Posted on 10/19/2015 7:27:08 AM PDT by wagglebee
WASHINGTON, D.C., October 16, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) – A majority of states may soon use tax dollars to pay for the implantation of dangerous, abortion-inducing IUDs in women immediately after childbirth.
The journal Contraception reports that Medicaid now pays for IUDs to be inserted into women following delivery in 19 states.
Eight more states are poised to follow suit.
Not one state used taxpayer money for IUDs before the Obama administration took office.
Within 10 minutes of delivery, doctors are implanting either copper IUDs or chemical-releasing IUDs in women.
But potential health complications for the mother are magnified when IUDs are implanted at a new mother's childbirth.
“Uterine walls can be softer than usual in postpartum women, increasing the risk of uterine perforation and even resultant IUD migration to other parts of the body, which can cause additional internal injuries," Rita Diller, an expert on the subject, told LifeSiteNews.
In 2010, the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews found that four times as many women who get an IUD implanted at childbirth expel the device, compared with those placed later.
"Abnormal bleeding, one of the signs of uterine perforation, could be missed in the days following delivery, since women are already bleeding at that point," Diller added.
Besides the inherent dangers of timing the surgical implantation of IUDs at childbirth, IUDs are themselves a dangerous form of birth control.
"IUDs increase the risk of ectopic pregnancies and contribute to infections like pelvic inflammatory disease. More than 70,000 Mirena IUD complications have been reported to the FDA since 2000," Diller elaborated. “In New York and New Jersey alone, there are over 1,000 lawsuits on file for IUD injuries."
Further controversy surrounds whether the government should use tax dollars for abortifacients. An IUD is not "contraception” but, often, a method of abortion. IUDs inflame the lining of the uterus, making implantation of a newly conceived child impossible, inducing abortion.
The IUD stops implantation of the already conceived baby up to 95 percent of the time, according to the Life Issue Institute, based in Cincinnati.
The Obama administration's Department of Health and Human Services has admitted that intrauterine devices cause early abortions. Brian Clowes of Human Life International told LifeSiteNews, "All of the longer-acting methods sometimes act as abortifacients…which will actually lead to an increase, not a decrease, in total abortions.”
Some object to the use of taxpayer dollars for the program, period. "I thought the Left wanted to keep the government out of women's bodies,” Seton Motley of Less Government commented to LifeSiteNews. “Unless women want something 'free.' Then, of course, the government's allowed in."
Those who support the program say they are meeting an existing demand for long-term contraception. Dr. Michelle Moniz, a gynecologist in the wealthy Detroit suburb of Brighton, Michigan, says implantation at childbirth is good because women intend to obtain birth control, but do not follow through. “It's a lack of transportation, a lack of child care, unstable insurance, the inability to get time off work.”
But eerily reminiscent of the eugenics movement, the article in Contraception stated, “Reducing the number of children born to these mothers would significantly reduce the number of children born into poverty.”
The Washington Post agrees that the reason for the growing trend is that an IUD “is far cheaper” to the state “than the costs of an unplanned pregnancy."
IUD use has more than doubled in recent years, helped along by promotion from the Obama administration. The CDC has suggested the use of the abortifacients as a means of reducing abortion due to unwanted pregnancies.
President Obama's Science Czar, John P. Holdren, once suggested the use of compulsory abortion for American women in order to meet strict population control levels set by a world government.
Of course it's eugenics.
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For years I’ve advocated having one’s tubes tied as a condition of getting an abortion.
After all, if you’re demonstrating eagerness to murder a current child, how can you say you’d be a good mother to a future child?
This is the logical consequence of the Welfare State. The state will take care of you and your kids from cradle to grave, but the trade off is that the state will start making very significant life-decisions for you. How many kids you should have. When you should stop getting medical care and die, etc.
I thought that IUDs were to prevent pregnancy and not to cause abortion of an existing fetus. In any case, I personally have no problem with welfare agencies providing (but not mandating) birth control (but NOT abortion) assistance and/or advice to women on welfare.
I agree
There are claims the IUD prevents implantation of a fertilized egg so for some that would mean IUDs are an abortifacient.
Hate to say this but I am all for it. Better to prevent more Baby Mammas in the future.
Everyone in their right mind is for it.
IUDs make the lining of the uterus uninhabitable to the newly concepted baby, so women are having abortions and do not know it.
If they’re on welfare and this can help prevent another pregnancy, I have no problems with it. It can be removed when the woman says she wants another child and isn’t receiving any welfare.
The Norplant implants should be an option too.
They should have been IUDed BEFORE they got knocked up. Saved us a ton of money and hours of aggravation. Why close the door after the horse escapes the barn?
Observe that the “conservative” contingent is all for it.
Apparently replacing American born poor with immigrant poor at the expense of the working class agrees with everyone.
I’m all for this. Accept welfare from the government, there needs to be a regiment in place that prevents more mouths for the taxpayers to feed.
Then again, I think if they brought back work houses where people on welfare needed to report daily for their duties (care of public facilities, property, etc); you’d find a lot less people on welfare. Don’t show up, then a deduction in the amount of public assistance received for that period.
Ideally, we would reduce the birthrate of those who would otherwise demand taxpayer funding for their kids AND avoid importing additional members of the underclass.
Agreed.
It’s also the result of sexual promiscuity being condoned throughout the school system, the broken down families, etc., etc.
Every area that is falling apart can be linked directly to collectively kicking God out of our lives.
NOBODY in his right mind is for it.
It depends on the type of IUD:
Hormonal IUD. This IUD prevents fertilization by damaging or killing sperm and making the mucus in the cervix thick and sticky, so sperm can't get through to the uterus. It also keeps the lining of the uterus (endometrium) from growing very thick.1 This makes the lining a poor place for a fertilized egg to implant and grow. The hormones in this IUD also reduce menstrual bleeding and cramping.Copper IUD. Copper is toxic to sperm. It makes the uterus and fallopian tubes produce fluid that kills sperm. This fluid contains white blood cells, copper ions, enzymes, and prostaglandins.1
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