Posted on 04/22/2012 11:08:29 AM PDT by wagglebee
SAN FRANCISCO, April 19, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Although a legal loophole has long allowed the process, a California legislator has proposed a bill to formally allow non-physicians – including midwives – to perform abortions. Now a state pro-life group wants to know who has been anonymously paying for and conducting an existing training program.
State Senator Christine Kehoe, D-San Diego, introduced a bill allowing non-physicians, such as midwives and nurse practitioners, to perform suction abortions after receiving training through a state project.
“I think it endangers women’s health,” Dana Cody, president and executive director of Life Legal Defense Foundation (LLDF), told LifeSiteNews.com. “They’ll get more medical information if they get plastic surgery than they will if they undergo an abortion.”
The bill is sponsored by Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California, NARAL Pro-Choice California, the American Civil Liberties Union of California, and California Latinas for Reproductive Justice. It is supported by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).
The measure, S.B. 1338, codifies an existing loophole. Cody said California state law allows certain staff personnel to perform medical procedures, and the law does not specifically preclude abortion.
The University of California-San Francisco began offering the Health Workforce Pilot Project #171 (HWPP) to teach the abortion techniques to lower level medical staff in 2007. An estimated 40 people have completed the course.
However, much remains secret about the training.
Cody said $3.5 million of the funding for HWPP comes from an undisclosed private foundation. The names and records of the trainers and graduates were also missing.
LLDF petitioned UC-San Francisco for this information in late January. After ignoring the petition for more than a month, the university has yet to furnish all the public documents LLDF sought – so last Friday the legal rights group filed a Writ of Mandate to compel administrators to turn over these records.
“The purpose of the writ was to get information subject to public record, since it’s a University of California regent program, to see where the funding’s coming from and who’s doing the training. Do they have any reports against them?” Cody asked. “I think the public is entitled to know that.”
From the incomplete information officials have turned over, Cody said LLDF has learned “the agencies doing the training are Planned Parenthood and Women’s Health Services, which is a Sacramento-area clinic with a terrible history.”
“Is this just another way to get money for clinics?” she asked.
Increasing abortion and opening a lethal procedure to less qualified medical personnel are bad ideas under any circumstances, she said – but especially while so many unanswered questions remain.
“It just seems like with this issue of abortion, they have a free pass on so many levels,” Cody told LifeSiteNews.
LLDF will get its day in court on May 10 in the Superior Court in Alameda County.
A hearing on S.B. 1338 is scheduled for Thursday, April 26 before the Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee.
Cody said concerned persons can contract their assembly member, and members of the committee, by visiting www.leginfo.ca.gov.
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It’s a liberal’s war on children. Full of self-loathing they are.
Legalizing murder in California. Baby killers.
Get out the coat hangers, anyone can do it.
Do they get to use coat hangers?
Seems only a small step above the coat hanger that liberals so dread.
I would agree with this, if they are willing to agree that abortion is not medicine in the first place. Odd that this is coming from PP, who ranted and raved about back alley abortions and how abortions neede to be performed by doctors, and how it is valid medicine.
Running short of “md’s” to to do their murderous dirty work are they??
PP wants to charge premium prices for back-alley quality.
It’s cruelly ironic how we seem to have come full circle thanks to the child killers among us. Here we are demanding to set up non-professionals, presumably armed with their sterilized coat hangers, to reopen their back alley slaughter houses.
What would happen if the coat hanger crew started charging less than PP, and took away most of the business in carnage wrought by them? Would money then be the vehicle propelling a new drive to put the back alley killers (as opposed to the “legitimate” storefront PP killers) out of operation?
Not just children, but in particular, black children. To create 'a race of thoroughbreds' and to stamp out the 'inferior, undesirable and imbecilic children'. Yeah, that's a liberal's compassion for you.
I feel like some of the German people who knew about the Holocaust but were powerless to stop it. At least we can vote out the Rat party that advocates murder of the innocents. God have mercy on our country!!
I was discussing the disproportionate abortion of black children with my own adult children just last week. They were surprised that this is the case.
yep, that's what this is all about. Abortionists are universally scumbags, and reputable doctors don't want anything to do with the grisly business. Rather than watch their availability dwindle, the abortion lobby is willing to sacrifice the "medical procedure" figleaf and basically allow anyone to do it. An ironic step backward toward the mythical "back alley."
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