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RomneyCare’s FREE Abortions

RomneyCare Now Funding FREE Abortions

A Disqualifier for Mitt Romney’s Candidacy

By Amy Contrada

EXCERPT:

March 7, 2012

RomneyCare now offers free elective surgical abortions.

Mitt Romney was the enabler. This is how his government-dictated health plan is playing out. And he’s still proud of it. When he does touch on defects in his health plan, he never mentions abortion coverage as a problem. He’s either fine with it, or realizes he has to downplay it to get the conservative vote.

When the law was first implemented, there was a $50 copay for a RomneyCare elective surgical abortion.  Now RomneyCare abortions are “free” for a $0 copay (or $50-$100 in some plans).  In fact, the $0 copay shows up as early as 2008 at the Massachusetts Health Care Connector site.  (The “Commonwealth Care” plans cover low-income residents, many of whom pay no monthly premiums.)

Of course, the abortions are not exactly free. We, the taxpayers cover the cost, whether we want to or not.

After-birth abortion: why should the baby live? — Giubilini and Minerva — Journal of Medical Ethics

NAKED ETHICS CAUSE FIRESTORM

THE STUDY:

After-birth abortion: why should the baby live? — Giubilini and Minerva — Journal of Medical Ethics.

THE RESPONSE:

(1)  “The Great After-Birth Abortion Non-Apology Apology” by pro-life bioethicist Wesley J. Smith.

(2)  Wesley J. Smith’s Second-Hand Smoke Blog – this topic’s search results.

FDA Report: Abortion Drug Killing Moms, Babies

FDA Report: Abortion Drug Killing Moms, Babies – Health & Science – CBN News – Christian News 24-7

excerpt:

The abortion drug RU-486 is not only killing babies but also mothers, according to a report issued by the Food and Drug Administration.

According to the FDA report:

• Fourteen women died after taking the drug.

• More than 600 women had to be hospitalized, with more than half requiring major blood transfusions.

• The drug also led to serious or severe infections in 256 patients.

• Overall, more than 2,200 women reported serious medical problems from RU-486.

Fr. Frank Pavone’s last EWTN homily

Sep. 13 on YouTube.  26 min.

Audio and Video of this homily are also available on the Priests for Life website; the title there is “What we should remember about our priests.”

excerpts:

  • All of you, especially preachers listening to me right now, well maybe you are thinking “the people are not ready!”
  • Every vocation is about being open to life.
  • We as priests have to give the full, clear Word!
  • St. Chrysostom worked for the reform of the clergy; and he was an outstanding preacher because he knew this:  we are ordained to give the fullness of the Word.
  • You, the laity, have a right to hear the full message!
  • We at Priests for Life are working for reform of the clergy.
  • We hear it every day, “Why aren’t our preachers preaching about abortion?”
  • Let’s pray for the renewal of the clergy.

Defund Planned Parenthood Action Center Launched

Today the American Life League’s Stop Planned Parenthood has launched a new Action Center.

STOPP International, a project of American Life League, announced today that it is launching a major education campaign to raise public awareness supported by an action center that helps citizens to “stop waste, fraud, and the abuse of public funds by Planned Parenthood and its inside-the-beltway supporters.”

“Our Defunding Planned Parenthood Action Center is the first to integrate short educational videos, current research, and up-to-the-moment news with user friendly technology that will help inform, motivate, and empower citizens to make a difference,” said Johanna Dasteel, who headed the development of the action center over the last several months. “We are witnessing an explosion all across the country from average citizens who do not want to see Planned Parenthood get another penny of taxpayer money. Our action center will help those voices be heard.”

Recently, there has been a growing call for a full Congressional investigation of Planned Parenthood.  “President Obama defends millions in taxpayer subsidies to a corrupt organization like Planned Parenthood, but then threatens to cut off payments to seniors and veterans,” added Dasteel.

ALL also released a commentary and video, both titled Hiding Behind Hyde, explaining why the Hyde Amendment does little if anything to stop tax dollars from funding abortions as claimed.

American Life League, co-founded by Judie Brown in 1979, is the oldest national Catholic pro-life organization in the United States. She is the author of Saving Those Damned Catholics and will soon release her new book, The Broken Path. For more information, please visit http://www.ALL.org or call 540-659-4171.

Media inquiries, please contact Paul E. Rondeau at 540-659-4942 or prondeau@ALL.org

Pro-Life Action of Oregon is an associate of A.L.L.

Planned Parenthood’s ‘Truth Team’ Forgets Its Abortions

Planned Parenthood’s ‘Truth Team’ Forgets Its Abortions | LifeNews.com

By Susan Wills, Assistant director for education and outreach, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities.

4/11/11

excerpt:

Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) has dispatched a “Truth Team” to rally opposition to the Pence Amendment (H.R. 1, sec. 4013), a measure to stop federal funding of PPFA and its 102 affiliates. But not everything said by PPFA officials and sympathetic media has been the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

In the interest of an informed debate about taxpayer funding of PPFA, a few omissions and potentially misleading statements are addressed below [in this article].

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All this adds up to a revolving door of customers, constantly returning for the pricier services: emergency contraception; pregnancy tests; STD testing and treatment, including Pap tests for cervical cancer (100 percent of which is caused by certain persistent strains of the sexually transmitted human papilloma virus [HPV]), diagnostic colposcopies and LOOP/LEEP procedures; cryotherapy; HIV testing; and, of course, the big money-maker, abortions.

Why haven’t supporters of PPFA funding in Congress and the press noticed that something is amiss?  Here is an organization that offers contraception (35 percent of 2009 services)[16] for “safe sex,” yet also reports that 35 percent of its services deal with the failure of “safe sex” to protect against STDs (testing and treatment), and 11 percent of clients undergo abortions. Is it not likely that some of the same clients going to Planned Parenthood for contraception are returning for these other services when PPFA and contraception fail them? After all, 54 percent of women seeking abortions report they were using contraceptives in the month they became pregnant (see Table 61, p.98).

Abby Johnson: Exposing the Planned Parenthood business model | LifeSiteNews.com

Abby Johnson: Exposing the Planned Parenthood business model

April 7, 2011

excerpt:

April 6, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Myths about Planned Parenthood are spreading like grassfire. Thanks to a perfect storm of events, the abortion provider is scrambling to cauterize the biggest PR hit it has ever sustained. November’s election of an overwhelmingly pro-life Congress, revelation of numerous violations by its staff and repeated calls for its defunding by social and fiscal conservatives alike have put Planned Parenthood’s lifeblood on the line.

Record Numbers of Babies Killed at Planned Parenthood

SUMMARY – NATIONAL ABORTIONS

332,278 abortions – surgical and medical (pill) – in 2009.

340 abortions for every one adoption referral.

40% of PP income from abortions, which require more than one visit.

“Planned Parenthood bundles abortions making it appear as if abortions account for only 5% of its business.”—-Abby Johnson, a former director of a Planned Parenthood facility in Texas and author of “UNPlanned” interviewed on EWTN “World Over Live” February 24, 2011 (begins at 08:00 minutes from start).

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Media Release from American Life League

Contact:  Jim Sedlak, 540.659.7685  jsedlak@all.org

Feb. 23, 2011

Planned Parenthood Sets Record for Number of Babies Killed

Washington, DC (23 February 2011) – Planned Parenthood Federation of America recently posted on its web site its so-called service numbers for 2009. This document, dated February 2011, shows that Planned Parenthood committed 332,278 surgical and medical abortions in 2009—more than in any previous year.

The document also shows that Planned Parenthood provided prenatal services to merely 7,021 women and referred 977 for adoption services. These numbers were a 25 percent drop in prenatal care clients and a whopping 59 percent decline in adoption referrals.

“Despite its protestations that abortion is only a small part of its services,” said Jim Sedlak, vice president of American Life League, “Planned Parenthood has increased its number of abortions for 15 straight years. During that time, it has gone from committing 9.3 percent of all abortions in the United States to committing 27.5 percent.”

Sedlak also noted that Planned Parenthood now does 340 abortions for every one adoption referral and 47 abortions for every one prenatal care client.

“The records show that Planned Parenthood has committed 5,320,095 surgical and medical abortions from 1970 through the end of 2009,” Sedlak continued.

“We estimate that the income from abortion accounts for 40 percent of its annual clinic income.”

In the last year it has been revealed by Abby Johnson, former PP clinic director in Bryan, Texas, that Planned Parenthood was pressuring her to do more and more abortions because PP makes more money from abortions than any other single service. It was also revealed by Planned Parenthood’s affiliate in Corpus Christi, Texas, that the national office is demanding that every affiliate must have at least one facility that commits abortion.

“When all the current numbers are taken together with the revelations from PP’s own former employees,” Sedlak concluded, “it is clear that Planned Parenthood is about killing human beings in the womb for a profit. It is an absolute outrage that American taxpayers have been funding such a group and we ask all members of Congress to take steps now to end this funding.”

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American Life League was cofounded in 1979 by Judie Brown. It is the largest grassroots Catholic pro-life organization in the United States and is committed to the protection of all innocent human beings from the moment of creation to natural death.  For more information or press inquiries, please contact Katie Walker at 540.659.4942.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Planned Parenthood service numbers: http://www.plannedparenthood.org/files/PPFA/PP_Services.pdf

Detailed statistics of Planned Parenthood’s last five years: http://www.stopp.org/pdfs/PPSTATS5YRS.pdf

Chart of Planned Parenthood’s 2009 pregnancy services: http://www.stopp.org/pdfs/PP09PS.pdf

Former Abortionist Dr. Nathanson Passes

Dr. Bernard Nathanson remembered for his profound pro-life conversion :: Catholic News Agency

February 23, 2011

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Although critics of Nathanson’s conversion were  perplexed as to how a former atheist Jew became of the the most prominent Catholic pro-life advocates, Fr. McCloskey – who has aided in numerous conversions – said he wasn’t surprised.

“My experience in dealing with Jewish people whom I love dearly is that, the great majority of them, if they want to become Christian, they become Catholic.”

Fr. McCloskey added: “I think his conversion from atheism to Catholicism will be seen as a real turning point in our history.”

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