Category Archives: HHS Mandate

Maryland Legislators Question Carhart Clinic License, No Conscience Protection in Continuing Resolution, Texas Considers Restricting Abortion, Arkansas Restricts Abortions to 12 Weeks

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20130307 LifeNews Radio Abortion Clinic Regulations-Conscience Protections-Texas Pain Restrictions-Arkansas 12 Week

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http://www.lifenews.com/2013/03/06/why-is-clinic-that-killed-woman-in-33-week-botched-abortion-still-open/
http://www.lifenews.com/2013/03/06/new-continuing-resolution-doesnt-include-hhs-mandate-protections/
http://www.lifenews.com/2013/03/06/texas-new-preborn-pain-bill-would-ban-abortions-after-20-weeks/
http://www.lifenews.com/2013/03/06/arkansas-oks-nations-most-strict-law-bans-abortions-at-12-weeks/

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Legislators in Maryland are asking why the abortion clinic is still open that killed a woman last month in a dangerous late-term botched abortion.  Not only are they questioning why LeRoy Carhart’s Germantown abortion business was not shut down immediately, they are questioning why a previous complaint from last November did not prompt an investigation and inspection of the clinic before the death of Jennifer Morbelli.  They ask what triggers a license suspension to protect the public if not a patient’s death.

The new Continuing Resolution designed to relieve automatic federal budget cuts required by law does not include the conscience protections against the Obama administrations HHS mandate for which pro-life advocates were hoping.  Pro-life focus now turns to the Healthcare Conscience Rights Act for relief from the HHS-ObamaCare rules.

Court rulings allow for states to restrict abortion and while new legislation would add Texas to the list of states that restrict abortion by the pain inflicted during an abortion, Arkansas legislators, overriding a governor’s veto passed a law Wednesday restricting abortions to the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.  If a heartbeat is detected, abortion is banned in Arkansas.

Healthcare Conscience Rights Act Introduced, Gosnell Clinic a Horror Story, Two Michigan Abortion Centers Close, Arkansas Senate Overrides Abortion Ban Veto

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20130306 LifeNews Radio Rights Act-Gosnell Horror-Abortion Closings-Arkansas Veto Override

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http://www.lifenews.com/2013/03/05/bill-may-be-last-chance-to-stop-obamas-hhs-abortion-mandate/
http://www.lifenews.com/2013/03/05/obsessed-with-death-kermit-gosnell-kept-jars-of-severed-baby-feet/
http://www.lifenews.com/2013/03/05/abortion-clinic-closes-after-doing-abortions-for-30-years/
http://www.lifenews.com/2013/03/05/arkansas-senate-overrides-veto-of-ban-abortions-at-12-weeks/

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Members of Congress, with the backing of major pro-life groups, are introduced the Health Care Conscience Rights Act, to stop the Obama administration’s assault on pro-life religious freedom via the HHS mandate. This bold act may be the last chance for Congress to take action to mitigate the conscience problems associated with President Barack Obama’s contraceptive and abortifacient mandate.

Going through the grand jury report for the murder trial of Kermit Gosnell reads like a horror movie.  Some of the more mundane items: investigators say Gosnell distributed or wrote prescriptions for addictive drugs, something that would’ve garnered Gosnell hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.  Late-term abortions, which often failed and delivered premature but live births presented the situations and actions which ultimately led to the murder charges against the abortionist.

In other news, two more abortion centers have closed in Michigan after charges of illegal disposal and an abortion practitioner being sued for the death of a woman in a failed abortion.  And the Arkansas 12 week abortion ban continues to make news as that state’s Senate has voted to override their governor’s veto.  Some people in pro-life circles fear the Arkansas ban, if rejected by courts, could entrench Roe V Wade.

Kermit Gosnell Murder Case Underway in Philadelphia, Health Care Conscience Rights Act to Be Proposed, HHS Probing Loophole for Abortion Funding in States’ Laws, Abortion and a 90% Increase in Breast Cancer

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20130305 LifeNews Radio Gosnell Murder Case-Rights Act-HHS Probing Loophole-Abortion Breast Cancer

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http://www.lifenews.com/2013/03/04/d-a-abortion-doc-who-snipped-babies-spinal-cords-committed-murder/
http://www.lifenews.com/2013/03/04/new-bill-would-stop-obama-admins-assault-on-religious-freedom/
http://www.lifenews.com/2013/03/04/700-pages-of-new-obamacare-rules-put-in-place-more-abortion-funding/
http://www.lifenews.com/2013/03/04/abortion-helps-cause-90-increase-in-breast-cancers-in-33-years/

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The complicated, gruesome case of Kermit Gosnell got underway in Philadelphia Monday with three jurors being selected.  While there are rumors of Gosnell trying to negotiate a better deal with prosecutors, he faces eight murder counts.  The story is loaded with tragic details of abortions botched, squalid conditions in his clinic, and multiple defendants who worked with Gosnell, some of whom had no medical background.

Members of Congress are working on a new major bill to stop the White House assault on pro-life religious freedom under the HHS mandate.  The Health Care Conscience Rights Act would take the focus off Kathleen Sibelius for drafting the rules creating the mandate and put them on legislators who vote for or against this new bill.

The federal budget sequester seemingly has had no effect on Health and Human Services.  On the first afternoon of the President’s doomsday, the agency was so productive it pumped out more than 700 new pages of ObamaCare regulations.  Buried in those pages is a plan designed to directly fund abortion using the laws of individual states to circumvent the Hyde amendment.  And another story at LifeNews dot com provides another likely link between abortion and a 90% increase in breast cancer.

Further Calls to Link Fiscal Deadline with Conscience Rights, Washington State Abortion Mandate, Study Addresses Pregnancies at Risk of Being Interrupted by Abortion

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20130301 LifeNews Radio Fiscal Deadline and Conscience-Washington Abortion Mandate-Vitae Abortion Study

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http://cnsnews.com/news/article/rep-steve-king-conservatives-should-refuse-pass-cr-unless-it-protects-conscience-rights

http://www.vitaefoundation.org/sites/default/files/Regret%20short%20version%20Final%20Draft%2011-21-12.pdf

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A pro-life Congressman is calling his colleagues to insert into the country’s fiscal deadline an affirmation of conscience rights in accordance with the First Amendment of the Constitution.  Representative Steve King of Iowa says conscience as a constitutional principle is not something to negotiate.

Meanwhile, in Washington State, pro-life advocates are calling a bill that would mandate abortion coverage in all maternity coverage plans the Conscience Coercion Act.  Peggy O’Ban of Human Life of Washington says that since Quakers objected to military service, our nation has affirmed a right to freedom of conscience and that Washington state would be the only state to force employers to pay for abortion.

The pro-life movement has long endeavored to understand the complex emotional struggle behind a woman’s decision to continue or abort an unplanned pregnancy.  The Vitae Foundation released in last week’s American Thinker an in-depth study of interest to anyone working with women in a pregnancy at risk of being interrupted by abortion.  Utilizing cutting edge research, they found and quantified numerous difficulties faced and opened strategies to meet the needs of these women.  More information is at Vitae Foundation dot org.

Arkansas Passes Bills to Ban Abortion – Sends to Gov. Beebe, Nine U.S. Senators Tell Court: Protect Hobby Lobby From Obama Mandate, Researchers Map Fetal Brain Signals For First Time Ever

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20130222 LifeNews Radio Arkansas Abortion Ban-Friend of Court Brief-Fetal Brain Signals

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http://www.lifenews.com/2013/02/21/arkansas-passes-bills-to-ban-abortion-sends-to-gov-beebe/
http://www.lifenews.com/2013/02/21/nine-u-s-senators-tell-court-protect-hobby-lobby-from-obama-mandate/
http://www.lifenews.com/2013/02/21/researchers-map-fetal-brain-signals-for-first-tmie-ever/

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It may be true that no law may fix the abortion problem, but one of the most interesting efforts has just passed the Arkansas state legislature in two bills that would ban abortions at the point when a unborn child’s heart starts to beat, typically before even the mother knows she’s pregnant.  The bill has been presented to Governor Mike Beebe, who has yet to say what he plans to do.

Nearly a dozen members of Congress, 11 groups and a state’s attorney general filed friend-of-the-court briefs supporting Hobby Lobby Stores’ challenge to the HHS mandate. Chief Counsel for the Becket Fund Kyle Duncan says that “While any brief by sitting members of Congress is significant, this one comes from members who originally supported the federal civil rights law—the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993—which is at the heart of the mandate challenges.”

Researchers at Wayne State University in Michigan are mapping, for the first time ever, fetal brain signals.  Besides showing human function and further displaying the humanity of unborn children, the prevention and treatment of brain disorders like autism or dyslexia may be on the horizon.

Tragic Pressure to Abort Disabled Babies, Details of State Investigation Raise Suspicions, False Unprotected Abstinence in Planned Parenthood Curricula, Friday Vote on Abortion Mandate in Washington State

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20130221 LifeNews Radio Aborting Disabled-Carhart Investigation-Abstinence Redefined-Washington Abortion Mandate

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http://www.lifenews.com/2013/02/20/abortion-death-shows-women-pressured-to-abort-disabled-babies/
http://www.lifenews.com/2013/02/20/medical-examiner-confirms-33-week-abortion-killed-young-woman/
http://www.lifenews.com/2013/02/20/doc-who-killed-woman-in-33-week-abortion-broke-health-laws-before/
http://www.lifenews.com/2013/02/20/planned-parenthood-pushes-sex-education-on-11-year-olds/
http://www.lifenews.com/2013/02/20/washington-to-vote-on-forcing-abortion-coverage-in-maternity-insurance/

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As details of the woman who died an abortion-related death come forward, attention is being brought to the issue of women pressured to abort disabled babies.  Jennifer Morbelli and her husband were looking forward to the birth of their baby girl when doctors discovered problems with the baby’s brain.  The couple traveled from New York to the late-term abortion clinic of LeRoy Carhart in Maryland. An autopsy released shows the 33 year old teacher died of an amniotic embolism and widespread coagulation.

Other aspects of a state investigation include personal patient documents and other waste that may have been disposed of illegally.  Some of the documents and references to protocols seem to call into question the care received at Carhart’s clinic.  Tragically adding suspicions, some former employees of the abortionist say he frequently broke state health and medical laws in his Nebraska abortion business.

New curriculum touted by Planned Parenthood uses an interesting definition of abstinence.  Abstinence in this curriculum refers not to abstinence but strictly to unprotected sex.
And a vote is scheduled in the Washington State House to require all insurance policies covering maternity to also pay for abortions.  Debate begins at 9 AM Friday in Olympia.

Hobby Lobby Broadens Court Fight, Parents Give Up Effort to Abort Grandchild, Six Dozen Babies in One 40 Days for Life Week, Valentine’s Day-Mom Delivers Two Sets of Identical Twins on Same Day

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http://www.lifenews.com/2013/02/19/hobby-lobby-keeps-fighting-obamas-hhs-mandate-in-court/
http://www.lifenews.com/2013/02/19/parents-agree-not-to-force-their-daughter-to-have-an-abortion/
http://www.lifenews.com/2013/02/18/47-babies-saved-from-abortion-already-in-new-40-days-for-life/
http://www.lifenews.com/2013/02/19/woman-delivers-two-sets-of-identical-twins-on-the-same-day/

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Visit a Hobby Lobby craft store and listen to the discreet music played in the background.  Songs like, “Jesus Loves Me This I Know”, “Amazing Grace”, and even instrumental renditions of more recent titles discretely say that this is a store with distinctly Christian values.  The store is currently avoiding million-dollar daily fines after losing the first round in its fight against the HHS mandate and is now being joined by groups like Americans United for Life in broadening Hobby Lobby’s court battle.

The parents of the 16-year-old expectant mom have been trying to force her to have an abortion.  It took a lawsuit and a court appearance, but the parents have relented.

After only a few days into its 40 Days for Life campaign, organizers say nearly 6 dozen babies have already been saved from abortion.  The campaign of personal dedication and prayer and vigil at abortion clinics runs through March 24th.

The Montalvo family of Houston wanted a baby girl.  Instead, without any use of fertility treatment, they hit odds in the neighborhood of one in 70 million and came home from the hospital last week with two sets of identical twins-all boys-born on Valentine’s Day.

Interior Department Cabinet Level Appointment Draws Attention to ObamaCare Exemptions, Thomas More Society Calling to Investigate Abortionist in Tonya Reaves’ Death

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Pro-life groups, religious organizations and persons of conscience in business are unable to get what the White House has given to some businesses that are somehow favored by the Obama Administration.  Sally Jewell is the very successful head of REI Incorporated, an outdoor sports outfitter based in Seattle, and is now the President’s nominee for the Interior Department.  The president says REI is deserving to be made exempt from law by a White House decision—some would call it an arbitrary decision—granted because of the way this particular company performs.  Pro-life advocates and legal experts will be commenting on this implicit legal problem and precedent in the coming days as Sally Jewell’s nomination proceeds through US Senate confirmation.

The pro-life legal group, the Thomas More Society, says Illinois must investigate a doctor working at a Chicago Planned Parenthood business.  The Cook County medical examiner said 24-year-old Tonya Reeves died last summer from a bungled D and E abortion-the pregnancy itself did not contribute to her death.  The autopsy put the sole responsibility for her death on Planned Parenthood and the only way in Illinois to investigate is to investigate the doctor.

Blogger and LifeNews.com Threatened with Lawsuit, President Obama Celebrates Roe V Wade and NARAL Leadership, Prosecution of August Attack on Family Research Council, Archbishop Chaput Criticizes HHS Mandate Rewrite, Mother Teresa Video on YouTube-Abortion Threat to Peace

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A leading black advocacy group has threatened to sue life news.com and black pro-life leader Ryan Bomberger, a blogger at Life News.com.  A recent column was entitled, “National Association for the Abortion of Colored People” and took the civil rights organization to task over its abortion position.

In a videotaped address to the pro-abortion group NARAL, President Barack Obama said that he celebrates the Roe V Wade decision, ignoring its 55 million abortions. According to a Politico report, Obama thanked outgoing NARAL president Nancy Keenan, calling the abortion activist  “a friend and counselor to me and my administration.”

The shooter in last August’s attack on the Family Research Council Headquarters pled guilty in Washington DC to three charges Wednesday.  Prosecutors said that investigators examined the assailant’s computer and found that he used a liberal website to identify or select his target.

Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia is taking to task the proposed revisions to the controversial HHS mandate forcing religious groups and people of conscience in business to pay for anything that interdicts parenthood and childbearing.  And YouTube now has the famous interview with Mother Teresa of Calcutta where she maintained that abortion is the “greatest threat to peace in the world”.
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New HHS Rules Mean New HHS Plaintiffs and New HHS Lawsuits, Twins Born at 23 Weeks Gestation Bring New Focus on Life before Birth, Neural Stem Cells Developed from Kidney Cells Found in Urine

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Attorneys defending the HHS mandate requiring all employers regardless of conscience to pay for abortifacient and contraceptive drugs have repeatedly said plaintiffs cases should be thrown out because there was a change to the mandate coming.  Now that the new mandate rule has been issued, plaintiffs’ attorneys have filed new lawsuits alleging a violation of religious freedom against business owners with conscientious objection against the rule.

After a lengthy battle for life against the most astonishing odds twin boys, born at just 23 weeks gestation have become some of the most premature sets of twins ever to survive.  The attention given the twins brings renewed focus on the life of the unborn in the middle of pregnancy.

You may have heard of pluripotent adult stem cells developed from cells in tooth roots, placental tissue or other sources.  Here is a new source discovered in China.  Researchers there found epithelial kidney cells in human urine and have used a more reliable method to steer these tissue cells-or to tap into their pluripotency-and create nerve cells, clearly an amazing breakthrough for adult stem cell therapy.
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