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Hillary Clinton Continues Campaign Theme: Pro-Life Advocates Increasing Abortion
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by Steven ErteltLifeNews.com EditorMay 18, 2006
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Continuing what is rapidly becoming the campaign theme for the 2006 elections, Hillary Clinton, the pro-abortion New York senator and likely 2008 presidential candidate, has sent out a fundraising letter claiming pro-life lawmakers and advocates are to blame for abortions.
Frustrated that Americas are increasingly pro-life and opposed to abortions in most situations, abortion advocates like Clinton are trying to turn the tables in their favor.
Knowing Americans want to reduce the number of abortions and are generally supportive of contraception, pro-abortion groups lawmakers are accusing pro-life advocates of supporting abortions by opposing efforts to promote contraception.
Clinton makes the allegation that because pro-life lawmakers are opposing bills to mandate contraception coverage in insurance plans or allowing sales of the morning after pill, which can cause abortions, over the counter, they must not want to reduce abortions.
"There's a quiet war going on in America," Clinton says in a recent fundraising letter.
She says "a small group of extreme ideologues" are "waging this silent war on contraception" with the help of President Bush and pro-life lawmakers in Congress.
The letter touts a new resolution Clinton introduced with pro-abortion New York Rep. Nita Lowey, a Democrat, that calls on Congress to support new campaigns to promote contraceptive use.
"Low-income women, denied access to contraception, are having more unwanted pregnancies -- four times as many as those for higher income women. And almost half of all unwanted pregnancies end in abortion," Clinton says.
"It's time to find out if Congress is serious about reducing unwanted pregnancies and abortions," she says.
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Father to Tell Congress About Holly Patterson's RU 486 Abortion Drug Death
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by Steven ErteltLifeNews.com EditorMay 17, 2006
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Holly Patterson wasn't supposed to die. An active, vibrant 18 year-old California girl, Patterson found herself unexpectedly pregnant during the second week of August 2003. She was so distraught over her unplanned pregnancy that she sought help for depression from her family doctor the next month.
The same day, she went to a local abortion business and got the RU 486 abortion drug -- and it eventually took her life.
Her father, Monty Patterson, will share her story with Congress today and urge lawmakers to pass legislation named after her that would remove the drug from the market while officials study how it has killed seven women and injured 950 more.
Though the Food and Drug Administration held a meeting with scientists last week to examine the problems, Patterson says he still feels not enough has been done to protect women like Holly.
"I've been pushing for answers, and there are still many to be given," he told the Washington Post.
"I think it's important to look at everything associated with the drug -- how it was approved, whether all the adverse events are being reported, and the science behind its relation to clostridium," he said, referring to the lethal infections the drug has produced.
"Our message out there to everyone is that we wouldn't want to have, see anybody have to go through what we have had to go through here. In such a short period of time, our daughter was with us and the next day she's gone," Patterson said. Patterson died in September 2003 from a severe infection brought on by taking the abortion pill, also known as Mifeprex, that she received from a San Francisco-area Planned Parenthood.
When Patterson began experiencing severe pain and bleeding from the second part of the two-drug abortion process, she went to ValleyCare Medical Center in Pleasanton, California. Doctors there gave her painkillers and sent her home.
After three days of no improvement, she returned to ValleyCare early in the morning. Holly Patterson died that afternoon.
Monty Patterson said he only learned of Holly's pregnancy hours before she died.
Following Patterson's death, the California Department of Health Services conducted an investigation.
The agency's report, provided to LifeNews.com, indicates Patterson's boyfriend "called the [Planned Parenthood] call center several times to report severe cramping, constipation, nausea, vomiting, and visits to the local acute care hospital emergency room."
It revealed Planned Parenthood failed to follow its own internal policies for informing women on how to use the RU 486 abortion drug.
The state health agency said Planned Parenthood of Hayward did not have Patterson sign one of the three forms the abortion business says it normally requires women obtaining chemical abortions to sign.
The state review also found that the abortion facility failed to provide Patterson with "full information and education on the procedure of self-administration of a drug intravaginally."
Since more women have died from using the second part of the two-part abortion drug vaginally, Planned Parenthood has since changed its policies and now follows FDA protocols by telling women to use the drug orally.
An Alameda County Coroner's report confirmed that the use of RU 486 resulted in an incomplete abortion that led to uterine infection and caused Holly's death.
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1 comment:
Hillary Clinton wouldn't know her ass from a hole in the ground. It doesn't suprise me to boost her image she would place blame on pro-lifers. Hopefully people become aware of what a corrupt and dishonest individual she is, and she is not elected President in 2006. You cannot force insurance companies to cover birth control for contraceptive use, anymore than you can force them to cover other optional treatments. There are many other options to birth control other than the pill, shot, patch, ring... the list goes on. I don't see why it must soley be a woman's responsibilty to practice birth control. Last time I checked they still sold condoms at the store. Contraceptives such as the pill put hormones and chemicals into your body. Though the side effects are mild and known for the most part, what about the reports you don't hear? How many woman become severly depressed from the use of an oral contraceptive? I had petit mal seizures on the pill. I become grossly obese on the shot. How many woman still become pregnant on birth control even when used properly? Why should we force bitrh control upon women? Does Hillary Clinton really believe that the country feels the government should be allowed to tell us how we should and shouldn't prevent unwanted pregnancies?
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