Once again, Yes On 26 press conferences say one thing, but a closer look shows another view entirely.
Today, Yes On 26 participated in a press conference at the Mississippi Baptist Convention. As usual, Dr. Freda Bush of Yes On 26 spoke:
Birth control pills would not be banned by the amendment, but any contraceptive that ended a pregnancy “will not be permitted,” Bush said.
Let’s look at who wqs hosting that press conference though: the Association of Pro-Life Physicians. If that name sounds familiar, it’s because we’ve talked about them before.
On ectopic pregnancy and lifesaving pregnancy care:
We find it extremely unfortunate that many pro-lifers have regarded the health of the mother to be a consideration in whether or not she should have the right to terminate the life of her pre-born baby….We do not consider this compromise consistent with pro-life Hippocratic principles at all. To intentionally kill or condone the intentional killing of one innocent human being precludes one from being considered “pro-life” at all. A murderer of one person is not any less a murderer if he allows thousands to live, nor if he saves thousands from dying!
Most of what passes as a therapeutic, or medically-necessary abortion, is not necessary at all to save the mother’s life.
A chemical abortion with a medicine called methotrexate is often recommended by physicians to patients with early tubal ectopic pregnancies, when the baby may still be alive, to decrease the chances of a surgical alternative being necessary later, but we have found this to be an unnecessary risk to human life.
time and patience will allow for spontaneous regression of the tubal ectopic pregnancy the vast majority of the time. So chemical or surgical removal of an ectopic pregnancy is not always necessary to save the mother’s life after all.
We will briefly examine the so-called progestin-only pill or “Minipill”, the IUD (intra-uterine device), and the morning-after pill or “emergency contraception”, each of which are clearly abortifacient.
There is an impressive amount of medical literature that claims that one of the ways oral contraceptives work is by preventing implantation of an embryo into the mother’s endometrium, which is the inner lining of the uterus.
Similarly, the breakthrough ovulation rate of progestin-only pills is 40 % according to one reputable study, and ranges from 14 to 84 %, which means that a large portion of the effectiveness of this modality is dependent on the abortifacient properties of the hormone.
We consider prescribing progestin-only pills to be a reckless disregard for human life and therefore the moral equivalent of a surgical or chemical abortion.
The press conference may say one thing, but even a cursory examination of the organizations involved says another thing completely.
That quote from the APLP is scary as hell. O.O
Logically consistent with the egg-as-full-legal-person view, but scary as hell.
Absolutely ignorant.