Pedophile support group seeks ‘truth and dignity’ – Want same rights as homosexuals

BY GINA MILLER

http://www.theintelligencer.net/page/content.detail/id/588073/Protecting-Ohio-Women-s-Health.html?nav=511

Protecting Ohio Women’s Health

August 3, 2013

By THE INTELLIGENCER , The Intelligencer / Wheeling News-Register

New Ohio regulations on abortion clinics are a “war on women’s health,” the head of a pro-abortion group claimed last week. She and other activists have expressed concern that two of the state’s 13 licensed abortion clinics closed this year and another may shut down soon.

Abortion activists attempt to disguise their agenda by claiming they are defending women against risks to their health. If they are being honest, they should be applauding closure of the two clinics, in Toledo and Cuyahoga Falls.

State Health Department inspectors visited the Center for Choice in Toledo earlier this year, before it closed. Among violations they found were failure to combat infections and keep operating room equipment clean. Some of the equipment was rusty and had mold growing on it. Containers full of expired medicine were spotted. So were blank prescription forms already signed by a doctor. Finally, inspectors found 44 syringes loaded with a clear but unidentified liquid.

Inspectors also went to the Capital Care Network abortion clinic in Cuyahoga Falls earlier this year. There, they found the facility’s state and federal licenses to dispense medicine had expired. They also learned some patients’ vital signs were not checked before procedures were performed – and that informed consent was not obtained before some abortions were performed. The clinic closed soon after it was inspected.

It would appear some abortion clinics have been waging a “war on women’s health.”

Yet groups such as Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio continue to fight rules that threaten any abortion clinic.

For too long, so-called “pro-choice” advocates have browbeaten public policy makers – and even health departments – into giving abortion clinics free passes to disobey rules intended to safeguard women. Philadelphia abortion Dr. Kermit Gosnell got away with murder for years because of such neglect.

Ohio legislators and public health officials appear to have decided they have been cowed long enough by those more interested in keeping abortion mills open than in the well-being of women. That change is long overdue – and will be welcomed by thoughtful Ohioans.

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Media Was All Over Komen Story But Ignoring Planned Parenthood’s Medicaid Fraud
In the first week of February 2012, the Big Three networks lunged to the defense of Planned Parenthood when the Susan G. Komen Foundation (very temporarily) withdrew its donation to abortion giant (about $680,000 the previous year). Network reporters whacked Komen, promoting “outrage and disappointment engulfing the Internet.”.

But Mollie Hemingway of Get Religion pointed out that Planned Parenthood in Texas was recently forced to pay the state of Texas $4.3 million for Medicaid fraud. Where was the “outrage and disappointment” engulfing the media? The networks didn’t notice. Even the local newspaper coverage was terrible.

Alliance Defending Freedom’s recent analysis of state and federal audits of family planning programs suggests that in 12 states, Planned Parenthood affiliates overbilled Medicaid for more than $8 million. One federal audit of New York’s Medicaid family planning program reported that certain providers, “especially Planned Parenthoods,” had engaged in improper practices resulting in overpayment.

http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/04/media-was-all-over-komen-story-but-ignoring-planned-parenthoods-medicaid-fraud/

Many Companies Begin Slashing Benefits to Avoid Obama Health Law So-Called Cadillac Tax, Signaling the Beginning of Broader Cuts for All Plans

By Jennifer Popik, JD, Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics As companies are planning their benefits for the coming year, one controversial part of the 2010 Obama Health Care Law (“ObamaCare”) is again making headlines.

Why might the plans become few and far between? Starting in 2018, there will be a 40% tax on generous employee benefits, on the theory that overly generous plans boost medical costs. The anticipation of this tax is already beginning to have an effect on the plans companies offer.

This so-called “Cadillac Tax” provision does not stand in isolation from the remainder of the 2010 health care law.  At the heart of the law is the notion that health care costs rise too fast and that if Americans would just spend less money on health care, then the whole system would somehow benefit.

There is serious concern that soon these plans will be extinct. And as we shall see below, although routinely vilified, the loss of these plans would be very hurtful.

http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/2013/07/many-companies-begin-slashing-benefits-to-avoid-obama-health-law-so-called-cadillac-tax-signaling-the-beginning-of-broader-cuts-for-all-plans/

Adverse Pregnancy Diagnosis

Journey of a Lifetime

Having a baby is a milestone event in any family’s life. But when an adverse pregnancy diagnosis is received from a physician, parents don’t know where to turn — and friends and family may not know what to say or how to help.

Here are resources and comfort care to help families who’ve been told their baby will die during pregnancy or soon after birth.

http://www.heartlink.org/hottopics/A000000710.cfm

NPR Edits the Pro-life Out of Its Lindy Boggs Salutes

By John Williams On July 27, 2013, former Democratic congresswoman Lindy Boggs died at the age of 97. She achieved a number of firsts in her career, including being the first woman to serve in Congress from Louisiana…

She was also known for strongly championing a number of causes. One of those causes was opposition to abortion. NPR aired four pieces after Boggs’ death that remembered her, mentioning just about every major achievement and cause of Boggs—except her commitment to fighting abortion and the resulting significant impact that stand had on her career.

http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/2013/08/npr-edits-the-pro-life-out-of-its-lindy-boggs-salutes/

Jewish Pro-Life Foundation

The Jewish Pro-Life Foundation seeks to save Jewish lives by promoting alternatives to abortion in the Jewish community. We provide education about fetal development, the viability and sanctity of unborn life, and traditional Jewish law regarding abortion. We inspire Jews to welcome unborn Jewish children into the inclusive movement of modern Jewish life and religion. We provide adoption referrals. We teach our community about the harmful effects of abortion, and provide support to Jewish women and men who suffer from post abortion syndrome.

http://www.jewishprolifefoundation.org/Jewish_Pro-Life_Foundation/Welcome.html

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Madagascar Archbishop denounces U.S. Bishops’ agency for pushing contraceptives in his diocese

• Thu Aug 01 08:26 EST

After CRS claimed it is “simply false” that they are distributing contraceptives in Madagascar, quotes from an archbishop and clergy in the African country support the report.

“Even in my own diocese!  Without my knowledge,…they [CRS] were working on an artificial contraception project here,” said Archbishop Désiré Tsarahazana of Toamasina.

Archbishop Désiré Tsarahazana of Toamasina spoke to the Population Research Institute in November 2012.

Credit: http://pop.org

As part of a month-long investigation in the fall of 2012, the Population Research Institute interviewed clergy in Madagascar, including two archbishops, who shared grave concerns about CRS’ work in the country.

According to PRI, the bishops went public with them after they had held a private meeting with CRS’ president, Dr. Carolyn Woo, to no avail.

They released the archbishops’ quotes Wednesday after CRS accused them and other pro-life groups on Tuesday of carrying out “unrelenting attacks” that “attempt to cause division in the Body of Christ” and are “harmful to the Church and to the pro-life cause.”