Pro-life news brief 12-5-13
by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat
- Jorge Martin-Santana, a medical assistant at a Sacramento Planned Parenthood, has been charged with sexual battery for allegedly touching a patient inappropriately in October.
- A Washington city may pull a grant from a family resource center which provides information directing women to abortion-referring clinics.
- Notorious abortionist Steven Brigham is back in the news after New Jersey prosecutors revealed that Brigham lied under oath about whether he had malpractice insurance.:
Now, as Brigham, 57, tries to regain his license, New Jersey prosecutors have submitted evidence that his sworn statement was yet another lie. They allege that not only did he stop carrying required liability insurance around 2006, but last month produced a phony insurance policy when forced to back up the statement.The Bermuda-based company that purportedly issued his policy was itself a sham. It has not issued policies since 2006, when the company operator went to jail for insurance fraud and money laundering, according to legal papers filed Nov. 27 by New Jersey Deputy Attorney General Jeri L. Warhaftig.
“Brigham also produced a fraudulent receipt for payment for a policy issued by” the sham company, Warhaftig wrote.
- ABC covered Rep. Chris Smith’s (pictured left) announcement that the vast majority of health plans offered to Congress and their staffers include abortion coverage:
The disclosure Wednesday by abortion opponent Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., also highlights an emerging issue nationally: It may be hard for individual consumers to determine whether abortion is a covered benefit in plans offered through the new online insurance markets.For government insiders, there’s another twist: Lawmakers and their staffs now appear to be the only federal employees with access to abortion coverage through their government-supported health insurance plans.
Smith said only nine of the 112 insurance plans offered to members of Congress and their staffs through the Washington, D.C., insurance market exclude abortion as a covered benefit.
[Photo via catholicfire.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.
Ironic that lawmakers need to cover their butts with abortion coverage. Legal abortion “hides” a multitude of problems/ but creates so many as well.
As an aside…..What happens when hackers get into patients’ online medical records? Will abortions be exposed or will medical charts be written in “secret code”? And how does that help women?
Abortion kills. Let’s abolish abortion.
Regarding abortion coverage: this is the dumbest thing I have ever heard. You voluntarily pay some premium for a service to address a problem that is totally up to you, and for most employed people could reasonably be covered out of pocket, or by some payment plan?
Like, what is the co-pay on a $500 abortion; you pay $200? Or zero?
Ridiculous.
This is even more dumb than a single person getting insurance to cover an eye exam and eye glasses.
I have a better idea.
If you are a female of reproductive age, and you are considering getting “intimate” with a guy, simply ask him to put up a $500 bond. He gives you a $500 AmEx gift card, cash, or whatever else might represent genuine money. (Now, will you take a check? Hold his stereo like a pawn shop?)
Inform him that if he wants to break up, he will have to be clear about it and not be vague. when clear, he gets his $500 back. You have to hold up your end of the deal and return it pronto.
If you are dating a guy who cannot post a $500 bond, you may want to think twice before you do the things that adult men and women do.
Bam. Unexpected pregnancy rate goes down, and no need for insurance coverage of abortion.
He just may not be that into you.
Chris Smith has been awesome.
I even got to vote for him a couple of times, when I lived in New Jersey.