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Wednesday, January 2, 2012
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• Dominos Pizza Founder Wins Emergency Order to Stop HHS Mandate
• Photo of Baby Reaching Out From Womb During C-Section Goes Viral
• Mennonite Company Wins Injunction Stopping Obama HHS Mandate
• Teenager From Brazil Offers Her Virginity for Sale
More Pro-Life News
• IRS Looks to Force Obamacare on Employers Who Cut Staff
• 2012: Second Highest Number of Pro-Life Laws Passed on Abortion
• Pro-Lifers: Rededicate Yourself in 2013 to Ending Abortion
• Ireland: New Video Calls Out Irish Times Abortion Bias
• Abortion Methods and Abortion Procedures Used to Kill Unborn Babies
• Matt Drudge Tweets: Abortion Killing 3,500 Babies Every Day
• Virginia Governor OKs New Rules That May Close Abortion Clinics
• Don t Water Down the March for Life With Other Issues
• Missouri Company Wins Its Battle Against Obama HHS Mandate
• Russia Adoption Ban a Death Sentence for Special-Needs Kids
• Pregnancy Center in Tennessee Burglarized on Christmas Day
Dominos Pizza Founder Wins Emergency Order to Stop HHS Mandate
The founder of Dominos Pizza won his bid for an emergency order to prevent enforcement of the mandate while the lawsuit it filed against the Obama administration over the HHS mandate that forces religious employers to purchase drugs that may cause abortions for their employees continues.
Tom Monaghan calls requiring businesses, schools and other religious places to pay for such drugs a gravely immoral practice and filed suit earlier this month in federal court for Domino s Farms, a business development complex he owns. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/01/02/dominos-pizza-founder-wins-emergency-order-to-stop-hhs-mandate/
Photo of Baby Reaching Out From Womb During C-Section Goes Viral
A new photo of a baby reaching out of the womb and holding a doctor s finger during a Caesarian section delivery has gone viral and is being passed around Facebook by tens of thousands of people.
A Phoenix-area couple took the picture during the delivery of Nevaeh Heaven spelled backward and a local news report says even the physician and hospital nursing staff were surprised by what unfolded. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/01/02/photo-of-baby-reaching-out-from-womb-during-c-section-goes-viral/
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Mennonite Company Wins Injunction Stopping Obama HHS Mandate
Most of the lawsuits against the pro-abortion HHS mandate in Obamacare have come from Catholic or evangelical groups or businesses. In one case, Conestoga Wood Specialties, a Mennonite-owned company based in Lancaster County Pennsylvania, filed a federal suit against the mandate, which forces employers to cover abortion-causing contraception for their employees.
A federal judge has sided with the company and given it a 14-day reprieve from following the new mandate, which took effect yesterday. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/12/31/company-get s-injunction-stopping-hhs-mandate-enforcement/
Teenager From Brazil Offers Her Virginity for Sale
An 18-year-old girl is auctioning off her virginity on YouTube and says she plans to use the money to help her ailing mother. A television network has offered to pay for her mother s medical expenses so the teenager won t resort to the wild-eyed idea.
However, the deal fell through because Rebecca Bernardo said the wanted enough money to purchase a new home. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/01/02/teenager-from-brazil-offers-her-virginity-for-sale/
IRS Looks to Force Obamacare on Employers Who Cut Staff
A few months ago I predicted here that Obamacare would result in a great chase, by which I meant that smaller employers would react to the health insurance mandate by reducing staffing to under 50 full time employees to escape the requirement. This will, I predicted, set off a great chase: From my post, Obamacare and the Great Chase :
Businesses will try to cut their losses by reducing employee hours or by keeping their workforce under 50. The technocrats will respond by changing the rules, say, by lowering the full-time employment requirement to 40 and/or reducing the number of hours worked that qualify as full time employment. Businesses will react again, and the government will respond. The chase will be on. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/01/02/irs-looks-to-penalize-employers-who-cut-staff-over-obamacare-costs/
2012: Second Highest Number of Pro-Life Laws Passed on Abortion
During 2011, state legislators set a record by approving more pro-life laws stopping and limiting abortions than any other year since Roe v. Wade in 1973. A new report issued today shows that last year, legislatures approved the second highest number.
Although some media outlets and abortion advocates say the November presidential election marked a defeat for the pro-life movement, the number of abortions is at its lowest level nationally and states are seeing historic low abortion figures thanks in large part to state pro-life laws. These laws ranging from parental notification and informed consent to banning abortions later in pregnancy and cutting of taxpayer funds for abortions or the Planned Parenthood abortion business are saving lives every day. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/01/02/2012-second-highest-number-of-pro-life-laws-passed-on-abortion/
Pro-Lifers: Rededicate Yourself in 2013 to Ending Abortion
General George S. Patton, Jr., in his 1926 essay, The Secret of Victory, wrote, The secret of victory lies not wholly in knowledge. It lurks invisible in that vitalizing spark, intangible, yet as evident as the lightning the warrior soul. The fixed determination to acquire the warrior soul, and having acquired it to either conquer or perish with honor, is the secret of victory.
I cannot count how many warrior souls I ve met across the country in the pro-life movement. I think of the elderly woman who could not walk, yet confined to a wheelchair and battling with cancer, insisted on going regularly to pray at the abortion mill, or the young people who relocate to unfamiliar parts of the country and, for little or no salary, undertake full-time pro-life work. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/01/02/pro-lifers-rededicate-yourself-in-2013-to-ending-abortion/
Ireland: New Video Calls Out Irish Times Abortion Bias
Mainstream media has one foundational truth: the objective of journalism is not to be objective. Bias is an inherent part of today s news organizations that, unapologetically, reveal their agenda with articles of advocacy and misrepresentation. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/01/02/ireland-new-video-calls-out-irish-times-abortion-bias/
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Abortion Methods and Abortion Procedures Used to Kill Unborn Babies
I know a few pro-choice people who believe that the unborn are not yet human persons, and so abortion is not murder but instead is just a medical procedure. I am sure that there are quite a few others pro-choicers who believe the same. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/01/02/abortion-methods-and-abortion-procedures-used-to-kill-unborn-babies/
Matt Drudge Tweets: Abortion Killing 3,500 Babies Every Day
The founder and editor of the highly-popular Drudge Report surprised pro-life advocates on twitter this morning with a tweet condemning abortion an highlighting how thousands of babies are killed on a daily basis. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/01/02/matt-drudge-tweets-abortion-killing-3500-babies-every-day/
Virginia Governor OKs New Rules That May Close Abortion Clinics
Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, a Republican, has approved new health and safety rules for abortion facilities that may put any that can t provide basic health standards for women out of business. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/01/02/virginia-governor-oks-new-rules-that-may-close-abortion-clinics/
Don t Water Down the March for Life With Other Issues
I spotted this graphic (shown right) on the Holy Angels Youth Group website (out of Chagrin Falls, Ohio). http://www.lifenews.com/2013/01/02/dont-water-down-the-march-for-life-with-other-issues/
Missouri Company Wins Its Battle Against Obama HHS Mandate
A second business owner in the state of Missouri has won its battle against the Obama HHS mandate as a federal court granted it a reprieve from the Obama Administration s contraceptive and abortion drug mandate. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/01/02/missouri-company-wins-its-battle-against-obama-hhs-mandate/
Russia Adoption Ban a Death Sentence for Special-Needs Kids
Thousands of families across the United States look to adopt, and give a child a family. And because there are more families seeking adoption than there are babies in the United States, many times, the best option is to go overseas. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/01/02/russia-adoption-ban-a-death-sentence-for-special-needs-kids/
Pregnancy Center in Tennessee Burglarized on Christmas Day
A pregnancy center in Tennessee that helps pregnant women find abortion alternatives was burglarized on Christmas Day. Local police are working to try to catch the thieves who broke into the Pregnancy Center of Middle Tennessee. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/01/02/pregnancy-center-in-tennessee-burglarized-on-christmas-day/
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