Lie News Lies about Ultrasound and Informed Consent

Lienews lives up to its appellation by attempting to rip apart a well-done piece by Catherine Rampell on Politics in the Exam Room, which concerns abortion and other issues.

"As always, pro-life measures or what women-helping groups provide for pregnant women are dismissed because the appropriate “experts” disagree."

Yes, those would be ACTUAL MEDICAL EXPERTS.

" For example, for all the reasons that we’ve written about for years, which begin with basic biology, an induced abortion will increase the risk that a woman will subsequently be stricken with breast cancer. That is not, as Rampell insists it is, “junk science.” It is rather science that offers an inconvenient truth and therefore must be mocked and dismissed and shoved into the corner."

The American College of OB-GYNs thinks it's junk science to link abortion and breast cancer.

"If “junk science” is the second way “states are trying to politicize medicine,” what is the third, according to Rampell?...“Ultrasounds,” for one, “mandatory waiting periods for abortions,” for another. Hmmm.

Is having an abortion without seeing whom it is that a woman is obliterating a “data-driven” decision? Hardly."

Anti-choicers think women who view an ultrasound are less likely to abort, studies show that isn't true.  And 60% of women having abortions are mothers, so they've seen some ultrasounds!

Fetal development has no bearing on whether a woman can undergo a pregnancy, so why force them to look at an ultrasound?

"The whole point of the assembly-line abortion machinery is to keep the woman (or girl) from considering her options; from taking a deep breath; and from allowing her to heed the better angels of her nature."

LIES! Women in Texas are waiting 20 days for an appointment on average. Most women have considered their options in the event of unplanned pregnancy before it happens. Most women are driving miles and miles where they have plenty of time to ponder.

 “Look, there obviously is a role for policymakers to play in setting laws that promote public health,” Rampell concludes, in her best pretend middle-of-the-road manner. “But those laws should be grounded in scientific evidence, not attempts to reward campaign donors, appease the political base and shame women.”

So, to be clear, there are no reasons to pass any of these laws except to “appease the political base and shame women”?"

CORRECT!

" Are legislators “appeasing the political base” when they pass a law that says you can’t abort an unborn baby who is capable of experiencing excruciating pain, a capability which an abundance of scientific evidence says begins no later than at 20 weeks?"

Fetuses don't feel pain at 20 weeks.

"Are they “shaming women” when they pass legislation to prevent dismemberment abortions–abortions that twist off little arms and legs by the use of brute manual force, using a long stainless steel clamping tool? You know, the kind of “technique” that if used on an animal would rightly cause an uproar."

Those fetuses can't feel pain, and that's how 2nd-trimester abortions are done, only 10% of abortions.


LIE news lives up to its name...

Ohio TRAP Law

As Lienews reports, "An Ohio judge has stopped the state health department and pro-life Governor John Kasich from closing two Cincinnati-area abortion clinics that have been breaking state law"


Oh, wow, breaking the law. That sounds serious.

"The abortion facilities had requested that they be exempt from a state law that mandates abortion facilities to maintain hospital transfer agreements."

So, let me give you some background. "Transfer agreements" are fundamentally bullshit. Hospitals HAVE to accept emergency patients no matter where they're coming from. But what they did in Ohio was to mandate that abortion clinics must have transfer agreements, THEN THEY BANNED PUBLIC HOSPITALS FROM MAKING TRANSFER AGREEMENTS WITH ABORTION CLINICS!!!!

So the only thing left was private hospitals, many of which are Catholic and won't sign anything with an abortion clinic. When one of the abortion clinics found a hospital 52 miles away in Michigan, the health department ruled it was not a "local" hospital.

So Ohio made a law just to close abortion clinics and the law isn't even medically sound. That's the very definition of a TRAP (targeted regulation of abortion providers) law.

" The Women’s Med Center in Dayton and Planned Parenthood in Cincinnati have been unable to qualify for hospital transfer agreements and sought the exemption by submitting an agreement with other physicians to provide emergency care for their botched abortion patients. However, the clinics were unable to secure the required four physicians with hospital privileges who were willing to treat women hospitalized with abortion-related complications."

"Unable to qualify" this is an outright lie. The hospitals are either banned or refuse to grant the agreement, there are no qualifications!

Also, why do you need 4 doctors who say they'll treat abortion complications? ALL doctors are required to treat people who come in the ER!

Anti-choicers who promote these TRAP laws are liars.

Anti-Choice Quotes: When Pregnancy is Dangerous, and When It's Not

Anti-choicers famously refuse to think of pregnancy as a serious condition, due to it being "natural." They frequently minimize the permanent effects and risk of death and praise modern medicine's ability to get so many women safely through the process.

Interestingly, however, Lienews is glad to leverage a pregnant woman's death for their own purposes, since she was a surrogate.

"An American woman has died while acting as a surrogate for a Spanish couple, as did the unborn twins she was carrying. This is the first known American women to die from a surrogate pregnancy. Other surrogates have died around the world, including an Indian woman acting as a surrogate for a U.S. couple."

 “American women are being paid to put themselves at significant physical risk every day in this country to produce babies for others,” said Jennifer Lahl, R.N., M.A., President of the CBCN, which believes surrogacy should be outlawed in the U.S."

 “Surrogacy, particularly of the commercial variety, exploits (mostly) poor and destitute women–sometimes at a terrible toll to physical and/or emotional health, and occasionally, as here, at the cost of their lives,” he said."

Notice the rank hypocrisy here! Women face "significant physical risk" and have a "terrible toll" on their health from these PAID pregnancies they choose to undergo (now, there are substantive feminist critiques of surrogacy, especially in developing countries, but we'll set that aside for now), but somehow these are not important considerations when deciding whether or not to force women to continue unplanned pregnancies?

Now, the quotes listed are not from Lienews, but Lienews reported them in their anti-surrogacy fervor. Does Lienews report on every maternal death in the US? Definitely not.