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Monday, March 26, 2012
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• Thousands of Pro-Life Advocates Rally for Religious Freedom
• Stand Up for Religious Freedom Rallies Say Tyranny Won t Stand
• Understanding ObamaCare s $1 Abortion Surcharge in Three Steps
• Obamacare: Will It Withstand Constitutional Scrutiny?
More Pro-Life News
• October Baby: A Great Pro-Life Movie, Not a Sermon
• Refuting the After-Birth Abortion Philosophers
• Mitt Romney is Not Soft on Pro-Life, Abortion Issues
• Stabbing Death of Unborn Baby in DC Reveals Lack of Protections
• Hutchison Repeats Lie: Planned Parenthood Does Mammograms
• Anti-Life RH Bill Pushed Back Again in Philippines
• Biggest March for Life Ever in Romania on Saturday
• Pro-Lifers Spend Four Hours, Ride Two Ferries to Protest Abortion
• Alaska Bill Would Prohibit Taxpayer Funding of Abortions
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Thousands of Pro-Life Advocates Rally for Religious Freedom
Thousands of pro-life Americans took to nearly 200 local rallies in cities and towns across the country to stand up for religious freedom and against the Obama mandate that requires employers to pay for birth control and drugs that may cause abortions.
The rally in Washington, D.C. was so large organizers had problems getting the entire crowd in one picture.
Kristan Hawkins, the head of Students for Life of America, was one of the pro-life leaders to address the crowd in the nation s capital.
The new mandate, which was released last month, violates our civil liberties and free exercise of religion by forcing every American, every public and private University Student Health Care Plan, and every U.S. Employer, regardless of religion or conscience, to pay for abortion-causing drugs, like Ella, in health insurance plans, she said. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/03/23/thousands-of-pro-life-advocates-rally-for-religious-freedom/
Stand Up for Religious Freedom Rallies Say Tyranny Won t Stand
Today is an important day for the ProLife movement, in over 140 cities across the country, people of faith and conscience peacefully assembled this afternoon to protest the Obama/HHS/Abortion Drug (what ve you want to call it) Mandate.
President Reagan once said, Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
Today is the 2nd anniversary of the passage of Obamacare. The landmark piece of legislation that passed in the Senate on Christmas Eve, the legislation we were told that had to be passed into law before we could read it, and the legislation President Obama made promises he never could fulfill so it would pass the House like his promise that taxpayers wouldn t be funding abortion. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/03/23/stand-up-for-religious-freedom-rallies-say-tyranny-wont-stand/
Understanding ObamaCare s $1 Abortion Surcharge in Three Steps
This week, Jay and I spent most of Jay Sekulow Live! discussing ObamaCare s new $1 abortion surcharge. It struck us during the conversation that the bureaucratic and legal complexities of ObamaCare were making the issue difficult to understand. So here s how you can understand the controversy in three easy steps.
Step 1: As most people understand, ObamaCare requires every American to purchase insurance. This requirement the individual mandate is the legislation s most notorious feature and will be the subject of intense argument at the Supreme Court next week. However, the mandate is only the tip of the ObamaCare iceberg. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/03/23/understanding-obamacares-1-abortion-surcharge-in-three-steps/
Obamacare: Will It Withstand Constitutional Scrutiny?
The U.S. Supreme Court is now poised to review the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare. The nine Justices will hear oral arguments totaling an unprecedented five-and-a-half hours beginning on March 26, 2012 and concluding on March 28.
The usual allocation of time for Supreme Court oral arguments is just 60 minutes 30 minutes for each side and only in exceedingly important cases, like Bush v. Gore, which was to determine the outcome of a presidential election, does the court allow 90 minutes of argument. Though no cameras will be allowed to record the historic oral give-and-take, audio tapes of the proceedings will be provided on an expedited basis through the Court s website due to (according to the Court) the extraordinary public interest in the case.http://www.lifenews.com/2012/03/23/obamacare-will-it-withstand-constitutional-scrutiny/
October Baby: A Great Pro-Life Movie, Not a Sermon
Movies that deal with the sanctity of life are suddenly in the news. One of these, the long anticipated independent film Doonby, is scheduled to open in theaters later this year. And another one, October Baby, opens in theaters today, Friday, March 23.
Both of these films delve deeply and fearlessly into an issue that the entertainment industry has rarely been brave enough to tackle.
But of course, the biggest question is, how do they handle that issue? As I ve said more than once, Christian filmmakers must always remember that a movie needs to be a movie, not a sermon. Movies reach people not by preaching at them, but by telling stories stories that resonate with us and move us. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/03/23/october-baby-a-great-pro-life-movie-not-a-sermon/
Refuting the After-Birth Abortion Philosophers
Two bioethicists from Oxford, Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva, have caused a firestorm by publishing an article in the Journal of Medical Ethicsstating that fetuses and newborns do not have the same moral status as actual persons.
I m personally surprised, but happy that this article is getting so much attention. The surprise is because there isn t really anything new in this article. Philosophers Michael Tooley and Peter Singer argued along a similar line more than 30 years ago, both biting the bullet and arguing that infanticide is morally permissible. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/03/23/refuting-the-after-birth-abortion-philosophers/
Mitt Romney is Not Soft on Pro-Life, Abortion Issues
Some conservatives remain under the mistaken impression that Mitt Romney is soft on pro-life issues. Romney s primary opponents have tried to perpetuate this myth in order to mislead pro-life voters. However, Romney has been unequivocal on his pro-life stance since his change of heart in 2004.
Sure, scrutiny of candidates is important during a primary. But the incessant questions about Romney s pro-life convictions are bordering on obsessive compulsive at this point. Ronald Reagan never faced this level of skepticism after his conversion. Nor did former Planned Parenthood director Abby Johnson after she left her job to become a pro-life advocate. A trademark of the pro-life movement is its ability to change hearts and minds by sharing the truth about abortion and the humanity of the unborn child. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/03/23/mitt-romney-is-not-soft-on-pro-life-abortion-issues/
Stabbing Death of Unborn Baby in DC Reveals Lack of Protections
Press reports of a shocking crime highlight the fact that unborn children in the nation s capital currently have absolutely no legal right to life at any moment prior to birth. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/03/23/stabbing-death-of-unborn-baby-in-dc-reveals-lack-of-protections/
Hutchison Repeats Lie: Planned Parenthood Does Mammograms
In an interview today with MSNBC, Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R) falsely stated that the thinks Planned Parenthood performs mammograms, saying, I think Planned Parenthood does mammograms. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/03/23/hutchison-repeats-lie-planned-parenthood-does-mammograms/
Anti-Life RH Bill Pushed Back Again in Philippines
Pro-lifers in the Philippines are claiming another victory this week as a vote on the Reproductive Health (RH) Bill threatening to force taxpayers to fund contraceptive and abortifacient services was again delayed before the House of Representatives went into recess. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/03/23/anti-life-rh-bill-pushed-back-again-in-philippines/
Biggest March for Life Ever in Romania on Saturday
About 20 cities in Romania will simultaneously hold a March for Life on Saturday, March 24, 2012. Never before have so many cities in Romania participated in the annual pro-life event. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/03/23/biggest-march-for-life-ever-in-romania-on-saturday/
Pro-Lifers Spend Four Hours, Ride Two Ferries to Protest Abortion
How close is your nearest 40 days for Life campaign. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/03/23/pro-lifers-spend-four-hours-ride-two-ferries-to-protest-abortion/
Alaska Bill Would Prohibit Taxpayer Funding of Abortions
A public hearing is set for a landmark bill that would prohibit the use of public funds for abortion and abortion services in Alaska. House Bill 363 is scheduled for public comment in the Health and Social Services Committee on Thursday, March 2, at 3 p.m. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/03/23/alaska-bill-would-prohibit-taxpayer-funding-of-abortions/
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