Posted on 11/05/2013 1:50:16 PM PST by Morgana
“My rights have been taken away, and I want my constitutional rights restored.”
Marni Evans and her fiancé John Lockhart give a startling interview to Texas Tribune, which you can watch below, in which they assert that the enforcement of the Texas pro-life law which requires doctors to have hospital admitting privileges in order to perform an abortion a violation of their rights as citizens.
Marni explains in the video how they discovered they were pregnant and examined their position to have a baby: their income which wasn’t always steady, their ability to provide a loving home and committed family, their current lifestyle. They concluded this wasn’t a good time for them to have a baby and opted for an abortion at 6 weeks. The couple lives in Austin and made an appointment at Planned Parenthood, only to be sent home at the last minute when a 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court ruling blocking a provision of the new Texas abortion law while it awaits a hearing. The law requires abortionists to have admitting privileges in a hospital within 30 miles of the abortion clinic.
Marni says after the realization of this law’s implication on her choice to abort her baby, her first thought was she had to “get the hell out of Texas.” Indeed, she booked a flight to Seattle for her abortion, but later found out that another Austin clinic, Whole Woman’s Health, was still doing abortions. However, she expresses fear that she might be sent home from there because the backlog of abortions may be too high.
This report has many trouble spots. First, the line of reasoning that because they weren’t ready a baby shouldn’t be born is a difficult one. An intelligent and educated couple with a healthy baby would have people stumbling over themselves to line up for the adoption, but that word didn’t come out of their mouths; instead, the interview was laden with their own needs and their perceived violation of human rights—as if their baby had no rights because they chose for him or her not to. They determined that Marni’s health was not truly an issue to the state of Texas if they were forcing her to have a more invasive procedure later because the law wouldn’t let her now.
Except that’s not the truth.
Texas has not changed the ability for a woman to have an abortion at 6 weeks. What it did was require safety standards that clearly are available to physicians in Austin since the abortion clinic across town obviously is still able to provide them. That Planned Parenthood doesn’t seem to have Austin physicians on its staff that have obtained admitting privileges at one of the many hospitals in the greater Austin area is something that should cause all women seeking an abortion in that large city to pause, law or no law. It is very much in the interest of a woman’s health to ensure she have a hospital that can treat her is a storefront clinic procedure results in a complication that can’t be treated there.
Procedures of all sorts, even when done correctly and perfectly in the medical sense, can have serious complications simply because we’re dealing with the human body. What should be more horrifying to all women is the idea that they could be injured or die from complication because they can’t get to a hospital quickly enough.
While Marni and John echo the voices of Planned Parenthood and despair the system stealing their rights, something Planned Parenthood has appealed to the Supreme Court, it’s easy in the pro-abortion outcry to forget that the systems in place have been followed. An appeals court is there to re-hear cases and has the authority to do what it did. The Los Angeles Times notes:
“The three-judge panel of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals found Texas Atty. Gen. Greg Abbott and other state officials offered ample evidence that the admitting privileges requirement protected women’s health.”
But Planned parenthood president Cecile Richards says:
“This restriction clearly violates Texas women’s constitutional rights by drastically reducing access to safe and legal abortion statewide,” she said in a statement. “We will take every step we can to protect the health of Texas women in the wake of this ruling.”
The problem with this logic is that it insists Texas has changed access to abortion when the fact is that abortionists have not obtained medical access to hospitals. Physicians are responsible for obtaining admitting privileges when it is in the scope of their jobs. That’s not uncommon in various aspects of medicine. Abortion has been widely unregulated and that is part of the reason people like Kermit Gosnells were able to commit such heinous crimes.
Since Whole Woman’s Health seems to be providing abortions in Austin, where Marni is located, it’s entirely inaccurate to say Marni’s rights to an abortion have been violated because she got sent home from an appointment. People get sent home from appointments all the time for a variety of reasons. These laws have not restricted a person like Marni, 6 weeks pregnant when she sought her abortion, from obtaining one. Not one of her rights has been violated, and maybe this law will save her life. No one can predict what may happen in a surgical procedure.
Marni clearly had the means to fly to Seattle to obtain an abortion there, and there was no indication of why she didn’t try to go to a state closer, but that’s what the report indicates she had tried to do before finding out she could get one in town. However, not only is abortion not stopped in Texas, but Whole Woman’s Health is even working on “helping” the women without the ability to pay for an abortion. Called the Stigma Relief Fund, the abortion provider is raising money to help women travel to get abortions, it’s a sort of all-expense paid life taking trek. The ruling has caused even RH Reality Check to jump on the bandwagon:
“Two Whole Woman’s Health clinics will be closed by the 5th Circuit ruling and their patients need your help.
“The disastrous 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling this week has the immediate impact of shuttering Whole Woman’s Health clinics in Fort Worth and McAllen. It remains our goal and focus to make sure these women are seen and given the care they deserve, therefore we’re working to find transportation and accommodations for these women so that no matter what their obstacle, we can help them overcome it.
“Your donation to the Whole Woman’s Health Stigma Relief Fund today will help cover the cost of transportation, hotel stays, medical expenses, day care – many of the costs that will increase with the added mileage and travel this law has forced upon the women of Texas.”
It’s certainly within people’s rights to raise money to give to another for whatever purpose they choose, but the issue with all of this rhetoric is the hysteria that prevails. With phrases such as “violating my constitutional rights” and “shuttering” abortion clinics, one might believe that Big Brother had honed in on us all by regulating the medical industry with safety standards, which has always been subject to regulation. A better use for a “stigma relief fund” might be to fund pregnancy care and adoptions so women could make a choice that fits their lifestyle while not taking a life.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT76hBEYdRg&feature=player_embedded
Someone should do a parody of this issue but really be discussing stringent rules for safety and cleanliness of a dental clinic.....to see if baby murderers would support clean, licensed dentists.
Winner!!
My first thought too....pure pro murder propaganda.
Sick!
Too bad Mrs. Evans and Mrs. Lockhart didn’t feel the same way twenty years earlier.
It just kills me that people can find abortion in there, but can’t understand what “shall not be infringed” means!
If they leave the baby alone, i.e.they don't have it torn limb from limb out of the mother- in 7 1/2 months or so, they will have a baby, with his or her own unique set of finger prints and DNA. But if they "choose" to have their baby killed, they will have had their baby killed. Call it what it really is.
Some can make the argument that a woman has the "right" to kill her baby- fine. But she needs to be fully aware (and the father too) that that's what she's doing.
She needs to see the ultrasound, and be told plainly that she is choosing to have her baby killed. No more trying to cover up what abortion really is.
If she still wants to do it, (and only because the baby killers will never let abortion be illegal.), after she has been fully informed, and counseled that at least with adoption she would be giving the baby a chance to live his/her own life, if after this, she still insists on ending her baby's life- then so be it.
It's on her, and may God have mercy on her soul. (But, this is only for the first trimester. No late term abortion because that is inflicting pain and torture on a human being, it's infanticide. Period. )
The above is the only acceptable compromise that can be made with these self-absorbed people IMHO. At least some attempt needs to be made to try to wake them up to the truth of what they want to do to their babies, as well as themselves.
I'm pro life, but it nothing else is possible, I want these women to know exactly what it abortion means. No "blob of tissue" excuses. No more lies about what it really is.
What ever happened to the democrat position that abortion should be "safe, and rare?"
She should tell her boyfriend to punch her in the stomach like the good old days!
From the article which is now pulled from the Houston Comical.
“”I was devastated,” said Evans, now seven weeks pregnant. She said she and her fiance cannot afford their own health insurance, much less care for a child. “This was my decision to make, but I am still pregnant today because that decision was taken away from me.”
Now, she said, she will use frequent flier miles she had saved for her honeymoon to travel to Seattle this week to have the procedure, rather than try to start over with a new ultrasound and attempt to get another Texas clinic.”
Two observations: First, you need to take about ten flights to free one (where did the travel budget come from?) , and secondly, she could probably have the Baby, sell it on Craigslist and score enough money for 20 trips to Seattle.
Marni is one sick puppy and John Lockhart is detestable.
Gee that's pretty fast, so assuming she has regular periods, that's about 2 weeks after a missed one.
And, dammit, I NEED an abortion NOW! NOW! NOW!
The bull$hit is strong with this story.
And yeah, like there are absolutely NO other abortuaries that meet basic medical standards except for 1500 miles away, in Seattle?
Liberal voters are stupid, but this takes a special kind of stupid to fall for an obviously implausible scenario.
Of course if she dies in the abattoir, watch her baby-daddy sue because the “doc” didn’t have admitting privileges.
Don’t ask me, ask the Supremes, they found, I didn’t
But, under our system of government, with three branches, if the Supreme Court says it is in the Constitution, it is there somewhere.
Like it finally took a Civil War and a Constitutional amendment to end slavery, it will most likely take a Constitutional amendment to end abortions once and for all.
Yeah, the libs always whine they want abortion to be “safe, legal, and rare”, but when you pass a law to make it safer, they show their true colors.
..help cover the cost of transportation,hotel stays,medical expenses &
..day care (for that one that got away)
How very civil of them
I’m pro-choice, just like they are.
The difference is our interpretation on timing. I believe the choice is made before the man gets the woman pregnant. They believe the choice only happens after.
Choose to partake in risky behavior, choose to deal with the consequences. What these people really want is freedom from consequences after the choice has been made.
Exactly
Women have the right to choose to not get pregnant. once she is pregnant, the chid has the right to be born. It's really that simple.
An analogy, is that I have the right to travel as I see fit. If however, I am subpoenaed for a court case I'm now required to momentarily suspend my right to free travel in order to appear in court, after which I'm free to travel again.
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