Midwife Conference Bans Pro-Lifers
A national group of midwives just excluded a pro-life group of OB-GYNs from its national conference because they oppose abortion.
Midwives and ob-gyns are being threatened with decertification for spreading “misinformation” on abortion, after endorsing abortion as health care. We all know what “misinformation” means, right? It means that you best not say anything us pro-aborts don’t approve of.
The role of a midwife used to be to bring a child into the world. Not anymore.
So, if you care for the woman and the child you are unfit to be a midwife. Um. Shouldn’t that be the prerequisite?
Medical organizations in the birthing field have vocally endorsed abortion in the wake of the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade. A prominent group of pro-life obstetricians and gynecologists found itself excluded from a national midwifery conference over its views on abortion, The Daily Signal can exclusively reveal. The pro-life group is also raising the alarm about the potential decertification of medical professionals who refuse to toe the line on abortion.
The American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM) held its Midwifery Works Conference last month, but the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists (AAPLOG) had no presence there for the first time in six years.
AAPLOG, a nonsectarian organization, operated as a “special-interest group” within the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) for 40 years before ACOG discontinued the designation. Now, ACNM, ACOG, and the organization responsible for certifying OB-GYNs, the American Board of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ABOG), have embraced pro-abortion stances.
“One of the greatest threats to maternal health care is the rabid pro-abortion activism currently being displayed by both ABOG and ACOG,” AAPLOG CEO Dr. Donna Harrison told The Daily Signal. “Three national studies have revealed that somewhere between 75% and 93% of OB-GYNs do not perform abortions in their practices.”
Harrison also raised the alarm about a July statement from ABOG, which she characterized as a threat to decertify pro-life OB-GYNs.
“Physicians and midwives who care for both of their patients, both the pregnant mother and the human being in her womb, are being systematically bullied and eliminated from being able to practice medicine, at a time when maternity care deserts are worsening around the country,” Harrison added. “ACNM has recently joined in the bullying by refusing to allow midwives who care for their in-utero patients to even speak or exhibit at the recent ACNM national conference.”
ACNM told AAPLOG in September that it could not participate in the midwifery conference, citing its official position that “Abortion Is Healthcare.”
“We are unable to accommodate as your mission doesn’t align with our position statement on abortion,” an ACNM staffer wrote to AAPLOG. “We affirm patient autonomy.”
OK. There’s way too many acronyms in that story. I think I read that Got and Magog were on the loose and hunting pro-lifers. I skimmed but I’m pretty sure that was in there.
This is a dangerous trend and it will continue. The left makes so many organizations ventriloquist dummies just towing the party line. Pull the string and they say “Abortion is good. Misinformation is bad.”
Good pro-life midwives need to somehow regain control of their organizations, much like so many parents are doing with their school boards right now.
To make abortion the default outcome of a pregnancy is a middle finger to God. Let’s see where that takes us.