Reversing the National Abortion Trend

The extreme New York abortion deregulation bill we told you about last Thursday, Reproductive Health Act (S5808 (Stewart-Cousins)/A11484 (Glick) The Reproductive Health Act), may come up for a vote in the Senate today. As noted in the above link, “The Reproductive Health Act (RHA), as it is currently being identified, would be the greatest expansion of abortion rights since Roe v. Wade. The bill has many flaws, including violation of religious freedoms and removing what few restrictions exist on abortion, ultimately endangering women.”

New Yorkers, please take the following actions:

1. Call your state representatives today and express your position. If you have already done so, it helps to do it again. Click on the following link for information on your representative’s contact information along with talking points: http://capwiz.com/nycf/callalert/index.tt?alertid=15198041
2. Forward your circle of influence the above link asking them to contact their representatives too.
3. Pray that God would enlighten the New York Senate

Stop the Fall

To be clear you are not being asked to defend your rights but the rights of the mute and unfortunate, the rights of the unborn and their mothers. True justice is leveraging the power and influence we have on behalf of those who have none. “The king gives stability to the land by justice, but a man who takes bribes overthrows it” (Proverbs 29.12). New York has an Assembly and now perhaps a Senate full of men and women willing to take a bribe, power in exchange for absolute abortion deregulation. Furthermore, with the legislative session coming to a close in the next day or two without a budget and a $9 Billion deficit their tactic is disgraceful, manipulative, wicked. The only thing that adds value to any economy is people. To pass the most sweeping abortion expansion bill in the history of State legislation in the midst of the largest fiscal crisis the State has ever faced is short sighted at best.

Thank you to all the Executives that attended the April conference!

After some time to process the executives that attended CompassCare’s high impact conference in Rochester, NY came away with some valuable tools for continuous improvement when using a linear service model. How to know if doing something new is the right thing for the pregnancy center (A.K.A. innovation) is an extremely important part of keeping our pregnancy centers on the cutting edge.

Conference attendees were given principles and tools including a hands on workshop to help them navigate the sometimes difficult waters of knowing what to do next, how to go about doing it, and assessing whether or not it is helping the organization accomplish its mission of reaching and serving more efficiently women at risk for abortion. The tools included how to effectively:

1. Assess
2. Plan
3. Do
4. Reassess

Executive attendee Becky Wood made the following comment: “Regarding the OT Conference, it was more than I imagined, not just professionally, but also spiritually where it counts for eternity.

I loved the actual hands on experience of putting into practice the things we discuss about innovation, research, etc.”

Thanks, Becky and all!

For more information about CompassCare’s Linear Service Model call the Optimization Tool go to www.compasscaretraining.org

Immediately after the ad aired I looked across the room at my friend who was also waiting to watch the ad and said after a short pause to stop blinking and close my mouth, “That’s it? That is what all the hype was about?” If you missed it you can watch it by clicking here.

If the intent of the ad was to get billions of dollars of free PR on the pro-life side of the abortion issue then mission accomplished. If the intent was to get the country talking about the issue then mission accomplish. Frankly, the way the ad campaign was handled was either a stroke of genius or Focus on the Family stumbled into a fresh, out-of-the-box way to use their public platform. The pro-choice side of the debate were so certain that the ad was going to take the form of the typical pro-life rhetoric that they blindly cranked up their media engine in laud and swarthy protest of what was sure to be the most intolerant ad of the century. When it turned out to be the benign if not quirky ad you see above about a mother anxious for her son’s health and then being the brunt of Looney-tunes type violence you had to stop and think. This is not what anyone expected. If it is not what I expected I can only imagine the surprise that the abortion agenda felt. They may have even missed it the first time around, it was just that understated.

What do you think will be the outcome short and long term?

Many pregnancy center executives wonder what the standard of care is to perform an ultrasound scan on women who are thinking about terminating their pregnancy.  The basic question to ask is, “what is the purpose of an ultrasound scan in the context of abortion?”  The basic purpose of an ultrasound scan is to do two things; 1) confirm fetal viability (is there a viable pregnancy?), and 2) determine gestational age (how far along is the pregnancy?).  In light of that fact the medical standard of care would be to ascertain as much information as possible with whatever tools are available at the time when the patient is seen.  What this means is that if a patient presents with a positive pregnancy test the medical standard of care (including at the abortion provider’s office) would be to do an ultrasound scan irrespective of the woman’s Last Menstrual Period (LMP).  To read further about this download the following White Paper:  How early should we do an Ultrasound scan?