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 20, 2009 at 1:07 pm
The Deerhunting Principle? I don't think so. I have already said:
Post-viability abortions have to be medically indicated.
June 20, 2009 at 3:48 pm
I don't care if you shoot deer in your brush. Just stop shooting doctors in our churches.
June 20, 2009 at 3:56 pm
Vigilante has stated he now "cares" about abortion because of the killing of Tiller.
Yet, the state of Kentucky has released documentation that shows he was performing late term abortions for trivial reasons. That opinion is by peer review.
Doctor Tiller should have been investigated and tried for violation of Kentucky law. His murderer should stand trial, and be convicted.
June 20, 2009 at 4:04 pm
No one in this forum, neither its moderators nor its participants, have advocated shooting any doctors anywhere. Either stick to the issue at hand, or I'll persuade the moderators to block your remarks.
June 20, 2009 at 7:43 pm
I don't care if you shoot deer in your brush. Just stop shooting doctors in our churches.
I don't think my point is that elusive. Namely, it is immoral to unload deadly force on something when that something could be an innocent fellow human being. If you don't know, you must stay your hand. This of course has led to tragicomic attempts to dogmatically declare they are not human, but this is just bluster.
June 22, 2009 at 2:36 am
Back alley abortions or coat hangers – the tools of murder. They're no different from cold hand guns, switch blades, hammers and baseball bats. If someone wants to murder somebody – even the child in her womb, then she needs to face all the risks and dangers like any other murder. The state should not facilitate any murder – whether it is the murder of an African-American, a Jewish person, an abortionist or an unborn child.
June 22, 2009 at 4:06 am
I'm getting tired of repeating myself and you just might extend this long enough for me to lose interest.
You cannot "murder" something that has not been born. Until a fetus has been given birth by a prospective mother, it is not a child.
If a prospective mother, under the advice of her chosen physician, determines that her post-viability fetus would face severe enough medical challenges to prevent the life she wishes for her children, she is within her moral right to terminate her pregnancy.
Her body is ultimately her domain. Not yours or the state's.
I think prospective mothers do not lightly choose a late-term abortions. I didn't used think there were enough late term abortions to amount to a serious political issue. I used to say, if you don't like abortions, don't abort.
But when the members of the fetus-loving wolfpack on the Faux news network barked and howled long enough to wake up lone wolves who are simple-minded, easily mislead, and lethally armed, it became time to take sides.
And I will always side with the living against the un-living. Every damned day.
June 22, 2009 at 4:32 am
"Until a fetus has been given birth by a prospective mother, it is not a child." says a man who usurps the authority of the Creator.
"she is within her moral right to terminate her pregnancy." as proclaimed arbitrarily by a people bribed by the butchers of men.
"Her body is ultimately her domain. Not yours or the state's. " And the body of the child is also her domain – not the mothers, nor the state nor the purveyors of death for cash.
"I will always side with the living against the un-living." And the fetus with a beating heart, brain waves and an immortal soul is alive. And with what kind of life? Human life. And human life has inalienable human rights.
Abortionists, abortion supporters and those who tolerate abortion with pro-choice positions have the blood of millions of innocent babies in their souls. When the day of reckoning comes, when that day of damnation will require a reason for choosing the execution of the most innocent life of all, then I say you will have no excuse to give. So, REPENT before it is too late.
June 22, 2009 at 11:17 pm
Pity the poor abortionists' anquish that so few will be able to follow in their footsteps. Could it be that they aborted them?
Vigilante, I hearby revoke your permit to life. Oops, no can do that. You're a human being, same as that unborn child.
As John Kennedy said, "The rights of man come, not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God."
June 23, 2009 at 1:16 am
Stop impersonating me, and misrepresenting my position!
June 23, 2009 at 1:52 am
It never fails. Some loser named "Anonymous" gets on these comboxes and starts arguing with himself.
June 23, 2009 at 6:48 am
My conclusion is that Vigilante is the only Pro-Lifer in here; the rest of you are just Pre-Lifers.
June 23, 2009 at 12:03 pm
life begins at conception not after birth.
June 23, 2009 at 2:43 pm
Rick:
Our devil's advocate may wish for you to define "life" for him.
David L Alexander
June 24, 2009 at 12:30 pm
Wiki defines death as: "Death was historically believed to be an event that coincided with the onset of clinical death. It is now understood that death is a process, not an event.[29] Where in this process a dividing line is drawn between life and death depends on factors beyond the presence or absence of vital signs. In general, clinical death is neither necessary nor sufficient for a determination of legal death." Take the converse for life.