Good to know that those with the responsibility of caring for the defenseless are so cavalier about the most defenseless of us. Sad.
National Nurses United, the largest nurses’ union in the United States, released a letter Tuesday endorsing legislation that would force all states to allow abortion at any point before birth.
The letter calls on senators to pass the Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA), which would almost entirely prohibit states from regulating abortion. Critics of the bill have dubbed it the “Abortion on Demand Until Birth Act,” as it would make late-term abortions legal in every state.
Per recent polling, the vast majority of Americans would disagree with the WHPA’s policy implications. Seventy-two percent of Americans support banning abortion after 15 weeks, which would be illegal under the WHPA, and roughly half believe in banning abortion after six weeks. Only 10 percent of Americans support legalizing abortion up to birth.
Under the WHPA, in order for any regulation on abortion access to be legal, legislators would have to prove that the limitation both “significantly advances the safety of abortion services or the health of patients” and that “the safety of abortion services or the health of patients cannot be advanced by a less restrictive alternative measure.”
“As members of a health care profession that is 90 percent female,” the union’s letter reads, “nurses understand that abortion is an essential part of health care, and that a patient’s right to control their own body is at the very basis of a free and just society.”
National Nurses United goes on to call for a suspension of the filibuster, which they call “archaic and anti-democratic,” to pass the pro-abortion legislation. According to the union, the bill would effectively codify Roe v. Wade into law, but critics of the bill say the WHPA goes much farther than Roe.”
The actual nurses who belong to this union can not support this. Or at least a good portion can’t. They need to stand up and take control of their union.
The left has taken over seemingly every institution in this country. The left doesn’t care about the nurses but they will act in their name to promote their leftist agenda. Makes me sick.
July 6, 2022 at 10:00 pm
Wouldn’t it be nice if they returned to the old-style Hippocratic oath… My guess is that it was adjusted to accommodate ‘progress’ in ‘health care’, especially after 1973 which presented a special conundrum of word and deed. Graduates have been using oath of Maimonides as of late; and you can drive a bus load of exceptions thru that thing (think comfort, then euthanasia and take it from there)
July 6, 2022 at 11:28 pm
Any law the filthy feds try to pass after Roe was aborted just brings us closer to secession.