{"id":222929,"date":"2020-05-03T13:55:02","date_gmt":"2020-05-03T18:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=222929"},"modified":"2020-05-02T17:52:02","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T22:52:02","slug":"biden-declares-abortion-essential-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/biden-declares-abortion-essential-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden declares abortion &#8216;essential health care&#8217; during COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden officially declared his thoughts regarding abortion access during the COVID-19 crisis in an April 28\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cnsnews.com\/article\/national\/patrick-goodenough\/biden-abortion-essential-health-care-service\">video with Hillary Clinton<\/a>, who has endorsed his candidacy. &#8220;We need to ensure that women have access to all health services during this crisis&#8230;. Abortion is an essential health care service,&#8221; Biden claimed. &#8220;It\u2019s being used as a political wedge right now and it shouldn\u2019t be. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the American Medical Association agree that it shouldn\u2019t be categorized as a procedure that can be delayed. It can\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In actuality, abortion isn&#8217;t medically necessary or essential to health care. True health care services never deliberately end human lives. The goal of non-abortion medical procedures is always to preserve the life of the patient in some way. The only way someone can consider abortion to be &#8220;health care&#8221; is to completely ignore what the act of abortion does. It isn&#8217;t just a woman who is affected by it; a preborn human being is destroyed each and every time an abortion is committed. That&#8217;s the entire purpose of an abortion &#8212; to end a pregnancy by means of destruction:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CFZDhM5Gwhk\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The ACOG and the AMA, mentioned by Biden, both have a strong pro-abortion bias. The ACOG is <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/american-college-obstetricians-gynecologists-pro-abortion\/\">fully in support of abortion<\/a>, even\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/acog-slams-20-week-abortion-bans-wants-zero-restrictions\/\">fighting against<\/a> commonsense abortion restrictions. The AMA declared war on the <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/american-medical-association-sues-north-dakota-abortionists\/\">idea of requiring informed consent<\/a>\u00a0before abortions, as well as on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/american-medical-association-pregnancy-centers\/\">pro-life pregnancy centers<\/a> in recent years. Neither one is even remotely neutral on the issue of abortion.<\/p>\n<p>Even in cases where a mother&#8217;s life is at risk during pregnancy, an <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/emergencies-pregnancy-c-section-save-lives\/\">emergency C-section is a far better and faster procedure<\/a> than an abortion (which takes <em>days<\/em> to complete at a later stage of pregnancy). According to the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, &#8220;Elective abortions offer zero health benefits to women and do not treat a disease process.&#8221; When making <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/governor-alaska-surgical-abortion-nonessential\/\">their statement regarding the status of abortions<\/a> during COVID-19, AAPLOG explained the strain that these so-called &#8220;essential&#8221; abortion procedures could place on hospitals and emergency staff:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Approximately 5% of women who undergo medication abortions will\u00a0require evaluation in the hospital, most commonly for hemorrhage. Uterine perforation and\u00a0hemorrhage can occur with surgical abortions. Because most abortion providers do not manage their\u00a0own complications, instead instructing women to go to an ER if they have problems, emergency rooms\u00a0who are already struggling to keep up with the COVID-19 pandemic will continue to need to provide\u00a0care to these women. Our nation faces a critical blood shortage during this time, which will also\u00a0negatively impact women\u2019s health who experience abortion-related hemorrhage.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5TmomK2RB2A\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A recent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/minnesota-doctors-lawsuit-halt-abortions\/\">comment from Minnesota state Rep. Peggy Scott<\/a> regarding the elimination of all nonessential healthcare procedures summed up the feelings of many with regard to treating abortion as essential, saying, &#8220;I just think that it\u2019s indefensible to tell cancer patients they can\u2019t have a chemo treatment, a lifesaving chemo treatment, but it\u2019s OK for abortions to go forward&#8230;. I just think that\u2019s indefensible. And I think most of the public would agree.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveactionnewsonline\/\">\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a>\u00a0for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden officially declared his thoughts regarding abortion access during the COVID-19 crisis in an April 28\u00a0video with Hillary Clinton, who has endorsed his candidacy. &#8220;We need to ensure that women have access to all health services during this crisis&#8230;. Abortion is an essential health care service,&#8221; Biden claimed. &#8220;It\u2019s being used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":670,"featured_media":222949,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3473,11],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Joe Biden declares abortion &#039;essential health care&#039; during COVID-19<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&quot;We need to ensure that women have access to all health services during this crisis.... 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