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Wednesday, March 14, 2012
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• Obamacare $1 Abortion Payment Surcharge Upsets Pro-Lifers
• Catholic Bishops Unified in Vow to Fight Obama HHS Mandate
• Planned Parenthood CEO Arrested for Indecent Exposure Ousted
• Kroger Stores Accused of Backing Group Paying for Abortions
More Pro-Life News
• Santorum Signs Petition Saying Life Begins at Conception
• Romney Would Get Rid of Planned Parenthood Funding
• Obama HHS Mandate Debate: Is Fertility the Next Down Syndrome?
• Obama s Budget Priorities Show He s Beholden to Abortion
• Media, Pro-Choicers Trash Bill to Stop Secret Teen Abortions
• Pro-Choice Activist: I Love Abortion, Don t Want it Rare
• Canadian Parliament Will Engage in Rare Abortion Debate
• Assisted Suicide Judicial Fiat Sought in New Mexico
• UNC Greensboro Will Finally Recognize Pro-Life Group
• Teens, Students Stand Against Abortion in 40 Days for Life
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Obamacare $1 Abortion Payment Surcharge Upsets Pro-Lifers
Leading pro-life organizations are upset by the news that the Obama administration has issued the final rules on abortion funding governing the controversial health care law allowing for a $1 abortion insurance payment surcharge.
As LifeNews initially reported, the Department of Health and Human Services has issued a final rule regarding establishment of the state health care exchanges required under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
As a knowledgeable pro-life source on Capitol Hill informed LifeNews, as authorized by Obamacare, The final rule provides for taxpayer funding of insurance coverage that includes elective abortion and the change to longstanding law prohibiting virtually all direct taxpayer funding of abortions (the Hyde Amendment) is accomplished through an accounting arrangement described in the Affordable Care Act and reiterated in the final rule issued today.
To comply with the accounting requirement, plans will collect a $1 abortion surcharge from each premium payer, the pro-life source informed LifeNews. The enrollee will make two payments, $1 per month for abortion and another payment for the rest of the services covered. As described in the rule, the surcharge can only be disclosed to the enrollee at the time of enrollment. Furthermore, insurance plans may only advertise the total cost of the premiums without disclosing that enrollees will be charged a $1 per month fee to pay directly subsidize abortions. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/03/14/obamacare-1-abortion-payment-surcharge-upsets-pro-lifers/
Catholic Bishops Unified in Vow to Fight Obama HHS Mandate
The nation s Catholic bishops have released a new statement in which they say they are unified in their vow to fight the Obama HHS mandate that requires religious employers to purchase birth control and coverage for their employees that includes drugs that may cause abortions.
The U.S. bishops are strongly united in their ongoing and determined efforts to protect religious freedom, the Administrative Committee of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) said in a statement LifeNews received.
The Administrative Committee, chaired by Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York, president of the USCCB, is the highest authority of the bishops conference outside the semi-annual sessions of the full body of bishops. The Committee s membership consists of the elected chairmen of all the USCCB permanent committees and an elected bishop representative from each of the geographic regions of the USCCB. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/03/14/catholic-bishops-unified-in-vow-to-fight-obama-hhs-mandate/
Planned Parenthood CEO Arrested for Indecent Exposure Ousted
The local Planned Parenthood abortion business CEO who was arrested this week on charges of indecent exposure has been ousted form his position as the head of a local Planned Parenthood abortion business affiliate.
LifeNews reported yesterday that the president and CEO of the Planned Parenthood abortion business in Lubbock, Texas was arrested Monday for indecent exposure at a local baseball field where children play.
As KCBD indicated, According to Lubbock Police, Tony Ray Thornton, 56, was arrested at the baseball fields inside of Mackenzie Park. According to the incident report, Thornton was taken into custody at 3:25 Monday afternoon. He was booked into the Lubbock County Detention Center and released from jail Tuesday morning around 11 a.m.
The news station reports that Thornton has worked with the abortion business for several years and the Lubbock Planned Parenthood has had its share of problems. . http://www.lifenews.com/2012/03/14/planned-parenthood-ceo-arrested-for-indecent-exposure-ousted/
Kroger Stores Accused of Backing Group Paying for Abortions
The Kroger grocery store chain is facing criticism from a pro-life research group that says Texas locations are donating to a fund that pays for abortions for lower income women.
The prolife group AbortionWiki, which conducts research into the abortion industry, says it has uncovered that Texas branches of popular grocery stores Kroger, Tom Thumb & Albertson s are donors to an organization known as the Texas Equal Access (TEA) Fund.
The three Texas grocery stores donate 1% of the purchases of registered TEA Fund members to the TEA Fund, the organization says.
It notes that Jenni Heasman-Beaver, general manager for the Southwestern Women s Surgery Center late-term abortion facility in Dallas, Texas serves on the board of the TEA Fund. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/03/14/kroger-stores-accused-of-backing-group-paying-for-abortions/
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Santorum Signs Petition Saying Life Begins at Conception
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum further his commitment to the pro-life cause recently while campaigning in the state of Oklahoma. There, he signed a draft version of the Oklahoma Personhood Amendment petition calling for the state legislature to approve a state measure signifying human life begins at conception.
Santorum took time to meet with pro-life advocates at a campaign stop and, at a volunteer s request, Santorum signed the form and demonstrated his strong support for the inherent right to life of every human being. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/03/14/santorum-signs-petition-saying-life-begins-at-conception/
Romney Would Get Rid of Planned Parenthood Funding
On the campaign trail in the race for the Republican nomination and the right to take on pro-abortion President Barack Obama, former governor Mitt Romney said he would get rid of Planned Parenthood, the nation s biggest abortion business.
Answering a question from CNN affiliate KDSK of St. Louis, Romney listed a series of programs he would cut or eliminate as president in order to reduce the federal deficit.
You get rid of Obamacare, but there are others, Romney the station. Planned Parenthood, we re gonna get rid of that. The subsidy for Amtrak, I would eliminate that. The National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, both excellent programs, but we can t afford to borrow money to pay for these things. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/03/14/romney-says-he-would-get-rid-of-planned-parenthood/
Obama HHS Mandate Debate: Is Fertility the Next Down Syndrome?
There is little doubt the HHS mandate that requires all insurance polices to provide hormonal contraception, sterilization and abortion-causing drugs with no co-pay is an assault on religious liberty. Along with a diverse array of Catholic leaders and writers, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is more united in forcefully addressing this unjust regulation than they have been on any other issue in recent memory. Cardinal Dolan, president of the USCCB, has declared that the Catholic Church will not back down in the fight for religious liberty.
Yet lost in this critical fight to safeguard our freedom of religion is the assault on womanhood that is intrinsic to this mandate. By accepting the seriously flawed recommendation of the Institute of Medicine that contraception, sterilization and abortion-causing drugs are preventive care, our federal government has essentially declared that a woman s fertility is an unnatural condition, and a disease to be eradicated. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/03/14/obama-hhs-mandate-debate-is-fertility-the-next-down-syndrome/
Obama s Budget Priorities Show He s Beholden to Abortion
It is no secret that in life, our values tend to guide our decisions. The things we hold dear, the things that are priorities to us, our principles these are the factors that influence how we live our lives, from who we associate with to how we spend our time and how we spend our money. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/03/14/obamas-budget-priorities-show-hes-beholden-to-abortion/
Media, Pro-Choicers Trash Bill to Stop Secret Teen Abortions
Last Thursday, I had the opportunity to testify in front of the House Subcommittee on the Constitution on behalf on the Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act (CIANA). This act would strengthen the over 30 state-level pro-life parental-involvement laws currently in place by making it illegal for a non-parent to circumvent these laws by taking a minor girl across state lines for an abortion. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/03/14/media-pro-choicers-trash-bill-to-stop-secret-teen-abortions/
Pro-Choice Activist: I Love Abortion, Don t Want it Rare
A pro-abortion activist writing at one of the leading pro-abortion web sites is admitting what many the pro-life movement has always known but what leading defenders of abortion refuse to admit. Until now. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/03/14/pro-choice-activist-i-love-abortion-dont-want-it-rare/
Canadian Parliament Will Engage in Rare Abortion Debate
The Canadian Parliament will engage in a rare debate over abortion and pro-life issues as Tory MP Stephen Woodworth has won the right to have the legislative body take a look at his bill to define unborn children as human beings. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/03/14/canadian-parliament-will-engage-in-rare-abortion-debate/
Assisted Suicide Judicial Fiat Sought in New Mexico
If New Mexico wants to legalize assisted suicide, it is free to so do. But it hasn t, and so a lawsuit will be filed to impose it by judicial fiat, a tactical move that has failed previously in Connecticut, Florida, Alaska, and California, in front of the US Supreme Court, and muddied the waters in Montana. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/03/14/assisted-suicide-judicial-fiat-sought-in-new-mexico/
UNC Greensboro Will Finally Recognize Pro-Life Group
The administration at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro reversed course on Tuesday and has finally agreed to recognize a student pro-life group that has been having trouble with college officials. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/03/14/unc-greensboro-will-finally-recognize-pro-life-group/
Teens, Students Stand Against Abortion in 40 Days for Life
In the first half of a 40 Days for Life campaign volunteers can be hesitant and some in the community may be skeptical of the ongoing vigil BUT by the second half of the campaign, the focus shifts to the reality of abortion in the community and the campaign effort begins to rapidly snowball. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/03/14/teens-students-stand-against-abortion-in-40-days-for-life/
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