This is terrible news. Not only is it terrible, but what they are now doing
is downright dangerous.

Let's not be fooled by what these abortionists are really up to. What this
new procedure -- abortion over the Internet -- is really all about is "Out
of sight, out of mind". In other words, one of the things that abortionists
and women fear most, is having their sin exposed, and women having to face
those people who oppose abortion. In short, by doing all of this quietly --
and secretly -- over the Internet, it substantially limits the degree of
stigma that these abortionists and women experience.

That this new approach to abortion is now being used creates such huge
potential for abuse on a very large scale.

The fact is that there are huge numbers of minors and young women who are
connected to the Internet. Except for the short visit to the clinic to
actually pick up the pills, these young people who are desperate to obtain
an abortion, and who want to keep it hidden from their parents, can now do
everything over the Internet; and you can be certain that there are many
unscrupulous doctors who will take advantage of this in order to rake in the
cash. As I have mentioned before, there are some states where it is possible
for a minor to obtain an abortion without parental consent.

Once abortion over the Internet becomes widely available, I have no doubt
that the number of abortions is going to skyrocket. The problem is, how
would we the public even know, since these abortions will be obtained
secretly over the Internet?

Mothers and fathers, you might want to start keeping a closer eye on what
your daughters are doing on the Internet!

What is also shocking about this article is where this is now happening --
in Iowa. Many people have longed viewed Iowa as a traditional, conservative
state in the middle of rural farmlands. However, that false image was
crushed when Iowa's Supreme Iowa lifted the ban on gay "marriage" in April
of last year. Now, with abortion over the Internet occurring in Iowa as
well, their image as a God-fearing, Bible-believing, conservative state is
totally crushed, in my view.


Abortion Drugs Given in Iowa via Video Link

By MONICA DAVEY - NYT

June 8, 2010


DES MOINES -- The situation has played out hundreds of times. From his
office here, a doctor asks a woman on the computer screen before him one
final question: Are you ready to take your pill?

In the Iowa system, a doctor consults by video with a patient at a clinic,
then remotely opens a drawer with two abortion drugs.

Then, with a click of his mouse, a modified cash register drawer pops open
in front of the woman seated next to a nurse in a clinic -- perhaps 100
miles from this city -- with mifepristone, the medicine formerly known as
RU-486, that is meant to end her pregnancy.

Efforts to provide medical services by videoconference, a notion known as
telemedicine, are expanding into all sorts of realms, but these clinics in
Iowa are the first in the nation, and so far the only ones, experts say, to
provide abortions this way.

Advocates say the idea offers an answer to an essential struggle that has
long troubled those who favor abortion rights: How to make abortions
available in far-flung, rural places and communities where abortion
providers are unable or unwilling to travel. So far only Planned Parenthood
clinics in Iowa use this method, but around the country, abortion providers
have begun asking how they might replicate the concept.

For some, however, the program tests the already complicated bounds of
telemedicine. Abortion opponents say they are alarmed, fearful for the
safety of women who undergo abortions after consulting with doctors who have
never actually been in the same room with them. Opponents filed a complaint
this spring with the Iowa Board of Medicine, arguing that a doctor's remote
clicking of a mouse hardly meets the state's law requiring licensed
physicians to perform abortions, and more objections are coming.

"This is a prescription for disaster," said Troy Newman, who
leads Operation
Rescue, which opposes abortion and, in May, took part in protests over the
telemedicine matter in Cedar Rapids. "You are removing the doctor-patient
relationship from this process. And think about it: With this scheme, one
abortionist sitting in his pajamas at home could literally do thousands of
abortions a week. This is about expanding their abortion base."

Abortion rights leaders dismiss the objections, and say this method has
proved largely safe, effective and -- to the surprise of some -- perfectly
acceptable with most patients.

"They are not really protesting the new technology," Dr. Vanessa Cullins,
the vice president for medical affairs at Planned Parenthood Federation of
America, said of the critics. "They are protesting abortion in general."

Though the efforts drew little attention until recently, Planned Parenthood
of the Heartland (which recently combined affiliate operations in Nebraska
with those in Iowa) has dispensed abortion medication using teleconferencing
equipment at 16 Iowa clinics since June 2008; 1,500 such abortions have been
performed in this state.

Federal authorities approved the use of abortion pills in the United States
in 2000. Since then, more than a million women have taken mifepristone,
followed a day or two later by a second drug, misoprostol. The option is
provided to women only early in pregnancy, up to nine weeks.

The total number of abortions nationally has declined in recent years, but
the percentage of women opting for abortions by medication -- as opposed to
the more common surgical alternative -- is growing.

Abortion providers say the pills are safe and mostly effective (successfully
ending about 97 in 100 pregnancies, according to Planned Parenthood). In
rare cases, such abortions have appeared related to sometimes fatal
infections caused by a bacterium, though federal authorities have found no
definitive link.

Some people, including Jill June, president and chief executive of Planned
Parenthood of the Heartland, have long seen the potential of abortion
medication as making it feasible for women in remote places, far from
surgical clinics and surgical abortion providers, to have access to
abortions in their own local doctors' offices. But that promise, Ms. June
said, has largely gone unfulfilled (many doctors have not offered the
pills), and that -- as well as a television show she saw one night in which
a doctor carried out elaborate surgery via a robotic device -- led her to
dream up Iowa's program.

"If they can do some of these complicated surgeries from miles and miles
away from an operating room, why can't I hand someone a pill across the
state?" Ms. June remembered thinking.

In the Planned Parenthood offices here, a demonstration of the abortion
procedure by teleconferencing reveals a process that feels not unlike any
ordinary doctor's office visit, but for the doctor appearing on a computer
screen on the desk and the unexpected sight of a cash register drawer
eventually flinging open with the needed drugs.

Before the videoconference begins, a patient in a distant clinic meets (in
person) with a nurse. There, blood tests, a medical history, an exam, an
ultrasound and counseling on matters like what to expect from the procedure
and plans for a follow-up exam are completed. The results are shared (by
computer) with a doctor miles away, and the doctor and the patient (at all
times accompanied by the nurse, who sits beside her) meet by videoconference
over a private network.

"I don't feel like something is lost or missing," Dr. Tom Ross, one of
Planned Parenthood's doctors, said.

Dr. Ross said he talked to patients -- asking his questions and answering
any of theirs -- as if he were speaking to them in person. In most cases, he
then clicks on a button that releases the drawer in front of the woman.
Inside are two bottles -- one for the mifepristone she will take
immediately, while still sitting in the clinic, and the other for the
misoprostol she will take later.

No serious complications have occurred in Iowa involving these
videoconference patients. And the patients, mainly, seem fine with the
procedure. They have a choice: when they call to seek an abortion, women who
live far from city clinics can either take abortion medication in a distant
office with the doctor on teleconference, or travel to the doctor.

It is uncertain how long it will take the State Board of Medicine to
investigate Operation Rescue's complaint that this method does not meet the
state requirement that licensed physicians -- not nurses or others --
perform abortions.

"One way or another, we're going to shut this scheme down," Mr. Newman of
Operation Rescue said. "Health care just isn't a one-size-fits-all package
of pills. And yet there it is -- prearranged, prepackaged, out pops that
package of pills -- pop!"

About a dozen states allow medical personnel with training less than that of
licensed doctors to perform abortions. In those places, mimicking Iowa's
system might have little purpose. But elsewhere, said Vicki Saporta,
president of the National Abortion Federation, which represents abortion
providers, such providers are watching Iowa with keen interest.



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