Planned Parenthood Offers Walk-in Abortions in Iowa With Webcam Doctor

Iowa Right to Life News ^ | September 10, 2008 | Iowa Right to Life

[MockTurtle]

Planned Parenthood of Greater Iowa is now offering no appointment, walk-in abortions at its clinics without a physician on site. How will they do this? By offering dangerous RU 486 chemical abortions at all of their locations, with a Des Moines-based abortionist consulting by webcam.

More Profitable for Planned Parenthood, More Dangerous for Women

It gets worse. Planned Parenthood does not follow FDA Protocol for RU 486. Planned Parenthood gives women a cheaper combination of the pills in an RU 486 abortion, against the recommendations of the Food and Drug Administration, which makes these abortions more profitable for the abortion group and more dangerous for women.

Planned Parenthood gives women a single RU 486 pill, instead of three recommended by the FDA, then ups the dosage of the less expensive prostaglandin, Misoprostol, which expels the baby.

Planned Parenthood also cuts back the number of appointments the FDA recommends for an RU 486 abortion from three to two, which also increases Planned Parenthood's profits by reducing office and staffing expenses.

The FDA says that RU 486 abortions should not be performed on women more than 49 days into a woman's pregnancy. But Planned Parenthood offers RU 486 up to 63 days after the first day of a woman's last period. This way, Planned Parenthood can expand their profitable RU 486 abortions, at the expense of women's safety.

Women Facing Their Abortion Alone

RU 486 abortions are less messy for Planned Parenthood and more traumatizing for women, because the women are forced to deal with the blood and the dead baby at home – alone. RU 486 abortions take longer and are bloodier than a surgical abortion.

In 2007, a woman in Lincoln, NE almost bled to death after Dr. Meryl Severson, Medical Director for Planned Parenthood of Council Bluffs and Nebraska, performed an abortion on her. An attorney for Planned Parenthood blamed the victim, saying she "knew the risks." You can bet the Planned Parenthood attorneys will use the same defense in Iowa, when women start dying or suffering serious injury from RU 486 in Iowa.

For more info on the history of RU 486, women who have died after taking it and the RU 486 clinical trials in Iowa visit: http://irlc.org/get-the-facts/abortion/ru-486/

[MockTurtle]

I don't suppose an educated woman could request the three required pills?

How many educated women do you think go to Planned Parenthood?

I wonder if not following FDA protocol could open them up to legal liability. Anyone know? Is there a doctor in the Freep House?

[GWMcClintock]

That sends chills up my spine!!!! :(

[Zechariah_8_13]

I don’t suppose an educated woman could request the three required pills?

Educated women are not Planned Parenthood's target market. They overwhelmingly set up their killing shops in low income minority areas.

Margaret Sanger, the saint of the baby-killers, was a eugenicist who hated Blacks and supported their elimination.

[Paleo Conservative]

They ought to install a drive through window.

[cyphergirl]

"The FDA says that RU 486 abortions should not be performed on women more than 49 days into a woman's pregnancy. But Planned Parenthood offers RU 486 up to 63 days after the first day of a woman's last period. This way, Planned Parenthood can expand their profitable RU 486 abortions, at the expense of women's safety."

Ovulation @ Day 14 since last monthly period (LMP) + 49 days into pregnancy == 63 days after the start of the last monthly period. The numbers are different, but they both say the same thing. The FDA counts from conception, PP is counting from the LMP, which is the easier day to pinpoint. It's an age old problem (on what day did pregnancy occur since ovulation schedules are different among women?) that's been solved by counting the pregnancy as starting on the LMP instead of trying to figure out when it really started.

Note: I think PP and everything they stand for are reprehensible, but this one point is not the one to attack them on.

[HereInTheHeartland]

“I’m listening to WHO right now, Jan Mickelson just went off. He’s starting to sound more and more like Bill O’Reilly. A little too accomodating to the other side. Jan said that the outrage over the lipstick thing is “feigned” by the Republicans. Not this one, especially when it was used in conjunction with the smelly fish statement. Scripted, purposesful, and to some, outrageous...”

I heard that to. Mikkeleson is naive to think that. He doesn’t get it

[Tenniel2]

Spooky, but coincidental. When the experimental phase begins, INDs (Investigational New Drugs) are given a code name consisting of the abbreviation of the manufacturer's name and the sequential number of the R&D project.

The "RU" here stands for the name of the French drug and chemical manufacturer Roussel Uclaf, which started clinical trials of the synthetic steroid compound (mifepristone) in 1982 and was granted an MIA (Market Introduction Authorization) by the French government (which, not coincidentally at all, held an interest in the company) in 1988.

[RDasher]

Spooky, but coincidental.

Coincidental, maybe, or irony. The fact is it could have been named anything. But it wasn't. Of course maybe the French don't have marketing departments.

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

Mickelson knows his history but when it comes to helping out our side, he's of little help. He thinks he's too good to be a Republican. It's more fun to sit back and lump Republicans in with RATS and claim they're all equally bad.

Mickelson is good though compared to that idiot Deace in the afternoon. This guy hates everyone but himself. He encourages everyone to not vote for anyone except Huckabee. Honestly, that's the only politician I've ever heard of him liking. He's disgusting. He's so stupid he doesn't even know he's helping the enemy.

[redgolum]

Can’t make this one up.