Electing Pro-life President May be Only Way to Solve this!

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Electing pro-life president may be only way to end contraceptive mandate of the Affordable Care Act as the (Supreme) court may not rule in favor of the women religious and 36 other plaintiffs. FULL ARTICLE

Today, groups of religious sisters, priests and other various Christian organizations will yet again be forced to plead for their basic First Amendment rights in front of the Supreme Court.

“As an American, I and everyone of my fellow citizens should be able to follow the law while following our faith,” said named petitioner Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life at a press conference on Tuesday. “And this government is making that impossible.”

Zubik v. Burwell, yet another case regarding the Obamacare contraception mandate, focuses on whether or not a post-Hobby Lobby “opt out” regulation can be enforced despite the sincere, deeply-held religious beliefs of nonprofit organizations, simply based on their classification under the tax code.  Full Ariticle

Sister Loraine Marie Maguire, advocates, and religious leaders reacted to oral arguments in the case Zubik vs Burwell. The case concerns whether the Affordable Care Act contraceptive mandate violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

 

Aborted Baby Body Parts NEEDED TO SAVE LIVES??

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“We are going to review the business practices of these procurement organizations and do some investigating of how they have constructed a for-profit business model from selling baby body parts,” Ms. Blackburn said in an interview (House Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives).  FULL ARTICLE

It is no secret that Planned Parenthood has created an abortion factory and sells dead baby body parts. They get away with it by claiming not to sell them. They say they only accept donations to recoup costs for the transport of the bodies which is fifty to one hundred dollars per body. If they can do one hundred abortions, which is a realistic figure, they can make $10,000 in one day. That buys a lot of Lamborghini’s. How can people defend that? FULL ARTICLE

House Republicans have tried and failed to cut off all federal funding for Planned Parenthood, but their investigation is having an impact. Some medical studies have been delayed or canceled because researchers can no longer acquire fetal tissue samples from their usual suppliers, who have grown concerned about the investigation, researchers said. FULL ARTICLE

We felt Lied to by the Hospital!!

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Lane Hauber had a ‘Do Not Resuscitate’ put on his file as a newborn without his parent’s knowledge or consent.  FULL STORY

Lane’s father, Alex, arrived in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit for a visit to find a ‘Do Not Resuscitate’ (DNR) in paperwork attached to his son’s crib. “We were devastated,” Lane’s mom Alisha expressed, “…not only did we get the shock of the diagnosis, but now we were being told that we had zero rights in making medical decisions for our son.”  Alisha stated.

“We felt lied to by the hospital, and angry about our child not being treated like a human being. Why is it O.K. to take away parental rights?  Aren’t we the ones that have to live with the consequences of our decisions?”  For the neonatologist to secretly and lethally neglect a patient based on many unknowable qualities and capacities at birth can neither be called scientific nor compassionate medical care.

The same physicians who would be shocked or angry when a patient would deny the doctor information to do their job are denying their newborn patients standard care and informed consent.  Lane’s parents assumed the hospital and doctors were acting in good faith toward their son seven years ago until they stumbled across the ‘Do Not Resuscitate’.  This current study displays that the vast majority of doctors would treat Lane the same way today.

The Banality of Evil: Investigating Planned Parenthood

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Shortly after David Daleiden exposed Planned Parenthood’s trade in baby body parts, Congress established a Select Panel to investigate the abortion giant’s practice of fetal body part harvesting. On March 2, the Panel held its first hearing. Complete Article

CALLOUS DISREGARD FOR HUMAN LIFE – The Panel’s exhibits include emails casually discussing the availability of specific body parts. One email chain, revealing a horrific discussion of what parts would be available following an ongoing abortion  mentions the condition of the “specimen,” a tiny, fully formed human being who has just been torn in pieces.

Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt coined the phrase “the banality of evil” to describe these kinds of horrendous acts that society has come to accept as commonplace.

Because of David’s videos, Congress is investigating Planned Parenthood. Life Legal continues to defend David against a billion-dollar industry that believes human beings can be carved up and sold to the highest bidder.

 

Federal Judge says Stop Your Praying

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If the Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF) thought they’d found a soft target in Chino Valley Unified Schools, they were greatly mistaken. Apparently, liberals haven’t learned their lesson about tangling with California’s Calvary Chapel church network, where a firestorm over praying at school board meetings is resulting in a bigger fight than atheists bargained for. Pastor Jack Hibbs, one of FRC’s Watchmen pastors, hasn’t backed down on religious liberty before — and he doesn’t plan to start now. The head of a culturally-engaged congregation that’s also battling the state’s ObamaCare abortion mandate is now pushing back on another front: school board invocations. Complete Article

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In November 2014, the district was sued by the Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation, along with anonymous district staff, students and community members. Chino Valley Unified was defended by attorneys from the Sacramento-based Pacific Justice Institute, a nonprofit conservative legal defense organization that specializes in religious freedom. The district now owes the Freedom from Religion Foundation $197,405 in legal fees, more than the salary for four beginning teachers.

On Feb. 18, U.S. District Judge Jesus Bernal told the board to end its years-long tradition of “reciting prayers, Bible readings and proselytizing at board meetings.” But Bernal isn’t getting the final word: Last week, the board voted 3-2 to appeal Bernal’s decision.

 

Their Stores were Being “testshopped” by Abortion Activists!

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How One Family Is Relying on Faith and Each Other in the Face of Government Persecution

“This wasn’t—and isn’t—just about the Stormans or access to Plan B,” says Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Kristen Waggoner, who has represented the family for close to a decade. “This is about a national pro-abortion, anti-religion agenda, with activist groups intent on forcing providers to violate their faith and participate in the taking of human life. In fact, no woman has ever been denied timely access to Plan B for religious reasons.” 

“Not since colonial America have we as a nation required someone to participate in the taking of innocent human life against their will.” Kristen Waggoner. Full Article

“It’s been a wonderful, wonderful thing to have ADF come alongside us and support us in so many different ways,” Ken says. “It’s been very encouraging. It’s created an aura of hopefulness and the ability to be able to counter something that on our own we would never be able to do.” 

 

Girl Scouts is Exhibiting a Troubling Pattern.

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“Girl Scouts is exhibiting a troubling pattern of behavior and it is clear to me that as they move in the ways of the world it is becoming increasingly incompatible with our Catholic values.”

Archdiocese of St. Louis

Noting that Girl Scouts USA (GSUSA) and its parent organization, the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS), promotes contraception, “abortion rights,” homosexuality, and other issues “incompatible” with Catholic values, the Archbishop of St. Louis, Mo., has ordered all the parishes in his archdiocese to review their Girl Scouts programs and “strongly consider” offering “alternative options for the formation of our girls.”

 

“Our primary obligation is to help our girls grow as women of God,” said Archbishop Robert J. Carlson in his Feb. 18 letter to priests, Scout leaders, and all Catholics in the archdiocese. Full Article – Scouting and the Catholic Church

Dancing on Injustice. Destinies Lost – A Life Without My Son?

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Destinies Lost – A Life Without My Son?  by Sandy Arena on 02/03/16
I once asked my then 10-year-old son Caleb the question, “How do you know I love you?” And he answered me without blinking an eye, “Because you didn’t abort me.” As I gazed lovingly and adoringly at my son after hearing him say this and trying to visualize a world without him, you can imagine how my heart hurt. As a woman who has aborted, his words cut deeply as truth in my broken heart as the reality of what he so innocently said unfolded.

I just received a novel yesterday written by my friend Renee Maimone which she worked on for many years. I have not read it yet, as I just received it, but she wrote the following to me in a letter included with the book:

“When a life is taken before one’s time, things change. God will never reduce your significance by creating another you, therefore your blueprint will no longer interact with another. The loss is now suffered by those remaining. This includes ordained spouses.”

And likewise, there is a song I wrote for Arise Sweet Sarah where our character “Sarah” sings of the loss of her unborn and the devastating choice she made to abort. The song is called “Destinies Lost”, and it is about taking what was God’s and what could have been through the choice of abortion.

There is so much wrong with abortion and cutting the life of a human being short because of fear, uncertainty, selfishness and career goals. Abortion robs the world of so much including the dignity of the woman who partakes, and also robs the world of a preordained destiny with a plan and a purpose. No, I can’t imagine a world without Caleb. And worse as a mother, because of abortion, I am left to imagine a world that includes those I aborted and what could have been. I am also left to process and silently deal with the deep sorrow that comes with such imaginings. Complete Article

Lessons from Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia

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We must use our heads. Too many Christians seem to think that being on the side of God and His truth excuses us from having to do our homework – from studying Scripture, from knowing our legal rights and protections, from understanding what is happening in the culture around us.

Even those who took issue with Justice Scalia’s opinions often marveled at the breadth of his knowledge and the keenness of his thinking. They may not have liked what he said, but they couldn’t pretend he didn’t know what he was talking about. His life embodied what Paul wrote to Timothy, that “God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind (2 Timothy 1:7).”

Like him, we should “Study to show [ourselves] approved unto God, [workers] who need not be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth (2 Timothy 2:15).” (lessons-we-can-all-learn-from-justice-antonin-scalia-s-legacy)

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We must learn to stand. Not for nothing was Justice Scalia known as “The Great Dissenter.” He was, if anything, more famous for the opinions he wrote in opposition to the majority than he was for those he wrote in support of them. With rare wit and unswerving legal logic, he parsed his opponents’ arguments and thoughtfully, boldly affirmed his own convictions.

We live in an era when so few Christians seem to know Who their God is, what His Bible says, or why they themselves have joined themselves to the faith. Great numbers of believers shrink from having to stand for openly – much less defend publically –  a Truth they have studied insufficiently and thought through hardly at all. Justice Scalia – a man who was not ashamed of either the Gospel or the Constitution – knew Whom he believed (2 Timothy 1:12) and cultivated the courage to speak the truth to his peers, his fellow professionals, and his country.

I am deeply saddened by the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. He was a brilliant mind and a champion of the United States Constitution and a friend to the pro-life movement (Joe Scheidler)