ALL Pro-Life Today: Subsidizing the slaughter of innocents

Wednesday, February 6, 2013 Subsidizing the slaughter of innocents By Ken Connor During the 2012 election season, the American people were subjected to hundreds of campaign ads. Among these were several geared towards women, and many of these were paid for by Planned Parenthood. According to Planned Parenthood, Mitt Romney was bad for women because he wanted to cut federal funding for the organization, thereby depriving millions of women of "vital services." We heard a lot about cancer screenings in these ads, but very little about abortions. The reality is that abortion is big business for Planned Parenthood, and Uncle Sam continues to be a complicit financier of the organization's ghoulish practices. In 2011, Planned Parenthood performed 333,964 abortions, up from 329,445 the year before. The federal government provided the organization with $542.4 million dollars in funding, which is nearly half of Planned Parenthood's budget. No one likes to talk about the fact that a huge portion of this sum is used to facilitate the willful destruction of innocent human life. [ Click here to read more. ]

HEADLINES Abortion pill mandate 'exceptions' leave Colorado senior centers in the cold Alliance Defending Freedom Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys and allied attorneys have filed the first legal challenge to the Obama administration's abortion pill mandate since the announcement last week of additional proposed rules that do not respect the religious freedom of family business owners. The federal lawsuit was filed Monday on behalf of the owner of several small businesses that run senior living centers and skilled nursing facilities in Colorado. The mandate forces employers, regardless of their religious or moral convictions, to provide insurance coverage for abortion-inducing drugs, sterilization, and contraception under threat of heavy penalties. The owner of the senior facilities, Stephen W. Briscoe, is an evangelical Christian who specifically objects to being forced to provide coverage for abortifacients. Catholic nurses: On the 'front lines' of health-care reform National Catholic Register The federal contraception mandate has sparked a debate over the free exercise of religious institutions that refuse to provide such services in their employee health plans. But there is another battle brewing: the fight for the conscience rights of health-care professionals who will be asked to facilitate practices that violate their beliefs. As both President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act and market-driven reforms reconfigure the world of health care, nurses----who are already taking over many duties of family practitioners----will be asked to meet with patients to discuss mandated provisions like Plan B, the so-called "morning-after pill." With their jobs on the line, will Catholic nurses stand up for their right to opt out of providing services that violate moral norms or will they bow to pressure? Most premature set of UK twins ever survives, born at  23 weeks Daily Mail When twins Mackenzie and Cameron Glover were born 17 weeks prematurely, they were so tiny that their mother said they could 'fit inside a pint glass.' Now, after a lengthy battle for life against the most astonishing odds, the boys have become one of the most premature sets of twins ever to survive in the UK. They gurgle happily and wriggle around like any other new-borns, reacting to their parents Pam and Lee with smiles and laughter.