Editor’s note:
Abortion providers complain that Pro-Life
Pregnancy Centers are biased. Below is
a look at the other side.
SURVEYS SHOW
“COUNSELING” IN ABORTION CLINICS IS BIASED
... There are many, many accounts of biased
and dishonest “counseling” in abortion
facilities. Some come from post-abortive
women, others from former abortion workers.
Pro-life regulations in some states require
abortion facilities to give accurate medical
information about abortion’s risks and fetal
development. So-called “pro-choice” advocacy
groups fight these laws tooth and nail, and
abortion facilities do everything they can
to undermine them.
There hasn’t been a great deal of research
done on abortion “counseling,” and its
effect on pregnant people’s decisions, but
there have been some surveys done over the
years.
Read more here...
HOW MANY ABORTIONS IN
MICHIGAN? THE STATE CAN’T SAY UNDER NEW LAW
After more than four decades, Michigan is
ending its annual, detailed reporting on
tens of thousands of abortions each year,
including a patient’s age and marital
status, the age of the fetus, the type of
procedure and any complications.
The Michigan Department of Health and Human
Services will release its 2023 data later
this year, but it will be the last such
report.
The change makes Michigan one of just a
handful of states that no longer collect
such data, according to Guttmacher
Institute, an abortion-rights research group
that uses state-level data to track trends.
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STORY VASTLY
UNDERESTIMATES THE NUMBER OF LATE – IN –
PREGNANCY ABORTIONS
Kate
Zernike writing in “Late Abortions Rarely
Happen, but They Still Dominate Politics”
(October 31), uses data from the Centers for
Disease Control’s (CDC) inadequate and
incomplete reporting system to argue that
late-in-pregnancy abortions are so rare as
to be virtually non-existent.
The CDC passively collects abortion data
volunteered by states. There are two
significant problems with this system.
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RITA MARKER, THE
GREAT ANTI-ASSISTED SUICIDE CHAMPION, DIED
AT 83
Rita
Marker, a longtime advocate against assisted
suicide, died Oct. 30 at the age of 83.
Born in Washington state in 1940, Marker and
her family settled in Steubenville, Ohio.
After attending an international
right-to-die convention in Europe and
becoming alarmed by what she heard, she and
her husband, Mike, established the
International Anti-Euthanasia Task Force,
later renamed the Patients Rights Council,
where Rita served as the executive director
until earlier this year.
Read more here...
ASSISTED SUICIDE HAS
HIDDEN HARMS
Dr.
Kion Hoffman wrote this opinion article for
the Duluth News Tribune which published it
on September 7, 2024.
As a family practice physician with 35 years
of experience, I’ve had many conversations
with patients about their fears as they
approach the ends of their lives. A common
concern is they don’t want to be a burden to
their families.
This is a natural fear, but it is one that
should be met with compassion, not with the
option of physician-assisted suicide.
The legalization of physician-assisted
suicide in Minnesota would be a dangerous
step. It would quickly move from being an
option to an obligation for many vulnerable
individuals. ...
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PENDING LEGISLATION
TO LEGALIZE EUTHANASIA IN MICHIGAN
Senate Bill No. 681
November 9, 2023, introduced by Senators
Cavanagh, Hertel, Klinefelt, Singh, Moss,
Geiss, Chang, Polehanki, McCann, Irwin,
Bayer and Wojno and referred to the
Committee on Health Policy. A bill to
regulate physician assistance for
patient-requested life-ending medication; to
require safeguards for determining that a
patient is qualified to receive life-ending
medication; to require documentation and
reporting; to specify certain legal
consequences regarding insurance; to provide
for civil and criminal immunity and freedom
from professional sanctions for persons
acting in conformity with this act; to
provide for penalties and sanctions for
violations of this act; and to repeal acts
and parts of acts.
http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2023-2024/billintroduced/Senate/pdf/2023-SIB-0681.pdf
Senate Bill No. 680
A
bill to amend 1978 PA 368, entitled “Public
health code,” by amending sections 17752 and
20175 (MCL 333.17752 and 333.20175); section
17752 as amended by 2020 PA 4 and section
20175 as amended by 2023 PA 62, and by
adding section 16221c.
www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2023-2024/billintroduced/Senate/pdf/2023-SIB-0680.pdf
Senate Bill No. 678
A
bill to amend 1956 PA 218, entitled “The
insurance code of 1956,” by amending
sections 3905 and 4037 (MCL 500.3905 and
500.4037), section 3905 as added by 1992 PA
84 and section 4037 as amended by 1994 PA
226, and by adding section 3406rr.
http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2023-2024/billintroduced/Senate/pdf/2023-SIB-0678.pdf
WHEN THESE MEASURES ARE INTRODUCED, BE
PREPARED TO CONTACT YOUR LEGISLATORS AND
EXPRESS YOUR OPINION.
AAPLOG SAYS MEDICAL
MALPRACTICE, NOT GEORGIA’S PRO-LIFE LAW,
RESULTED IN THE DEATH OF AMBER THURMAN
Days
before her death: Amber is given and takes
the abortion drug mifepristone at 9 weeks
gestation with twins at a clinic in NC. She
drives home to GA, & takes the 2nd drug,
misoprostol, at home a day later. These
drugs were the root cause of the following
events.
August 18th 6:51pm (days later) – presents
to hospital with bleeding, vomiting blood,
passing out. Found to have abdominal
tenderness, critically elevated white blood
cell count, low blood pressure, foul
smelling vaginal discharge & retained tissue
in her uterus on ultrasound.
Read more here...
Abortion providers complain that Pregnancy
pro-life centers are biased. Following is a
look at the other side
SURVEYS SHOW
“COUNSELING” IN ABORTION CLINICS IS BIASED
There
are many, many accounts of biased and
dishonest “counseling” in abortion
facilities. Some come from post-abortive
women, others from former abortion workers.
Pro-life regulations in some states require
abortion facilities to give accurate medical
information about abortion’s risks and fetal
development. So-called “pro-choice” advocacy
groups fight these laws tooth and nail, and
abortion facilities do everything they can
to undermine them.
There hasn’t been a great deal of research
done on abortion “counseling,” and its
effect on pregnant people’s decisions, but
there have been some surveys done over the
years.
Read more here...
ABORTIONIST WARREN
HERN WRECKS NARRATIVE, SAYS HE DOES ELECTIVE
LATE-TERM ABORTIONS “ALL THE TIME”
Well-known
Colorado-based abortionist Warren Hern has
for years been one of the few abortionists
willing to commit late-term abortions
through all nine months of pregnancy for
essentially any reason. Yet the media has
consistently been pushing a narrative that
late-term abortions are only committed in
cases of medical necessity, despite the
reality of the situation – and statements
made by abortionists like Hern himself.
Hern recently appeared on The Michael
Shermer Show, where he was asked about the
kinds of women he sees in his abortion
business. “Are people coming to you from
other states now?” Shermer asked. “You’re in
Colorado.”
Read more here...
PERINATAL HOSPICE,
THE MOST LOVING OPTION
Few
things in life derail a parent’s world more
than being informed that the unborn baby
they were excitedly anticipating has an
illness deemed “incompatible with life” or
“a life-limiting condition.” Perinatal
hospice is the most loving option.
At times like these medical professionals
should proceed with great sensitivity and
compassion, realizing that even though this
child’s life will likely be short, she is a
gift from God. Her brief presence on this
earth will serve a purpose often known only
to the Creator.
Sadly, at this fragile moment, doctors often
matter-of-factly advise an abortion. The
procedure is wrapped in soft,
benign-sounding euphemisms intended to paint
images of comfort and peace. They call the
abortion “early induction, interruption of
pregnancy,” or “compassionate termination.”
Whatever they call it the reality is the
same. An abortion intentionally ends the
life of their unborn baby. Killing the child
is never part of God’s plan.
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THE ABORTION DRUG IS
NOT SAFER THAN TYLENOL
A
fter
I read. “What is a medication abortion? 5
people share their experiences,” I wasn’t
surprised that “abortion providers” (aka
“reproductive health clinics”) congratulated
Danielle Campoamor for her in-kind
contribution to the cause.
Reporting for “TODAY Parents”, she prefaces
her five accounts with the assurance that
studies have shown that chemical
abortions—which now account for a slight
majority of abortions performed in the
US—are “are safer than Tylenol and Viagra,
and 14 times safer than childbirth.”
Dr. Rebecca Miller, a fellow with Physicians
for Reproductive Health, also told
Campoamor, “Serious complications that would
require hospitalization happen in less than
1% of people who have a medication
abortion.”
Read more here...
Note: the
following is a lengthy article but very
informative
EUTHANASIA POISONS
PEOPLE AND SOCIETIES
In my first-ever anti-euthanasia article,
published in Newsweek in 1993, I described
the suicide of my friend Frances, who killed
herself under the influence of the
euthanasia-promoting Hemlock Society (since
rechristened Compassion and Choices). Toward
the end of the piece, I predicted what would
happen should assisted suicide become legal
and normalized:
The descent to depravity is reached by small
steps. First, suicide is promoted as a
virtue. Vulnerable people like Frances
become early casualties. Then follows mercy
killing of the terminally ill. From there,
it’s a hop, skip and a jump to killing
people who don’t have a good “quality” of
life, perhaps with the prospect of organ
harvesting thrown in as a plum to society.
I believed my conclusion would be
uncontroversial. After all, it was only
logical. Once the act of eliminating
suffering by eliminating the sufferer is
redefined from a crime to a beneficent
medical intervention, there is no limiting
principle. Terminal illness might be the
gateway excuse for legalization, but since
the real issue is the best response to
suffering, ...
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ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGES
JOURNAL PUSHES FOR RESIDENCIES IN ASSISTED
SUICIDE
“Nor
shall any man’s entreaty prevail upon me to
administer poison to anyone; neither will I
counsel any man to do so.” So says the
Hippocratic Oath.
Alas, the oath is as dead as the patients
some doctors now assist in suicide. In
California, the Sutter Family Residency
Medical Program even offers residencies to
train doctors in assisted suicide —
euphemistically called medical aid in dying
(MAID).
Chillingly, most of the doctors who
participated in a small study on assisted
suicide and who prescribe poison as part of
their job like it. The study was published
in Academic Medicine, the journal of the
Association of American Medical Colleges,
which pushes the assisted-suicide-training
agenda: ...
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Note: the
following is a detailed article on the dangers
of medical abortion
THE CASE AGAINST THE
ABORTION PILL
Here is how I buried the body of my fifth
child: I
took myself to the emergency room because I
was in labor and bleeding. The baby on the
ultrasound screen lay still in the curve of
my belly, its heart silent. Fetal demise
resulting from spontaneous abortion, the
medical term for miscarriage. The room was
quiet as I delivered the baby. At first I
was afraid to hold my child, who fit the
length of my hand, its clavicles and ribs
delicate as strands of hair. Then I saw the
face, and the features were perfect. I
marveled. My baby was soft, its bones not
yet hardened, and still warm from the heat
of my body. In my grief, I was granted a
glimpse into secret places. I am made, and I
make. I was no longer afraid.
The room went black as I lost consciousness,
hemorrhaging. ...
Read more here...
EMERGENCY ROOM
VISITS APPEAR TO RISE AFTER FDA RELAXED
ABORTION RESTRICTIONS
The
emergency room visitation rate for abortion
complications appears to have increased
since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
removed guardrails on the use of the
abortion pill.
A U.S. federal court on July 13, 2020,
temporarily stopped the FDA from requiring
that mifepristone FDA from requiring that
mifepristone, or the abortion pill, be
dispensed in person. That injunction
remained in place until it was temporarily
reversed by the U.S. Supreme Court in
January 2021.
In April 2021, the FDA again stopped
requiring that abortion drugs be dispensed
to women in person, which allowed women to
receive them through telehealth appointments
and by mail. The FDA has not enforced the
in-person dispensing requirement ever since.
Read more here...
NORMALIZING ASSISTED
SUICIDE WILL LEAD TO A DUTY TO DIE
Euthanasia isn’t really about compassion but
fear of decline and a loathing of
dependency
— and of those experiencing them.
That nasty truth has become abundantly clear
with a new column published in the Times of
London in which former Tory MP Matthew
Parris argues that euthanasia/assisted
suicide should not only be permitted — but
encouraged. In “We Can’t Afford a Taboo on
Assisted Dying,” he writes (my emphasis):
I can’t dispute the objectors’ belief that
once assisted dying becomes normalized we
will become more apt to ask yourselves for
how much longer we can justify the struggle.
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OBGYN CONFIRMS
“ABORTION HARMS WOMEN”
If
President Biden wins reelection, his top
priority on Day One would be codifying
abortion protections in federal law, his
deputy campaign manager Quentin Fulks said
Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” Host
Kristen Welker asked, “What would on day one
President Biden’s top priority be?” Fulks
responded, “First of all, Roe. The president
has been adamant that we need to restore
Roe. It is unfathomable that women today
wake up in a country with less rights than
their ancestors had years ago.”
“Constitutionally speaking, abortion is not
a right,” responded Joseph Backholm, senior
fellow for Biblical Worldview and Strategic
Engagement at Family Research Council.
“Believing it is a right under the
constitution is the mistake the Supreme
Court fixed in the Dobbs decision. It should
not be a right because no one should have
the right to end someone else’s life, except
in the cases of self-defense, when that
would be a proportionate response.”
Read more here...
IS HOSPICE AN ANTIDOTE
TO ASSISTED SUICIDE
The
goal of palliative care is to relieve
symptoms—including pain and stress—at any
stage in a serious illness. Palliative care
can be provided in conjunction with curative
or life-prolonging treatment. Hospice is a
subset of palliative care. Hospice provides
comfort care when a person no longer has
curative options or has chosen to forgo
treatment because the burdens of treatment
outweigh the benefits. The founding
principles of hospice were to maintain
dignity, to increase quality of life, and to
provide comfort and pain control. When these
principles are followed and staff members
are trained in proper pain management,
hospice can be a blessing for people in need
of expert end-of-life care.
Unfortunately, there is a growing
trend to misapply palliative medications to
make people die, particularly in the hospice
care setting. (emphasis added)
Read more here...
Nancy Valko’s comment:
After writing my April 1,2023 blog, I agree
with Dr. DeCock’s conclusions below.
ABORTIONIST DEFINES
“MEDICALLY NECESSARY” ABORTIONS
“A medically necessary abortion is any
abortion a woman asks for.”
— Abortionist Jane Hodgson, quoted in Human
Life International Special Report Number 83,
August 1991, pages 6 and 7.
Editor’s note: This appeared at
"Clinic
Quotes"
and is reposted with permission.
Read more here...
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