by Babette Francis
 While in New Zealand at the Voice for Life conference in November, Bernard Moran, president of Voice for Life, drew my attention to the revamped website of the Abortion Law Reform Association of New Zealand.
The opening page has an appealing picture of a beautiful little girl and the accompanying blurb says: “Children are important. Every child needs to be loved and wanted.”
Quite — but then on the website are complaints that termination of pregnancy, which (it is alleged) should be solely a health issue, comes under the Crimes Act, and that women should have a choice about whether to continue with the pregnancy. So terminating that beautiful little girl’s life should not be a crime?
Stacy Trasancos, PhD, is a scientist-turned-homemaker raising seven children with her husband in Massachusetts. She is pursuing an MA in theology at Holy Apostles College and Seminary, is chief editor at Virtuous Planet and blogs at Accepting Abundance. In articles for LifeNews.com, Stacy writes about her “virtual tour” of abortion clinic websites.
A clinic in New York advertises: “Gentle Abortions, No Pain, No Memory”. (No memory of what?). General anaesthesia is provided for late-term abortions. (The mother is asleep while her child is killed).
Next Stacy describes another website representing “a unique sort of place in NYC that isn’t even a clinic; it’s something else. They do ‘natural abortions’ with no disturbing suction noise, a ‘five minute procedure’ from which you will ‘immediately recover’.
“Then there was the clinic in Orlando that offers a ‘medical abortion at 24 weeks’, a procedure whereby a six-month-old viable unborn child can be poisoned in the womb and the mother can go home and deliver the dead baby in privacy so she can ‘say goodbye’ in her own way. And they offer a $50 discount on Sundays.
“Next stop — Michigan, where women are treated with a ‘more holistic approach’, and ‘stress-reducing, therapeutic relaxation techniques in a warm soothing atmosphere’ to treat the ‘whole body’.
“There is ‘soft lighting and relaxing music’ and aromatherapy to encourage a ‘deeper state of relaxation before, during and after the abortion procedure’. This makes them different. Meet Northland Family Planning. They take a spiritual attitude toward abortion. They ‘believe’ and they ‘promise’.
“What do they believe and promise? That the ‘best decision about a pregnancy is one that connects your head and your heart’. What does that mean? Or is it just supposed to sound pretty?
“They also believe that the ‘state-scripted information is inaccurate and misleading’, and so they promise ‘to provide medically accurate informed consent’. But what is it? It isn’t disclosed.
“They believe that ‘abortion does not have to hurt’, and they promise ‘to offer you safe choices and high quality pain management’. How nice.
“In this grandiose scheme to holistically treat the pain-free, aromatherapied woman and give her ‘medically accurate’ information’, they describe the abortion procedure. They promise their doctors will ‘take gentle medical and surgical steps to remove fetal life support and cause fetal death before removing the pregnancy’.
“Making a choice about your pregnancy can be a gift of learning and growth. It is an invitation for you to develop a larger vision of yourself. It’s a way to practise compassion and loving kindness toward your self.” Read more here. |
DENVER (CBS4) – Pro-choice groups are looking to cash in on Denver Broncos quarterback and anti-abortion activist Tim Tebow.
be enforced while opponents challenge the measure in court, a federal appeals court said Tuesday in a ruling that signaled the judges believe the law is constitutional.
(CNSNews.com) – New Hampshire Right to Life is suing the Obama administration in an attempt to force the release of information regarding $1-million in taxpayer money awarded to Planned Parenthood’s six New Hampshire clinics. 