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January 2012
INNOCENCE LOST
By Alice Gray, RN, BSN

My assignment from the nurses’ registry for which I worked was to go to the post-anesthesia recovery unit at Edgewood Hospital* to work the evening shift.  The operating room supervisor said it looked like a quiet evening, as there were only two more cases in surgery yet to arrive in the recovery room or PACU..  As I was caring for my first patient to arrive from the operating room, I heard the supervisor tell Sue*, the other RN, that there were three more cases being added to the surgery schedule for that evening. Sue came over and told me that Doctor Strand* had three “TABS” coming in.  This was an unfamiliar term to me, and Sue explained that it meant therapeutic abortion.  This was a shock to me, as I had never worked at a hospital that performed abortions before. The very word was abhorrent to me, and I breathed a prayer that I would be able to get through it.  At that moment I was very grateful to God that I was not working in the operating room where the actual procedure was performed.  I asked the Lord to strengthen me for what I was about to experience and to be a comfort and a blessing to these young women who had chosen this way out of their dilemma.  More ...
 
May 2011
Three Poems
By Joshua Lemley

April 2011
Letter to Columbian Editor
By Gerry Parmantier
Re: Columbian Article - Proposed federal cuts threaten Planned Parenthood

Birth control includes preventing the sperm from reaching the egg, preventing the egg from being released from the ovary and preventing the fertilized egg from implanting in the uterus. The first action is contraceptive...and the condoms used for this purpose are often ineffective. So guess what "service" is offered for those getting pregnant after using condoms? Chemical or surgical abortion. The second action is also contraceptive and sometimes ineffective for various reasons. However, the contraceptive pill is a chemical with side effects that range from the unpleasant to the life-threatening. The third action is abortifacienct...and the pills and devices (like the IUD) "control birth" by producing early abortions. This is the reality of Planned Parenthood and Birth Control. Sounds more like social engineering to me: "damage control" for a nation which has been brainwashed into thinking that sex outside of a lifelong committment open to the procreation and education of children is "morally good" and "normal". It is neither.

 

April 2011
Letter to Columbian Editor
By Dan Duringer

Recent letters to the Columbian have expressed concern about the loss of Title X family planning funding, of which Planned Parenthood receives a major portion.  Do your readers know that affiliates of Planned Parenthood which receive those funds have on numerous occasions willfully cooperated in child sex trafficking?  Lila Rose with Live Action has recorded many videos documenting that these affiliates act lawlessly in the promotion of Planned Parenthood’s agenda and its bottom line.  View the videos at LiveAction.org.   

These reports demonstrate that this cooperation with child sex trafficking is not infrequent.  And if Planned Parenthood affiliates are willing to advise human traffickers on how to circumvent the law, are they also turning a blind eye to statutory rape and incest?  How much is human trafficking costing children and society?    The giving Title X funds to cold hearted Planned Parenthood is costing individuals and society greatly in the long run.  Title X funds should be ended now for Planned Parenthood!
Jan 2011
 Clark County Public Health Sex Ed Forum Conrespondence
By Gerry Parmantier

Jan 2011
Letter to Columbian Editor
By Ann Makar

Abortion is big business, which should not be subsidized with tax dollars.  Let pregnancy care centers help girls and women with positive choices.  They do it very well without our taxes.  I don’t believe a dead baby is ever better than a live baby.

Research shows that even girls and women who conceive due to rape or incest are more healthy emotionally and physically carrying the baby to term than aborting, and this saves healthcare costs (see in-depth research results at http://www.deveber.org/womens-health-after-abortion). 

In response to a question about abortion at a town hall hosted January 8 by state legislators Jacks, Moeller, and Pridemore, the latter said the rich always have access to “family planning services,” and it’s unfair for poor women not to have that same access.  The rich have access to champagne and filet mignon, but should taxes subsidize that?

 Dec 2010
 Public School Students Need Food for Their Souls
 By Gerry Parmantier
  

Mrs. Obama supported a recently signed law mandating "healthy" food in public schools. She said that parents have the right not to have their efforts to teach good nutrition at home undermined by what was served in the public school lunchroom. What about the parent's efforts to teach good morals at home? Our public schools teach moral relativism (check out "Values Clarification") and hand out condoms and arrange for abortions for our children without parental involvement. This undermines the parents' efforts to teach respect for sex, marriage and human life.

   As a registered nurse, father and grandfather, I think the schools need to provide kids with food for their souls as well as their bodies. For those who wonder how this could be done without intruding religion into public schools I suggest checking out the publications of the Human Life Alliance at www.humanlife.org

   And I will donate up to $1000 to Human Life Alliance for the purchase of up to 3000 magazines to be chosen by the first public school administrator in Clark County who contacts my email at gjp1968@iinet.com

 

Note from the author: the Columbian published the letter on December 18, 2010 and edited out the portions in bold italics. My offer stands.

May 2010

Washington State Department of Health
Proposed Abortion Clinic Certification Policy

Comment posted on WSDH website by Gerry Parmantier:

Let's get this straight. The ONLY customers of Abortion Clinics are pregnant women. So the place where they are aborted is to be certified safe by the largest abortion providing business in the country (Planned Parenthood) or the abortion industry's political advocacy group (National Abortion Federation). Professional standards are just that: across the board and no exceptions and no conflicts of interest. This kind of rule adds credibility to charges of genocide made by the recent video Maafa 21. If the goal is reduction of the numbers of welfare recipients, who cares if abortion renders such women sterile or dead?


Letter to the Columbian by Gerry Parmantier:

To the Editor:    

The Washington State Department of Health is proposing a rule entitled Safe And Effective Analgesia and Anesthesia Administration in Office-Based Surgical Settings. The rule will require physicians who perform surgery in an office/clinic setting outside of a hospital to obtain certification by a professional accrediting organization regarding the safety and professional standards followed in their office/clinic…except for abortion clinics which can be certified by Planned Parenthood America (the largest provider of abortion in the country) or the National Abortion Federation (an abortion industry lobbyist).
 

Evidently, the abortion industry’s clients, all pregnant women, don’t require the same standard of care as your local plastic surgeon’s office. So call your local legislator and demand action. Go to www.clarkrtl.org and click on Action to learn how you can make a public comment about the proposed rule before the May 25 deadline. Finally, click on the Maafa 21 icon on the same website. You won’t ever look at America with the same eyes again.

 
Feb. 2010

I wrote this [Short Essay In Defense of Life] in October 2008 and it is a little longer than I remembered, but I'll let you be the judge on whether you can use any, all, or part of it.  Please feel free to include my name with it. 

 
Thanks again for allowing me to attend the meeting this evening.  It was inspiring to hear about the work yall are doing, and to see you all in action.  Please let me know if I can help.
 
Yours in Christ,
Vanessa & Danny Amundson
Camas, WA
Feb. 2010

Dear Senator Pridemore,

As you must know, crisis pregnancy centers do not ask for taxpayers money from your budget. Rather, individuals and groups willingly, without coercion, donate to support these compassionate efforts to help any woman who comes to them.

To try to put them out of business is, I believe, very counter productive. Rather, we should be supporting them and all their efforts. Thus, we are asking that you would not support SB 6452. This is a smoke screen. The pro-abortion businesses fear having anyone oppose their efforts to get more and more money from more and more abortions. Let us end this genocide of our next generation.

Mr. and Mrs. R. V. Warren
Vancouver, WA

Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.

January 2010

Senator Parlette, 

I attended the Hearing on SB-6452 on Wednesday January 27, 2010.  This was the first time that I attended a Senate Hearing.  I must say that I was impressed.

I must, however, agree with the testimony of Senator Zarelli that this bill imposes potentially stiff penalties on Faith Based Pregnancy Resource Centers that rely solely on donations and accept no Federal fund and that operate with a staff that depends heavily on volunteers while exempting centers offering abortion services or referrals from the regulations imposed by this Bill.  If this Bill is enacted, I feel that the oversight and penalties should apply to both sides equally.  With the huge deficits facing the State budgets I am also very concerned about the cost of adding paid staff to investigate the complaints generated from this Bill. 

Listening to the testimony from those supporting this Bill I couldn't help but feel that these young women, that detailed complaints against numerous Pregnancy Resource Centers in a large geographic areas, were searching for some volunteer to make a misstatement or mistake.  I considered that most of the complaints were subjective evaluations to fit a preconceived agenda and and were often grossly exaggerated.  It was also most disturbing to me to hear that 4 of the 6 of those testifying in support of this Bill were paid Planned Parenthood staff persons.  I appreciated Senator Keiser going online to view the web site of the PRC that the Doctor referred to that made the claim that some web sites link abortion and breast cancer.  I went online myself after the hearing and numerous sites do make that connection.  Some are prestigious cancer research organizations.  So, I don't believe that the PRCs were dispensing false medical information, some web sites do indeed report the link between abortion and breast cancer. 

I was particularly interested to hear the basis for the concern in the Bill for the release of confidential medical information.  The story that I heard about the young staff person going in for a pregnancy test was seated where she could hear the conversation in the next room between a volunteer and a client.  This is not purposeful release of confidential medical information rather an unintended miscalculation by the volunteer that seated her there. When I go to my doctor, I can often hear conversations between doctors and patients in adjoining clinic rooms.  If this is a purposeful release of confidential medical information, then my HMO and chiropractor will need to be added to this bill.
I want to thank you for the time and energy that you have spent on this Hearing Bill and I urge you not to act on SB-6452 and let it die in Committee.

Sincerely,
Ed Rush
 Vancouver, WA

March 23, 2007

“Amazing Grace” is a film about the struggle in Parliament to ban the legally protected slave trade in the British Empire. March 25th marks the 200th anniversary of the success of that effort. The film’s title comes from a hymn written by John Newton who had participated in the slave trade until “Grace” opened his eyes to the humanity of the slaves and the inhumanity of their treatment.

Two centuries later “Grace” still opens eyes and changes hearts of participants in contemporary man’s inhumanity to man: legalized abortion. Two books chronicle the journey of Bernard Nathanson from abortionist to pro-life advocate: Aborting America (1979) and The Hand of God: A Journey From Death to Life by the Abortion Doctor Who Changed His Mind (1997).

Many Africans, chained below deck for weeks, survived the voyage across the Atlantic Ocean to become slaves in the New World. There are virtually no survivors of the abortionist’s cutting curette, vacuum probe and toxic chemical infusions.

Wikipedia.com shows an anti-slavery medallion with the figure of an African woman in chains and the words: “Am I not a woman and a sister?” BlackGenocide.org shows pictures of aborted babies. Don’t mothers and babies deserve better?

Mr. Gerry Parmantier
Vancouver, WA