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California’s Medical Standards Hit All-Time Low

Oh really? You just did.

One of the sayings I hear from abortion supporters is “We’ll never go back!” But with Senate Bill 623 being passed recently in California, I’d like someone to explain to me how we have not just taken a gigantic step back in time.

This bill (which I wrote about before) was passed by Democrat Governor Jerry Brown and extends a pilot project which allows non-doctors to perform aspiration abortions. Taking effect on January 1, the program will be extended, and these professionals without licenses will be allowed to perform abortions.

People say “We’ll never go back” because none of them want women going to “back-alley” places to get unsafe abortions. I agree. I don’t want women putting their lives in danger by obtaining a medical procedure from someone without a license. But that’s exactly what this bill does.

From its beginning, dozens of non-doctors were given minimal training in a  short amount of time through this program, and then performed over 8,000 abortions on patients. The complication rate of these procedures by non-doctors was consistently higher than those performed by doctors, and was reported as an 80% increase.

“We’re very disappointed that this was signed into law,” said Dana Cody of Life Legal Defense Foundation. “And based on the Workforce project that was a precursor to this and their injury rate, I would say that the pro-abortion forces in California really don’t care about women. But it’s not safe based on their own statistics, and to allow non-physicians to do abortions is putting women at risk.”

This bill was originally created with the idea of making abortion more available to women who do not live close enough to where doctors are located. Well, here’s the thing: having non-doctors perform abortions means more complications as evidenced by their own statistics. If people live in an area without access to doctors, they won’t have quick access to emergency rooms or hospitals if something goes wrong. Don’t want to go back in time? We already have.

You can contact the California Governor to complain about this unprecedented lowering of medical standards here:

Governor Jerry Brown
c/o State Capitol, Suite 1173
Sacramento, CA 95814
Phone: (916) 445-2841
Fax: (916) 558-3160
Email: http://govnews.ca.gov/gov39mail/mail.php

   
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  • Detroiter327

    Who can I contact about unprecedented lowering of journalistic standards? I cant even begin to point out all the glaring errors in this “medical” article. I began my comment and realized that it would take over an hour to untangle all the problems and I would be left with a thumping migraine. Someone needs to double check this ASAP.

    • http://twitter.com/CalFreiburger Calvin Freiburger

      Good question. When I find someone you can confess your many, many misrepresentations and falsehoods, I’ll be sure to let you know.

      • Solntsye

        Lol Calvin! That’s hilarious, love it! Ain’t that the truth?!

    • Laura Peredo

      Detroiter327,

      I am always open to learning and being corrected if I have made mistakes in my writing. If you would share what you think is wrong with this article, I’d be happy to consider what you say. All our articles are double checked by our editors before they are published, and I am happy to pass on your feedback if significant errors are identified.

      • Uno3x

        Hint 1: The people doing the procedures actually have licences.
        PS: My comment has been deleted 3x. As someone who was trying to help I am confused.

        • Laura Peredo

          The people doing the abortions are nurse practitioners, nurse-midwifes, and physicians assistants as stated in this document. (http://liveaction.org/files/PRA%20012014%20SHORT,%20K%20(ProgressReports%20101%20pgs).pdf)

          While they do have some certification, they are not licensed medical doctors. That’s why I called them non-doctors. Serious medical procedures have always been done by certified doctors because they have the expertise necessary. Non-doctors do not.

      • Detroiter327

        1) As someone was kind enough to point out the people doing the procedures are actually licensed. The medical professionals preforming the procedures are nurse practitioners, certified nurse midwives and physicians assistants. All of these professions require fairly extensive schooling and they also require you to have a license. Most NPs, CNMs, and PAs already do procedures similar in scope such as colposcopy, endometrial biopsies etc. To say these people are not doctors is one thing but to refer to them as unlicensed (twice) is false.
        2) Your worded and presented your stats in a misleading and false way. The compilation rate for this procedure for physicians as a whole (which is what your referred to with the actual sentence) is 3.5%. The complication rate for clinicians in this trial is 1.5%. That would mean the clinicians complication rate is lower than physicians as a whole. Did you mean that in that specific study the clinicians have a (slightly higher) rate of complications than the physicians in the control group? You should correct your loose language which leads to a misleading picture. Its also interesting the satisfaction rates (which were identically high) and the actual complication rates were omitted. The complication rate for clinicians was 1.5% vs 1.0% with physicians in the control group. When phrased that way its not that scary, is it? But most importantly, when we look at the statistics as a whole, clinicians would provide a “safer” experience than physicians across the country.
        3) There is nothing “minimal” about the way these medical professionals were trained. To refute this statement would take another five paragraphs. Instead, you can actually read every single specific (and almost the entire handbook if you want) on their website.

  • marie27

    Great article, Laura!

  • Rebecca Downs

    I read in another article, from LifeNews I think, that the Governor signed a similar piece of pro-choice legislation, at a Planned Parenthood facility itself. Talk about partisan. Yet, Governor Jan Brewer, of Arizona, when she signed a law de-funding Planned Parenthood at a Susan B. Anthony List, she was criticized…