Abortion Promotion Act of 2015.

[Pine Mt Beagles]

Senate Republicans promoting abortion?
August 1, 2015

Senate Republicans, teeming with righteous indignation, last week introduced S. 1881, “a bill to prohibit federal funding of Planned Parenthood of America.”

Here’s a better name for it: the Abortion Promotion Act of 2015.

No doubt the authors of the legislation think that anything that hurts Planned Parenthood, the leading provider of abortions, would further the anti-abortion cause. But their proposal – defunding all Planned Parenthood operations in retribution for secret videos showing the group’s officials discussing the sale of fetal organs – would do far greater harm to fetuses than anything discussed in the videos.

There already is a ban on federal funding of abortion, with rare exceptions, at Planned Parenthood or anywhere else. The federal funds Senate Republicans propose taking away from Planned Parenthood are used largely to provide women with birth control. And because there simply isn’t a network of health care providers capable of taking over this job if Planned Parenthood were denied funding, this would mean hundreds of thousands of women, if not millions, would over time lose access to birth control.

Take away women’s contraceptives, and a greater number of unintended pregnancies – and abortions – would inevitably result.

Consider: Of the 4.6 million people who receive care annually under Title X, the federal family-planning grant program, about 1.5 million of them go to Planned Parenthood – and two-thirds of women leave with some form of contraception. Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, and other authors of the Senate legislation claim that other providers in the family-planning network will pick up the slack. But Clare Coleman, president of the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association, says that’s nonsense.

“It shows an astonishing lack of understanding about how these networks are put together,” said Coleman, whose membership includes not just Planned Parenthood but hospitals, state governments, local health departments and others – most of which don’t provide abortions. “This is not a network that’s ready to roll,” she said. Even with Planned Parenthood still in the equation, “they are worried about their capacity to do what they’re doing.”

Coleman’s forecast if the Senate bill were to become law: “We would see rates for unintended pregnancies and the need for abortions to rise. There are very real implications to the public health.”

Planned Parenthood has itself to blame for the current crisis: Even if fetal organ sales are legal and rare, and even if the videos were highly edited by ideological foes trying to entrap Planned Parenthood by using phony identities, officials at the organization should have known they were a fat target for such things. There’s no excuse for callous talk about how the group is “very good” at performing abortions so that fetal hearts, lungs and livers can be kept intact and sold.

But I wrote in June about the paradox of anti-abortion organizations’ antipathy toward expanding the availability of long-acting birth control – a policy that would do more than anything else (including severe abortion restrictions) to reduce abortions. The same perverse logic is in play here.

The Ernst legislation says “all funds no longer available to Planned Parenthood will continue to be made available to other eligible entities.” But because Title X money is given as grants, this would be impossible to transfer to other providers in the short term, even if they were able to take on the load.

And congressional Republicans’ assurances are suspect, Coleman notes, because they’ve already cut Title X funds by 13 percent, or $41 million, since 2010 – resulting in a loss of 667,000 family-planning patients annually. House Republicans this spring proposed eliminating funding entirely for the Nixon-era Title X program.

If Republicans are genuinely outraged about the Planned Parenthood videos, perhaps they should revisit the federal law that makes legal such harvesting of fetal tissue for research. Those standards were enacted in 1993, with the support of, among others,----- Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.,--- now the Senate majority leader and a co-sponsor of Ernst’s bill.

If Senate Republicans want to end the use of fetal tissue in scientific research, they ought to say so – and endure an outcry from the medical community – rather than seeking to cut off women’s access to birth control.

[bluemouse]

There you go folks a babbling clown that promotes killing babies and birth control at others expense. Never once has this clown mentioned morals or responsibilty. Whats wrong clown you afraid people doing the right thing might dig into your entitlements.

[bluemouse]

logo is pictured outside a clinic. (Reuters)
I don’t understand the silence among the members of the medical community, especially from my fellow OB-GYNs, as more devastating videos have come forward showing the alleged unethical acts that some Planned Parenthood employees are committing.

The latest video, which is the seventh in a series of increasingly incriminating string of accounts, alleges that a licensed phlebotomist, who took the role of a procurement technician at the biotech startup and fetal tissue company StemExpress in 2012, tried to harvest the brain from a late-term, unborn male baby whose heart was still beating after an abortion. According to some reports, StemExpress had partnered with Planned Parenthood, buying body parts from aborted fetuses and selling them to research universities and the like, prior to ending its relationship with the organization last week.

Now, some of the issues with Planned Parenthood’s alleged practices are limited to speculation, as its processes still go largely unchecked by the federal government, which funded nearly $530 million of the organization’s total $1.5 billion in revenue in 2013-2014, according to Planned Parenthood’s most recent report.

But based on videos that have been released thus far, if the claims are true, it’s clear that the methods performed by some of these doctors are harming mothers.

Not only are the descriptions of how fetuses are being dissected and how body parts are then procured as line items, as some have stated, enough to rattle anyone— parent or not— but now, we’re learning that in many cases, the procedure is altered to maximize the chance of extracting intact body parts.

As a high-risk obstetrician, I have seen thousands of women who in previous pregnancies have undergone abortions and now may suffer secondary side effects from that initial procedure, which in turn has placed their current pregnancy at risk.

When doctors perform abortions, the procedure should be done with minimal consequences to the patient. When you try to alter the mechanics— as some Planned Parenthood employees allegedly are doing— you’re not fulfilling the standard of care that is necessary for the procedure to go uneventfully, that is, keep the patient herself out of harm’s way.

The videos suggest that doctors are extensively dilating the cervix in an effort to extract the fetus intact. The problem with this approach is it could endanger the anatomy of the cervix moving forward— in particular, these women might be at risk for developing an incompetent cervix, which would yield complications of prematurity in the future.

We’ve also now learned that it’s possible some Planned Parenthood doctors are altering the position of the fetus in an effort, again, to extract intact body parts. In those scenarios, the operator runs the risk of perforating the uterus or creating excessive bleeding, leaving the patient increasingly vulnerable to infection. This again puts the women in danger of necessitating a caesarian section in the future because you already have a compromised uterus or have created excessive scar tissue in the inner lining of the uterus— thus putting the patient at risk for abnormal placental presentations.

So you see, for the sake of American mothers’ wellbeing now and for those who may want to conceive in the future, the medical community cannot be silent any longer. Not only have we not received a public statement from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), but the group—which represents about 90 percent of all board-certified obstetricians and gynecologists in the United States—also did not agree to offer FoxNews.com a personal statement on Planned Parent’s alleged practices when we emailed them requesting one.

It’s time for us to speak out and demand some answers, and it’s time for time for regulators to step in and stop these unethical alterations by Planned Parenthood— because they’re putting women in danger. I say this from an observational point of view based on the descriptive, alleged statements that have been recorded and now presented to all of us.

Another thing that I’m very concerned about that has been at the forefront of many of our minds is whether the patients involved knew what was going on. Doctors are obligated to protect their patients’ rights, and we do so by informing them of what’s going on throughout their care.

Congress must cut federal funding for Planned Parenthood— at the very least, for those abortion services that the organization is performing. Regardless of whether you are pro-life or pro-choice, it is clear that, if these statements turn out to be true, some of the doctors in this organization might not be doing the right thing by their patients.

[littlewoody]

There you go folks a babbling clown that promotes killing babies and birth control at others expense. Never once has this clown mentioned morals or responsibilty. Whats wrong clown you afraid people doing the right thing might dig into your entitlements.

Pm said he's a Christian . Pm u think Jesus would be for killing babies and selling body parts ?

[Pine Mt Beagles]

You Cannot talk About MORALS TO REPUBLICANS,,

Blurat
You are the Baby KILLER,,you are Republican and Force Abortion on Poor People,,I know you don't think about it ,But when you vote Republican,you are forcing Abortion.

I think Jesus,,has been Left out of this Country so Long,,By,,Both Political Parties ,More Especially Republicans,,who are made up ,Mostly of Hate Groups,,

That,,

I would not expect Jesus,,to get involved,,

And You are the Republican ,Promoting Abortion,,I am for Civil Rights,

You saying I am a For Abortion ,Would Be Like Me saying You Are for Murder,,Because you Support a Gun Owner rights,as I do.
Because I ,believe in ,Civil Rights, The Constitution ,And One Nation Under God With !,,,LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR,,,,,ALL ,,,Does not Mean I ,am For Abortion,I Don't have A,Right,Under Gods Law or Mans Law to tell you ,What to do with your life,,God said Pray for your Leaders,,

[bluemouse]

pinemooch stop abusing your goverment dope, the more you post clown the worst it gets for you. Everyone here knows you are a lying POS like your hero the babbling idiot.

[Pine Mt Beagles]

Re: Abortion Promotion Act of 2015.
by bluemouse » Thu Aug 20, 2015 8:23 am

pinemooch stop abusing your goverment dope, the more you post clown the worst it gets for you. Everyone here knows you are a lying POS like your hero the babbling idiot.

Bluerat

First off I don't do Dope that is you Republican , Thugs who do that.

As for you guy's calling me A Clown,,,just think what that makes you look like,,,I HAVE KICKED YOUR BUTT,,,IN EVERY,,EVERY,DEBATE YOU HAVE TRIED ,,SO PITYFULLY TO HAVE,,JUST LIKE THE OTHERS,,,,YOU KNOW WHY ,,,BECAUSE,,THE TRUTH CANNOT BE BEATEN,,BY ,,YOUR,,LIES,,

AND REPUBLICANS CAN NOT TELL THE TRUTH,,,,

ROMNEY 'S,,ENTIRE CAMPSIGN,,WAS LIE,,

SO GO MUG OLD PEOPLE ,,WITH YOUR CRAP .

[Rabbithoundjb]

PMB your full of $hit, you can't even recognize when you've been completely beaten, proven wrong and so on. If you had any credibility your leftist friends would be on here fighting with you, supporting you but truth is they left a long time ago because unlike you they recognize defeat. They recognize incompetence, they recognize the lies this administration has attempted to pass off as fact. Some are most likely embarrassed that they where sooooo easily fooled by Obama and his band of morons and liars. You are the poster boy for the old saying you just fix stupid.

[bluemouse]

Calling you a clown is being nice idiot!