Friday, January 31, 2020

ABORTION, NOT THE PILL, FIRES THE LEFT



Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the politics of abortion:

The birth control pill became commercially available in 1960, and in 1973 abortion was legalized. Those on the left who have been pushing for a libertine culture have won the PR battle on contraception (most Americans are okay with it), but they have lost the PR battle on abortion (most Americans want limits on when and why it should be performed).
The public has been trending pro-life in recent years. Technology is one reason why: baby pictures in the womb are convincing. This has upset the abortion industry, forcing them to develop new strategies. One preferred tactic is to include abortion-inducing drugs in public policies that allow for contraception.
The Health and Human Services (HHS) mandate promoted by the Obama administration was designed to force all employers, including Catholic ones, to provide contraceptives in their insurance plans. They did not include abortion. However, they did include abortifacients, or abortion-inducing drugs. Why?
The Obama officials knew that abortion is viewed very differently than contraceptives, so that is why they left it out of the HHS mandate. They could have stopped right there—forcing employers to pay for contraceptives but not abortion. But they did not. They were bent on including abortifacients in their policy. In doing so, they showed their true colors: As I have been saying for years, the HHS mandate was never about contraceptives—it was always about abortion.
The long-term goal of pro-abortion activists is to have nationwide tax-funded abortions without any restrictions whatsoever. But they can’t get that now, which explains why they have settled for public funding of abortifacients.
Regrettably, some on the pro-life side have failed to see what the pro-abortion game plan is. That includes the University of Notre Dame.
In February 2018, Notre Dame president Father John Jenkins announced that the university would start providing coverage for what he called “simple contraceptives.” He said the plan would not cover abortifacients. If he thought this policy would prove to be non-controversial, he was wrong. Not only did some Notre Dame students, faculty, and alumni not agree with funding contraceptives, those on the pro-abortion side were livid. They sued because abortion-inducing drugs were not covered.
They didn’t wait long: their suit was filed in June, just four months later. Their incremental approach—push for abortifacients but not abortion—was exactly what the HHS mandate provided. Recently, on January 16, Notre Dame lost in district court in its bid to have the case dismissed. Jenkins should have known that the Left will never be appeased—they always want more.
Leading the charge for abortifacients in the school’s healthcare policy are Irish 4 Reproductive Health (a far-left student association), Americans United for Separation of Church and State (an anti-Catholic organization), the National Women’s Law Center (a radical feminist entity), and the Center for Reproductive Rights (an extremist pro-abortion institution). The students receive funding from the taxpayer-funded giant, Planned Parenthood, and Catholics for Choice (a Catholic-bashing group).
What unites the four groups suing the University of Notre Dame is their contention that abortifacients are a form of birth control and should therefore not be excluded in a policy that allows for contraceptive coverage.
Irish 4 Reproductive Health calls for a “comprehensive” policy that addresses “reproductive healthcare.” Americans United says Notre Dame is denying “certain forms of birth control.” The National Women’s Law Center says the policy does not fund “birth control guaranteed to them by the Affordable Care Act.” The Center for Reproductive Rights uses the identical language.
Are abortifacients really analogous to the pill as a form of birth control? Or are they really abortion-inducing medications?
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists says, “There is no scientific evidence that FDA-approved emergency contraceptives affect an existing pregnancy; no EC is classified as an abortifacient.”
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops disagrees, saying there is much confusion over what constitutes an abortion. “HHS uses it to describe only the disruption of an already implanted pregnancy. However, because a human life begins when sperm and egg meet to form a new living organism, the moral problem of abortion arises whenever a drug or device destroys the new embryonic human being, for example by preventing his or her implantation in the uterine wall needed to survive.”
Who does the pro-abortion industry agree with? For them, the question is irrelevant. They maintain that abortion, abortifacients, and contraceptives are all the same: they are a form of birth control.
Planned Parenthood says, “The Paragard [copper] IUD is the most effective type of emergency contraception. It works up to 5 days after unprotected sex, and keeps on preventing pregnancy for up to 12 years.” That puts them in partial agreement with the bishops—it is an abortifacient. But, of course, unlike the bishops, they are okay with that.
NARAL Pro-Choice, the other abortion behemoth, says, “Emergency contraception (EC), sometimes called ‘the morning-after pill,’ is birth control that significantly reduces the chances of becoming pregnant if taken soon after sex.” So it agrees with the bishops that EC works as an abortifacient, but it also celebrates its usage as a form of birth control.
The National Women’s Liberation says, “We want free and full access to all forms of birth control, including contraception and abortion.” The linkage is similarly acknowledged.
Interestingly, the idea that abortion is a form of birth control was rejected in 2016 by pro-abortion politician Nancy Pelosi. This earned her the wrath of her fans at NARAL. What gives?
Pelosi, who calls herself a Catholic, is constantly under criticism for her pro-abortion stance, so it behooved her not to be seen as a proponent of the position that “abortion is a form of birth control.” NARAL was free to say what it believes.
Casting abortion as a form of birth control is nothing new. In 1968, five years before Roe v. Wade, the Task Force on Family Law and Policy issued a report to the Citizens’ Advisory Council on the Status of Women (a group established by President John F. Kennedy). It argued in favor of repealing state abortion laws, calling abortion “an alternative to other contraceptive methods” (my italic).
Two years after Roe, in a journal published by an institution affiliated with the Department of Health and Human Services, a study was done on the “effectiveness of abortion as a form of birth control.”
In 1992, Dr. Susan Allen, a physician with the Feminist Women’s Health Center in Atlanta, and a practicing abortionist, flatly admitted that “Abortion is a form of birth control.”
The pro-abortion students at the University of Notre Dame, and their pro-abortion allies, are ultimately determined to sell the notion that abortion is a form of birth control. But because there are some nervous Nellies out there (e.g., Pelosi), they are now settling for equating abortifacients with contraceptives. It’s time to unmask these activists. It is not the pill that fires them—it’s abortion.

LifeNews: “The Bible Makes it Clear Human Life Begins at Conception and All Human Life is Precious”

Luke 1:39-44 If you look at the sequences of the texts around this story, Mary was only days old pregnant when she went to Elizabeth. Yet, Elizabeth spoke of the embryonic child as "My Lord")

"In those days Mary arose and went with haste into the hill country, to a town in Judah, and she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. And when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the baby leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit, and she exclaimed with a loud cry, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb! And why is this granted to me that the mother of my Lord should come to me?"



   
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Friday, January 31, 2020

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WATCH: Here’s the 30-Second Pro-Life Super Bowl Commercial Fox Rejected
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WATCH: Here’s the 30-Second Pro-Life Super Bowl Commercial Fox Rejected

The simple, yet profound ad makes people think about the injustice of abortion without mentioning the word.



Joe Biden Claims He “Respects Religious Freedom,” But Will Force Christians to Fund Abortions

Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden is claiming that he would “respect religious freedom” as president



Shame on Fox for Rejecting Pro-Life Super Bowl Commercial, Running Drag Queen Ad Instead

To the power brokers who determine which ads are approved for the Super Bowl, drag queens, social justice warriors and gun control advocates are not at all controversial.



A jury in Belgium have cleared the cleared all three doctors in the euthanasia death of Tine Nys (38, pictured in middle) who was diagnosed as autistic to qualify for euthanasia.






Kansas Governor: Women Would be in the “Dark Ages” if They Couldn’t Kill Their Babies in Abortions

Pro-abortion Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly slammed a proposed constitutional amendment Thursday that would make it clear that there is no right to abortion in Kansas.


 
One week ago today, I had the honor of standing on stage at the 47th annual March for Life as President Donald J. Trump addressed the massive crowd.


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TikTok Un-Bans Pro-Life Group’s Account Hours After Pro-Lifers Flood it With Criticism


The power of social media was on display Friday as video sharing platform TikTok was deluged with criticism from pro-life people worldwide and ultimately changed its decision to ban the pro-life group LiveAction from using its platform.




Pastor Confirms: “The Bible Makes it Clear Human Life Begins at Conception and All Human Life is Precious”

Pastor Robert Kujawski believes the Bible is clear about abortion – and science is, too.




Thursday, January 30, 2020

LifeNews: Bernie Sanders Will Force Americans to Fund Planned Parenthood




   
LifeNews.com Pro-Life News Report

Thursday, January 30, 2020

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Top Stories
Bernie Sanders Will Sign Executive Order on Day 1 Forcing Americans to Fund Planned Parenthood
Bloomberg’s $10 Million Super Bowl Ad Says He’s “Fighting for Every Child,” But He Supports Abortion
Fox Deceived Pro-Life Group About Its Super Bowl Commercial, Falsely Claimed Ads Were Sold Out
Democrats Sue to Force U.S. to Ratify ERA, Allowing Unlimited Abortions Up to Birth
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Methodist Pastor Prays for Women to Have the Right to Kill Their Babies in Abortions
Elizabeth Warren Promises Not to Spread Misinformation, But Says Abortion is Like “Getting Your Tonsils Out”
Abortionist is Still Aborting Babies Even Though His Medical License Has Expired
Pro-Life Democrat: Democrats are Such “Abortion Extremists” More People Will Leave the Party
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Bernie Sanders Will Sign Executive Order on Day 1 Forcing Americans to Fund Planned Parenthood

One of the top agenda items on his list is forcing Americans to fund the Planned Parenthood abortion business.



Bloomberg’s $10 Million Super Bowl Ad Says He’s “Fighting for Every Child,” But He Supports Abortion

Mike Bloomberg will be running a $10 million Super Bowl ad saying he’s “fighting for every child.”



Fox Deceived Pro-Life Group About Its Super Bowl Commercial, Falsely Claimed Ads Were Sold Out

Responding to pro-lifers’ outrage this week, FOX Sports said it did not have ad space in the 2020 Super Bowl to fit in a pro-life commercial from Faces of Choice.



Three pro-abortion Democrat leaders filed a lawsuit this week to force the United States to ratify the pro-abortion Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the Constitution.






Methodist Pastor Prays for Women to Have the Right to Kill Their Babies in Abortions

A United Methodist pastor in Florida stirred up dissension in the state legislature Wednesday when he openly prayed for the “right” to abort unborn babies.


 
Elizabeth Warren is confused. Yesterday she made a promise to not spread misinformation. But, when it comes to abortion, she is one of the biggest distributors of misinformation.


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Abortionist is Still Aborting Babies Even Though His Medical License Has Expired


An abortionist who works at the Hagerstown Reproductive Health Services in Hagerstown, Maryland, has been doing so on an expired medical license since September 30, 2019.




Pro-Life Democrat: Democrats are Such “Abortion Extremists” More People Will Leave the Party

Pro-life Democrats do exist. They are many, and they want their party to represent their voices, too.