Posted on 03/06/2020 8:47:58 PM PST by Morgana
Acting Planned Parenthood president Alexis McGill Johnson said Thursday that American support for abortion safety requirements is due to a “campaign of misinformation” about abortion access.
McGill Johnson spoke on “CBS This Morning” regarding June Medical Services v. Russo, a Supreme Court case in which an abortion provider is challenging a 2014 Louisiana state law that requires abortion providers to have admitting privileges in a hospital within 30 miles of the abortion facility.
Opponents, including Planned Parenthood, say the law would hinder and potentially eliminate abortion access in Louisiana. Louisiana lawmakers and pro-life activists maintain that the law protects women from unsanitary or unsafe abortion clinic practices.
McGill Johnson noted that the law is “essentially an attempt to essentially undercut access to abortion” and said that if the Supreme Court upholds the Louisiana law, the state will be left with one doctor and one clinic with admitting privileges.
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One of the “CBS This Morning” hosts referenced Kaiser Family Foundation polling and questioned whether Planned Parenthood and McGill Johnson are out of line with American sentiment on this topic. Primis Player Placeholder
“So there was a recent poll by Kaiser that found the majority of Americans, in fact 69% of Americans, support the idea of doctors having admitting privileges if they are going to be doing abortions,” he said. “Is this a case where public opinion is out of line with the law, is that how you view it, or are you guys out of line with public opinion?”
McGill Johnson responded by blaming these poll numbers on a “campaign of misinformation” and noting that 77% of Americans believe Roe v. Wade should “be the law of the land.”
“With respect to admitting privileges, doctors are credentialed,” she added. “They’re credentialed by their medical schools, they’re credentialed by the licenses that they get from the states that they practice in.”
“So I think a lot of that polling, to me suggests that there has been a campaign of misinformation, disinformation, around what it means to access abortion,” she said, adding, “It is one of the safest medical procedures there is.”
“Well, you would call it safe, some people would call it murder,” one of the hosts asked her.
“Well for the patient, I think that is what we are talking about,” the Planned Parenthood president responded. “And this was brought up yesterday. There are moral arguments with respect to accessing abortion but it is the law of the land that a woman seeking abortion has the right to have access to one.”
Planned Parenthood did not respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation as to what McGill Johnson meant by a “campaign of misinformation.”
The baby has a heartbeat, actions to stop that heartbeat constitutes a murder.
In an era where every libtard wants more things done, labeled, and explained, in the name of ‘safety’, they do the 180 on their sacrament of abortion.
The refusal by the abortion industry to have abortionists adhere to the same laws that real doctors must adhere to is an admission that abortionists are not as qualified as real doctors. If abortionists were such skilled medical professionals, they would have no problem with gaining admitting privileges at the local hospital. The fact that they can’t indicates that they are lacking in actual medical skills.
Oh, and where is the data that abortion is safe for the client? It leaves women scarred, causes premature birth and fetal loss in later pregnancies, inability to get pregnant again, and mental/physical issues that never go away. That doesn’t sound safe.
Finally, abortion is not a medical procedure. We must reject any language that attempts to lump abortion in with actual medical practices. There is no medical reason for the majority of abortions. Abortion is murder, plain and simple.
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Under the barbarian mindset of the Left a woman seeking abortion has the right to have access to one. However the right to inform that woman of the misinformation she is given is equally a right. Exposing Planned Parenthood in their cabal of exploitation is the new civil war for the life of millions.
I guess the author couldn’t be bothered to name which”one of the ‘CBS This Morning’ hosts” they were referring to?
I would say that calling a baby “just a bunch of cells” so a woman can murder it is the apex of misinformation.
JoMa
Planned Parenthood: bringing the "back alley" back to an abortion clinic near you.
So much for the oft-repeated phrase, "safe, legal, and rare." Now it's more like safe, legal, and rare. However unsafe. And everywhere.
safest medical procedure.....................the murder of new life. They fear this new law will open the gate to their vile practices
More to the point while even if they were concerned about women’s safety they would be opposing state regulation of safety practices, they would be using very different arguments to oppose the government regulation. i.e. if they are so concerned about safety where are their published standards?
With no published standards they will point to, and arguments that seem to boil down to how dare you interfere with our holy cause, I am forced to conclude that safety is not a concern of theirs.
Try to sell shoes that do not comply with ANSI Z41 and you cannot claim they are protective foot wear. Shoe makers do not want the Government to prescribe how foot wear is to be constructed, so they worked with their customers to make a series of standards, and today several government agencies reference those industry standards.
It is pretty clear when libtards are concerned about something, they create mountains of rules and regulations and keep adding to them, ie anything they care about gets more and more laws and regulations.
By theirmown lack of regard innthis matter, its clear they are not concerned about womens’ safety, and the fact is they never were, that never entered into the equation at all, ever. It was merely a word in a bleatable slogan that they didn’t believe to begin with.
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