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National Association of Pro-Life Nurses Statement on the Covid-19 (coronavirus) Pandemic
As nurses, we stand with and support our fellow medical personnel in the front line fight to save lives during this pandemic. Our goal is unchanging when it comes to the inestimable value of each human life.
As health care providers, we have served through many epidemics and other disasters and have seen the wonderful results when we all work together.
We encourage everyone to follow the sanitary and social isolation precautions that hopefully will mitigate the crisis and bring a sooner end to this pandemic.
At the present time, the COVID-19 virus has and will continue to have an enormous impact on all our lives for the foreseeable future not only in our health care system but also in our work lives, education, the economy and our way of life.
We appreciate the efforts of our government and scientific experts not only in combating this pandemic from a medical standpoint but also in addressing the impact of this crisis on families, the economy and our way of life.
As difficult and frightening as this crisis is, we nurses know that we can get through this with hard work, hope, resolve and dedication. If we all do this together, we can find ourselves kinder, wiser and better people in the future.
Federal Judge Blocking North Dakota Law Informing Women of abortion pill reversal
September 2019
The National Association of Pro-life Nurses (NAPN) joins the American Association of Pro-life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Heartbeat International and the Alliance Defending Freedom in responding to the September 13, 2019 decision by a federal judge granting the American Medical Association’s (AMA) motion for a temporary injunction blocking the new North Dakota law requiring doctors to inform women seeking medical pill abortions about abortion reversal if they change their minds.
Already, 8 other states have passed abortion pill reversal informed consent laws with at least 750 babies saved.
The AMA’s position is that this information is a “government mandated message that they would not otherwise recite and refer their patients to government-created materials and government-sanctioned referrals about an experimental medical treatment that has not been proven safe and effective or approved by the FDA, that violates accepted ethical standards and best practices in medical care, that undermines Physicians’ ability to provide their patients with the highest standard of medical care, and that contradicts Physicians’ viewpoints.” (Emphasis added)
In reality, the abortion reversal drug progesterone is a natural pregnancy hormone to grow the placenta and provide nourishment for the unborn baby. It is sometimes given to pregnant women who have or have had bleeding, miscarriage, infertility or other problems as well as routinely with in vitro fertilization.
In medical pill abortions, the first abortion drug mifepristone blocks this natural progesterone while the second abortion drug misoprostol is usually taken by the woman 36-72 hours later to cause expulsion of the unborn baby.
If progesterone is given before the second abortion pill, the chances of the baby surviving increase from 25% (the survival rate without natural progesterone) to 68% (the average survival rate after giving natural progesterone). The timing between the first and second drug is the crucial window where abortion reversal if possible.
There is even a website at www.abortionpillreversal.com for information on abortion reversal that includes a hotline phone number at 1-877-558-0333.
But unfortunately, this is critical information that Planned Parenthood and the AMA apparently don’t want women to get.
It is ironic that the abortion industry constantly proclaims that the public should just “trust women” when it comes to abortion but apparently it does not trust women with the truly informed consent required before any other treatment or procedure.
Marie Ashby, Executive Director of National Association of Pro-life Nurses can be reached at executivedirectornapn@gmail.com
Nancy Valko, RN ALNC Spokesperson for the National Association of Pro-Life Nurses
[📞] (314) 504-5208
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PALLIATIVE care and hospice education and training act (2019) H.R. 647, S.2080
The National Association of Pro-life Nurses joins the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition USA and the Healthcare Advocacy Leadership Organization (HALO) in opposing the Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act (2019) H.R. 647, S.2080. (HALO has issued an action alert with the contact numbers for legislators on the Senate committee considering this bill.)
As nurses, we strive to care for our seriously ill, disabled and terminally ill patients with compassion and the highest ethical standards. We applaud the medical innovations and supportive care options that can help our patients attain the highest quality of life possible.
However now many of us nurses are now seeing unethical practices such as assisted suicide, terminal sedation (with withdrawal/withholding of food, water and critical medicines), voluntary stopping of eating, drinking and even spoon feeding, etc. used to cause or hasten death but often called palliative, "comfort" or routine hospice care for such patients.
We believe that the Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act (2019) will allow federal funding to teach and institutionalize such unethical practices without sufficient oversight, safeguards or penalties.
For example, the Section 5 Clarifications (p. 21) against federal funding for objectionable practices "furnished for the purpose of causing, or the purpose of assisting in causing, a patient’s death, for any reason" is toothless. Such practices are already considered acceptable by many influential hospice and palliative care doctors like Dr. Timothy Quill, a board-certified palliative care physician, 2012 president of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine and promoter of legalizing physician-assisted suicide and terminal sedation.
It is also disturbing the Compassion and Choice, the largest and best funded organization promoting assisted suicide and other death decisions, has a mission statement stating:
"We employ educational training programs, media outreach and online and print publications to change healthcare practice, inform policy-makers, influence public opinion and empower individuals."
and a “Federal Policy Agenda / 2016 & Beyond” goal to:
“Establish federal payment for palliative care consultations provided by trained palliative care professionals who will advocate for and support the values and choices of the patient…." (All emphasis added)
As nurses, we are also very concerned that the Act contains no conscience rights protection for those of us-doctors and nurses alike-who will do anything for our patients except deliberately end their lives or help them kill themselves.
Many of us have already faced threats of termination of employment for refusing to participate in unethical, life-ending practices without support from our nursing organizations like the American Nurses Association that recently dropped their traditional opposition to physician-assisted suicide and voluntary stopping of eating and drinking.
For the sake of protecting our patients, the integrity of our medical and nursing professions as well as our healthcare system, we urge the public and our congressional representatives to oppose this dangerous Act.