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With the judge’s ruling to block the new law taking Medicaid funds from Indiana’s Planned Parenthood, there has been some discussion about the impact the law was having on Indiana doctors.
As I wrote previously, this article by Heather Gillers caught my attention because it contains several statements that just don’t ring true to me.
After doing some searching of my own, though, it seems that it’s actually the Indiana University School of Medicine that is to blame for causing the confusion over the impact of this law.
This sentence by Gillers has caused me quite a bit of confusion:
Since the law took effect six weeks ago, The Star has learned, doctors at IU and Wishard hospitals stopped offering to terminate pregnancies for about 70 patients, including many with complications that put the patient’s health at serious risk or where there was no possibility the fetus would survive. (emphasis added)
I wrote to the author and asked what it means to “stop offering” to do abortions. She replied, “There were 70 women that they weren’t able to offer abortions to” since the bill went into effect. [Continue reading ...]
Sometimes a movie is about abortion and we miss the reference. (Take this pro-abort’s post about Dirty Dancing for instance—I, too, admit to missing the deeper message the first dozen times I saw the movie.) Sometimes a movie glorifies the “pro-choice” side. And sometimes it communicates a pro-life message.
This past weekend I saw All Good Things, a 2010 film starring Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst.
I caught both the abortion and its aftermath loud and clear. I wonder if all viewers noticed it and made the connection between the abortion and the destruction of the relationship… [Continue reading ...]
Indiana’s new law which aims to take Medicaid money from Planned Parenthood has been put on hold by a federal judge who doesn’t believe the restrictions will pass muster in the end.
Two articles I’ve come across are attacking the law from the perspective of doctors at two Indiana hospitals who have stopped doing abortions because they’re afraid the new law prohibits them from doing abortions if they also receive Medicaid funding.
Heather Gillers, writing for The Indianapolis Star published “A Law of Unintended Consequences”. Gillers writes that doctors at Indiana University and Wishard Hospitals fear they don’t fall under the law’s “hospital” exemption. However, the next sentence indicates that these doctors may have overreacted, since both the author of the bill and the state Medicaid agency disagree with this interpretation.
But I love this line in a story by Indianapolis’ local Fox affiliate:
Senator Schneider said the bill exempted hospitals, but that is where doctors and some lawmakers disagree. The bill exempts hospitals from performing abortions, not the doctors who actually perform the procedures. (emphasis added)
Seriously?
Last week the an AP article highlighted possible new methods of prenatal genetic testing, speculating on the effect these might have on pregnancy. Upon reading this, “Sophia,” a writer for the Abortion Gang blog, reflected:
Genetic testing, now and in the future, is an issue that is worth consideration and public acknowledgement, but getting lost down the rabbit hole of spooky unknowns is a waste of time and distorts the reality of women today.
But are fears about genetic testing leading to abortion for the creation of “perfect” children really going down the rabbit hole? Are these fears something we ought not worry about yet based on the “reality of women today”? [Continue reading ...]
The Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) recently conducted a poll [PDF] focusing on Millennial generation adults (ages 18-29) and their opinions on abortion, homosexuality, and religion.
The thing that most strikes me about the abortion-related poll results (I haven’t analyzed the rest) is the need to continue educating Americans on 1) what the terms “pro-life” and “pro-choice” mean; and 2) why most women have abortions.
According to PRRI’s Executive Summary,
The binary “pro-choice”/”pro-life” labels do not reflect the complexity of Americans’ views on abortion. Seven-in-ten Americans say the term “pro-choice” describes them somewhat or very well, and nearly two-thirds simultaneously say the term “pro-life” describes them somewhat or very well.
What was really going on in the minds of these respondents? [Continue reading ...]
Yesterday I asked this question to our friends on the League’s Facebook page:
The question came up in response to an article I read about Tim Pawlenty, a candidate for the GOP presidential nomination. Pawlenty was asked by a reporter “what the penalty should be for women who have abortions and doctors who perform abortions if his stance on overturning legal abortion prevails.”
Pawlenty answered:
I don’t think we want to make it a criminal sanction but I think there should be some kind of penalty or consequence, but we don’t have a specific proposal as to what that would be.
The Pro-Life Action League invites you to join us in boycotting PepsiCo.
Good tasting beverages should not in any way be developed from the cells of aborted babies. Until Pepsi acknowledges this and drops all ties with Senomyx, pro-lifers must stop buying all Pepsi products.
Children of God for Life (COGFL), an organization devoted to identifying ethical and unethical vaccines, medicines, and other products, discovered in late March a disgusting use of aborted fetal tissue: [Continue reading ...]
If you haven’t been to the Pro-Life Action League’s Store, lately, click over and take a peek—you’ll see a few new items that have been added recently.
First, you’ll want to catch up on your reading with a copy of Love Them Both by Dr. Jack Willke. Thanks to a generous donation, we’re able to sell you a copy for only $5! Many of the answers in our Sharing the Pro-Life Message handbook are drawn from the pages of Love Them Both.
Also, the League’s partnership with Matthew Kelly’s Passion and Purpose conference allows us to provide you with Kelly’s Rediscover Catholicism for only $5.
If you love to cook—or have a friend who does—I hope you’ll buy a copy of Bless Us O Lord, a cookbook produced by our friends in The Knights of Columbus Ladies Auxiliary of St. Theresa Parish in Palatine, Illinois. The entire $15 purchase price from the cookbook funds the lifesaving mission of the League.
Of course the League provides a host of “must-have” products for every pro-lifer, especially the Sharing the Pro-Life Message handbook, which has been distributed to tens of thousands of pro-lifers, enabling them to articulately explain why they are pro-life.
Browse our DVDs or buy a couple of protest signs while you’re at it!
We hope these new materials will arm you with more ways to get out on the street and share the truth about abortion with the world!
Check out the date on this upload: May 26. This was long after pro-lifers took over NARAL's Flickr site.
I’ve been posting lately about NARAL’s failed “photo petition.”
There’s another aspect that I haven’t gotten a chance to write about yet: The people who support NARAL.
People could submit their own subject line and some, perhaps inadvertently , included their work information (a few also included their phone numbers and addresses!).
Given how pro-life posts swamped those of pro-aborts, I was surprised to find a couple of genuine, but late, posts among the crowd. But there they were, and proudly proclaiming their business information as well. [Continue reading ...]
One of the submissions to NARAL's photo petition
Poor NARAL. They thought they had a great idea: Encourage supporters to directly upload photos of themselves as a “photo petition” to Congress. They were supposed to send the message to “end the war on women.”
As usual, the pro-aborts underestimated the number of pro-lifers who are out there and their determination to show the real war on women.
The 2,075 pages of photos they’ll have to delete this morning suggest they really underestimated the pro-life movement!
That’s right–You have to go all the way to page 2,075 to return to their “serious” sign collection! [Continue reading ...]