Delaware Didn't "Learn the Lesson" of Schiavo The Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation, July 9, 2008
The Delaware House of Representatives has passed a resolution in support of protecting the life of Lauren Richardson, who like Terri Schiavo before her, is the subject of a bitter court fight over removing her feeding tube. The resolution states:
This Resolution establishes protections for mentally disabled individuals in the State of Delaware. The impetus for this Resolution comes from the case of Lauren Richardson, a 24-year-old Delaware woman who, after suffering brain injuries and impaired consciousness, now faces the possible removal of her nutrition and hydration, despite the absence of her clearly specified and legal consent to any such a course of action. The State of Delaware has, through recent legislation prompted by the abuses at the Delaware Psychiatric Center, endeavored to protect the rights of mentally disabled patients in the First State. Lauren, as a mentally disabled person, is enumerated those same protection and rights.
Too many of us dismiss people like Lauren--and I am not referring here to her mother who wants treatment stopped--as "vegetables" (a word that should not be used as it is as demeaning and dehumanizing as the odious N-word), "brain dead" (as the Orlando Sentinel unrepentantly did for so long regarding Terri), or other such denigration. Meanwhile, some bioethicists look longingly at these people as "living cadavers" who can be harvested for their organs or used in medical experimentation.
Good for the Delaware Assembly for not shrinking from such demagoguery.
‘Complication’ Implicates Planned Parenthood Life Advocacy Briefing, June 23, 2008
A STUDY ON RU-486 DEATHS HAS BEEN PUBLISHED in the Journal of Immunology, implicating off-label use of Cytotec in eight reported deaths of RU ingesters. Cytotec, also known as “misoprostol,” is the second drug in the two-drug cocktail approved by the federal Food & Drug Administration (FDA) for the chemical killing of a developing baby. It is Cytotec which causes expulsion of the remains after RU-486 kills the prenatal child.
In tying the deaths to what amounts to improper use of Cytotec, the University of Michigan study effectively implicates Planned Parenthood in the deaths, as at least four of the deceased mothers took Cytotec vaginally rather than orally. FDA protocol for the chemical abortion regimen calls for oral administration of Cytotec, but until 2006, notes Thaddeus Baklinski for LifeSiteNews.com, Planned Parenthood policy called for vaginal administration of the drug.
“When five patients died from the drug combination,” writes Mr. Baklinski, “PP quietly changed the policy to fall in line with FDA protocol.”
“‘Misoprostol appears to impair the immune response of cells in the reproductive tract,’” explained Dr. David Aronoff, who led the study, quoted by LifeSiteNews citing Michigan Messenger as source. Dr Aronoff noted that impairment “‘might explain the fatal outcome of the cases in which women used the drug vaginally. When the drug is given orally,’” he said, “‘it does not appear to have a suppressive effect on reproductive tract immunology.’” But although Cytotec was originally developed as an ulcer drug, it does have an expulsive effect on a developing human being when used in chemical abortion according to unethical FDA protocol, we at Life Advocacy Briefing note.
American Life League’s Jim Sedlak was appropriately quick to tie the news to Planned Parenthood’s involvement. “‘This is scandalous, if not criminal,’” he said in the LifeSiteNews story. “‘It’s time people stopped viewing Planned Parenthood as a responsible healthcare organization and saw it for what it is: a money-making, social engineering group that plies its trade of sex and abortion without regard to human life, born or preborn.’”
Family Research Council also weighed in, advising, writes Mr. Baklinski, “that although PP changed its guidelines for dispensing RU-486 in 2006, its defiance of FDA protocol continues in other ways as well. In addition to altering the suggested dosage,” reports LifeSiteNews, “PP urges women to take one of the drugs at home, disregarding the FDA’s warning that the second portion of the pill regime ‘should be done in a medical office to monitor women for complications.’”
Among those complications can be incomplete effect from the Cytotec drug, leaving some of the dead baby’s remains inside the mother – a major cause of lethal infection.
The post-mortem examination in the recent death of an 18-year-old British subject, reports Mr. Baklinski, “revealed Miss Jones died of hypovolemia, an abnormal decrease in blood volume and shock caused by what officials termed the ‘retained products of conception.’” Miss Jones had “bled to death,” writes Mr. Baklinski, “two weeks after having a legal chemical abortion.”
In the Jones case, her mother testified at inquest that her daughter and she were both traumatized by her passing the remains into a bedpan at home. At six weeks, the dead baby was already recognizable as what the mother now realizes was her grandchild.
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