The absurdity of a “National Day of Appreciation for Abortion Providers”
By Dave Andrusko
A “National Day of Appreciation for Abortion Providers”? Yes, that’s what March 10 is, a day to show gratitude to abortion providers, without whom “women would not have the freedom to make their own personal medical decisions,” to quote from euphemism headquarters, Planned Parenthood of New York City.
However, if you take a step back, you might come away with a slightly different perspective, given the news of the last year.
You remember Kermit Gosnell, aka operator of the West Philadelphia “House of Horrors,” who was convicted on three counts of first degree murder and one count of involuntary manslaughter. Deliberating aborting babies alive and then slitting their spinal cords is a bit much even for Planned Parenthood, so Gosnell was consigned to the status of “outlier” and “renegade.”
A slightly different tact was adopted by former Planned Parenthood employee. Colleen Crinion gingerly avoided mentioning Gosnell or his ilk at all, concluding, “Like any profession, abortion doctors are not homogeneously perfect. “
But the problem is for the pro-abortion Establishment, there are more and more outliers, more and more “homogeneously imperfect” abortionists, as we’ve documented repeatedly at NRL News Today.
There’s the whole kit and caboodle at the Planned Parenthood clinics in Wilmington and Dover, Delaware, most specifically Timothy Liveright. Delaware is not exactly a hotbed of pro-life sentiment, so punishment for the itinerant abortionist who has performed over 50,000 abortions was mild.
In January the Delaware Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline approved the disciplinary terms agreed upon last year by the state and Liveright.
“According to the agreement, Liveright admitted to misconduct including: sexual harassment and failure to adequately document procedures and results of procedures in patient charts while performing medical or surgical abortions,” Beth Miller of The News Journal reported. His punishment was a $1,500 fine and a letter of reprimand.
In fact what two self-professed “pro-choice” nurses accused him (and the clinics) of went far beyond that.
And then there is abortionist Steven Brigham, who is always, always, always fighting to retain his medical license or get it back (nrlc.cc/1nBqC5m and nrlc.cc/1lOTp7T). In a long—10,000 word—profile in the New Yorker, Eval Press tried his best to blame the Brighams of this world on pro-lifers.
But if you actually read the piece, you see it was fellow abortionists who testified on behalf of Brigham (although they knew next to nothing about him) and medical boards that looked the other way that paved the way for him, and others like Brigham, to prey on women.
The one concession that maybe, just maybe abortion insiders might share some of the blame was these two sentences. Press wrote
“Yet clinic owners also knew that some providers saw what they did as a business, not as a social mission. As reputable doctors, hospitals, and medical schools increasingly distanced themselves from abortions, it became more likely that substandard providers would fill the void.”
Apologists for those who make their living slaughtering unborn babies will likely follow the suggestion of Planned Parenthood of New York City and “send flowers to reproductive health centers near you.”
The rest of us will celebrate that another judge has turned back the assault on women helping centers (See federal judge). These volunteers who are there when pregnant women are at their most vulnerable–those are not only the ones who really deserve flowers, they warrant our eternal gratitude
Source: NRLC News
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