Stanek wkend question: How will the landscape change when we see our 1st abortion-free state?
The last standing abortion clinic in Mississippi, Jackson Women’s Health Organization, pictured above, may be forced to close next month, thanks to a commonsense new law requiring abortionists to have admitting privileges at local hospitals.
A tragic but current example of the need for such a law is the February 7 death of Jennifer Morbelli.
Morbelli succumbed at a hospital nine miles from the Maryland clinic where her 33-wk-old baby Madison Leigh was killed by abortionist LeRoy Carhart, who has no privileges at any U.S. hospital. The lack of continuity of care certainly contributed to Morbelli’s demise.
Pro-life pastor Flip Benham says making Mississippi abortion-free “is going to be a revolution.”
On her February 20 show, liberal MSNBC host Rachel Maddow lamented the prospect of three abortion-free states in the near future…
How do you think the pro-life/pro-abortion landscape will change if and when we see our first abortion-free state? How will abortion proponents respond? Will pro-lifers have to adjust the work they do, their outreach, in such a state?
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.
I would be oh so happy!! Close them. Ohio abortionist Marty Ruddock violated the law too by failing to have contracts with hospitals in the event of emergencies. a public 911 call record was pulled by a pro lifer. Ruddock lacerated the cervix of an obese woman and began screaming into the phone I Want her outta here i can’t stop the bleeding !!
They should paint that Pepto pink monstrosity blood red.
I don’t foresee any change in the pro-life struggle. Even without a “clinic,” abortions will still be done in hospitals and doctors’ offices.
We celebrate the possibility of closing the last free-standing abortuary in just one state. It is a psychological victory for life, and it’s fun to watch Rachel Maddow spin in her chair.
Pro-aborts will try to say that this is oppression of women. We must be ready to share the stories of women like Tonya Reeves, Marla Cardanone, and Jennifer Morbelli. Abortion is not safe, and if the abortion industry won’t make it safe then they should be treated like Big Tobacco.
Meanwhile — we need to step up our charity and outreach to offer true help to women in need. We need to show the world that life after Roe really is better than abortion.
Nothing warms my heart like the whining of Rachel Madcow and friends. Rachel, there are any number of reasons doctors may be denied admitting priveleges and it may have nothing to do with the fact they perform abortions. Our plastic/cosmetic surgeons rarely have to admit patients, but they have admitting priveleges.
Your Missiissippi abortionist may have a very dubious background. It may be lack of the needed credentials. It may be lack of required continuing education. He may just not want to bother with the hassle and expense of being properly credentialled.
As an APN I have to recredential yearly, though it seems to me its every time I turn around. I almost lost my credentialing earlier this year because I didn’t have a CPR course scheduled in time. Thankfully I could get in a course just in the nick of time or I would have to start from scratch with credentialling and would not have been allowed to work until I did.
So stop whining Rachel. Priveleges and credentialling are a long drawn out, pain in the butt nuisance for all of us.
Hi Del 11:15am
Wasn’t it Martin Luther King Jr. who said you can’t change men’s hearts, but you can change laws? He put it much more eloquently. No law is going to stop anything dead in its tracks. You are correct, we need to continue our outreach to women in need.
@Del: I’m not sure there will be that many abortions performed in hospitals or doctor’s offices. After all, as Maddow laments (oh, how I love that force-fed-raw-lemons look she gets when she has to report news she doesn’t like!), many hospitals refuse to do business with abortionists specifically because they are abortionists. It would pretty surprising for that same hospital to turn around and do abortions themselves. That doesn’t mean there won’t be any hospitals/doctor’s offices that perform abortions. But I don’t think it will be happening all over the place.
Hi Courtenay,
It is tacky. It looks more like a Las Vegas whorehouse.
Someone should buy the building (and repaint it!) and turn it into a pregnancy and moms’ and babies’ center. Would be a loud a beautiful message.
Mary, I think is this is the quote you’re thinking of:
“It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.”
Hi CT,
Thank you. I found yet another variation of the quote as well!
Jill,
It will be a milestone, no doubt. However, we have a problem brewing here in New York that will eclipse that victory by far.
Governor Cuomo is about to get his Women’s Reproductive Health Care legislation passed in March. This legislation will all but eliminate penalties for botched abortions, decrease the already low standards for who can practice abortions, legalize abortions for all 9 months of pregnancy, wipe out parental notification rights, etc.
Cuomo, if successful, will bring this victory to the presidential election in 2016. If defeted now, a signal will be sent to the Democrats, and Cuomo will have suffered a severe setback. The pro-life movement should be streaming to New York, already the abortion capital of the nation. While the first abortion-free state is a great victory, it’s difficult to witness the bloodiest state in the union silently slipping into deeper depravity.
New York City is home to Planned Parenthood’s headquarters as well as Priests for Life’s headquarters. We have over 83,000 abortions per year in New York City alone. Defeating Cuomo, and shutting down abortion mills in Planned Parenthood’s citadel would be more than a symbolic victory, it would save tens of thousands of lives annually. We need all the help we can get here in New York.
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“It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.”
Lynching was never legal. So, this makes no sense. The law could possibly punish those who commit lynchings, but generally it was a case where everyone present saw nothing.
We’re deluding ourselves if we think that shutting down the last abortion mill creates an abortion-free state. First of all we have to contend with, as Del pointed out, doctors’ offices and hospitals. And then there are the underground troublemakers who have always been there but who will be encouraged to become even more troublesome.
The “holistic” herbal and home abortion people have always been there (albeit, I’d say, not nearly as numerous in Mississippi as in say California). Online mail-order abortifacient providers. And the network of “We’ll get you an abortion if it kills us!” people like the now-defunct but sure to raise its ugly head again Clergy Consultation Services.
To claim that Mississippi will soon be an abortion-free state is like claiming that we can have a rape-free state, an arson-free state, a child-molestation free state. As long as there are human beings there will be human evil. And you can BET that the abortion lobby has planning committees and rapid response teams and have all of their signs and websites and everything else ready to launch, missing only the photo of a dead woman whose demise they’re waiting to blame on the lack of unfettered abortionists.
Let’s be as wise as the serpents, folks. We KNOW a woman is going to be seriously injured or die sooner or later. Abortionists will stop killing women when Jesus returns. We need to be ready.
I can remember when the feminist movement fought for stricter laws against rape and domestic violence. I always give credit where its due. No one entertained any illusions that rapists or wife beaters would be stopped dead in their tracks or that the neanderthal mentality about rape and domestic violence victims would stop. However, we had to start somewhere, and stricter laws were applauded. The same with drunk driving. If anything, we want stricter laws. We don’t entertain any fantasies that drunks will stay off the roads.
If these laws stop even one act of rape or domestic violence, or punish their perpetrators, then they are working.
Its the same situation with abortion. We have to start somewhere.
Once there are no abortion clinics left in a state, they will probably start up a business busing women across the state lines to get their abortions elsewhere.
That’s what I’d guess.
1. Read “A Woman’s Book of Choices.” I’m sure they’ve added strategies, but it’s a compliation of things they did prior to legalization and that they flat out plan to do after the mills are shut down.
2. We need to be prepared for the inevitable. Since they’ll continue doing abortions anyway, some woman is gonna die sooner or later and we need to be prepared. Hell, a woman could die in a car wreck coming home from an abortion in another state and they’ll scream that it’s our fault for “lack of access.”
3. The message needs to be ”Those who stand to profit from women’s troubled situations are gone.”
4. On-message: “We’ve been here all along with help. Don’t let profiteers lure you away when help is so close to home.”