Every time I have a prenatal appointment, I get a call from my doctor’s office the day before reminding me of the event.  It’s good — often I schedule the appointment when I leave the previous appointment, and it helps me keep track of my plans and remember exactly what day I picked or office I go to this time.

Do I consider it an “opportunistic scheme” for my doctor to be sure he gets more billable hours?  Of course not.

Now, switch in abortion, and it’s truly evil.  Or so says anti-choice activists, concerned that text message reminders of an appointments related to abortion care are attempts to coerce the woman into the procedure.

Via “Christian Concern:”

Dr Peter Saunders of the Christian Medical Fellowship said:

“If you have got an unplanned pregnancy and you are in a crisis you would think it would be at the forefront of your mind…

“Young people living chaotic lifestyles need personal help and support, not a text message.”

“Providers like BPAS and Marie Stopes International put women on a conveyor belt which is hard to get off. Sending text messages is an attempt to push women towards an abortion.”

Stewart Jackson MP slammed the scheme for being “morally squalid” and Norman Wells, of Family Youth Concern, also weighed in with further criticism:

“Given that one of the main goals of BPAS is to increase its market share for abortion services provision in the UK and that it regards an increase in the number of abortions performed in the past year as a ‘significant achievement’, it is hard to see the text messaging service as anything other than a cynical way of putting women under pressure to go ahead with an abortion when they might be in two minds about it.”

It must be exhausting to have to find a nefarious plot in absolutely everything.