Awww! The poor things at Big Abortion seemed so thrilled the economy had taken a turn for the worse. According to the media, abortion clinics seemed thrilled to predict while many industries suffered from bleak economic indicator s, the abortion industry was riding high predicting that the recession would be a boom time for Big Abortion. But, let’s just say they’re not having the great recession they were hoping for.
In New Jersey, Governor Chris Christie reacted to the recession by rightly saying that the state is “broke” and can’t afford to fund abortion clinics like Planned Parenthood as it has in the past.
Atlantic City Press reports:
Legislative Democrats restored budget cuts of $7.5 million, but Republican Gov. Chris Christie vetoed the spending Friday afternoon. Unless Democratic lawmakers succeed in leading a vote to override the governor’s veto, funding for the centers will run out.
While the cuts will affect 58 centers statewide, Cumberland County, with high rates of teen pregnancy and unemployment, is likely to lose two of its three health centers, in Millville and Bridgeton, both run by provider FamCare, Inc.
Atlantic City’s branch of Planned Parenthood would face service cuts, possibly closing its doors three days a week.
This is interesting because Christie doesn’t seem to be a culture warrior. But he has pulled funding from abortion clinics in the name of fiscal responsibility due to the very same recession which was supposed to enrich Planned Parenthood and its minions.
You’d have to imagine that many in the abortion industry are now attempting to put the corks back in their champagne bottles. This kind of thing has to hurt the feelings of Big Abortion acolytes terribly because when the recession started, their hopes were so sky high that the abortion industry was recession proof. And the poor mainstream media must be devestated as well after passing along predictions from their fellow travelers in Big Abortion so eagerly.
MSNBC seemed so excited by the prospect of an increase in abortions they wrote a story headlined “Shaky economy means ‘bye-bye baby’ for some.” But MSNBC was not alone. The widely held belief among media types was that when families become economically uncertain they might opt to spring for an abortion instead of feeding and caring for a baby who’ll grow up and need clothes and an education.
Bonnie Erbe of US News and World Report wrote:
The recession is driving American demand for contraception. And for abortions. The media have been rife this past week with stories about the rising number of couples and single mothers doing the math and deciding this is no time to bring a child into the world—not when the economy is depressed, jobs are scarce, and family incomes are dropping.
The media have also been rife with stories portraying this trend as something of a tragedy. Let me propose a counter view: It is not.
For these stories, there were rarely any hard facts, just the word of a representative of Big Abortion saying ‘trust us.’ The media didn’t seem to question their word at all.
Not only did the media say abortion was recession proof, they predicted the numbers would increase greatly. They were expecting to be up their knees in medical waste bags waiting for garbage pickup. But recently, the state of Minnesota reported a drop in abortions in 2009, according to the Associated Press. In fact, the number of abortions dropped to their lowest level since the mid 1970’s.
PublicBroadcasting.net reports that the state of Michigan has seen a decline in abortions of almost 14% in the past year. And few states have been hit harder by the economy than Michigan.
Lori Lamerand, President of Planned Parenthood of Southeast Michigan, said:
“It could be the impact of the economy in some ways,” Lamerand says. “I think families are being more careful and really sure that they have the resources and are doing what they need to do to manage their families.”
Lamerand says the question remains whether there were fewer unplanned pregnancies. She says if that’s the case, Planned Parenthood is pleased that women were more were proactive in preventing pregnancy.
Does that mean she wouldn’t be as pleased if there were simply more births?
And then as if the recession weren’t going poorly enough for them, just when Big Abortion thought it was about to receive a windfall in federal funding from the new healthcare plan, pro-lifers led by the NRLC kicked up enough notice that the Obama administration was forced to slink away from abortion funding -at least for a while.
I know that many are now saying that abortion was never going to be funded but LifeSiteNews.com reported:
The non-partisan fact-checking site FactCheck.org has vindicated the National Right to Life Committee’s (NRLC) claim that federal monies were on the brink of funding abortions in state high-risk insurance pools before the matter was exposed by NRLC, prompting the Obama administration to retroactively enforce Hyde-amendment restrictions.
The controversy erupted a week and a half ago, when NRLC revealed that abortions would be funded under a $160 million Pennsylvania program, a fact that contradicted the repeated assurances of President Obama and pro-life Democrats that abortions would not be funded under the federal health care law. The pro-life organization also unearthed similar funding problems in New Mexico and Maryland.
And then you throw in for good measure the undercover videos produced by Lila Rose’s Live Action Films which have been used to defund Planned Parenthood in Orange County and hopefully many other cities and states to come.
It seems that Big Abortion isn’t having quite the recession they were hoping for. Poor things. And with the 2010 elections approaching and much talk going to out-of-control government spending which includes funding Planned Parenthood and other members of Big Abortion, I think we should all be ready for a Governor Christie like defunding of Planned Parenthood under the banner of fiscal responsibility, uniting fiscal conservatives and social conservatives in a way not many predicted at the start of the recession.
Let’s hope Big Abortion’s woes continue and let’s all do everything we can to ensure it.
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“MSNBC seemed so excited by the prospect of an increase in abortions they wrote a story headlined “Shaky economy means ‘bye-bye baby’ for some.””
*twitch*
It brings to mind an image of parents waving to the sonogram on the screen as the brain is sucked out and saying bye-bye with some sort of empty look of despair-beaten apathy on their faces. It’s offensive. Augh.
Micah, actually it reminds me of a book I read once where if twins were born one was “sent away to another village.” The doctor (who doesn’t realize the horror of what he’s doing), kills the child, wraps it then disposes of it by saying “Bye-bye baby.”
It’s scary how some of the most horrific scenes in older stories are now commonplace and accepted.
“I think families are being more careful and really sure that they have the resources and are doing what they need to do to manage their families.”
Wait. You mean that couples can control themselves when the economy is bad, but can’t when the economy is booming?
At the risk of pursuing a side issue, is it even the case that recessions are boons for the abortion industry?
While “I can’t afford a child” is one of the commonest reasons given by people who abort (and may even be true in some cases), I distinctly remember from when I was a high-school debater running various disadvantages that said increasing personal income, usually a good thing, was actually bad because it encourages the consumption of bad “luxury goods” — and abortions was one (beef and drugs were among the others, I recall).
And this makes sense, even though it is no doubt true that having a child is an expensive proposition and that an abortion is cheaper sub specie aeternitatis oeconomicus. But such perfect calculation is not how human decision-making operates, even in economics or (more fairly here) considering economic matters only. The logic of “decision-making on the margins” explains why the former effect (more money for luxury goods) would be the stronger. Pregnancy is not really the time for a child’s expenses; an abortion is spending several hundred bucks NOW that you might not have NOW. Carrying to term is basically free, especially in the early months when most abortions occur and when it’s easiest to rationalize. In the matter of health insurance, prenatal care expenses are generally covered, while abortions often are not.
There’s also the countervailing factor of “hope.” That is, even people who are unemployed generally don’t plan on staying that way for 9 months, much less 18 years or more. And most people, at a certain level anyway, understand that the economy is cyclical and that things get better and worse over time. So if immediate economics plays a role, it would seem likelier that economic adjustments would likelier affect immediate money for luxuries (like routine-maintenance spending at an industrial enterprise) than increasing immediate spending to produce a long-term saving.
If the “Big Abortion” is so keen on making money, then why are these same organizations, like Planned Parenthood, the ones handing out contraceptives and accurate sex ed? Sounds like the abortion “industry” is doing more to put itself out of business than anyone else is.
According to PlannedParenthood.org, the Atlantic City branch offers pregnancy testing, contraception, STD screening, patient education (including abstinence education, menopause education, cancer info.) and abortion referral. Referral. As in they don’t actually perform abortions. It looks like this place is doing far more to prevent unplanned pregnancies than it is to terminate them.
DRF,
“If the “Big Abortion” is so keen on making money, then why are these same organizations, like Planned Parenthood, the ones handing out contraceptives and accurate sex ed?”
The reality is that while contraception and accurate sex ed can prevent *a* pregnancy, a contraceptive culture leads to more unplanned pregnancies on a whole, and thus to more abortions as a whole.
Even when used properly, contraceptives fail. Since a contraceptive approach to sex disconnects sex from fertility and conception, it also makes it more likely that those failures in contraception will result in abortions. In this way, the promotion of contraception is also the promotion of abortion.
Additionally, PP and like organizations include in their “accurate” sex ed, the promotion and normalization of promiscuity, and target younger and younger audiences. The very act of making contraceptives easily accessible naturally leads to more sex, promiscuous or monogamous. With the failure rate of proper contraceptive use, more sex means more unplanned pregnancies and greater demand for abortion. Additionally, promoting contraception - with abortion as a backup - fosters sex in less stable relationships. These relationships are much more likely to create an environment where abortion becomes a more attractive option.
And, the ready availability of abortion as a fail-safe actually fosters less vigilance in proper contraceptive use. Since abortion exists to “take care of mistakes,” the risk of improper contraceptive use goes down and with it the proper use of contraception. And by promoting sexual license and contraceptive use by younger and younger children, the abortion industry is expanding the likelihood of contraceptive failure.
By promoting contraception and promoting their view of accurate sexuality, the abortion industry is not doing anything to put themselves out of business, they are ensuring that there will always be a market for their “product.”
Re: DRF
It is because of places like Planned Parenthood (as well as our public schools) handing out contraceptives and other such garbage, under the guise of ‘safe sex’, that we have seen tremendous increases in STD’s like herpes, chlamydia, genital warts, HIV infections and AIDS, gonnerrhea and more. It is fallacy to think that encouraging adolescents and others to engage in risky behavior can somehow be of benefit to them. Don’t forget the potential end result of intercourse is a human life. Should we be so casual about it? The physical, spiritual and emotional harm done to kids from participating in pre-marital sex is very damaging to them. By providing these contraceptives PP is perpetuating the lie that there are no consequences to casual sex outside of marriage. If PP didn’t pormote these behaviors there wouldn’t be as ahigh a demand for their services. Planned Parenthood should do us all a favor and just close its doors.
I also think that finally a lot of post abortive women are coming forward and telling people that abortion really in never the right answer, and they are telling their horror stories.
These women, like myself are unmasking the lie!! We are bringing awareness into coercion, into Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and all the other emotional and physical symptoms that occur due to having or being coerced into having an abortion.
The industry is getting found out, thank God!!!! We need awareness brought to the evil behind the industry. To the ethnic cleansing, eugenics, satanic cults, etc….this is all a part of abortion.
When Lucifer was cast to earth because he could not be God nor could he hurt God, he went after us, and God’s image in us. If he can’t create like God then he can kill God’s creatures.
I have carried the wound of abortion for yrs. it is hell.
D. Dunn -
Thank you for your witness. You and post-abortive women are in my prayers…
Thank you Ray H., We need them big time!
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