Posted on 08/23/2014 8:54:45 AM PDT by Kaslin
Planned Parenthood took a big hit on Tuesday after the District Court for Polk County, Iowa upheld a ban on “webcam” abortions. Judge Jeffrey Farrell’s ruling concluded that abortions – if done at all – really should be done after a complete medical exam. Better yet, Judge Ferrell ruled that the medical exam should actually be done by a physician – in person – and not via video feed. Well slap my head, imagine that.
In an effort to increase profit margins, Planned Parenthood’s management decided that their rural clinics could save money if they did abortions without having a physician present. To get around that ‘minor’ hurdle they shortcut the system and bypassed the requisite exam, altogether. Then they hired abortion doctors in neighboring cities to ‘consult’ with patients via webcam.
But the Iowa Board of Medicine didn’t take too kindly to killing babies without so much as a brief handshaking. So in August 2013, the Board ruled 8-2 that a physician had to be present when abortion drugs are administered.
As expected, Planned Parenthood challenged the Medical Board’s ruling because apparently it just cost too much to hire physicians to trek an hour out to the rural clinics to kill babies.
Before the Board’s ban, when a woman presented herself to an abortion clinic, she was given forms to fill out and queried about her pregnancy. Assuming the information the mother provided fit the gestational age requirement (and we all know how honest/accurate a teenage girl can be when she’s desperate), she was taken into an exam room where she was connected to an abortion doctor via webcam. The physician supposedly ‘consulted’ with her and then made the decision to dispense the abortion inducing drugs.
The doc pushed a button at his end and a little drawer containing two pills opened at the mother’s end. The mother took one pill at the clinic and then went home. A few days later she took the second pill and – voila – the baby died and was expelled.
Except there have been a few problems with abortifacient drugs, like deaths, strokes and sepsis caused by a total lack of concern, care and/or supervision on the part of abortion providers.
Planned Parenthood’s main argument is that forcing women to travel 60-100 miles to reach a ‘big-city’ clinic with a real doctor, constitutes cruelty and undue hardship. They feel that if a mother reaches the decision to have an elective abortion, she should be able to get it immediately, wherever she lives.
But here’s the thing. Elective abortions never constitute an emergency situation (unless it’s botched) in which case she needs to be as close to a major medical center as she can get.
Otherwise, if a mother is forced to actually plan ahead and drive an hour or two to another city to kill her baby, oh well. That’s an inconvenient sacrifice she will just have to be stuck with.
Considering that you can’t even get antibiotics for a simple ear infection without first having an exam, it’s difficult to imagine a physician risking a woman’s life in order to expedite killing an innocent human being via webcam. Except that abortion doctors and Planned Parenthood aren’t in the game to offer care and compassion, they’re in it for the money.
So lemme get this straight.
The world is outraged because a POS in a black mask cuts off the head of somebody’s son, and stacks it up on his body like a little dead rag doll.
But Planned Parenthood is upset because they won’t get to do the same thing to children by remote control.
The U.S. is now certifiably insane.
No... they don’t. They require a MURDERER
I agree. I do not think it helps the prolife cause to be calling these monsters “doctors”.
Agree. Real doctors don’t stop a beating heart.
Standard Leftist logic (used loosely) on medical standards is “whatever suites their purpose”.
A gov. school cannot trust an 18-year-old to self-medicate with Advil, but the same gov. school will arrange transportation for a 13-year-old who wants an abortion.
The Pro-Aborts don’t want women in back alleys using a coat hanger.
They want women in Planned Parenthood clinics using coat hangers.
So lemme get this straight.
The world is outraged because a POS in a black mask cuts off the head of somebody’s son, and stacks it up on his body like a little dead rag doll.
But Planned Parenthood is upset because they won’t get to do the same thing to children by remote control.
The U.S. is now certifiably insane.
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You nailed it!!
Nope; just a KILLER.
And a willing 'mother'.
The Hippocratic Oath wouldn’t allow them to
I think the program should have been continued as it was ... After the first “mother” dies because of sepsis or because her pregnancy was ectopic and it obviously was misdiagnosed because PP thought a video connection was “good enough” I would have loved to see PP sued for $100million for gross negligence.
We’ve been that way for 41 years now.
Surely by now the elephant in the room has crapped all over the floor by now; and broken down the couch!
I shudda read ahead...
Oath, Oath! Very few people give a rats rectum about oaths today.
Seriously?
We're talking about someone who went through a bona fide medical education, and then decided to use that knowledge to kill innocent babies. Why is it so hard to imagine that such a ghoul would have a hard time risking a woman's life? Someone who kills babies certainly has no moral reservations about killing women. They're only restrained because of the law--they don't want to go to jail.
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