Servalbear recently wrote about our excellent experience with Jobstr, and the high quality of questions asked, which you can read about here if you missed it the first time. By the time she wrote about it, the first flurry of questions had died down, but her post unleashed a whole new run of questions…

We soon realized that the Jobstr site had been linked to a column by a national pro-life blogger. I won’t link to her here ~ email us if you have a pressing need to find her column.

We answered some of the questions they sent ~ the ones that could actually be considered questions ~ and deleted a number.  But the ones we deleted began to amuse me, and I can’t resist answering them here.

Q: “Do you ever feel like a Nazi soldier… leading a person to their demise?”

A:  No, never.

~ Abortion clinic escort fml221 describing the effect that a February 11 the Stanek Quote of the Day had on Jobstr’s post on questions for clinic escorts, Every Saturday Morning, February 20

In July 2012 an abortion-minded mother who was 27 weeks pregnant changed her mind and gave sidewalk counselors praying and offering help outside LeRoy Carhart’s (pictured right) Germantown, Maryland, abortion clinic all the paperwork he had given her.

The paperwork included “Facts about Induction Procedure (22 weeks and up).”

Abortion proponents oppose any attempts by legislatures to ensure abortionists provide informed consent. For instance, Guttmacher Institute thinks the needs of pregnant mothers are too “complex” to address in a written document:

Regulations requiring state-approved information or waiting periods may not meet the complex needs of all women. Instead, women may benefit more from interactions with trained staff who can assess and respond to their individual needs.

Amanda Marcotte thinks to mandate what is included in abortion informed consent is to call women “stupid” – the status quo is fine:

But are women as stupid as conservatives believe?…

Anti-choice propaganda would have you believe that women are marched through abortion clinics, strapped to tables, and subjected to abortions without anyone asking them a question, much less explaining what’s going on. In reality, women get counseling beforehand, where they talk about why they want an abortion and are given information about what’s going to happen and what options they have.

Bearing those thoughts in mind, read Carhart’s “fact” sheet on late-term induction abortions for yourself. Click to enlarge…

Where to begin? Do Marcotte, et al, stand by this as professional and complete “information about what’s going to happen”?

For starters, the word “abortion” is only mentioned once, at the end of the second-to-last sentence, aside from within the url at the top of the page. And this is a document about abortion. Why avoid the word? Are women so frail they can’t handle it? Or are we indeed to assume aborting mothers of late-term babies know everything they need to know when walking through the door?

The “What it is” section doesn’t begin to explain what “it” is. By this paragraph I would think “it” is an ultrasound.

And never mind “baby,” the document never even mentions the more politically correct term, “fetus.” That being terminated is  “the pregnancy.” Again, can’t women be expected to handle accurate medical terminology and information?

There is no explanation as to what happens between feeling pressure and the D&C, making it appear as if it is the D&C that ensures the abortion, which is false. There is no explanation as to what a mother might see during the “to be completed” part of the labor induction abortion, which is the delivery of her dead baby, or if she might want to hold her dead baby.

I also wonder who administers the Oxytocin (Pitocin)? Who increases or decreases the dosage? Is the mother wearing a monitor to ensure she is not contracting too much or too little and how strong the contractions are? Who gives the pain meds? It would seem to me if a nurse wereindeed overseeing patients, s/he would be identified as “nurse,” not “person.”

Comparing Carhart’s abortion induction protocol to my experience with a hospital’s labor induction protocol for mothers carrying babies the same gestational age (including mothers of younger babies who had died) leaves me shocked. How Third World this man is.

Do abortion proponents really stand by this standard of “informed” consent?

Here is Carhart’s “fact” sheet on D&E abortions, which is just as vague.

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• Planned Parenthood will close two Iowa clinics in March. One of the clinics set to close (Spencer Health Center) currently offers abortion services.
• Richard Doerflinger writes about ways to reduce abortion including fighting poverty, ending tax-funded abortions, regulating the abortion industry, upholding strong marriages and promoting sexual risk avoidance for the young.
• At First Things, Pete Spiliakos writes about a winning strategy for pro-life candidates:
  

  This “speak only when spoken to” approach to abortion seems cautious, but it is really foolhardy. It allows Democrats and their media allies decide when and how the abortion issue is discussed. So in a country in which third trimester abortions are legal on-demand, our abortion discussion centers on questions like “So why are you against the removal of a tiny clump of rapist-produced cells?” Republicans not choosing to talk about abortion doesn’t mean that we don’t talk about abortion. It means that we only talk about the issue when and how liberals choose.

From lohud.com yesterday:

A New Rochelle woman died of complications from a late-term abortion at a Maryland clinic, authorities confirmed Wednesday.

Jennifer Morbelli, 29, a schoolteacher in White Plains, bled to death after amniotic fluid in her womb spilled into her bloodstream, said Bruce Goldfarb, a spokesman for the Montgomery County Medical Examiner’s Office.

She was “left with the inability to clot blood to stop bleeding,” Goldfarb said.

More details from Newsday:

The chief medical examiner’s office in Baltimore lists “amniotic fluid embolism following termination of pregnancy” as one of two causes of death for Jennifer McKenna Morbelli….

The second is “disseminated intravascular coagulation,” a condition that occurs when small blood clots form in the blood vessels, according to Morbelli’s death certificate. Eventually, the proteins needed for clotting can become depleted, which can lead to extensive bleeding throughout the body.

In short, what an amniotic fluid embolism (AFE) is, from Wiki, with my notes in brackets:

It is mostly agreed that this condition results from amniotic fluid entering the uterine veins and in order for this to occur there are three prerequisites:

• Ruptured membranes [i.e., ruptured amniotic fluid or broken bag of waters]
• Ruptured uterine or cervical veins [latter can be due to cervical laceration]
• A pressure gradient from uterus to vein [direction of blood flow outward to mother’s body]

DIC, which was Morbelli’s secondary diagnosis, frequently accompanies amniotic fluid embolism, and it is a terrible thing – very difficult to treat. I’ve seen it. From Merriam-Webster:

Uncontrolled systemic coagulation resulting in thrombosis [clots] which in acute cases typically leads to generalized bleeding [hemorrhage] due to depletion of clotting factors and increased fibrinolysis.

… uncontrolled blood clotting leading to uncontrolled bleeding.

Yesterday the Washington Post tried to minimize abortion’s part in Morbelli’s death, basically saying it could happen to any pregnant mother:

The complication, which occurred when amniotic fluid was pushed into the woman’s bloodstream, can occur during or after abortions, natural deliveries or Caesarean sections.

This isn’t true. According to Medscape, WebMD’s resource for physicians, in a “Medicolegal Pitfalls” piece:

Failure to consider the diagnosis during legal abortion is a pitfall. A review of the literature indicates that most case reports of AFE have occurred during late second-trimester abortions.

Warren Hern, one of four late-term abortionists, along with Morbelli’s abortionist LeRoy Carhart, featured in the pro-abortion documentary After Tiller (pictured together right) agrees:

… amniotic fluid embolism is one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality in late abortion….

Hern wrote that in an article published in Gynecology and Obstetrics.

Back to Medscape:

Failure to respond emergently is a pitfall. AFE is a clinical diagnosis. Steps must be taken to stabilize the patient as soon as symptoms manifest.

At 33 weeks’ gestation Morbelli was only three to four weeks from being considered full-term. Had she delivered her baby in a hospital, she would still have been in the hospital 16 hours later. Signs and symptoms of trouble would have been picked up much before the situation erupted into an emergency.

Furthermore, there was no physician on hand to provide contiguous care to Morbelli. Carhart sent Morbelli back to her hotel room and left the state right after the abortion. And he left no doctor on call who knew Morbelli’s history. Precious hours elapsed due to Carhart’s negligence.

[Top photo via lohud.com]

by Hans Johnson

A new blood test called MaterniT21 Plus is making very early and accurate genetic screening available. While more information may be a good, this concerns many such as blogger Cassy Fiano, whose younger son Wyatt has Down Syndrome. Up to 90% of children like Wyatt are aborted.

Here on NBC’s Today a couple gets the rest of the results from their test:

Email dailyvid@jillstanek.com with your video suggestions.

[HT: Kelli]

They asked me about my thoughts on abortion, about policy, about underlying belief that would lead to certain conclusions. It was pretty comprehensive. It was very long….

It seems like [new NARAL president Ilyse Hogue] is well aware of the fact that there is a growing movement especially among younger people that can’t ignore the science and technology any longer that proves the humanness of the [child in the] womb….

And she recognizes that. So she’s worried about that, she’s specifically afraid of that aspect of it. She’s particularly concerned about the young people.

~ University of Richmond law student and pro-life activist Mark Earley Jr. (pictured), discussing the fact that political consulting firm GMMB (which “worked as a ‘lead strategic firm’ for Obama’s… presidential campaign[s]”) did extensive interviews with “millennial” pro-life activists in their homes without disclosing that they were hired by NARAL, as quoted by The Daily Caller, February 20

According to the article, “the video was presented at [NARAL’s Washington] dinner in order to show pro-choice activists the ‘passion’ of pro-lifers on the other side of the issue ‘in an effort to fire up (NARAL) members.'”

[Photo via Earley’s Facebook page]

Guest post by Leroy Dodd

On January 28, in my capacity as social media manager for a coalition of national black pro-life leaders, I set up accounts on Facebook and Twitter to promote our upcoming demonstration in Los Angeles of the NAACP Image Awards on February 1.

We had a number of press releases going out that morning, and I wanted to take advantage of social media platforms to raise awareness about what I call the “Black Betrayal” – NAACP’s gross failure to put black America’s best interest first, demonstrated by its willingness to not only ignore the black genocidal agenda of Planned Parenthood but to go so far as partner with this organization that racially targets black communities with abortion.

My first Tweet was at 9:17a: “Black Leaders prepare to protest @NAACP for its #Betrayal of the black community.”

Only six tweets and less than two hours later we got our first suspension, after I hit “reply” to a tweet sent out by @NAACPIMAGEAWARD promoting their show, wherein I linked to our press release and the hashtag #BlackBetrayal.

The suspension was lifted within five minutes after I acknowledged I understood I must correct my behavior or run the risk of future suspensions or deactivation of the account altogether.

But after only eight more tweets promoting our protest and challenging the NAACP we were shut down again, 1-1/2 days after we went live. But this time the suspension would last several days – until well after the Image Awards.

Not only were we suspended, but our very first Twitter follower, who was retweeting us, was also temporarily suspended.

Beware of Twitter Gulag

After researching the issue, I discovered I had been suspended by a technique liberals on Twitter use to silence conservative voices.

The technique is called “Spam-Flagging,” a calculated mass move to misuse Twitter’s “Block & Report Spam” function to trigger Twitter’s automatic spam algorithm that initiates a suspension, sending the targetted Twitter user to what’s now called “Twitter Gulag” – Twitter detention camp for conservative political prisoners.

This technique was discovered in April 2012 after Twitter suspended the account of conservative Chris Loesch, husband to talk radio host and CNN contributor Dana Loesch and very active on Twitter. Read his saga here.

Another Twitter user, Todd Kincannon, saw this becoming a growing maneuver by leftists on Twitter and took action to attempt to put an end to the madness. Kincannon formed a volunteer “Twitter Gulag Defense Network,” using the tag “#TGDN” to organize its communications. Read Todd’s story here.

Fighting back

Meanwhile, using my personal Twitter account, I took action by spreading the news that NAACP and Twitter were trying to silence us.

We began to get mass support from other pro-lifers and conservatives on Twitter. We issued a press release revealing how we’d been silenced on Twitter, and I circulated it through my personal Twitter account.  That’s when the story really caught a fire!

Life News picked up the story, as did Life Dynamics. Tea Party talk show host David Webb posted the story on Breitbart.com, and so did Todd Starnes at Fox News.

A host of other blogs covered our story, but as I said, it wasn’t until after the NAACP Image Awards event was over that our Twitter account was restored.

Interesting enough, after our Twitter account was restored, @NAACP began following us. I sent them a Direct Message requesting an opportunity to speak with them about our concerns with the organization’s alliance with Planned Parenthood and their support of abortion – the leading cause of death among backs – but we’ve gotten not response!

Since our account was restored we have not changed how or what we tweet. We’ve been left alone since the second suspension.

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• NARAL’s take on the teen whose parents allegedly attempted to force her to have an abortion is not surprising (they argue it confirms the importance of “choice”), but it leaves me wondering: “If you’re really in favor of everyone’s choice, then why is it that a pro-life group had the resources to help this young woman while I’ve never heard of a pro-choice group protecting women from forced abortion?”
• National Review has an editorial on Governor Andrew Cuomo’s attempt to make abortion even more accessible in a state which is home to the nation’s abortion capital:
  

  New York does not want for access to abortion. Two in five pregnancies end in abortion in New York City; the rate for black women is 60 percent. The statewide figures are lower, but they are high enough. There are about 250 abortion clinics in the state, and 93 percent of the state’s women live in a county that is home to an abortion facility, according to the Guttmacher Institute. Nationally, abortion kills the equivalent of the combined populations of Atlanta and Cleveland every year. All that with no help from Governor Cuomo.Governor Cuomo’s bill is not about easing access to abortion — those bloody skids already are well-greased. The issue is political domination. The abortion party does not brook resistance, and it steadfastly seeks to ensure that everybody has a hand in its grisly business: taxpayers, employers, priests. All must be implicated. If a religious hospital declines to provide abortions, then it must be forced to do so. If a counseling center treats adoption as preferable to abortion, it will either change its mind or have its mind changed for it by the gentle persuasion of the State of New York.

• Manuel Montalvo’s reaction to news that his wife was carrying two sets of identical twins is classic.
  

  Manuel’s immediate reaction was jubilation.“The first thing I said was ‘Home run!’ and then I started jumping up and down,” he said.

  The Montalvo’s doctor says this delivery is a very rare event.

  “The incidence of spontaneous quadruplets is somewhere of the order of 1 in 500,000,” said Dr. Brian Kirshon, a specialist in maternal and fetal medicine at Houston Perinatal Associates. “And then if you take two sets of identical twins in the quadruplet set, the incidence must be one in many, many millions. It’s an extremely rare occurrence.”

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