Irony is abortionists worrying about where the next generation of abortionists is going to come from. You can’t make this stuff up.
One mainstream media organization is saying abortionists are getting old and when the old generation retires who’s going to be around to kill the next generation? Salon Magazine is concerned. Me? Not so much. In fact, I’m kind of pleased. Not that I don’t think some shell of a human with a medical degree will step up since there’s bucks to be made but it’s good to see they’re having difficulty replacing abortionists.
Salon.com reports:
Carolyn is part of the next generation of abortion providers many people are wondering and worrying about in the aftermath of Dr. George Tiller’s murder by an anti-choice zealot and the subsequent closing of Tiller’s Women’s Health Care Center. Already, 87 percent of counties in the U.S., and 98 percent of rural counties, have no abortion services. Nearly two-thirds of second-trimester abortion providers are over 50 years old and bound to retire sooner rather than later. And, as a recent PBS NOW special highlighted, the number of overall abortion providers has dropped by one-third in recent years: From 2,680 in 1985 to 1,787 in 2005.
Of course Salon.com says this is because of anti-abortion “terrorism” like the murder of Dr. Tiller last week. But I’m pretty sure this drop off didn’t start last Sunday. And what this actually shows is that societal pressures are working.
Still, the reasons why schools don’t provide comprehensive family planning education go beyond simple time-management issues. For one thing, the same relentless pressure from the anti-choice movement that plagues practicing abortion providers is also directed at medical schools. Susan Wicklund, a Montana OB-GYN and author of “This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor,” says, “I’ve witnessed pressure by antiabortion groups on administrators and professors in medical schools not to discuss abortion. There’s the threat of being picketed or boycotted at the school itself if they do any teaching of abortion.” Says Creinin, “For anything that creates controversy, it’s easy for a med school to say, ‘Look, it’s not worth it.'”
So that’s the good news. The bad news is that abortion is a multi-million dollar industry and as long as they’re paying, some shell of a human with an online medical degree will step up and agree to rip babies limb from limb for money.
And when these hacks hurt women with botched abortions Salon.com, I’m sure, will blame you. That’s right. You for stigmatizing abortion and making it so difficult to fill those spots.
June 16, 2009 at 6:18 am
When we had 40 Days for Life in our city, several "nurses" quit their jobs.
Something about not sleeping at night… ah that pesky conscience!
June 16, 2009 at 6:33 am
Oh I thought salon.com was pitching the case for 'demographic winter'.
June 16, 2009 at 10:25 am
Surely they'll find a way to legally bind all MDs to this ghastly job, if it really comes down to it.
June 16, 2009 at 11:49 am
If this is the best 'catholic blog', I hope never to stumble upon a less laughable one.
June 16, 2009 at 12:37 pm
I agree with Sir Francis – when the O does away with conscience clauses, the abortion industry, unfortunately, have their problem solved for them.
June 16, 2009 at 1:26 pm
I remember reading in the NYT years ago that the reason no medical students wanted become abortionists was because they saw it as kind of icky – like going to law school specifically to become an ambulance chaser or to hand out business cards at the funerals of strangers. They felt there were many more interesting areas of interest to pursue after all those years of study. This makes more sense to me than Salon's take.
June 16, 2009 at 2:16 pm
Eventually, the abortion industry will cave in on itself, without self-appointed assassins. Even one who accepts it as a legitimate medical procedure must concede, that it is a high-risk elective surgery, with even higher malpractice insurance premiums, and serious side-effects for the would-be mother. This alone will keep away most young medical school graduates with years of student loans to pay off.
June 16, 2009 at 2:24 pm
Hmmm, this is not the story that I hear from pro-life medical & nursing students. I hear the opposite, which is that it is very difficult to find a school which will not force their ob/gyn medical students to perform or at least participate in abortions during their studies. And I also hear that many nursing organizations are pushing so that licensed nurses can perform abortions. Ask any pro-life doctors or nurses, I don't think they are going to say that schools are shrinking from abortion in the curriculum.
June 16, 2009 at 2:44 pm
Well, the schools aren't shrinking away from it because the public ones have no accountability. Here in Madison, the UW is "stepping up to the plate" because nobody else will butcher a 20 week old baby so they are taking the lead. The pro-abort politicians won't stop them…
June 16, 2009 at 3:05 pm
"Hmmm, this is not the story that I hear from pro-life medical & nursing students."
Hmmm, I'll just bet it's not, especially when money does the talking.
June 16, 2009 at 3:13 pm
It's staggering… they say 'terrorism' when it's an isolated bastard, but 'extremism' when it's a calculated and widespread effort tacitly endorsed by an entire death cult.
And 'eeeek, they'll picket us, and boycott us!' Heaven forfend that the public tell how they feel or choose what to do with their time and money.
June 16, 2009 at 4:08 pm
Thanks to the assassination of George Tiller, I have become a believer in late-term abortion.
Trust Women.
June 16, 2009 at 4:23 pm
It's an easy position for Vigilante to assume, having survived such a "choice." Would those who did not be just as able to trust their mothers?
June 16, 2009 at 4:41 pm
Thanks to the likes of Vigilante, I know the smiley face worn by evil.
Choose Life.
June 16, 2009 at 4:44 pm
Vigilante:
Unfortunately, not all children who have been conceived and are waiting to be born actually CAN
trust women.
That's the problem.
June 16, 2009 at 5:17 pm
Awwww, I see the pro-fetus choir is well and singing their verses this morning.
D. Alexander:
If my mother, aprised that my post-viability abortion was medically indicated, had carried me to birth she would not proven her love for me. As a fetus, I would not wanted to be born. Life would have been too much to bear.
June 16, 2009 at 5:30 pm
News flash, Vigilante: Killing is never "medically indicated."
June 16, 2009 at 5:42 pm
"Awwww, I see the pro-fetus choir is well and singing their verses this morning."
We have a song worth singing: "Let everything that has breath praise the Lord."
"As a fetus, I would not [have] wanted to be born. Life would have been too much to bear."
I think I understand. Your line of reasoning is already "too much to bear."
June 16, 2009 at 5:43 pm
Please notice that Vigilante presents no argument whatever. His idea that as a foetus he would not have wanted to be born is not an argument, it is at best a statement of mood. Besides, it is really an open goal: I would not have wanted HIM to be born either – I would rather that all children who are born are kind, or good, or beautiful, or at any rate decent. Luckily for Vigilante, I do not conceive that I have a right to decide who lives or who dies.
The fact is that this is not only happening in America. In England, fifteen years ago, to be against abortion was to endanger your career within the NHS (if you were a doctor) or to put an end to it (if you were a nurse or paramedic). Today, so few doctors are prepared to commit abortion that one provincial bureaucrat has actually asked for nurses to be allowed to carry out the procedure. This is in a country where groupthink is a habit and where pro-lifers are few, weak and marginalized. Salon sillyzine cannot blame this one on the evil pro-lifers; it is entirely an endogenous event due to the increasing dislike of doctors (and nurses) for killing babies.
June 16, 2009 at 6:49 pm
Funny that it doesn't occur to them that perhaps many who spend so many years studying to become doctors would rather help people than tear apart unborn children.