Wednesday, February 29, 2012

LifeNews.com Pro-Life News Report 2/29/12

LifeNews.com Pro-Life News Report
Wednesday, February 29, 2012

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Current Headlines

Top Stories
• Democrats Attack Pro-Lifers Ahead of Blunt Amendment Vote
• Washington Bill Forcing Abortion Coverage Moves Ahead

• Romney Wins GOP Election Victories in Michigan, Arizona

• House Cmte Votes to Repeal IPAB, Obama s Death Panels

More Pro-Life News
• Obama Killing Women s Health Program to Fund Planned Parenthood
• Mitt Romney Supports Blunt Amdt to Overturn Obama Mandate
• Obama Mandate Panel Never Considered Conscience Clause
• Exit Polling: Republicans Pro-Life, Want Abortion Illegal
• As More Planned Parenthood Centers Close, Abortions Decline
• 911 Calls Show Botched Abortions Severely Injured Women
• Pro-Abortion Snowe Retires, Will Pro-Lifers Win the Senate?
• Setting the Record Straight on Ultrasounds and Abortion
• Attacking Religion: Obama s Birth Control Bait and Switch
• Nigerian Man Arraigned, Did Forced Abortion on Girlfriend

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Democrats Attack Pro-Lifers Ahead of Blunt Amendment Vote
Leading Democrats are aggressively attacking pro-life advocates and lawmakers who want a vote on the Blunt Amendment tomorrow to mitigate the problems associated with the new mandate pro-abortion President Barack Obama put in place.

Leading pro-life organizations are continuing to push the Blunt amendment in the Senate to respond to the mandate the Obama administration issued that forces religious groups to pay for birth control and drugs that may cause abortions for employees.

But, yesterday, pro-abortion Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid, while agreeing to a vote on the amendment, attacks Republicans for wanting to protect religious liberty essentially calling them Neanderthals for wanting it.

It s hard to understand why my Republican colleagues think this topic deserves to be debated in the first place, Reid told reporters. Once we put this extreme, distracting proposal behind us, I m hoping my Republican colleagues will stop living in the past and join us this year, 2012, and help us create jobs. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/02/29/democrats-attack-pro-lifers-ahead-of-blunt-amendment-vote/

Washington Bill Forcing Abortion Coverage Moves Ahead
The bill the Washington state House approved that would require that any insurance policy sold to state residents for maternity coverage also require policyholders to pay for coverage of abortions has been approved by a state Senate committee.

The measure forces all individuals to purchase and all businesses sell abortion insurance coverage on a maternity plan. The Engrossed Substitute House Bill 2330 passed from the House floor 52-46 and then passed through several Senate hurdles to end up in the Ways and Means committee.

Monday evening, the Senate Ways and Means Committee passed ESHB 2330 to the Senate Rules Committee without recommendation. It passed along party lines with the 13 Democrats supporting it and 8 Republicans voting no. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/02/29/washington-bill-forcing-abortion-coverage-moves-ahead/

Romney Wins GOP Election Victories in Michigan, Arizona
Mitt Romney pulled out two election victories Tuesday night in the Republican primary election for the right to take on pro-abortion President Barack Obama this November winning in both Michigan and Arizona.

The southwestern state that normally trends for Republicans in the general election was the first to be called on this election night and the former Massachusetts governor won the state with the support of 50 percent of GOP voters there. With 43 percent of the vote counted, Rick Santorum placed second with 23 percent, Newt Gingrich pulled a third place finish with 17 percent and Ron Paul finished fourth with 8 percent.

Exit polling in Arizona showed 38 percent of voters said electability was the candidate quality that matters most. Twenty percent said strong character was the most important, while 22 percent said the having the right experience, and 16 percent said being a true conservative. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/02/28/romney-wins-gop-election-victories-in-michigan-arizona/

House Cmte Votes to Repeal IPAB, Obama s Death Panels
Lawmakers on a House health subcommittee began the process of reversing one of the more contentious parts of Obamacare today as they approved bipartisan legislation to repeal the cost control board that has been derisively called death panels by detractors.

The Energy and Commerce Health subcommittee voted 17-5, according to a report in The Hill, with pro-abortion lawmakers Rep. Frank Pallone of New Jersey and Rep. Edolphus Towns joining with Republicans to vote to end the Independent Payment Advisory Board. Votes in full committee and on the House floor to repeal the board from Obamacare are expected by the end of March.

Rep. Joe Pitts, a pro-life Pennsylvania Republican, opened the subcommittee hearing meeting, the Hill report indicated, by arguing that the IPAB would make it more difficult to administer Medicare policy, saying, Supporters of IPAB tell us there is nothing wrong with having 15 unelected bureaucrats making binding decisions about Medicare policy. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/02/29/house-cmte-votes-to-repeal-ipab-obamas-death-panels/

Obama Killing Women s Health Program to Fund Planned Parenthood
The Obama Administration is showing its loyalties. And it is not to women. It is to Planned Parenthood.

The Texas Legislature and Governor Rick Perry have authorized the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) to continue the Medicaid Women s Health Program (WHP). The program, which the HHSC points out provides preventative health services to more than 100,000 low-income women annually, is set to expire in March 2012. Those services include contraceptives, STD testing, and screening for hypertension, diabetes, and breast and cervical cancers,

The HHSC has applied to the Obama Administration for an extension of the program through 2013, with the condition that no funding go to organizations that perform or promote elective abortions or are affiliated with such organizations. Of the more than 1,000 certified WHP providers across the state, this rule excludes fewer than 100 Planned Parenthood providers. The State has an interest in not promoting abortion when it promotes birth control. the fact that Planned Parenthood performs many thousands of elective abortions every year in its 14 abortion facilities in Texas was not lost on the Legislature. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/02/29/obama-killing-womens-health-program-to-fund-planned-parenthood/

Mitt Romney Supports Blunt Amdt to Overturn Obama Mandate
A reporter tried to trip up Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney today with a question that falsely described the Blunt Amendment that pro-life groups are pushing for in the Senate tomorrow to stop Obama s HHS mandate.

Jim Heath, a reporter for ONN-TV in Ohio, sent a message on Twitter causing a ruckus claiming Romney did not support the mandate, saying, ALERT: Mitt Romney tells ONN he would not vote for senate bill which would allow employers to deny coverage for birth control.

Romney told Heath, I m not for the bill. But, look, the idea of presidential candidates getting into questions about contraception within a relationship between a man and a woman, husband and wife, I m not going there.

However, according to the Washington Post, which ran an erroneous headline claiming, Romney comes out against Blunt amendment posted the question Health asked. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/02/29/mitt-romney-supports-blunt-amdt-to-overturn-obama-mandate/

Obama Mandate Panel Never Considered Conscience Clause
During a Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday night, Representative Sandy Adams questioned Dr. Linda Rosenstock, chair of the Preventive Services for Women Committee of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), about the Obama administration s Health and Human Services (HHS) controversial mandate.

At the request of the HHS Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, the IOM assembled a committee to provide information and to recommend preventative services for women to be included in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 a committee on which Dr. Rosenstock served.

Rosenstock admitted that the IOM panel that put together the mandate that targets religious liberties admitted that it never considered adding a conscience clause.

During the hearing, Dr. Rosenstock admitted to Adams that meetings which were instrumental in shaping the Obama administration s unconstitutional HHS mandate were held behind closed doors and that transcripts from the meeting have not been made public, Adam said. Additionally, Dr. Rosenstock confessed that the committee did not consider any conscience clause or religious exemptions during its meetings. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/02/29/obama-mandate-panel-never-considered-conscience-clause/

Exit Polling: Republicans Pro-Life, Want Abortion Illegal
Exit polling data from both Michigan and Arizona show Republicans are strongly pro-life and want to see most or all abortions made illegal. The results are consistent with polls taken in previous elections. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/02/29/exit-polling-republicans-pro-life-want-abortion-illegal/


As More Planned Parenthood Centers Close, Abortions Decline
Karen Hildebrand, the CEO of Planned Parenthood of West Texas, claimed that we are gonna see an increase in abortion rates upon the closing of a Planned Parenthood facility in Odessa, Texas. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/02/29/as-more-planned-parenthood-centers-close-abortions-decline/

911 Calls Show Botched Abortions Severely Injured Women
New evidence obtained through an open records request indicates an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Alabama downplayed the seriousness of the conditions of two women who suffered from botched abortions and required emergency vehicles to transport them to the hospital. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/02/29/911-calls-shows-botched-abortions-severely-injured-women/

Pro-Abortion Snowe Retires, Will Pro-Lifers Win the Senate?
Late Monday afternoon, Senator Olympia Snowe (R-ME) sent shockwaves through Washington when she announced she would not seek reelection to the US Senate in November. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/02/29/pro-abortion-snowe-retires-will-pro-lifers-win-the-senate/

Setting the Record Straight on Ultrasounds and Abortion
The media has grossly misrepresented the Women s Right to Know Act (House Bill 1077) in Pennsylvania. When a woman faces a decision as grave and irrevocable as abortion, she deserves to have the full range of information relating to her pregnancy and her unborn child ahead of time. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/02/29/setting-the-record-straight-on-ultrasounds-and-abortion/

Attacking Religion: Obama s Birth Control Bait and Switch
With the exception of Catholics and others in the religious community that closely follow such issues, few people took note of the Obama administration s rhetorical shift from freedom of religion to freedom of worship in 2010. This seemingly innocuous modification carried with it significant implications, however, as Ashley Samelson of the Becket Fund explained in an article for First Things. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/02/29/attacking-religion-obamas-birth-control-bait-and-switch/

Nigerian Man Arraigned, Did Forced Abortion on Girlfriend
A 25-year-old Nigerian man was brought before the Chief Magistrates Court in Abuja, Nigeria on Monday to face charges for conspiracy and for performing a forced abortion on his girlfriend. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/02/29/nigerian-man-arraigned-did-forced-abortion-on-girlfriend/

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Sitting Oklahoma State Senator Poses with Shockingly Vulgar Sign at Anti-Life Rally

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TULSA, Okla., Feb. 29, 2012 /Christian Newswire/ -- Tuesday, Sen. Judy Eason McIntyre of Tulsa, disregarding the decorum due to her office, held up a sign at an anti-Personhood Amendment rally that read "If I wanted the government in my womb I'd f--- a senator." The senator posed smiling widely for photographs with the anti-personhood protesters whose sign she had borrowed.

"The Personhood issue often provokes strong language from all sides," commented Dan Skerbitz, president of Personhood Oklahoma. "But this display of vulgarity from a sitting senator is truly shocking. It is more evidence of the hardness of heart behind a movement that would deny the right of a helpless pre-born baby to be recognized and protected by the law as a human person."

"This makes it obvious that their moral compass is broken," continued Skerbirtz. "It is not surprising that a world view that finds such comments acceptable is not above lying about the Personhood Amendment or its possible effects on the lives of Oklahomans. Those who oppose the concept of personhood in Oklahoma are showing their true colors."

KNIGHTS SPONSOR PONTIFICAL MASS FOR ‘DAY OF THE UNBORN CHILD’

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New York, Feb. 28, 2012 – New York’s Agnus Dei and Regina Coeli councils of the Knights of Columbus announced today that they will sponsor a Pontifical Mass for Life on the Feast of the Annunciation at Manhattan’s Church of the Holy Innocents. His Excellency, James C. Timlin, bishop emeritus of Scranton, will celebrate the Pontifical Mass and administer Confirmations in a separate ceremony beforehand.

This Pontifical Mass is one event in the Knights of Columbus’ international observance of “The Day of the Unborn Child” on the Feast of the Annunciation. Throughout the world, Knights of Columbus councils mark the day by attending Mass, praying the Rosary, and speaking out against the evil of abortion and in favor of all unborn children and their mothers.

According to council spokesman Richard Janniello, this is the fourth year the New York Knights have sponsored a special Mass that celebrates not only the archangel Gabriel’s Annunciation to Mary but also the Incarnation of Jesus Christ Our Lord.

“Even more than Christmas,” explained the Rev. Thomas Kallumady, pastor of the Church of the Holy Innocents, “the Feast of the Annunciation and Incarnation is the preeminent pro-life feast in the Catholic calendar.” “It reminds us every year,” he added “that just as Our Lord’s human life was sacred — nine months before His birth — at the very moment of His conception in Mary’s womb, so too is all human life.”

In 2012, the Feast of the Annunciation is observed on Monday, March 26, because the traditional date of the feast falls on a Sunday. Before Mass, there will be a Rosary for Life at 5:45 PM. Confirmations will be at 6:00 PM. The Pontifical Mass begins immediately after Confirmations. The Church of the Holy Innocents, home to New York City’s Shrine of the Unborn, is located at 128 W. 37th Street.

Bishop Timlin will celebrate the Pontifical Mass at the faldstool according to the Roman Missal of 1962, the form of the Catholic Church’s Mass in Latin before the Second Vatican Council. Organist and choirmaster, Pedro d’Aquino, will lead the schola and choir singing Missa O soberana luz by Portugese composer Filipe de Magalhães (c1571-1652). Singers from both councils will join the schola and men from the Regina Coeli council will serve the Mass.

WHAT: Pontifical Mass for Life
WHERE: The Church of the Holy Innocents, 128 W. 37th Street, Manhattan
WHEN: Monday, March 26th at 6:00 PM (Rosary for Life at 5:45 PM)
Reception to follow in the Church Hall

For more information, call (212) 279-5861 or visit www.traditionalknight.com or www.kofc423.org.

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Heroic News: “Contraceptive costs causing law students to go broke?” plus 9 more

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Contraceptive costs causing law students to go broke?

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Posted: 29 Feb 2012 09:21 AM PST

Georgetown student's controversial congressional testimony claims "without federally-funded contraception, we'd all be broke,"

Pro-Abortion Snowe Retires, Will Pro-Lifers Win the Senate?

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Posted: 29 Feb 2012 07:19 AM PST

Some of the retiring Senator's worst offenses include voting against the ban on partial-birth abortion, against the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, and against the Mexico City policy, which purported to ban use of US dollars to fund foreign abortions.

Fighting sex-trafficking in hotels, one room at a time

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Posted: 29 Feb 2012 06:50 AM PST

Kimberly Ritter has become a force in the international anti-trafficking movement, where she uses her expertise to identify the mainstream middle-end and high-end hotels used by traffickers. She negotiates with hotels to fight trafficking at their properties, while also trying to convince hotel general managers that it's good business to fight trafficking.

Russia defunds late-term ‘social abortions’

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Posted: 29 Feb 2012 06:47 AM PST

he Russian government has cut off funding for most late-term abortions that are done for “social” reasons, in a move that may signal more restrictions to come.

Cali. bill seeks to allow nurses, midwives to perform vacuum abortions

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Posted: 29 Feb 2012 06:44 AM PST

Nurses and midwives would be able to carry out early abortions in California, under a bill proposed by a Democratic state senator. State Sen. Christine Kehoe (D-San Diego) wants non-doctors to be allowed to perform aspiration abortions during the first trimester, The Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday.

Huffpo slammed for disgusting, bigoted anti-Catholic column

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Posted: 29 Feb 2012 06:30 AM PST

"If such an article was written concerning the Islamic or Jewish faith, the public outcry would be overwhelming, and rightly so. But anti-Catholicism is the last acceptable form of bigotry, and The Huffington Post is taking advantage of that bigotry for all it's worth."

Women oppose contraception mandate on legal, medical grounds

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Posted: 29 Feb 2012 06:26 AM PST

Women in fields ranging from law to medicine denounced the Obama administration's contraception mandate, arguing that it violates religious freedom and promotes a culture that degrades women.

Christian model takes on racy Cosmo

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Posted: 29 Feb 2012 06:21 AM PST

As a rising star in the modeling world, Nicole Weider found out the hard way it was not all fun and glamour. Now, she's on a mission to expose fashion's dark side, even taking on the ever popular Cosmopolitan magazine.

Choice

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Posted: 28 Feb 2012 02:10 PM PST

Choice does not have value in itself. The freedom to choose is a hallmark of liberty, but liberty is for something. Choice is like the action of sharpening an axe: after a while, you need to stop sharpening and start chopping wood.

Virginia Senate Passes Ultrasound Abortion Bill

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Posted: 28 Feb 2012 01:50 PM PST

A bill requiring women seeking abortions in Virginia to undergo an ultrasound first has the approval of the state Senate.

ALL PRO-LIFE TODAY REPORT 2/29/2012

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Life Choices Women's Care was originally founded as the Lutz-Land O'Lakes Pregnancy Center in May 2009 by three people from two Catholic churches who envisioned a pregnancy resource center in their community. Just north of Hillsborough County (which includes Tampa) is Pasco County, Florida. Pasco County does not have an abortion mill, but neither did it have a pregnancy resource center, and women were traveling to Hillsborough for abortions. Within months, four Catholic parish respect life committees and several other Christian churches were supporting the original founders in both their vision and mission to help women in an unplanned pregnancy choose life for their babies. It opened its doors to its first clients in August 2009 and the need was immediately apparent. This past year has been one of remarkable growth and change. 

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YouTube removed American Life League's video investigative report on Planned Parenthood's perverted, taxpayer-funded, K-12 "sex education" propaganda after receiving a complaint about a copyrighted photo. Here's the back story on that particular photo.


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Utah's school children may have to go somewhere besides school to learn about alternative methods of family planning after a bill banning talk of contraceptives in health class was approved by the State House of Representatives with a vote of 45-to-28. . . . Representative Mel Brown said, "I think someone should have an input in what our students are taught in sex ed besides Planned Parenthood. This is the Legislature's way of making sure we have some input in students' education."


NY Daily News

A batch of birth control pills manufactured in India for US distribution has been recalled due to a packaging error that could make the pills ineffective, US health authorities said on Monday. Seven lots of generic norgestimate and ethinyl estradiol tablets were recalled by Glenmark Generics Inc. USA, the Food and Drug Administration said.

 

 

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Friends, I made a short video update to share with you about what we're working on right now. Please share the efforts and help get others involved. (Like the video if you can - we always get a lot of 'thumbs downs'.)

TALKING POINTS: Links Between Porn & Sex Trafficking
Pornography is used as a “tool” to train young children and women so that they will “know” what to do in performing sex acts.
Often, the forced sexual acts between the prostituted woman/child and the John will be filmed and photographed and then shared elsewhere.
Studies show that pornography users often seek to act out what they have viewed in porn. Often their partners will not engage in such acts, so they seek it elsewhere – increasing the demand for trafficked women and children to be prostituted.
Pimps are operating more and more online as it becomes easier to connect with potential buyers and to remain anonymous. Popular websites like www.Craigslist.com and www.Facebook.com have become “virtual brothels” where one can quickly find prostituted women and children to engage in sex acts.
As addictions to pornography increase, users seek harder and harder material. There is a recent boom in the availability of “live” porn as trafficked children and women are forced to perform “on-demand” sex acts in front of web cameras as “Johns” or porn users watch.
Porn users do not and cannot distinguish between trafficked women, prostitutes, and porn stars.
Pornography fuels the global sex trade by driving demand into the mainstream of society.

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Priests for Life Organizing Rally for Religious Freedom

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NEW YORK, Feb. 29, 2012 /Christian Newswire/ -- Priests for Life is organizing the New York City Rally for Religious Freedom, to be held on Friday, March 23 at the Federal Hall National Memorial at noon. This rally is meant to call public attention to the fact that the Obama Administration, through the Department of Health and Human Services, has launched an unprecedented assault on religious freedom by requiring groups like Priests for Life, and virtually all employers, to provide insurance coverage for actions that many of them believe people should not do.

Father Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, stated, "We are proud not only to organize the New York City Rally, but to have been involved from day one in the organization of the nationwide movement to have these rallies. I want to commend my long-time colleagues and friends Eric Scheidler (Pro-life Action League) and Monica Miller (Citizens for a Pro-life Society) for having the initial vision to call for these rallies and for providing the guidance nationwide to cities that will be joining."

Priests for Life, through its national networks of clergy and laity, is promoting participation in these rallies nationwide, as one of the member groups of the Coalition to Stop the HHS Mandate. Priests for Life is also among the first of several Catholic organizations that have filed federal lawsuits to block enforcement of the HHS mandate and have it declared unconstitutional.

Federal Hall National Memorial is at 26 Wall Street in Manhattan.

Priests for Life is the nation's largest Catholic pro-life organization dedicated to ending abortion and euthanasia. For more information, visit www.priestsforlife.org.

DAY 8: National media attention + inspiring VIDEO

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Dear Deacon,

By now you may have heard the buzz -- that Laura
Ingraham was enthusiastically promoting 40 Days for
Life to millions of people on the Fox News Channel's
"Fox and Friends" program yesterday morning.

We NEVER imagined that kind of publicity and attention
when 40 Days for Life first began!

Today I have a very special video for you:

http://40daysforlife.com/blog/?p=2773

This spring's 40 Days for Life marks the TENTH
nationally and internationally coordinated campaign
since this effort went from humble beginnings to
spread around the world.

To mark this occasion -- national director David
Bereit went back to where it all began.

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BRYAN / COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS
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Most people don't realize that with prayer, we can
change our world -- even in the public right-of-way.

The public right-of-way in Bryan/College Station,
Texas is special. In fact, the local police once told
me it was officially the "most protested strip of
public right-of-way in America."

I saw that as a huge compliment because I knew that the
people there were praying, and that made the difference.

For eight years -- as volunteers on opposite sides of
the fence and then directors of opposing organizations
-- I watched Abby Johnson drive to and from her office
at Planned Parenthood every day.

We prayed for her ... but never imagined the day when
she, the director of our Planned Parenthood, would
ever JOIN us in prayer on that public right-of-way as
a pro-life advocate.

Prayer makes the difference.

David Bereit went back and fired up the crowd at their
local kickoff event ... and it was captured on video:

http://40daysforlife.com/blog/?p=2773

Watch the video from the birthplace of 40 Days for
Life and you will:

 * Learn breaking news about the unprecedented decline
  in business that Planned Parenthood and the abortion
  industry are experiencing RIGHT NOW

 * Understand the urgency and vital importance of this
  40TH YEAR of legal abortion in America

 * Discover how YOUR participation in 40 Days for Life
  this spring will make a profound, life-saving impact!

Whether you're brand new to 40 Days for Life, or a
veteran of many campaigns, take the time to watch this
inspiring video TODAY:

http://40daysforlife.com/blog/?p=2773

If you don't have a fast enough Internet connection
to watch video, we've also included the audio recording
that you can listen to online (even with a dial-up
connection) or download to your computer or iPod.


Today's devotional is from Rev. Rob Schenck, president
of Faith and Action.


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DAY 8 INTENTION
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We pray for a renewal of our zeal to offer generous
help to the unborn and their families.


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SCRIPTURE
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If I have despised the cause of my male or female
servant when they complained against me, what then
shall I do when God rises up? When He punishes, how
shall I answer Him? Did not He who made me in the womb
make them? Did not the same One fashion us in the
womb?

-- Job 31:13-15


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REFLECTION by Rev. Rob Schenck, Faith and Action
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The ground is level as we stand before God.

Job lived with an awe provoking sense of God's
expectation of him, particularly regarding his
obligation to care for the weak and needy.

He knew that in God's economy everyone stands on level
ground when it comes to our status as God's creatures.
Because of that central truth, we must take care of
each other.

Job also knew that he didn't deserve any of the good
things God gave to him. Instead, those blessings came
to Job from God's benevolent heart.

As an extension of that knowledge, Job instinctively
linked his obligation to be generous to others to
God's kindness toward him.

As in Jesus' parable of the unmerciful servant
(Matthew 18:23-35), Job knew that it is an egregious
sin to deny to others what we enjoy ourselves.

He actually calls down on his own head severe
condemnation and even punishment should he fail to
share with others out of his own abundance (see verses
16-23).

Proverbs 3:27 reads, "Withhold not good from them to
whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand
to do so." Some things are so obvious that we don't
even need to pray except to ask of God forgiveness and
the power to do what so obviously needs doing.


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God, forgive us when we try to explain away the
obligation we have to help others who need help.

Enable us to not devalue them because they are in the
circumstance that they are in, but to see them for
what they are, those, who like us, were formed by your
hand in their mother's womb. Amen.


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PRINTABLE DEVOTIONAL
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To download today's devotional as a formatted,
printable PDF to share with friends:

http://40daysforlife.com/docs/spring2012day08print.pdf


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As we begin the second week of this 40 Days for Life,
let's pray that God continues to pour out His rich
blessings on everyone involved!

Yours for Life,

Shawn Carney
Campaign Director
40 Days for Life

PS: If you have good news to report about 40 Days
for Life in your community, please post a comment on
today's blog entry:

http://40daysforlife.com/blog/?p=2773


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Tuesday, February 28, 2012

LifeNews.com Pro-Life News Report 2/28/12

LifeNews.com Pro-Life News Report
Tuesday, February 28, 2012

For pro-life news updated throughout the day, visit LifeNews.com.

Current Headlines

Top Stories
• Pro-Life Groups Continue Pushing Blunt Amdt to Stop Mandate
• Obama Pulls Texas Medicaid Funds Over Planned Parenthood De-Funding

• Virginia Senate Approves Pro-Life Ultrasound-Abortion Bill

• Senate Votes Thursday on Obama Pro-Abortion Judicial Pick

More Pro-Life News
• Congress Told HHS Mandate Fines Could Total $620,000
• Pro-Life Group: End the Independent Payment Advisory Board
• Reporter Downplays Obama s Opposition to Anti-Infanticide Bill
• Ethicists in Australia Call for After-Birth Abortions
• New Prenatal Test Has Same Concerns About Prompting Abortion
• 40 Days for Life Saves 75 Babies From Abortion, So Far
• Ohio Bill to De-Fund Planned Parenthood Gets Hearing
• California Bill Would Let Nurses and Midwives Do Abortions
• Planned Parenthood s Abortion Mantra Leads to Infanticide
• Confessions of a Pro-Life Atheist, Why I Fight Abortion
• Ron Paul Gets Endorsement From North Dakota Pro-Life Leader

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Pro-Life Groups Continue Pushing Blunt Amdt to Stop Mandate
Leading pro-life organizations are continuing to push the Blunt amendment in the Senate to respond to the mandate the Obama administration issued that forces religious groups to pay for birth control and drugs that may cause abortions for employees.

The Senate is currently considering S.1813, the Highway bill, and it is expected to be on the Senate floor for the remainder of the week. Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid, who supports abortion, and Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, who is pro-life, continue to work on a list of potential amendments to the bill and the Blunt Amendment is expected to be included.

Roy Blunt, a pro-life Republican senator from Missouri, is behind the amendment and he told the University of Missouri student newspaper why he thinks it is important. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/02/28/pro-life-groups-continue-pushing-blunt-amdt-to-stop-mandate/

Obama Pulls Texas Medicaid Funds Over Planned Parenthood De-Funding
Planned Parenthood is spewing misguided rage towards Texas governor Rick Perry, claiming he is to blame for the recent Medicaid revocation in the state that will impact 130,000 Texas women.

Texas would rather throw health care for hundreds of thousands of women overboard than allow Planned Parenthood to provide health care through the public health programs, said Cecile Richards, CEO of Planned Parenthood.

It is shameful that Governor Perry and Commissioner Suehs continue to politicize lifesaving breast cancer screenings and birth control access for low-income women, stated Peter Durkin, president of Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast.

Planned Parenthood makes no indication whatsoever that this decision was entirely of the Obama administration. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/02/28/obama-pulls-texas-medicaid-funds-over-planned-parenthood-de-funding/

Virginia Senate Approves Pro-Life Ultrasound-Abortion Bill
The Virginia state Senate approved a bill today that allows women a chance to see an ultrasound of their unborn child that is routinely performed before an abortion but the results of which is not always provided to them.

Abortion advocates in Virginia have come under heavy criticism for equating the ultrasound legislation there would allow women to see before an abortion to rape. Yet, while abortion backers say having an ultrasound is like getting raped, a 2003 study shows 99% of Planned Parenthood abortion facilities do them beforehand.

After Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell called for modifications to the bill to ensure that women are not required to get a transvaginal ultrasound, the state House approved its bill on a 65-32 vote. Then the Senate Education and Health Committee vote 8-7 on party lines for House Bill 462, with Sen. Harry B. Blevins, R-Chesapeake casting the deciding vote by proxy. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/02/28/virginia-senate-approves-pro-life-ultrasound-abortion-bill/

Senate Votes Thursday on Obama Pro-Abortion Judicial Pick
A U.S. Senate committee will vote on Thursday on the latest pro-abortion nominee President Barack Obama has appointed to the nation s highest courts.

Obama added to his pro-abortion record by placing yet another abortion activist in nomination to a top federal appeals court this time a lawyer credited with helping craft the Roe v. Wade decision. He appointed Andrew Hurwitz to the 9th Circuit Court, the most liberal appeals court in the country based in San Francisco and covering laws approved in western states.

Hurwitz was instrumental to providing some of the legal framework for Roe, which resulted in 54 million abortions. In a law review paper published in 2002, Hurwitz takes partial credit for drafting opinions as a law clerk that the Supreme Court would later use to frame its landmark decision in Roe v. Wade. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/02/28/senate-votes-thursday-on-obama-pro-abortion-judicial-pick/

Congress Told HHS Mandate Fines Could Total $620,000
Members of Congress heard from pro-life advocates today who told them in a hearing of the laundry list of problems associated with the new mandate the Obama administration put in place.

The mandate has drawn strong opposition from religious groups concerned that they would have to pay for birth control and drugs that may cause abortions for their members or employees. Republicans in the House sought to bring light to that in a hearing entitled, Executive Overreach: The HHS Mandate Versus Religious Liberty.

Asma Uddin, an attorney with The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, told the Judiciary Committee of the United States House of Representatives, that At the heart of this position, however, lies a profound misunderstanding about the nature of religion and the scope of constitutional protections for religious liberty.

Many religious individuals and organizations that have conscientious objections to abortion object to the use of Plan B and ella because they believe, and scientific evidence supports their belief, that these drugs constitute abortifacients. That is, Plan B and ella can prevent a human embryo, which these religious groups understand to include a fertilized egg before it implants in the uterus, from implanting in the wall of the uterus thereby causing the death of the embryo, she explained. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/02/28/congress-told-hhs-mandate-fines-could-total-620000/

Pro-Life Group: End the Independent Payment Advisory Board
The National Right to Life Committee is calling for quick approval of a bill that would repeal the Independent Payment Advisory Board established by the controversial Obamacare legislation that funds abortions and prompts rationing concerns.

The measure is also the vehicle for the new mandate the Obama administration put in place that has drawn strong opposition from religious groups concerned that they would have to pay for birth control and drugs that may cause abortions for their members or employees.

The Medicare Decisions Accountability Act (HR 452), which is sponsored by Rep. Phil Roe (R-Tenn.) and 226 co-sponsors, is scheduled for consideration at tomorrow s meeting of the Subcommittee on Health of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee.

Repeal of the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) is critical to prevent the rationing of life-saving medical treatment, said Burke Balch, J.D., director of National Right to Life s Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics. The IPAB would recommend drastic limits for the Department of Health and Human Services to impose on what Americans are allowed to spend out of their own funds to save their own lives and the lives of their families. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/02/28/pro-life-group-end-the-independent-payment-advisory-board/

Reporter Downplays Obama s Opposition to Anti-Infanticide Bill
A strange thing happened during last week s debate. One of the candidates actually brought up what could be President Obama s least covered but most controversial on the record stance ever. The candidate was Newt Gingrich and Obama s stance was against the Illinois Born Alive Infants Protection Act:

After that moment though something a bit more predictable happened. Ben Smith, formerly of Politico and now the head of Buzzfeed s political reporting operation, immediately tweeted out a defense of President Obama by lumping him in with a larger group of critics:

http://www.lifenews.com/2012/02/28/reporter-downplays-obamas-opposition-to-anti-infanticide-bill/

Ethicists in Australia Call for After-Birth Abortions
Two ethicists who are college professors in Australia are furthering the pro-infanticide arguments of American professor Peter Singer by calling for so-called after-birth abortions.. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/02/28/ethicists-in-australia-call-for-after-birth-abortions/


New Prenatal Test Has Same Concerns About Prompting Abortion
The new non-invasive prenatal test is back in the news. Unlike amniocentesis, or chorionic villus sampling (CVS) each with a risk of miscarriage, this new method finds fragments of the fetal DNA in the mother s blood. And it can be performed as early as 10 weeks. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/02/28/new-prenatal-test-has-same-concerns-about-prompting-abortion/

40 Days for Life Saves 75 Babies From Abortion, So Far
One abortion is one too many,of course. So it s always encouraging during a 40 Days for Life campaign when we see local abortion numbers DECREASE dramatically. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/02/28/40-days-for-life-saves-75-babies-from-abortion-so-far/

Ohio Bill to De-Fund Planned Parenthood Gets Hearing
Ohio is looking to become the next state to yank taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood after Texas, Indiana and others successfully pulled family planning funding for the nation s biggest abortion business. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/02/28/ohio-bill-to-de-fund-planned-parenthood-gets-hearing/

California Bill Would Let Nurses and Midwives Do Abortions
On Friday, Sen. Christine Kehoe proposed a bill in the California Senate that would greatly expand who can be an abortion provider in California. Apparently, there is current confusion in California over exactly who can perform abortions. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/02/28/california-bill-would-let-nurses-and-midwives-do-abortions/

Planned Parenthood s Abortion Mantra Leads to Infanticide
Although popular opinion has been turning steadily against Planned Parenthood and their allies over the course of the last 20 years, the culture of death continues to seek and proselytize new adherents in pervasive and destructive ways. With their success, human life has been cheapened to such a degree that news stories about sex and death which our grandparents would have found heinous, don t even make us blink today. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/02/28/planned-parenthoods-abortion-mantra-leads-to-infanticide/

Confessions of a Pro-Life Atheist, Why I Fight Abortion
I recently ask my friend Patrick, a pro-life activist who is also an atheist to write a commentary about why he is pro-life. I think sometimes Christians might not understand that many non-religious people hold the pro-life position and hold it passionately. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/02/28/confessions-of-a-pro-life-atheist-why-i-fight-abortion/

Ron Paul Gets Endorsement From North Dakota Pro-Life Leader
Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul received his first significant pro-life endorsement today from Paul Maloney, one of North Dakota s most prominent pro-life leaders. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/02/28/ron-paul-gets-endorsement-from-north-dakota-pro-life-leader/

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New shocking Planned Parenthood video exposé released - Jill Stanek

Activists to bring pro-life message to American Atheists convention featuring Richard Dawkins

Ben Johnson Tue Feb 28 17:27 EST Abortion

“The pro-choice view has become a default for atheists, because nobody is reaching out to them,” Secular Pro-life's president, Kelsey Hazzard, told LifeSiteNews.com.

Journal editor defends pro-infanticide piece: Killing newborns is already legal in Holland

John Jalsevac Tue Feb 28 16:51 EST Abortion

In his response editor Julian Savulescu argues that promoting killing newborns is nothing new and decries the "hate speech" directed at the authors of the pro-infanticide piece.

Ethicists justify infanticide in major medical journal

Peter Baklinski Tue Feb 28 09:50 EST Abortion

What the scientists call “after-birth abortion,” they suggest, should be permissible in all the cases where abortion is, including cases where the newborn is perfectly healthy.

Planned Parenthood asks college students to ‘check in’ where they had sex with free ‘GPS condoms’

Ben Johnson Tue Feb 28 17:56 EST Contraception

A new Planned Parenthood website "targets college students and millennials to promote healthy sexuality and to be 'proud to wear protection.'"

Catholic group launches video, web campaign to protect religious liberty from HHS mandate

Ben Johnson Tue Feb 28 17:39 EST Freedom

"When those in power try to rip through the fabric of what America stands for, the voices of the people unite," said Matt Smith, president of Catholic Advocate.

Lesbian judge refuses to marry heterosexual couples

Christine Dhanagom Tue Feb 28 14:12 EST Homosexuality

The judge said that when couples appear in her courtroom, she directs them to another judge, but not before using the opportunity to “give them a lesson about marriage equality.”

Young woman poised to win leadership award with pledge to bring abortion to Prince Edward Island

Peter Baklinski Tue Feb 28 15:53 EST Abortion

A local pro-life group is urging pro-life supporters to vote for another candidate who supports disability rights.

Syphilis infections rising dramatically among New Brunswick homosexuals

Thaddeus Baklinski Tue Feb 28 15:32 EST Homosexuality

"Since late 2009, 92 per cent of cases have been male. Most male cases have reported only male sex partners (MSM)," the Disease Watch Bulletin states.

Obama cares more about Planned Parenthood than women’s health

Joe Pojman, Ph.D. Tue Feb 28 18:43 EST Opinion

The Obama Administration is showing its loyalties. And it is not to women. It is to Planned Parenthood.

Big Abortion follows Big Tobacco’s business model: target kids

Carol Maxwell Tue Feb 28 13:17 EST Opinion

Planned Parenthood vociferously opposes all efforts to ensure parents are told when their children seek abortions. Why?

Dear physician: The $30 I spent on getting sterilized was the worst money I ever spent

Jenn Giroux Tue Feb 28 11:37 EST Opinion

Before I knew it, the procedure was done. Bit I realized the next day that I did not want this procedure to be permanent. I always wanted more children.

Russia defunds late-term ‘social abortions’ as country moves to curtail high abortion rate

Matthew Cullinan Hoffman Tue Feb 28 11:03 EST Abortion

The current government, led by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, strongly favors tighter restrictions on abortion to counteract Russia's demographic crisis.

Jacksonville sees decrease in abortions every year since 40 Days for Life began

Shawn Carney, 40 Days for Life Campaign Director Tue Feb 28 11:58 EST Culture of Life

Similar results have been witnessed in other cities where 40 Days for Life has run.


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