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ABORTION-MINDED MOTHERS: THE FACTS
Posted: Friday August 21, 2009 at 9:55 am EST by Judie BrownA recent airing of Raymond Arroyo’s
The
World
Over
presented
an
opportunity
for
me
to
discuss
Catholic
health
care
ethics
with
the
president
of
the
Catholic
Health
Association,, Sister
Carol
Keehan,
DC. I
received
a
great
deal
of
messages
via
e-mail,
Facebook
and
the
U.S.
Postal
Service
after
my
appearance
on
that
program.
I
am
grateful
for
every
one
of
them.
However,
one
in
particular
moved
me
to
think
seriously
about
what
is
really
at
stake
in
our
struggle
to
keep
the
aborting
of
a
child
out
of
any
type
of
health
care
reform
legislation.
It
helped
me
realize
what
an
expectant
mother
seeking
to
abort
her
baby
really
wants
and
really
needs.
So, rather than tell you my opinion, which would not be based on actual hands-on experience, I prefer to share this letter, written to Sister Carol by Lorraine Curtin, who does know exactly what such a mother thinks, feels and needs: Read more...
August 23, 2009
Commentary: American Health Care Reform - A Good End Does Not Justify Evil Means
Editor's Note: Msgr. Barreiro, a Doctor of Dogmatic Theology and attorney with years of experience in international diplomacy at the UN, is head of the Rome office of Human Life International.)
ROME, Italy, August 20, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - All persons of good will need to understand the clear and present danger with which the US is being menaced by the health reform proposed by the Obama Administration. Abortion will be multiplied, the U.S. will move ahead on the road towards euthanasia, conscience rights will be in jeopardy: but what is worse, the United States would start moving towards a tyrannical, socialist government that would be the source of all sort of moral evils.
The current debate on health care reform has to be framed on the basis on some clear principles that are accessible to all persons of good will. The starting point is that health care is a basic human right. All human beings have a right to life from the moment of conception to the moment of natural death.
A consequence of this right is that all human persons are entitled to receive from society the necessary conditions to support life. If those conditions to support life were denied, the right to life would become illusory. One of the necessary means is appropriate health care. Read more...
Stop the Abortion Mandate
Visit www.stoptheabortionmandate.com for more information on how to help stop the abortion mandate.
August 20, 2009
Pro-Life Booth at Clallam County Fair
Port Angeles Human Life will have a Pro-Life booth at the Clallam County Fair August 20-23. Informational pamphlets will be available, as well as a fetal model display.
Susan
August 14,
2009
UN Health Data Show Liberal Abortion Laws Lead
to Greater Maternal Death
By Aracely Ornelas
(NEW YORK – C-FAM) The world's largest abortion provider, International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), has recently acknowledged an alarming "surge" in maternal deaths in South Africa, challenging the pro-abortion mantra that liberal abortion laws decrease maternal mortality. Maternal deaths increased by twenty per cent in the period 2005-2007 in South Africa, a country that since 1996 has had one of the most permissive abortion laws on the African continent.
While deaths attributable to HIV/AIDS account for the biggest portion of maternal deaths in South Africa, IPPF acknowledges that a portion of deaths are "due to complications of abortion" in a country where the procedure is legal and widely available.
Developing countries have been badgered in recent years by various United Nations agencies and pro-abortion civil society organizations, including IPPF, to decriminalize abortion as a measure to reduce maternal mortality rates. However, the latest IPPF revelation is the latest fact in a growing body of evidence showing the opposite relationship in which legal abortion and high maternal deaths coincide. Read more...
August 13, 2009
Planned Parenthood Spokane Slapped with $700,000 Bill from Audit
Planned Parenthood of Spokane (PPS) has been caught overbilling Medicaid for condoms, charging for contraceptives without a prescription, "unbundling" abortion claims, and claiming patients were having doctor visits when they were just picking up a prescription.
All of this is in an audit of the organization just completed by the Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS). And as a result, PPS has been ordered to reimburse the government $630,000 plus interest for the overpayments. The audit did not get into the question of whether the overbilling was part of a systematic fraud scheme, but it also was clear that if this practice continued PPS would lose its Medicaid billing privileges. Read more...
August 10, 2009
