The moonbats from the left file lawsuits to stop lethal injections of death row inmates as cruel and unusual punishments. The lethal injection is given on-site by a physician; however Planned Parenthood is using a doctor in a remote location acting the same as a drone pilot pushing the kill button.
Via CNS News
The Iowa Supreme Court is currently deciding whether to uphold a ban on Planned Parenthood of the Heartland’s (PPH) “webcam abortions” in which off-site physicians remotely dispense two abortion-inducing drugs to patients they have not examined.
“This is a national test case,” said Matthew Heffron, an attorney for the Thomas More Society, after the high court heard oral arguments in the case on March 11.
PPH “is trying the procedure here. If they’re successful, they will probably attempt to spread the practice to other states,” Heffron predicted.
During oral arguments, Iowa Solicitor General Jeffrey Thompson told the state justices that the Board of Medicine made the right decision. The RU-486 protocol used in webcam abortions “is not a typical prescription pharmaceutical,” he pointed out. “The FDA, in approving the drug, specifically provided a protocol for what they were saying was safe and effective use of the drug.”
But Alice Clapman, a lawyer for Planned Parenthood, argued that “the board had no medical evidence to support its decision.”
Justice Thomas Waterman asked Clapman if the court should overrule the medical board’s physician majority. “We went to law school, not medical school,” he reminded her. She replied that the court has oversight of all state agencies, including the Board of Medicine.[…]
The board noted that webcam abortions delegate physicians’ responsibility “to non-physician persons who do not have appropriate training to confirm or discover contraindications or to perform an ultrasound to determine the age and location of the embryo.”
“Physicians who prescribe and administer abortion-inducing drugs using telemedicine may never meet with the patient in person and may never see the patient again for a follow-up appointment,” the board added.
Iowa state law only allows physicians to perform abortions. Any non-physician who terminates a human pregnancy is guilty of a felony.
PPH – which offers webcam abortions in ten locations in Iowa in addition to its four facilities that perform surgical abortions – sued the board, claiming that the rule was politically motivated and an attempt to ban access to a legal medical procedure.