After Vermont incident, nurse tells pro-life nurses to stay out of health care
Associate professor and clinician-scientist Monica R. McLemore wrote in an op-ed that nurses who don’t want to provide abortions should not go into health care.
Vermont hospital violated nurse’s conscience rights on abortion, HHS says
“Forcing medical staff to assist in the taking of human life inflicts a moral injury on them that is not only unnecessary and wrong, it violates long-standing federal law,” Roger Severino, director of the HHS Office of Civil Rights, said in a statement.
State Headliners: VT’s largest hospital deceptively, unlawfully forced pro-life nurse to help perform abortion
The University of Vermont Medical Center deceptively and unlawfully forced a known pro-life nurse to participate in an abortion procedure, the Office of Civil Rights for the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services reported today.
Actress Alyssa Milano says life would be ‘lacking all its great joys’ without her abortions
Milano obtained her first abortion in 1993 but became pregnant again a few months later and then obtained her second abortion. She said that this was the right decision for her, and that if she had not obtained these abortions her life would be lacking its “great joys.”
Statehouse Headliners: Vermont to give $750,000 to Planned Parenthood to make up for lost Title X revenue
The state of Vermont will give an estimated $750,000 of Vermont taxpayer money to Planned Parenthood of New England, to offset the federal Title X funding it lost by choosing to continue to perform abortions.
Planned Parenthood sides with abortion over Title X funds. Here’s what it means.
Planned Parenthood is making good on its threat to choose abortion over Title X funds. Title X is a federal program that focuses on providing family planning and related preventive services to low-income Americans at little or no cost.
Planned Parenthood may withdraw from Title X funding rather than comply with Trump admin
Planned Parenthood will formally withdraw from Title X funding by Aug. 19 unless a federal court intervenes. The Trump administration declared in July that taxpayer-funded clinics must stop referring women for abortions effective immediately.
Former Planned Parenthood prez said crisis pregnancy centers misinform. Here’s what they actually do
Former Planned Parenthood President Leana Wen said Sunday that crisis pregnancy centers misinform, shame and deter women from getting abortions, but employees at the Capitol Hill Crisis Pregnancy Center disagree.
Planned Parenthood can’t comply with latest standards to receive Title X funds
After a judge approved a Trump administration rule change pertaining to which family planning clinics may receive Title X funding, Planned Parenthood in Vermont says it will lose funds amounting to $800,000.
Abortion debate shows how media deploys language gymnastics to serve left-wing goals
Not only is coverage of abortion highly skewed, but it’s clear that the language used to describe it is made to soften the reality of what the practice is, while diminishing the concerns of those who believe fundamental rights are being violated.
Bernie promises pro-abortion justices and higher middle-class taxes, says ‘assault weapons’ should be banned
In a debate filled with statements revealing the Democratic Party’s shift leftward, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders pledged to appoint only pro-abortion justices, raise taxes on the middle class and prohibit so-called assault weapons.
A different ‘choice’: New pregnancy clinic to open Thursday in Rutland
The First Step Pregnancy Clinic, which offers pregnant women immediate help and choices for their babies other than abortion, will have its grand opening and open house Thursday evening.