Donald Trump Hires Pro-Life Advocate

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Likely Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is winning praise from pro-life advocates for hiring a top pro-life advocate as a key domestic policy advisory. The presumptive GOP nominee hired long-time conservative congressional aide John Mashburn as his policy director. www.lifenews.com – Full Article

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Donald Trump has brought on John Mashburn as his Policy Director. This is an excellent hire, especially for the pro-life movement and our legislative priorities. He is a smart strategist with deep pro-life roots. John is well-respected across every issue set. For him, the life issue is foundational and one which helped draw him into politics. thepulse2016.com – Full Article

Verizon Knows People Won’t Tolerate Their Sickening Distribution of, Sexploitation

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  1. When I began working for the National Center on Sexual Exploitation last July, I never dreamed that one day I’d be sitting face-to-face with the CEO and Chairman of Verizon talking with him about the harms of pornography. But that is exactly what happened last week!

Now some backstory: as many of you know, Verizon has been on NCOSE’s annual Dirty Dozen List for the past three consecutive years due to its steadfast refusal to stop selling pornography via its Fios television network. While the company no longer offers explicitly child-themed films, on a daily basis it still serves up a nauseating menu of pornography that features themes of incest, racism, sexism, exploitation, and abuse. This is intolerable!

So, NCOSE adopted a new strategy. We bought Verizon stock so that we would be eligible to attend the company’s annual shareholder’s meeting on May 5th and so we could raise our concerns there. Thus, this country-girl from Kentucky, found herself sitting in a room with non-other than the CEO and Chairman of Verizon, Lowell McAdams, as well as Verizon board member and former CEO of Darden Restaurants, Clarence Otis, and Verizon’s Chief Counsel, Craig Silliman! Is that incredible or what?

I won’t get into all the nitty-gritty of what we discussed, but I will note that this was NCOSE’s first opportunity to directly raise our concerns with the individuals at Verizon in the best position to make change happen. What happens after this remains to be seen, but we know for certain that now Verizon knows there is a movement of people across this country who will no longer tolerate their sickening distribution of, and profiting from, sexploitation.

Our movement’s time has come. We wait expectantly to see if Verizon will choose to take progressive action, and join us on the right side of history.  In the meanwhile, if you’ve not done so already, please join us in sending a message to Verizon that sexploitation is not an acceptable business model for any company by signing our petition to Verizon.

We are on the verge of some incredible victories, but we need your help to get there! Please consider donating to ensure we are able to continue changing corporate policies, and culture. endsexualexploitation.org

51 Families Sue Over Transgender Bathroom Policy

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A group of 51 families whose children attend a high school in Illinois filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday, attempting to reverse a policy that allows a transgender student to use girls’ bathrooms, locker rooms, and other sex-specific facilities. “It’s an organic group of parents and students who came together and said, ‘We have to do something about this—we can’t just roll over and allow the federal government to force our school to commingle the sexes in locker rooms,’” said Jeremy Tedesco, a lawyer representing the families. dailysignal.com – Complete Article

The suit, which challenges the Education Department’s authority to redefine the term sex in Title IX of U.S. law to include gender identity and to enforce it against schools, is the first of its kind, Tedesco told The Daily Signal.

According to the Education Department’s investigation, the student felt “crushed” by the school district’s decision not to allow access to the locker rooms, “which she said indicated that the school did not accept her as a female.”

The Christian legal aid group Alliance Defending Freedom is representing the parents and students, along with local support from lawyers at the Thomas More Society.

“The Emperor’s New Clothes” is a short tale by Hans Christian Andersen about two weavers who promise an emperor a new suit of clothes that is invisible to those who are unfit for their positions, stupid, or incompetent. Wikipedia

 

Press Conference Displayed Over 500 Aborted Baby Bodies

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Pro-Life History. On this day in May 6 1987, the Pro-Life Action League holds a press conference in front of the Michigan Avenue Medical Center abortion clinic in Chicago, displaying the bodies of over 500 aborted babies whose remains were recovered from a dumpster behind the facility.

p-eric-scheidler1-285xThe babies’ bodies arrive in a hearse. The press conference is well attended by reporters, but most of their news stories are preoccupied with questions surrounding the legality of how the bodies were obtained. facebook.com/prolifeaction Event Post

These babies’ remains will later be buried at St. Mary’s Cemetery in Evergreen Park, IL.

“I never thought of this before but it is truly sickening to know that millions of aborted babies end up in land fills. Discarded like garbage with no thought or care to the humanity of that lost life. How can in be so easy to be so uncompassionate?”

Another Planned Parenthood Officially Closed!

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DUBUQUE (KWWL) – Dubuque’s Planned Parenthood is no more. A note on the door says it closed on Thursday. This move being supported by those who are pro-life advocates, like the organization, Dubuque County Right To Life. “This is a victory for women and their unborn children,” said Marian Bourek, executive director of the organization. kwwl.com – Full Article

Dubuque’s clinic wasn’t around for long — just eight years.  It didn’t offer surgical abortions. They were done by giving women medication. During those years, people against it have demonstrated everyday, protesting, and holding signs. “We stood here every hour that this facility was open for business, to show the women that we care, they are not alone,” said Bourek. Additional Article

Her Struggle for Religious Freedom should Alarm every Christian, and American who Cherishes Freedom.

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Barronelle Stutzman’s continuing struggle for religious freedom should be alarming not only to every Christian, but to every American who cherishes freedom. www.adfmedia.org/- Full Article

“The case boils down to this question: is there room in our tolerant, diverse, and freedom-loving society for people with different views about the nature of marriage to establish their ‘religious (or nonreligious) self-definition in the political, civic, and economic life of our larger community…?’ The trial court’s and [the state’s and the ACLU’s] answer is ‘no….’ This is contrary to the best of our historical and constitutional traditions, which mandate that citizens who hold non-majoritarian views be given room to express them and not be coerced, punished, and marginalized through force of law.”

I sold flowers to Rob for years. I helped him find someone else to design his wedding arrangements. I count him as a friend,” Stutzman wrote in a recent op-ed for The Seattle Times in response to an op-ed that Ingersoll wrote with Curt Freed. “I want to believe that a state as diverse as Washington, with our long commitment to personal and religious freedoms, would be as willing to honor my right to make those kinds of choices as it is to honor Rob’s right to make his.”

thinkprogress.org – Another Point of Veiw

Do Sex Specific Restrooms Somehow Treat People Unfairly?

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When Target announced that in the name of “inclusivity,” it was opening its restrooms and changing rooms to members of the opposite sex, regardless of their reason for entering. But most Americans would agree inclusivity should never come at the steep cost of forfeiting privacy and safety in the restroom. adflegal.org – FULL ARTICLE – By Kellie Fiedorek Posted on: | April 29, 2016

bathroom-privacyNationl2-570xIf Target were serious about ensuring that its customers and employees felt “accepted, respected, and welcomed,” it would not have ignored  the feelings of children, particularly girls, who understandably and justifiably would feel humiliated, scared, or unsafe—not welcomed—if they saw a member of the opposite sex in their restroom. It would not have discounted the voices of thousands of women and girls who have been sexually abused, for whom the mere presence of a male in an intimate setting can trigger emotional and psychological trauma.

If Target thinks the only way to help people feel “welcomed” is to throw open the bathroom doors to members of the opposite sex, it has fundamentally misunderstood how to respect its patrons.

When they heard that he was alive…they refused to believe it.

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“When they heard that he was alive…they refused to believe it.” (Mark 16:11) 

Reflection: On Easter morning, the women who had seen the Risen Lord were greeted by disbelieving apostles. That night, Jesus chided them for their stubborn refusal to believe.
cath-01-thomasThe apostles clearly were not engaged in wishful thinking. They came to believe because they saw and touched the risen Lord. This gives us confidence. The victory of life is more than wishful thinking.

Prayer: Lord, sometimes we doubt your victory over death, and your ability to overcome the Culture of Death. Drive the power of doubt away, and enable me to spread the certainty of the victory of life! Amen! Today’s Pro-life Reflection: Victory of Life

If Doctors Don’t Like it, They Should Get Another Job!!

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Canada is soon to have legislation permitting euthanasia and assisted suicide, as decreed by its Supreme Court. One issue, however, over which some uncertainty hovers is how much wriggle room should be left for doctors who have ethical objections to the new regime.

One of the country’s most influential bioethicists, Udo Schuklenk, who is also the co-editor of the journal Bioethics, contends that there is no room for conscientious objection in a modern health care system. Doctors have an ethical and legal obligation to provide legal and social useful services like euthanasia. If they don’t like it, they should get another job, just as other people do when they don’t like the boss’s orders.

Interestingly, the writers cite the 17th century philosopher Thomas Hobbes in support of their attack on the rights of conscience. The subject in Hobbes’s Leviathan has no need of an individual conscience, for “the law is the public conscience by which he hath already undertaken to be guided”.

Since Hobbes laid the foundation for the modern totalitarian state, this allusion seems ominous. Yes, there will be problems in trying to accommodate conscientious objectors. But the abolition of conscience leads to problems as well. Wouldn’t Schuklenk’s ethical framework work just as well in Saudi Arabia? If a doctor there refused to amputate the hand of a thief, would he argue that he should to get another job? If he refused to perform female genital mutilation, should he be fired because he has defied the law?

Michael Cook
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There’s No Turning Back After Abortion

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It is true that we cannot turn back time and un-do an abortion, but we can move forward toward hope and healing, asking for and accepting God’s forgiveness and then allowing His grace to bind our wounds.  Sometimes hearing someone’s personal testimony of their healing journey is just what it takes for another suffering person to reach out for help.  www.goodcounselhomes.org – Full Article

“If I could change anything about my life it would be to never have aborted my two children. But I did it, and there is no turning back.

Since facing my abortions, my life had been a nightmare, but also a wake up call.  I had no other choice but to take the opportunity to take a closer look at myself and the way I was living my life. I was desperate and had to do something. My life was in danger because of the depression I was living in.

That’s when I was blessed to come across Lumina while browsing on the web looking for support.  I emailed the site and got a call right away. For the first time, I felt understood and comforted.  I was also a bit puzzled that a stranger would read into me so well and would help me more than my loved ones.