Roundup: Clinic Violence, Clinic Closure, and Abstinence Ed Tries Self-Funding
A plot to bomb a women's clinic is discovered, one of Missouri's two clinics can't provide abortions for a month, and abstinence education groups get to get the raise money to get government funds.
Potential clinic violence has been thwarted in North Carolina, where a man who allegedly was plotting to bomb a women’s clinic has been arrested.
Via WSOC – Charlotte:
A Concord man gave bomb-making advice to someone he thought was planning to bomb a women’s health clinic, U.S. Attorney John Stone Jr. said.Justin Moose, 26, was arrested Tuesday and is charged with providing information related to the making, use or manufacture of an explosive, destructive device or weapon of mass destruction.A criminal complaint alleges that Moose used Facebook to advocate violence against women’s health clinics, specifically ones where abortions are performed, and employees at those clinics. Moose claimed to be a member of a group called the “Army of God,” federal agents said in a 19-page affidavit, and made multiple threatening remarks aimed clinic employees.
According to the Charlotte Observer, the man considered himself a “Christian Osama Bin Laudin” and had no issues with expressing himself as such in social networks:
In other clinic news, a clinic in Missouri has had to close its doors temporarily due to physician scheduling issues, the Maneater reports:
The Columbia Planned Parenthood clinic has stopped providing abortions, but its leader says the service has only been stopped temporarily.
“It’s not that we are no longer providing abortions in Columbia,” said Peter Brownlie, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri. “We utilize physicians as they are available, and we happen to be at a point that the physicians in Columbia aren’t currently available due to scheduling issues.”
The temporary halt of abortion services in Columbia leaves St. Louis as the only city in Missouri where an abortion can be legally obtained. Brownlie acknowledged that that would inconvenience some women.
“It’s unfortunate, because those who wish to obtain an abortion will have to travel larger distances,” Brownlie said. “It’s regrettable and will create a challenge for folks.”
Despite rumors of a possibly prolonged absence of abortion services in Columbia, Brownlie remained optimistic that abortions would be offered again in the near future.
“We’re working with the doctors, and I’m hopeful we will (provide abortions) by the end of the month, if not sooner,” Brownlie said.
The closure shows how difficult it can be for many women to access abortion services, even though it is legal, due to inability to find close access to a clinic with available doctors. With the imposition of 24-hour waiting periods requiring two appointments for women in many states, obtaining the service becomes a logistical nightmare, according to the Columbia Tribune:
A new state law took effect Aug. 28 requiring a physician or qualified health professional to show a woman an ultrasound of her fetus 24 hours before the abortion. The medical professional also must provide more counseling, and the woman must sign informed consent documents in person 24 hours before the procedure, among other requirements. Brownlie denied these requirements have generated problems for physicians. He said the new law has had the greatest effect on the women.
“That increases the burden on women who travel or who have to make child care arrangements or take time off of work,” Brownlie said. “It doesn’t increase the burden on physicians.”
Finally, states are still deciding whether to accept federal comprehensive sex ed funding, or abstinence only funding that requires the states to provide matching funds. In Arkansas, abstinence only groups are basically raising money to fund themselves, after learing the state would not apply for the abstinence funds due to the expense.
From The Body:
Arkansas has applied for federal grants for both abstinence-based comprehensive sex education and abstinence-only programming, state Department of Health officials said Friday. In August, the department announced that the state did not have the necessary 43 percent in state matching funds to pursue the abstinence-only grant. That changed when a state lawmaker and two groups pledged to raise private funds for the state’s portion, said Ann Wright, a spokesperson for ADH.
The abstinence-only grant application was “written with the stipulation that all state matching funds are provided by the private sector agencies who receive the funds,” Wright said. The state will decide which agencies will receive abstinence-only grants. The application is for $619,862, with $467,615 to be raised by private groups.
In June, the Conway-based group Choosing to Excel approached Rep. Robbie Wills (D-Conway) about raising money for the state’s part of the obligation in order to secure federal abstinence funds, Wills said. Several existing abstinence programs will have to work together to raise the funds, said Thelma Moton, CTE’s executive director.
I guess that’s looking out for your own self-interest.
Mini Roundup: Do magazines romanticized teen motherhood? Well, sometimes internet posts can, too.
September 10, 2010
- Editorial Urges Va. Gov. McDonnell To Apply For Federal Comprehensive Sex … – Medical News Today (press release)
- AIDS doctors, activists call for more health funds – The Associated Press
- Bishop urges priests to pray outside abortion clinic – Catholic Culture
- Website helps to send safe sex message to over-50s – Yorkshire Post
- Basu: Let’s put shame where it belongs – DesMoinesRegister.com
- Tubby German smokers avoid marriage and kids, EU figures show – The Local.de
- Titus stands behind ads – Las Vegas Review-Journal
- First Lady targets women’s cancers – Times LIVE
- SC school holding early cancer detection event – Lake Wylie Pilot
- Society’s death fetish is called ABORTION – RenewAmerica
- No date set for resuming abortions at Columbia clinic – UM Maneater
- La. officials suspend abortion clinic’s license – Las Vegas Sun
- Your View: Critical question about Emmer must be answered – Mankato Free Press
- Pine Valley maintains reproductive health stance – Evening Observer
- Feminism grows at UI – Argonaut
- Author Dan Savage to speak in Missoula as counterpoint to Sarah Palin – The Missoulian
- Man charged in abortion clinic bomb plot – Charlotte Observer
- Magazines romanticize teen motherhood – UConn Daily Campus
September 9, 2010
- Cuccinelli issues controversial abortion opinion – Virginia Tech Collegiate Times
- Shariah-Approved Sex Aids, Abstinence-Only Goes to China, and Abercrombie Hijab… – Religion Dispatches (blog)
- The Impact Teenage Pregnancy Has On Every Member of Society – Liberian Daily Observer
- Breaking: Federal judge in California says “don’t ask, don’t tell” is … – Hot Air (blog)
- NH GOP Senate candidates in final primary debate – The Associated Press
- Medicare/Medicaid Awareness Tour Stops In Southern Colorado – KKTV 11 News
- Planned Parenthood Report Shows Abortions Up 6 Percent, Adoptions Down – LifeNews.com
- First lady targets women’s cancers – Times LIVE
- Cancer vaccine could hit roll-out of boosters – Irish Times
- Blind activist freed from jail – but China is still watching – Independent
- FDA: Abbott Recalls Some HIV Blood-Screening Tests – Wall Street Journal
- More than ‘no’ – Salt Lake Tribune
- Rolly: Who cares what parents think about sex-ed bill – Salt Lake Tribune
- Hailey Barber Faces Backlash, Said Pro-Lifers Should Scrap Social Issues – LifeNews.com
- DHH responds to concerns about abortion clinic – KSLA-TV
- What the U.S. Can Learn from the Dutch About Teen Sex – TIME (blog)
- Fact checking the fact checkers on Buck’s birth control stance – The Colorado Independent
- Lane County State’s Top Fetal-Infant Mortality Rate – The Lund Report
- ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’ other bills, await Congressional action this fall – BP News
- Molina Healthcare of Texas Begins Administering CHIP Program in Rural Areas – MarketWatch (press release)
- Bone Loss in HIV-Positive Men Tied to AIDS Diagnosis, Opiate Use and Hep C – AIDSmeds.com HIV/AIDS Treatment News
- Life’s challenges: How teen pregnancy can be a positive thing – Helium
- “The Last Things to Lose are your Dignity and Hope”: Haitian Refugee Camps … – The Women’s International Perspective
- Updated Info: Merrill School District to Teach Comprehensive Sex Education – WJFW-TV
- Abortions stopped again at clinic – Columbia Daily Tribune
- Jailed Chinese Forced-Abortion Whistleblower Due for Release – Lifesite
- Parents—learn about adolescent zeal for sex and talk to your kids – Grant Tribune Sentinel
- Parents—learn about adolescent zeal for sex and talk to your kids – Grant Tribune Sentinel
- Parents—learn about adolescent zeal for sex and talk to your kids – Grant Tribune Sentinel
- Second wave of feminism revisited at Rideau Hall – Montreal Gazette
- Young People Launch Pro-Life/Pro-Family “Statement to the UN and the World” – Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute
- Executive Director Ends Tenure at Pro-Abortion UN Population Fund – Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute
- Women Worldwide Are Making the Most of the Millennium Development Goals – NewsBlaze
- Arkansas: Sex Education Money Pursued Two Ways – TheBody.com
- Pennsylvania Congressman Chris Carney Subject of Pro-Life Group’s Radio Ad – LifeNews.com
- Black Leaders Call for Pro-Life Economic Recovery – Christian News Wire (press release)
- Prostrate and cervical cancer identified as a main killer – Ghana News Agency
- Experts call for better education for sexual health – Atlantic Drugs
- ‘Family planning is not just controlling numbers’ – Times of India
- UN accord on Millennium Development Goals summit – AFP
- Concord Man Charged In Plot To Bomb Women’s Clinic – WSOC Charlotte
- China may relax one-child policy – UPI.com
- Brown rips Whitman’s jobs plan, defends climate-change law and his decision … – Los Angeles Times (blog)
- Florida Polls Show Pro-Life Marco Rubio Leading Pro-Abortion Crist, Meek – LifeNews.com
- Doctors required to repay $17M to Medicaid program – CNBC
- J&J launches aid program for women, children – Reuters
- Healthcare Reform? Promises…Promises – Big Government (blog)
- Editorial: Let’s talk about sex – The Brown and White
- Smoking Could Harm Sperm, Study Finds – BusinessWeek
- ViiV Healthcare Awards Southern Initiative Grants to Reduce HIV Disparities … – MarketWatch (press release)
- Release of Chinese activist brings crackdown to his village – Washington Post
- Magistrate gives man family planning tips – Independent Online
- Opposite Sex Teen Sleepovers: Would You Let Your Kid Do It? – The Stir (blog)
- Memo to GOP: Straight talk needed on abortion – North Country Public Radio (blog)