Emergency Alert: While Businesses Throughout PA Shut Their Doors, Planned Parenthood is Open for Abortion Business
In the wake of the coronavirus crisis, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf has ordered businesses throughout the Commonwealth to close.
Yet, Planned Parenthood remains open—for abortion business only.
“At this time, Planned Parenthood Keystone is serving patients in Allentown, Wilkes-Barre, Warminster, Reading, York, and Harrisburg for abortion services only,” reads the Coronavirus update message on the Planned Parenthood Keystone website (https://www.plannedparenthood.org/planned-parenthood-keystone/covid-19-info ).
Pleasejoin us in calling on Gov. Wolf to order Planned Parenthood to stop performing abortions during the coronavirus outbreak.
Right now we are united in a heroic effort to protect each other from an invisible, aggressive enemy. Choosing to exercise self-restraint and self-denial, we’ve adopted a new normal and together face an uncertain future. We are making sacrifices to protect the most vulnerable members of our society because we recognize their value and dignity.
How very beautiful.
And how very pro-life.
For decades, the pro-life movement has been protecting the weakest and most vulnerable from certain death by fighting a different pandemic, the widespread killing of preborn children.
Our current situation certainly calls for extraordinary measures, yet there is a tremendous and tragic irony at play here. We’re taking unprecedented steps in an effort to save lives, but, in actuality, only some lives.
While businesses close, schools teach virtually, and life as we know it comes to a halt, Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers remain open.
While we take severe measures to stop an invasive virus from claiming life, some medical practitioners invade the womb for just that purpose.
Covid-19 has claimed over 100 precious lives in the US thus far, but abortion claims the lives of almost 3000 precious babies every single day, with the death toll to date exceeding 61 million.
It doesn’t have to be this way.
At a time when we are all sacrificing for the good of the other, should we not re-consider the “other” we’ve been sacrificing in legalized abortion?
Isn’t it time to recognize their humanity, their value, their dignity? To unite as a country in protecting and providing for the weak and vulnerable on the other end of the life spectrum?
Our country is demonstrating that we have the capacity to change and adapt in the face of a life-threatening virus. We can do the same for the virus that has infected our culture, turning mother against her own child. We can save the next generation.
Among them may be the one who finds the antidote to a highly contagious virus, preventing a deadly world-wide pandemic.
Planned Parenthood is sounding the siren, alerting supporters in an email to the grave threat they face.
“… as the Supreme Court hears oral arguments in the June Medical Services case, we’re faced with a terrifying possibility: that our rights could be gutted in a few short months.”
Hyperbole and half-truths.
This case is NOT about abortion “rights” or access. And it is not brought by women seeking abortions but by abortion centers seeking to maximize profits. Whether providers even have legal standing to file suit as a third party is itself questionable.
This IS a case about protecting the safety of women.
The abortion industry thrives on misinformation, doing everything it can to hoodwink supporters into believing that they truly care about women.
But they don’t.
If they did, they would provide medical care that meets standards required at any other out-patient surgical facility. They would employ qualified doctors who have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles, so that, if ever needed, emergency care could be sought. They would recognize that abortion complications do happen and that they can be deadly to a woman.
The reality is that the abortion industry sets their bar for women’s health much lower than the bar for their profit margin. Consequently, vulnerable young women, who’ve paid hundreds of dollars to entrust themselves to what is often an itinerant abortionist with whom they have no prior relationship, put their health and lives at risk.
According to a Wall Street Journal editorial, five abortionists at June Medical Services did not have hospital admitting privileges. When the Louisiana legislature passed a law to remedy that situation, one abortionist retired, three failed to make a good-faith effort to obtain privileges, and one was discovered to have had no medical school training to perform abortions.
Upholding the duty to protects its citizens, the state of Louisiana said women deserve better. Like 14 other states, their legislature raised the bar on the abortion industry, acting to protect women from substandard care by requiring admitting privileges at a nearby hospital.
And now the abortion industry is challenging that common-sense regulation at the Supreme Court, while its largest provider claims, “our rights could be gutted in a few short months.”
What “rights”? The right to an untrained doctor? Or one who can’t earn admitting privileges to a hospital due to incompetence? Or is too apathetic to even try? The right to delayed treatment of a perforated uterus or a fetal arm left behind?
What about the rights of young women who surrender their babies and bodies to the hands and tools of the abortionist? Is any abortion, whether unsafe, unsterile, and unregulated, better than an abortion that holds the provider to a reasonable level of accountability?
If the abortion industry is unwilling to enact basic safety guidelines that protect women, hasn’t the back alley just simply moved to the front office?
Yes, Planned Parenthood is sounding the siren, but it’s certainly not the one meant to rescue a wounded woman from a botched abortion. It’s the one meant to rescue them from any regulation that might diminish their profits.
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