At 11 a.m. Eastern time today, 43 Catholic dioceses and organizations — including Our Sunday Visitor and the University of Notre Dame — filed religious liberty lawsuits against the federal government in a dozen different jurisdictions around the country.

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PUEBLO, Colorado, May 18, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Sarah Nelson, 22, was going through a challenging chapter in her faith journey in 2001 as she served in leadership at a successful megachurch in Denver, Colorado. She and her fiancee Brennon loved their church and the fellowship it provided, but Sarah could not shake off the feeling there was something missing.

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Since 2003 I have volunteered as a Helper of God’s Precious Infants at the direction and guidance of Msgr. Phillip Reilly.  I am a trained ‘sidewalk counselor’; my job is to provide men and women who enter abortion facilities with information that can truly help them.  I have been ridiculed by the workers inside but not usually by the entrants, who welcome my thoughts and often are surprised by the amount of information they were lacking concerning the abortion topic.  It’s not an easy job, for sure, but certainly well worth it – each second, each beating heart at a time.

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Veteran State Senator Stephen Saland staved off a challenge by Neil Di Carlo for the new 41st State Senate seat at the Dutchess County Republican convention held Monday night in Poughkeepsie.

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Only in the highly warped mind of a liberal could funding abortions be a way to 'honor' anyone ... much less mothers on Mother's Day'. Honoring anyone by funding abortion is, on its own, bizarre enough ... but saying its the best way to honor Mother's Day is to venture way far beyond the pale.

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Since last August, customs officials in South Korea say they have intercepted between 17,000 and 17,500 pills filled with finely-ground human baby flesh, which is said to be both a stamina-enhancer and medical panacea in parts of Asia.

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The former campaign manager for the Republican presidential campaign of Rick Santorum has signed on to serve in an important role in the campaign of Mitt Romney.

Mike Biundo has been added to the Romney team as the deputy national director for coalitions — meaning he will work to reach pro-life voters and coalesce them around Romney’s attempt to defeat pro-abortion President Barack Obama.

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An untold story today following yesterday’s Pennsylvania primaries is what a bad, bad night it was for Planned Parenthood.

In Pennsylvania’s 134th House district, they spent an eye-popping $100,000 on a TV ad campaign trying to sink the candidacy of Republican Ryan Mackenzie by linking him to ultrasound legislation that was before the legislature.

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More than 500 Catholic men recently walked a mile in the rain in Peoria, Illinois. Their mission was to show the community their willingness to defend their Catholic faith against the threats being posed by the new Obama mandate. Why? Because, as Peoria’s bishop Daniel R. Jenky put it, “We must be a fearless army of Catholic men, ready to give everything we have for the Lord, who gave everything for our salvation.”

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Ann Barnhardt broke into the news with her understanding of how Wall Street was robbing us blind. Now she is traveling the country speaking truth. Her courage and honesty is amazing. If you don’t watch this short clip of her speaking, you cheat yourself of seeing a rising leader that deserves our support and admiration. Go Ann Go.

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It’s been a long and seemingly never-ending battle between the Obama administration and the Catholic Church. With most faith leaders still uncomfortable with the government’s contraception mandate, the stalemate between the two parties hasn’t improved much in recent weeks. On Thursday, in response to this ongoing fight and a perceived increase in threats against liberty for people of faith, the Church announced a new religious freedom campaign.

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(Reuters) - A proposed law in Oklahoma that would grant embryos full rights as people from the moment of conception may represent the next big challenge to the constitutional right to abortion in the United States.

Oklahoma's Personhood Act passed the state Senate in February and is expected to be approved by the Republican-controlled House within weeks. The state's Republican governor, Mary Fallin, is an abortion opponent and is expected to sign the bill if it passes.

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Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed a pro-life bill into law today to ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.

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Wouldn't it be great if Randall Terry could split the democrat vote for Obama?

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A t-shirt business in Lexington, Kentucky has drawn the ire of critics after refusing to print shirts for the city’s annual gay pride parade. The company, called Hands On Originals, told parade organizers that its Christian beliefs are the reason that it has declined the Gay and Lesbian Services Organization of Lexington’s (GLSO) request.

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GOSHEN - As many as 200 people are gathered outside the Orange County Government Center for the nationwide Rally for Religious Freedom, a protest against a federal mandate involving insurance coverage for birth control.

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The city of Chicago moves to criminalize citizen journalism with new law that makes it a felony with 15 year incarceration sentence. If you freelance video tape events, freelance writer (Internet) with video on events, speeches, and issues you can be arrested in Chicago's jurisdiction. It is a felony with penalty of up to 15 year imprisonment. This brings to mind the people in China being run over by tanks in Tiananmen Square...... Get involved immediately with your local and national Constitutional organizations today. Support your local organizations fighting to protect Freedom & Liberty today. Support your local churches in their rallies to protect Religious freedom today..

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In December, The Blaze first reported about “October Baby,” a feature film that focuses upon the intensely controversial issue of abortion.

On Friday, the movie opened in 350 select theaters across America, offering the rare opportunity to explore a subject matter that often makes people on all sides of the debate squirm. Last week, we interviewed Jason Burkey, 29, who plays the male lead (also named “Jason”) in the film.

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Washington D.C., Mar 24, 2012 / 06:05 am (CNA).- Legal experts believe that the Obama administration’s contraception mandate fails to meet requirements needed to limit freedom of religion under federal law.

George Mason University law professor Helen Alvaré argued that “in many Catholic institutions, such as hospitals and universities, the refusal to insure for contraception is the single clearest statement the Church makes.”

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GOSHEN – Hundreds rallied in Goshen Friday as part of the nationwide Stand Up for Religious Freedom events on the second anniversary of the Obama Administration’s health care program.

Organizers in Goshen maintained the rally and call for an end to mandated contraception and other mandates on women’s productive rights violate the US Constitution.

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Fight Obama's HHS Mandate: Goshen, NY joins March 23 NATIONWIDE Rally

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The Nation has just compiled a list of the “Fifty Most Influential Progressives of the Twentieth Century.”

They introduce the list, which excludes elected officials, by saying:

A hundred years ago, any soapbox orator who called for women’s suffrage, laws protecting the environment, an end to lynching, workers’ right to form unions, a progressive income tax, a federal minimum wage, old-age insurance, the eight-hour workday and government-subsidized healthcare would be considered an impractical utopian dreamer or a dangerous socialist. Now we take these ideas for granted. The radical ideas of one generation are often the common sense of the next. When that happens, give credit to the activists and movements that fought to take those ideas from the margins to the mainstream. We all stand on the shoulders of earlier generations of radicals and reformers who challenged the status quo of their day.

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One who truly loves America, Marielena Stuart came to America with her family from Cuba in the 60’s from Castro’s communist regime.  As such, Marielena seems to understand the price of freedom and what it is our country stands for.  She doesn’t appear to have served in public service.  However; she is a conservative activist and conservative writer.

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Catholics under attack (video) - Glenn Beck

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Will you vote the values that will stand the test of fire? Some things are more important than high gas prices or a faltering economy. They are life, marriage and freedom. This November, Catholics must stand up and protect their sacred rights and duties.

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By the way ...

Last month, the conservative side of politics lost a champion of truth and a strong voice in the conservative movement with the passing of Andrew Breitbart. He was a man of high intellect, vision and courage. He never backed away from a fight and was responsible for turning out those who sought to endear themselves at the public trough via their egregious actions and poor moral values. He disclosed them and brought them to the bar of justice for the American people to see and judge for themselves. He was a great example for all of us to aspire to. We cannot allow his passing to be just a closing of another chapter in the fortunes of America. We must carry his part of the burden he was so willing to share for all of us.

In freedom and in purpose, I am

Jerry Molen

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House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi was a guest at the third annual Women in the World summit hosted by Newsweek and the Daily Beast in New York City this weekend. Speakers at the conference included Angelina Jolie, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, IMF chief Christine Lagarde and Senior White House Advisor Valerie Jarrett. During “A Conversation with Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi,“ the Minority Leader used choice phrases like ”the war on women“ and ”a lack of respect for the opinion of women in making their own decisions” to demean those who do not believe religious colleges should be forced to pay for their students’ birth control, which Georgetown Law Student Sandra Fluke infamously testified can cost over $3,000 during law school.

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March 13, 2012 (Thelifeinstitute.net) - Ireland’s experience in banning abortion is hugely important for the global pro-life community. That’s because our record proves that we best serve mothers and babies when our laws protect unborn human life. Ireland is the example pro-life activists the world over can point to, because the Irish experience shows that abortion is never necessary.

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The Obama Regime has mandated that Americans MUST fund abortion by exactly one dollar per month. This is done by mandating that the service commodity of health insurance must be purchased as a condition of lawful residency in the United States.

Caesar Tyrannus Obama, I will not submit.

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St. Patrick’s Day is a holiday rooted in Christian values, however secular celebrations are also regularly held to commemorate the day. In fact, for a great many, the religious tones aren’t even a consideration, as alcohol, Shamrock shakes and other fun-filled elements regularly dominate the day’s observations. Somehow, though, the holiday is reportedly still too religious for one Massachusetts elementary school.

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According to a pro-life attorney, most participants in ObamaCare insurance exchanges will officially be footing the bill for abortion.

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The New York Times has rejected a full-page anti-Islam advertisement that mirrored a scathing anti-Catholic advertisement the newspaper published on March 9.

According to The Daily Caller, a March 13 letter sent by the Times to the parody’s sponsor, activist Pamela Geller, said the $39,000 anti-Islam ad was rejected because “the fallout from running this ad now could put U.S. troops and/or civilians in the [Afghan] region in danger.”

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The frightening notion that our irresponsibility in Washington is leading us down the path to becoming nothing more than a colony of China is not lost on most Americans. Although, to this point, it has had everything to do with China funding our government’s obscene spending addiction.

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Tell someone that you believe in God and see what happens, you might be surprised, especially in what you see in your own friends, and maybe, even in your own family. There will be a distance felt between some of the closest people to you. What you see will or wont say much about their loyalty, or the value of their own lives for that matter, when you think that God is viable and substantive in terms of life, and yet some in your life will distance themselves from him and you.

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During the first few days of February, about a week before Obama declared a so-called "accommodation" to the contraception/abortifacient mandate, a Washington Post/ABC poll showed Obama's approval rating at 50 percent, with 46 percent of Americans disapproving.

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Vatican added for first time to State Department list

* Washington puts tiny state in less vulnerable list

* Vatican tries to join Europe's 'White List'

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The American culture wars are never far from the surface but on Friday they moved to a new level with the publication of a full-page advertisement in the New York Times that blames the Catholic Church for most of the world’s ills.

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I know you apologized for calling 30-year-old Sandra Fluke a “slut” and a “prostitute.” The language was certainly over the top. I know what you were thinking. Sometimes people need to be hit over the head with a 2×4 before something sinks in.

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Wife and mother answers the question posed by Cecile Richards: What does birth control mean to us as women? Here's the truth.

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David Barton has come out with a list explaining why Barack Obama is possibly the most biblically hostile President of all time. While most of these stories have been seen before, seeing them all laid out in one list is pretty astonishing. Parts 1 and 2 are below, the rest can be seen here!

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On February 27, the Catholic Information Center and the women's web-magazine Altcatholicah cosponsored the panel discussion, "Women Challenging the HHS Mandate." Here, panelist Gloria Purvis discusses how the HHS Mandate is anti-Woman and how Catholics need to get speak up on the issue.

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(CNSNews.com) – Were Congress to outlaw the transporting of a minor without her parents’ permission across state lines to get an abortion, an abortion- and gay-rights activist testifying on Capitol Hill Thursday she would break the law to continue to help girls end their pregnancies.

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BOISE, Idaho, March 1, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – When Grace Swanke, 10, found out that Girl Scouts is entangled with Planned Parenthood, not only did she decide to quit her troop, but as someone who loved to sell cookies, she decided to make and sell her own brand of cookie, but with a pro-life twist.

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The specter of the “slippery slope” is widely considered to be a logical cop-out – an intellectually lazy response employed by the rigid and fearful among us (usually conservatives and the religious, of course).  Like all enduring metaphors, however, the concept embodied by the slippery slope is quite often proved true.  “Give ‘em an inch, they’ll take a mile” is a compelling slogan for good reason.  Once an initial barrier is broken, it is difficult to turn back. 

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Rush Limbaugh has rejected an advertiser’s apparent attempt to reunite with his show after the company initially dropped its ads from the program following his remarks about contraception advocate Sandra Fluke.

The company, Sleep Train, calls itself “the No. 1 Bedding Specialist on the West Coast, and most recognized mattress retailer in the region.”

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I worry about my health a lot. Not because I’m unhealthy, but because I’m a hypochondriac. I don’t imagine symptoms, but when I do have symptoms, I became immediately and irrevocably convinced that they are cancer. Thanks, WebMD!

Most recently, back in October, I found a tiny red welt on my right breast. WebMD told me that I almost definitely had inflammatory breast cancer–a particularly aggressive strain. I called my boyfriend in the middle of the night and made him talk to me until the sun came up, so scared I was shaking all over. I thought of nothing but my imaginary cancer for three full days, until the red spot went away. My friend Destiny texted me regularly to ask how my cancer was doing. She and my mom and my boyfriend found my terror hilarious, but I don’t think they realized its depth.

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The Government of Western Australia's Mental Health Commission (WAMHC) has basically conjured up a proposal for new mental health legislation that bypasses parental involvement in the mental health treatment process, and instead tasks children under age 18, and of any age, with making the decision about whether or not to be sterilized, or whether or not to have their brain tissue destroyed with psychosurgery procedures. If a "mental health professional" can convince children that they need such treatments for their own good, in other words, than Australia's youngest members of society will be open game for the eugenicist agenda.

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Is President Barack Obama America’s most “Biblically-hostile U.S. president?” This is the label that conservative historian David Bardon has given Obama, as the nation continues its debate over the president’s controversial contraceptive mandate.

But for Barton, the situation transcends the current discussion about religious freedom and the Catholic Church, as the frequent guest on Glenn Beck’s radio and television shows develops his provocative argument in detail. He writes:

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Over the past week, the media firestorm surrounding Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke and Rush Limbaugh has eclipsed the larger issue of religious liberty that stands at the forefront of the contraception mandate.

With the distracting debate raging, Fluke has received the majority of the media attention surrounding the subject. New developments in the faith world, unfortunately, have gone unnoticed. Of particular note is a public letter that was penned on March 2 by Cardinal Timothy Dolan (also president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops).

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(CNSNews.com) – Although Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke testified to the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee last month that contraception can cost a law student $3,000 over three years and that some of her fellow students could not afford it, a Target store only 3 miles from the law school currently sells a month's supply of birth control pills for only $9 to people who do not have insurance plans covering contraceptives.

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Sandra Fluke is being sold by the left as something she's not. Namely a random co-ed from Georgetown law who found herself mixed up in the latest front of the culture war who was simply looking to make sure needy women had access to birth control. That, of course, is not the case.

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Efforts to repel the Obama Administration’s attack on liberty of conscience suffered a setback today on the floor of the U.S. Senate, but in the process kept alive an issue on which an extraordinary variety of Americans are willing to continue fighting – and with good reason.

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Speaking at a diocesan convocation on public policy here, Cardinal Dolan, who is the archbishop of New York and president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, said, “We are called to be very active, very informed and very involved in politics.”

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Timothy Cardinal Dolan ramped up the rhetoric in his battle with the White House over contraception policy yesterday — and promised some political payback.

“Don’t impose your teaching upon us and make us do as a church what we find unconscionable to do!” the freshly minted prince of the church told a roaring crowd of 1,000 at Holy Trinity Diocesan HS in Hicksville, LI, referring to a government plan to mandate that religious institutions provide free contraception to workers.

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GOP Rep. Louie Gohmert paying tribute to Andrew Breitbart on the Floor of the House of Representatives today. Andrew Breitbart passed away unexpectedly early this morning, reportedly collapsing outside his home in California while on a walk.

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I’m a proud Georgetown woman upset about another Georgetown woman who may have no pride at all.  How else do you explain  - Ms. Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown Law student, now famous for testimony she never gave – jumping up to talk about her sex life (with the Senate Minority Leader and with the liberal media) and ask for the cost of her sex life to be subsidized by other students at a Jesuit School?

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1) The Founding Fathers were generally religious, gun-toting small government fanatics who were so far to the Right that they'd make Ann Coulter look like Jimmy Carter.

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The two ethicists who made an argument for allowing “after-birth abortions” — the killing newborns who were not considered people by the authors’ definition of personhood — in a peer-reviewed academic article published in the Journal of Medical Ethics have received threats for their logic and thus have felt called upon to defend their position.

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Happy Mother's Day!

Our God is the Sovereign King of the universe, and He has blessed mothers with an awesome responsibility. 

Blessings on the hand of women!

Angels guard its strength and grace,

In the palace, cottage, hovel,

Oh, no matter where the place;

Would that never storms assailed it,

Rainbows ever gently curled;

For the hand that rocks the cradle

Is the hand that rules the world.

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Warning that the Church is being “despoiled of her institutions” as “freedom of conscience and of religion become a memory from a happier past,” Cardinal Francis George of Chicago observes that “the Catholic Church in the United States is being told she must ‘give up’ her health care institutions, her universities and many of her social service organizations.”

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In the Journal of Medical Ethics, two ethicists argue plainly for the killing of babies post birth. They’re not hedging their bets. They’re saying it plain and simple.

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This rally is sponsored by OC Right to Life and citizens4freedom.

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PALM BEACH, FLORIDA, February 24, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) – The nation’s number one talk show host drew attention to Barack Obama’s history of supporting infanticide on Friday’s show.

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The Knights of Columbus council 13277, Assembly 2835 at St. Sylvester's in Navarre have agreed to organize the Pensacola site for the "Stand Up For Religious Freedom Rally on March 23", from Noon until 1 pm  at the Pensacola Federal Court House.

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We are women who support the competing voice offered by Catholic institutions on matters of sex, marriage and family life. Most of us are Catholic, but some are not. We are Democrats, Republicans and Independents. Many, at some point in our careers, have worked for a Catholic institution. We are proud to have been part of the religious mission of that school, or hospital, or social service organization. We are proud to have been associated not only with the work Catholic institutions perform in the community – particularly for the most vulnerable -- but also with the shared sense of purpose found among colleagues who chose their job because, in a religious institution, a job is always also a vocation.

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As readers know, if there is one thing that gets under our skin here at BCI, it is deception.  This one by former Gov. Romney about a situation here in Massachusetts affects how the country perceives values important to many Catholics, so BCI felt we could not let it sit without a response.

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Washington state officials are permanently blocked from enforcing rules that tell pharmacies and pharmacists they have to stock emergency-contraception products regardless of any religious objections, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.

“The Board of Pharmacy’s 2007 rules are not neutral, and they are not generally applicable,” U.S. District Judge Ronald B. Leighton wrote in a case that pitted two veteran pharmacists and Ralph’s Thriftway in Olympia, Wash., against state health officials and the state pharmacy board.

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They are suburbanites and religious people, employers and retirees, millionaires such as John M. Templeton Jr. of Bryn Mawr and homemakers such as Loretta Hill of Devon. What they have in common is an admiration for Rick Santorum.

"No matter what you think about his social views, he's willing to hold his ground," Hill, 58, said. "I think that's one of the things people respect about him."

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(CNSNews.com) - John P. Holdren, the top science adviser to President Barack Obama, wrote in a book he co-authored with population control advocates Paul and Anne Ehrlich that children from larger families have lower IQs.

The book—"Human Ecology: Problems and Solutions"—argued that the United States government had a “responsibility to halt the growth of the American population.”

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Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments as follows:

In last night’s GOP debate, Newt Gingrich charged that in the last presidential campaign the elite media never asked “why Barack Obama voted in favor of legalizing infanticide.” Gingrich wasn’t off by much—Obama was rarely asked about it, and never was he pressed on this issue. Even now, the media cover-up that Gingrich alleges is patently true.

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A new bill that is working its way through the U.S. House of Representatives has feminists and pro-abortion advocates hopping mad.  The bill, The Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act of 2011, bans abortions performed because of race or gender. Sounds pretty straightforward, right?  Who would really oppose something like that?  After all, most Americans in this day and age are against discrimination.

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When Barack Obama was campaigning for president in 2008, he declared that marriage is between a man and a woman. For the most part, his position was treated as a nonissue.

Now Rick Santorum is campaigning for president. He too says that marriage is between a man and a woman. What a different reaction he gets.

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No matter the ultimate destination of Rick Santorum's current surge in popularity in the GOP presidential nomination battle, his rise to prominence is sparking a renewed interest in "the social issues," helped along by President Obama's latest bureaucratic salvo against religious institutions.

There are two important points to keep in mind here as the campaign goes forward. First, the conventional wisdom has it that Republicans should at all costs avoid embracing the social issues - pro-family, pro-life and pro-faith-based institutions - because, otherwise, they will lose the all-important independent voter.

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This morning, the Washington Post published an op-ed written by Glenn Beck. The piece, which focuses upon religious freedom and the need for the faithful to come together, is a direct response to the religious freedom violations that are occurring here in America — particularly against the Catholic church.

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(CNSNews.com) - Rep. Ron Paul (R.-Texas.), who is seeking the Republican presidential nomination, told Candy Crowley on CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday that social conservatism is "a losing position" for the Republican Party.

"Do you--are you uncomfortable--certainly Rick Santorum is the one who has been in the forefront of some of this talk on social issues, but there have been others in the race," Crowley asked Paul. "Are you uncomfortable with this talk about social issues? Do you consider it a winning area for Republicans in November?"

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From No Limbs to No Limits, motivational speaker Nick Vujicic has overcome disability and depression to encourage others to live life to the fullest. Born with Tetra-amelia syndrome, a rare disorder characterised by the absence of both arms and legs, Vujicic struggled with depression and loneliness as a child. However, Nick says his faith in God and encouragement from friends and family helped him discover his purpose in life. Since the age of 19 Nick has been fulfilling his dream of being able to encourage others through motivational speaking and sharing his testimony about how God changed his life and gave him a future and hope.

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Jeff Bell, an 'early supply-sider,' on the roots of American social conservatism—and why the movement is crucial to building a Republican majority.

This is an excellent article about how the left is obsessed with the social issues. Although they will claim that Rick Santorum or the right is obsessed with them. The left's obsession is to tear the very fabric of our moral society apart. They will attack strong family values. They attack the faith institutions. This is how they drain the society of consequence. And once they have this breakdown they then introduce the dependency on the almighty government. Jeffery Bell in the video explains how the social issues are closely tied to the economic issues of our time.  ~ C4F

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Obama has managed to drop into various countries the sorriest set of diplomats ever to grace the world stage, and the U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines is no exception.

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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y., Feb. 17, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Recently Facebook apologized for censoring a post by Dr. Rebecca Gomperts in which she gave instructions for a do-it-yourself chemical abortion. The popular social media site decided it was okay for the international abortion provider to teach women and girls how to do an abortion themselves at home using Misoprostol, even telling them to lie to a pharmacist to get the necessary drugs.

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OKLAHOMA CITY - The Oklahoma Senate has overwhelmingly approved an anti-abortion "personhood" bill that declares life begins at conception.

The vote Wednesday upset doctors who fear the proposed law will jeopardize reproductive medicine.

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February 16, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Six pro-life activists, including one Catholic priest, were arrested this morning in front of the White House while holding a peaceful prayer vigil in protest against the Obama administration’s birth control mandate. They were released shortly thereafter, after paying a $100 fine.

Fr. Denis Wilde, the Associate Director of Priests for Life, told LifeSiteNews that by their arrests the protesters hoped to send a “wake-up call” to President Obama that opposition to his mandate is not going away.

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My Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

Allow me this opportunity to share with you important information concerning an alarming and serious matter that negatively impacts the Church in the United States directly, and that strikes at the fundamental right to religious liberty for all citizens of any faith.  The federal government, which claims to be "of, by, and for the people," has just dealt a heavy blow to almost a quarter of those people - the Catholic population - and to the millions more who are served by the Catholic faithful.

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For far too long there has been an ominous silence across America on arguably the most controversial and devastating issue of the day — birth control. As so often we see in history, oppression gives rise to courage and, no question, courage is exactly what we are seeing in Church leaders and layman alike in response to the Obama administration's recent birth control mandate and more recent unacceptable modifications.

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Washington, D.C. — Join us on Thursday, February 16, at 10:30 A.M. in front of the White House for a prayer vigil and public witness against the immoral and unjust mandates President Obama has placed on religious institutions and organizations.

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As Planned Parenthood kicks off National Condom Week tomorrow, it will also be actively engaged in selling sex to children as young as those in grade school with graphic videos and books.

The American Life League has compiled a video exposing some of Planned Parenthood’s disturbing materials that are presented to school-age children across the country.

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“We remain opposed to this mandate because it runs counter to the biblical truth of the sanctity of human life. We are committed to working to ensure that we remain free to practice the teachings of our faith, that our religious rights are not violated, and that our rights of conscience are retained. Freedom of religion extends beyond the practice of our faith in houses of worship. We must be free to put our faith into action in the public square, and, in response to Christ’s call, demonstrate His mercy through our love and compassion for all people according to the clear mandate of Holy Scripture.

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This so called compromise does not change a single thing. It’s a late Friday afternoon gimmick, it’s fraud, they are trying to hoodwink and bamboozle you.

From Fox News…

The change would allow religious organizations to refuse to cover contraceptive care. It would also require insurers to offer a plan that does not include contraceptive care in their contracts with nonprofit religious groups. But the insurers would be required to make contraception available free of charge to women anyway.

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I’ve gotten some very interesting emails regarding President Obama’s mandate commanding Roman Catholics (and many evangelical Protestants) to violate their consciences by providing mandatory contraception, sterilization, and abortion-inducing pharmaceuticals. The emailers noted that Obama’s action will force Catholics to challenge the president in court, particularly given that bishops are saying they will not comply with the law. It could mean another constitutional showdown over “Obama-care,” one that could likewise end up in the Supreme Court. Imagine: “The Catholic Bishops v. Obama.”

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A Planned Parenthood affiliate’s newest president and CEO said in an official statement that she regards her work for the biggest abortion business in America to be a holy profession.

Melaney Linton, who will now oversee Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, is determined to further the Life-ending work of Planned Parenthood:

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Catholic League President Bill Donohue shared his reaction to President Obama’s revamping of the contraception policy. He told Alisyn Camerota that he isn’t pleased with this change and feels like Obama is making things worse, asking, “Is this man out of his mind?”

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If you aren’t creeped out by the No Birth Control Left Behind rhetoric of the White House and Planned Parenthood, you aren’t listening closely enough. The anesthetic of progressive benevolence always dulls the senses. Wake up.

When a bunch of wealthy white women and elite Washington bureaucrats defend the trampling of religious liberties in the name of “increased access” to “reproductive services” for “poor” women, the ghost of Margaret Sanger is cackling.

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Irondale, AL (EWTN) – EWTN Global Catholic Network filed a lawsuit February 9 in U.S. District Court in Birmingham, Alabama against the Department of Health & Human Services, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, and other government agencies seeking to stop the imposition of the contraception mandate as well as asking the court for a declaratory judgment that the mandate is unconstitutional. EWTN is the first Catholic organization to file suit since the final HHS rules were published by the Obama administration on January 20, 2012.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Rick Santorum is looking to capitalize on a string of stunning victories that snapped his four-state losing streak and raised new questions about front-runner Mitt Romney’s clout with conservatives.

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President Obama “reinforced” his stance on the controversial contraception mandate while speaking at the Democrats’ annual retreat at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C. today, Senate Democrats said.

The retreat was closed to media.

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For thirty years the Catholic bishops of the United States have trivialized their moral authority by wasting their teaching authority within the Church by embracing every liberal social initiative that came along, from expressing concern for migrants and refugees to lecturing the government on the plight of illegal aliens.

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ATLANTA — A high-ranking official resigned Tuesday from the Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast-cancer charity after a dispute over whether the group should give funding to Planned Parenthood, according to a letter obtained by The Associated Press.

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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Catholic leaders upped the ante Monday, threatening to challenge the Obama administration over a provision of the new health care law that would require all employers, including religious institutions, to pay for birth control.

As CBS 2’s Marcia Kramer reports, it could affect the presidential elections.

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(CNSNews.com) - Archbishop Timothy Broglio, who leads the Roman Catholic Archdiocese for the Military Services, wrote a letter to be read at all Sunday Masses for U.S. military personnel around the world that said that a regulation issued by the Obama Administration under the new federal health care law was “a blow” to a freedom that U.S. troops have not only fought to defend but for which some have recently died in battle.

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President Obama and his radical feminist enforcers have had it in for Catholic medical providers from the get-go. It's about time all people of faith fought back against this unprecedented encroachment on religious liberty. First, they came for the Catholics. Who's next?

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A pro-life event at the Rhode Island State House was disrupted by Occupy Wall Street protesters who heckled speakers and dumped condoms on Catholic girls in the crowd.

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The Susan G. Komen Foundation has restored funding to to Planned Parenthood for breast cancer screenings after the group took a raucous lashing from many former supporters on social networks and in the news. 

The decision was announced by Komen founder and CEO Nancy Brinker via the advocacy group's website.

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(CNSNews.com) - House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) vowed today that she will join with the Obama administration in standing up against the Catholic Church in defending a new regulation that will require Catholic individuals to buy, and Catholic institutions to provide, health insurance plans that cover sterilizations and artificial contraceptives, including those that induce abortions.

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I was on the road yesterday afternoon when the news broke that Susan G. Komen for the Cure was defunding Planned Parenthood.

Since then abortion proponents and news organizations have worked themselves into a frenzy speculating why it happened and who is to blame – from George W. Bush, to new SGK VP of public policy Karen Handel.

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LARGO, Fla., Jan. 26, 2012 /Christian Newswire/ -- An onslaught of articles reported by the mainstream media earlier this week ranged from utter disbelief to crass remarks denigrating Oklahoma Senator Ralph Shortey (R) over the bill he introduced banning food products developed using aborted fetal material in his state.  

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Thank you for being an important part of the greatest human rights movement on earth—the selfless struggle by prayer, fasting and works to defend and protect all weak and vulnerable persons from the violence of abortion, infanticide, and euthanasia.

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On Monday, Rep. Allen West (R-FL) delivered a fervent speech at the March for Life rally in Washington, D.C. West, who opened his impassioned address by reading from a devotional called “In God We Still Trust,” invigorated the audience with references to Ronald Reagan, Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson.

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(CNSNews.com) - The Obama administration on Friday finalized a regulation that orders all Americans—unless they work directly at a church--to purchase government-approved health insurance plans that cover sterilizations and all FDA-approved contraceptives including those that cause abortions.

The regulation further requires that health-insurance plans must provide sterilizations, contraceptives and abortifacients without any fees or co-pay.

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"I think it’s safe to say that the entire abortion industry is based on a lie … I am dedicated to spending the rest of my life undoing the law that bears my name." —Norma McCorvey, "Jane Roe" of Roe v. Wade1

The 1973 Roe v. Wade decision imposed abortion-on-demand throughout the United States. But that decision did not mark the beginning of abortion in mainstream society. In fact, the history of abortion reaches back not just decades, but centuries, and even millenniums. To comprehend the issue of abortion completely, we must understand its historic context.

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President Barack Obama, today, release a statement celebrating the Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court decision that allowed for 54 million abortions. The decision, handed down on January 22, 1973, overturned pro-life laws offering protection for unborn children in most states across the country, and made abortions legal and virtually unlimited.

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On Saturday, tens of thousands of pro-life activists lined the streets in front of San Francisco’s City Hall and then filled the city’s main thoroughfare, walking about two miles down Market Street to the Embarcadero.

Banging drums, playing guitars and chanting “We are pro-life,” the enthusiastic throngs filled Market Street and stopped all traffic for more than a mile. Organizers estimated more than 40,000 attended the Walk for Life West Coast.

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The Obama administration has chosen to ignore the First Amendment and add insult to injury for Catholics whose schools, hospitals and charities help make this nation great. Now the real fight begins.

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To translate this Edict, the American Caesar has spoken and given the Catholic Church 13 months to comply with its unjust regulation or face punitive consequences.

"Obama administration has drawn an unprecedented line in the sand. The Catholic bishops are committed to working with our fellow Americans to reform the law and change this unjust regulation. We will continue to study all the implications of this troubling decision. In effect, the president is saying we have a year to figure out how to violate our consciences.To force American citizens to choose between violating their consciences and forgoing their healthcare is literally unconscionable." (Cardinal Designate Dolan, Abp of New York, President, USCCB)

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It’s a girl, a film being released this year, documents the practice of killing unwanted baby girls in South Asia. The trailer’s most chilling scene is one with an Indian woman who, unable to contain her laughter, confesses to having killed eight infant daughters.

The statistics are sickening. The UN reports approximately 200 million girls in the world today are ‘missing’. India and China are said to eliminate more female infants than the number of girls born in the US each year. Lianyungang in China has the worst infant gender ratio on record with 163 boys born for every 100 girls. Taiwan, South Korea and Pakistan are also countries in which unwanted female babies are aborted, killed or abandoned.

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WASHINGTON, D.C., October 7, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Speaking at the Values Voters summit on Friday, former Senator and GOP 2012 candidate Rick Santorum shared two unusual stories from behind the scenes of the years-long effort to ban partial-birth abortion: the change of opinion of a pro-abortion senator, and the eerily appropriate cry of a baby during a speech Santorum delivered on the subject.

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This Sunday, January 22, pro-life bloggers, tweeters, facebookers, commenters, debaters, apologists, and rabble-rousers will band together to counter NARAL’s Blog for Choice Day by asking them everywhere they can, “What do you mean by that word, ‘choice’”?

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Two doctors are facing murder charges in connection with fetuses found at a secret abortion clinic in Elkton in August 2010, police said.

It is believed to be the first time doctors in Maryland have been charged with abortion-related murder, according to local prosecutors.

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Ron Paul wants to be pro-life but is officially pro-choice state by state, and so contradicts himself and wrongly assumes that states' rights supersede human rights, concluding that a state like California has the right to permit abortion. But the right to life is God-given so there can be no 'right' to decriminalize child killing.

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As an OB/GYN who delivered over 4,000 babies, Ron Paul knows firsthand how precious, fragile, and in need of protection life is.

Dr. Paul’s experience in science and medicine only reinforced his belief that life begins at conception, and he believes it would be inconsistent for him to champion personal liberty and a free society if he didn’t also advocate respecting the God-given right to life—for those born and unborn.

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Why does the warm heart of liberalism turn to ice on the subject of unborn children? Why do so many liberals support abortion and Roe v. Wade? These are not easy questions to answer, given liberal convictions that should lead to opposition instead. As someone with an early background in antiwar politics, and one who lived through the legalization of abortion, I will suggest reasons why so many liberals support it. Then I will offer many reasons why they should, instead, defend the unborn. Most of those reasons should also be of interest to radicals and libertarians. I hope that all will consider my case, both in their personal lives and in thinking about public policy.

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For most of her 100 years, Minka Disbrow tried to find out what became of the precious baby girl she gave up for adoption after being raped as a teen.

She hoped, but never imagined, she'd see her Betty Jane again.

The cruel act of violence bore in Disbrow an enduring love for the child. She kept a black and white photograph of the baby bundled in blankets and tucked inside a basket.

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SALT LAKE CITY, December 22, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Utah’s high court has ruled that the “plain language” of the legal term “minor child” includes children in the womb.

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(CNSNews.com) – New Hampshire Right to Life is suing the Obama administration in an attempt to force the release of information regarding $1-million in taxpayer money awarded to Planned Parenthood’s six New Hampshire clinics.

The grant – awarded by the Health and Human Service Department (HHS) in September -- came three months after New Hampshire’s governing body rejected federal money for clinics that perform abortions.

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DONGSHIGU VILLAGE, China, December 16, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Famed Batman star Christian Bale is making headlines after he traveled nine hours from Beijing to visit blind forced abortion opponent Chen Guangcheng. 

The actor never got the chance, however, as he was roughed up and forced away from Chen’s village by Chinese government officials, according to a CNN report.

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The Washington Post reports that, under President Obama and his Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, the Food and Drug Administration is considering letting “anyone of any age buy the controversial morning-after pill Plan B directly off drugstore and supermarket shelves without a prescription.”

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As the brothers began to discuss their plans, they realized Gianna’s story would be much more impactful as told through fiction. “As a documentary, this wouldn’t be palatable,” Andrew explained. “So, we decided to put the story in an entertaining, coming-of-age love film that allowed us to bring awareness.” Thus, they decided to loosely base Hannah‘s journey on Gianna’s personal story.

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Sarah Palin is using her influence to breathe new life into Rick Santorum's campaign for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination.

The 2008 vice presidential nominee told Fox News' Sean Hannity, "If voters start kind of shifting gears and deciding they want ideological consistency, then they're going to start paying attention to say, Rick Santorum."

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A stunning Planned Parenthood document that includes radical ideas such as compulsory abortion and sterilization; special "permits" to have children; penalizing parents; and encouraging homosexuality dovetails with some Obamacare mandates, according to a former Planned Parenthood director.

Abby Johnson, who left her position after helping with an abortion and writing about her experience in "unPLANNED," said the document has been around for 40 years but has been virtually ignored.

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The Los Angeles abortion clinic where partial-birth abortions were invented has been shut down — a possible indication of a pro-life trend, says one activist.

Eve Surgical Center’s business dates back to the 1980s, when it operated as a secret clinic until it was discovered by Operation Rescue in the early 1990s. After partial-birth abortions were banned by law, the process was modified so that the procedure began with a fatal injection into the unborn baby’s heart before the child’s body was extracted.

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Taya Kennedy isn’t your average baby model. The 14-month-old has a beautiful smile and a twinkle in her eye, which is why it‘s no surprise that she’s been a major success in the kid-modeling world. But it is the fact that she has Down Syndrome that separates her from other young models her age.

There’s simply something unique and inspiring about Taya.

“Taya is an incredibly photogenic, warm and smiley child, and that shines through in her photographs,” explains Alysia Lewis, the owner of Urban Angels, the UK modeling agency that signed the child.

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http://www.ted.com Image-maker Alexander Tsiaras shares a powerful medical visualization, showing human development from conception to birth and beyond. (Some graphic images.)

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Catholics who believe the federal government should not be able to compel healthcare providers to perform abortions “have this conscience thing” that they really need to overcome, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told the Washington Post recently. Otherwise, she said, women “could die” from a lack of access to abortion services.

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Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi blasted Catholics for fighting for the right not to perform or fund abortions, describing their abhorrence for supporting abortions as “this conscience thing,” in remarks to the Washington Post.

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This is gigantic news that should be on the front page but is instead relegated to the business section.  (I am telling you.  You want accurate stem cell news without all the hype?  Read the business news.)  Geron, the California company that was the first to get FDA approval for human trials with cells derived from embryonic stem cells has decided to shut down the trial and leave embryonic stem cells behind.  From the New York Times:

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Please call Governor Cuomo at (518) 474-8390 and respectfully ask him to approve the New York "Choose Life" License Plate sponsored by The Children First Foundation without further delay to help promote and support life, adoption and safe haven efforts in New York State. Be sure to sign our New York Petition!

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Elaine Riddick was 13 years old when she got pregnant after being raped by a neighbor in Winfall, N.C., in 1967.  The state ordered that immediately after giving birth, she should be sterilized.  Doctors cut and tied off her fallopian tubes.

“I have to carry these scars with me.  I have to live with this for the rest of my life,” she said. 

Riddick was never told what was happening.  “Got to the hospital and they put me in a room and that’s all I remember, that’s all I remember,” she said.  “When I woke up, I woke up with bandages on my stomach.”

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The chair of the national Democratic Party has issued a statement on a vote taking place next week in Mississippi on an amendment saying human life begins at conception or fertilization. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a Florida Democratic congresswoman chosen by President Barack Obama to head the party, called making such a statement “an extreme and radical step,” according to a new CNS News report.

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Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum will deliver a series of three “major policy speeches” beginning Friday in Iowa, his campaign said Thursday, focusing on a wide variety of issues that other candidates have rarely addressed.

The first speech is called “Moral, Cultural Policies for a Santorum White House,” and “will focus on returning to traditional American values of faith and family,” Santorum communications director Hogan Gidley said in an email.

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When he closed down the ‘faith-based initiatives’ office in the beginning of his presidency, it was an early warning.

Whoever missed it then, can’t help but see it now. It’s getting worse, fast.

The Washington Post is reporting this morning about a “contentious battle” emerging between Catholic groups and the Obama administration over a multitude of issues ranging from Obamacare, abortion, contraception, and even human trafficking.

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I must say that I agree with Ron Paul on a number of economic issues including his consistent opposition to the unconstitutional Federal Reserve, both bail-outs, and the recent lifting of the debt ceiling.

But on the major social/moral issues that under-gird any society’s economy (life and marriage), Ron Paul is as far from being an authentic pro-Personhood pro-lifer and pro-family conservative as you can get.

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Opponents of abortion are rarely interviewed on television these days. “It’s much harder to get on TV than it used to be,” says Charmaine Yoest, who heads Americans United for Life. Bookers of guests for news shows tell her, “We don’t want to talk about abortion. We’re tired of it.”

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A REALLY Inconvenient Truth – for some: Contrary to what abortion advocates claim, the scientific evidence does support the humanity of the unborn. From the moment of conception the mother is carrying a genetically distinct human being in her womb. Ken Connor at the Center for a Just Society writes:

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Godfather Politics 

Many abortion advocates have no clue what goes on at the clinics they endorse, nor do they really want to know.  They believe that women have this God-given right to say what happens to their body even if it means murdering an unborn child.

But what about the babies?  Do they have any rights?

Sadly, and profoundly perverse is knowing that many people who favor abortion and the right to kill an unborn child are also animal rights activists.  Many members of PETA are pro-abortion.  They protest and picket cosmetic manufacturers and research labs concerning the treatment of the animals while at the same time they are all in favor in the slaughter of innocent lives that never get the chance to see the light of day.

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The Vatican called on Monday for the establishment of a “global public authority” and a “central world bank” to rule over financial institutions that have become outdated and often ineffective in dealing fairly with crises.

A major document from the Vatican’s Justice and Peace department should be music to the ears of the “Occupy Wall Street” demonstrators and similar movements around the world who have protested against the economic downturn.

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Mark Harrington of the pro-life group Created Equal, along with several other pro-life activists, held a protest at Planned Parenthood (PP) of Central Ohio’s “Condom Couture 2011″event at the Shadowbox Live Theater. Sometime after arriving at the Planned Parenthood fundraiser, off duty Columbus Police Officer Jack Addington, who was hired by Planned Parenthood for event security, began harassing demonstrators which finally resulted in a physical assault against Criminal Information Unit Detective Roger Dickinson.

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The Brooklyn Ink, a publication from the Columbia Journalism School, published a piece yesterday that looks at the sky-high abortion rate in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, where more than half of pregnancies are terminated.

Included in the article was a quote from Edna Johnson, who serves on the local community board and who doubles as a longtime aide to Congressman Ed Towns, and who argued that more people in the neighborhood should in fact be having abortions:

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PARIS, France, October 21, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A group of Parisian Catholic students was beaten by riot police during a protest in front of a theater during the premiere of a blasphemous play by Italian playwright Romeo Castellicci, on Thursday evening.

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Catholics make up about a quarter of the American electorate and have backed the popular-vote winner in every presidential election since 1972. That track record continued through 2008: While weekly churchgoing Catholics slightly favored Sen. John McCain, Catholics as a whole backed President Barack Obama by a margin of 54 to 45 percent.

Given the role Catholics played in Obama's 2008 victory and their habit of picking presidential winners, you might think that an embattled president with a 40-percent approval rating would be working overtime to solidify his support among this crucial voting bloc. Instead, Obama seems intent on convincing Catholics that their faith in him was unwarranted.

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October 18, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - After being critically injured in a car accident that took the life of fellow Students for Life (SFL) staff member Kortney Blythe Gordon and her unborn daughter Sophy, SFL campus coordinator Jon Scharfenberger has passed away.

Jon was involved in the car accident that occurred at around 8:00 pm on Saturday October 8th. While initial reports had indicated that Scharfenberger’s condition had been stabilized, he succumbed to his injuries this morning, Tuesday, October 18, 2011.

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Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., was essentially stripped of any formal input into the legislative process in last November's election. I heave a sigh of relief over this fact every time I see her say something like this:

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Rome, Italy, Oct 8, 2011 / 03:29 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- An American bishop has predicted that government authorities may one day attempt to silence the Catholic Church in the United States.
 
“We could see the possibility of it within the United States where we are no longer free to preach the truth from the pulpit or to present Catholic teaching,” Bishop Samuel J. Aquila of Fargo, North Dakota, told CNA on an Oct. 7 visit to Rome.

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Coincidence, or not? (This is a true story.) Just yesterday I happened to run across the second “Life: Imagine the Potential,” the immensely powerful pro-adoption video produced by CatholicVote.org. One of the many people,  (a list that includes everyone from Willie Nelson to Eleanor Roosevelt) whose face flashes across the screen is Steve Jobs.

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Bantering with the audience at a fundraiser in St. Louis yesterday, President Barack Obama bragged about a new regulation, proposed by the Department of Health and Human Services, that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has denounced as an “unprecedented attack on religious liberty.”

“Darn right!” an audience member at the fundraiser shouted as Obama described the regulation.

“Darn tooting!” Obama said back.

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Before I begin, let me assure everyone reading this that I love animals.  We have three dogs, two cats, eight koi, five laying hens and two bird feeders.  (Sounds much like a Christmas song doesn’t it)  We love animals and we spend a lot of time and money taking care of their needs.

You would think I would be thrilled with reading that the Obama administration took steps to add more than 500 species of the animal planet to the Endangered Species List.  News about Endangered Species List  I wasn’t thrilled.

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 Who was Adolf Hitler - GRAPHIC!  Watch 180 - Abortion - Video

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I am never surprised when a leader in the pro-life movement suddenly finds himself or herself challenged by events that threaten to distract from the every day efforts to save lives. After all the enemy of life will use anything - even good actions or good people - to delay or divert the work of rescuing those being led to death.

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STATEN ISLAND, NY – Father Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, has issued the following statement:

“For the past several years, my Ordinary, the Most Reverend Patrick Zurek, Bishop of Amarillo, has given me permission to do the full-time pro-life work that I have done since 1993. In 2005, I made a public promise in a Church ceremony in Amarillo, presided over by a Vatican Cardinal, that this full-time pro-life work would be a lifetime commitment. That’s a commitment I promise to fulfill without wavering.

“This past week, however, I received a letter from the Bishop insisting that I report to the Diocese this Tuesday, September 13 and, for the time being, remain only there.

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When I was at Planned Parenthood, I used to work a lot…I mean, a lot.  Sometimes, I would work as many as 80 hours in one week.  In order to do that, I would have to go in at night.  Lots of buildings are eerie at night…none are creepier than an abortion clinic.

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WASHINGTON, D.C., August 4, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A mother of four American children may be deported to China where she will face forced sterilization and possibly imprisonment for violating the country’s one-child policy, if a U.S. court refuses to hear her appeal, WorldNetDaily reports.

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...O’Keefe’s stings, marked by outlandish costumes and outrageous stories, are as much theater as political statement. But there is nothing of the merry prankster about him. He is a worrier, with the bitten-down fingernails to prove it. He has a keen eye for the absurdity and hypocrisy of others, but it is unmatched by self-deprecating humor or a discernible sense of fun.

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Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is praising a recommendation from the Institute of Medicine that insurance companies be required to offer free contraceptives to all women in a report she called " historic," suggesting she may make the recommendation an official policy.

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WASHINGTON, DC, July 19, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A pro-life activist who has engaged in sidewalk counseling for 14 years has been taken to court by the federal Department of Justice.  The complaint to the court submitted by the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice alleges that Richard Retta non-violently obstructed a woman and her ‘clinic escorts’ from entering Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington, an abortion facility.

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James O’Keefe, founder of Project Veritas today released its latest undercover investigation.  Citizen journalists have uncovered widespread Medicaid fraud in state offices across the country.

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The American Center for Law and Justice has temporarily halted a New York City ordinance that would harm crisis pregnancy centers.

The ACLJ challenged the ordinance in federal court and a district judge agreed to a preliminary injunction stopping the law from going into effect on Thursday.

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NEW YORK, July 7 (C-FAM) In advance of the UN youth conference later this month, the International Planned Parenthood Federation released two new publications on abortion and sexual rights for youth. The new documents are the latest part of the organization’s larger campaign targeted at teenagers and older children.

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To a certain extent, I live in a cave when it comes to following the news, particularly when it comes to media coverage of sensational trials, which tends to drive me around the bend. Therefore, I seriously had never heard of the Casey Anthony trial even as recently as Sunday night. Therefore, I have no strong opinions on whether Casey Anthony is actually guilty of the crime with which she was charged, or whether the result of the trial was a good or bad thing for our society.

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My prayer this 4th of July is that 2012 will bring with it an election in which life will triumph, and that progress will be made toward enabling all pregnant women to be truly free…free of the bondage of coercion, free of the shackles of Roe.

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In 1990, the economist Amartya Sen published an essay in The New York Review of Books with a bombshell title: “More Than 100 Million Women Are Missing.” His subject was the wildly off-kilter sex ratios in India, China and elsewhere in the developing world. To explain the numbers, Sen invoked the “neglect” of third-world women, citing disparities in health care, nutrition and education. He also noted that under China’s one-child policy, “some evidence exists of female infanticide.”

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The Texas state legislature has approved the Senate Bill 7 Conference Committee Report that would revoke the taxpayer funding for the Planned Parenthood abortion business. With the actions by the state House and Senate, the measure now heads to pro-life Gov. Rick Perry for his signature.

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The House of Representatives today voted for an amendment to HR 2112, the Agriculture Appropriations bill, to ensure no funds authorized under the bill can be used to pay for the dangerous RU 486 abortion drug under a telemedicine grant section.

Congressman Steve King, an Iowa Republican, applauded the 240-176 vote to pass the amendment to prevents any funds within the legislation from being spent on the abortion drug RU-486 “for any purpose,” including use in “telemed abortions.”

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Late Thursday, the Obama administration filed legal papers supporting the lawsuit brought forward by the Planned Parenthood abortion business seeking to challenge the Indiana law revoking its taxpayer funding.

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Presidenial hopefuls Mitt Romney and Herman Cain have declined to sign a pledge that calls for White House hopefuls to push for anti-abortion goals if elected presdient, Politico reports. Five other candidates -- Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, Tim Pawlenty and Rick Santorum -- have signed the pledge, written by the Susan B. Anthony List.

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“Jesus, what have I done?”

Long before he won accolades as an American Idol judge, Steven Tyler was a bona-fide rock star, with all that that implied. In 1975, when he was in his late 20s and the lead singer for the band Aerosmith, Tyler persuaded the parents of his 14-year-old girlfriend, Julia Holcomb, to make him her legal guardian so that they could live together in Boston.

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WASHINGTON, D.C., June 8, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – When Ken Cuccinelli speaks publicly about his interpretation of Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution, pro-family and conservative activists tend to stand up and cheer. Cuccinelli is the Republican attorney general of Virginia challenging President Obama’s health-care law, which would subsidize insurance plans that cover abortion services.

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From the perspective of somebody who values the sanctity of life, the unvarnished truth is that the Democrat Party is the Party of Death.

Whether it's a high-profile fight for the life of somebody under the care of a hospital, such as Terry Schiavo was before she was murdered at the behest of a leftist court, or the tens of millions of unborn babies slaughtered since the horrific practice of abortion, which involves killing an unborn baby before it has the chance to take a single breath in this world, shedding its innocent blood unto death...

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Ever since Republicans took control of half the country’s statehouses this year, the anti-abortion movement has won one victory after another. At least 64 new anti-abortion laws have passed, with more than 30 of them in April alone. The campaign is the largest in history and also the most creative. Virginia started regulating abortion clinics as if they were hospitals. Utah, Nebraska and several other states have stopped private health insurers from covering abortions, with rare exceptions. South Dakota will soon tell women that before they go to an abortion clinic, they must first visit a crisis pregnancy center whose mission is to talk them out of it.

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Until now the few known details about the relationship have come from Tyler and his band mates, as found in the band’s memoirs, Walk This Way, or Tyler’s recent autobiography, Does the Noise in my Head Bother You?

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Abortion

After a period of morning speeches, the House will finish work on H.R. 1216- the fourth bill brought to the floor that defunds mandatory appropriations for an Obamacare program.  This bill rescinds all unobligated funds for graduate medical training programs created under Obamacare.  It also subjects the remaining appropriations to the annual discretionary spending process.  This will prevent the program from becoming a mandatory slush fund for Democrat special interests.

The critical vote on this bill is the Foxx Amendment (H. AMDT. 298, which prohibits funding for graduate medical institutions to be used for the purpose of training medical residents in abortion procedures.  Please call you member of Congress and request a yes vote on the Foxx anti-abortion Amendment.

Call your representative today: 

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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) — The following is a compilation of bill signings, speeches, appointments and other actions that President Barack Obama has engaged in that have promoted abortion before and during his presidency.

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Bernard Nathanson, a co-founder of what is now NARAL Pro-Choice America, passed away at the age of 84 yesterday. Nathanson, along with Norma McCorvey (the Jane Roe of Roe v. Wade) is one of the most famous converts to the pro-life cause. In addition to co-founding NARAL, Nathanson served as the director of the Center for Reproductive and Sexual Health (CRASH), New York’s largest abortion clinic. Nathanson has written that he performed more than 5,000 abortions and was responsible for more than 75,000 throughout his career.

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A teenage girl who was recently killed by a deadly infection following usage of the dangerous RU 486 abortion drug followed the same Planned Parenthood protocols for taking the drug that claimed the lives of women in the United States.

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An Illinois judge has ruled in favor of two pro-life pharmacists who don't want to dispense the so-called "morning-after pill," or Plan B, on religious grounds.

On Tuesday, Sangamon County Circuit Court Judge John Belz struck down a 6-year-old state law that required Illinois pharmacies to dispense emergency contraception.

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INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana won a key victory in its fight to cut off public funding for Planned Parenthood Wednesday when a federal judge refused to block a tough new abortion law from taking effect, a move that could boost Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels' image among social conservatives as he considers running for president.

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Indiana has become the first state to cut off Planned Parenthood from taxpayer assistance because of its role in the abortion business.

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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The Justice Department under President Barack Obama has taken a harder line against anti-abortion activists accused of trying to block access to clinics, suing at least a half-dozen of them under a federal law that lay mostly dormant during the Bush administration.

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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana is poised to become the first state to cut off all government funding for the Planned Parenthood organization, providing a significant victory for the anti-abortion movement but presenting a political predicament for the state’s governor, Mitch Daniels, as he considers running for president.

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Planned Parenthood has been in the headlines lately, as the Republican House, led by Roman Catholic Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, battles to end taxpayer funding of the nation’s largest abortion provider. This has provoked hysteria in liberal Democrats, who have described defunding attempts as everything from a “vendetta” against women (Sen. Barbara Boxer) to a “war on women” (Congresswoman Barbara Lee) to a “bull’s eye” on the chest of women (Sen. Harry Reid).

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The first in a series examines the climate of callous disregard that made Gosnell's attitude not only possible, but the logical consequence of our political and culture posture.

As a single leaf turns not yellow but with the silent knowledge of the whole tree, so the wrong-doer cannot do wrong without the hidden will of you all. ~ Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

My little girl is afraid of thunder, and storms come often to Georgia in the spring months. When thunder crackles and booms over the house at night, I walk into her room and invariably find her awake and hiding underneath her blanket. She asks me to lie down, so I stretch out beside her and she pulls my arm across her like a safety belt. I tell that we—sheltered, hidden, warmly enfolded—are like the little boy growing even now in her mother's womb. She smiles, tucks her head into my chest, and drifts back to sleep.

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As the 2012 budget battles began, Clare Coleman, CEO of the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association, took to the pages of the Washington Post. In a piece called “Five Myths about Planned Parenthood,” she argued that defunding the organization was an ignoble goal for members of Congress looking to cut the bloated federal budget.

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ST. LOUIS (AP) — The child known as Baby Joseph has left St. Louis to return home to Canada.

Fifteen-month-old Joseph Maraachli (Muh-RAHSH’-lee) left Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center in St. Louis on Thursday and flew with his family to their home in Ontario, exactly one month after the child received a tracheotomy aimed at extending his life.

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Local Blooming Grove, NY By:  Eileen Kelly Collopy

To sum up these 40 days in 1 word I would say "miraculous". I love looking back and realizing God's will has been done. I started the 40 days with intentions of praying the Rosary at Dr Luck's on Wed. and in Goshen the other 6 days a week. Within a week or 2 I was moved to want to spend every day at Luck's having heard of Dr Nathanson's conversion in part being about him seeing people out there all the time and wondering what made them do it - God of course was what he realized. Also Abby Johnson's being moved by kindness, led me and my best friend Gen Mende (my spiritual siamese twin) :-) to go to Luck' s daily to pray.

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The former Chairman of the Democrat National Committee Tim Kaine has stepped down to run for the US Senate in Virginia. This is not really a good thing for the Country, because his successor Debbie Wasserman-Schultz is the perfect example of what is wrong with the Democrat Party; a party that has moved dramatically to the left.

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Can we finally dispense with the myth of the pro-life Democrat?  In the Senate last night, three "pro-life" Democrats voted in lockstep with America's Official Abortion Party to maintain federal funding for Planned Parenthood in a stand alone vote.  There was nothing to camouflage or obfuscate the issue.  In case you've forgotten, Planned Parenthood is the nation's number one provider of abortions.  Ninety-seven percent of pregnant women who enter its doors are no longer pregnant when they exit, and almost 40 percent of the group's revenues stem from abortions.  It was founded in racism (remnants of which remain alive and well today), it is systemicallycorrupt, and its moral degradation reaches far beyond its abortion-related services. 

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Here’s something to keep in mind as Democrats risk a government shutdown in order to preserve federal subsidies of Planned Parenthood. From the Center for Responsive Politics:

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In my defense, I normally would not get caught dead visiting the likes of Huffpost Media, as one general feels compelled to wash off the filth upon leaving the site. However, I couldn't resist. The headline was just too tempting. Lawrence Odonell getting teary eyed on the air defending Planned Parenthood? Really?. Good grief! Below is the story from Huffpost Media  Continue if you can contain the bile rising up in your throat.

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The Pro-Life Flash Mob Strikes Again

Flash mobs, such as the mall-singing Halleluia chorus, seem to be all the rage.

Pvideo of the Chicago Pro-Life Flash Mob in action. It portrayed a group of enthusiastic, joyful young people chanting uplifting slogans and praying in front of an unsuspecting “Walk for Choice” pro-abortion crowd. The pro-life group’s “Lord of the Rings” music, their methods, and their unique yellow balloons with the word “Life” printed on them, brought a smile to my face and reminded me of other joy-filled youth gatherings such as the March for Life and World Youth Day.

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(CNSNews.com) - Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) vowed yesterday that the provision to defund Planned Parenthood that passed the House earlier this year is “never, never, never going to pass the Senate.”

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Through the years, a number of Catholic leaders have made specific statements concerning the organization Planned Parenthood. Presented below are some of those statements. You may forward others you know of to Stop Planned Parenthood (STOPP), to whom we are grateful for providing these excerpts.

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Myths about Planned Parenthood are spreading like grassfire. Thanks to a perfect storm of events, the abortion provider is scrambling to cauterize the biggest PR hit it has ever sustained. November’s election of an overwhelmingly pro-life Congress, revelation of numerous violations by its staff and repeated calls for its defunding by social and fiscal conservatives alike have put Planned Parenthood’s lifeblood on the line.

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A person who works for the party of abortion has the gall to say that GOP budget cutting will kill 70,000 children? Sick.

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He’s Scott Brown. He drives a truck. And as we’ve learned over his first year in office, he’s also a flaming RINO in the mold of Olympia Snowe. He’s so big of a RINO, he thinks YOU should continue to fund Planned Parenthood with your taxpayer money because the proposed GOP cuts “go too far.” According to The Hill, the flaming RINO from Massachusetts said Tuesday he does not support a GOP proposal to slash funding for Planned Parenthood saying:

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LARGO, Fla., March 29, 2011 /Christian Newswire/ -- Children of God for Life is calling for a public boycott of major food companies partnering with Senomyx, a biotech company that produces artificial flavor enhancers using aborted fetal cell lines to test their products.

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When Live Action called the abortion giant a woman named Samantha answered the phone and when asked about mammograms she did something completely surprising. She told the truth.

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An Ohio House committee has narrowly approved a bill that would impose the strictest abortion limit in the nation, outlawing the procedure at the first detectable fetal heartbeat.

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Using militaristic terms at a dinner sponsored by one of the nation’s most polemic pro-abortion groups, House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi condemned Republicans who want to de-fund the Planned Parenthood abortion business.

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Chicago's black community is likely to be in an uproar when over 30 anti-abortion billboards hit their neighborhoods and street corners Tuesday, March 29.

The billboards feature a graphic of President Barack Obama saying, “Every 21 minutes, our next possible leader is aborted.”

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Question:  Besides MTV’s “Skins”, what TV show today is arguably corrupting our youth and promoting homosexual behavior and sexual activity more than any other?  Answer:  the heavily promoted and what I find to be aggressively immoral Tuesday night youth indoctrination hour, ‘Glee’.

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NEW YORK, NY, March 23, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Yesterday a pregnancy care center in New York City across from the Planned Parenthood clinic in the South Bronx was “virtually destroyed” after it was broken into, apparently by burglars.

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March 25, 2011-Thomas More Society attorneys issued a letter today to Marathon County library officials demanding that the library rescind its decision to cancel a showing by the Wausau "40 Days for Life" group of the pro-life documentary, "Blood Money." The director of the library, Ralph Illick, had cancelled the showing of the movie in one of the library's "public meeting rooms," because he determined that the film's topic - abortion - would "interfere with normal use of our library."

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LANSING, Michigan (LifeSiteNews.com) – A late-term abortion chain has threatened to sue the pro-life Center for Bio-ethical Reform for copyright infringement, because it juxtaposed the clinic’s promotional video with real video of an abortion being performed.

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UNICEF’s most recent State of the World’s Children Report, reveals that UNICEF’s take on what children need in 2011 and beyond is absurd at the least. A look at their broad definition of adolescence (10-19 years old), their reasons for investing in adolescents, and their choice of health topics demonstrates that UNICEF has stepped away from its job, and towards yet another “empowerment” and “rights-based” agenda with gruesome consequences.

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Are Christians Obsessed With Gays and Abortion?

Patheos

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Washington (CNSNews.com) – Likely Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain supports ending all federal funding to Planned Parenthood, an abortion business that he said was founded to target African Americans and is continuing that mission.

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Two pro-life groups that cater to young people have announced the winners of a contest they jointly sponsored to encourage young people to produce videos urging the revocation of taxpayer funding for the Planned Parenthood abortion business.

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STATEN ISLAND, March 14, 2011 /Christian Newswire/ -- Under cover of darkness, Father Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life, arrived in Ontario, Canada, Sunday night to rescue Baby Joseph Maraachli from the London Health Sciences Centre. For two weeks, doctors at the hospital in London, Ontario, have been delaying the baby's transfer to a hospital where efforts to save his life will not be officially labeled "futile."

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Republican leadership and commentators are cooling to social conservatives’ mounting cries to make defunding Planned Parenthood a nonnegotiable item in budget talks, challenging the provision as both bad politics and bad policy.

This is exactly why I'm a conservative not a republican.  It looks like the republicans will cave again.  ~ C4F

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It should not surprise that I hold in low esteem a particular breed of man who, while claiming the name Catholic, supports openly and actively that wretched party of death. They fret over a folly, which they basely baptize as “social justice”, which inexplicably counsels the right of broadband internet access and condoms for the poor, while innocent life is extinguished by the millions at the cruel hands of the federally subsidized. In so doing, they weave for themselves a seamless garment as a shroud, befitting the whitewashed tombs they gaily inhabit.

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 Will you stand against Planned Parenthood?‏

It's time to put an end to the taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood!

    Planned Parenthood is a corrupt organization that uses hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to end the lives of over three hundred thousand babies every year.

Sign Petition here:

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What I say here is found in books that anyone can find on the Internet (www.amazon.com or www.bn.com) or rare bookstores. Do you realize that many women (and especially Obama) are supporting a group whose founder spoke highly of the Nazis' practices and teachings in the 1930s and 1940s, and who wrote books with racists wordings and ugly eugenics practices, such as getting rid of those kids who were deformed or had genetic problems?

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Election after election, Planned Parenthood spends millions promoting the worst of the budget bursting, radically progressive politicians. And each time, they use our own tax dollars against us. Oh, they say the funds are restricted, but we know federal subsidies mean they can use much more money on elections. This is the worst kind of the spending abuse our Tea Party rallies to fight.

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President Barack Obama would veto the House-approved long-term spending bill for the federal government that contains the Pence Amendment, a measure that would de-fund the Planned Parenthood abortion business.

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On Tuesday's World News, ABC's David Wright highlighted actress Jane Russell's "botched back-alley abortion in high school," which led her to push "hard to expand adoption," but he failed to mention that she described herself as "vigorously pro-life," and that she was a conservative activist.

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March 1, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Over the last three decades the conversion story of Dr. Bernard Nathanson, the former leading abortionist turned pro-life activist, touched countless souls.  Included among them is the woman who most recently had the courage to follow in his footsteps - former Planned Parenthood director Abby Johnson.

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“Seismic political shift.”  It’s a common term these days both in the United States and around the world. 

Everywhere the status quo is being turned on its head, and nowhere is that more apparent than in Washington’s current budget battle. An almost $2 trillion annual deficit, coupled with a $14 trillion national debt and an election earthquake last November, is turning the process upside down.

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Pro-life activist Alveda King reacted to the removal on Friday of a billboard advertisement in Manhattan that featured a black girl and the statement “the most dangerous place for an African American is in the womb.”

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RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, apparently there is a billboard, or was -- I have a picture of it here -- there was a billboard in New York City that has been pulled down.  It was a picture of a little African-American girl.  "An outdoor advertising company has taken down a New York City anti-abortion billboard that showed a black girl along with the tagline, 'The most dangerous place for an African-American is in the womb.' A manager for Louisiana-based Lamar Advertising confirmed Thursday the company had decided to take down the billboard. Some black residents said they found it offensive.

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Richmond, Va. (AP) - Virginia took a big step Thursday toward eliminating most of the state's 21 abortion clinics, approving a bill that would likely make rules so strict the medical centers would be forced to close, Democrats and abortion rights supporters said.

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NEW YORK -- An outdoor advertising company has taken down an anti-abortion billboard that pictured a black girl along with the tagline, "The most dangerous place for an African-American is in the womb."

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Before you sign up to race for the cure, maybe it's best to get up to speed on what, exactly, you're running for. A few years ago, the Susan G. Komen Foundation, which raises millions of dollars a year for breast cancer research, admitted that it gives a portion of its proceeds to Planned Parenthood. When people grilled the Foundation on their partnership, Komen tried to tamp down the controversy by saying that Planned Parenthood "provides vital services." Considering the latest news

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(CNSNews.com) - A coalition of prominent pro-life conservative leaders sent House Speaker John Boehner (R.-Ohio) a letter on Thursday stating their position that an amendment sponsored by Rep. Mike Pence (R.-Ind.) that prohibits federal funding of Planned Parenthood must be a “non-negotiable” element in any continuing resolution that House Republicans agree to enact next week to keep the government funded past March 4.

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A new billboard placed in SoHo by the anti-abortion group LifeAlways is getting heavy criticism from city officials who say it sends a racist message about African-Americans.

I love this billboard!  This billboard speaks the truth.  Thank you.  ~ C4F

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In an ethics trial that is seeking to determine in part whether Kline acted too aggressively to enforce Kansas child rape laws in his capacity as Attorney General or Johnson Co. District Attorney, Kline just revealed to the court under oath that he found 166 instances during a specific time period when girls younger than 14 years old and younger got abortions at clinics owned either by late-term abortionist George Tiller or Planned Parenthood of Overland Park.

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Pro-life politicians have often gone after the abortion provider, while pro-choice politicians like President Obama have rushed to its defense. In our exclusive interview, the President deflected the impact of the video sting.

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Bernard N. Nathanson, M.D., former abortionist, who’s conversion was a modern-day St. Paul story, died today, Feb. 21, at 84. He became one the most eloquent and informed pro-life voices in America and his death, at his New York residence after a prolonged battle with cancer, with his wife Christine by his side, will not silence his defense of life.

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I'm sure the House Clerk has had his hands full all week, with the nearly 600 amendments filed and the many that were voted on during the fiscal 2011 spending debate. As a result, his website has been rather slow to update. At this point, though, we have all the votes on the spending bill, and there are two I'd like to point out right away.

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February 21, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bernard Nathanson, the former abortionist turned top pro-life activist who is perhaps best known for his role in creating the pro-life video The Silent Scream, died at the age of 84 this morning after a lengthy battle with cancer, reports the National Catholic Register.

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A Planned Parenthood clinic in Kennewick, Washington, is accused of keeping a 14-year-old girl, who was impregnated by a 20-year-old man, from her father and police.

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I was reading a Tweet from Jill Stanek about this video in which Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood responds to the defunding of PP.  Besides the fact that PP is obviously panicking at they should be, she refers to the defunding as “Killing”.  Seriously this is so appropriate for her to say; after all killing is her business

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Predictably, the nation’s largest abortion business is upset by this afternoon’s vote in the House of Representatives to ensure the Planned Parenthood abortion business receives no federal funding of any kind.

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The House of Representatives today voted overwhelmingly to scrap funding for the Planned Parenthood abortion business and ensure it can’t receive any federal funds through any departments or programs.

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On February 28, in response to the continued epidemic of abortion in the black community and the recent revelations of Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell’s house of abortion horrors, a National Day of Mourning has been called into being. Across the country, Americans are invited to mourn the loss of over 55 million babies killed (disproportionately over 16 million of which are black babies) by the Supremely wrong constitutional decision of legalized abortion, known as Roe v. Wade.

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The House of Representatives will vote this week on an amendment that would revoke federal funding for the Planned Parenthood abortion business — coming after weeks of national publicity over shocking new videos.

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Dr. McArthur Hill used to kill babies for a living. Now he has repented. At a conference of former abortionists a few years ago, he shared the nightmares he had:

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BISMARCK, North Dakota, February 11, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A strong majority of lawmakers in the North Dakota House of Representatives on Friday afternoon passed a law that would make it illegal to murder any human being from the moment of their conception.

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RUSH: Today's the day that I might just drum myself out of a movement.  Well, it could happen.  Let me take a whack at I think what happened this weekend at CPAC.  There's all kinds of articles about it, too, I mean people in the Drive-By Media reviewing what happened, people in the conservative media reviewing what happened.  There are some exceptions to this, of course.  I'm just talking about the overall impression.  It seems that the ruling class hasn't learned a whole lot since the election.  It's somewhat troubling to me.

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CHICAGO, February 11, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Chicago’s Resurrection Hospital is making national news with its new commitment to reversing mid-term abortions for women who have changed their minds and wish to have their babies.

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Nan's position during the campaign:

Hayworth has said she’s against allowing the use of taxpayer funds to pay for abortions, supports parental notification legislation, and opposes late-term abortions.

Now she looks forward to reviewing the committee findings.  Something isn't right here.  ~ C4F

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Dear Friends in Life,
 
Please join us in a 40 day prayer vigil outside Dr. Bernard Luck’s Abortion Clinic in Blooming grove N.Y. from March 9th to April 17th. In the grand tradition of 40 Days for Life we plan to stand watch, and pray for the unborn as we ask the Lord to intercede on their behalf. Since this is our first year we will only be their on Wednesdays from 7am till 6pm, the day Dr. Luck performs surgical abortions. If you can spare an hour of your day to save the unborn we would be eternally grateful.

Since the original 40 Days for Life began a documented 3,599 lives have been saved, 43 abortion workers have quit their jobs and 9 clinics have shut down. None of this would have been possible without people like you. If you are interested please contact Eileen Collopy at (845)304-4646. For safety reasons we will need at least two volunteers there at all times. If you come alone we will find someone to stand with you.  

Thank You Eileen Collopy

P.S. If Wednesday’s are no good please join Wendy Wood and the Orange County Right to Life, outside Planned Parenthood in Goshen. They will be doing a full 40 Days for Life from March 9th thru April 17th. You can sign up for hours on their website or call Wendy at (845)294-9209

40 Days For Life

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Pelosi acknowledged that Dems could not stop Republicans from passing their anti-abortion agenda through the House. But she said it was crucial that pro-choice forces and Dems kick up enough noise to ensure that it dies in the Senate: “We have to make this issue too hot to handle.”

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"The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it." 
Margaret Sanger, Women and the New Race 
(Eugenics Publ. Co., 1920, 1923)

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February 8, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Authorities investigating the activities of Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell, who is accused of the murder of viable infants born alive in his Philadelphia clinic, are also putting together the pieces of his corrupt financial practices, according to a report by the Philadelphia Inquirer yesterday.

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Can you call right now? - Defund Planned Parenthood‏

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I believe that life begins at the moment of conception but even if you don’t hold this belief, why wouldn’t you want to err on the side of life?  There is no right to an abortion in the Constitution.  Yes, there is a right to privacy but not a right to commit a crime under the right of privacy.  So then what is government’s role?  The baby in the womb, no matter its gestational age, is a separate individual that has rights and can command the protection of the government just as we do.

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Senator Roger Wicker (R-MS) is sponsoring the "Life at Conception Act" (S.91), which will define personhood from the moment of conception. Sen. Wicker has 13 co-sponsors thus far.

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Virginia Pro-Life groups and Virginian citizens are outraged with Planned Parenthood and their promiscuous behavior in light of hidden cameras catching employees on video aiding and abetting sex trafficking, underage abortion services to prostitutes and catering their abortion services to local strip joints such as Richmond's Paper Moon, a local strip bar.

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right to life is the paramount and most fundamental right of every person