Posted on 07/21/2008 6:29:46 PM PDT by rhema
Sioux Falls, SD -- Monday was the first day that Planned Parenthood, which operates the only abortion business in South Dakota, had to comply with a new state law telling women the truth about abortion. Rather than tell women abortion kills children and has numerous risks, Planned Parenthood closed its doors.
The state law, which the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld last week, required abortion practitioners to inform every woman that she is terminating the life of a human being.
It requires giving her information about the mental health complications such as a high risk of depression and suicide and physical problems like hemorrhage infection, premature births of subsequent pregnancies, and infertility.
The woman considering the abortion receives a chance to sign in writing that she received the information and abortion practitioners who don't comply face losing their medical license, two years in prison and a possible medical malpractice lawsuit.
Whether the closing is temporary or permanent remains to be seen.
Dr. Allen Unruh, a leading pro-life advocate who works with Alpha Pregnancy Center, told LifeNews.com that Monday was a historic day.
"Time will tell if Planned Parenthood plans to re-open it’s doors, but as for now, the regular abortions were canceled today as the abortionist refused to show up," he explained.
"We will see if any other abortionists plan to take the risks involved with full disclosure of what they do to women and their unborn children," he added.
South Dakota Attorney General Larry Long said last week the law would go into effect on Saturday following a decision earlier this month by a federal appeals court saying it's constitutional.
The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the statute and, then, on Thursday, Planned Parenthood’s application to enjoin the statute following the appeals court decision failed.
The measure specifically tells them to tell women "the abortion will terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique, living human being," defined as a human being. It also requires that the abortion practitioner give women the contact information of a local pregnancy center, as well other information about her health risks and pregnancy support available.
The federal appeals court cited the portion of the Supreme Court's recent Gonzales v. Carhart decision on partial-birth abortion referring to the post-abortion problems women experience.
The court indicated "some women come to regret their choice to abort the infant life they once created and sustained. Severe depression and loss of esteem can follow.”
Thanks for the PING and the update!
Never mind -- don't bother -- from your silence, it looks pretty obvious where you stand on that subject.
You need something for that hard-on, buster.
And you need to keep your dirty mouth dry. Go ahead and kiss the butts of murdering baby killers, I don't care. And I also don't give a rats posterior if you are ashamed to admit it when asked. But don't get huffy with me -- or you are trying to start a fight with me?
You're the one who began the pugnacity--review the posts.
I don't know what got you so angry in the first place--but just go home, take your medicine and find someone else to harass.
Quote where I started a damned thing -- or jujst admit that you are a liar. I don't know what got you so angry in the first place ....
I get a bit displeased when arrogant twits call me 'buster.' ... but just go home, take your medicine .... You're the one who began the pugnacity--review the posts. I don't know what got you so angry in the first place--but just go home, take your medicine and find someone else to harass. ... and find someone else to harass.
Why don't you just drop it, shoot up, and go back to you abortionist defending? You are boring me -- and everyone else with your high and mighty snobbery.
The above quotes are typical of your replies to me since the beginning of this post. You began with hostility, it continues and I have asked to find someone else to harass.
Now, please, go away.
Oh, no, sonny boy -- not as long as you keep lying about who started this dust-up -- with this kind of lying: The above quotes are typical of your replies to me since the beginning of this post. You began with hostility ....
That is a baldfaced lie. Here is my first post to you:
YOU: "While LifeNews.com puts out topics dear to the heart of every pro-lifer, they cheat via hyperbole and even falsehood. No where in this article is Planned Parenthood’s reason for closing. It is insinuated that it is due to the new law. It would have been easy just to ask Planned Parenthood-—but, no."
ME: And, as a physician it doesn't strike you as strange that the murderers closed their doors on the very day the law requires them to tell women the truth, the whole, truth and nothing but the truth about killing their children and the possible aftermath??? Or are you objecting only to the fact that a rather obvious conclusion was drawn by a pro-life organization? Contrary to your stand on the matter, I think I will stick with the pro-life folks, and condemn the murderers.
Then you came on with this much less than informative attempt at a put-down: “You have incorrectly assessed my stand on this matter.”
To which I replied: And you have replied, to the only part of my post that wasn't a direct question, but my opinion; which is based on your attacking the pro-life organization, and defending the murderers. Based purely on your post, what other conclusion could I have drawn???
And, you still haven't answered my questions, which of course is your right. But, it is also my right to ask you 'why?'
There is the beginning . Point out the hostility.
You then posted #number 36; completely avoiding my questions -- which I answered with: “And still not a word, one way or the other, about the murdering abortionists. Where does that leave your credibility. Never mind -- don't bother -- from your silence, it looks pretty obvious where you stand on that subject.
Show me anything hostile about any of that on my part. Which you followed up with : You need something for that hard-on, buster.
Which sounded rather hostile on your part – And THAT is where the hostility started – with you smartass tripe, which I answered in kind as it deserved.
Additional lowlife, childish crap from you: I don't know what got you so angry in the first place--but just go home, take your medicine and find someone else to harass.
Which I also answered in kind as it deserved. If you are indeed a physician, as you claim in youyr profile, it is rather obvious that you are educated far beyond your intelligence. You have yet to figure out that when you are being shown up in an discussion, projecting you hostilities on your opponent is not the way to go. It only makes a bloody fool of you. Now why don’t you just drop the whole thing, as I suggested, and go find someone else to annoy.
That all sounds real good, and I agree with it — until some overbearing idiot gets entirely off toptc and starts talking down to me and lying to and about me. Then all bets are off.
If that is a put-down to you, you need help.
Seems this thread has gotten off the main course of what it was posted for, and has become a personal battlefield.
You have incorrectly assessed my stand on this matter.
Why don’t you just give it up. You bore me.
I’d think a big boy like you would know how to be self-entertaining. Time to go back to your turret.
Your reply was: "Oh, no, sonny boy."
Now you're asking me to leave you alone.
Having trouble thinking clearly?
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