The Way around the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban
By Kevin Roeten (08/22/07)
It was only a matter of time. The reason why you don't hear more screams of discontent about the passage of the partial-birth abortion ban is because there is a legal way around it. It's being used more frequently than we know. You may or may not be familiar with the trade name "Lanoxin". It’s better known by its proper name--digoxin(dij ok' sen).
Per Steven Ertelt(LifeNews), the ban made it clear that an abortion can’t be done by mostly delivering an unborn child, and then jamming a suction tube into the still-covered skull, and sucking out all her brains. Clever people figured out “Why not kill the baby first, and then deliver the dead child’s body second?” Janet Crepps(attorney/ Center for Reproductive Rights) says, “One fail-safe way to protect against prosecution under the law is to ensure that fetal demise has occurred.”
Digoxin has been widely used for heart treatments before. Atrial fibrillation, atrial flutter, and congestive heart failure are only a few. It seems, however, that the occurrence of adverse drug reactions is common, owing to its narrow therapeutic index(the margin between effectiveness and toxicity). Adverse effects are concentration-dependent and include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, blurred vision, visual disturbances, confusion, nightmares, agitation, and/or depression. It’s also well understood that “death” of an unborn also results. Why would someone go though those conditions, unless they wanted to kill the child at all costs?
It may also be remembered that Charles Cullen admitted in 2003 to killing as many as 40 hospital patients with overdoses of heart medication(usually digoxin) at hospitals in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. On 3/10/06 he was sentenced to 18 consecutive life sentences. He is not eligible for parole for 397 years(USA Today/ Jan 06).
Lo and behold, they found that the drug digoxin could be dangerous if it is accidentally injected into the woman instead of the baby. But it’s ‘OK’ as long as it kills the baby. The drug has to be injected with a long needle into the abdomen, and many times it is not certain who gets injected.
According to Ertelt, abortion practitioners admitted to the Detroit News in various interviews that they are misusing digoxin in off-label use to do many second-trimester abortions. Renee Chelian(Executive Director/Northland Family Planning Centers) said the 3 Michigan abortion centers(under same name) use digoxin. Chelian has even blamed those actions on the Partial-Birth Abortion ban.
Actually it’s been known that the Northland abortion centers have been giving women digoxin for years. Women at the six abortion centers in Detroit run by WomanCare also seem to be misusing the drug. Alberto Hodari(Director WomanCare) confirmed to the newspaper that all women having abortions between 18 and 24 weeks of pregnancy will get digoxin.
Reports have surfaced that abortion facilities in Boston are also misusing the drug. Now, even the Boston Globe reports that Massachusetts General, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center have adopted policies making the digoxin process standard procedure for abortions. In most cases, staff members inject the digoxin into the bodies of the unborn children at 18-20 weeks to insure the baby is dead beforehand. Add to that Boston Medical Center, who has begun using digoxin for later-term surgical abortions.
Mark Nichols(Oregon Health & Science University) indicated he thinks the majority of abortion centers doing second term abortions are already using the digoxin. No kidding.
A few questions come to mind. 1)How many babies were killed using digoxin before most really knew? 2)How many of those babies would have also died from Partial-Birth abortion if the procedure had not been banned? 3)Because babies feel pain starting at 20 weeks, how much pain is there with an overdose of digoxin? 4)If using digoxin for abortion is eventually banned, how long will it take to find away ‘around’ this ban? 5)Wasn’t it necessary to commit a major felony before being sentenced to the death penalty?
Maybe we need to ask ourselves, “How close to Nazi Germany techniques have we devolved to so far?”
Kevin Roeten
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