Imagine a woman you know: your wife or mother. Your next-door neighbor. A teacher. A doctor. The bus driver who gets your kids to school each day. Imagine her sitting in front of a video screen at an abortion clinic “teleconferencing” with a doctor. A few minutes later, a drawer opens in front of her, and she removes a cocktail of drugs — not medicines to treat an illness, but lethal substances that will allow her to go home and kill her baby in the comfort of her own home.
If that isn’t Orwellian and terrifying enough for you, imagine it’s your daughter in front of that video screen. Your daughter who is now upstairs in her room, bleeding and scared and in pain, wondering if the abortion is over and her baby is dead.
This is neither science fiction nor a prediction of dark days to come. This is happening now. It started nearly two years ago, the brainchild of those business-savvy folks at Planned Parenthood of Iowa. In an effort to make sure that women all over the mostly rural state can find ways to abort their children, Planned Parenthood offers the “telemed abortion.” Women can go to most Planned Parenthood facilities in Iowa to be connected with a doctor, via video, in Des Moines.
This is how far we have fallen. Drugs strong enough to kill and expel a baby are dispensed like aspirin. Taking their cue from a state law that says only physicians may perform abortions, Operation Rescue has filed a complaint with the Iowa Board of Medicine. An inquiry is promised, according to The Des Moines Register. Yet the paper also notes that “the system is drawing interest from other abortion providers around the country.”
And why wouldn’t it? Think of the profit Planned Parenthood would reap if it could reach all the women who now have to carry to term simply because they live too far from an abortion mill. Chemical abortions are cheaper than surgical procedures, but think of the repeat traffic. These are abortions you can have while doing your homework. You can even tweet about it, or make a YouTube video as it’s happening, as a young woman named Angie Jackson did with horrifying detachment just a few months ago. “It’s not that bad,” she assured those following her on Twitter and YouTube.
“It’s all about access, and the reality is that for many of our patients, they’d have to travel for hours to Des Moines” if the system wasn’t available, Dr. Tom Ross, one of the Planned Parenthood talking heads who dispenses the lethal drugs via remote control, told the Des Moines newspaper.
Do you see what’s happening here? The pro-abortionists’ false mantra of making abortion “safe, legal and rare” has been replaced with “get ’em while they’re young.” And please, make it convenient.
This whole teleconferencing method is just another piece of evidence that the abortion industry is frantically trying to make up for the lack of staff willing to perform abortions.
Fortunately, their efforts aren’t working very well. The very existence of chemical abortions was, they had hoped, going to be the solution to dwindling ranks of abortionists. But doctors who have too much of a conscience to kill children with forceps are proving to have too much of a conscience to kill them with pills.
We just have to keep sounding the alarm.
Father Pavone is national director of Priests for Life.
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Sin thrives on dehumanization. Take out the in-person, unmediated, face to face contact, and you’re left with almost nothing to suggest that what’s about to happen is personal. Let’s not forget that this will probably lead the doctors, too, into further hardness of heart.
Very, very creepy.
I am horrified beyond words.
I still maintain that, at least in theory, instead of the abortion pill, this teleconferencing system should be used to ensure the elderly and the disabled get their proper medications at the proper time.
You know, sometimes you forget to take those vitamins and blood pressure pills…if you know what I mean.
Brave new world…I don’t know how many times over the last 40 years I have had occasion to say this. I DO know that Huxley wrote this book as a commentary on birth control, the pill specifically. Catholic popes since have prophesied that birth control would lead to all the sexual horrors we have today: abortion, invitro fertilization, surrogate mothers, cloning; plus all the horrors that belong to the culture of death: homosexuality, euthanasia, incest, child molestation, child abuse, pornography and promiscuity. Once sex is degraded in marriage, we get shaky marriages and divorce.
I’m sure there are a few horrors I have forgotten. It is hard for one human being like myself to assimilate how far we have fallen. We did our best as a family to protect our children from the culture of death. We allowed no immodest dressing, indecent films, bad language, teenage rebellion. We hung out with other large families, who were open to life and considered children to be the greatest blessing on the face of the earth. And all our children have become great forces for good in the world. Wives and mothers open to life, priest and seminarians, consecrated lay women, college missionaries, members of lay movements. And I know many such families.
I am reminding myself that while evil goes on all around us, with God and the sacraments we can not only survive but transcend and redeem this culture of death and destruction. The late Pope’s Theology of the Body is helping to transform a society who have turned intimacy to sex and have seemingly permanently estranged man and woman at their very core of personhood.
Yay for God! The Holy Spirit gives grace where sin abounds…Let’s keep our own hearts pure…guard our children’s purity…and go out there ready to convert a broken world…Father Frank Pavone is a sterling example of what one man can do…Can we imagine what the world would look like if we all did the same?
One thing I’m sure they didn’t take into mind was that this horrible excuse for “healthcare” can be used on women who don’t want an abortion. The female perpetrator goes to this place, obtains the pills and then slips them into the food or drink of a woman they want to lose their child. There was a criminal show on TV that used this. The evil act of abortion forced on an unsuspecting woman who doesn’t want it. Gee where would her rights be? Would those that are for killing the innocent defend her right to carry that child to term or would they defend the perpetrator from being processecuted for the murder they committed?
Margaret:
This post didn’t mention that a nurse practitioner is physically in the room and is there when the woman takes the pills.
Pro-choice folks don’t want to abort every fetus they can. They want women to be able to make a choice. So, I’m 100% positive if someone caused an abortion on a woman who didn’t want it, the pro-choice community would be very upset, because it wasn’t the woman’s choice. We’re not like you; dispelling myths about pro-life then killing doctors or letting a woman die from pregnancy or child birth. When we say “pro-choice,” we really do mean it.
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