Commentary

The Iowa Supreme Court held a hearing yesterday on objections by Planned Parenthood to a ruling last year by the Iowa Board of Medicine that outlawed its new system of “remote control” abortions.

During the hearing, Planned Parenthood revealed that it had used its “web-cam” method to destroy the lives of over 7,000 babies in Iowa since 2008. For almost all of that period, the organization publicly denied that it was delivering abortion drugs without an in-person examination by a qualified physician.

Planned Parenthood claims that their experimental procedure is “safe” – yet the Board of Medicine determined otherwise, finding that the nation’s largest abortion provider violated community standards of care.

Planned Parenthood has already lost its appeal of the Board of Medicine rules in an Iowa district court.

A former manager of a Planned Parenthood clinic using the remote control protocol has announced publicly that employees who actually see the women considering abortion hold no medical degree(s) and undergo about two days of training on an ultrasound machine.

It is truly astounding how little regard Planned Parenthood has for the women and girls who come to them for help in sorting out difficult situations.