ALL PRO-LIFE TODAY REPORT 3/26/2012

Monday, March 26, 2012

HHS Mandate: A Contraceptive Mentality    By Peggy Hamill                   Today's guest commentary is written by Peggy Hamill of Pro-Life Wisconsin----an ALL Associate group----and discusses Obamacare and Obama's contraceptive mandate. Read on for her insights.   [Click here to read more.]                                                HEADLINES How U.S. government got tied up with contraception Our Sunday Visitor As the end of his two-term presidency approached in 1960, Dwight Eisenhower looked at the idea that the government should promote birth control and said it wasn't good. Family planning was no business of the American government, Eisenhower pronounced. What a difference a half-century makes. Back then, Catholic opposition was the chief obstacle to government involvement in family planning. Today, a different president wants to force Catholic institutions into a national system for providing family planning.     Planned Parenthood eyes Victorville [CA] location Daily Press Planned Parenthood may open its first High Desert location in a former Chuck E. Cheese's restaurant on Park Avenue. "We're in the process of negotiating for space," company spokeswoman Stephanie Kight said by phone Friday. The organization is still considering other locations in San Bernardino County, but Kight said this area stood out for its elevated rates of teen pregnancy and STDs, its lack of reproductive health services and the frequency that High Desert patients show up at Planned Parenthood's closest offices 30-plus miles away in San Bernardino and Upland.   End the Down syndrome holocaust today LifeSiteNews Prenatal testing has allowed more and more parents to find out that their children have Down syndrome before the babies are born. Unfortunately, 90% of those parents choose to kill their children, simply because they have an extra chromosome. It's a horrifying notion, but one that stays, for the most part, under the radar. With the advent of a new test, MaterniT21, which is non-invasive and 99% accurate, there is a very good chance that it will only get worse. And now, the number of babies born with Down syndrome is dropping to a number low enough to have researchers and advocates worried. As more and more women choose to have babies later, the number of Down syndrome births should have risen about 35%. Instead, it has dropped 15%.