Monthly Archives: September 2013

Obamacare Implementation and Abortion Funding With Your Tax Money is Coming Soon

by Brad Mattes | Washington, DC | LifeNews.com | 9/6/13 11:39 AM

It’s silent. It’s deadly. And it’ll impact you and your family. Obamacare is coming (sooner than you may realize) and as pro-lifers, it’s imperative we be prepared.

The implementation begins as early as October with the funding for insurance plans that include elective abortion coverage. I don’t want you to be caught in the dark, which is why I felt it was necessary to re-visit this topic and provide you with important information relevant to your health insurance decisions.

The largest issue of contention is the abortion mandate. This is a secondary premium that’ll be on the majority of insurance plans and its sole purpose is to fund abortions. The reason this separate premium exists is because under the Hyde amendment, the government cannot directly provide funding for elective abortion services. This abortion surcharge will be collected by the insurance company, not the government, which is how Obamacare dodges the restrictions of the Hyde amendment.

What’s important to realize is the law dictates that the abortion surcharge is not disclosed until the time of enrollment. And even then, it can only be mentioned in the “Summary of Benefits and Coverage.” Essentially, it’s purposely hidden in the fine print. Your employer may not even know that their plan requires the abortion payment.

That leaves you as the employee without options; as you don’t have the choice to be exempt from the abortion premium. Research shows that in the current insurance market, most health insurance plans do provide coverage for abortion because it’s less costly than paying for prenatal care and delivery. Under Obamacare, insurance plans that participate in state exchanges will be eligible to receive federal subsidies. States exchange programs will be established to only sell those designed by the government. Therefore, insurance plans without the abortion surcharge may prove difficult to find and may not provide the desired level of overall medical coverage.

More: http://www.lifenews.com/2013/09/06/obamacare-implementation-and-abortion-funding-with-your-tax-money-is-coming-soon/

Premature baby found in dumpster with tissues stuffed up nose doing well, doctors say

By Ben Johnson Editor’s note. This first appeared at lifesitenews.com. JERSEY CITY, NJ, September 5, 2013 – A premature baby is in stable condition and gaining weight after being found wrapped inside a trash bag in a dumpster

Teenagers were milling around outside the Kensington Avenue apartment building around 3 p.m. when they heard some rustling and a noise they thought was made by an animal. But 15-year-old Keyshaun Williams and his friends soon realized its source was human.

They called the building supervisor’s wife, Rebecca Womers, to the scene.

“I opened the bag from the bottom, and it still had the umbilical cord attached,” she told NJ.com.

The baby’s mother had stuffed the child’s nose and mouth with tissues, sealed him in a trash bag, and thrown the child in the dumpster.

“The baby had garbage all over it,” Womers said.

As she began to open the bag, a hand emerged and gently curled its tiny finger around hers.

More: http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/2013/09/premature-baby-found-in-dumpster-with-tissues-stuffed-up-nose-doing-well-doctors-say

Contract killing: Pre-arranged abortion

Eric Metaxas

Wed Sep 04 10:22 EST

Opinion

The ultimate example of ‘BroChoice,’ a culture in which men want legalized abortion because they want sex without any strings attached, and especially without the risk of children.

Full Story  http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/contract-killing-pre-arranged-abortion

Mom takes pills to abort ‘brain dead’ baby on doctors’ advice, finds out he’s perfectly healthy: lawsuit

Kirsten Andersen

Wed Sep 04 17:06 EST

Abortion

SUNDERLAND, UK, September 4, 2013 (LifeSiteNews) – A British mother is suing a government-run hospital after she was pressured into aborting a healthy baby her doctors insisted was ‘brain dead.’

Thirty-eight-year-old Sarah Hagan told the UK’s Daily Mail that at her 24-week ultrasound scan, doctors at Sunderland Royal Hospital said her baby’s brain had not developed, leaving him with “no chance of survival.”  They also said he probably had only one eye. 

Hagan claims the doctors told her she had no choice but to abort.  The only question was whether she would take pills to induce an abortion, or travel to another hospital to have her baby’s heart stopped before the procedure.

“I took them believing that a termination was the only way,” Hagan told the Daily Mail. “They even told me they would have to carry out a post mortem examination to find out what had gone wrong.”

Stunned and grieving, Hagan agreed to take the abortion pills, after a sleepless night spent agonizing over the decision.  But when she went home to wait for her baby to die, the pills seemed not to be working.  So she returned to the hospital, where after an initial examination, “flabbergasted” hospital staff told her that they would deliver her baby immediately.

Her baby boy, Aaron, was born perfectly formed, with both eyes intact, kicking and breathing.  He was not, as doctors had previously insisted, brain dead.  But his early delivery meant that his lungs weren’t developed, and he weighed only 1 lb., 7 oz.  He also had a life-threatening infection.  He was placed on a ventilator and spent two months in intensive care.

More: http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/mom-takes-pills-to-abort-brain-dead-baby-on-doctors-advice-finds-out-hes

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ObamaCare: Takes Planned Parenthood to a Whole New Level

Pro-abortion President Barack Obama

By Susan T. Muskett, J.D., Senior Legislative Counsel President Obama’s health care law, ObamaCare, takes the federal government’s relationship with Planned Parenthood to a whole new level.

On August 15, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that Planned Parenthood affiliates in Iowa, Montana, and New Hampshire will be funded to serve as ObamaCare “Navigators.” Their combined funding will total over $655,000.By choosing these Planned Parenthood affiliates to be Navigators in the federally facilitated Exchanges, these Planned Parenthood affiliates will now have the seal of approval of the federal government as an entity that consumers can contact for help in applying for coverage.

Moreover, HHS plans to list the Navigators (e.g., Planned Parenthood) in each federally facilitated Exchange on HHS’ official government website as a resource to help consumers. [78 Fed. Reg. 42848].

As Navigators, they will help Americans select an Exchange health care plan and complete their applications. And they will help consumers determine if they qualify for federal assistance, such as Medicaid, or the federal premium subsidies.

Planned Parenthood is the largest provider of abortions in America today. And now, under ObamaCare, some Americans may end up going to a Planned Parenthood center to get the help they need to purchase health insurance. How ironic is that? That our federal government would direct families to affiliates of America’s largest abortion provider for help in purchasing insurance to cover life-preserving treatments?

More: http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/2013/09/obamacare-takes-planned-parenthood-to-a-whole-new-level

Will to Live, NOT Living Will

Some may ask if it is acceptable to sign a “Living Will.” Obviously, we cannot predict the future, or know in advance what form of sickness or disease we may be afflicted with in the years ahead.

We therefore cannot make decisions to accept or refuse
treatment before we even know the disease. Yet that is what
some legal documents try to do.

Not every medical treatment is always obligatory. But
to igure out which treatments are obligatory, morally
speaking, and which are only optional, one must know the
medical facts of the case. These facts are then examined in
the light of the moral principles involved.

Doctors are already free to withhold or withdraw useless
procedures that provide no benefit to the patient. Some
people fear that medical technology will be used to torture
them in their final days.

But in the climate of today’s culture, the danger is not
that you will have all kinds of treatments you do not
want. Rather, the danger is that you will not receive the
treatments that you do want.

Moreover, if the living will indicates one does not want
“to be kept alive by medications” or “artificial means”
what does that mean? An aspirin is “medication,” is it
not? Drinking through a straw is “artificial.” People can
construe meanings for these words which the signer of the
document never intended

Read more… http://www.priestsforlife.org/newsletters/v23n5sepoct13.pdf Will to Live, NOT Living Will

Hospitalization of abortion patients occurs weekly in West Virginia: hospital doctor

Operation Rescue staff

Wed Sep 04 15:57 EST

Abortion

Charleston, West Virginia (OperationRescue) – Abortion-related medical emergencies are occurring with alarming frequency, according to a West Virginia physician, who says he sees botched abortion patients “weekly.”

“We commonly (I personally probably at least weekly) see patients at Women and Children’s Hospital in our emergency room or our ultrasound center with complications from abortions at these centers in Charleston: so much for ‘safe and legal.’ These patients are told to come to our hospital because the abortion clinic providers do not have hospital privileges to care for their patients, so we must treat them as emergency ‘drop-ins,’” said Dr. Byron Calhoun, vice chairman of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department at West Virginia University. The statement was made in a letter he wrote on June 31, 2013, to West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey. The letter was made public by theWest Virginia Gazette.

“No other medical providers are allowed to care for patients, have no backup coverage, and then abandon them to the emergency room,” Calhoun wrote. “We would be held ethically and legally liable.

Dr. Bryon Calhoun

“The fantasy of women’s reproductive health care seems to allow these individuals who perform the abortions some special dispensation to provide substandard care.”

More: http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/hospitalization-of-abortion-patients-occurs-weekly-in-west-virginia-hospita

Yesterday, the Cleveland Plain Dealer published a review of a recent poll conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute (commonly referred to as “The Values Poll”). The poll asked Ohio voters about two issues: abortion and gay marriage.

While the Plain Dealer focused primarily on the issue of gay marriage, I would like to draw your attention to how Ohioans responded to the poll’s abortion question.

The Plain Dealer through a biased lens concluded from the responses, “A slight plurality (47 percent) believes abortion should be legal in all or most cases.”

However, if you look at the breakdown of responses, you’ll find that an overwhelming majority of Ohioans want some kind of restriction on abortion:

In fact, 76% of Ohio voters want abortion to be illegal in a given circumstance.

Undeniably, this news is encouraging: Ohio voters simply don’t want abortion-on-demand.  Whether they want a late-term abortion ban, a partial birth abortion ban, or even the increasingly popular 20-week ban, we can rest assured that Ohio voters have their limits when it comes to abortion.

Ed FitzGerald, the candidate for Ohio governor who is being billed as “100% pro-choice,” could not be more out of step with Ohio voters.  Ed FitzGerald’s 100% pro-choice position appeals to a mere 16% of Ohio voters.

Until he starts drawing a line and qualifying his position like the rest of Ohio, Ed FitzGerald will forever be 100% extreme and out of touch.

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15 of the Greatest Pro-Life Quotes of All Time
Life is beautiful. Here’s what some notable figures had to say about it!
1. “I’ve noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.” – Ronald Reagan

More: http://www.lifenews.com/2013/09/03/15-of-the-greatest-pro-life-quotes-of-all-time/