Life Links 3-14-12
by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat
- The Washington Times has an article on Abby Johnson’s $5.7 million whistleblower lawsuit against Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast:
According to the lawsuit, PPGC contracted with the state to help prevent unwanted pregnancies among a population of eligible women. The clinics’ main service was to offer women an annual family-planning exam and consultation; only office visits “related to contraceptive management” were reimbursable by the Medicaid program, the lawsuit said.However, owing to financial pressures of its own, PPGC leaders and staff collaborated to register all kinds of ineligible services — pregnancy tests, sexual-disease tests, Pap tests — for Medicaid reimbursement, the lawsuit claims, adding that the bosses admitted to Ms. Johnson and other clinic directors that these claims were not eligible for reimbursement, but told them, “We have to keep these people as patients” and “We must turn every call and visit into a revenue-generating client.”
- Dr. Peter Goodwin (pictured left), a leading advocate of Oregon’s assisted suicide law killed himself using pills obtain under the state’s “Death With Dignity Act.”
- Two New York researchers were awarded the King Faisal International Prize for Medicine for their work to treat alloimmune thrombocytopenia, “an auto-immune disease which can cause fatal brain hemorrhages in unborn fetuses and newborn children. The cause is unclear, but the illness causes the mother’s immune system to attack the fetus as if it were a foreign body or disease.”
- In the Weekly Standard, Andrew Ferguson discusses the “after-birth abortion” bioethicists:
The article doesn’t go on for more than 1,500 words, but for non-ethicists it has a high surprise-per-word ratio. The information that newborn babies aren’t people is just the beginning. A reader learns that “many non-human animals… are persons” and therefore enjoy a “right to life.” (Such ruminative ruminants, unlike babies, are self-aware enough to know that getting killed will entail a “loss of value.”) The authors don’t tell us which species these “non-human persons” belong to, but it’s safe to say that you don’t want to take a medical ethicist to dinner at Outback.
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Mar.14, 2012 11:27 am |
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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.
it’s safe to say that you don’t want to take a medical ethicist to dinner at Outback.
:P :)
“The cause is unclear, but the illness causes the mother’s immune system to attack the fetus as if it were a foreign body or disease.”
Well..that kind of blows the “MY BODY” argument out of the water, doesn’t it! A mother’s immune system wouldn’t attack her pre-born baby if it WERE part of her body.
Your immune system doesn’t attack your OWN organs as if they were “foreign objects” in your body. That’s why transplant recipients have to take “anti-rejection” medication for the rest of their lives. A pre-born baby is a SEPARATE INDIVIDUAL.. NOT a bodily organ!
Pamela, while I agree with your point, I think you may want to rethink how you are making it. The ‘attack’ is a failure of the normal workings of the body, the woman’s body isn’t *supposed* to attack the baby’s body, even though it is separate. This is an example of a disorder, a disfunction in the pregnancy dyad. A disfunctional immune system *will* attack it’s own body, as happens in several very dibilitating and even deadly diseases such as lupus and juvenile arthritis.
“Dr. Peter Goodwin (pictured left), a leading advocate of Oregon’s assisted suicide law killed himself using pills obtained under the state’s “Death With Dignity Act.”
I would nominate for Goodwin for a Darwin Award but by deliberately killing himself he may have forfetited his eligibility.
And Peter failed to persuade two like minded folks to join him in recycling themselves.
Just saw a news account about a Texas woman who had made an advanced directive that upon her death her body would be donated to science.
Researchers placed her corpse in a 5 acre field and monitored it to see how long it would take the buzzards to pick the bones clean. The collected data will be used in the forensic sciences.
Anxious IRS agents will have to wait their turn.
“The article doesn’t go on for more than 1,500 words, but for non-ethicists it has a high surprise-per-word ratio. The information that newborn babies aren’t people is just the beginning. A reader learns that “many non-human animals… are persons” and therefore enjoy a “right to life.” (Such ruminative ruminants, unlike babies, are self-aware enough to know that getting killed will entail a “loss of value.”)”
Ugh, I hate stuff like this. It makes vegetarians look like nutbars. I swear I think babies are more important than non-humans.
…”the bosses admitted to Ms. Johnson and other clinic directors that these claims were not eligible for reimbursement, but told them, “We have to keep these people as patients” and “We [pp, the dead babies r us’ mob] must turn every call and visit into a revenue-generating cli’ent.”
“They can appear friendly at first, but when you don’t give them what they want, they become hostile and dangerous. The greater the dependency, the more aggressive they become. Among humans, we call it Leftist Dependency Syndrome.”
I predict there will be many current and former pp employees who will be pleading the fifth, plea bargaining or leaving the jurisdiction.
Murderers, thieves and liars doing what their daddy does.
I’m aware of that, Jespren. I’m not very articulate on four hours of sleep. I posted that earlier today.
Hey, it was his life to do with whatever he wanted with it.
‘S okay, Jack. We know you. It’s the article writers that are bananas, not vegetarians.
…And there is probably a spectacular pun in there about eating bananas, but I can’t quite find it. *sad face*
Alice,
Well then, I hope they’re not fruitarians. That would make them cannabilistic.