If there was any doubt about
California’s status as the nation’s standard-bearer for abortion, a letter sent
September 5 by the state’s Board of Registered Nursing (BRN) should clear that
up. Acting at the behest of abortion
activists in the state legislature and online media, BRN reversed its decision
from just a month prior, sending Heartbeat International (HBI) a letter to
demand that the pro-life pregnancy help network “cease and desist” offering
nurses continuing education units (CEUs) for Abortion Pill Reversal classes.
Nationally, over 350-physicians have
joined the Abortion Pill Reversal network; while some 300-mothers have
successfully rescued their children from abortion through this medical
intervention which introduces an emergency and ongoing progesterone treatment
to counteract the first of two pills in the chemical abortion (RU-486) process.
The BRN’s sudden reversal seems a
direct effort to deny a woman access to her own choice during an unexpected
pregnancy, said HBI President Jor-El Godsey.
“This is a naked political assault on a procedure that is the very
essence of choice,” Godsey said. “To oppose
Abortion Pill Reversal is not only to deny the science and reality that there
are children living today because of it, but it’s to materially keep a woman from
even so much as knowing she has the option to potentially stop a chemical
abortion once it has begun. This is the
abortion lobby taking choices away from women.”
The letter, postmarked September 5 and
received September 11, gives HBI 5-days from receipt of the letter to remove
CEU credit from its online courses … offered online through the Heartbeat
Academy. It also marks a 180-degree shift
from a letter the same BRN sent HBI and sister pro-life network, National
Institute of Family and Life Advocates (NIFLA), approving both organizations’ status
as a continuing education providers.
The original letter, sent July 28,
2017, followed a 17-month period where the BRN reviewed hundreds of pages of
submitted documentation starting in February 2016. No subsequent paperwork or filing of any kind
was requested prior to or cited in the most recent letter.
The BRN had originally questioned HBI’s
inclusion of Abortion Pill Reversal courses during the audit process, but then
agreed to reinstate the courses after HBI responded with a multi-point
statement demonstrating the courses’ relevance to nursing practices.
While HBI is complying with the letter’s
demand to remove CEU credit from its online Abortion Pill Reversal courses, the
courses will still be activated while the organization appeals the BRN’s latest
decree. “How the Board of Nursing can
play politics with the lives of women and children is beyond me,” Godsey said. “If there were any hint of noncompliance on
our part, it’s clear a 17-month audit would have uncovered it. What could possibly have changed in one month’s
time? Meanwhile, nurses across California
and the nation could be presented with patients who want to reverse their
abortion decision before it is too late, and this new mandate prevents nurses
from being prepared to serve their own patients.”
Meanwhile, radically pro-abortion
media source Rewire.com reported
September 8 — 3-days before HBI received the letter — that the letter had been
sent. The site had originally influenced
San Francisco Bay Area Democrat State Senator Jerry Hill to call for the audit
of HBI and others in early 2016. After
pushing the BRN to audit HBI — a nonprofit that serves 2,200 affiliates worldwide
and operates a 24-7 pregnancy helpline, Option Line — Hill then proposed
legislation that was eventually adopted by the state and signed into law in
2016 by Democrat Governor Jerry Brown that beefed up the requirements for
nursing CEU providers. That law, however
— which mandated that courses rely only on “generally accepted scientific
principles” — was insufficient to wield against the Abortion Pill Reversal
courses. Instead, the BRN cited
California Code of Regulations (CCR) Section 1456 in its demand letter to HBI.
Curiously, the section cited by the BRN
pertains only to the need for courses to be “relevant to the practice of
nursing,” differentiating between courses that deal with patient care (direct
and indirect) and those which, “deal with self-improvement, changes in attitude,
financial gain, and those courses designed for lay people … ” Fitting that definition, HBI only offers CEU
credit to nurses for Abortion Pill Reversal courses it offers online and at its
annual conference.
HBI has been a California approved CEU
provider since 2012, opting to go through California because the state’s CEUs
are generally accepted throughout the U.S. Since 2015, HBI has issued nursing CEUs to well
over 400 nurses.
The BRN’s flip-flop fits into a larger
pattern of the State of California’s targeting of political opponents who pose
an alternative to abortion or otherwise threaten the abortion industry’s
marketplace stranglehold.
In addition to pursuing charges
against David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt in response to their 3-year
undercover work of exposing Planned Parenthood and others’ complicity in the
trafficking of body parts harvested from aborted babies, the State of
California also launched an assault on community funded pro-life pregnancy
centers and medical clinics with a 2015 law that could be challenged at the
U.S. Supreme Court in the near future.
Earlier this month, a federal judge
dismissed a lawsuit filed by several California churches that are challenging the
state’s Department of Managed Health Care requirement that all insurance
companies cover the cost of their employees’ abortions.
“At this point, it’s hard to say we’re
surprised by any effort to prop up the failing abortion industry,” Godsey said.
“But this is a direct effort to steal a mother’s
choice right out from under her. Women
and men become nurses to help and serve others, but politically driven moves
like this keep them from accomplishing their compassionate, God-given mission.”
Rev.
Dr. Kenneth L. Beale, Jr.
Chaplain
(Colonel-Ret), U.S. Army
Pastor,
Ft. Snelling Memorial Chapel
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