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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Speaking as a practicing Christian, I want to say that I am ashamed of the levels these many faux Christians use to advance their anti-choice agenda.
The God I pray to has explicitly told me and all His followers that we are "not to bear false witness."
If someone calls himself a Christian, yet he's willing to resort to lies and slander to advance his goal, then it tells me that his faith is not a very strong one.
Speaking as a nurse who has worked in OB/GYN clinics these tactics and charges are not only false but indeed meaningless. The receptionists or people manning appointment lines in clinics generally are not trained medical personnel; they would indeed be overstepping their boundries by in any way advising a prospective patient, although it sounds as though a few have done just this. It is the express responsiblity of the medical personnel in any clinic to take any action on claims that would lead to legal action, just as it would be not the responsiblity of a receptionist to take down the names of partner(s) of someone coming in for an STD check, most states require that all partners of someone who is tested as positve for STD's be informed. Any receptionist should be informing patients that the age(s) of those involved should be discussed with the provider they are seeing, to tell them that we won't tell is false on the part of the receptionist. The most fault that I believe could be found with Planned Parenthood would be that they should retrain their receptionists, as to the anti-choice group they should be sued under any applicable law.
...is to stop Planned Parenthood from being able to provide health care to ANYONE. Their sole agenda is to see that any and all unplanned babies get born, no matter the consequences to those babies' parents. Remember: The most extreme Planned Parenthood foes truly believe that all hormonal birth control is a de facto abortifacient. And some of those folks believe that this country started to go downhill, morally, when it became legal to dispense condoms--to MARRIED PEOPLE(!). Yes, these folks want to send us all back to the Good Ol' Days of "Angela's Ashes," when Catholic parents couldn't (wouldn't?) plan their families, and children literally starved to death. But at least those kids got to be born (and baptized).
Planned Parenthood has every right to sue these folks. And that's exactly what those folks WANT to have happen, because it's their intention to subpoena every confidential medical record and all personnel records in Planned Parenthood's offices, in the name of "discovery." We can well-imagine what illegal use to which they'd put that information.
In California, we have a "safe haven" law that has the purpose of giving women who've given birth a safe way to "dump" their newborn babies at certain public facilities--an alternative that preserves their anonymity and has no legal consequences for them...or to whomever fathered their children. This law has saved hundreds of babies (and it COULD save hundreds more, if every girl or woman who wanted to hide the fact that she'd given birth would avail herself of this law). If these Planned Parenthood harassers were to be consistent in their POV, however, they'd surely be against the "safe haven" law, because it potentially allows adult men to father children by minors with impunity. I never saw those folks objecting to that law when it was being debated, and the reason is because they don't really care about minor girls--they only care that as many babies as possible get born. And when they've accomplished that goal, they'll set to work on ensuring that ever-more babies get conceived in the first place.
The issue of how to handle a pregnant, underage girl with an older boyfriend is not one to be taken lightly and used as a campaign tool or anti-choice issue. As an attorney for a large medical/educational institution, it is something I have wrestled with along with our physicians, nurses and social workers for years--not the good folks who answer our phones.
We don't provide pregancy terminations because we are funded by a state that does not permit that, but the moral and legal questions go so far beyond Life Dynamics' posturing as to make it clear that they and their ilk have no real concern for the minors involved in such relationships or the children of children that may result.
Once again, I am disgusted and disturbed at the belittling oversimplifying of very real human issues at the hands of these so-called "Right to Life" activists. Even now, they are attempting to insert themselves into Texas' end-of-life laws and substitute their judgment for that of qualified physicians.
It's our Right to have these folks stay out of our Lives.
Every time I perform an abortion I give a prayer of thanks to Salon and to Hillary Clitlicken.
Then I take the aborted baby home and make a nice soup.
Yum-O!
The letter from the "abortion doctor" speaks volumes about the caliber of person who supports anti-choice activism. These people will stop at nothing.
When 10 million women drop off 10 million newborns at their local firehouse to become wards of the state. See they can talk about sanctity of life but now we'd be talking about tax dollars. And that trumps everything on the Republican Godometer. Unless they plan on organized euthanasia on a wide scale. Tax dollars, state support. Very expensive. So maybe it's time to call their bluff. Let's see what they say when the US suddenly has 10 million less than white children to rear on the public dole.
You know, I live in Memphis, TN, and the Med (the local medical facility where they send people without insurance) sees dozens of 13 year olds giving birth every day. No one reports these girls and the fathers of their babies to the police. If Life Dynamics actually cares about statutory rape, maybe they should focus on these kids instead of worrying about abortion clinics.
Oh, that's right, they don't actually care about underage girls. They only care about stopping abortions.
Thanks to the many underaged girls giving birth in poverty, Memphis has the honor of being the city with the zip code with the highest infant mortality rate in the nation. Local paper did a series on the situation last year, and it was shocking to see the rows and rows of tiny pine boxes - the size of shoeboxes - dumped anonymously in the Potter's field out of town. These babies die mostly from being born prematurely due to lack of pre-natal care and the youth of the mothers. I'm betting Life Dynamics has the usual Republican range of political beliefs and opposes any sort of health care or spending to improve the lives of these girls and give their babies a chance at life. They would prefer the girls carry to term, no matter what happens next. To my way of thinking, that clearly demonstrates that their focus is the control of women's sexuality, not the saving of infant lives.
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