Tea at Trianon: Don’t Believe Pro-Abortion Misinformation

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Sunday, July 3, 2022

Don’t Believe Pro-Abortion Misinformation

From The Daily Wire:

In an ectopic pregnancy, a fertilized egg implants and grows outside the uterus, usually in one of the fallopian tubes. Ectopic pregnancies are never viable and always put the mother’s life at risk because a growing fetus can burst the fallopian tube causing major internal bleeding. Necessary treatment includes medication or surgery to remove the pregnancy and sometimes the fallopian tube. Not a single pro-life law denies this care because the treatment is understood to be different than an abortion, morally and medically. As highlighted by LiveAction, WebMD, Mayo Clinic, and even admitted by abortion mill Planned Parenthood, the treatment is not an abortion.
“Treating an ectopic pregnancy isn’t the same thing as getting an abortion,” Planned Parenthood says on its website. “Ectopic pregnancies are unsafely outside of your uterus (usually in the fallopian tubes), and are removed with a medicine called methotrexate or through a laparoscopic surgical procedure. The medical procedures for abortions are not the same as the medical procedures for an ectopic pregnancy.”
Dr. Christina Francis, M.D., a board-certified OB/GYN and associate scholar at Charlotte Lozier Institute, explained the same.
“My heart is breaking that women are being made to feel fearful by the misinformation that’s out there,” she said. “Treating ectopic pregnancies or miscarriages or other life-threatening conditions in pregnancy is not the same thing as an abortion.”
“Chemical abortions, which are being heavily promoted by the abortion industry and its allies, cannot treat an ectopic pregnancy according to the FDA,” Dr. Francis said. “The treatments for ectopic pregnancy are not the same procedures used by induced abortions, which even Planned Parenthood admits.”
“As a pro-life OB/GYN who’s practiced my entire career in hospitals that do not allow abortions, I have never been prevented from safely treating an ectopic pregnancy,” she added.
Former abortionist Dr. Steve Hammond told The Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro this week that it’s “ridiculous” to think ectopic pregnancies will be barred from being treated, noting that such pregnancies were treated back in the 1950s, before Roe V. Wade. Notably, 13 states have “trigger” abortion bans that went into effect after Roe was overturned or are slated to take effect soon. The language of all 13 new state abortion bans specifies that the bans do not apply in cases where the mother’s life is at risk. Some of the new abortion bans even specifically mention ectopic pregnancies and miscarriages.
Georgia’s new abortion ban, for example, which could take effect soon, prohibits abortion except in the case of rape, incest, or when the mother’s life is at risk. Abortion was previously legal in Georgia for up to 20 weeks.
“Any such act shall not be considered an abortion if the act is performed with the purpose of removing a dead unborn child caused by spontaneous abortion or removing an ectopic pregnancy,” the Georgia bill states.
Miscarriages, where a baby tragically dies in a woman’s womb, are not illegal. And there is no pro-life legislation seeking to criminalize women who suffer natural miscarriages. Misinformation around this has spread online, since post-miscarriage, some women need a procedure also used in first-term abortions. Of course, in this case, the doctor is not ending the unborn child’s life first. A dilation and curettage, known as a D&C, is often a traumatic procedure for mothers, where doctors have to remove the deceased baby from inside the uterus. In some abortions, doctors intentionally poison and dismember the unborn baby before removing it in a D&C. These situations are not the same, and doctors know this. It will not be criminalized to receive treatment for a miscarriage. (Read more.)