If the sequester was supposed to grind government to a halt, you wouldn’t know it by the volumes coming out of Health and Human Services (HHS). On the first afternoon of the President’s doomsday, HHS was unusually productive–pumping out more than 700 new pages of ObamaCare regulations. The deluge, one of several recent bursts of rule-making, was part …
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700 Pages of New Obamacare Rules Put in Place More Abortion Funding
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Recent disappointments- a meditation
Continue Reading »Psalm 73 gives an honest picture of the internal struggle that all of us face from time to time. I thought now would be a great time to highlight it given that so many are disappointed and confused by the recent Supreme Court ruling on ObamaCare (not to mention more than a few other life …
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Losing our freedom of religion: What Obama’s mandate could mean for our nation
Continue Reading »Picture a world in which we are required by the government to pay for people’s abortions. Guess what? We’re there. The abortion industry has been allowed a back- door entrance to get mandated abortifacient coverage for the nation and violated the rights of all pro-life Americans.
What some thought was a Catholic issue has instead proven itself to be an issue of religious liberty. The Obama administration's mandate for employer funded birth control violates the First Amendment rights of every pro-life American. We must respond to this crisis in our nation’s history.
One of the FDA approved contraceptives is actually an abortion pill. Ella (which chemically resembles RU-486), effectively, turns this birth control mandate into an abortion mandate.
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New emails reinforce need for Kagan to recuse herself from hearing health care case
Continue Reading »Just because you can doesn’t mean you should. This is an adage that Elena Kagan, our newest Supreme Court justice, should adhere to in the case of the high court hearing the health care law. Kagan needs to recuse (personally withdraw) herself from the case because her impartiality is compromised.
Even before Wednesday’s news of Kagan’s health care emails, her ability to hear the case impartially has been in question since she served as the US solicitor general, the government’s counsel, on the other side of this law as it was being sent through Congress. Before she was confirmed, many were calling for recusal if she was seated.
But Wednesday the stakes got higher when emails were released. Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act request which netted them emails from Kagan during the health care debates before the vote. These links from Judicial Watch will also take you to the actual email copies:
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Supreme Court to decide on Obama’s pro-abortion health care plan
Continue Reading »Yesterday’s announcement that the Supreme Court will hear the case of mandated health care reform (Obamacare) and rule whether it is constitutional, reminds us of the importance of judges in our nation—on both sides of the issue.
President Obama signed the health care law, which passed Congress along party lines, in March 2010. In a great defeat for pro-lifers, it came with an “abortion premium” and included federal abortion coverage, (more) expansion of funding to abortion and violated conscience rights of health care workers who are pro-life. And while it was regarded that the high court would ultimately end up hearing the case, it took one ruling to drive it there. According to CNN:
Three federal appeals courts have found the PPACA to be constitutional, while another has said it is not, labeling it "breathtaking in its expansive scope."… That "circuit split" all but assured the Supreme Court would step in and decide the matter.
That reminds us as pro-lifers and as intercessors, that the courts are the key. We work at electing godly men and women to office, but the depth of the importance is beyond the terms they serve: it’s about who they appoint to the courts—that is their lasting legacy.
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Planned Parenthood propaganda plays on emotions, not facts, with birth control laws
Continue Reading »Planned Parenthood’s rhetoric has gone off the charts recently misleading the public about birth control and trying to scare them into believing a theology of fear.
Earlier this week I told you about the newest Live Action report which shows the truth about the Mississippi Personhood Amendment 26 which is being voted on this Tuesday. Planned Parenthood’s operatives have labeled themselves as Mississippians for Healthy Families and campaigned saying that the personhood amendment will remove all access to birth control (Not true. Click here for a video link if you missed it).
Then later in the week Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards wrote another manipulative letter to her email list with the sensationalistic subject “Taking away birth control from millions.” In this letter filled with lies, she asserts that “Tea party Republicans”:
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HB358 passes House 251-172
Continue Reading »Last night the House voted to pass the bi-patisan HB358, the Protect Life Act, by a vote of 251-172 with 10 Reps not voting. Among the Ayes were 236 Republicans and 15 Democrats. Among the Noes were 170 Democrats and 2 Republicans. See how your Rep voted here.
I sat in the gallery and prayed yesterday during much of the debate. Back and forth and back and forth Rep after Rep repeated the same statements again and again. One side adamantly claiming that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 allows through creative bookkeeping a path for tax dollars to fund abortions regardless of a taxpayer's personal convictions. The other side adamantly claiming that it does not. You can read more on those specifics here.
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Obamacare lands at the Supreme Court
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This morning the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court to appeal the 11th Circuit’s decision on Obamacare. This marks an important step following the administration's decision to not ask the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to review en banc (all 11 judges vs a panel of judges) the August 12 decision of a three-judge panel that found the individual mandate unconstitutional. The NFIB is not appealing the 11th Circuit Court's ruling that the individual mandate is inconstitutional, but instead their opinion that the individual mandate could be severed from the rest of the legislation. The NFIB is asking that the Supreme Court strike down the entire law as unconstitutional. -
Appeals court voices concerns over health care mandate
Continue Reading »U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit heard arguments today concerning the constitutionality of the federally-mandated health care takeover passed into law last year. This marked the fourth court to hear challenges to the law. A three-judge panel considered the matter during two hours of oral arguments. The plantiffs include a man who believes in faith healing and does not have medical insurance. While the panel gave no immediate signals as to how it would rule, some concerns over the health care mandate were voiced.
Judge Brett Kavanaugh said, "In 220 years… Congress has never once mandated a purchase." Kavanaugh speculated that if the Justice Department’s position is upheld, there could be a precedent for another governmental mandate not too far in the future. "I can see it coming," Kavanaugh said.
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H.R. 3- The No Taxpayer Funding of Abortion Act
Continue Reading »Yesterday, the House voted 245 to 189 for an all-out repeal of the Health Care bill that was passed and signed into law last March. This was obviously a symbolic gesture at this point in light of the Democrat-controlled Senate, but it marked a decided turn in the legislature that delivers on the elections of November. The attention now turns to dicing up the existing bill.
What’s the first order of business for this Congress after the all-out repeal vote yesterday? ABORTION is the order of the day as H.R. 3 is introduced today- the "No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act."