Almost three weeks ago, the Germantown Reproductive Health Services was visited for the fourth time by an ambulance - actually, two in this case. As with the other cases, a botched abortion job occasioned the visits from the ambulances.
Operation Rescue obtained some heavily redacted tapes pertaining to the 911 call that summoned the ambulances there. They also obtained some rather odd prohibitions on use of public records. OR president Troy Newman believes that Montgomery County Council's actions are part and parcel of an attempt to cover up yet another botch-job by Leroy Carhart. Knowing the composition of the Montgomery County Council, I believe Newman's suspicions to be very reasonable. Newman has had a track record of successful use of similar recordings in the past. The Council probably knows this and are trying to circle their wagons.
I truly hope that the Council sees the light of day and orders Michael Baltrotsky, Operations Supervisor of Montgomery County Fire and Rescue, to cease and desist any action against Newman. I believe neither he nor the Council has any legals grounds on which to stand. Given their most recent defeat with the pregnancy center law (costing the county quite a pretty penny), can they afford to have more egg on their faces - especially before the November elections?
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Friday, April 1, 2011
Immoral Sidewalk Counseling Techniques
Yes, I realize that sounds like an oxymoron, but that is what I must describe below. In this clip, you'll hear Troy Newman, Mark Crutcher and some other people interview a sidewalk counselor who calls herself "Rachel Smith"; that is a pseudonym.
During the telephone interview, she states that she was discouraged at not being able to talk to abortion-minded women going into the abortuary. She herself has a number of children, including a baby girl. She states that the baby is five months old, but because of her birth size, appears to be two-three months old.
She got a "brainstorm" to walk into the abortuary to get a pregnancy test. Now here comes the morally problematic part. She took her baby girl with her. As she was talking with women in the abortuary's waiting room, she passed her baby around to the women. They held her, and they just kept passing the child along.
In the beginning, the panel asks, "why didn't we think of this sooner/ourselves?" There might be one simple reason for that. What the woman did, regardless of her honest motives, was inherently immoral. I'm not looking at her motives, which I have no business addressing, but the action itself.
During the telephone interview, she states that she was discouraged at not being able to talk to abortion-minded women going into the abortuary. She herself has a number of children, including a baby girl. She states that the baby is five months old, but because of her birth size, appears to be two-three months old.
She got a "brainstorm" to walk into the abortuary to get a pregnancy test. Now here comes the morally problematic part. She took her baby girl with her. As she was talking with women in the abortuary's waiting room, she passed her baby around to the women. They held her, and they just kept passing the child along.
In the beginning, the panel asks, "why didn't we think of this sooner/ourselves?" There might be one simple reason for that. What the woman did, regardless of her honest motives, was inherently immoral. I'm not looking at her motives, which I have no business addressing, but the action itself.
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