Posted on 07/18/2010 7:51:21 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
Most hospitals and doctor’s offices do dozens or at the most hundreds of abortions a year. High-volume clinics do thousands....Given the importance of the clinics, many abortion-rights physicians would like to pull them into the medical-school orbit. At the moment, universities tend to keep clinics at arm’s length. If they send residents for training, it’s sometimes for an off-site rotation that the medical-school faculty does not supervise. But the relationship can be closer.
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In retrospect, this is not surprising.
So much for the concept of choice.
I hope Stupak and the rest of the ‘pro-life Dems’ are choking on their breakfasts. Stupak said ‘I trust Obama’. Too stupid to be a Congressman.
Yeah, I’m SURE this latest push has NOTHING to do with the idea that the government’s going to start their whole death panel plan with potentially unhealthy “fetuses.” Nothing at all.
This smells so foul that I want to throw up.
Our money is going to pay for abortions, sex-”change” operations, Aids research, and euthanasia for the elderly.
Kill all the inconvenient people of whatever age.
Has any member of the MSM asked Bart Stupak how he feels about being sold out and lied to? (As though he didn’t know it would happen all along.)
Thanks Behind Liberal Lines.
This is exactly what they did up here to force people to pay for publicly funded abortion.
No it is not surprising at all. But again, I must ask, Just WHO are the baby killers??? Our military? Or the demonrats?
They’re untroubled by their violations of the Constitution.
The doctor has a choice. He can choose the method of killing he wants to use.
From the article “But first Ray sat down to talk with Ann, the nurse who’d worked for more than 25 years in the practice. Now in her early 60s, Ann (her middle name) is a Catholic grandmother who celebrates Mass every Sunday. She was adamantly opposed to abortion. She was also a fixture in the office; she knew all the patients. “Here I am, a young doctor, taking over an old practice with a lot of women patients who have kids my age,” said Ray, who has children of his own. “I needed someone to back me up when I got here. She did that for me. I didn’t want to let her go.”
And so Ray and Ann worked out a compromise: He would handle the abortion patients entirely on his own. When a woman calls to ask for a termination, Ann and the office manager take down the patient’s name and number and then have nothing more to do with the case. Ray does the scheduling, counseling and billing along with the care. He and Ann agreed that when he did medical abortions, he would give the patients the pills in the office, because the women actually ended their pregnancies at home. “We have a mutual understanding: no surgical abortions here, and we treat medical abortion as a gray area,” Ray says.
When I talked to Ann — Ray offered her his office chair while he saw a patient — she said that when Ray took over the practice, she and the office manager, another woman in her 60s, weren’t sure if they would stay. “We didn’t want a young doctor with attitude,” Ann said. “We’re too old for that. But we gave him a chance. And he has exceeded our expectations wildly. I thank God every day, because he’s so good with the patients. I’m just blessed. Other than the little termination thing — ” she made a small box with her fingers and then moved her hands to her left, as if to set the box aside.
Ann reassures herself that Ray is never casual about abortion. “He makes the women think about it longer, to make sure they know this is something you have to live with forever.” She also told me something Ray hadn’t mentioned. “If a patient calls and she’s not sure, I ask, ‘Have you looked into other things?’ I say, ‘Come in and let’s talk.’ I tell her that if adoption might be a difficult situation, there is other help out there. I may refer her to a crisis pregnancy center” — an anti-abortion organization that counsels pregnant women to keep their babies. In 2006, Congressional investigators found that most federally financed crisis pregnancy centers they contacted gave out wrong information like tying abortion to breast cancer or infertility or mental illness. Yet as part of the compromise between doctor and nurse, that is where Ann says she refers some women who call Ray’s office.”
I am going to guess this woman is in the Catholic Diocese of Rochester which I believe is one of the notorious for the shenigans and heterdox behaviors of its Bishop. But it is beyond disgusting to me that she is painted as a faithful Catholic. When will people realize that parking one’s butt in a pew every Sunday is not what makes a person Catholic. Unless the time I spend in the carport makes me a car?
And make no mistake the goal of the death merchants is to force OB’s to perform abortions.
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