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Chapter 9, Part IV: Local Connections to National Population Controllers

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The foundress of Missouri’s largest abortion? clinic is also the director of Health Policy Institute.? She has been heavily involved with writing health care legislation (such as Missouri’s HB564) and policy for the state of Missouri.? Her biography describes her as an “international health consultant” who has worked in Bangladesh;? Bogota, Colombia? (where she trained “bare-foot doctors and midwives” to do abortion); and the Peoples Republic of China. In China, a mother pregnant with a child for whom she has no certificate to bear is forcibly aborted.? While in China, Widdicombe? helped bridge the gap between urban and rural health care.? [1], [2]

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hina is known for its one-family one-child policy.? Chinese mothers who become pregnant with a child for whom they have no government certificate to bear, hide in the rural areas to escape brutally enforced mandatory abortions performed anytime prior to birth.? Bridging the gap between urban and rural “health care” probably didn’t help these women escape their forced abortion(s).?

One of the purposes of Missouri’s universal health care reform bill is to bridge the gap between urban and rural health care also!!? An infrastructure has been created to make SURE all Missourians have access to “health” services which assure “meeting” federal health goals printed in Healthy People 2000? and Healthy Missourians 2000? - including goals to reduce ‘unintended pregnancies’? as defined by the government!? The names of Health Policy Institute? and its director, Ms. Widdicombe, appear in Healthy Missourians 2000.? [3]

In 1991, Widdicombe? and Health Policy Institute? successfully lobbied the Missouri Division of Medical Services to add Norplant? to its Medicaid? reimbursements.? Not surprisingly, two years later Widdicombe was instrumental in the passage of Missouri’s health care reform bill, HB564, which allows schools to become Medicaid providers.? This allows Norplant? to be more accessible to teens and other targeted populations through school/community collaboration.

According to the State Board of Nursing, Norplant? may be inserted by nurse practitioners.? School nurses may be upgraded to nurse practitioners through school district staff development? programs.

The National Organization On Adolescent Pregnancy and Parenting? (NOAPP) produced a summary report following their 1985 Symposium titled Inventing the Future Alternatives to Adolescent? Pregnancy.? The summary promoted: “Parenting (to be) seen as a privilege and not a right, school health clinics? services including pregnancy testing, referrals, and contraceptives, recognition of sexual activity as separate from procreation, contraception? immunization? for preteens–reaching teens through school/community-linked services,” and more (emphasis added).?

Such “immunization” is now possible with Norplant? an implant which is “good” for 5 years, and Depo-Provera, an injection which is “good” for 1 year.? Teens may be reached through school/community-linked services? whereby schools provide referrals? to local Medicaid and community health care providers who may provide contraceptives? such as Norplant? and Depo-Provera to minors? without parental consent!? Review the chapter titled “Medicaid, Family Planning, and A Health Care Home.”

Members of NOAPP’s Advisory Council include the National School Boards Association,? The Ounce of Prevention? Program, March of Dimes, U.S. Department of Education, National Urban League, Children’s Defense Fund, and others. NOAPP’s summer 1990 issue of Network (volume 10, number 2) listed the NOAPP Advisory Council members to include the Ounce of Prevention Program, Americans for Indian Opportunity, National Council of Negro Women, Association of Junior Leagues, House Select Committee on Children, Youth and Families, and Cities in Schools, in addition to those members listed above.?

Among the faculty of NOAPP’s Symposium was the U.S. Agency for International Development’s? (AID) Associate Director of Personnel and Chief of Training.? (Recall that AID’s goal is to steril­ize one quarter of the world’s fertile women).

Included in NOAPP’s Summary Report was a state coalition and contact list. ? [4]? Listed as Missouri’s contact person was the Executive Director of what is now called the Missouri Family Health Council, Inc.? The Missouri Family Health Council distributes federal family planning? (Title X) funds? throughout the state.? This man held that position from August 2, 1982, through December 31, 1991. ? [5]? How Convenient!!!?

Federal guidelines, which must be followed by agencies receiving federal Title X? family planning? funds, state that services must be provided without regard to age (allowing minors? to receive contraceptive chemicals and devices without parental consent), and those requesting information regarding the manage­ment of an unintended pregnancy? are to be given non-directive counseling? and referral? upon request of ALL options, including “pregnancy termination” (i.e., abortion? referral).? [6]?

To recall additional connections to national population controllers, review the list of educational and health agencies who are members of SIECUS’s National Coalition To Support Sexuality Education listed in the chapter titled “SIECUS, the CDC, and State Health Curricula.”? Also review the chapter titled “Together We Can’? Socialize ‘Caring Communities” to recall collaboration between the Missouri Chapter of March of Dimes? and the foundress of Missouri’s largest abortion? clinic.

[1] “Abortion Pioneer Making Impact in Other Areas,” St. Louis Post Dispatch, Aug. 16, 1992.

[2] “Biography of Judith A. Widdicombe, RN, BA” distributed with “Testimony In Support of House Bill 564: Omnibus Health Care Access Bill Delivered before the Science, Technology and Critical Decisions Committee of the Missouri House of Representatives by Judith Widdicombe, RN Health Policy Institute,” Feb. 15, 1993.

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[3] Healthy Missourians 2000 Vol. I, Missouri Department of Health, p. 73; Vol. II p.175.

[4] “Inventing the Future: Alternatives to Adolescent Pregnancy - A Summary Report,” NOAPP, Jun. 1985, faculty/state coalition contacts, pp. 7, 12, 30-32, 74, 77.

[5] Aug. 15, 1991, Letter from U.S. Department of Health & Human Services copied to Executive Director of Missouri Family Health Council.

[6] “Program Guidelines for Project Grants for Family Planning Services,” U.S. Department of Health & Human Services; Public Health Service; Health Services Administration; Bureau of Community Health Services; Office of Family Planning; 5600 Fishers Lane; Rockville, Maryland 20857; pp. 3, 12-13.