Email or call your congressman today about H.R. 940, the Health Care Conscience Rights Act, especially from 10am to 12pm, but anytime of day will do.
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Victoria, Australia requires physicians to perform an abortion or refer for one whenever asked. This includes cases in which women want to abort a baby because it’s a girl.
Yes, there is a big leftist war on women going on in Victoria, Australia.
Dr. Mark Hobart, in Melbourne is expecting to have to give up his license to practice medicine because he refused to cooperate in an abortion for a couple because they didn’t want to have a girl.
Hobart refused to give a referral for the sex selection abortion, Hobart has broken the law in his state, and he is expecting suspension or complete loss of his license.
In Victoria, abortion and the state’s war on women trumps any human rights. Consider this if you have thought of moving to that part of the world. The remaining medical professionals are probably of decreasing quality as the ones who balk at killing are being removed from practice.
The debate on homosexual marriage has been largly been reduced to a gluey morass of useless emotions. For this reason it is refreshing when a useful and cogent view on the topic pushes through the noise and garbage.
Yours truly has long recognized that social recognition of marriage is not for the couple getting married. Instead, society has recognized marriage as a vehicle for stabilizing and promoting the process of bringing up children. Marriage as an institution is much closer to a “childrens rights” issue. There really is really no right for any individual to be married, nor is there a right to be a parent. The rights of an individual stop where they impinge upon the rights of another. Marriage is a whole lot of impingement and, as such, it is a privilege, not a right.
Please attend to the writings of one Mr. Doug Mainwaring, a Tea Party leader, who opposes gay marriage with similar arguments. As a conscientious adult, (an increasingly rare type of individual) Mr. Mainwaring is putting the rights of others ahead of what might be his own social comfort. He is likely paying a higher immediate social price for his opposition to same sex marriage because he himself is gay. The left tends to insist that all gays think a certain way, and it can be as bad for the conservatives among them as it is for Black right wingers.
Mr. Mainwaring points out that politicians are selling this issue, disguised as a push for equality, for votes, and says that the same sex marriage concept is undefining marriage instead of redefining it. He points out that in the quest for self gratification, adults are reducing children to “chattel like sources of self fulfillment“. He eloquently conveys the fact that the state’s interest in marriage is all about the children, and nothing more. Check out his article HERE.
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Magdi Allam made international news when he converted from his Muslim faith to Catholicism on Easter, 2008, at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, with Pope Benedict XVI officiating.
Allam now says that he is leaving Catholicism, but will always remain a Christian. He is upset that the Catholic Church has stood by for the “Islamization” of Europe, which he sees as an affront to Western civilization, and the “fundamental rights of the person”. He points to the persecution of Christians in the Muslim countries, and explains that a practice of appeasement will not be effective in stopping the maltreatment.
Pharmer does not see all Muslims as being cut from the same cloth, though Allam is certainly correct about the more extreme Islamic groups. The main difficulty with Islam occurs when it is practiced as a political system, rather than as a religion. There are those who hold that Islam is inherently a political system.
There are some additional forces driving people from the Catholic Church. In the U.S. the Church has been very weak in speaking up for the rights of the unborn, the elderly and disabled, preferring to sell them out for government funding of their charitable and educational interests. The U.S. Catholic church has also seen fit to place charitable functions and health care into the hands of a very corrupt government. After doing this, the Bishops then feigned surprise that abortion, birth control coercion, and IPAB death panels were a part of the government health care plan, brought by the most pro-abortion/infanticide president in history.
Yours truly thinks it is plausible that the Catholic leadership in the U.S. knew what was coming all along. It is observed that the nominally Catholic lawmakers who pushed this abortive health care agenda are still able to publicly partake in the Eucharist. This serves as an indication that Obamacare, and all the death and destruction it is bringing our way, might have been pre-approved by the church leadership in America.
Does it make sense, with this in mind, to follow the example of Magdi Allam? Pharmer is not taking such a step. Perhaps it makes more sense to stick with the ideals of the Catholic religion as an ethical system apart from so many current clergy and leaders who not taking it seriously.
Perhaps it also makes more sense to abstain from the Eucharist in the place of Biden, Pelosi, et al, and do penance for having allowed them to govern us.
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Pastors challenge IRS rule with partisan talk – BakersfieldCalifornian.com.
What makes most non profit 501 (C)(3) tax exempt groups so quiet about their causes? Why are they afraid to name names, and speak loudly against the politicians who oppose them? On this past Pulpit Freedom Sunday, more than 1500 Pastors openly defied the 1954 IRS regulation which sought to squash political speech by non profit groups, by scaring them with the IRS boogieman.
In all these 58 years, the IRS has done next to nothing against politically activist churches and non-profits. The IRS has only succeeded in stripping one church of its tax exempt status, in 1992. That particular church in Binghamton, NY ran newspaper ads against Bill Clinton and his positions on abortion and homosexuality.
Since then the IRS has sent only warning letters to a relatively few churches, and since then has had a policy of not enforcing this law.
The Pulpit Freedom Sunday supporters believe that the IRS fears losing ground on this First Amendment issue.
So…….. Why are so many churches and pro-life 501(c)(3) groups so quiet and polite about the political issues which impinge on their cause?
Why don’t they take a chance with their own careers, and income, as so many pro-life health care professionals have been doing? If they led by example, more people would be standing up and taking personal risks to stand up for life.
Don’t forget, the supposedly non-profit, tax funded, and tax exempt planned unparenthood has been openly funding and endorsing candidates for years.
Proposal to amend ObamaCare contraceptive rule met with skepticism | Fox News.
Kathleen (Cruella) Sebelius, has slightly broadened conscience exceptions in the HHS mandate. The new amendment still shows her desire to remove all of those who religiously object to paying for birth control, abortion and sterilizations, from the world of business. This is much worse than a status of dhimmitude for strict opponents of abortion, and would serve to force them out of the taxable portion of the U.S. economy. With this amendment, the administration shows that it is not serious about addressing the debt problem by allowing the INFLUX of tax dollars.
The HHS mandate remains a significant part of the many pronged effort by the Obama administration to remove the United States from its position as a world economic leader.
Your friendly Pharmer spotted a link at Jill Stanek’s blog which needs to be passed on. Robert Oscar Lopez, himself the son of a lesbian mother, reveals a transformation in the gay community which has aligned it with the industries of human trafficking and creation of designer babies. Kids have become commodities, and anyone who objects, including the children themselves, will be publicly scourged for homophobia.
Lopez states that the fight for gay marriage was to provide legal cover “from criticism for their bioethical stunts”.
Click below and read:
Articles: The Oncoming Human Rights Crisis…Caused by the LGBT Movement.
So what if abortion ends life? – Salon.com.
Salon writer, Mary Elizabeth Williams, tells us that she’s tired of pro-choicers looking stupid while defending abortion. Most of the abortion defenders have developed some odd theories (even stranger than global warming) to explain why it’s OK to kill humans prior to birth, ‘ranging from it’s not alive‘ to’ it’s not a person‘.
Williams doesn’t want membership in the non-science crowd. She freely admits that abortion involves killing a human. She asserts that we make decisions about killing humans all the time, and therefore a human fetus is also worth killing for various reasons.
The point that Williams is missing?? Peace and civilization begin at home. If we won’t stand up for the lives of our very own people, we certainly won’t grow outward to value and protect the lives of ‘strangers’.
For Williams, life is just a commodity, and there might be good enough reasons to kill anyone.
Do you want this short fused woman to be living in the house next door?
Are you emotionally and spiritually “prepped” for the DE-volution of civilization that the leftists are bringing to us?
Lose your Cookies?
Klan Abort uses an apparently deranged, Mehcad Brooks,to pose as the spouse of abortion, and the step-daddy of millions of dead babies. Brooks just can’t get enough of playing the bad guy, but in his later years, as he looks back on an ocean of blood, he might regret his fling with the center for reproductive wrongs. We’re noticing that he doesn’t really have much to say in this vid. He’s slower than Obama without a teleprompter.
Note, the original publisher pulled this video, but it was rescued. Look for Youtube to be rooting it out because the Center for Reproductive Wrongs will ask them to erase this gaffe from the net memory.
UPDATE!!! Pharmer was expecting a reply from Afonzo Rachel, and here it is! Dr. Zo’s Spoof Video.
Now…. Get Your Appetite Back……
One woman’s Extreme Generosity is the seed for a chain of giving.
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“This is a big #^@&(N deal”…as Joe Biden would say. A Federal court is blocking Obamanator’s HHS mandate for O’Brien Industrial Holdings, which operates several smaller companies: Christy Industrial Services, Christy Minerals Co., and Christy Refractories Co. The owner, Frank O’Brien is a Catholic, who wishes to adhere to his religious beliefs in operating his businesses.
The three judge panel of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals granted a preliminary injunction which blocks the HHS mandates unconstitutional effects upon this privately owned company. Among the many lawsuits challenging the HHS mandate, this is the first decision rendered by a Federal appeals court.
Frank Manion of the American Center for Law and Justice is handling this case, which was first dismissed by a Federal district court judge before it was taken before the Eighth Circuit Court. The ACLJ has filed two other lawsuits against the Federal Government regarding the HHS mandate, and numerous Amicus briefs for other court challenges.
Federal Court Temporarily Blocks HHS Contraception Mandate for Private Business Owner | CNS News.
Bishop E.W. Jackson calls Black Christians to stop affiliation with the Democrat Party which vigorously opposes them on social and religious issues.
–and its endorsement of intrinsic moral evil. Pharmer summary: The Bishop can’t tell people how to vote, but those who are aligned with the Democrat Party Platform could be in deep eternal doo doo.
Court: Illinois Can't Force Pharmacists to Sell Plan B Drug | LifeNews.com.
The 2005 Blagojevich edict forcing pharmacists to dispense the morning after pill and all other birth control drugs without question or delay, suffered a second defeat, this time in appellate court. In 2011 the trial court had found that the law was invalid because it targeted a specific group, and that Illinois law prohibits discrimination in licensing those who cannot provide a particular service due to religious beliefs.
This lawsuit, which passed its second review, was the one involving pharmacy owners, Luke VanderBleek and Glenn Kosirog. Another lawsuit, which ended in favor of conscientious objectors, involved employee pharmacists in the same state.
The Appellate court opinion is available HERE.
VanderBleek and Kosirog have been represented since 2005 by attorneys of the ACLJ and the Becket Fund.
Starting June 21 and running through July 4th is a two week period of prayer and education to counteract the Obama healthcare mandate and its threat to religious freedom.
Clickables:
Fortnight for Freedom Bulletin Insert
U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Gets A Clue.
Speech by a Bishop Who had a clue early on. (Archbishop Chaput moved from Denver to Philadelphia to clean house.)
Video from Washington DC Archdiocese
There’s a petition and opportunity to donate to the SBA List HERE.
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.
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
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!!!
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
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.
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.
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.
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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