National OB/GYN organization releases blatantly pro-abortion committee opinion

LIVE ACTION NEWS ^ | December 26, 2014 | Lauren Enriquez

[Morgana]

Last month, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) released a Committee Opinion entitled “Increasing Access to Abortion.” In the opinion, ACOG unequivocally condemns pro-life legislation, contending that pro-life laws are bad for women (emphasis added):

Legislative restrictions fundamentally interfere with the patient-provider relationship and decrease access to abortion for all women… The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists calls for advocacy to oppose and overturn restrictions, improve access, and mainstream abortion as an integral component of women’s health care.

However, as an “integral component of women’s health care,” we have seen abortion do nothing to improve women’s health. As an elective procedure that is never medically necessary, it could be concluded that abortion’s only impact on women’s health from a medical perspective has been negative (botched abortion and maternal death). And, of course, one person involved in the abortion decision almost never makes it out alive: the child.

Overlooking these points, however, ACOG made a laundry list of recommendations to “ensure the availability of safe, legal, and accessible abortion services free from harmful legal or financial restrictions.” Among these recommendations is the elimination of the federal Hyde amendment, and ensuring public funding for abortion training that would require medical students to opt out (if they had an objection).

ACOG later directs its attack to crisis pregnancy centers, claiming these centers “present themselves as health clinics offering pregnancy options services, but operate to dissuade women from seeking abortion care.” Ironically, the laws ACOG seeks to mitigate (such as mandatory counseling prior to abortion) are those that do provide some level of informed consent to the mother. If showing women ultrasounds and apprising them of the risks associated with the abortion choice (which is what pregnancy centers do) “dissuades” women from abortion, those are facts speaking the truth for themselves. And women deserve to know the truth before an abortion.

In the opinion’s conclusion, ACOG notes the stigma experienced by abortionists “in the workplace, in their communities, and from colleagues” among reasons why restrictions to abortion are harmful to “women’s health.” Clearly, abortion restrictions “hurt” someone. But pregnant mothers are not the ones negatively impacted.

[Morgana]

ACOG

http://www.acog.org/Resources-And-Publications/Committee-Opinions/Committee-on-Health-Care-for-Underserved-Women/Increasing-Access-to-Abortion

Increasing Access to Abortion

[Ouchthatonehurt]

None of my children were delivered by an OBGYN who did abortions, I can’t even imagine it.

[MuttTheHoople]

Liberals love dead babies and dead cops.

[doc1019]

Now that is a statement worth quoting. Thanks.

[Morgana]

Seams like libs like all things dead.

[hinckley buzzard]

Historically ACOG has always been very pro-abortion. The reason is simple. They see their patient as the woman alone, and don't give much weight to the baby. A serious gap in their ethics but there it is.

[moovova]

There’s gold in them thar hills...

[__rvx86]

The cognitive dissonance is strong with this one....

[Slyfox]

It is a standard commie tactic to get a hold of organizations like this.

It makes the commies look they have us surrounded.

[informavoracious]

How could someone who guides mothers through pregnancy and delivers live babies see abortion as anything other than cold-blooded murder?

[Mrs. Don-o]

"The reason is simple. They see their patient as the woman alone, and don't give much weight to the baby. A serious gap in their ethics but there it is. "

Even that alone doesn't seem to account for it.

First, most OB/GYN's won't do abortions. There are fewer and few abortionists as time goes on, with just a handful of corrupted men doing 95% of the filthy deeds.

Second, abortion doe NOT have good health outcomes for women. It often results in scarring o damage to the woman's reproductive organs, increases the incidence of ectopic pregnancy and the risk of miscarriage or premature labor in subsequent pregnancies, psychological sequelae of depression and self-harming behavior are well known.

Even i abortion didn't kill the babies, I would be against abortion from a women's-health standpoint alone.

[Morgana]

“with just a handful of corrupted men doing 95% of the filthy deeds. “

Handful of corrupt men? This business is EOE! They have a handful of corrupt women as well! Some doing late term abortions.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Yeah, women too. That actually flashed through my mind when I wrote it. Hardened hearts, corrupted consciences, men & women alike. After all these years, it still strikes me as almost unbelievable.