Another abortion pill?It appears the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is moving quickly towards approving ella (Ulipristal Acetate), to be marketed in the in the U.S. as an emergency contraceptive, even though it is similar to RU-486, the chemical abortion pill, which has caused severe injury to women—even causing deaths. Like RU-486, ella functions by blocking progesterone receptors which prevents an embryo from implanting in the uterine wall and could prevent an already implanted embryo from receiving proper nutrition—causing an abortion.
Congressman Joe Pitts (R-PA) has written a letter urging the FDA to do additional research on ella and emphasizing that the drug should NOT be approved at all if it could end the life of an unborn child.
If ella is deceptively marketed as an emergency contraceptive, women will be misled into thinking the drug will prevent pregnancy, when it could actually result in an abortion of their unborn child.
Ask your Representative to co-sign Rep. Pitts’ letter to the FDA, urging them to do further research on ella. We only have until Wednesday to get as many co-signers as possible.
The FDA is supposed to exist to protect Americans from harmful drugs—which is why they must do more research before approving ella—as they risk approving a drug which could end the lives of the youngest, most vulnerable Americans. When the abortion pill RU-486 was approved, it was done so without enough research—a mistake which has resulted in thousands of women injuring themselves—and some even dying. The fight to end the use of RU-486 continues, but now there is an additional battle to be waged.
We can’t let another abortion pill make its way into pharmacies across the country.
Please ask your Congressman to co-sign Rep. Pitt’s letter today, and insist the FDA do more research before approving ella.
With you in this fight for Life,
Marjorie Dannenfelser
President, Susan B. Anthony List
www.sba-list.org
Monday, July 26, 2010
Sunday, July 25, 2010
This week in Christ's life… (19)
This week, Jesus is 19 weeks old. He can move however his brain directs, including spinning, jackknifing, turning, and somersaulting. He looks like a miniature newborn and can suck his thumb at will. (This is the earliest that a preterm baby born in modern times has been able to survive. Born at just 21w6d LNMP/19w6d gestationally, a little girl born in 2006 survived and is doing well.) Child Jesus, growing in the womb, give us the strength to protect all people, especially the tiniest of growing babies.
Sunday, July 18, 2010
We're Paying for Abortion-On-Demand (SBA)
Well, the “gift” of health care reform keeps on giving. Since Wednesday, when Marjorie wrote to you with the horrific news that $160 million of our federal tax dollars were sent to establish a high risk insurance pool in Pennsylvania, a new program established by the health care bill, with no restrictions on abortion funding, New Mexico has also been added to the list of states receiving this blood money—unwillingly given by citizens from across the country.
Our hard earned tax dollars are being used by the federal government to fund high-risk insurance pool programs that cover abortion on-demand.
Taxpayer dollars--from every American across the country--being used to end the lives of innocent, unborn children in Pennsylvania, and now New Mexico. We must act now.
When those so-called pro-life Democrats like Bart Stupak and Kathy Dahlkemper voted for health care reform, they said our tax dollars would not be used to end unborn lives. President Obama said that his executive order would protect the conscience of the American taxpayers.
But I can think of 160 million reasons why that’s not true.
From the beginning, the Obama Administration hasn’t tried to hide their radical abortion agenda. First the repeal of the Mexico City Policy, then so-called “health care” reform, and an Executive Order that wasn't worth the paper it was printed on. Now, $160 million taxpayer dollars from across the country can end the lives of unborn boys and girls in Pennsylvania and New Mexico.
With you in this fight for Life,
Congresswoman Marilyn Musgrave
Director, Votes Have Consequences
Susan B. Anthony List
www.sba-list.org
P.S. Before defying the will of her constituents, Rep. Kathy Dahlkemper (PA-3) said she would represent the pro-life majority in her district. But now Pennsylvanians, and all Americans across the country, are being forced to pay for abortions with their own money. Rep. Dahlkemper and the Obama administration said the executive order would prevent taxpayers from having to pay for abortion, but the high risk insurance pool programs in Pennsylvania and New Mexico prove that this was a false promise.
Our hard earned tax dollars are being used by the federal government to fund high-risk insurance pool programs that cover abortion on-demand.
Taxpayer dollars--from every American across the country--being used to end the lives of innocent, unborn children in Pennsylvania, and now New Mexico. We must act now.
When those so-called pro-life Democrats like Bart Stupak and Kathy Dahlkemper voted for health care reform, they said our tax dollars would not be used to end unborn lives. President Obama said that his executive order would protect the conscience of the American taxpayers.
But I can think of 160 million reasons why that’s not true.
From the beginning, the Obama Administration hasn’t tried to hide their radical abortion agenda. First the repeal of the Mexico City Policy, then so-called “health care” reform, and an Executive Order that wasn't worth the paper it was printed on. Now, $160 million taxpayer dollars from across the country can end the lives of unborn boys and girls in Pennsylvania and New Mexico.
With you in this fight for Life,
Congresswoman Marilyn Musgrave
Director, Votes Have Consequences
Susan B. Anthony List
www.sba-list.org
P.S. Before defying the will of her constituents, Rep. Kathy Dahlkemper (PA-3) said she would represent the pro-life majority in her district. But now Pennsylvanians, and all Americans across the country, are being forced to pay for abortions with their own money. Rep. Dahlkemper and the Obama administration said the executive order would prevent taxpayers from having to pay for abortion, but the high risk insurance pool programs in Pennsylvania and New Mexico prove that this was a false promise.
This week in Christ's life… (18)
This week, Jesus is 18 weeks old. Heat-producing brown fat begins to form at the base of his neck. His eyebrows have formed, and he sleeps and wakes as much as a newborn. Hair has formed on his scalp. He now weighs about 11 ounces and measures about 6 inches long. Child Jesus, growing in the womb, give us the strength to protect all people, especially the tiniest of growing babies.
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Obama's phony assurance (NRL)
H.H.S. Approves Pennsylvania Plan
to Use Federal Funds to Subsidize Coverage of
Nearly All Abortions in New “High-Risk Pool” Program
WASHINGTON (July 13, 2010) – The Obama Administration will give Pennsylvania $160 million to set up a new “high-risk” insurance program under a provision of the federal health care legislation enacted in March — and has quietly approved a plan submitted by an appointee of Governor Edward Rendell (D) under which the new program will cover any abortion that is legal in Pennsylvania.
The high-risk pool program is one of the new programs created by the sweeping health care legislation (the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act) that President Obama signed into law on March 23. The law authorizes $5 billion in federal funds for the program, which will cover as many as 400,000 people when it is implemented nationwide.
“The Obama Administration will give Pennsylvania $160 million in federal tax funds, which we’ve discovered will pay for insurance plans that cover any legal abortion,” said Douglas Johnson, legislative director for the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the federation of right-to-life organizations in all 50 states. “This is just the first proof of the phoniness of President Obama’s assurances that federal funds would not subsidize abortion — but it will not be the last.”
An earlier version of the health care legislation, passed by the House of Representatives in November 2009, contained a provision (the Stupak-Pitts Amendment) that would have prevented federal funds from subsidizing abortion or insurance coverage of abortion in any of the programs created by the bill, including the high-risk pool program. But President Obama opposed that pro-life provision, and it was not included in the bill later approved by both houses and signed into law. An executive order signed by the President on March 24, 2010 did not contain effective barriers to federal funding of abortion, and did not even mention the high-risk pool program.
“President Obama successfully opposed including language in the bill to prevent federal subsidies for abortions, and now the Administration is quietly advancing its abortion-expanding agenda through administrative decisions such as this, which they hope will escape broad public attention,” Johnson said.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has emphasized that the high-risk pool program is a federal program and that the states will not incur any cost. On May 11, 2010, in a letter to Democratic and Republican congressional leaders on implementation of the new law, DHHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius wrote that “states may choose whether and how they participate in the program, which is funded entirely by the federal government.”
Details of the high-risk pool plans for most states are not yet available. But on June 28, Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Joel Ario (a member of the appointed cabinet of Governor Edward Rendell, a Democrat) issued a press release announcing that the federal Department of Health and Human Services had approved his agency’s proposal for implementing the new program in Pennsylvania. “The state will receive $160 million to set up the program, which will provide coverage to as many as 5,600 people between now and 2014,” according to the release. “The plan’s benefit package will include preventive care, physician services, diagnostic testing, hospitalization, mental health services, prescription medications and much more, with subsidized premiums of $283 a month.”
Examination of the detailed Pennsylvania plan, reveals that the “much more” will include insurance coverage of any legal abortion.
The section on abortion (see page 14) asserts that “elective abortions are not covered.” However, that statement proves to be a red herring, because the operative language does not define “elective.” Rather, the proposal specifies that the coverage “includes only abortions and contraceptives that satisfy the requirements of” several specific statutes, the most pertinent of which is 18 Pa. C.S. § 3204, which says that an abortion is legal in Pennsylvania (consistent with Roe v. Wade) if a single physician believes that it is “necessary” based on “all factors (physical, emotional, psychological, familial and the woman’s age) relevant to the well-being of the woman.” Indeed, the cited statute provides only a single circumstance in which an abortion prior to 24 weeks is NOT permitted under the Pennsylvania statute: “No abortion which is sought solely because of the sex of the unborn child shall be deemed a necessary abortion.”
As a result, “Under the Rendell-Sebelius plan, federal funds will subsidize coverage of abortion performed for any reason, except sex selection,” said NRLC’s Johnson. “The Pennsylvania proposal conspicuously lacks language that would prevent funding of abortions performed as a method of birth control or for any other reason, except sex selection — and the Obama Administration has now approved this.”
A group of Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives who initially withheld support from the federal health care bill, because of concerns about pro-abortion effects, cited President Obama’s March 24 executive order in justifying their votes to pass the bill over objections from NRLC and other pro-life groups, which argued that the executive order did not contain effective barriers to federal subsidies for abortion. As USA Todayreported on March 25, “Both sides in the abortion debate came to a rare agreement on Wednesday: The executive order on abortion signed by President Obama, they said, was basically meaningless. ‘A transparent political fig leaf,’ according to the National Right to Life Committee’s Douglas Johnson. ‘A symbolic gesture,’ said Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards.”
National Right to Life, Inc.
512 10th St., NW
Washington, DC 20004-1401
to Use Federal Funds to Subsidize Coverage of
Nearly All Abortions in New “High-Risk Pool” Program
WASHINGTON (July 13, 2010) – The Obama Administration will give Pennsylvania $160 million to set up a new “high-risk” insurance program under a provision of the federal health care legislation enacted in March — and has quietly approved a plan submitted by an appointee of Governor Edward Rendell (D) under which the new program will cover any abortion that is legal in Pennsylvania.
The high-risk pool program is one of the new programs created by the sweeping health care legislation (the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act) that President Obama signed into law on March 23. The law authorizes $5 billion in federal funds for the program, which will cover as many as 400,000 people when it is implemented nationwide.
“The Obama Administration will give Pennsylvania $160 million in federal tax funds, which we’ve discovered will pay for insurance plans that cover any legal abortion,” said Douglas Johnson, legislative director for the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the federation of right-to-life organizations in all 50 states. “This is just the first proof of the phoniness of President Obama’s assurances that federal funds would not subsidize abortion — but it will not be the last.”
An earlier version of the health care legislation, passed by the House of Representatives in November 2009, contained a provision (the Stupak-Pitts Amendment) that would have prevented federal funds from subsidizing abortion or insurance coverage of abortion in any of the programs created by the bill, including the high-risk pool program. But President Obama opposed that pro-life provision, and it was not included in the bill later approved by both houses and signed into law. An executive order signed by the President on March 24, 2010 did not contain effective barriers to federal funding of abortion, and did not even mention the high-risk pool program.
“President Obama successfully opposed including language in the bill to prevent federal subsidies for abortions, and now the Administration is quietly advancing its abortion-expanding agenda through administrative decisions such as this, which they hope will escape broad public attention,” Johnson said.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has emphasized that the high-risk pool program is a federal program and that the states will not incur any cost. On May 11, 2010, in a letter to Democratic and Republican congressional leaders on implementation of the new law, DHHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius wrote that “states may choose whether and how they participate in the program, which is funded entirely by the federal government.”
Details of the high-risk pool plans for most states are not yet available. But on June 28, Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Joel Ario (a member of the appointed cabinet of Governor Edward Rendell, a Democrat) issued a press release announcing that the federal Department of Health and Human Services had approved his agency’s proposal for implementing the new program in Pennsylvania. “The state will receive $160 million to set up the program, which will provide coverage to as many as 5,600 people between now and 2014,” according to the release. “The plan’s benefit package will include preventive care, physician services, diagnostic testing, hospitalization, mental health services, prescription medications and much more, with subsidized premiums of $283 a month.”
Examination of the detailed Pennsylvania plan, reveals that the “much more” will include insurance coverage of any legal abortion.
The section on abortion (see page 14) asserts that “elective abortions are not covered.” However, that statement proves to be a red herring, because the operative language does not define “elective.” Rather, the proposal specifies that the coverage “includes only abortions and contraceptives that satisfy the requirements of” several specific statutes, the most pertinent of which is 18 Pa. C.S. § 3204, which says that an abortion is legal in Pennsylvania (consistent with Roe v. Wade) if a single physician believes that it is “necessary” based on “all factors (physical, emotional, psychological, familial and the woman’s age) relevant to the well-being of the woman.” Indeed, the cited statute provides only a single circumstance in which an abortion prior to 24 weeks is NOT permitted under the Pennsylvania statute: “No abortion which is sought solely because of the sex of the unborn child shall be deemed a necessary abortion.”
As a result, “Under the Rendell-Sebelius plan, federal funds will subsidize coverage of abortion performed for any reason, except sex selection,” said NRLC’s Johnson. “The Pennsylvania proposal conspicuously lacks language that would prevent funding of abortions performed as a method of birth control or for any other reason, except sex selection — and the Obama Administration has now approved this.”
A group of Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives who initially withheld support from the federal health care bill, because of concerns about pro-abortion effects, cited President Obama’s March 24 executive order in justifying their votes to pass the bill over objections from NRLC and other pro-life groups, which argued that the executive order did not contain effective barriers to federal subsidies for abortion. As USA Todayreported on March 25, “Both sides in the abortion debate came to a rare agreement on Wednesday: The executive order on abortion signed by President Obama, they said, was basically meaningless. ‘A transparent political fig leaf,’ according to the National Right to Life Committee’s Douglas Johnson. ‘A symbolic gesture,’ said Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards.”
National Right to Life, Inc.
512 10th St., NW
Washington, DC 20004-1401
Sunday, July 11, 2010
This week in Christ's life… (17)
This week, Jesus is 17 weeks old and his mother, Mary, has entered her fifth lunar month of pregnancy. Lanugo hair appears on his head and body. Vernix caseosa is forming on his skin. He can hiccup so forcefully that the Blessed Virgin Mary can feel it on the outside of her belly. Child Jesus, growing in the womb, give us the strength to protect all people, especially the tiniest of growing babies.
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Ending Abortion- NOW!
This Saturday, July 10th, you are invited to be part of "Ending
Abortion": a huge, day-long, webcast mega-conference
uniting the entire pro-life movement to ...
1. Educate, equip, and empower pro-lifers to have a
greater life-saving impact right where they live
2. Increase involvement in the fall 40 Days for Life
and other local pro-life activities
3. Dramatically increase the prominence of pro-life
concerns prior to the fall elections
Get all the details now at:
http://www.EndingAbortion.com
Dozens of leading national pro-life organizations --
and more than 30 of the top pro-life leaders and
experts -- are joining forces with us for this
landmark event.
Here are just a FEW of the confirmed speakers:
* SCOTT KLUSENDORF, Life Training Institute
* DR. TONY LEVATINO, former abortionist
* MARK CRUTCHER, Life Dynamics
* LOU ENGLE, TheCall
* PEGGY HARTSHORN, Heartbeat International
* WENDY WRIGHT, Concerned Women for America
* THERESA & KEVIN BURKE, Rachel's Vineyard
* MARJORIE DANNENFELSER, Susan B. Anthony List
* KRISTAN HAWKINS, Students for Life
* ALVEDA KING, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
And that isn't even ONE-THIRD of the speakers!
With some of the groups and leaders participating in
this unprecedented event, I suspect there could be
thousands of attendees ... including YOU!
Join the excitement at:
http://www.EndingAbortion.com
The event will break the pro-life message up into ten
different hour-long focused topics (in Eastern time):
* 10 AM: The Case for Life
* 11 AM: The Abortion Crisis
* 12 Noon: Planned Parenthood's Abortion Empire
* 1 PM: The Power of Prayer
* 2 PM: Pregnancy Help Centers: Compassion in Action
* 3 PM: Saving Lives Outside Abortion Facilities
* 4 PM: Hope & Healing for Post-Abortive Women & Men
* 5 PM: Legislative & Political Efforts
* 6 PM: Pro-Life Youth Advocacy
* 7 PM: Influencing the Culture
During each topic, you will hear from 3 or 4 of the
top pro-life leaders/experts in that subject area.
If you can't participate in the live webcast, the
entire event will be recorded and made available
afterward -- so be sure to register now even if you
have a schedule conflict this Saturday:
http://www.EndingAbortion.com
Here are the three things I would ask you to do:
1. PRAY.
Pray for God to guide this event, pray for the
speakers to share the right messages, pray for
all attendees to be inspired to take action.
2. PARTICIPATE.
If possible, attend some (or all) of the sessions
yourself -- either live on Saturday, July 10, or by
listening to the recordings afterward.
3. PROMOTE.
"Word of mouth" is the most powerful form of
advertising in the world, and the key to the success
of this event will be YOU. Please forward this e-mail
to everyone you know so they can also participate.
This event could have a profound impact on
pro-life work in communities across North America --
and around the world -- and I can't wait to see what
God has in store for this effort!
Abortion": a huge, day-long, webcast mega-conference
uniting the entire pro-life movement to ...
1. Educate, equip, and empower pro-lifers to have a
greater life-saving impact right where they live
2. Increase involvement in the fall 40 Days for Life
and other local pro-life activities
3. Dramatically increase the prominence of pro-life
concerns prior to the fall elections
Get all the details now at:
http://www.EndingAbortion.com
Dozens of leading national pro-life organizations --
and more than 30 of the top pro-life leaders and
experts -- are joining forces with us for this
landmark event.
Here are just a FEW of the confirmed speakers:
* SCOTT KLUSENDORF, Life Training Institute
* DR. TONY LEVATINO, former abortionist
* MARK CRUTCHER, Life Dynamics
* LOU ENGLE, TheCall
* PEGGY HARTSHORN, Heartbeat International
* WENDY WRIGHT, Concerned Women for America
* THERESA & KEVIN BURKE, Rachel's Vineyard
* MARJORIE DANNENFELSER, Susan B. Anthony List
* KRISTAN HAWKINS, Students for Life
* ALVEDA KING, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
And that isn't even ONE-THIRD of the speakers!
With some of the groups and leaders participating in
this unprecedented event, I suspect there could be
thousands of attendees ... including YOU!
Join the excitement at:
http://www.EndingAbortion.com
The event will break the pro-life message up into ten
different hour-long focused topics (in Eastern time):
* 10 AM: The Case for Life
* 11 AM: The Abortion Crisis
* 12 Noon: Planned Parenthood's Abortion Empire
* 1 PM: The Power of Prayer
* 2 PM: Pregnancy Help Centers: Compassion in Action
* 3 PM: Saving Lives Outside Abortion Facilities
* 4 PM: Hope & Healing for Post-Abortive Women & Men
* 5 PM: Legislative & Political Efforts
* 6 PM: Pro-Life Youth Advocacy
* 7 PM: Influencing the Culture
During each topic, you will hear from 3 or 4 of the
top pro-life leaders/experts in that subject area.
If you can't participate in the live webcast, the
entire event will be recorded and made available
afterward -- so be sure to register now even if you
have a schedule conflict this Saturday:
http://www.EndingAbortion.com
Here are the three things I would ask you to do:
1. PRAY.
Pray for God to guide this event, pray for the
speakers to share the right messages, pray for
all attendees to be inspired to take action.
2. PARTICIPATE.
If possible, attend some (or all) of the sessions
yourself -- either live on Saturday, July 10, or by
listening to the recordings afterward.
3. PROMOTE.
"Word of mouth" is the most powerful form of
advertising in the world, and the key to the success
of this event will be YOU. Please forward this e-mail
to everyone you know so they can also participate.
This event could have a profound impact on
pro-life work in communities across North America --
and around the world -- and I can't wait to see what
God has in store for this effort!
Sunday, July 4, 2010
This week in Christ's life… (16)
This week, Jesus is 16 weeks old. All the major elements of his lungs have formed, except those involved with oxygen-carbon dioxide exchange. Meconium begins to form in his bowel. His has primitive finger and toe prints. Myelinization begins and Jesus now measures approximately 5.5 inches long, big enough to be cradled in his mother’s hand. He has lived for 112 days. Child Jesus, growing in the womb, give us the strength to protect all people, especially the tiniest of growing babies.
Friday, July 2, 2010
Prayer for the Dignity of Human Life
Lord and giver of all life, help u s to value each person, created in love by You. In Your mercy, guide and assist our efforts to promote dignity and value of all human life, born and unborn. We ask this through Christ, Our Lord. Amen.
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