Is This the Openning for "Telemed Abortions" in Wisconsin?

I found out about his from Steve Brody of DBQ Co Right to Life Tues afternoon. If PPWI already has the equipment in place, it may not be long before they follow Iowa PP's lead to impliment PP's long range goals of this being rolled out nationwide by 2015.

PPWI's expansion of the "culture of death" was aided & abetted by our tax dollars as well. As I read this it got me wondering about PP in other states as well & if they already have started doing some telemed services to be ready for the roll out of 'telemed abortion".

Also, Steve & I discussed the possibility they may already have started the "telemed abortions" in Wisc. I hate to say it, but he may be right. Given how PP likes to present things after it is to late to stop them, they may already be doing at least a pilot project in 1 or more locations. Jill Stanek also thinks it may already be going on as well (Coming soon (already here?): Taxpayer funded telemed abortion systems). Pro-Life Wisconsin (article source) is looking into that possibility.

This also raises another question in my mind. Is expanding this ongoing abuse of "telemed" by PP nationwide to cover more services another of PP's long range goals. As I have said before, I do not oppose the use of telemedicine, but PP's abuse is another matter. & it strikes me that PP may just eaxpand this to the limit so they can reduce the number of staff, raise the profit level & even keep open a few locations that are marginal right now. & all at the expense of the women they claim to want to help.

Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin currently dispensing abortifacients via teleconferencing

What do Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin and Planned Parenthood of the Heartland [Iowa and Nebraska] have in common? For starters, both are pushing abortifacients via teleconferencing, a process whereby a woman consults with a doctor on a video camera, and at the end of the "appointment," out pops abortion-causing drugs.

Describing how abortions are dispensed via videoconference in Iowa, the New York Times, June 8: "A modified cash register drawer pops open in front of the woman seated next to a nurse in a clinic — perhaps 100 miles from this city — with mifepristone, the medicine formerly known as RU-486, that is meant to end her pregnancy." Click here to read more.

Iowa is the only state in the U.S. to provide abortions through videoconferencing. But, as the New York Times reports, "So far only Planned Parenthood clinics in Iowa use this method, but around the country, abortion providers have begun asking how they might replicate the concept." Operation Rescue has filed a complaint with the Iowa State Board of Medicine, asserting that this method does not meet the state requirement that licensed physicians — not nurses or others — perform abortions.

Currently, Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin [PPWI] dispenses birth control, which can act as an abortifacient, via teleconferencing. Federal tax dollars financed the setup of PPWI's teleconferencing system.

The Business Journal of Milwaukee reports, "The video phones, which are the size of a laptop computer, are at 10 Planned Parenthood locations — Racine, Delavan, Waukesha, Fond du Lac, West Bend, Portage, two clinics in Madison and clinics in Milwaukee on Mitchell Street and Wisconsin Avenue. The 10 locations were chosen because they are the organization’s Title 10 clinics, which means they receive funding from the federal government. Planned Parenthood’s other centers are either state-funded or self-sustaining. A federal grant paid for the video phones, which cost $15,000 each, including the infrastructure needed to operate the phone." Click here to read more.

Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin is an organization that, by its own admission, has morale problems and saw half of its senior management staff quit in 2008.

Teri Huyck, currently president and CEO of PPWI, was the vice president and chief operating officer of Planned Parenthood Chicago Area before arriving here in Wisconsin. Huyck is credited with raising more than $500,000 to further PPWI's work killing preborn children.

Source: Pro-Life Wisconsin Monday update for 14 June 2010