Victory for Arizona’s Women: Planned Parenthood Ends Abortion Services at Seven Arizona Locations
Statement from Center for Arizona Policy President Cathi Herrod
PHOENIX – “Planned Parenthood has chosen to end their services rather than raise the standard of care they provide women to be at the same level as all other medical care in the state. For years, life advocates at the legislature have been saying that Arizona women deserve better than the substandard care Planned Parenthood provides.
The fact that Planned Parenthood can’t find doctors to work at their clinics is telling. Caring healthcare professionals, particularly doctors, don’t want to be a part of an industry that harms women and takes the lives of preborn children.
Thanks to the many pregnancy care centers throughout our state, women in rural Arizona will be able to find the support they need from loving individuals.”
For more information, visit www.azpolicy.org or contact Aaron Baer, 602.424.2525.
Center for Arizona Policy promotes and defends the foundational values of life,
marriage and family, and religious liberty.
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Must suck to be a libturd in AZ these days. They should just all move to CA! LOL
Congratulations Center for Arizona Policy! This is great news!
But remember these people are like blood-thirsty zombies who will come back from the dead and find some liberal judge who will overturn the law.
That’s OK (not really) because we’re not going away and besides, the pro-life movement is having children while pro-aborts are not. Demographics win in the end!
Is it really a victory for Arizona women? or Arizona men? I think moreso for Men who don’t really care about women’s situations.
It’s a victory for children. You know, kids, babies, cute little girls and boys.
In Africa, children today remain a woman’s social security. No kids or too few kids and the woman will starve in her older age. Lots of kids and they send their mother money, food, build her a nice house, take care of her, buy clothes for her, bring to her the grandkids to bless and all sorts of very charming and protective things our culture USED to teach our kids to do, but now we’ve all been too busy being self-fulfilled to teach what few children we have. Now women “need” the government to provide for them when they get old, which doesn’t work as well since they are just a number to the government, not a “mother” who has grown children who return the care she gave them when they needed it.
But, whassup with all that? Women today think they’re 29 forever, what old age? That’s icky thoughts for “squares,”. and kids have apaprently been denied their humanity, just “rug rats,” “problems” and “burdens.”
Yet women waltz around claiming they’re the “peaceakers” and the “non-violent” ones… all the while treating the cutest, most harmless and trusting beings on the planet as inconvenient blobs. HOW does one deliver actual justice and actual peace when one cannot even acknowldge another person’s humanity and right to life? It’s NOT possible.
These days, our soldiers are showing more maternal protectiveness and tenderness that mothers once used to give out freely. They’re over in other countries hunting down terrorists who blow up kindergartens, then coming back after the battle to hand out teddy bears with pink ribbons for little girls to take home and hug at night. They never call those kids “burdens” and constantly send letters home to request more toys and candies to give the kids who have nothing nice to play with.
What the hell happened to women in this country? It seems that the more one has, the more selfish one becomes.
“Women today think they’re 29 forever, what old age?”
Things have been going downhill since they passed the 19th amendment, I’ll tell you what.
“Is it really a victory for Arizona women? or Arizona men? I think moreso for Men who don’t really care about women’s situations.”
IDIOT ALERT!
Julie,
You are sorely misled. This issue specifically is pro-woman, pro-knowledge, pro-child and pro-choice! Planned Parenthood is a major corporation that makes its vast majority of profits from abortion. They have fought tooth and nail from their eugenic-based origins to keep women in the dark and prevent them from knowing the biological facts about their pregnancies. They exploit women by playing on their emotions but failing to tell them the long-term harmful emotional, physical, and spiritual effects of abortion. MANY women including some Planned Parenthood employees have stepped forward to expose Planned Parenthood’s practices. They’ve even been caught red-handed covering up incest case where adult men were caught taking advantage of minor girls. So I would tell you that Planned Parenthood is a business that takes advantage of women when they are vulnerable and even enables men to do the same.
I hope next year that The Center for Arizona Policy goes after the abortion industry reporting requirements. For too long Planned Parenthood has been underreporting the number of abortions performed in Arizona to the state and its time the data was provided accurately. In fact, in calendar year 2009 (the last year Arizona data is available), there were 10,045 abortions reported to AZDHS by Arizona residents.
And according to the AZDHS website: “In calendar year 2008, the Arizona Department of Health Services received 10,396 reports of abortions obtained by Arizona residents” (link). Alan Guttmacher, the research/statistic arm of Planned Parenthood, for that same year reported that “19,500 women obtained abortions in Arizona” (link). While their report expands that to include women from other states, it’s hard to believe a disparity of over 9,000 women made up that difference.
This leads back to my point in the significant disparity of how abortion is reported in the State of Arizona. I hope CAP takes this up as part of their upcoming legislative agenda.
Shane —we were able to get a new reporting law passed last year (I think it was last year –didn’t check the date before posting). We have started to get the reporting data in. For the first 10 months, the number was approximately 13,500. You and I long wanted to see a solid reporting law. That is in place. Now the challenge is to make sure that the complication reports are filed, etc. We should be able to get real time data reporting as the reporting is electronic –much more simplified than in prior years.
Planned Parenthood has stated in court proceedings that they perform 10,000 abortions annually with half being surgical and half being medication. That’s a key reason why it is critical to provide state regulation of medication abortions.
So you take the 10,000 from Planned Parenthood then figure Arizona has at least another 5,000 from other abortion providers if not more.
Cathi Herrod
Excellent news Cathi! I was unaware that the law had been improved which is great news! Congratulations again for all the incredible work you do on behalf of women, the unborn and families!
Cathi,
Does the reporting requirement follow the patient so that we can have solid and accurate information on the actual aftermath of abortions? If we had that, we could use it to keep the current law in place.
I agree that Planned Parenthood cannot be trusted and will now be using some other way to get around current laws.
Thank you CAP!
I will never be able to understand how tremendous life-saving victories like this lead CAP take on other life and death issues like…casinos and the judicial selection process?
Focus, people.
Phillip, You are not alone having difficulties understanding CAP.
Julie is perhaps the most focused poster on this subject.
It is no secret that the “Right To Life” Jockeys are largely old geysers, barren women and Biblibans, not unlike Taliban’s but who use not the Koran but another book written by men who didn’t know the earth was round let alone it spun around the sun while spinning around itself.
We live currently in the 21st Century and neither the Government nor organized religion nor any other Jack-Legs have any business messing with what should be a private matter between an Individual and the individuals medical adviser.
Now I admit I have not studied the African Culture in Africa and the elder care that may be customarily over there. I take wanumba’s word for it.
Here in the good old U.S.of A. serial breeding only benefits the younger females. They get title 7 or title 9 free rent in an apartment in one of the projects like Cabrini Green in Chicago or similar projects in Saint Louis and elsewhere and by the time one of them gets to be 29 the have 8 kids from as many different spermers, no need for paternity test they don’t pay anyway, and they expect and get the Government check every month and the food stamps and plenty of them to cash in the unused stamps for a good bottle of bourbon for when the M.F. (a term used in lieu of father) visits to sperm #9 he is adequately primed for the occasion.
By the time that Mama is 65 and needs Social Security all her offspring is either shot, knifed or in a jail and she is on welfare.
Perhaps wanumba or our POTUS might have a plan how to get her and her kids back into Africa? That would solve a lot of budgetary problems. Oh My, it might even restore our AAA Rating with S&P.
Short of that CAP could perhaps come up with a good plan to fund the costs of raising, educating, adjudicating, incarcerating, jailing, probating, etc. all those loving Jesus babies that responsible females don’t want to carry to term..
How about getting the Churches to pool their vast resources and get those cost off the federal budget?
I am certain good Christians would love to take care of that burden, or would they not?
Horst,
Your ignorance on the subject of Christianity, care for the poor and abortion is blaring.
Your hate for CAP, as everyone who know you knows, has nothing to do with this subject.
I wish you didn’t pretend to be Republican. It’s embarrassing.
Travis,
I never pretend anything. I am what I am, still a Fiscal Conservative Republican.
I do not hate CAP, I despise them, just like I despise any Self Righteous Self Anointed Center for this or that Meddlers in Perpetuity.
Those who meddle in the private affairs of their fellow men, because they have nothing better to do, or they need to overcome their own insecurity of being and can’t grasp reality of life.
Abortion is still a legal option to terminate pregnancy for every woman in this State and in our society.
The particular provisions of the law that were addressed in this blog have only one purpose namely to inhibit access to a rightful medical procedure. It underlines Biblical Doctrine that a woman is still a chattel and subject to submission.
For what it is worth, Bachman just this weekend had to jump through hoops to explain her interpretation of “Submission”.
She did this very diplomatically not to loose the young College-educated female vote.
Horst Kraus
How about getting the Churches to pool their vast resources and get those cost off the federal budget?
I am certain good Christians would love to take care of that burden, or would they not?
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So how are Christians supposed to teach abstinence, marriage, family responsibility when folks like you snicker and scoff and encourage who are living in a disfunctional manner with no marriage, no commitments to NOT listen to good counsel?
You undermine everything by advocating selfish indulgence and then stand off and blame people’s circumstances on the presumed fail of through an evolutionary concept of “race,” not a failure of the Biblcal concept of individual responsibility.
You expect your words have effects. They do. Not the ones needed to affect postive and mature change to live more responsibly.
And Christans are very busy helping people, always have been. Liberals never like to show it because they don’t want to have to put up what they aren’t doing for anyone. Doesn’t compare well.
And for all the dismissive sniffing about a book “written by men” – would a book written by a yucca plant be more credible to you?
“So how are Christians supposed to teach abstinence, marriage, family responsibility when folks like you snicker and scoff and encourage who are living in a disfunctional manner with no marriage, no commitments to NOT listen to good counsel?”
I don’t know. Seems like these Christians are wasting their money.
Let’s use the Palins as an example. For instance, now two of the brood (Palin and what’s-his-name… Wiffle? Track?) are now confirmed to have had sex out of wedlock and both concieved out of wedlock. That’s a 40% failure rate (and the other two daughters aren’t out of the woods and betrothed yet). Whatever the Church spent might as well have been put in a bonfire on the church lawn, covered in kerosene, and set ablaze.
Phillp J. Fry: So that’s my story, Father Changstein-El-Gamal. Is there anything religion can do to help me?
Father Changstein-El-Gamal: Well, we could join together in
prayer.
Phillp J. Fry: Uh-huh. But is there anything useful we could do?
Father Changstein-El-Gamal: No.
wanumba,
First, when it comes to the subject of abstinence, I am not really qualified. May I suggest you ask Bristol Palin, that is Sarah Palins’ daughter, she and her Mama wrote the book on abstinence and the consequences of the lack of it.
Next, where do you come off accusing me of:
“when folks like you snicker and scoff and encourage who are living in a disfunctional manner with no marriage, no commitments to NOT listen to good counsel?
You undermine everything by advocating selfish indulgence and then stand off and blame people’s circumstances on the presumed fail of through an evolutionary concept of “race,” not a failure of the Biblcal concept of individual responsibility.”
For your information, Mister WONUMBA, my wife and I were High School sweethearts in sixth grade (1944), we enjoyed an extra extensive period of a loving romance, married in 1953 and we will celebrate our 58th wedding anniversary next month. It will be a bash!
A well functional Family Bash indeed, including Children, Grand Children and Great Grand Children, all our [functional] offspring; and many, many friends as well.
You could be on the guest list if you have the guts to tell me who you are.
Finally, The book I was making reverence to was not that it was written by men. We all know it was. What is significant is that it was written by MEN who did not know their hole from a hole in the ground.
What is even more critical is that this book is now often cited as an authority and basis by this, that and any other Center of Whatever [mostly] Bull Manure.
Uh, Horst and I probably agree that 2+2=4 but that’s about it. I wish CAP to be more successful, not less.