If there was any doubt about California’s status as the nation’s standard-bearer for abortion, a letter sent Sept. 5 by the state’s Board of Registered Nursing should clear that up in a jiffy.
Acting at the behest of abortion activists in the state legislature and online media, the Board of Nursing reversed its decision from just a month prior, sending Heartbeat International a letter to demand that the pro-life pregnancy help network “cease and desist” offering nurses continuing education units (CEUs) for Abortion Pill Reversal classes.
Over 350 doctors nationally have joined the Abortion Pill Reversal network, while 300 mothers have successfully rescued their children from abortion through the medical intervention (see here and here for examples), which introduces an emergency and ongoing progesterone treatment to counter-act the first of two pills in the chemical abortion (RU-486) process.
The Board’s sudden reversal seems a direct effort to deny a woman access to her own choice during an unexpected pregnancy, Heartbeat International president Jor-El Godsey said Monday.
“This is a naked political assault on a procedure that is the very essence of choice,” Godsey said. “To oppose Abortion Pill Reversal is not only to deny the science and reality that there are children living today because of it, but it’s to materially keep a woman from even so much as knowing she has the option to potentially stop a chemical abortion once it has begun. This is the abortion lobby taking choices away from women.”
The letter, postmarked Sept. 5 and received Sept. 11, gives Heartbeat International five days from receipt of the letter to remove CEU credit from its online courses, offered online through the Heartbeat Academy.
It also marks a 180-degree shift from a letter the same Board sent Heartbeat International and sister pro-life network, National Institute of Family and Life Advocates (NIFLA), approving both organizations’ status as a continuing education providers.
The original letter, sent July 28, 2017, followed a 17-month period where the Board reviewed hundreds of pages of submitted documentation starting in February of 2016. No subsequent paperwork or filing of any kind was requested prior to or cited in the most recent letter.
The Board had originally questioned Heartbeat International’s inclusion of Abortion Pill Reversal courses during the audit process, but then agreed to reinstate the courses after Heartbeat International responded with a multi-point statement demonstrating the courses’ relevance to nursing practices.
While Heartbeat International is complying with the letter’s demand to remove CEU credit from its online Abortion Pill Reversal courses, the courses will still be activated while the organization appeals the Board’s latest decree.
“How the Board of Nursing can play politics with the lives of women and children is beyond me,” Godsey said. “If there were any hint of noncompliance on our part, it’s clear a 17-month audit would have uncovered it. What could possibly have changed in one month’s time?
Meanwhile, radically pro-abortion media source Rewire.com reported Sept. 8—three days before Heartbeat International received the letter—that the letter had been sent. The site had originally influenced San Francisco Bay Area state senator Jerry Hill to call for the audit of Heartbeat International and others in early 2016.
After pushing the Board to audit Heartbeat International—a nonprofit that serves 2,200 affiliates worldwide and operates a 24-7 pregnancy helpline, Option Line—Hill then proposed legislation that was eventually adopted by the state and signed into law in 2016 by Gov. Jerry Brown that beefed up the requirements for nursing CEU providers.
That law, however—which mandated that courses rely only on “generally accepted scientific principles”—was insufficient to wield against the Abortion Pill Reversal courses. Instead, the Board cited California Code of Regulations (CCR) Section 1456 in its demand letter to Heartbeat International.
Curiously, the section cited by the Board pertains only to the need for courses to be “relevant to the practice of nursing,” differentiating between courses that deal with patient care (direct and indirect) and those which, “deal with self-improvement, changes in attitude, financial gain, and those courses designed for lay people…”
Full story at Pregnancy Help News.
It was always about the choice of the state packaged as a woman’s choice through manipulative can’t and advertising.
the apostrophe added to ‘cant’ seems to have been supplied by autospell or spellcheck.
Where is the “choice” in pro-choice?
the choice to kill a baby.
In other words, stop trying to save unborn babies.
Wonder if the Catholic bishops in the state will speak out as strongly against what the state wants to impose on Heartbeat Int’l as they did and are on the status of illegal aliens living amongst us. The aliens are illegal. That tiny baby is not. Big difference. I think also that the USCCB should be speaking out too……but am not holding my breath. So sad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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“Evil” has strong arms which it uses to kill. Evil manifests in the culture of death. The diabolical distorts the thinking of men, twisting their reasoning and uses the law(s) against Life and Love. Faith in Christ is a gift which the people (political leaders and constituents) are free to reject. But there are consequences to life without God. God exists! God is Life! God is Love! Where there is no faith in God – there is death. California is manifesting the stench of the culture of death. Only the intervention of Christ Himself can save these hard-hearted, stiff-necked people from hitting the brick wall they are so meticulously constructed.
I SURE HEARD IN THE PRAYERS OF THE FAITHFUL THIS PAST SUNDAY, TO PRAY FOR THE ‘DREAMERS’!
DO WE EVER HEAR ABOUT PRAYING FOR THE UNBORN OR FOR THOSE WHOM PEOPLE WANT TO MURDER THROUGH ‘PHYSICIAN ASSISTED SUICIDE’ OR SO CALLED ‘SAME SEX MARRIAGE’.
TALK ABOUT ‘CHERRY PICKING’ SUBJECTS!!!!!!