Pro-life news brief 9-12-14
by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat
- Planned Parenthood’s Cecile Richards has an editorial at CNN which claims that making the birth control pill available over the counter would “push women back to 1950s.”
Compare this recent editorial to a Huffington Post piece written by Richards in 2013 where the FDA’s decision to make emergency contraception available over the counter for women of all ages (including teen girls) was described as “wonderful news” and meant that there would be “no barriers, no shame.”
- It appears that Ohio abortionist Raymond Robinson may have settled in a lawsuit against him as the plaintiff has dismissed the case:
Attorney James Gutbrod said a confidentiality agreement reached between Knights and the Akron Women’s Medical Group prohibits him from commenting on whether a settlement was reached….Knights, 23, said in her lawsuit against the clinic and Dr. Raymond Robinson that she sought an abortion in February 2012 because she has a genetic disorder in which she has a double uterus with individual cervices. The condition put her at risk of death if she delivered a child, she said.
Despite undergoing the abortion procedure, she discovered a short time later during an emergency room visit that she was still pregnant. Seven months later, she safely delivered a 6-pound baby girl, her second child.
- In her recently released book, Texas gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis claims her unborn daughter Tate Elise was suffering and this is one of the reasons she opted for an abortion:
At some point in the almost two weeks of second and third and fourth opinions and tortured decision making, I could feel her little body tremble violently, as if someone were applying an electric shock to her, and I knew then what we needed to do. She was suffering …”
An unborn child in the second trimester was suffering physical pain?
That’s a strange assertion coming from Davis who claimed just the opposite when she famously filibustered against the pro-life law in Texas.
At about the 13 minute mark of the video below, Davis begin discussing a paper in which the authors claim fetal pain probably isn’t possible until the third trimester:
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She continues in this video:
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So Davis’ position is that Texas shouldn’t ban late second trimester abortions based on unborn children feeling pain because they don’t feel pain but I had a late second trimester abortion because my unborn child felt pain and I didn’t want her to suffer any more.
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.
Cecile Richards: !@@! (that’s a “wide-eyed WOW!”)
First, the 1950’s weren’t such a bad time at all. It would be a good time to return to.
But Cecile is just lying again. She says that buying birth control over-the-counter is a “tax.” She implies that buying birth control through an insurance provider is somehow “free.”
The only difference is that buying OTC means we buy it if we want it. Insurance coverage means we buy it whether we want it or not…. plus a bit of extra cost to cover the insurance company’s paperwork and profit.
So what is Cece really saying?
She’s saying that if women can get their birth control at any Walgreens, then they won’t have to pass through Planned Parenthood’s door to get a prescription. And she needs women to keep that habit of visiting Planned Parenthood. Plus… she gets paid for the BC products that PP dispenses too.
But “emergency contraception” — that’s different. Cece likes women to think that they can have unprotected, hook-up sex and still get “coverage” at Walgreens…. because that translates more unwanted pregnancies and abortions. Cece is a slick marketeer.
Meanwhile — BC drugs are dangerous, and should be prescribed by a physician who monitors the patient’s health. But women can still pay out-of-pocket for their monthly consumption of lifestyle birth control. And that is a suitable solution for conscientious employers who object to contraception or abortifacient drugs.
Tate Elise was probably kicking and trying to tell her mother that she was ALIVE and she was HUMAN and needed a mother, not a death wish. I am sure Tate suffered more in the abortion than she would have being born and held and loved no matter how long she lived (whether it was a few minutes, a couple of hours or even two or three days)
Wendy is a politician. She will say “yes, no, neither, both, and all of the above” if she thinks it will achieve her goal.
She said, “Third-trimester fetuses do not feel pain,” because that argument countered the senate legislation.
She says, “I killed my child in the second trimester because she was suffering,” because she hopes this will gain the sympathy of the voters.
No one knows what Wendy actually thinks. All we know is that she will say both “yes” and “no,” according to her situation.
[…] was super excited about making emergency contraceptives available over-the-counter last year, as Jill Stanek points out. So what changed? Could it possibly be that Richards realized birth control being sold […]
I don’t think Cecile Richards was opposing OTC birth control access. Her point is that getting rid of Obamacare (as Republican politicians want to do) would make birth control harder to get and that making it available OTC wouldn’t be a suitable alternative.
But evidently, she’s out by about half a century as to when Obamacare went into effect.
Del: First, the 1950?s weren’t such a bad time at all. It would be a good time to return to.
:P
Del, there are a ton of women and minorities that would beg to differ. ;)