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*** EMERGENCY LAWSUIT UPDATE
ACLU ATTACKS PRIESTS FOR LIFE

November 12, 2013

The notorious ACLU has joined forces with the government to defeat Priests for Life’s lawsuit against the mandate, springing from ObamaCare, that is violating our religious freedom!

Please CLICK HERE and make the LARGEST DONATION YOU POSSIBLY CAN so that Priests for Life can press forward with our lawsuit against the Obama administration … AND NOW THE ACLU!!!

On October 21 the ACLU filed a motion with the court to get our lawsuit – PRIESTS FOR LIFE v UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES – against the abortion mandate of ObamaCare dismissed.

Priests for Life needs your IMMEDIATE help to oppose this unexpected attack from the ACLU!

Please CLICK HERE and do as much as you possibly can!

Financially Priests for Life is no match for the federal government and the ACLU.

That’s why I’m counting on your immediate help today.

Legally we are MORE THAN A MATCH for them.

The judge hearing our case has already granted Priests for Life temporary protection from the government’s abortion mandate.  That was almost a year ago.

Plus, the ACLU does not make a new argument in its motion.  David Yerushalmi, one of the attorneys arguing our case, called the ACLU’s brief little more than a “ME TOO!” tantrum.

Robert Muise, co-founder and senior counsel of the American Freedom Law Center and the lead attorney in our case, noted: “It is ironic that a so-called ‘guardian of liberty’ elevates its political ideology above the Constitution.”

Personally, I’m not in the least bit surprised that the ACLU has chosen to line up against you and Priests for Life.  This is but the latest example of how far removed from ‘civil liberties’ the ACLU has become.

But they are on the losing side of this case, which is all about PRESERVING LIBERTY and PRESERVING First Amendment RIGHTS … not only of Priests for Life, but for YOU and every American citizen.

Which is why, now more than ever, Priests for Life needs your financial help so we can keep our lawsuit alive in the courts!

Please CLICK HERE right now – before you move on to your next email – and make a contribution for as much as you can.

There are only a few dollars left in our Legal Fund.

So please help as best you can.

Don’t allow the heavyweight tag team of the Obama administration and the ACLU rob you of your rights to Freedom of RELIGION … Freedom of CONSCIENCE … and Freedom of SPEECH.

Continue your stand with Priests for Life as we fight against the abortion mandate of ObamaCare.

Thank you for your immediate attention to this critical need.

May God bless you.

And please keep our lawyers and our lawsuit in your prayers.

Sincerely,

Fr. Frank Pavone
National Director, Priests for Life

http://www.priestsforlife.org/

NOTE: If you prefer to send a check, please make it out to Priests for Life and send it to us at PO Box 141172, Staten Island, NY 10314.  If you have any questions, call us toll-free at 888-735-3448.

Ohio Right to Life Nationally Ranked for Pro-Life Social Media

Catholic Media Journal Placed ORTL #4 for Online Advocacy

November 3rd, 2013 

The number four pro-life organization using social networks is …

4. Ohio Right to Life
The state affiliate of National Right to Life, this fantastic pro-life group keeps vibrant accounts on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. Best of all, they are at the top of the line for pro-life organizations on Pinterest. Ohio Right to Life pins their own beautiful graphic designs, cute photos of babies and their moms, resources for mothers, and quotes from pop culture with a pro-life hashtag.

For illustration of Ohio Right to Life’s success, one of their inspirational Harry Potter quote pins with a pro-life hashtag was repinned over 1500 times. That is a lot of repins! Their hashtag strategy has made Ohio Right to Life superbly effective at reaching people on Pinterest.

NATIONAL RANKINGS:

1.   LIVE ACTION

2.   lifeBLAST

3.   STUDENTS FOR LIFE OF AMERICA

4.   OHIO RIGHT TO LIFE

5.   STAND TRUE

6.   PRIESTS FOR LIFE

7.   40 DAYS FOR LIFE

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Michael Gonidakis

President

Ohio Right to Life

88 East Broad Street, Suite 620

Columbus, Ohio 43215

614/547-0099 ext. 301

http://www.ohiolife.org/

This is a historic moment.

Pro-life Friend, I am so excited to tell you that yesterday I stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) as he introduced the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act in the U.S. Senate. I say this with humble gratitude to YOU. As you know, the entire SBA List community and pro-life movement has been working towards this moment for months, urging Senators to introduce this groundbreaking bill which would save 15,000 children per year from a painful death beginning at 20 weeks. The very first step of the process – getting the bill introduced in the Senate, is done. Remember, it has already passed the House of Representatives. Steps two, three, and four are this: Launch a nationwide grassroots and media campaign rallying the American people behind this legislation Gather as many co-sponsors in the U.S. Senate as possible Force Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to hold a vote on this historic bill so we can put every U.S. Senator on record Pro-life Friend, I can’t do this without you – are you with me? Make a gift right now of $10, $35, $75, or even $100 or more so we can launch a nationwide grassroots and media campaign for this legislation, gather as many co-sponsors as possible, and force a vote in the U.S. Senate.  Let me be clear: The other side is already doing whatever it can to smear and distort this legislation. Just on my cab ride back to the office yesterday, I read emails sent out by Planned Parenthood, NARAL, and EMILY’s List all urging their members to donate to them so that they can bring down this legislation… and quickly. Why?They’re scared of it. They’ve seen the polls – they know how popular this legislation is, especially among women, young people, and independents. They know they need to fund a smear campaign, and they need to do it right now. Donate whatever you can afford right now so that we’re prepared to fight the smears and distortions of the abortion industry as they work to kill this legislation. The pro-abortion lobby understands the power of this bill because they very much remember the passage of the partial-birth abortion ban, which was signed into law 10 years ago this very week. They know that in addition to saving lives, the ban on partial-birth abortion changed hearts. We know – and they know – this bill has the very same potential to put another major dent into Roe v. Wade and bring even more Americans to our side. And so they want to stop it before it gets even more traction. Please, Pro-life Friend, chip in whatever you can to help us stay one step ahead from the pro-abortion lobby as they work to kill this bill which they know will change hearts and save lives if passed. This is a historic moment. I believe that future decades will mark this day as one when America lived up to its greatness and charted a new course – a course for life, for women and children, and for hope. I am so glad that you are a part of it. For Life, Marjorie Dannenfelser President, Susan B. Anthony List PS: I was proud to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) as he introduced the historic Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act in the U.S. Senate. I need your immediate financial help right now so we can launch a nationwide campaign in support of this legislation, gather co-sponsors, and force a vote – are you with me?

Pro-Life Groups Demand Harry Reid Allow a Vote on 20-Week Abortion Ban

by Steven Ertelt | Washington, DC | LifeNews.com | 11/7/13 3:10 PM

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The House of Representatives has already passed the bill to ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy and the only thing standing in the way of getting the legislation to President Barack Obama is pro-abortion Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid.

In June, the House approved the legislation and the vote for the bill broke down on mostly partisan lines with Republicans supporting the ban on late-term abortions and Democrats opposing it.President Barack Obama has issued a veto threat should the Senate approve the bill.

Today, joining pro-life Sen. Lindsey Graham, who introduced the late-term abortion ban in the Senate, pro-life groups demanded Reid allow a vote on the measure. At a press conference this morning, Graham announced he would introduce the landmark legislation that would provide nationwide protection for unborn children who are capable of feeling pain, beginning at 20 weeks fetal age.

The National Right to Life Committee tells LifeNews it is calling on Reid to bring the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act to the Senate floor for a vote.

“It is time for the Senate to take action on the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, and we urge Senator Reid to heed the will of the people and allow the bill to come before the Senate for a vote,” said Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life. “One-fifth of the states, nearly two-thirds of Americans, including two-thirds of American women, and the U.S. House of Representatives agree. Now it’s time for the U.S. Senate to do its job and act to protect these most vulnerable members of our human family.”

More: http://www.lifenews.com/2013/11/07/pro-life-groups-demand-harry-reid-allow-a-vote-on-20-week-abortion-ban/

Breathtaking Video Shows the Miracle of Human Creation and Development

by Jill Stanek | Washington, DC | LifeNews.com | 11/6/13 2:50 PM

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What a great video to explain to children where babies come from!

The human body is the most complicated machine in the world. We see with it, hear with it, breathe with it, walk and run with it, and sense pleasure with it. Its bones, muscles, arteries, veins and internal organs are organized with marvelous design, and when we examine this design in detail we find even more amazing facts. Every part of the body, though each may seem to be so different from another, is made up of the same material: cells.

Video and More:  http://www.lifenews.com/2013/11/06/breathtaking-video-shows-the-miracle-of-human-creation-and-development/

Massachusetts Rationing Shows What’s Coming to America Under Obamacare

by Burke Balch, J.D. | Washington, DC | LifeNews.com | 11/6/13 6:54 PM

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President Obama is holding up the Massachusetts health care law as a good precedent for what Obamacare will bring when fully implemented. It’s a good precedent, all right–for the rationing now under way in the Bay State that the national law will all too soon impose on the entire country.

In an October 30, 2013, speech in Boston’s Faneuil Hall, the President claimed, “[A]ll the parade of horribles, the worst predictions about health care reform in Massachusetts never came true. They’re the same arguments that you’re hearing now. . . . [I]t’s easy to scare folks. And it’s no surprise that some to the same folks trying to scare people now are the same folks who’ve been trying to sink the Affordable Care Act from the beginning.”

At the National Right to Life Committee, we only regret that we weren’t able to scare enough people to prevent enactment of the Massachusetts law and Obamacare – because if we had, those in Massachusetts wouldn’t be facing rationed health care today and the whole nation wouldn’t be on the way to facing worse and worse rationing in coming years.

What happened in Massachusetts? We warned from the beginning that over-promising plus under-funding forces rationing. In 2006, Massachusetts passed a mandate for universal health insurance, with subsidies to enable the low-income uninsured to afford it. To pay for the subsidies, the state law cobbled together a series of funding sources, including federal payments, existing state funds for health care for the uninsured, and other sources of revenue, none of which were based on what people actually pay for health care.

We repeatedly said that without an adequate, sustainable funding mechanism to pay for the entitlement, the state would wind up imposing limits on treatment – rationing. (For a 2009 presentation at the Massachusetts Citizens for Life Convention reiterating and explaining this prediction, see here.)

By 2010, facing a mounting gap between the cost of subsidies and the available revenue, Governor Deval Patrick sent a bill to the state legislature with sweeping measures to limit what Massachusetts citizens would be allowed to spend to save the lives of their family members.

Both laws rely on bureaucratic micromanagement that minutely dictates what treatment will and will not be allowed to be available. And both will result in patients losing access to life-saving medical treatment through what amounts to direct and indirect rationing of health care.

More: http://www.lifenews.com/2013/11/06/massachusetts-rationing-shows-whats-coming-to-america-under-obamacare/