Legal = Safe?
— Posted by John (November 30, 2006 at 4:09 pm)
Example #9327582832 illustrating the fallacy of “Legal Abortion = Safe Abortion”:
Alabama Abortion Clinic Remains Open After Violating Ten Laws
Huntsville, AL – A Huntsville, Alabama, abortion mill remains open today in spite of Health Department citations for violations of ten state laws.
Alabama Women’s Center for Reproductive Alternatives was cited during a surprise inspection last month for violations that included forwarding after-hours emergency calls to non-medical personnel, routinely failing to document the gestational age of the pre-born baby, and releasing abortion patients after less than the required 20 minutes in recovery.
The violations indicated a “sloppiness” in the general care of patients, according to Rick Harris, who heads the Bureau of Health Provider Standards. “It makes you wonder, what else are they failing to document?” [source]
And, for the worst part:
Despite the concerns, the abortion mill remains open and no fines are expected because a plan has been submitted to correct the violations.
Ah, yes, a Plan.
Move along. Nothing to see here, folks. Never fear, a Plan is here. And not only is the Plan here, it’s actually been submitted! I mean, is there really any good reason to shut down an abortion clinic over a few “violations”?
After all, the abortion clinic has submitted a Plan. Surely we can trust the trustworthy abortion clinic personnel to see to it that the Plan is implemented, can’t we?
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And, in related coverage:
Botched Abortion Sends Woman To Milwaukee Hospital
Milwaukee, WI – Missionaries to the Pre-born (MTTP) are reporting that an ambulance was summoned Tuesday to Affiliated Medical Services in Milwaukee and later transported a woman to the hospital suffering from what witnesses believed was a perforated uterus…
The alert sidewalk counselors photographed the ambulance as emergency workers were preparing the victim for transport:
When you go to the Affiliated Medical Services website, the first thing you see is a message claiming that it “provides high-quality medical care, including pregnancy termination, with compassion and confidentiality.”
Compassion?
Uh…not so much:
The abortion injury seemed to have little impact on the abortion workers. According to [Pastor Matt] Trewhella [head of MTTP], “Clinic workers were later filmed laughing and joking outside the abortuary.”
If that’s their idea of “compassion,” it’s no wonder their idea of “high-quality medical care” means a botched abortion resulting in the need to be rushed to a hospital in an ambulance.
HT: Operation Rescue
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mary kay says:
“Plan”ned Parenthood.
So much for plans…the best laid included.
With planned parenthood, the “Plan” is to stop having children.
Perhaps this plan is the same. Or perhaps they are “Planning” what to have for dinner, or “Planning” what to where this New Years. As long as they have a “Plan” what difference does it make what the “Plan” is for? Most likely they are “Planning” how to get around such ridiculous demands as clean floors, real doctors, and telling the truth about the age of the children these woman are carrying. Actually, I think they call that “Plotting”. Maybe we could change it to “Plotting” parenthood(lessness).
MK
Comment posted November 30th, 2006 at 9:10 pm
mary kay says:
Most of you probably know this, but the same company that made the gas that killed Jews in the death camps also makes ru486. (Someone also pointed out that 86 is the number used by police to denote a homocide, thereby making it possible to translate ru486, into “Are You For Murder”.)
Media Silent On Ru-486′s Nazi Death Camp Pedigree
from http://www.newsmax.com
Oct. 2, 2000
Reprinted with permission
Lost in all the commentary on last week’s FDA approval of the abortion pill RU-486 is an inconvenient and extraordinarily chilling detail about the company that invented the drug, Rousell-Uclaf.
Rousell, based in France, developed RU-486 in the 1980s, and after extensive testing the French government approved it for use in 1988. But Rousell’s West German parent company, Hoechst AG, did not.
Hoechst had two problems with the idea of making easy abortions available to a mass market. Not only was abortion illegal in largely Catholic pre-unification West Germany, but RU-486 was sure to conjure up memories of the darkest chapter in German history – the Holocaust.
The chiefs at Hoechst AG, now one of the largest chemical companies in the world with over 145,000 employees, did not want their overseas customers to be reminded – or perhaps learn for the first time – about Hoescht’s direct link to the National Socialist (Nazi) death camps of World War II.
Hoechst itself was born of the Nuremberg War Tribunal, which disbanded its precursor, the Nazi chemical giant IG Farben. The tribunal convicted twelve Farben executives of war atrocities, including “crimes against humanity, murder, extermination and enslavement.”
Hoechst, Bayer and BASF became Farben’s direct postwar corporate descendants.
Farbenworks factories at Hoechst, Degesch and Leverkusen worked overtime producing toxic gases for the Third Reich, including the deadly agent Zyklon B – the very poison that was used to exterminate millions in Hitler’s gas chambers.
The Buna Rubber facility at Auschwitz was also part of Farbenworks’ Nazi operations, which even included a special corporate concentration camp at the site known as Monowitz. But Monowitz was just one of several slave labor camps operated by Hoechst’s corporate ancestor throughout the Nazi empire before Hitler’s defeat in 1945.
No wonder today’s pro-abortion journalists don’t want to remind their readers about the connection between America’s new abortion pill and the deadly history of the company that invented it.
I realize that it’s not on topic, but all that talk about planning and plotting made me think of the scary, plotlike connections that the abortion industry hides.
MK
Comment posted November 30th, 2006 at 9:23 pm
mary kay says:
http://keyword.netscape.com/ns/boomframe.jsp?query=bias+in+the+media&page=1&offset=0&result_url=redir%3Fsrc%3Dwebsearch%26requestId%3D592146d999d75233%26clickedItemRank%3D14%26userQuery%3Dbias%2Bin%2Bthe%2Bmedia%26clickedItemURN%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.newsmax.com%252Farchives%252Farticles%252F2001%252F12%252F3%252F215106.shtml%26invocationType%3D-%26fromPage%3DnsBrowserRoll%26amp%3BampTest%3D1&remove_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsmax.com%2Farchives%2Farticles%2F2001%2F12%2F3%2F215106.shtml
This is an article about a book called , “Bias, A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distorts the News”, by Bernard Goldberg. I personally cannot wait to read it…
MK
Comment posted November 30th, 2006 at 9:39 pm
mary kay says:
Amy Richards Is The Poster Child For The Democratic Party
By Sher Zieve
July 19, 2004
Amy Richards may be the new poster child for the Democrat party. How proud the democrats must be, today, knowing that Roe v. Wade has been taken to the next step in its inevitable (dare I say it?) “evolution”. Liberals love that word. For those who haven’t read the story, the following is a synopsis.
Amy Richards (Ms. Richards) lives with her boyfriend Peter. Ms. Peters said that she was “tired of being on the pill” and, after discussing it with Peter (how wonderfully responsible of her), came to the decision that, should she become pregnant, they would keep the child. Wait! They would actually keep the child? Although this doesn’t sound terribly liberal…just wait…there’s more. She and Peter joyfully became pregnant. But, it was only after Amy visited her obstetrician that her joy began to fade. Ms. Richards was going to have triplets.
Ms Richards said (in an interview with Amy Barrett): “My immediate response was I cannot have triplets. I was not married; I lived in a five-story walk-up in the East Village; I worked freelance; and I would have to go on bed rest in March. I lecture at colleges, and my biggest months are March and April. I would have to give up my main income for the rest of the year. There was a part of me that was sure I could work around that. But it was a matter of, do I want to? I looked at Peter and asked the doctor: ”Is it possible to get rid of one of them? Or two of them?” The obstetrician wasn’t an expert in selective reduction, but she knew that with a shot of potassium chloride you could eliminate one or more.”
So, with just a shot of potassium chloride, the heartbeats of two of the babies would be stopped forever. No problem for Ms. Richards and, when she found out that two of the babies were twins and one was “stand-alone”, she was relieved. That made her decision easier. She would just kill the twins! Besides, the “doctors” even have a term for it. It’s called “Selective Reduction”. As long as there’s a medical term, that makes it all right! Besides, after the “procedure” was completed, she didn’t feel sick anymore. That’s the most important thing. So, she knew everything was okay and, subsequently, did give birth to a baby boy. Ms. Richards, again, commented: “I had a boy, and everything is fine. But thinking about becoming pregnant again is terrifying. Am I going to have quintuplets? I would do the same thing if I had triplets again, but if I had twins, I would probably have twins. Then again, I don’t know.” Poor thing. She “doesn’t know”. But. Then, that’s the liberal mindset…they really don’t know.
Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future, Amy’s first book, which she co-authored with Jennifer Baumgardner, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in October 2000. Amy and Jennifer just completed their second book, Grassroots: A Field Guide for Feminist Activism, and together they also created Soapbox Inc: Speakers Who Speak Out, a lecture agency for “speakers who speak out.” Amy’s writings have also appeared in The Nation, The LA Times, Bust, Ms. and numerous anthologies, including Listen Up, Body Outlaws and Catching A Wave. Insight Guides recently hired Amy to write a shopping guide toNew York City. She is also very involved with the organizations on whose boards and advisory committees she serves, Third Wave, Ms. Magazine, Choice USA, the Sadie Nash Leadership Program, feminist.com and Planned Parenthood of New York City.
She is at work on a book about feminism and motherhood called Opting In.
Comment posted November 30th, 2006 at 10:19 pm
Lauren says:
In terms of the Alabama clinic, I have very little time, but everyone knows the requirements that they put on the one abortion clinic in Alabama are outrageous and meaningless. They are simply put in place to make it harder for a woman to receive an abortion. Alabama was the state featured on the Frontline special right?
Comment posted December 1st, 2006 at 11:30 am
Lauren says:
One link and one link only. mediamatters.org
The media is FAR from liberal. WMD anyone?
Comment posted December 1st, 2006 at 11:32 am
John says:
Lauren said: “Alabama was the state featured on the Frontline special right?”
Lauren,
No, that was Mississippi.
Comment posted December 1st, 2006 at 11:41 am
John says:
Lauren said: “In terms of the Alabama clinic, I have very little time, but everyone knows the requirements that they put on the one abortion clinic in Alabama are outrageous and meaningless.”
Lauren,
Recall, as the post quoted above indicates, that the violations for which the Huntsville clinic was cited included forwarding after-hours emergency calls to non-medical personnel. (Dr. Nick, anyone?)
Do you honestly believe that a requirement to forward after-hours emergency calls to trained medical personnel is “outrageous and meaningless”?
Comment posted December 1st, 2006 at 11:52 am
Lauren says:
It really depends. Obviously the Health services didn’t seem to find anything serious enough for closure. Btw, Operation Rescue isn’t the most reputable source in the world.
Comment posted December 1st, 2006 at 12:06 pm
Lauren says:
Hahah you love the simpsons it seems.. Me too..
My cat’s breath smells like cat food.-Nelson
Comment posted December 1st, 2006 at 12:12 pm
John says:
Lauren said: “It really depends. Obviously the Health services didn’t seem to find anything serious enough for closure. Btw, Operation Rescue isn’t the most reputable source in the world.”
Lauren,
You really ought to stop shooting the messenger.
Would you accept the word of the Huntsville Times? Yesterday, it reported:
A Huntsville abortion clinic that is a frequent target of protesters got poor marks on its most recent state inspection.
Alabama Women’s Center for Reproductive Alternatives, 612 Madison St., was cited by state inspectors last month for violating 10 state laws governing abortion providers. Among the most serious findings:
Patients who called the clinic after hours because of heavy vaginal bleeding and other complications were connected to an administrator rather than a doctor.
By the way, Lauren, you dodged my question. I didn’t ask you whether the clinic should have been closed.
I asked you if you still stand by your statement that you believe that the requirement to forward after-hours emergency calls to trained medical personnel is “outrageous and meaningless”.
Do you?
Comment posted December 1st, 2006 at 1:58 pm
lauren says:
Yes, I’ll take more reputable sources. Operation Rescue is not a reputable source. I’m never going to stop shooting the messenger if I believe the messenger has an agenda.
That’s why you rarely see me quote planned parenthood. Most of the people on this board would have a coronary if I did that, despite the fact that the organization is run by medical professionals.
Operation Rescue is made up of a bunch of whackjobs and that is very well-known and well-documented.
As far as your question, I didnt really read that part, because I thought that was that state in the Frontline documentary. Regardless, it is Alabama we’re talking about. On my boyfriend and mine’s roadtrip to florida last winter we saw a bumper sticker that said “If I knew this was gonna happen, I’d pick my own cotton” alongside it naturally was a jesus fish and a pro-life sticker. They’re a little backwards down there.
As far as your question again, not trying to dodge it just add context, if the calls were not handled appropriately, then yes, I think that should be at the very least handled and disciplined. The truth is however if the woman has had a medical abortion, many women are surprised by the amount of bleeding that takes place. I know this because I have many friends that have done this. I’m going to guess this is why the clinic may have received some anxious phone calls of concerned women. BUT if this is the case then yes, I agree, that is not outrageous and meaningless.
Comment posted December 1st, 2006 at 4:13 pm
Pansy Moss says:
This is an article about a book called , “Bias, A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distorts the News”, by Bernard Goldberg. I personally cannot wait to read it…
I read all his books-that is when my 13-year old lets me. I will fall asleep and leave them open on my nighstand, and she snatches them up saying “I thought you were done, you weren’t reading it just then.” I have yet to finish an Ann Coulter book, but she has read them all. Kids!
Anyway, you will like him. He points out the liberal bias in the media, but unlike Ann Coulter for example, his agenda is simply the fact he is pained by how opinionated and factless the media has become. I am pretty sure he is conervative, but he has some liberal leanings-can’t tell, the book is not about his feelings in politics. It’s about how sad he is at the lost art of true and fair journalism.
Comment posted December 2nd, 2006 at 9:10 am
John says:
Lauren said: “As far as your question, I didnt really read that part, because I thought that was that state in the Frontline documentary. Regardless, it is Alabama we’re talking about. On my boyfriend and mine’s roadtrip to florida last winter we saw a bumper sticker that said “If I knew this was gonna happen, I’d pick my own cotton” alongside it naturally was a jesus fish and a pro-life sticker. They’re a little backwards down there.”
Lauren,
You do realize that these comments indicate that you have a prejudiced, stereotypical, elitist, and condescending attitude toward people in the South, don’t you?
Comment posted December 4th, 2006 at 11:07 am