Commentary

The Idaho House State Affairs Committee voted overwhelmingly to place common-sense restrictions on the Abortion Industry when dispensing chemicals like RU-486.

 Planned Parenthood and friends like the League of Women Voters fought hard to persuade legislators that women and girls don’t need to be protected from substandard medical care – but they rebuffed.

Legislators heard from people like Ms. Susan Thayer, a woman who worked as a Clinic Director for Planned Parenthood in Iowa. She was fired by Planned Parenthood after she raised concerns about their plan to turn every one of their killing centers into a “webcam” abortion facility:

“For Planned Parenthood, it was a solution to the shortage of doctors willing to travel the state doing surgical abortions,” Ms. Thayer told legislators on Monday. “With no doctor, nurse or any medical staff on site, transvaginal ultrasounds are done by entry-level and non-medical staff.”

Thayer testified that “tele-med” abortions are a big money maker for Planned Parenthood because of the minimal overhead in pushing women and girls through the turnstyle.

That is the kind of shabby treatment of women we are fighting to outlaw here in Idaho. What is convenient and profitable for Planned Parenthood is not necessarily good for women and girls. 

After extensive investigations, the Iowa Board of Medicine determined that Planned Parenthood’s “remote control” abortion system in that state should be stopped because it is “unsafe” for their female clientele.

The legislation now awaits action by the full House of Representatives.