Monthly Archives: January 2014

Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act in the United States Senate.

From the Desk of U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham

Pro-life Friend:

We need your immediate help.

In November, I introduced the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act in the United States Senate.

This historic legislation – already passed by the House of Representatives last summer – protects unborn children at 20 weeks based on their ability to feel pain.

Now that the bill has been introduced, we need to gather as many co-sponsors as possible in order to force Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to bring it up for a vote. 

The Susan B. Anthony List is a leading advocate for the unborn in the halls of Congress, and they’re currently planning a massive effort to mobilize millions of pro-life advocates from around the country to fight for this bill.

But it won’t be easy. That’s why I am counting on you to make an immediate gift of $10, $25, $50, or even $100 or more right now to the Susan B. Anthony List. 

With your help, we can make a forceful case in the U.S. Senate and across the country that late-term abortions must end now, especially in the wake of Kermit Gosnell’s House of Horrors.

I am optimistic that we can force a vote in the U.S. Senate and put every single Senator on record… but we need you standing strong with us to help get the job done.

The best way you can help right now is to make an immediate donation of any size to my friends at the Susan B. Anthony List.  They are doing an incredible job.

This is a groundbreaking time for the pro-life movement. We are winning this fight and momentum continues to build.

But remember, we’ll have Senate Democrats and their friends at Planned Parenthood and other pro-choice groups trying to stop us every step of the way.  Emily’s List, NARAL Pro-Choice America, and others have already aggressively attacked our efforts.

That’s why we need an avalanche of grassroots support from pro-lifers across America right now.

So please, make an immediate donation to the SBA List as we fight together to protect unborn children.

I look forward to keeping you updated on our progress.

May God continue to bless these efforts to protect unborn children and their mothers from the violence of abortion.

Sincerely,

Lindsey Graham
United States Senator

PS: I am working alongside the SBA List as we work to protect pain-capable children from the hands of late-term abortionists. Please send the biggest donation you can afford right now to the SBA List so we can force a vote in the United States Senate.

 

2014 Washington March for Life: Event Schedule

2014 Washington March for Life: Event Schedule

BY THE EDITORS

  • Tue Jan 07, 2014 12:52 EST

Editor’s Note: Come back for updates as the March for Life approaches.

MONDAY, JANUARY 20, 2014

9:30 am – 4:00 pm
Cardinal O’Connor Conference for Life
Georgetown University
TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2014

11:00 am – 2:00 pm
Law of Life Summit
Hyatt Regency Hotel
*Note: John-Henry Westen of LifeSiteNews will be a speaker at this event.

9:00 am – 8:00 pm
MFL Exhibit Hall
Hyatt Regency Hotel

9:30 am – 9:00 pm
2014 Students for Life of America National Conference
First Baptist Church of Glenarden
600 Watkins Park Dr, Upper Marlboro, Maryland

2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
MFL Youth Rally
Hyatt Regency Hotel

5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
AUL’s Advocates for Life Reception
AUL Offices, 655 15th St NW, DC

6:30 pm
Opening Mass of the National Prayer Vigil for Life
National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception

7:30 pm – 10:00 pm
Diocese of Arlington’s Life is Very Good Evening Prayer
Patriot Center at George Mason University
4500 Patriot Circle, Fairfax, VA
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 2014

7:00 am – 11:00 am
Archdiocese of Washington Youth Rally
DC Armory, 2001 E Capitol St SE, Washington, DC.

6:00 am – 10:30 am
Archdiocese of Washington Youth Rally
Verizon Center, 601 F St NW, Verizon Center

7:30 am
Closing Mass for the Solemn Prayer Vigil for Life
National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception

8:00 am
March for Life 5K
East Potomac Park

8:00 am – 11:00 am
MFL Exhibit Hall
Hyatt Regency Hotel

8:30 am – 10:30 am
National Prayer Service-Priests for Life
DAR Constitution Hall, 1776 D St NW

9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Diocese of Arlington’s Life is Very Good Morning Rally
Patriot Center at George Mason University
4500 Patriot Cir, Fairfax, VA 22030

12:00 pm
Rally begins, followed by the March

Rally begins at the National Mall between 7th and 9th Sts.
March begins up Constitution Ave to the Supreme Court building on Capitol Hill.

3:00 pm – 6:00 pm
MFL Exhibit Hall
Hyatt Regency Hotel

4:00 – 6:00 pm
Sidewalk Advocates for Life Meet & Greet
Congressional Room B at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill

6:00 pm
MFL Rose Dinner
Hyatt Regency Hotel Ballroom

6:00 pm
Nellie Gray Mass
Mary Mother of God Church, 727 5th St NW St.

Read More:

http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/2014-march-for-life-event-schedule

 

New poll: More Americans Support Mandatory Waiting Periods Before Abortion

New poll: More Americans support mandatory waiting periods before abortion

BY DUSTIN SIGGINS

WASHINGTON, D.C., January 7, 2014 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new poll shows an increasing number of Americans support laws requiring a mandatory waiting period before a woman can have an abortion.

According to the Republican-leaning pollster Rasmussen, 49 percent of Americans support waiting periods for women to have abortions. Thirty-nine percent oppose a waiting period, and 11 percent are uncertain. Support for a waiting period is up by six percent since October 2013, when opposition and support were tied at 43 percent

Pro-life leaders praised the results of the poll.

“Protecting the lives and health of mothers and their unborn children from abortion industry abuses is a national trend as state office holders roll back the deadly impact of Roe v. Wade,” Americans United for Life President and CEO Dr. Charmaine Yoest told LifeSiteNews.com. “Support for waiting periods is a common-sense approach to a life-changing procedure that cannot be reversed and should not be pushed on vulnerable women.”

Susan B. Anthony List spokeswoman Mallory Quigley told LifeSiteNews.com that “an increasing number of Americans support common ground measures” such as mandated waiting periods. Mallory said such laws ensure “women have ample time to weigh all the facts before [getting an] abortion.”

In 2013, 27 states required a waiting period, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. Only two states, South Dakota and Utah, require a waiting period of 72 hours. All of the rest have shorter time periods, though many require in-person counseling before having the abortion – something South Dakota does not mandate.

Read More:

http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/new-poll-more-americans-support-mandatory-waiting-periods-before-abort

Obama Admin. Doubles Down, Demands Nuns Violate Their Conscience On Abortion-Inducing Drugs

Obama admin. doubles down, demands nuns violate their conscience on abortion-inducing drugs

Little Sisters of the Poor

WASHINGTON, D.C., January 7, 2014 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a reply filed with the U.S. Supreme Court, the Obama administration is arguing that a group of nuns that has objected to the HHS birth control and abortifacient mandate has no grounds to challenge the mandate since they are already exempt from it as a religious organization.

However, lawyers for the nuns have pointed out that in order to claim their exemption, the administration is requiring the nuns to sign a “permission slip” that would allow their insurance company to offer coverage of contraception, abortion-inducing drugs, and sterilization over the nuns’ objections.

The Sisters argue that participating in the process in any way would make them party to mortal sin. Even the fact that the government would pay the insurer for the coverage, and so costs would not fall on the Sisters, fails to address this concern, they say.

On Friday, the Department of Justice (DOJ) responded to Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s injunction protecting the Little Sisters of the Poor and other religious organizations from the HHS mandate. According to its response, the Little Sisters of the Poor have “no legal basis to challenge the self-certification requirement or to complain that it involves them in the process of providing contraceptive coverage.”

The DOJ also cited lower court decisions against the Little Sisters, saying that “both of the lower courts recognized this case involves a church plan that is exempt from regulation.” The Obama administration stated that the Sisters need only sign paperwork opting out of the mandate and that while this would then open up their insurance company to covering what the Sisters believe are sinful measure, the Sisters themselves would not be paying for anything they object to.

The mandate, which went into effect in January 2012 and has gone through several revisions, has caused a backlash among religiously affiliated non-profits and some business owners, because they say the government is forcing them to violate their beliefs against abortifacients and contraception.

In all, 91 lawsuits have been filed by religious and non-religious organizations.

In a public statement, Becket Fund for Religious Liberty Senior Counsel and Lead Counsel for Little Sisters Mark Rienzi decried the administration’s defense of the mandate.

“The government demands that the Little Sisters of the Poor sign a permission slip for drugs and contraceptives, or pay…millions in fines,” he said.

“The government now asks the Supreme Court to believe that the very thing it is forcing the nuns to do—signing the permission slip—is a meaningless act,” Rienzi continued. “But why on earth would the government be fighting the Little Sisters all the way to the Supreme Court if it did not think its own form had any effect?”

The Supreme Court is hearing two challenges to the mandate in March from for-profit organizations. The government’s response to the injunction gives Sotomayor and the Supreme Court the ability to keep the injunction in place until the cases are decided, or suspend it until the case is decided.

Read More: 

http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/obama-doubles-down-demands-nuns-violate-their-conscience-on-abortion-induci

Man Gives Up Everything, Walks Across U.S. Making Reparation For Sins Of Abortion, Family Breakdown

Man gives up everything, walks across U.S. making reparation for sins of abortion, family breakdown

BY PETER BAKLINSKI

  • Tue Jan 07, 2014 18:26 EST

Mark Byerly left a successful job as a manager of a private Spanish restaurant, then he gave away, sold, or threw out everything he owned, except for what he needed for his journey. And then he began walking.

TEXAS, January 7, 2014 (LifeSiteNews.com) – It can be a temptation living in these dark times to simply throw up one’s hands in despair as the world descends from one blackness into another. But accepting defeat has never been an option for Mark Byerly.

Instead of standing idly by witnessing western civilization become more and more corroded through abortion, the breakdown of marriage and family, and the loss of a sense of sin, the 49-year-old decided on a radical course of action: He would embark on a journey across America on foot, praying for the spiritual needs of his countrymen.

“Ultimately, I just couldn’t stand around and watch this happen anymore,” Byerly told LifeSiteNews.com by phone during his brief stop in Odessa, Texas for Christmas.

Byerly’s journey would be a pilgrimage of penance, prayer, and sacrifice to make amends for his own crimes and the crimes of others committed against God and neighbor. 

The word “pilgrim” conjures up images of someone from the Middle Ages dressed in tattered robes and traveling across Europe or Russia with a staff and a ragged bundle slung across his back. While Byerly is a modern pilgrim with modern tools, such as an iPad for communicating and for tracing out his route, he is driven by that same mysterious hunger felt by pilgrims of all ages, a hunger for God and for his Kingdom to come.

Byerly set out on his pilgrimage from his hometown of Newark, Delaware on July 25, 2013. Prior to this he had disentangled himself of his worldly responsibilities. He left a successful job as a manager of a private Spanish restaurant. Then he gave away, sold, or threw out everything he owned, except for what he needed for his journey.

Byerly will visit 150 Catholic shrines on his roughly 3,000 mile trek across the continent to California, one holy place for each “Hail Mary” prayer of the 15 traditional decades of the Rosary.

Byerly has a set of what he calls pilgrim “rules” that he follows religiously.

“I do not take busses, trains, or planes. I do not hitchhike or directly request rides from anyone, but I can accept rides from those who generously and freely offer them,” he said.

“I have no funds of my own but rely solely on God’s providential help through alms. I never ask people for money, but will accept gifts of money freely offered. I can beg for food, water, and lodging only. I have a tent — and make as much use of it as possible — but many good souls have opened their homes to me.”

“While walking I pray—for the people I pass by, for the dioceses and their bishops and priests, for the towns and cities that I go through, for all the good souls that have helped me along my way, for the Catholic Church, for our Pope.”

As he walks Mark prays that God will raise up an army of men and women of the “most dramatic sanctity that our world has yet seen” who will courageously confront the prevailing evils of the culture, even to the point of martyrdom.

“Our world, being so very ill, cannot wait any longer,” he said.

Byerly said that his pilgrim prayer is directed especially towards priests and bishops who he said must become “humble and repent” if authentic renewal in the Church and world is to happen.

He says he experienced what he called a “gradual awakening” to the real state of the world after reading LifeSiteNews.com articles over a few years. He became deeply concerned by the reports about anti-life and anti-family actions that he read.

“It’s really hard to read all those things and not see that things are in a crazy down-spiral throughout the whole world morally and spiritually,” he said.

Byerly says that in a moment of epiphany it suddenly dawned on him that a massive spiritual battle was taking place, a battle between the forces of good and evil for the souls of every man, woman, and child.

“I realized that I stood in a world which, to my great dismay, despised the child and the innocent and pure, and that it despised them with sadistic violence.”

“I realized that the demons in the sky are blacking out the sun, that the enemies of Christ are strong and many, that His Kingdom is devastated, and that ‘My God! who will you send to help us?!’”

“Seeing over the last four to five years the dizzying speed with which all of the world is ingesting every known spiritual and moral disease with the apparent purpose of hateful self-annihilation, I could not stand and watch any more. The entire edifice is burning and few are shouting ‘fire’ with the necessary urgency of voice,” he said.

He decided to be that voice shouting “fire” through prayer, fasting, and walking on pilgrimage.

People passing Byerly as they drive along the highway will see a man in nondescript brown clothes wearing a backpack. They will notice a simple cross hanging from his neck. Many will write him off as a nutcase, as did one Texas police officer who offered to drive the pilgrim to the next county line.

“No disrespect, bu’ don’t’cha think it’s all kinduva lost cause? There’s jus’ too much evil’n this world,” Byerly remembers the officer saying.

He generally agrees with this kind of an assessment, but always adds: “Yes, but many individual souls can still be saved.”

Byerly knows that the fruits of his pilgrimage will largely be hidden from the eyes of the world. They will be seen by God alone. Deep down he believes that his pilgrimage will help bring God’s grace and mercy for the Church and for humanity. He hopes it will bring people a “vibrant and shimmering hope” that God has not forsaken his people.

Mark Byerly periodically blogs about his pilgrimage here.

Read More:

http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/man-gives-up-everything-walks-across-u.s.-making-reparation-for-sins-of-abo

Supreme Court Justice Issues Temporary Injunction Sought By Little Sisters Of The Poor Against Obama Mandate

NRL News Today
January 2, 2014   ObamaCare

Supreme Court Justice issues temporary injunction sought by Little Sisters of the Poor against Obama Mandate

By Dave Andrusko

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Pro-abortion President Barack Obama

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Pro-abortion President Barack Obama

Acting at the request of an order of nuns in Colorado, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued a temporary injunction New Year’s Eve against enforcement of a component of ObamaCare that forces employers, including religious groups, to provide health coverage for drugs and procedures to which they have moral or religious objections. The order came hours before this provision of ObamaCare took effect.

Sotomayor’s order applies only to the nuns–the Little Sisters of the Poor which operates nursing homes for the poor around the world–and to other Roman Catholic nonprofit groups that use the same health plan, the Christian Brothers Employee Benefit Trust.

Sotomayor gave the government until 10 a.m. EST Friday to respond to her order.

The groups’ lawsuit is one of scores of lawsuits against the mandate.

“We are delighted with the ruling,” said Mark L. Rienzi, a lawyer at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, who represented the nuns in the lawsuit. “The Little Sisters are an order of Catholic nuns whose religious faith leads them to devote their lives to caring for the elderly poor. Not surprisingly, they have sincere and undisputed religious objections to complying with this Mandate,” Rienzi said.

Without the order, Rienzi said late Tuesday, the nuns would have been forced to comply with the mandate “or face large fines.”

Justice Sotomayor’s order came hours after the United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, in Denver, denied the nuns’ request for a preliminary injunction. Because she is the justice who has oversight for the 10th Circuit, the motion for a stay went to Sotomayor.

“The groups want the mandate halted while the court considers a legal challenge, brought by the for-profit company Hobby Lobby, arguing that the requirement violates their religious liberties,” according to NBC News.

By contrast the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued an emergency stay for the Catholic-affiliated groups challenging the provision.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear two lawsuits challenging the mandate which are regulations adopted by the Department of Health and Human Services under a provision of ObamaCare.

In the Hobby Lobby case the plaintiffs prevailed in obtaining an injunction. In the second case Conestoga Wood Specialties Corp was denied an injunction.

This represented the first legal challenge to ObamaCare to reach the Supreme Court since it upheld the law’s “individual mandate” 18 months ago. Oral arguments in Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. and Conestoga Wood Specialties Corp. v. Sebelius are expected to be held in March with a possible ruling by late June.

Read More:

http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/2014/01/supreme-court-justice-issues-temporary-injunction-sought-by-little-sisters-of-the-poor-against-obama-mandate/

Family of Jahi McMath Struggles To Find Doctor To Insert Breathing And Feeding Tubes

NRL News Today
January 2, 2014   Uncategorized

Family of Jahi McMath struggles to find doctor to insert breathing and feeding tubes

 

By Dave Andrusko

Nailah Winkfield, mother of Jahi McMath

Nailah Winkfield, mother of Jahi McMath

Jahi McMath remains on a ventilator today as her family continues its frantic struggle to find a doctor who will insert feeding and breath tubes into the 13-year-old who has been diagnosed as brain-dead.

One part of the complex network of requirements has been met, according to the Oakland Tribune and other media outlets: a facility will accept her as a patient.

The facility director of New Beginnings Community Center in Medford, N.Y., “said [Jahi] would be cared for around the clock by licensed nursing staff and licensed respiratory therapists,” according to Katie Nelson of the Tribune. “The facility would also hire a pediatrician who would accept Jahi as his patient.”

Meanwhile Fox News reports that Children’s Hospital Oakland has reversed its position on surgery to implant the tubes. On Tuesday its lawyer, Douglas Straus, wrote to Jahi’s family that the hospital would not permit the surgery to be performed on its premises.

“Performing medical procedures on the body of a deceased human being is simply not something Children’s Hospital can do or ask its staff to assist in doing,” he said.

On Monday a hospital spokesman had said “the hospital would allow a doctor retained by the family to insert a feeding tube and to replace the oral ventilator keeping Jahi’s heart beating with a tracheal tube — surgical procedures that would stabilize Jahi if she is moved to a facility willing to keep caring for her,” according to Fox News.

On Tuesday, a state appeals court refused to order the hospital to insert the tubes, “saying the issue has to go first to the lower court judge who has ordered the hospital to keep the girl on a ventilator until Jan. 7 pending the family’s appeal,” Fox reported. “The 1st District Court of Appeal said it would consider the issue at a later date, if necessary.”

The following day Hospital spokesman Sam Singer said that three separate courts have now denied requests to have someone implement the tracheotomy line to help Jahi breathe and a gastric tube to provide nutrition.

Family attorney Chris Dolan disagreed, noting that the courts have only said they would not order Children’s Hospital Oakland to perform the surgeries.

“This is no trick; this is life and death,” Dolan said in a statement yesterday. “Justice is no hoax, and constitutional rights are not a game.”

Nolan accused the hospital of “speaking out of both sides of their mouths.”

Jahi underwent surgery at Children’s Hospital Oakland in early December to remove her tonsils, adenoids, and extra sinus tissue to treat pediatric obstructive sleep apnea.

After initially weathering the routine surgery well, Jahi began to bleed profusely and went into cardiac arrest. Three days later the hospital declared her to be brain-dead. That a diagnosis was confirmed by Dr. Paul Fisher, a court-appointed pediatric neurologist from Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital.

Her family challenges the diagnosis, saying Jahi responds to her mother’s voice.

Read More:

http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/2014/01/family-of-jahi-mcmath-struggles-to-find-doctor-to-insert-breathing-and-feeding-tubes/

15th Annual Cardinal O’Connor Conference On Life To Be Held January 20

NRL News Today
January 2, 2014   Religious

15th Annual Cardinal O’Connor Conference on Life to be held January 20

 

CardinalOConnor4Founded in 2000, the Cardinal O’Connor Conference on Life, the largest student run pro-life conference in the nation, seeks to bring together hundreds of students and activists to discuss the importance of defending the sanctity of life.

The 2014 Conference will be held Monday, January 20 at Georgetown University two days before the annual March for Life. Speakers will focus on Morality and the Law with a morning panel discussion titled “Publicly Pro-Life: Why Abortion Is Not a Private Issue.”

Additionally, there will be an afternoon keynote address by Robert P. George, the founder and director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions. Breakout speakers will discuss a variety of life issues, including the international pro-life movement and the impact of abortion on women.

The Conference will conclude with a Mass for Life celebrated in Georgetown University’s Dahlgren Chapel by Bishop Michael Barber, S.J. of Oakland.

The Cardinal O’Connor Conference was founded by Georgetown students in January 2000 and renamed after the death of His Eminence, John Cardinal O’Connor, the late Archbishop of New York and great champion of the sacredness of every human life. The Conference, which remains entirely student run, intends to connect and educate students, clergy, activists, and academia from around the country.

Read More: 

http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/2014/01/15th-annual-cardinal-oconnor-conference-on-life-to-be-held-january-20

KILL THE ANIMALS!

 

 
January 2, 2014
Dear Friend,

          If you have been receiving our regular e-mail messages, you know that I try to use a subject line that will get more people to open the mail! Even the most passionate of us sometimes ignore messages that we should read because we think it is going to be more of the same!   I hope the subject of this message got your attention and that you’ll forward this to as many as you can!

Of course you know that I’m not advocating killing animals! Our mission is to save innocent human life. We are highly criticized for opposing abortion, euthanasia and more, and I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve been called a terrorist, woman hater, idiot and much more (and worse, too). If we show pictures of ultrasounds, or God forbid, show a photo of an aborted child, it gets even worse. We DO know that the bulk of the opposition and marketing against us is being funded by the lucrative abortion industry. As moral human beings, we are lambasted for trying to protect children…and YES they are children, even before they are born. Why am I dwelling on this now?   I’ve experienced some personal hardship and family tragedy this holiday season that is making me ultra sensitive to everything. I can’t help but feel the irony of the situation while watching the myriads of fund raising commercials for the ASPCA, Save The Whales and more over the holidays. While viewing photos of neglected and abused animals, some of things I’ve heard on these commercials include:

  •  From Dogs In Danger: “Tell your friends to adopt dogs instead of buying in pet shops. Adopting dogs rather than buying from pet shops will save thousands of dogs from being euthanized in shelters every day. A dog is killed approximately every 9 seconds. Teach your children to value dog’s lives. Learning to value life begins at an early age. Studies have shown that teaching children how to stop the neglect and abuse of animals through early humane education stays with them into adulthood”.
  •  From Save the Whales: It “was founded in 1977 when Maris Sidenstecker was 14 years old, and focuses on educating the public, especially children, about marine mammals and the fragile ocean environment. Save the Whales believes children, the future of the planet, need to be empowered and know that their actions can promote change. Education is the key to saving whales, oceans, and ourselves.”
  • From AnimalsVote.org: “We asked 2,500 shelters across the U.S. to stop killing dogs and cats for one day a week. We said please stop killing animals on all Mondays, beginning on Monday, December 23 and continuing for all Mondays. We said let’s work together to change how people think about the shelter system and animal adoptions in the U.S.”
  • From the ASPCA: “Just $.60 a day saves lives. Give a little to make a big difference for animals.”
  • From the Human Society of the United States: “The HSUS and its affiliates are the nation’s number-one provider of animal care, through the work of our animal sanctuaries and rehabilitation centers, Animal Rescue Team, Pets for Life program, wildlife response units, veterinary division, international street dog defenders, and other hands-on programs……that’s why the HSUS, through its advocacy programs, drives transformational change-bringing a wide set of tools to take on the biggest fights, confronting multi-billion dollar industries, and staying the course until reform is realized.”

These groups are all legitimate, and all have great causes.  I’m NOT telling anyone not to support them. The irony is that in today’s society, many people would rather save animal life than human life.   The programs and strategies invoked to save animal life are things WE do, but we are called terrorists, especially by our current national administration.  Even if we could afford to run commercials like the organizations above do, chances are that the networks wouldn’t run them because they would be considered “too controversial“!  I’m not kidding!

My niece was expecting identical twin girls to be born this spring. A few days ago, one of the twins died in the womb, and the doctors had to deliver the twins at 24 weeks in order to save the life of the surviving twin. Emma Elizabeth came into this world weighing 1 pound 2 ounces and is a little fighter.   My family is going through immense pain mourning the loss of Emma’s sister while at the same time being joyous and cautiously optimistic for Emma’s survival. I can’t even imagine what my niece and her husband are feeling! What is killing me is that there are so many people in the world that choose to end the lives of their children through abortion….even as late as 24 weeks…and condemn those of us who fight for the right to life for all human beings at ANY stage of development.

   It is so hard to realize that there are those who go ballistic when animals are harmed, but have looked the other way or ignored the more than 55 million children who have been KILLED (yes, they were killed…nothing pretty about it) through abortion since it was “legalized” in 1973. What’s even worse is that the “legalization” was nothing more than what a woman could be allowed to do under her “right to privacy.”

It’s obvious I’m depressed and upset, but that doesn’t mean I’m stopping. Christ died on the cross so that ALL of us could live with him eternally. I know He put me here….and hopefully you, too….to make sure that the human lives God creates at conception can have the opportunity to experience their human life before joining with Him for eternity.   Our work goes on….

 For Life,

Denise Leipold

Executive Director

 

 To make a secure, online donation to help us continue our life saving efforts, please CLICK HERE.

Save Lives NOW!
 
     January 22, 2014 marks the tragic 41st anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, the day in 1973 that the United States Supreme Court made it legal to kill an unborn child. It has become a tradition every year to remind our community that there are many Americans who have not accepted this court decision.

Several years ago, Right to Life of Northeast Ohio spearheaded a media campaign which uses the internet (the number 1 choice for most pregnant women seeking an abortion), advertisements on public transportation, television and radio, and mobile phone applications. All the media (including internet and television) is aimed directly at those in crisis pregnancies, and directs them to trained counselors and an ultrasound. This campaign has been hugely successful, and has spread across Ohio helping to save lives now by offering life saving options to abortion minded individuals.

To keep this highly successful program going, many churches, schools or other organizations will be conducting the Signature and Media Campaign starting in January.

Find out more about this critical campaign and

how to get involved by clicking here.

March For Life:  LOCAL ACTIVITIES

If you aren’t able to go to Washington DC for the annual March for Life, join in one or more of these local activities:

 

 

CLEVELAND MARCH FOR LIFE

Saturday, January 18   12:30-3:00pm

Downtown Cleveland, Ohio

Sponsored by

Cleveland Right to Life, Northeast Ohio Value Voters,

Right to Life of Northeast Ohio, Cleveland Prays,

Lake County Right to Life, Ohio Right to Life

 

CLICK HERE FOR MORE DETAILS
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CALLING ALL YOUTH!!!
  

ATTENTION HIGH SCHOOL JUNIORS AND SENIORS!

Right to Life of Northeast Ohio/Youth for Life of Northeast Ohio is sponsoring the local chapter contest for the National Right to Life Oratory Contest. Winner of the local contest will receive $100 and represent us at the Ohio Right to Life state contest. Winner of the state contest will get a trip to the National Right to Life convention next June to present their entry for the national contest.

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ATTENTION STUDENTS GRADES 7-12!

Write an essay about why you are pro-life, and you could win $200!

 

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MAKE A MOVIE….CHANGE THE WORLD!!!

This pro-life video contest sponsored by National Right to Life is open to any amateur filmmaker or student ages 15-25.

(You do NOT need to be a film studies major to submit an entry.)

 

 

Detailed criteria and registration information for all contests available under the “EVENTS” tab on the

website.

It’s a FIESTA!!!!

 

 

 

 

 

Come join the fun while helping with our cause

and you could win

$2000 or more!

 

 

CLICK HERE

to find out more!

Food For Thought
 

 

           Hillary Clinton was talking about the American deaths in Benghazi when she made the infamous remark above, but the ludicracy of the statement fits right in here:  at the rate we are killing our unborn children, saving animals won’t matter or make a difference because there will be enough humans around to harm them!
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More People Have Lost Insurance Under Obamacare Than Signed Up for It

More People Have Lost Insurance Under Obamacare Than Signed Up for It

by Dave Andrusko | Washington, DC | LifeNews.com | 12/31/13 12:36 PM

A few thoughts today and a few more tomorrow as we are just hours away from when the impact of ObamaCare really hits the American populous—January 1, 2014.

* From “That Health Care Law, By the Numbers,” by the Associated Press’s Calvin Woodward

“4 million-plus: People whose individual plans were canceled because the plans didn’t measure up under the law [ObamaCare]. The government changed rules to allow substandard plans to exist for another year; it’s not known how many canceled policies will be revived. Another rules change allowed cancellation victims to sign up for bare-bones catastrophic coverage.

How many have signed up, through HealthCare.gov and the state health exchanges? Up to but no more than 2 million. That’s the “good news,” according to Jim Geraghty.

The bad news?  “That puts them at about 26 percent of their enrollment goal of 7 million, with half the enrollment period passed.” (And, of course, like all Obama numbers always, there will be a later revision of the number that has supposed signed up–downward.)

Conclusion? “[W]e’re still ending 2013 with more people having lost their insurance than gained it,” Geraghty reminds us.

* We know from multiple stories (including nrlc.cc/1h9MoMX and nrlc.cc/1h9MtjM) that Millennials—18-29—are turning on Obama and on ObamaCare. “57 percent of millennials disapprove of Obamacare, with 40 percent saying it will worsen their quality of care and a majority believing it will drive up costs. Only 18 percent say Obamacare will improve their care. Among 18-to-29-year-olds currently without health insurance, less than one-third say they’re likely to enroll in the Obamacare exchanges,” according to a survey by Harvard University’s Institute of Politics.

* One more. I have relatives who are the owners of small businesses. In the last month, media outlets are beginning to understand what they have known since 2010: the costs of ObamaCare for them are prohibitive. NBC News did an investigative piece on the effects on workers at one auto dealership. The blogger Allahpundit captured what is taking place:

“A sneak preview at America 2014 from the Ghost of Christmas Future. It’s not the premiums that are killing these people, although those are higher in some cases too. It’s the out-of-pocket costs. The media coverage of O-Care has paid less attention to those for the simple reason that no one’s actually incurred them yet. That’ll change on Thursday.”

As is the case over and over again, the company’s existing insurance policy was cancelled because it didn’t meet the ObamaCare requirements. It would have cost the auto dealership almost 50% more to have kept deductibles and out-of-pocket costs at the 2012 levels, according to insurance broker Michael Harp, quoted in the NBC News story. So the company gave their workers a set amount of money from which they could either not get insurance (and pay a penalty) or get a policy through the healthcare exchanges.

The most significant conclusion Harp drew?

“He said the biggest surprise to him in how the law impacts small business clients is ‘how many people are losers versus winners. … There are some people who do come out ahead, but I would say the overwhelming majority, they’re paying much higher rates and they have lower benefits.’”

In addition

“Harp says what is happening at this dealership is representative of the other small businesses he deals with. Businesses with 50 or fewer employees currently provide health insurance to about 17 million U.S. workers, according to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.”

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http://www.lifenews.com/2013/12/31/more-people-have-lost-insurance-under-obamacare-than-signed-up-for-it/