{"id":299624,"date":"2023-10-04T06:46:27","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T11:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=299624"},"modified":"2023-10-03T14:03:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T19:03:00","slug":"abortionists-victims-laws-preborn-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortionists-victims-laws-preborn-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Are abortionists the victims of laws protecting preborn humans? The media seems to think so."},"content":{"rendered":"
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The mainstream pro-abortion media has been continuing its portrayal of abortionists as heroes and martyrs, and this has only increased since the reversal of Roe v. Wade<\/em> in June 2022. Colorado’s self-described “late term abortion specialist” Warren Hern has received features<\/a> in more than one<\/a> outlet, as have others, such as Virginia abortionist Wesley Adams<\/a>.<\/p>\n

More recently, local outlet The Tampa Bay Times penned an article<\/a> painting abortionist Rachel Rapkin as a pro-abortion martyr, who was allegedly forced to move in order to protect her family. An OB\/GYN once based in Florida, Rapkin has left the state \u2014 and the country \u2014 and relocated her family to New Zealand, where abortion is essentially allowed on demand throughout pregnancy.<\/p>\n

In reality, however, this appears to have been more of a strategic career move than an act of desperation.<\/p>\n

Becoming an abortionist<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rapkin set her sights on becoming an abortionist while attending the University of Maryland in 1998, where she volunteered at the campus health clinic. After sending a student to an abortion facility, she decided to go see the facility for herself. That same day, she was offered a job working at the front desk.<\/p>\n

She said she soon noticed that all of the doctors were “old men.” The facility manager told her, “Rachel, these are the doctors we have. If you want to change that, then you go to medical school and become an OB-GYN so you can perform abortions.” So she did.<\/p>\n

Expanding abortion in Florida<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rapkin then made her way to Florida where, at the time, abortion was more widely accessible than it is now. Hospitals, according to the Tampa Bay Times, “opted not to provide abortions on-site, instead sending patients to clinics like Planned Parenthood. There was also a general shortage of doctors.”<\/p>\n

Florida hospitals were not ignoring a valid medical procedure by not committing abortions. They likely knew that induced abortion \u2014 the intentional and direct killing of a preborn child \u2014 is not medically necessary. It is actually faster to carry out an emergency preterm delivery or C-section than to take the time to kill a child prior to delivery.<\/p>\n

But, abortion was legal<\/em> in Florida and Rapkin seemed eager to expand it in the state \u2014 to make it ‘ordinary,’ said the Times.<\/p>\n

While at the University of Southern Florida Health (USF Health), she was told not to even say the word ‘abortion’, but as time went on, she persuaded the hospital to begin committing abortions on preborn babies who had a prenatal diagnosis. However, there is not a medical reason for abortion in these cases either; instead, it is an act of eugenics under the guise of compassion.<\/p>\n

Rapkin also ensured that a trainee watched every abortion she committed, and she sent students to watch abortions at Planned Parenthood. Then in 2020, she helped establish a Ryan Program \u2014 a national abortion training initiative from the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health at the University of California, San Francisco at both USF Health and Tampa General Hospital.<\/p>\n

Rapkin and her husband David \u2014 also an OB\/GYN who notably does not<\/em> commit abortions \u2014 were living a comfortable life. They had three children and a nanny to care for them. Rapkin became friendly with other mothers who were, interestingly enough, lawyers, doctors, and media personnel.<\/p>\n

After Florida passed a law protecting preborn children from abortion beginning at 15 weeks, Rapkin began to fear she would lose a large percentage of her business. Then in 2022, Roe v. Wade<\/em> was overturned, and she immediately decided she had to leave. Then, a week before the movers arrived, Florida passed a law protecting preborn children beginning at first detectable heartbeat, usually around six weeks gestation (four weeks post-fertilization).<\/p>\n