Did you hear about it: Last week Planned
Parenthood took a big hit after the District Court for Polk County, IA upheld a
ban on “webcam” abortions. Judge Jeffrey
Farrell’s ruling concluded that abortions – if done at all – really should be
done after a complete medical exam. Better
yet, Judge Ferrell ruled that the medical exam should actually be done by a
physician – in person – and not via video feed. Imagine that!
Background: In an effort to increase
profit margins, Planned Parenthood’s management decided that their rural
clinics could save money if they did abortions without having a physician
present. To get around that ‘minor’
hurdle they shortcut the system and bypassed the requisite exam, altogether. Then they hired abortion doctors in
neighboring cities to ‘consult’ with patients via webcam. But the Iowa Board of Medicine didn’t take
too kindly to killing babies without a face-to-face consult with a physician. So in August 2013, the Board ruled 8-2 that a
physician had to be present when abortion drugs are administered. As one would expect of this tax-funded
baby-killing business, Planned Parenthood challenged the Medical Board’s ruling
because apparently it just cost too much to hire physicians to travel an hour
out to the rural clinics to take a life.
Before the Board’s ban, when a woman
presented herself to an abortion clinic, she was given forms to fill out and
queried about her pregnancy. Assuming the
information the mother provided fit the gestational age requirement (and we all
know how honest/accurate a teenage girl, a boyfriend or parent can be when
desperate to ‘get rid of it’), she was taken into an examination room where she
was connected to an abortion doctor via webcam. The physician supposedly ‘consulted’ with her
and then made the decision to dispense the abortion inducing drugs. The so-called ‘doctor’ then pushed a button
at his end and a little drawer containing two pills opened at the mother’s end.
The mother took one pill at the clinic
and then went home. A few days later she
took the second pill, and the baby died and was expelled.
The problem: With abortifacient
drugs there is a total lack of concern, care and/or supervision on the part of
abortion providers.
Planned Parenthood’s main argument
is that forcing women to travel 60-100 miles to reach a ‘big-city’ clinic with
a real doctor, constitutes cruelty and undue hardship. They feel that if a mother reaches the
decision to have an elective abortion, she should be able to get it
immediately, wherever she lives.
Listen: Elective abortions never
constitute an emergency situation (unless it’s botched) in which case she needs
to be as close to a major medical center as she can get. Otherwise, if a mother is forced to actually
plan ahead and drive an hour or two to a medical facility to kill her baby, so
be it. That’s an inconvenient sacrifice
she will just have to live with.
Considering that you can’t even get
antibiotics for a simple ear infection without first having an exam, it’s
difficult to imagine a physician risking a woman’s life in order to expedite
killing an innocent human being via webcam.
Fact: Abortion doctors and Planned
Parenthood aren’t in the business of offering care and compassion – they’re in
it for the money.
Rev.
Dr. Kenneth L. Beale, Jr.
Chaplain
(Colonel-Ret), U.S. Army
Pastor, Ft. Snelling Memorial Chapel
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