many more deaths resulting from RU-486 as the practice widens. Deaths that could be prevented with proper medical care and attention.
Of course I would love to see these women actually HELPED, so they don’t feel abortion is their only way out. But until then, I still want to women protected and safe.
I believe RU486 is taken deliberately to kill a growing preborn child. And it has killed mothers as well.
How that compares to random car accidents, Nick I am not sure.
Oh, let me clarify: I am extremely heartened to see the photos out there, and circulating.
But what a horrific thing, that they have to exist at all! :(
AG Miller is also a “Catholic”. His behavior is this matter has been disgraceful. & I should know, I wrote to support OR’s call for an audit & got a reply that totally ignored the audit & was just a rehash of their excuses for not looking into anything illegal. I wrote back staing how disappointed I was by the response but didn’t hear anything more back until a couple weeks ago when I got an e-mail with a copy of the letter sent by the AG’s office to OR. No admitting they mishandled things in the 1st place, just their justification for what they weren’t doing.
I firmly believe this is just the tip of the iceberg. So I am sure you will have more to report in the future.