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Tuesday, January 4, 2011
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• ObamaCare Repeal Vote Next Week, Bill to De-Fund Abortion Soon
• Judge Who Ordered Euthanasia of Terri Schiavo Retires
• GOP Chair Candidates Pledge at Debate to Work With Pro-Life Groups
• Obama Admin OKs Another Human Embryonic Stem Cell Trial
More Pro-Life News
• Kohls and Mrs. Fields Stop Donating to Planned Parenthood Abortion Biz
• Gentry Collins Leaves GOP Chair Race, Majority Oppose Steele
• Pennsylvania Abortions Drop 3.9 Percent; Almost Half From High
• Women Will Have Authentic Leaders in Upcoming Congress
• Study: Abortions Double in Spain Despite Increased Contraception
• Federal Government Catches Up to States, They Already Have Death Panels
• Real Pro-Life Heroes: Courageous Woman Refuses Abortion
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ObamaCare Repeal Vote Next Week, Bill to De-Fund Abortion Soon
House Republicans will vote next week to repeal the ObamaCare law that allows abortion-funding and promotes rationing drawing opposition from pro-life quarters.
Majority Leader-elect Eric Cantor announced today that the bill will be posted on the Internet on Monday night, the Rules Committee will meet Thursday to prepare it, and the rules for debate will be considered and receive a vote on Friday. Then, the vote will take place Wednesday, January 12.
Obamacare is a job killer for businesses small and large, and the top priority for House Republicans is going to be to cut spending and grow the economy and jobs, Cantor spokesman Brad Dayspring said in a statement. Further, ObamaCare failed to lower costs as the president promised that it would and does not allow people to keep the care they currently have if they like it. That is why the House will repeal it next week.
Prior to today s announcement, the new Republican chairman of the panel responsible for starting action on repealing the abortion-funding ObamaCare law says a vote will take place soon.
Rep. Fred Upton of Michigan, incoming chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said yesterday that a vote on the repeal legislation and a companion bill to ensure there is no abortion funding under ObamaCare, will take place before President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address later this month.
After the repeal bill is passed, Upton said Republicans would work on dismantling ObamaCare piece by piece with bills unrelated to the abortion issue but also legislation that would implement a ban on any taxpayer funding of abortions under the law and protecting the conscience rights of medical professionals who don t want to participate in abortions. Full story at LifeNews.com
Judge Who Ordered Euthanasia of Terri Schiavo Retires
The Florida state judge who allowed the former husband of disabled patient Terri Schiavo to take her life by depriving her of food and water, has retired from the bench.
Schiavo s case became an international debate over the treatment of people who are medically incapacitated and it saw Circuit Court Judge George Greer issue repeated orders allowing Terri s former husband Michael Schaivo to take her life.
The orders came despite evidence from her family and some physicians and experts that Terri would respond to stimulus and had the possibility of rehabilitation.
Circuit Court Judge George Greer said in an interview with the St. Petersburg Times that he feared for his life because of the outpouring of opposition to his decision allowing Michael to disconnect the feeding tube providing her with food and water.
Bobby Schindler, Terri Schiavo s brother, released a statement about Greer s retirement.
There are many in the legal community that will be honoring Judge Greer for his many years of judicial service, he said. However, for our family, and the millions of people that supported Terri worldwide, Judge Greer s decision to deliberately starve and dehydrate her to death based largely on hearsay testimony is anything but honorable. Terri was denied the most basic of rights right that our laws are intended to protect: life and liberty, he said. Full story at LifeNews.com
GOP Chair Candidates Pledge at Debate to Work With Pro-Life Groups
The candidates for the chairmanship of the Republican Party pledged at a debate today to work with pro-life groups in advance of the 2012 elections.
They participated in a debate today sponsored in part by the pro-life group Susan B. Anthony List and pro-life advocates have been closely watching whether current chairman Michael Steele will run the GOP for another election cycle or whether one of four other candidates will replace him.
During the debate, SBA List president Marjorie Dannenfelser asked the candidates whether they would pledge to build bridges with pro-life groups in an effort to turn out the vote to defeat President Barack Obama. Full story at LifeNews.com
Obama Admin OKs Another Human Embryonic Stem Cell Trial
The Obama administration has approved an application submitted by cloning company Advanced Cell Technology to move ahead with a trial with patients receiving injections of embryonic stem cells.
Although embryonic stem cell use in animals faces immune system rejection issues and cause tumors, the Food and Drug Administration cleared ACT to start its second try with derivatives of embryonic stem cells. ACT scientists applied in 2009 to carry out a clinical trial on patients suffering from macular degeneration and they expect the trial to begin soon now that it has been approved. Full story at LifeNews.com
Kohls and Mrs. Fields Stop Donating to Planned Parenthood Abortion Biz
Strike two more corporations off of the list of companies that make financial donations to the Planned Parenthood abortion business.
Kohl s and Mrs. Fields are no longer boycott targets, explains Douglas Scott the president of Life Decisions International, a pro-life group that monitors corporations and whether they support the nation s largest abortion business. This is absolutely stunning. Talk about a happy New Year.
Scott explains in a letter to his organization s supporters that the most recent version of the boycott list LDI mailed to pro-life advocates includes the two companies, as news about their stopping the donations came after publication. Full story at LifeNews.com
Gentry Collins Leaves GOP Chair Race, Majority Oppose Steele
The race for the chairmanship of the Republican party in the lead up to today s debate sees gentry Collins leaving the race and reports that GOP chair Michael Steele lacks enough votes.
Collins, the former Republican National Committee political director who resigned last year and issued a scathing report on the financial and other problems at the Republican Party, dropped out last night after seeing that he didn t have enough support to be nominated at the RNC meetings January 12-15 where the vote will take place.
Collins said he entered the race to provide an alternative to Steele, who has been besieged with criticism for putting the GOP in a difficult financial position that could greatly affect the ability of defeating pro-abortion President Barack Obama in 2012, but he said the entrance of other candidates in the race makes it so he no longer feels the need to continue his bid. Full story at LifeNews.com
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Pennsylvania Abortions Drop 3.9 Percent; Almost Half From High
Abortions in the state of Pennsylvania dropped 3.9 percent in 2009, according to new numbers from the state health department.
Statistics released by the Pennsylvania Department of Health show that abortions decreased last year in what a statewide pro-life group calls an encouraging sign of the progress Pennsylvania has made in helping women seek alternatives to abortion.
The figures show 1,523 fewer abortions in 2009 compared to 2008, resulting in a total of 37,284 abortions in the state last year. Full story at LifeNews.com
Study: Abortions Double in Spain Despite Increased Contraception
The medical journal Contraception has published the results of a new study that appears to refute the pro-abortion mantra that contraception use lowers abortion totals.
The study, following women in Spain of childbearing age since 1997, had researchers surveying women every two years about their contraceptive use and whether they became pregnant or had an abortion.
The study found overall use of contraceptive methods increased from 49.1% to 79.9% during the 10 year time period ending in 2007. Condom usage rates rose from 21 to 38.8 percent while women were more likely to use the birth control pill (14.2% to 20.3%).
Despite the increase reliance on birth control and contraception, the elective abortion rate increased from 5.52 to 11.49 per 1000 women. Full story at LifeNews.com
Women Will Have Authentic Leaders in Upcoming Congress
Marjorie Dannenfelser, the president of the Susan B. Anthony List, has a new article at Politics Daily talking about how women will have real, authentic leadership in the upcoming session of Congress.
While pro-abortion women like Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her friends will no longer be calling the shots in the House, new pro-life women will be there and in the Senate who will stand up for the pro-life values a majority of women share. Full story at LifeNews.com
Federal Government Catches Up to States, They Already Have Death Panels
by Wesley J. Smith
I read a piece in the Washington Post by Norm Ornstein last week, in which he thinks he cleverly hoisted conservatives on the death panel petard. Arizona as we have discussed and now Indiana Medicaid, refused treatments (in the latter s case because, the state claimed, it is experimental). But Ornstein misses the real message of these treatment refusals. But I didn t. Full story at LifeNews.com
Real Pro-Life Heroes: Courageous Woman Refuses Abortion
I received a moving response to my post last week and the author requested I share her story through the blog.
I hope and pray that others who read this are inspired by this young woman s courageous choice in the face of great adversity. She is a pro-life hero and here is her story. Full story at LifeNews.com
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