There’s a petition and opportunity to donate to the SBA List HERE.
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Mar 12
Blast from the Past Michael Voris on Obama Plan to Defeat the Catholic Church
People probably didn’t take this video too seriously back in 2009, when they were still hoping for that hopey changey thing from Barack. Now that Obama is forcing birth control abortion sterilization down everyone’s throat, the premonitions of Michael Voris are worth reviewing.
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Mar 12
Rally Locations and Info « Stand Up for Religious Freedom
Rally Locations and Info « Stand Up for Religious Freedom.
Click the link above to find out if there’s a Stand up for religious freedom rally going on in a city near you. There are 140 locations listed. The events start at noon on Friday 3/23
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Mar 12
Why Sex Stopped Being FUN, and became a Job and a Human Right
Above is a touch stone, a headline from International Business Times, making a false claim about Arizona legislation which would make employer coverage of employees’ birth control optional.
This AZ house bill 2625 allows employers to avoid covering recreational use of hormones for birth control based on their religious beliefs. Women can still get coverage for medical need for indications other than birth control. This bill does not give permission to employers to fire employees for use of birth control pills. If the woman is obtaining her own pills, it would be a violation of HIPAA regs for the employer to have the info, and a violation of a bunch of other laws for the employer to fire for that reason. Nice try. The IB Times needs to surrender to the fact that the “war on women” ploy is not working. Birth control pills are just too cheap to merit such a whine-fest. Go back to that other loser “abortion”.
The headline is an example of how completely unreliable the mainstream press is, as well as the ACLU and Huffington Post.
There are many heated debates over whether employers and insurance companies should pay for birth control pills when used to prevent or stop reproduction.
One of the commenting individuals expressed offense that Pharmer used the term recreational drug to describe birth control drugs, and recreational sex to describe the kind people have when they don’t want to make babies. Specifically the idea was introduced that sex, with the desire to avoid reproduction, is NOT recreational. Pharmer thinks that when sex stops being fun, it is time to quit.
Sex becomes a job or a human right when people want others to pay for it!!! It rises to the level of a religious freedom issue. If a person has a belief that their sex is NOT fun, and it is a ritual activity that has become a JOB, then others should respect it as a human right under the first amendment and pay for it, even if that practice violates their own religion. It’s Sandra Fluke all over again, and despite this admission from the Left that sex is not fun anymore, Rush Limbaugh got in trouble for saying that it was a Job for Sandra.
Eureka! The pattern is elucidated: Recreation stops being recreation, or becomes an offensive term when people start wanting to be PAID for what should be considered FUN!! They turn it into a job, a ritual, or a human right!
It’s ‘welfare’ gone WILD!!!
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Mar 12
The 13 Catholic Senators who voted against allowing Catholic organizations conscience rights | LifeSiteNews.com
Catholic Senators who voted against the Respect for Rights of Conscience Act as the Blunt amendment
Mark Begich Alaska D
Tom Harkin Iowa D
Richard Durbin Illinois D
Mary Landrieu Louisiana D
John Kerry Massachusetts D
Barbara Mikulski Maryland D
Claire McCaskill Missouri D
Robert Menendez New Jersey D
Kirsten Gillibraind New York D
Jack Reed Rhode Island D
Pat Leahy Vermon D
Maria Cantwell Washington D
Patty Murray Washington D
*update- add Lisa Murkowski Alaska R, because she wishes she could take back her vote. She meant it to be about religious freedome, but she thinks her voters who want “free” birth control should be able to have what they want, because they’ve whined the loudest.
On the sidebar of this blog are links to the U.S. Senate and House, if you are in the mood to communicate with these people. Also check out the
The Catholic Advocate Congressional Scorecard
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Mar 12
After What They Did to Palin, Lefties are Whining
Call a Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaambulance!
Lefties whined when Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown University Law student, was refused an opportunity to tout birth control and the desire to have it funded by others, at a hearing on the constitutionality of Obama’s HHS mandate.
Rush Limbaugh has seized the opportunity to give the grrls a taste of their own medicine.
He said that if tax payers have to pay for that law student to have sex, they should be able to see videos of it. He compared Ms. Fluke to a prostitute, for wanting the money from others in order to have sex, and likened the tax payers to johns.
What is it when a woman expects money for conducting her sex life? Rush made a reasonable analogy. Leftists are now shrieking about his disrespect for women.
What have they been doing to Sarah Palin since 2008, though she has never made such a request from others, and has comported herself with dignity?
What are they doing when they deny female patients the right of informed consent about birth control and abortion? What are they doing when they enable and support the sex selective abortions of girls? What are they doing when they oppose efforts to upgrade abortion facilities to at least the standards of veterinary clinics?
Rush has tweeked the media again, as he did when he invented the term feminazi. This is a sustained action tweek, which will pay off in much free media exposure of Lefties’ insane expectation that others be forced to pay for their recreational drugs.
Update *Over the weekend, Rush relented and apologized for some of his terminology used to describe Ms. Fluke. Congressman Darrell Issa is in no mood for apology, as his female staffers are enduring much worse vitriol because of his hearings on the constitutionality of the HHS mandate.
** Jimmy Castor Bunch experiences revival of their 40 year old hit: Troglodyte, thanks to Rush. Think of the Georgetown ladies going back to the barefoot and pregnant state, if they can’t get taxpayers to fund their birth control.
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Mar 12
Celestial Discharge: Andrew Breitbart
Conservatives grieve the loss of another happy warrior, Andrew Breitbart, who fearlessly defended his profession, truth in journalism, and his beliefs publicly. Pharmer expresses gratitude to Breitbart for giving a forum to James O’Keefe, Live Action Films, the Memorial Day Weekend, Springer Scoop on Anthony Wiener, Fraud at the Dept. of Agriculture, the real Occupooper agenda, and so many other stories the old media chose to lose. Pharmer has this to say about Mr. Breitbart going to God so early : Good for him and BAD for US. Prayers for his family, and thanks for sharing him with America. His fearlessness and desire for truth is a model for conservatives to emulate
This one is up on my blog because this H.S. aged Gurl is responding in thoughtful and rational manner to the loss of Andrew Breitbart, whom she admired.
Thoughtful and rational at age 17……… yep she’s a real conservative.
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Feb 12
Federal judge says Washington State cannot force pharmacies to sell morning after pill
Governor Christine Gregoire is expected to appeal the federal court ruling which supports the pharmacists’ right to not dispense Plan B for reasons of conscience.
Judge Ronald Leighton noted that Washington state accepted all sorts of secular reasons for not stocking or dispensing a drug, but excluded conscience reasons. He declared the application of their rules to force pharmacists to dispense morning after pills to be unconstitutional. He noted that the Washington Board of Pharmacy stocking rules were “designed to force religious objectors to dispense Plan B.”
Judge Leighton had originally blocked the application of the dispensing rule to make Stormans’ pharmacy carry Plan B, but that was overturned by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which remanded the case back to Leighton. After an 11 day trial, this new opinion was issued, which Leighton says has been created with a skeptical appeals court in mind.
Kevin Stormans, owner of Ralph’s Thriftway pharmacy and fellow pharmacists have been waging a legal battle since 2007, with the aid of The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, and Seattle law firm of Ellis, Li & McKinstry.
Pharmer congratulates these courageous Washington Pharmacists on their legal victory, and prays for their continued success.
See the Ruling by Judge Ron Leighton HERE.
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Feb 12
Injunction Granted for Physician Conscientiously Objecting to Abortion in Spain
Physicians win victories for conscientious objection to abortion in Spain | LifeSiteNews.com.
Spain recently liberalized its abortion laws allowing abortion on demand up to 14 weeks and a bit more restriction for later abortions. Since that time, doctors have been struggling to have their human right to avoid killing patients recognized by the socialist government.
The Superior Tribunal of the Autonomous Community of Andalusia has ovrruled a lower court and granted an injunction giving Dr. Manuel Resa conscientous objector status, until a final decision on the rights of doctors can be reached.
Previously, the Supreme Tribunal of Spain ruled against a couple who sued a doctor for denying them the opportunity to abort their baby, by failing to inform them of an untoward fetal diagnosis. The ruling stated that the deformities were not of serious enough nature to invoke such “right” to abortion.
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Feb 12
Sending Health Care Back to the Dark Ages
Click above and see Crazy democrats who think that protecting conscientious health care professionals and their institutions will send health care back to the dark ages. Their real message is that government should involve itself in the distribution of birth control / abortion / sterilization, and enslave the unwilling to pay for it and to participate in the distribution. This further extends the violation of civil rights that is abortion.
The Republicans are opposing government mandated distribution and enslavement. Under the Blunt amendment, people would have to obtain their own birth control / abortions/ sterilizations from willing providers. Those who are unwilling to do this could retain their freedom and self determination.
In general, the Democrats are most easily able to order others to do their killing for them. Their separation from the actual act of killing preserves them from perceiving the consequences directly. Possibly they also are on enough meds to dull the pain. The Democrats remain the party of slavery.
Killing is not an easy thing to do. Pharmer knows personally that killing animals for research or for eating is not easy. It is very hard for military people to kill. Most veterans take no joy in thinking about past combat experience. Some will avoid even killing animals for food, or exterminating vermin. Some even have to catch and release when they go fishing. Killing is the not the thing that normal people want to do.
There are decreasing numbers of abortionists. Many health care workers cannot stay in that field for long. It causes sickness. The Dems are wanting to involve all of the tax payers and health care professionals in this killing. They resent those of us who don’t want to kill the very young, the disabled or the elderly.
We will be leaving health care in order to avoid the assignment of killing.
This is what will send health care back to the dark ages.
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Feb 12
Glenn Beck: We Are All Catholics Now
Some people understand that Obama’s true religion is statism and it doesn’t allow room for other religions. For more on how to contact your Senator regarding the Blunt amendment go to glennbeck.com .
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Feb 12
Reid will allow vote on repeal of administration’s birth control mandate – The Hill’s Healthwatch
Reid will allow vote on repeal of administration's birth control mandate – The Hill's Healthwatch.
Senator Harry Reid has changed his mind, and decided to allow Sen. Roy Blunt’s Bill to repeal Obama’s birth control/abortive drugs/sterilization mandate to pass to the full Senate for a vote.
This new decision comes after Obamanator’s unilateral “compromise” to shift the administration of the mandate to insurance companies. This includes all the religious entities which are self insured. The compromise still steps on freedom of religion, still has religious organizations paying for things they consider sinful, and still forces people to sell and to buy things which they don’t want.
Here are two possible motivations: One is that Reid’s constituency includes a lot of self insured religious organizations, and they climbed down his throat.
Another is that Obama needs to bail on this very unconstitutional mandate, and Reid has been ordered to allow Congress to rescind it.
You might want to inform your Senators and Congressmen that you expect them to kill the abortive mandate of Obama/Sebelius. It is likely that most of the Dems realize that all their religious voter support will evaporate if they don’t vote for Sen. Blunt’s legislation.
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Feb 12
What’s Wrong With the Catholic Bishops?
Catholic Bishops: Obama‘s Contraception Mandate Change ’Unacceptable’ | TheBlaze.com.
They’re afraid to lose the money. The church related institutions have become too dependent upon government income. If the bishops weren’t afraid, they would be asking why any health insurers cover birth control, Killing, and sterilizations. These things are lifestyle choices, and the middle one is morally wrong according to all the major religions, particularly when done for recreational purposes. The Bishops are so conciliatory that they express no difficulty with other people, outside specific religious affiliation, being forced to involve themselves in birth control, abortion and sterilizations.
Birth control hormones used for that purpose are recreational drugs. They are taken in order to support a purely recreational activity. Birth control and sterilization also alter a healthy system and make it function abnormally. Therefore they are not really ‘health care’. Nor is killing a part of health care.
It’s as though the bishops aren’t fully invested in removing abortion from Obamacare. Pharmer is still waiting for any word of this issue to be mentioned at her parish.
Mark Steyn subbing for Rush on hangover Monday (2/6/12), appeared to have been taken in by this Onion-like presentation of “news”, at a socially leftist forum. In a sort of parody, a story about Imams from Cincinnati, Phoenix, Green Bay, and Lubbock protesting the Obama birth control Mandate, was attributed to the National Journal. (Following the entry were numerous comments from people who don’t know how the various birth control drugs operate, and do not know why many religions oppose them. )
Mark Steyn realizes that the Muslims are guarding conscience rights against abortion in Europe, and so it was understandable that he’d expect the U.S. Muslims to have something to say about the Obama mandate. What they have to say so far, Obama’s news organs do not want us to know.
Muslims don’t absolutely forbid all abortion and birth control, but do not approve of either being used for recreational reasons. Therefore adherent Muslims would not be happy to distribute the drugs for these purposes in the vast majority of situations.
Like Europe, the U.S. may eventually be relying on the religion, which is not known for turning the other cheek, to deal with Obama’s unconstitutional attack on religious freedom. Collectively the Catholic Bishops are not likely to have enough resolve to get this job done.
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Feb 12
Dana Goldstein: Transfer Oversight of Your Sex Life From Your Boss to the Government
via Obama Birth Control Compromise Defuses Religion Issue – The Daily Beast.
Above linked is an address in favor of Obama’s new shell game “solution” to the fight with the religious people of the United States.
It’s just as bogus and unsustainable as the rest of Obamacare. Instead of forcing the religious institutions to pay for birth control, abortive drugs and sterilizations, he moves the cost to the insurers, which in turn move the cost back to the employers. The only change is that the employers do not have to speak to their employees about birth control. Obama is still making businesses sell specific products, and making the citizens pay for those products. UNCONSTITUTIONAL!
Pharmer is laughing at Dana Goldstein, of the Daily Beast, who think’s its not rational that a woman’s boss has influence over her sex life. She does think it’s more rational that the influence be transferred to the Government.
There are two to three generations of lefties completely convinced that there is a right for humans to have sex, and that someone else should have to fund the activity and the results: erectile dysfunction meds, birth control, sexually transmitted diseases, infertility, child birth, abortions, etc. I think that human rights end where another human begins. Sex involves two people at least, and can make more.
From the Pharmer comes a more libertarian viewpoint. Why can’t people assume more responsibility for their own behaviors and consequences?? The total cost of health care would go down if people knew that they had to take care of their own sex life and its results.
Third party payment is what has made the cost of health care (and education too) skyrocket, with no return on the extra investment. People are almost never good stewards of other people’s money.
Consider this novel idea… people delay sex until they can foot the bills. Birth control should be paid for in cash, and the same for sex enhancers and drugs for erectile dysfunction. People can enter their choice of insurance pools for to soften the expenses for complications of reproduction. That can be handled in a way similar to dental or life insurance. The cost of reproductive health care would plummet.
Certainly this would not appeal to the lefties who are used to trading in all their other freedoms in order to have sex with people they don’t even like, (or with children).
Maybe those who are interested in freedom and self determination should give the idea of personal responsibility another look.
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Feb 12
Feeling the Heat White House to Offer Compromise on Birth Control Coverage
Obama to Announce Contraception Rule ‘Accommodation’ for Religious Organizations – ABC News.
Obama is in hotter water than he thought he’d be in, trying to force religiously affiliated organizations to pay for birth control, abortive drugs and sterilizations.
He’s got a compromise plan to offer, which is poorly described in the media, but supposedly is another way to get birth control from their insurance without the direct involvement of the employers.
The plan sounds like gibberish, and is not expected to satisfy those who object to being forced to pay for these services for their employees. The most useful information is that the White House is worried that it has lost considerable voter support because of the birth control edict.
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Jan 12
Why Do Prolifers Focus On Planned Parenthood
Planned Parenthood: Roe Dying, Sex-Selection Abortions OK | LifeNews.com.
“The Sky is falling on Roe v Wade”, says Casey Martin, director of Southern Finger Lakes region.
The above article ponders why is planned parenthood the main target of pro-life legal and political efforts. Is it just because it’s the largest U.S. chain of abortion mills? Pro-lifers cite the abortion provider’s attacks on them, claiming that they want to control the sexuality of poor people, etcetera.
What the above article missed is the Main Attack Planned Parenthood has launched on those who choose not to kill. For decades they have pursued a political program to force us to participate in their killing agenda. Planned parenthood has worked tirelessly to force us to pay for it with taxes, force us cover it with health insurance, and force health care professionals to participate in it. They have persistently opposed health care professionals’ right NOT to kill humans. They have lobbied tirelessly to include abortion as an obligate part of health care, tied to medicare and medicaid funding. They are behind the Obama-Sebelius actions against states who wish to defund planned parenthood. Obama has tied the care of the sick and the elderly to the provision of abortion services with tax payer dollars.
This is why Planned Parenthood has been and remains a main target of pro-life political action.
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Oct 11
Pelosi on Abortion: Foaming at the Mouth Again
Steve Ertelt grabbed this bit of video of Pelosi commenting on the latest attempt to defund abortion and protect conscientious health care professionals, being addressed in Congress.
Nancy is frothing at the mouth with more intensity than usual, fueled possibly by the cognitive dissonance in her mind. Nancy professes some connection with Catholicism, which expressly states that the killings of humans by abortion are wrong. It is up close and personal for Pelosi, who wants these procedures available for her daughters. Living inside the head of this woman would not be pleasant.
From Nancy’s mind to yours, (4/20/07) decrying the upreme Court decision to uphold the ban of partial birth abortion:
“This isn’t really an abortion issue. That is what really saddens me about what the justices said.
“This is about a procedure that any parent would want her daughter to have access to if she needed it. And to frame it as an abortion issue is doing a disservice to medicine and to our young women and our country. So I hope we can get the focus back on the fact that this Supreme Court is deciding what medical procedures are necessary for child-bearing women.”
Pharmer invites Pelosi to present a single medical case in which any procedure of carving up a human in utero is necessary specifically to save the life of a mother.
Don’t hold your breath for a response.
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Aug 11
The cookie crumbles: American girls abandoning Girl Scouts
The cookie crumbles: American girls abandoning Girl Scouts.
Article from WND……. offers you alternatives to the Girl Scouts of America if you don’t like their association with planned parenthood, or some other untoward changes
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May 11
Pharmacist Conscience Clauses- A Free Review of the Review
When the “experts” are called upon to provide commentary in professional Journals, it would help if they research their work sufficiently to write something accurate and useful.
Michael Gabay, Pharm D, JD, BCPS, has attempted to present the topic of Pharmacists conscience clauses, which have led to legislation excusing pharmacists from dispensing drugs which may operate to kill a human organism.
Listed below are a few of the troubles with Gabay’s article:
1) The implication that RU-486 contributed to pharmacists’ conscientious objection conflicts. Mifepristone/misoprostil regimen was highly regulated, and dispensed by the abortion practitioners themselves, rather than pharmacists. The article gives no mention of ulipristal acetate, the new analog of mifepristone which is now approved as a morning after pill, doses of which may be accumulated to accomplish a later abortion. (Way to keep current, Dr. Gabay.)
2) Glaring omissions of significant, current, judicial decisions. Dr. Gabay is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Dept. of Pharmacy Practice, University of Illinois, Chicago. Yes, he is in Illinois, a member of the Chicago Bar Association, and inactive member of the Illinois Bar. His article failed to mention the group of lawsuits recently decided in his own state, involving conscientiously objecting pharmacists and pharmacy owners, Walgreens and former Gov. Blagojevich. It is possible that Dr. Gabay, JD, was not aware of these significant court decisions, or perhaps he did not approve of them.
3) Garbled facts of the K Mart controversy, which actually involved a refusal to dispense progestin-only birth control drugs, not all “oral contraceptives” as the article incorrectly states.
4) Attributing the statement that oral contraceptives can prevent “implantation of a fertilized ovum”, to a person who knew better than that. Embryology lesson begins here: Fertilization of the secondary oocyte, produces an evanescent form called the zygote, that immediately begins cellular division, and proceeds to the next stage. By the time the human organism reaches the uterus to begin implantation, its embryonic form has differentiated into a blastocyst. (Dr. Gabay forgot the basic anatomy/physiology stuff which should have been prerequisite to his Pharm D.)
5) Dr. Gabay still appears not to know what Ms. Brauer knew about the mechanisms of birth control drugs, and the progestin, norethindrone, in particular. The actual disagreement in the K Mart case is still readily visible on the net: Page 1 and Page 2.
6) The crux of ethical objection to dispensing drugs which act, to a significant extent, to stop the life of a human organism is just that. It is not tied up in the various newer concepts of “abortion” and “pregnancy” which exclude the early human embryo. Abusing these terms to obfuscate the issue violates the patients’ right to give informed consent. The law has established no cogent or consistent basis for determining which human organisms may be willfully killed and which may not.
The complimentary review and editorializing will end here, to prevent reader fatigue.
The take home lesson for users of the literature in science and medicine is to read critically. Much of it is incomplete and factually “challenged” whether it is primary literature, or review and commentary, as in the case of Dr. Gabay’s article.
The value of extensive, formal education (as currently supplied) is also called into question, as it increasingly appears not to be helping with the quality of intellectual output.
*Note: This commentary has not been subjected to editorial review.
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Feb 11
Conscience Tug-of-War in Washington | Daily News | NCRegister.com
Conscience Tug-of-War in Washington | Daily News | NCRegister.com.
National Catholic Register covers the back and forth seesawing of the Washington Board of Pharmacy on the issue of conscience and pharmacy practice.
Eventually most of the board members gave in to their masters, returning to a decision which had already been met with a court challenge. This judicial process will have to go forward.
Riding underneath the seesawing was the possibility that pro-abort Governor Gregoire would be picked to join the Obama administration and occupy Elena Kagan’s former position as solicitor general. Later it is said that Gregoire’s enthusiasm for that position cooled, but we do not know if it means she did not make the cut, or whether she actually asked to be taken off the list.
The Board of pharmacy serves at the behest of the governor.
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Feb 11
Weekend Business: Repeal of Bush’s Conscience Protections for Health Care Professionals
It’s a whisper in the news……. You’d have to dig hard to find it. Obama gutted the regulations Bush had put into place to protect conscientiously objecting health care professionals from discrimination.
There were essentially no new provisions in Bush’s executive order, except to cause institutions to worry about receiving federal funds if they discriminated against health care professionals who refuse to kill humans in their practice.
Obama has returned the situation to its previous state: toothless conscience legislation, nearly unenforceable because unemployed health care professionals usually lack funds to bring civil redress when incidents of discrimination occur. Also, what remains of “protection” will only apply to what is obviously recognized as abortion to a layman, and sterilization. Objection to chemical abortions at the early stages of human development, and use of various biotech medical devices, unethically derived drugs, vaccines, transplants, implants (from killed humans) will not be covered.
Actually the situation is worse than it was previously, as the department of Health and Human Services has utterly no interest in hearing or cataloging incidents of discrimination. The head of this department, Kathleen Sebelius had no interest in enforcing medical standards applicable to abortion clinics in her home state of Kansas.
It is fortunate that the new Congress has shown some interest in this situation, otherwise it might be missed entirely by the public.
The actual repeal is gibberish, unless one has intimate familiarity with the underlying laws and regulations. Heritage Foundation has pretty much put it in English.
The Sebelius HHS will effectively leave conscientiously objecting health care professionals without protections, and all should be prepared to find new jobs or careers should a conflict between the employers mandates and personal conscience ever arise.
As previously, the protection of conscience for health care professionals will largely lie in the power of the internet, to expose institutions which discriminate against health care professionals who refuse to kill, and reduce private business, and the sources of charitable donations, funds and grants.
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Feb 11
Protect Life Act HR 358 Has A Conscience Clause
H.R.358: Protect Life Act – U.S. Congress – OpenCongress.
Take a look at the actual bill. The hysterical pro-aborts are whining that women will die on hospital steps because some hospitals don’t grind up babies in utero, and suck out the chucks and juice. Rather they keep the kid in there as long as the mom can sustain it, deliver the kid early if the mom can’t, and try to keep both the mom and kid alive. Pro aborts seem to passionately hate any legitimate medical intervention that doesn’t result in the kid’s death. Otherwise why would it bother them that some people believe in preserving the mom’s life without PURPOSELY killing the kid?
NARAL wants more dead kids, and wants you to pay for it.
Here’s the Non-descrimination language that has pro-aborts foaming at the mouth.
‘(1) NONDISCRIMINATION- A Federal agency or program, and any State or local government that receives Federal financial assistance under this Act (or an amendment made by this Act), may not subject any institutional or individual health care entity to discrimination, or require any health plan created or regulated under this Act (or an amendment made by this Act) to subject any institutional or individual health care entity to discrimination, on the basis that the health care entity refuses to
‘(A) undergo training in the performance of induced abortions;
‘(B) require or provide such training;
‘(C) perform, participate in, provide coverage of, or pay for induced abortions; or
‘(D) provide referrals for such training or such abortions.
‘(2) DEFINITION- In this subsection, the term ‘health care entity’ includes an individual physician or other health care professional, a hospital, a provider-sponsored organization, a health maintenance organization, a health insurance plan, or any other kind of health care facility, organization, or plan.
‘(3) REMEDIES-
‘(A) IN GENERAL- The courts of the United States shall have jurisdiction to prevent and redress actual or threatened violations of this section by issuing any form of legal or equitable relief, including–
‘(i) injunctions prohibiting conduct that violates this subsection; and
‘(ii) orders preventing the disbursement of all or a portion of Federal financial assistance to a State or local government, or to a specific offending agency or program of a State or local government, until such time as the conduct prohibited by this subsection has ceased.
‘(B) COMMENCEMENT OF ACTION- An action under this subsection may be instituted by–
‘(i) any health care entity that has standing to complain of an actual or threatened violation of this subsection; or
‘(ii) the Attorney General of the United States.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink
‘(4) ADMINISTRATION- The Secretary shall designate the Director of the Office for Civil Rights of the Department of Health and Human Services
‘(A) to receive complaints alleging a violation of this subsection;
‘(B) to pursue investigation of such complaints in coordination with the Attorney General.’.
(b) Conforming Amendment- Section 1334(a)(6) of such Act is amended to read as follows:
‘(6) COVERAGE CONSISTENT WITH FEDERAL POLICY- In entering into contracts under this subsection, the Director shall ensure that no multi-State qualified health plan offered in an Exchange provides coverage for abortions for which funding is prohibited under subsection 1303(c) of this Act
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Feb 11
Obama Attack on Abortion Conscience Clause Likely Imminent | LifeNews.com
Obama Attack on Abortion Conscience Clause Likely Imminent | LifeNews.com.
One of the first things Obama did when he took office was to begin work on removing department of Health and Human Services ability to enforce existing conscience protections for health care professionals who refuse to kill humans in their practice.
Some of this work will likely be completed at the end of this month with recission of Bush’s executive order allowing for removal of federal funding to the institutions which descriminate against physicians who refuse to participate in abortion.
Obama expects health care practitioners to kill humans, and this is a main reason why both the New England Journal of Medicine and the Investors Business Daily surveys revealed that almost half of physicians intend to retire early in the event of Obamacare.
Your health care might be free, but you won’t be able to get any in a timely manner, and you might not like what remains in the professions after the ones who refuse to kill their patients leave practice.
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists consider participation and referrals for abortion to be a necessary part of practice to retain their Board certification. In other words, it may soon be a drawback to have your baby delivered by a board certified obstetrician.
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Dec 10
Washington Board Won’t Protect Pro-Life Pharmacists in Rules | LifeNews.com
via Washington Board Won’t Protect Pro-Life Pharmacists in Rules | LifeNews.com.
Not unexpected is the Washington Board of Pharmacy’s refusal to amend regulations in order to allow a latitude of practice for pharmacists who choose not to participate in killing humans.
The pro-aborts cite worries that rural people will not have easy access to abortive chemicals. In reality they lack concern that the rural populations have any pharmacists at all, to provide healing, pharmaceutical care.
Prepare for the Brave New Post-Obama World.
More and more, veterinarians, and EMT or paramedics will be needed to assist the rural populations who completely lose access to pharmacist, physician and nursing care because of these, and other restrictive policies of Obamacare. Young people should consider this in choosing their career paths. Study Chemistry.
It is good to see more sophisticated imaging and technology being utilized in veterinary medicine. Significant, cash-only health care business will be opened up in the farming communities. Antibiotic producers might spring up amid the meth labs. Any good brewery can assist with raw materials.
Bear in mind that one reason for Janet Napolitano to be taking up the environmental cause within her umbrella of authority, is to detect to the energy use required for rural production of health care essentials. It is also reason for the new interest in FDA regulation of food production on farms.
People can learn a great deal from the Chinese regarding these kinds of matters. How have they grown up capitalism beneath the restrictive communist government? The immigrant communities of the U.S. are another source of information on how to provide health and dental care to the underserved, under the table.
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Dec 10
Obama Admin Still Working to Rescind Conscience Rights on Abortion | LifeNews.com
Obama Admin Working to Rescind Conscience Rights on Abortion | LifeNews.com.
Obama began work to rescind Bush’s executive order and HHS regulations to protect the conscience rights of health care workers who refuse to kill their patients at the very beginning of life, immediately upon taking office. He was so busy with his unconstitutional, health care debacle that this project has been in limbo.
Not to worry. A physician shortage is integral to the rationing of care, and this can be exacerbated by denying conscience rights to those health care providers who refuse to kill in the practice of medicine. Obama intends to complete this project, having Health and Human Services rules promulgated in early 2011. Look for it.
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Oct 10
Why The Catholic Bishops Don’t Get Donations From Pharmer
Pharmer continues the boycott of the US Catholic Bishops fundraisers, and here’s just one more reason.
This appeared in Pharmer’s Church bulletin during October, Pro-life month:
“The Indiana Bishops have asked that parishes and affiliated/associated organizations NOT distribute or allow distribution of Indiana Right To Life’s or county affiliate organization’s election materials.
The Indiana Right to Life has adopted a clearly partisan policy that effectively endorses ONLY Republican candidates for elected offices.
When the Indiana Right to Life Policy and materials are again non-partisan, with a focus on education and advocacy, parishes may be able to cooperate with the local and state organization during the election campaign once more.”
The use of the word “republican” in this announcement violates it’s own supposed non-partisan message. Thus it is internally inconsistent with the supposed spirit the Indiana Bishops are pretending to convey.
The reality is that the bulk of U.S. Bishops (outside of a persistently pro life minority) are paying lip service to pro-life ideals only due to the prodding of the pro-life Pope Benedict.
The Wallbuilders have established three years running that the churches need not fear the IRS removal of tax exempt status. Those preachers doing political advocacy from the pulpits, and sending the tapes to the IRS have yet to be taken to task. The IRS knows that it will lose this case in court, so it keeps silent, allowing the IRS intimidation of most pastors to proceed.
The Catholic Church in the United States ought not to specifically ally itself with any party, but it really needs to get out of bed with the pro-abortion, pro-infanticide, pro-euthanasia, pro-gay marriage, Pro-WAR, pro-slavery, anti-civil rights, Democrat party of the KKK. Those of us who know the history of the U.S. Wars and the above mentioned misbehaviors know which party has initiated and/or supported them in our government.
Any politically conscious person knows that the Republican party is not without stain, and this is why there is a TEA-party for one example. Pharmer has been boycotting the RNC appeals for many years, and assisting individual candidates in other ways.
Pro-life politicians need to find another party, because the Democrat party at the national level has been impervious to transformation on these issues, and defunds its pro-life candidates at the national level. Democrats have moved further left with their chosen president’s inclusion of actual infanticide as an extension of abortion.
Notes:
The Indiana Right to Life Voter Guide has no endorsements included on the document. It has survey questions for federal and state candidates, followed by lists of the candidates (without party affiliation) and their replies to the questions.
Indiana Right to Life has issued a statement that it will back no Democrats this year, due in part to the cooperation of Indiana Democrats with the pro abortion Obamacare. The Democrat state officials have not allowed pro-life legislation to proceed in the Indiana legislature as well. The Indiana Bishops are reminded of Independents, Teapartiers, and Libertarians which are active within the state, and which are not excluded from consideration. It is revealed that the “only republicans” statement appearing in the church bulletin really means “no democrats”.
The 2010 List of Indiana Right to Life PAC endorsements- click HERE
The Democrat Party Platform of 2008 on Abortion:
“The Democratic Party strongly and unequivocally supports Roe v Wade and a woman’s right to choose a safe and legal abortion, regardless of ability to pay, and we oppose any and all efforts to weaken or undermine that right.”
“The Democratic Party also strongly supports access to comprehensive affordable family planning services and age-appropriate sex education which empower people to make informed choices and live healthy lives. We also recognize that such health care and education help reduce the number of unintended pregnancies and thereby also reduce the need for abortions.”
“The Democratic Party also strongly supports a woman’s decision to have a child by ensuring access to and availability of programs for pre and post natal health care, parenting skills, income support, and caring adoption programs.”
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Aug 10
Becket Fund to provide free defense for religious hospitals against government-ordered abortions
Becket Fund to provide free defense for religious hospitals against government-ordered abortions.
Apparently the members of the ACLU recognize Catholic health care to be of such high quality that they want their abortions done at Catholic hospitals, rather than those hole-in-the-wall Planned Unparenthood clinics.
Their latest push is to pressure the government to force the religious affliliated hospital personnel to vacuum the babies out of their women.
Above is linked an article from the Becket Fund which is offering pro-bono legal help for any health care professionals who are victimized by the ACLU’s push to force participation in this killing.
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Aug 10
Home Depot Fires Cashier for Wearing Patriotic Button
Trevor Keezor, a cashier at Home Depot was fired for wearing an “One Nation under God” button. This occurred after wearing it at work for a year, and shortly after he took up reading a bible at lunch break.
By contrast, Home Depot has shown itself to be much more friendly towards the display of accessories showing pro-gay sentiment, and this has inspired the AFA to initiate a boycott of the company.
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Jul 10
Christine Gregoire Backing Down from Abortion Extremism in Preparation for move to Washington DC
Kevin Storman owned a number of Thriftway stores in the Olympia area of Washington State. He decided to back his pharmacists decision (at Ralph’s Thriftway) to avoid stocking and dispensing the Plan B morning after pill.
This sent governor Christine Gregoire into a foaming frenzy of involving herself in a boycott of the stores, and threatening to fire members of the Washington Board of Pharmacy if they backed the freedom of pharmacists to conscientiously object to dispensing this abortive drug.
In 2009, a federal judge decided in favor of the store owners and pharmacists but that ruling was struck down on appeal and the case was remanded back to the district court.
Recently a request for summary judgment, from the Governor, was turned down, and trial was scheduled to resume in Federal District Court in Tacoma, Washington.
This past Wednesday, July 7, the Board’s lawyers signaled that there would be regulations enacted to protect pharmacists who would not dispense this drug, providing that they would refer the patient elsewhere.
Curiosity has arisen as to the reason behind a Gregoire Administration reversal of policy regarding the pharmacists.
Gregoire, being crazy-pro-abortion enough, was on the Obama Short List for Souter’s position on the U.S. Supreme court, but this position eventually went to Sotomayor.
Elena Kagan is the likely leftist body to fill the open position on the Supreme Court left by liberal Justice John Stevens. Gregoire is on the list to possibly occupy the solicitor general vacancy left by Kagan should she be confirmed.
From the Becket Fund: http://www.becketfund.org/files/final%20response%20to%20msj.pdf
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Jun 10
New ‘morning-after’ pill, ella, raises debate over similarity to abortion drug
New ‘morning-after’ pill, ella, raises debate over similarity to abortion drug.
Check it out before it gets archived.
While on the topic of conscientiously objecting health care professionals…… MUSLIMS ARE ABOARD . They’ve been getting their way in the UK, and will provide Obama with much cognitive dissonance.
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Jun 10
Ramon, the food service professional, teaches health care professionals how to deal with abortion
…. though it could cost him his job. Does he need assistance?
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May 10
Nurse News
Keeping track of the pro-life nurses…….
Remember Cathy Cenzon-DeCarlo, who sued Mt Sinai Hospital in New York this past summer for coercing her to participate in an abortion procedure under falsely represented circumstances ? Though no medical emergency existed, this nurse was threatened with loss of her job and nursing license if she did not assist with the procedure.
Cenzon-DeCarlo, with the Alliance Defense Fund has initiated a second suit against the hospital in the State of New York, in addition to the initial Federal lawsuit which is on appeal, based on violation of her rights of conscience.
Meanwhile, eight more nurses have received an apology from Nassau University Hospital in Long Island for disciplinary action after they refused to take part in non-emergency abortion procedures.
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Mar 10
Idaho Chooses Life: Conscience Protection Bill Passes Legislature
Idaho has done something major to prevent the expulsion of pro-life health care professionals from their practices.
Idaho Chooses Life: Conscience Protection Bill Passes Legislature.
This bill is ready to be signed by the Governor, which is only a matter of time.
AARP (which would benefit if it’s members did not live so long) vehemently opposed this bill, apparently fearing that it could impede the ability of the elderly to kill themselves.
The bill has no effect on the issue of living wills in a state without physician assisted suicide.
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Feb 10
Love that Internet!
If there had been an internet back in the 30s and 40s Hitler would have crashed and burned long before millions were killed.
A decade and a half ago, without much knowledge at all, Pharmer started plugging a health care ethics issue online, on other people’s message boards, until it became news internationally. This Process took about two and a half years.
Now what happens on the internet itself is the news, the real news media exists there, and any politician or media mogul can be heard passing gas on the other side of the world in seconds or hours.
Before most people knew how cool O’Keefe is (04-03-2008 to be exact), Pharmer linked and blogged his Planned Parenthood videos- because he stung them for accepting donations earmarked to abort Black babies.
Down on the Pharm, We knew O’Keefe’s compatriots were NOT bugging Landrieu’s phones when that bogus conjecture came out.
Way to go, Andrew Breitbart. It was so much fun to watch that liar Blumenthal get spanked.
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Jan 10
Devout Catholics shouldn’t work in Emergency Room says Coakley
This goes into the PHARMER TOLD YA SO FILE…. since conscience rights for health professionals has been my business for years and years.
The leftists do not have room for health care professionals who regard all human life with respect and who would not kill in their practice. In the event of Obamacare, most of us will be compelled to change careers, which will leave patients to deal with the other kind of health care provider.
Martha Coakley weighs in on the topic here.
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