Dr Bernard Nathanson, the last surviving founder of NARAL, who later renounced abortion practice, has passed on at age 84. The irrefutable evidence of ultrasonography, made available in the 1970s, helped Dr. Nathanson to find his right mind, causing him to spend the last half of his life as a pro-lifer. He produced the Silent Scream, and Eclipse of Reason videos to convince others of what he had come to understand from a physical and medical standpoint. Among his writings on the topic are the books, ” Aborting America” and “The Abortion Papers”.
During this pro-life portion of his life, Nathanson, once an atheist, began to address the spiritual matters as well. After a good bit of searching, he was assimilated into Catholicism in 1996. (…. resistance is Futile.)
‘WRTolkas’, over at CNS news, connected John Newton and Bernard Nathanson, and that makes really good sense. Listen up.
There were essentially no new provisions in Bush’s executive order, except to cause institutions to worry about receiving federal funds if they discriminated against health care professionals who refuse to kill humans in their practice.
Obama has returned the situation to its previous state: toothless conscience legislation, nearly unenforceable because unemployed health care professionals usually lack funds to bring civil redress when incidents of discrimination occur. Also, what remains of “protection” will only apply to what is obviously recognized as abortion to a layman, and sterilization. Objection to chemical abortions at the early stages of human development, and use of various biotech medical devices, unethically derived drugs, vaccines, transplants, implants (from killed humans) will not be covered.
Actually the situation is worse than it was previously, as the department of Health and Human Services has utterly no interest in hearing or cataloging incidents of discrimination. The head of this department, Kathleen Sebelius had no interest in enforcing medical standards applicable to abortion clinics in her home state of Kansas.
The Sebelius HHS will effectively leave conscientiously objecting health care professionals without protections, and all should be prepared to find new jobs or careers should a conflict between the employers mandates and personal conscience ever arise.
As previously, the protection of conscience for health care professionals will largely lie in the power of the internet, to expose institutions which discriminate against health care professionals who refuse to kill, and reduce private business, and the sources of charitable donations, funds and grants.
Pharmer’s going to be featuring some articles describing what is seen in the hospitals in the past couple of years……….. ever worsening shortages of chemotherapeutic and injectable drugs. This has become a severe public health problem due to inability to treat some cancers, and unnecessary deaths due to unavailable treatments or errors involving drugs used as substitutes.
Pharmer thinks this problem has several underlying causes : supply and demand, need to import raw materials, economic pressures, taxes, outsourcing, government incompetence, an increasingly useless FDA, natural selection, and death panel philosophy.
The last factor curbs government enthusiasm for addressing the drug shortage problem vigorously. Increased deaths lighten the load on social security, medicare and medicaid, and therefore the shortages become a means of obamacare cost control.
Congressional Republicans are fairly productive today, Let’s hope they keep up the pace. Attached to the bill that will keep the government running are amendments to defund IRS collection of mandatory health care payments, an spending of the Dept of Health and Human Services on Obamacare. They should also pinch off Kathleen Sebelius’s salary ;-).
Funding for Abortion and Planned Parenthood, the nations largest abortion provider which has been a prime feature of this blog in the last month, has been cut off. This has been a special project of Indiana’s Mike Pence. Be sure to watch some wonderful videos shot at Planned Parenthoods if you haven’t seen them. Scroll down. The New York and New Jersey videos are the best.
“I really planned to speak about something else but the gentleman from New Jersey just put my stomach in knots because I’m one of those women he spoke about just now. I had a procedure at 17 weeks pregnant with a child who moved from the vagina into the cervix. And that procedure that you just described is a procedure that I endured,” Speier said.
Sometimes legislators might have to recuse themselves from certain decisions, if their tragic personal experiences prevent them from thinking clearly on the matters.
Congress is debating the defunding of elective abortions. Congresswoman Jackie Speier has apparently lost a baby due to a medical problem which she was not able to accurately describe, though she gave it a try.
It is possible that many of the legislators need some coaching on anatomy and other medical details so that they can make a cogent determination concerning what is elective abortion. Most certainly Speier needs some coaching so as to be able to describe her own situation, and distinguish it from the procedures which are about to be defunded.
Pharmer feels quite certain that Speier’s medical difficulty was not as she described, and was not dealt with at a planned parenthood clinic.
Planned parenthood is able to support its abortion industry through the fungible tax allocations and medicaid payments which come from state and federal governments. It will lose more than a third of its income if this is cut off.
The article linked above dishonestly implies that there is a wall of separation between the abortion and other services, facilities and personnel at planned parenthood. Insiders and financial reports from that corporation inform us otherwise.
Addendum:
An afternoon surf over to Jill’s blog digs up a2003 biographical articlefound by sharp-eyed Janet, which describes Speier’s “abortion” as a miscarraige. It also describes a life peppered with disasters and tragedies. From the article:
“Instead, she met and married Sierra, becoming the first legislator to give birth in office when her son, Jackson, was born. Then came a miscarriage, then a second miscarriage, in her second trimester. The couple adopted a baby, whom Speier named and joyfully introduced on the Assembly floor, before a fateful call: The birth mother had changed her mind and was going to reclaim the baby.”
Found there also, was the video version, in which the hapless congresswoman makes herself the poster-grrl for abortion, thereby inflicting a disaster on herself.
Yes, we found one……… a guy in Iowa who has not been confused by the gender benders of our education system.
Joel Northrup declined to wrestle a girl in a state tournament, and therefore lost by default. He has not engaged the media but left an explanation:
“I have a tremendous amount of respect for Cassy and Megan (Black, the tournament’s other female entrant) and their accomplishments. However, wrestling is a combat sport and it can get violent at times. As a matter of conscience and my faith, I do not believe that it is appropriate for a boy to engage a girl in this manner. It is unfortunate that I have been placed in a situation not seen in most of the high school sports in Iowa.”
Good on Joel, who hasn’t lost his mind, and won’t get down on the ground in front of crowds, grab a girl all over the place, and try to beat her up in a wrestling match.
From Fox news comes info that Joel’s dad is the Pastor of an independent Pentecostal Church. Here’s a quote:
“We believe in the elevation and respect of woman and we don’t think that wrestling a woman is the right thing to do. Body slamming and takedowns, that full contact sport is not how to do that.”
Joel Northrup was 34-5 in this season’s wrestling with Lynn-Mar H.S., and considered a strong contender for the state tournament, in which he was consigned to consolation rounds for refusing the match with a girl.
Pharmer is happy to see that this athlete is RIGHT IN THE BRAIN. Congratulations to Joel and his parents.
Since we can no longer have people who make less than union workers, supporting the retirement plans for union workers, in addition to their social security, there will need to be reform. This will happen without the democrats who were bought and paid for by unions.
The Union retirement plans are going bankrupt. The working people of America cannot afford to support plush early retirements.
Watch the Tea Party driving legislators back into Wisconsin.