- Young people and gay 'marriage'
- Planned Parenthood teams up with Occupy Wall Street
- Hidden persuaders: the unheralded gains of the pro-life movement
- US bishops urge HHS to respect consciences
- USCCB calls for greater conscience protection on eve of healthcare hearing
- Abortion clinic reveals Medicaid scheme to kill Down Syndrome babies
- Hosptial told nurses: assist abortions or lose your jobs
- UK churches being forced into gay 'wedding' business?
- Media pushes abortion agenda on prime-time TV
| Young people and gay 'marriage'
Posted: 02 Nov 2011 01:16 PM PDT It seems that most young people are all for gay marriage, or at least they aren’t opposed to it. But I’d like to add one very important caveat: they aren’t supporters of gay marriage because they think it’s the right thing for society, nor because they think homosexual activity is morally acceptable. |
| Planned Parenthood teams up with Occupy Wall Street
Posted: 02 Nov 2011 12:05 PM PDT Yesterday Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, joined a coalition of left-wing groups in Florida to protest pro-life Republican Governor Rick Scott and to show support for the larger Occupy Wall Street movement taking place nationwide. |
| Hidden persuaders: the unheralded gains of the pro-life movement
Posted: 02 Nov 2011 12:03 PM PDT Opponents of abortion are rarely interviewed on television these days. “It’s much harder to get on TV than it used to be,” says Charmaine Yoest, who heads Americans United for Life. Bookers of guests for news shows tell her, “We don’t want to talk about abortion. We’re tired of it.” |
| US bishops urge HHS to respect consciences Posted: 02 Nov 2011 11:50 AM PDT Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, the U.S. bishops’ pro-life committee chairman, urged the Health and Human Services Department to respect religious beliefs as it considers finalizing a mandate that would require health insurance providers to cover contraception. “Catholic organizations committed to their moral and religious teaching will have no choice but to stop providing health care and other services to the needy who are not Catholic, or stop providing health coverage to their own employees,” said Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of Galveston-Houston. “This is an intolerable dilemma, and either choice will mean reduced access to health care.” The Health and Human Services department announced federal rules on Aug. 1 that could require nearly all new health plans, including those of most religious agencies, to cover all government-approved methods of contraception as well as surgical sterilization. The mandate comes with a religious exemption that narrowly defines religious employers as those who employ and serve members of their own religion for the purpose of teaching religious doctrine. “Jesus and the apostles would not be ‘religious enough’ under such a test, as they served and healed people of different religions,” Cardinal DiNardo said on the eve of a hearing by the U.S. House of Representatives on conscience protections. In a Nov. 1 letter to subcommittee chairman Rep. Joseph Pitts (R-Penn.), the cardinal outlined his support for the Respect for Rights of Conscience Act and other moves to address potential problems with health care reform. He noted that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act “excluded longstanding protections for conscience rights on abortion, by failing to apply the annual Hyde/Weldon amendment to the billions of dollars newly appropriated by the Act.” “And it created new open-ended mandates for ‘essential health benefits’ and ‘preventive services’ to be included in almost all private health plans, without any provision for individuals or institutions that may have a moral or religious objection to particular items or procedures,” he added. Cardinal DiNardo stressed that a lack of conscience protections would ultimately lead to more harm than good—not only because less people would receive the basic health care that religious groups provide but because the fundamental right to religious freedom would be violated. “Is the drive to maximize contraceptive coverage, even among those who do not want it, such an urgent national priority that it transcends concerns about religious liberty, our nation’s ‘First Freedom,’ as well as concerns about women’s health and about access to basic health care for men and women alike?” he asked. |
| USCCB calls for greater conscience protection on eve of healthcare hearing
Posted: 02 Nov 2011 06:08 AM PDT Congress should strengthen conscience protections for health care providers and ensure that health care reform measures do not impede religious liberty, said the U.S. bishops’ chairman of Pro-Life Activities on the eve of a hearing by the House Subcommittee on Health, “Do New Health Law Mandates Threaten Conscience Rights and Access to Care?” |
| Abortion clinic reveals Medicaid scheme to kill Down Syndrome babies
Posted: 02 Nov 2011 06:07 AM PDT The pro-life group Operation Rescue has released a second undercover call it recorded exposing how abortion businesses are using money from Medicaid to pay for late-term abortions. |
| Hosptial told nurses: assist abortions or lose your jobs
Posted: 02 Nov 2011 06:04 AM PDT A dozen nurses have filed a lawsuit against their employer, the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, which told them they had to either assist in abortions or risk losing their jobs. |
| UK churches being forced into gay 'wedding' business? Posted: 02 Nov 2011 06:00 AM PDT Gay couples are to be allowed to take part in civil partnerships in church and other places of worship under new Government plans. |
| Media pushes abortion agenda on prime-time TV
Posted: 02 Nov 2011 04:53 AM PDT Once a taboo topic on TV, abortion is being worked into the storylines of popular prime time series from “Friday Night Lights” to “Grey's Anatomy.” |
