Univ. of Wis. Hospitals secret plan to perform second-trimester abortions unveiled
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ALLIANCE DEFENSE FUND NEWS RELEASE
January 6, 2009 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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Univ. of Wis. Hospitals secret plan to perform
second-trimester abortions unveiled
ADF attorneys send letter asking for halt to program
that threatens religious conscience rights, may violate funding restrictions
MADISON, Wis. — Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund sent a letter to University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Tuesday, asking that the institution refrain from implementing its secret and potentially illegal plans to perform second-trimester abortions in a jointly-operated clinic. The plan would likely compel unwilling employees to aid or participate in dismembering preborn babies, which would violate their religious conscience rights and may constitute an unlawful state funding of abortion.
“Christians and other pro-life medical students and staff should be allowed to abide by their beliefs,” said ADF Legal Counsel Matt Bowman. “Pro-life employees shouldn’t be forced to violate their conscience by participating in the killing of preborn, developed babies. The university’s plan is morally and legally flawed and should be abandoned.”
The UWHC’s plan would create a full-service second-trimester abortion practice at the Madison Surgery Center, a joint venture of UWHC, UW Medical Foundation, and Meriter Hospital. University of Wisconsin medical residents are expected to train and take part in the killing of the second-trimester babies. In recent years, UWHC researchers have experimented on almost fully-formed body parts obtained from second-trimester abortions performed nearby, and now all of those abortions would be performed in UWHC’s joint venture. The plan would also include the abortion of disabled babies that already occurs at Meriter Hospital.
The letter from ADF attorneys to UWHC President and CEO Donna Katen-Bahensky, as well as to the presidents of Meriter and the UW Medical Foundation, states that penalties against any employee who refuses to recommend, aid, or perform abortions based on religious or moral objections is a blatant violation of state and federal law. It also reminds university leadership of the fact that “no state or federal funds from various sources may be used for a program that…provides, encourages, or refers for abortions” and that ADF is prepared to take decisive legal action if UWHC takes any negative action against its pro-life employees.
ADF also sent a copy of the letter to the Office of Civil Rights of the Department of Health and Human Services, which enforces new federal regulations designed to protect pro-life health care workers and medical students in federally funded programs. A copy of the letter is available at www.telladf.org/UserDocs/UWHCDemandLetter.pdf.
ADF is a legal alliance of Christian attorneys and like-minded organizations defending the right of people to freely live out their faith. Launched in 1994, ADF employs a unique combination of strategy, training, funding, and litigation to protect and preserve religious liberty, the sanctity of life, marriage, and the family.
9 Comments
I am outraged and saddened by this.
Would there be training to abort a 2nd trimester Spotted Owl, there would be more public outcry.
I work in a hospital, and do not see as many children now that are mentally or physically disabled. Wander Why?
The abortions are going hot and strong to keep the strong surviving and the less desirable killed off.
People usually go to prison for the act of murder.
This is nothing but MURDER!!!
How shameful that these people think nothing of this.
I hope this has been brought to the attention of the citizens of Wisconsin and especially Madison.
Woe to him that causes one of my LITTLE ones. Better that a millstone be hung on his neck and he be thrown into the sea. Matthew 18.
A person’s a person no matter how small. Dr Seuss from
Horton Hears a Who.
Praise God for the work that ADF does.
Praise God for the Work Allaince Defense Fund is doing and let us as Christians keep on Defending His Little Ones as He commands us in His Word Exodus (20)!
I am so angry at the people that kill our Babies, they are being used by the enemy,but one day very soon , they will be held accountable to God for their horrible crimes and murders against our Babies and the Unborn Babies,my heart weeps when i hear such things are going on in our world that God so wonderfully gave us to look after,God is and will judge them, no doubt about that. katielady