Jivin J’s Life Links 1-6-11
by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat
- At ProWomanProLife, Jennifer Derwey questions the contraception industry:
The pipeline looks something like this: A projection of $14.5B in contraceptive revenue is made, companies push to produce, approve and market the next big drug, Bayer sends out a “Youth Truck” to assess the prospective customers and get Ugandan children familiar with the idea of prescription birth control (while women in the west see more and more ads), and Planned Parenthood and Marie Stopes have their clinics, those philanthropic beacons of family planning, write the prescriptions. At what point are we going to realize that women’s health may not be at the forefront of their priorities?
- There’s been a mass long-term contraceptive failure in Great Britain. Implanon, a rod which is implanted in the arm, releases hormones and is supposed to work for 3 years, is coming under fire after hundreds of women have reported the contraceptive failed:
- A lawyer revealed that many of the women affected had suffered ‘psychological difficulties’, had miscarriages or decided to undergo abortions after the implants went wrong.
- Ann Furendi’s essay, “A moral defence of late abortion” at Spiked Online was written in response to Frances Kissling’s belief that maybe the pro-choice movement should be willing to discuss a rollback in when abortion is allowed.
The end of Furendi’s essay includes an appendix which lists the ages, gestational ages and reasons for abortion for 32 women who came to the British Pregnancy Advisory Service in 2008 seeking abortions after 22 weeks gestation (ultrasound pictured right). Furendi believes the cases “provide compelling evidence for why the time limit on abortion should not be reduced – even by as a little as 2 weeks.” I think just the opposite. Tell me if you think this is “compelling evidence” for allowing the killing of unborn children mere weeks from becoming viable. One woman who was 23 weeks pregnant:
Has 2 children already and feels she just can’t cope with a 3rd. Delayed because she found the decision “really hard to make.”
A woman who was 25 weeks pregnant (over the time limit in the UK) was referred back to her doctor:
Knew she had not had period “for months” but “stuck [her] head in the sand” for some time before going to GP. Was not aware that there was a legal time limit on abortion so didn’t feel the need to act although she knew she could not cope with a new baby and keep up the payments on her house.
- Zambian authorities have captured a man allegedly responsible for a botched abortion which led to the death a 19-year-old woman:… [P]olice investigations have so far revealed that Mututwa Mututwa allegedly tried to induce an abortion on the named girl of Meheba High School in the doctor’s rest room at Solwezi General Hospital after normal working hours.
One woman who became pregnant and underwent an abortion said the trauma had led to her marriage ending.
The fiasco involving the implant… is one of the worst mass contraceptive failures to hit the NHS in living memory.
A total of 584 women who had the hormone-filled rod inserted in their arms have reported unwanted pregnancies to the Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency – the Government’s drugs and medical devices watchdog.
But the total could be far higher, as many women may not have complained after becoming pregnant and either undergoing abortions or giving birth.
[Implanon image via about.com; 22 week fetus image via transfigurations.blogspot.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.
As a preemie who was born in the 20’s week range, I find late term abortions beyond sick. Way beyond sick. You can’t hold on a few more weeks and let another family, another home full of love, raise your child? Sick. Sick. Sick.
For the lady who wanted an abortion at 25 weeks: Gee, no period in months, and those kicks, squirms and punches in the abdomen were what exactly? Aliens or an aggressive tapeworm? Gimme a break. While I pity your child if you don’t mature and leave behind your selfish behavior to date, I would greatly prefer you in a flat instead of owning and your child alive than for you to be another mum with an empty house and hurting heart.
A$ for the fir$t link, pharmaceutical companie$ couldn’t be in it for the money. I mean, they only care about women. They couldn’t ju$t be about hooking girl$ onto their brand of pill by age thirteen in hope$ of gaining their bu$ine$$ for a few decade$ to come. What could they po$$ibly gain by $uch a $trategy? It’$ virtual philanthropy, I tell ya, out of the goodne$$ of their earning$ per $hare, I mean, heart$.
Those two women didn’t “need” abortions. They needed support, encouragement and resources. They needed empowerment.
They would have been welcomed at my pregnancy resource center with open arms and been offered midwife care, financial counselling, help with housing and food, mentoring, parenting education, maternity and baby gear, and referral to other agencies with services applicable to their situation, all for free. It would have been explained to them that there’s no expiration date on our services- our clients keep coming back for as long as they need us.
In less than four months, they would have been holding their babies, and holding their heads high.
My question: what kind of a “medical professional” would perform an abortion on a viable human for easily remedied psycho-social reasons? This has to be a point of agreement with most of the “pro-choicers” who comment on this site…..anyone?
So many terrible stories to share :(
It reminds me to utilize my most powerful weapon. I’m off to do some kneeling.
BPAS claims that late-term abortion is still safer than full-term delivery. Actually according to Stats from Guttmacher termination after 20 weeks becomes MORE risky than full-term delivery.
Reading the reasons for those late-term abortions made me sick. You hear pro-choicers mention late-term abortions only in cases of something severely wrong with the fetus (i.e. will die as soon as born). There was only one case out of all those listed by BPAS which was like that. All others were the exact same reasons people would give for an abortion in the first trimester. Truly sickening that people support this. I had a good friend that delivered at 24w0d and her son is healthy and thriving.