Personhood USA Responds to ‘Life of the Mother’ Question on Presidential Pledge

Denver, Colo. (PRWEB) January 03, 2012
Following the signing of Personhood USAs presidential pledge by five of the Republican presidential candidates, Personhood USA is responding to questions of whether an exception to save the mothers life in abortion law is compatible with the document.
During a recent forum in Iowa, Governor Rick Perry was asked why he had signed the pledge which maintains that Abortion and the intentional killing of an innocent human being are always wrong and should be prohibited if he also believes that children conceived by rape or incest are not possessed of the same right to live. In response, Governor Perry related how he had undergone a transformation after a conversation with Personhood USA spokeswoman Rebecca Kiessling whose conception was the result of rape. Looking in her eyes, I couldnt come up with an answer to defend the exceptions for rape and incest, said Perry.
On December 28, it was reported that Perry had clarified his position by “stating that the life of the mother is the only exception in which hed support abortion.”
Regarding cases where the mothers life is at risk, the pledge states: I believe that in order to properly protect the right to life of the vulnerable among us, every human being at every stage of development must be recognized as a person possessing the right to life in federal and state laws without exception and without compromise. I recognize that in cases where a mothers life is at risk, every effort should be made to save the babys life as well; leaving the death of an innocent child as an unintended tragedy rather than an intentional killing.
The pledge explains that both mother and child should be recognized as patients, a position based on physician testimony that the violent abortion procedure is never medically necessary.
Dr. Patrick Johnston of the Association of Pro-life Physicians explains: When the life of the mother is truly threatened by her pregnancy, if both lives cannot simultaneously be saved, then saving the mothers life must be the primary aim. If through our careful treatment of the mothers illness, the preborn patient inadvertently dies or is injured, this is tragic and, if unintentional, is not unethical and is consistent with the pro-life ethic. But the intentional killing of an unborn baby by abortion is never necessary.
There are no exceptions in Personhood USAs presidential pledge because there are no situations where it becomes necessary to dismember a baby, added Jennifer Mason, spokesperson for Personhood USA. “There is an acknowledgement; however, that in cases such as ectopic pregnancy, the death of the child is unavoidable. With the passage of federal or state personhood amendments, recognizing the personhood rights of both mother and child, women will still of course have access to life-saving treatments and medical care. Procedures to treat both mom and baby can potentially lead to happier outcomes for both patients, whereas abortion procedures, which are dangerous as it stands already, intentionally kill a child.”
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After a child in India can be experienced risk, especially if you are a woman living below the poverty line in rural Nine women die every hour due to complications related to pregnancy or delivery, and add up to 78,000 deaths per year. . million children die each year. of mothers and children who survive, many do so with the destruction of long-term health and poor physical or cognitive skills.According and Community Health Survey of Recent State (NFHS-III from 2005 to 2006) data, there is a relationship directly between the percentage of institutional deliveries and the rate of infant mortality, it is clear that women who deliver their babies in hospitals not only increase their own chance of survival, but also of their children
. Unfortunately, ensuring access to health care for all women, regardless of their wealth level, is still a major problem as is typical in the graph above., 12.7 percent only of women from quintile down assets to their children in health centers, as compared to percent 83.7 of women from quintile on property To address this disparity., the government of India has come up with initiatives such as Mission of the National Rural Health (NRHM), whose mission is to improve the availability of and access to quality health for those at the bottom rung of the ladder of social and economic time-to-be-launched National Urban Health (uhm) are also given priority to the health of pregnant women and infants in suburban communities. Additionally, a government program. called Janani Suraksha Yojana provides financial incentives such as mothers opt to have their babies in hospital, instead of at home.Yet, with these projects, gaps and challenges remain dissemination of India In India., where the maternal death occurs every seven minutes, it requires efforts from various parties to ensure smooth and successful effort to institute providing less fortunate has been a solo woman.This To ensure that everyone gets the services they want, why. not link up those who have the expertise, those with money, and those public and private infrastructure partnerships are a way for communities and governments working together for the good health of their women and their children and future generations? . just ask Dr Vidya Kshirsagar, who worked for a long time to provide special health services for poor mothers and children of Navi Mumbai in 2007, was approached by the project. Sure Start-called five-year program based at PATH, an international non profit group supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-that is working to help mothers and their children live and be healthy in the states of Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra
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Although Dr. Kshirsagar’s support, the project assisted by an inter-government and private sectors of the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (MMC) and local agencies, non-governmental organizations, community groups, professional associations, medical institutions, and private hospitals now., women’s Dr Kshirsagar of the city are receiving services such as tour gynecological, child care, consultations in nutrition, and yoga classes-services that address the problems before the pregnancy and the period after birth for mothers and newborns . Thanks to joint efforts of all these various groups and individuals, the percentage of women deliver in hospitals increased from 79 percent to 85 percent in one year
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There is also another way of creativity, giving people a hand up instead of out of hand. For example, the informal settlement of Nanded, Maharashtra, more than 200 families have formed each partnership and contribute a small amount of money (U.S. $ 5) to fund the social fund of health insurance is used to meet the costs of health care specific the contributors. , Including maternity coverage for social assistance institutions and national governments Janani Suraksha Yojana scheme also incorporated in this program Do patients need a procedure is included in the plan of government., Raising money for contributors <.. / P>
Initiatives such as these demonstrate the power of partnership:. people working together to change what seemed unchangeable fact, in this era of high-flying projects, health insurance and major medical bills, there is something strange about a bunch of different people coming together to create miracles small and great results
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Sure Start, the PATH program, supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works to promote safe delivery practices in India Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sure-Start-Project-by-Path/178629192101 Twitter: http://twitter.com/pathsurestart
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