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Planned Parenthood board member on COVID-19 closures: Nothing is ‘more essential’ than abortion (Rhode Island)
Life Site News ^ | April 9, 2020 | Calvin Freiburger

Posted on 04/09/2020 6:48:08 PM PDT by Morgana

EAST PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, April 9, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – As the abortion industry fights to exempt itself from the sacrifices being made across the medical profession to combat COVID-19, a Planned Parenthood board member in Rhode Island suggests that abortion is not only equal to but more imporant than the countless legitimate medical procedures that have been put on hold.

U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams and the federal Centers for Disease Control (CDC) have advised healthcare facilities to reschedule non-urgent appointments and elective procedures, both to limit the spread of the coronavirus and to free up time and resources to focus on infected patients.

Compliance with this guidance has been mixed, leading numerous states to mandate that facilities temporarily halt “non-essential” medical procedures. Among them, Texas has declared that elective abortions will be held to the same standards as all other procedures during this time, leading to a lawsuit demanding exemptions for Planned Parenthood and other abortion centers. One of those suits may soon reach the U.S. Supreme Court.

Speaking to Rhode Island media outlet WPRI, Planned Parenthood of Southern New England (PPSNE) board member Nancie Schwarzman complained this week that the crisis “is being used as a tool to shut down clinics, deeming many of our services, including access to abortions as non-essential care.” She then asked: “Can you imagine anything more essential and time-sensitive?”

PPSNE operates 17 abortion facilities across Connecticut and Rhode Island, which are remaining open for the time being.

Pro-life medical experts such as the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists (AAPLOG) dispute claims that abortions are essential, noting that beyond the fact that the vast majority of abortions are not sought for medical reasons, abortion also “generates more patients to be seen in already overburdened emergency rooms.”

“Most abortion providers instruct women to go to an emergency room if they have any concerning symptoms after the abortion,” AAPLOG notes. “Approximately five percent of women who undergo medication abortions will require evaluation in an emergency room, most commonly for hemorrhage. Surgical abortions can also result in hemorrhage. Emergency room personnel – who are already struggling to meet the demands of the COVID-19 pandemic – will be further strained to provide care to these women.”

Meanwhile, legitimate medical institutions across the nation, which have complied with the various government orders and recommendations to focus on COVID-19, have been forced to lay off tens of thousands of healthcare workers, and dramatically cut the hours of remaining employees, due to canceling so many appointments and procedures unrelated to COVID-19.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; US: Rhode Island
KEYWORDS: abortion; covid19; prolife; rhodeisland

1 posted on 04/09/2020 6:48:08 PM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

Keep them DEAD BABIES COMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


2 posted on 04/09/2020 6:50:36 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople
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To: Morgana

Planned Infanticide: “If it saves one child’s life it is worth it!!!”


3 posted on 04/09/2020 6:50:54 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Everyone knows Hillary was corrupt, lied, destroyed documents, and influenced witnesses. Rat crime.)
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To: Morgana

Illogical as well as immoral.

So they’re “saving” women’s lives all day? How many actual abortion clients paying them are there to save themselves?

The time they’ll need to save their own lives is when they struggle to make it to an emergency room in critical condition from bleeding or complications caused by the abortionist.

So a baby is dead and a woman is now in trouble, too. And actual emergency situations during a virus pandemic overload of hospitals have to wait for a local abortion mill’s endangered victims?

And that is “essential”????


4 posted on 04/09/2020 7:03:11 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: Morgana

Self loathing is strong in the rat party.


5 posted on 04/09/2020 7:08:19 PM PDT by Track9 (Islam: Turning everything it touches to ShiÂ’ite since 632 AD)
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To: Morgana

FEED ME!!!!

6 posted on 04/09/2020 7:22:23 PM PDT by Dogbert41 (Jerusalem is the city of the Great King!!!)
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To: Morgana

Planned Murderhood makes me understand more why the Nazis could do what they did. Americans who support Planned Murderhood cannot use as as an excuse that they didn’t know because they know and approve.


7 posted on 04/09/2020 7:40:50 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Morgana

Killing is against the Commandments and is NOT essential.


8 posted on 04/09/2020 8:03:53 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: shanover
Planned Murderhood makes me understand more why the Nazis could do what they did. Americans who support Planned Murderhood cannot use as as an excuse that they didn’t know because they know and approve.

What I will NEVER understand is how and why so many American Jews--including some personal friends--wholeheartedly support PP.

9 posted on 04/09/2020 8:59:14 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: Morgana

“Planned Parenthood board member on COVID-19 closures: Nothing is ‘more essential’ than abortion (Rhode Island)”

except for liquor stores, pot stores and gun stores in Colorado ...


10 posted on 04/09/2020 10:20:55 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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