Thursday, April 12, 2012

ALL Pro-Life Today: PP bypassing parents and school boards by texting kids

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Planned Parenthood bypassing parents and school boards by texting kids
Rita Diller

Calling America “one of the most backward Western developed countries,” as far as access to “sexual and reproductive health care,” Cecile Richards recently played Pied Piper to students at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. She met with over 300 Princeton students over a 2-day period—one-on-one and in small groups—where she spoke, ostensibly, on “Keeping Politics out of Women’s Health.” read more...

Planned Parenthood sues to stop Texas from enforcing law
Citizen Link

Planned Parenthood filed a federal lawsuit against Texas yesterday, seeking to block it from enforcing a new law that bans taxpayer funds from going to groups that perform abortions or their affiliates. According to the suit, if the law is enforced it “could deprive tens of thousands of low-income women seeking family planning and other preventive health services.” State legislators passed the law in the 2011 session, seeking to completely oust the abortion seller from the state Medicaid program. Despite threats from the Obama administration, the state implemented the law in February. read more...

Bishops urge rejection of laws that attack religious freedom
Catholic News Agency

The U.S. bishops have issued a statement alerting American Catholics that they are obligated to disobey unjust laws that infringe upon their fundamental liberties by forcing them to violate the core of their beliefs. “To be Catholic and American should mean not having to choose one over the other,” they said in an April 12 statement entitled “Our First, Most Cherished Liberty.” They issued an “urgent summons” to U.S. Catholics, especially the laity, and called for a two-week national campaign of prayer, fasting and public action for religious freedom in America. read more...

Bioethicist argues PVS diagnosed patients should not be kept alive
LifeSiteNews

If an American bioethicist gets her way, all patients evaluated as being in a “permanent vegetative state” (PVS) would by default have artificial nutrition and hydration (ANH) withdrawn unless they have made a prior wish to be kept alive.  In the March 2012 issue of Bioethics, Dr. Catherine Constable argues that “in the absence of clear evidence that the patient would opt for this existence over death, keeping him alive by any means of assistance is ethically more problematic than allowing him to die.” Constable’s article however, does not appear to adequately confront recent research indicating that many patients have been misdiagnosed as PVS and have in fact had functioning, fully conscious brains. read more...