March 2019 – Article 1:
Our lost and violent world thunders that life is cheap—for the pre-born and the elderly and infirm.
One proof, women now proudly “shout” their abortion—shaking their fists at the God who gave them the precious gift of a child.
Fueling the carnage is the sad fact that killing the pre-born is also getting easier and cheaper, thanks to several developments in telemedicine.
The New Frontier – Telemedicine
One of the more recent examples is “Aid Access,” the Netherlands-based website that provides U.S. women with abortion pills (RU-486) without seeing anyone in person.
How much to kill your invaluable child? $95. Aid Access also offers funding assistance for those unable to come up with money.
Founded by abortion activist Rebecca Gomperts, the website claims to connect pregnant women with a “doctor” for a quick online consultation primarily to ensure they are not more than nine weeks pregnant. The abortifacient is not effective if taken later than that.
If accepted, the group sends a prescription to an Indian pharmacy Gomperts “trusts” and the pills are then mailed to the woman. Gomperts also makes herself available to answer questions via telephone or Skype.
The final step? The website advises: “It is best to flush everything down the toilet or to wrap the sanitary pads in a plastic bag and throw them away.” Anyone who experiences heavy bleeding is advised to go to a hospital and say they’re having a miscarriage.
While claiming the procedure is safe, the website says: “Under no circumstances will the Aid Access team or consultants be responsible for any type of loss or damage, including personal injury or death, resulting from anyone’s use of this Website or Service.”
Thankfully, the future may not bode well for the online killing service. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is investigating whether the site is violating restrictions the agency placed on the drug.
The rules require that RU-486 only be dispensed at medical offices, clinics, or hospitals by, or under the supervision of, a certified prescriber.
Aid Access’ ability to peddle its dangerous services in Georgia is unclear. Georgia law requires anyone (in this or another country) using telecommunications to provide medical services in the state, to have a state license. As with most laws, however, there is a potential loophole that could make it legal.
Since they only began operating last October, it is highly unlikely that the issue has been raised with state regulators.
Aid Access is not alone in pushing a more user friendly way to end a pre-born child’s life.
Telemedicine from Planned Parenthood
Planned Parenthood, which started the country’s first telemedicine abortion program in Iowa in 2008, last year promoted the fact that using RU-486 now represents nearly half of all abortions by releasing a video entitled: “Abortion’s New Frontier: Video Chat.”
Unlike Aid Access, Planned Parenthood’s program requires women who do not live near one of its facilities to go to a medical clinic where a nurse gives them an ultrasound and blood test. The pregnant woman is then provided with the pills.
The abortion giant is believed to be offing the service at more than 30 facilities in at least 10 states.
In an effort to keep a low profile, however, the unscrupulous abortion mill does not advertise the locations. Instead, women seeking a medication abortion are asked to call an 800 number. Georgia Right to Life called and was told the service is not available in Georgia.
Last month, an Idaho couple sued Planned Parenthood for $765,000 and other damages because the abortion pills the woman received did not kill her son.
Also seeking to expand telemedicine is the research organization Gynuity Health Projects, which is running a trial program in Hawaii, Maine, Oregon and Washington. The group lets women video chat with a doctor and then receive the pills in the mail along with “instructions.”
Guttmacher Plan to Expand Abortion Services
Not to be outdone, the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute released a report with seven initiatives for expanding abortion in 2019.
One was to push “self-managed abortions.” The report boldly claims: “Telemedicine is a safe and effective way of expanding access to medication abortion…policymakers must also mandate that Medicaid and private insurance plans not only cover abortion care, but also cover telehealth services to the same extent as in-person care.”
Other recommendations in the plan include:
- Pursue statutory and constitutional measures to codify abortion.
- Increase taxpayer-funded abortion.
- Force insurance companies to cover abortion.
- Eliminate informed consent.
- Affirm the right of women younger than 18 to get an abortion without parental consent.
- Use taxpayer funds to reimburse women who get an abortion and are otherwise not eligible for medical assistance, including illegal immigrants.
Internet-based Abortion Drug Sales
The last—and clearly the most unethical—method of obtaining abortion drugs is over the internet, where dozens of websites sell pills without a prescription, physician oversight, or even including instructions.
In 2015, GRTL spotlighted the case of an Albany, GA woman who took RU-486 and delivered her five and one-half-month-old baby in the back seat of a car while being driven to the hospital. The child lived for only 30 minutes.
The woman, who obtained the drug on the internet, was initially charged with murder, which was quickly reduced to the unlawful possession of a dangerous drug.
Abortion Procedures & Abortion Drugs are Dangerous
Lost in all the marketing hype and hyperbole is the proven fact that RU-486 is dangerous. Latest statistics from the FDA reveal a total of 4,185 cases of adverse effects from using the drug. The worst include:
- 22 deaths.
- 1,041 hospitalizations.
- 598 blood transfusions.
- 97 ectopic pregnancies.
- 411 infections, including 69 considered serious.
Given the difficulty in collecting such statistics—especially about women who get the drug directly off the internet—the actual number of all types of complications is no doubt much higher.
Please alert people in your sphere of influence regarding the dangers of this drug, and the likelihood of increased risk by taking RU-486 without the oversight of a doctor.
The sad reality of these developments is that telemedicine abortion is the new frontier of taking innocent lives. Continued and earnest prayer is needed to change minds and hearts.
Sources: liveaction.org; wired.com; cosmopolitan.com; aidaccess.org; theatlantic.com; lifesitenews.com; foxnews.com; plannedparenthood.org.
By Wayne DuBois
Georgia Right to Life
Media Relations Advisor