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Wednesday, September 7, 2011
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• Republican Debate Has Rick Perry With Most to Gain, Lose
• Pro-Lifers: Tell Obama Admin to Protect Conscience Rights
• Abortion Facility Cited for Violations in Louisiana Closes
• British Parliament Votes to Keep Pro-Abortion Counseling
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• New Planned Parenthood Abortion Center Preys on Teenagers
• Pregnant On Campus Initiative: Responding to Women s Needs
• Abortion Proponents Twist Science and Advances in Medicine
• Texas Ultrasound-Abortion Law to Get Appeals Court Battle
• New Hampshire Executive Council Candidate: Fund Planned Parenthood
• Massachusetts Ballot Prop Promoting Assisted Suicide Gets OK
• Fertility Software the New Face of Natural Family Planning
• Philippines: Three Pro-RH Bill Groups Support Abortion
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Republican Debate Has Rick Perry With Most to Gain, Lose
Tonight s Republican presidential debate at the Reagan Library will be the first one featuring pro-life Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who has the most to win or lose following his entrance into the contest.
Perry made his GOP presidential bid official weeks ago and he has quickly vaulted to the top of the polls nationally and in leading battleground states like Iowa and South Carolina. That s a change from previous debates, where Mitt Romney was the frontrunner and much of the attention was on whether other candidates would pile on him in an attempt to become the top alternative to the former Massachusetts governor.
Since his announcement, the focus has been entirely on Perry as many Republicans looking for a viable conservative alternative combining a pro-life position, experience and record and who were not enamored with the field to that point have rallied around him. Perry s quick climb to the top of the polls has some pundits already suggesting he is the likely nominee, but others say the debate is a critical first test for him to determine whether he can withstand hard questions from the press and potential criticism from Republican rivals looking to boost their own campaigns after spending weeks eating his dust.
Two Republicans have already launched attacks including Rep. Ron Paul, who released an ad focusing on Perry s stats as a former Democrat decades ago who, like millions of other Americans shifted to the Republican Party as the Democratic Party continued its leftward move over the years. The Perry camp immediately hit back, noting that Paul ran as a presidential candidate in 1980 on the Libertarian Party ticket, with many libertarians backing legalizing drugs, using a gold-standard economic system and advancing other political ideas outside the mainstream. http://www.lifenews.com/2011/09/07/republican-debate-has-rick-perry-with-most-to-gain-lose/
Pro-Lifers: Tell Obama Admin to Protect Conscience Rights
A top pro-life organization is encouraging pro-life advocates to contact the Obama administration and urge it to protect conscience rights for organizations that don t want to be involved in promoting abortion, drugs that can cause abortions and birth control.
In August, Obama officials tentatively approved a recommendation from the Institute of Medicine, opposed by pro-life groups, that called for the Obama administration to require insurance programs to include birth control such as the morning after pill or the ella drug that causes an abortion days after conception in the section of drugs and services insurance plans must cover under preventative care. The companies will likely pass the added costs on to consumers, requiring them to pay for birth control and, in some instances, drug-induced abortions of unborn children in their earliest days.
The Health and Human Services Department commissioned the report from the Institute, which advises the federal government and shut out pro-life groups in meetings leading up to the recommendations.
Now, taking advantage of the public comment period offer before the recommendation goes into effect, the Family Research Council is urging pro-life advocates to ask the Obama administration to reverse the decision that will force insurance companies to pay for birth control and drugs that can cause abortions under the Obamacare government-run health care program. The decision also compels, because of faulty conscience exemptions, many religious and pro-life groups to purchase the insurance despite their moral and religious objections. http://www.lifenews.com/2011/09/07/pro-lifers-tell-obama-admin-to-protect-conscience-rights/
Abortion Facility Cited for Violations in Louisiana Closes
Louisiana state health officials have closed for good the Gentilly Medical Clinic for Women abortion business after it failed to respond to actions the state took to revoke its medical license for repeated violations.
The Associated Press reports that late Tuesday Department of Health and Hospitals Secretary Bruce Greenstein issued the order closing the abortion clinic after initially revoking its medical license on May 25 after a probe found repeated health and safety violations putting women s health at risk. That was the second order the clinics received the first one coming in January 2010 for failing to follow basic medical laws.
Officials told AP the appeal of the January 2010 order was moving ahead when another inspection found additional violations that led to the May order. Because the Gentilly Medical Clinic did not appeal the May order, DHH spokeswoman Lisa Faust said the abortion center now has no legal recourse to avoid shutting down.
The Louisiana health department has been acting under a new law that gives it more authority to close abortion centers that violate state health and safety standards. http://www.lifenews.com/2011/09/07/abortion-facility-cited-for-violations-in-louisiana-closes/
British Parliament Votes to Keep Pro-Abortion Counseling
The British Parliament today voted against taking the abortion counseling provisions away from the abortion businesses that profit from selling women abortions. They overwhelmingly rejected a proposal by MP Nadine Dorries to have the NHS provide women with independent counseling rather than allow abortion businesses like Marie Stopes International to push women into having abortions with biased counseling.
Dorries said there is a conflict of interest by having MSI and the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, an abortion business, offer official counseling for women because they have a financial stake in selling abortions. But MPs rejected the change by an overwhelming 368-118 vote
During the debate, Dorries insisted she had no interest in banning abortions and described herself as pro-choice on abortion, but said she is dismayed by the high abortion rates in England, where repeat abortions are at record highs.
It must be wrong that the abortion provider, who is paid to the tune of £60 million to carry out terminations, should also provide the counseling if a woman feels strong or brave enough to ask for it, she said. If an organization is paid that much for abortions, where is the incentive to reduce them?
Support for the change broke down after Prime Minister David Cameron, who initially supported the change, urged Tory Party members to vote against it saying the government would look at making changes on its own without a vote of Parliament. Reacting to the vote, Labour MP Frank Field, who had initially endorsed Dorries effort, wound up calling on her to withdraw her amendment to the health bill, saying government ministers already pledged to look into changes. http://www.lifenews.com/2011/09/07/british-parliament-votes-to-keep-pro-abortion-counseling/
 Announcing: National Association of Pro-life Nurses announces its 2011-2012 scholarship for student nurses. Scholarship application deadline is Feb. 15, 2012. Application can be found online at http://www.nursesforlife.org |
New Planned Parenthood Abortion Center Preys on Teenagers
Planned Parenthood of Watsonville, California recently celebrated its move to a new location with an open house. As usual, some of the features that have America s largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood, the most excited are precisely the ones that should give everyone else pause.
Beyond or perhaps intimately tied to the expanded clinic s ability to grow its abortion business, Planned Parenthood of Watsonville s new location has a special area just for teens.
http://www.lifenews.com/2011/09/07/new-planned-parenthood-abortion-center-preys-on-teenagers/
Pregnant On Campus Initiative: Responding to Women s Needs
Students for Life of America is thrilled to announce our newest initiative: Pregnant on Campus!
The Pregnant on Campus Initiative is our response to the stunning statistic that over 46% of abortions in America are performed on college-aged women. When faced with an unintended or crisis pregnancy, many students feel forced to choose between continuing their education or raising their child. We know that too often, college campuses do not provide the necessary resources or environment that support pregnant and parenting students.
The Pregnant on Campus Initiative aims to address this issue by helping campus pro-life groups to create effective and lasting change on their campus. SFLA encourages and challenges pro-life groups to address this issue on their campuses by engaging in service activities geared to providing necessary resources to pregnant and parenting students.
Recently, we visited a college campus to ask students about pregnancy-friendly resources on their campus. http://www.lifenews.com/2011/09/07/pregnant-on-campus-initiative-responding-to-womens-needs/
Abortion Proponents Twist Science and Advances in Medicine
Pro-life author and professor Dr William Brennan wrote in 1983 that [t]he womb as a surgical theater for the unborn is the perfect paradigm for the schizophrenic world of contemporary medicine where killing and curing share a perverse state of compatibility. He, as did many pro-lifers, knew science was on their side and that the more our understanding of the human life cycle was broadened, the more the world would begin to see unborn life as worthy of legal protection.
But no one underestimated the awesome ability of modern destructive technology to keep the victims plight concealed, as Dr. Brennan put it.
Nothing illustrates this point better than today s abortion industries pushing to introduce webcam abortions deep into the American heartland and their obstinance in denying what scientific evidence has shown: that the unborn child can feel pain.
http://www.lifenews.com/2011/09/07/abortion-proponents-twist-science-and-advances-in-medicine/
Texas Ultrasound-Abortion Law to Get Appeals Court Battle
A judge s ruling striking down significant portions of a pro-life law allowing women a chance to see an ultrasound of their unborn child prior to an abortion is getting strong support from Texas officials who are appealing the decision. http://www.lifenews.com/2011/09/07/texas-ultrasound-abortion-law-to-get-appeal-court-battle/
New Hampshire Executive Council Candidate: Fund Planned Parenthood
Colin Van Ostern has thrown his name into the mix as a candidate for the New Hampshire Executive Council and he says he is running to restore the taxpayer-funded contract the Planned Parenthood abortion business receives. http://www.lifenews.com/2011/09/07/new-hampshire-executive-council-candidate-fund-planned-parenthood/
Chris Matthews Wrongly Claims Ronald Reagan Supported Roe
MSNBC s Chris Matthews on Wednesday offered bizarre, revisionist history, insisting that Ronald Reagan wasn t a social conservative. In an attempt to denigrate the goals of the Tea Party movement, the Hardball host inaccurately asserted that the 40th president accepted Roe V. Wade. . http://www.lifenews.com/2011/09/07/chris-matthews-wrongly-claims-ronald-reagan-supported-roe/
Massachusetts Ballot Prop Promoting Assisted Suicide Gets OK
Attorney General Martha Coakley announced today the list of ballot proposals that will make their way on the 2012 ballot and one initiative would promote assisted suicide in the state. http://www.lifenews.com/2011/09/07/massachusetts-ballot-prop-promoting-assisted-suicide-gets-ok/
Fertility Software the New Face of Natural Family Planning
The developer of new fertility management software says it is becoming the new face for natural family planning. It can assist couples in conceiving or in avoiding pregnancy and help Catholics live their faith. http://www.lifenews.com/2011/09/07/fertility-software-the-new-face-of-natural-family-planning/
Philippines: Three Pro-RH Bill Groups Support Abortion
At least three non-government organizations have been found to be espousing the legalization of abortion in the Philippines, as senators resumed floor debates on the controversial reproductive health (RH) bill Monday. http://www.lifenews.com/2011/09/07/philippines-three-pro-rh-bill-groups-support-abortion/
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