In 2008, Planned Parenthood of the Heartland began a program to supply RU 486, the abortion pill, to women in 15 remote locations in Iowa via webcam. In a recent decision, the Iowa Board of Medicine voted to discontinue the practice in favor of rules requiring that a doctor be physically present with a woman when an abortion-inducing drug is provided.
“Lutherans For Life deplores all abortion and we look forward to the day when all life is again protected,” said Diane Schroeder, President of Lutherans For Life, a ministry headquartered in Nevada, Iowa. “Abortion not only takes the life of an innocent human being, but can also wound his or her mother both physically and emotionally” continued Schroeder. “Webcam abortions where a doctor prescribes the abortion pill via the internet to a woman in a different location is not only physically dangerous to the woman seeking an abortion but also makes the procedure cold and impersonal. There is little opportunity for the woman to discuss options to an abortion decision, her feelings and how her abortion decision may affect her in the future. This procedure turns the woman into the abortionist and she may very well have the emotional trauma of seeing her tiny dead baby when delivered at home. The action by the Iowa Board of Medicine is a step in the right direction to provide protection to both a mother and her unborn child.”
Lutherans For Life is a national ministry that provides spiritually-based educational materials to Lutheran congregations and equips Lutherans to make a bold stand to affirm and defend life. Lutherans For Life also offers women and men healing from a previous abortion decision through its ministry, Word of Hope.
For more information on Lutherans For Life, visit www.lutheransforlife.org.
For help with a previous abortion decision, please visit www.word-of-hope.org.