But what if it’s snowing? Governor Gretchen Whitmer has banned gardening and planting in the coronavirus pandemic and blocked Michiganders from traveling between their own homes. Like many other states, Whitmer’s stay-at-home orders also include a ban on elective surgeries, an order intended to preserve desperately needed surgical masks and gowns to deal with the COVID-19 outbreak.
Well, except for one elective surgery, that is. The RNC jumped all over this clip from Whitmer’s interview yesterday with David Axelrod, and for good reason (via Twitchy):
AXELROD: As we speak, in Texas and a couple of other states — I think Ohio may be another — the state has asked to suspend abortion services as part of this COVID-19 protocol. This is probably going to go to the Supreme Court. What is your reaction to that? You’re a governor, you have to make these decisions as well. There are other procedures that have been suspended.
WHITMER: You know, we stopped elective surgeries here in Michigan, and some people have tried to say that that type of a procedure is considered the same and that’s ridiculous. You know, a woman’s healthcare, her whole future, her ability to decide if and when she starts a family is not an election, it is a fundamental to her life. It is life sustaining and it’s something that government should not be getting in the middle of.
Go here to read the rest. Imagine the mentality of anyone who could describe abortion as life sustaining.
That sentence…”her ability to decide…is not an election.”
Electing to do something and deciding to do something mean exactly EXACTLY the same thing.
They would fire every EMT and close every emergency room before they even considered shutting down an abortion clinic.
That isn’t an exaggeration. The Kermit Gosnell case showed that they were perfectly willing to let impoverished and desperate women die in the most filthy of conditions as long it meant that babies continued to get slaughtered.
I do not know if any abortion clinics in Michigan have suffered due to closing everything under the sun and SD. I do know that hospitals are laying staff off and furloughing others. Even in the Detroit area, hardest hit by Covid. Detroit hospitals decided to resume, on a limited basis, some of the “non-essential” procedures, presumably because these people can’t wait any more. I can’t help but think the hospital needing money may have something to do with it.
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https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/2020/04/17/detroit-area-hospitals-resuming-surgeries-procedures-after-red-ink/5147444002/
Abortion life sustaining? Dimwitmer is oxymoron incarnate. Archbishop Vigneron has been given an opportunity to take a stand for the unborn. Thus far, crickets.
Abortion is murder.
Off topic/Silver Lining Department: Soul destroying gender reassignment surgeries have ended. And, even better, public schools closed has greatly reduced brainwashing. .
From a friend who lives in a Southern state currently run by a Democrat.
Thought for the day:
There is going to be a special irony if the government starts trying to do mandatory vaccines or antibody tests.
When they come to me and I say “No, it’s my body, my choice.”
They are going to respond with “You could kill someone!”