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ObamaCare: Advancing the Abortion Industry
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ObamaCare: Advancing the Abortion Industry

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by on Nov 08, 2013 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Government & Politics, Law & Justice
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On a Friday night back in December 2009, Senate Majority Leader Reid was in tense negotiations with then-Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska, as Reid desperately needed Nelson’s vote to secure Senate passage of ObamaCare. Finally, Nelson had what Politico described as a “breakthrough” that lead to a deal, as Politico reported a few days later. […]

Eliminating People to Help People?
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Eliminating People to Help People?

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by on Aug 07, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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Can a “human-centered approach” to issues include policies with the express purpose of eliminating people? This argument is cropping up, particularly in debates over climate change and now health care. Hard-core believers of climate change have argued that a key way to reduce greenhouse gases is to reduce people. This was rejected most recently at Rio+20 when UNFPA and […]

Reproductive Wordplay
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Reproductive Wordplay

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by on Jul 19, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Government & Politics, Health & Fitness
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Experts claim that Planned Parenthood has such a serious foothold on government policy and finances that it would literally take a jackhammer to pull them apart. In fact, some historians have even suggested that Planned Parenthood softened many of its early positions from the hard-line culture of death posture in order to garner respectability among […]

Pre-Existing Prenatal Conditions and Health Care Coverage
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Pre-Existing Prenatal Conditions and Health Care Coverage

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by on Jul 17, 2012 in Cloning, Embryo Research & Genetics, Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Health & Fitness
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Part of the recently upheld Affordable Care Act that many in the disability community applaud is the elimination of policy exclusions for pre-existing conditions. I agree that our culture should not discriminate against and withhold heath care from an individual based on a physical or mental disability. Early Intervention services, exceptional educators, and medical advances […]

HHS Issues New Rule on ObamaCare Scheme to Fund Abortion Insurance
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HHS Issues New Rule on ObamaCare Scheme to Fund Abortion Insurance

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by and on Mar 15, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Government & Politics
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The Obama Administration has taken another step in what amounts to a four-year plan to make abortion-covering health insurance, subsidized by the federal government, commonly available in the United States. The latest action came on March 12, when the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a lengthy regulation that spells out how some […]

Supreme Court Filing: Obamacare Compels Individuals to Pay for Abortion Coverage
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Supreme Court Filing: Obamacare Compels Individuals to Pay for Abortion Coverage

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by on Feb 17, 2012 in Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics
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The individual mandate not only forces individuals into private purchases, it also effectively mandates personal payments for surgical abortion coverage without exemption for individual’s religious or moral objections.  This is the argument presented by seven medical organizations in an amicus brief filed Monday in the U.S. Supreme Court by lead counsel Bioethics Defense Fund (BDF), […]

Literally Unconscionable
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Literally Unconscionable

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by on Jan 21, 2012 in Columnists, Featured, Law & Justice
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Friday, January 20, 2012, the Obama administration announced that faith-based institutions must cover free contraception for employees. While mainstream media tries to pass this off as merely covering “the pill,” it also includes sterilization and abortifacients. (See the AP story here.) Regardless, Catholics (and other religious denominations) are being forced to accept insurance coverage for […]

Christian University Joins Monks in Fight Against Fed's Contraception Mandate
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Christian University Joins Monks in Fight Against Fed’s Contraception Mandate

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by on Jan 09, 2012 in Featured, Law & Justice
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Last month, Colorado Christian University (CCU) became the first interdenominational Christian college to challenge in federal court a new “Affordable Care Act” (aka “Obamacare”) mandate for abortifacients (drugs which induce abortions). Colorado Christian joins the monks at Belmont Abbey College pushing back against government intrusion into personal religious convictions that is unprecedented in the health […]

Is Righteousness in Government Possible?
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Is Righteousness in Government Possible?

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by on Dec 06, 2011 in Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics
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Righteous: acting in accord with divine or moral law: free from guilt or sin – according to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, it is the exemplification of a justice The fundamental principle of justice—in law, in governing, in treating all peoples with equity—is the cornerstone of a humane society. It is important to understand […]

Jewish Restaurants Don’t Serve Pork
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Jewish Restaurants Don’t Serve Pork

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by on Nov 22, 2011 in Featured, Law & Justice
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Step into a kosher restaurant and skim the menu looking for pork chops: you won’t find any. Practicing Jews don’t eat pork, they don’t sell pork, and no one expects them to pay for pork. Pork goes against their faith, and they don’t do pork. In much the same way, faithful Catholics don’t do contraception, […]

In Rights Hierarchy Freedom Must Come Before Healthcare
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In Rights Hierarchy Freedom Must Come Before Healthcare

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by on Aug 18, 2011 in Featured, Government & Politics
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A few weeks ago I published an article entitled “Responsibility, Solidarity, and Healthcare,” its several points being: Covering routine, non-catastrophic healthcare increases costs and reduces access to healthcare in two ways a. it makes the health care cost more b. it makes insurance more costly The Catholic principle of solidarity means that we should not […]

The High Cost of Capitulation
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The High Cost of Capitulation

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by on Aug 18, 2011 in Columnists, Featured, Government & Politics
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Most reasonable people would agree that tossing a set of car keys to a drunkard is irresponsible even if the inebriated party manages to slur out a solemn pledge to drive carefully. That’s just common sense, right? So, what should we call a willingness to place the nation’s healthcare system in the hands of the […]

USCCB: HHS Must Think Catholics are Fools
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USCCB: HHS Must Think Catholics are Fools

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by on Aug 03, 2011 in Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics
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The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) sharply criticized a new HHS “preventive services” mandate requiring private health plans to cover sterilization and all FDA-approved contraceptives, including drugs which can abort a child before and after implantation in the womb, with no co-pay. “Although this new rule gives the agency the discretion to authorize a […]

WHO-Approved Drug Promises Life, and Death
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WHO-Approved Drug Promises Life, and Death

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by on Jun 05, 2011 in Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics
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By authorizing the use of a single drug, the World Health Organization has simultaneously raised hopes for saving thousands of mothers’ lives and raised fears that the drug will also be used to kill perhaps millions of unborn children. Misoprostol is used to help stop bleeding during delivery, the main cause of maternal deaths, but […]

Call for Federal Investigation of Fetal DNA/Autism Vaccine Link
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Call for Federal Investigation of Fetal DNA/Autism Vaccine Link

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by on May 15, 2011 in Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics
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Children of God for Life ( www.cogforlife.org )  and Sound Choice Pharmaceutical Institute ( www.soundchoice.org ) are calling on federal officials to investigate the cause of autism in children who have received vaccines produced using aborted fetal cell lines. Past studies have focused on the use of thimerosal in vaccines as reason for the rise in autism.  […]

Answering Propaganda About Planned Parenthood
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Answering Propaganda About Planned Parenthood

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by on Apr 19, 2011 in Life Issues & Bioethics
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In the days leading up to the eleventh-hour budget deal reached last Friday, the Liberal Left was out in frenzied force, gnashing their teeth in opposition to GOP efforts to end public funding for Planned Parenthood.  Democrats invoked their tried-and-true class warfare rhetoric, insisting that Republican opposition to the organization stems not from opposition to […]

An International Right to Life
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An International Right to Life

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by on Feb 28, 2011 in Columnists, Contraception & Abortion
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Advocates of legal abortion want more than to keep Roe vs. Wade intact. They want to establish an international right to abortion, enforced on an international level, and overriding the decisions of individual nations to protect their own preborn children. But, as usual, these people have it not only wrong, but completely upside-down. The international […]