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MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow’s Show Calls Abortion Practitioners Heroes
Life News ^ | Steven Ertelt

Posted on 03/08/2014 8:02:44 AM PST by Morgana

Abortion practitioners across the country are responsible for nearly 57 million abortions. They kill unborn babies on a daily basis, kill and injure women in failed abortions, and leave women, men, and families dealing with devastating mental health and spiritual issues as a result.

While a majority of Americans oppose abortion and believe abortions ought to be illegal, MSNBC held a segment calling abortion practitioners heroes. The Maddow show story focused on the anger abortion advocates have over pro-life laws in Texas and other states resulting in closing abortion businesses because they can’t seem to follow the law.

As Texas Right to Life writes:

On Wednesday night, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow featured an exclusive segment about the current state of pro-life laws in Texas, following the implementation of HB2, the Texas abortion safety law that added additional safety measures for women visiting clinics. The piece concluded with the announcement that Whole Women’s Health, which owns and operates abortion clinics across the state, was closing two of its five centers, in McAllen and Beaumont, respectively.

rachmad2Maddow’s take on pro-life politics in the state was misinformed at best. First, she laid out a background of pro-life legislation in Texas that is false. In her estimation, one minute after the Republican Party took control of the state’s legislature in late 2002, all Republican politicians set their sights firmly on pro-life legislation—or as Maddow would phrase the issue: “attacking women’s right to abortion.” Republicans simply stood and worked for policies that reflect the values of their voters.

Maddow chronicled the gruesome professions of two abortionists in the Rio Grande Valley as if they were heroes. One of these is abortionists Lester Minto, whose clinic in Harlingen was forced to close last Friday after Minto could not meet the requirements of HB2 to operate within the new law. Among other stipulations, HB2 requires that abortionists secure admitting privileges at hospitals near their clinics. According to Minto’s interview with Slate, he brazenly sent women south of the border after the passage of HB2 so that they could obtain the drug misoprostol for self-induced abortions (an off-label use of the drug, which can lead to maternal death). Minto, perhaps unsurprisingly, was not able to achieve privileges at any of the hospitals near his clinic despite multiple requests.

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Generally, a physician in good medical standing faces few obstacles when obtaining admitting privileges, although the hospital’s credentialing board can take a few weeks or months to approve or reject the request. As of HB2’s implementation, some abortionists already had admitting privileges. Many others were able to swiftly obtain them. Abortionists like Lester Minto may prove that they do not value women’s health and safety; therefore, they are a liability to a hospital that would cooperate with their substandard abortion practice. Substandard abortion clinics that cannot or will not comply with Texas law are dangerous for women and will not be tolerated by the pro-life majority of Texas. If Maddow truly cared about women and their “safe, legal, and rare” choice of abortion, she, too, would want the practitioners out of the abortion business.


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KEYWORDS: abortion; beaumont; deathpanels; demagogicparty; harlingen; lesterminto; libertarians; mcallen; medicalmarijuana; memebuilding; msnbc; obamacare; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; prolife; rachelmaddow; texas; wholewomenshealth; zerocare
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To: Morgana

The progs...redefining “hero”...sick.


21 posted on 03/08/2014 8:54:25 AM PST by goodnesswins (R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods.)
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To: Morgana

I often wonder how these abortion providers like their big screen TVs, their stylish homes, their vacations to faraway places from the proceeds of their murder.


22 posted on 03/08/2014 9:13:13 AM PST by ReaganÜberAlles
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To: Morgana
Luke 17:2

"2 It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should a offend one of these little ones."

23 posted on 03/08/2014 10:12:37 AM PST by JustTheTruth
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To: Morgana

Rachel Madcow is a homosexual that hates everything American and works tirelessly to destroy it.


24 posted on 03/08/2014 10:14:54 AM PST by SECURE AMERICA (Where can I go to sign up for the American Revolution 2014 and the Crusades 2014?)
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To: Morgana

It’s an ironic bumble on her part when you consider that we award our military heroes for actions that often involve killing many of the enemy.

A Freudian insight as to who Madcow’s enemies are.


25 posted on 03/08/2014 12:21:12 PM PST by DPMD
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To: chris37
Well, if you look at homosexuals, it seems to me that the fruit of their sex is an orgasm.

It's narcissism, plain and simple. It's all about themselves; they want to have sex with someone who looks like themselves, and they want to always have things their own way. A very juvenile attitude.

26 posted on 03/08/2014 2:28:12 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: SuziQ

Oh yes, absolutely agreed.

They are totally about themselves in just about everything they do.

And they see everything through the lens of their warped sexuality.


27 posted on 03/08/2014 2:42:54 PM PST by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: chris37

I agree. It’s very sad. Abortions and homosexualism are inextricably linked with their anti-life/pro-narcissism and hedonism perspective.


28 posted on 03/12/2014 6:01:23 PM PDT by ReformationFan
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To: ReaganÃœberAlles

She would fit right in with her heros the Nazis. She might have been put in the camps for being a dyke.


29 posted on 03/12/2014 6:04:59 PM PDT by Busko (The only thing that is certain is that nothing is certain.)
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