UAMS OB/GYN Chairman Says Med School Needs To Do More Abortions

Doctor Curtis Lowery refers to unborn children as “material” during official legislative hearing.

Yesterday the House Public Health Committee voted to pass SB134 by Senator Jason Rapert. The bill prevents abortion at or after the twelfth week of pregnancy if a fetal heartbeat is detected—except in cases of rape or incest or to save the life of or prevent grave physical harm to the mother. The bill passed easily, but what was bizarre was chilling testimony from a representative from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.

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Rep. Harris Files Bill Extending Child Abuse Protections to Unborn

Representative Justin Harris (R – District 91) has filed a bill to protect unborn children by allowing doctors to report cases of suspected child abuse against the unborn to the Child Abuse Hotline.

According to HB 1098,

A medical professional involved in the care of a pregnant woman shall contact the Child Abuse Hotline regarding suspected abuse of an unborn child.

The Child Abuse Hotline shall accept a report of abuse to an unborn child if the reporter is a medical professional.

You can read the bill here.

Planned Parenthood Sets New Record on Number of Abortions

Planned Parenthood has released a report showing it did a record-setting 333,964 abortions during its 2011-2012 fiscal year.

During that same time, only 2,300 Planned Parenthood customers were referred to adoption agencies.

Estimating that as many as 1 million unborn children are aborted nationwide each year, Planned Parenthood performed at least one out of three abortions in America last year.

Read more here.