Author: Pharmer

a rural-dwelling, pro-life pharmacist

British court rules Catholic midwives can be forced to participate in abortions | LifeSiteNews.com

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British court rules Catholic midwives can be forced to participate in abortions | LifeSiteNews.com.

Yes, it can be a lot harder to exercise rights of conscience once you rise into the supervisory and administrative ranks of health care institutions that must offer abortions.

Under socialized medicine, there might be some allowance for health care professionals to conscientiously avoid killing their patients. The problem with rising to the supervisory roles is that one would be forced to oversee the health care professionals who participate in this killing.

This is the crux of the case of two midwife supervisors, Miss Mary Doogan and Mrs Connie Wood, in the UK health system who did not want to involve themselves in that aspect of health care.

The judge in the Edinburgh Court of Session ruled against the midwives, saying that their job was not covered by conscience protections in the Abortion Act.

Judge Lady Smith excluded the senior midwives of the Southern General Hospital in Glasgow from conscience protection because they were not actually performing abortions themselves.

Celestial Discharge: Andrew Breitbart

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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.

Fr. John Hollowell Speaks to Cecile Richards

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Something has Fr. John Hollowell, an articulate Catholic priest and educator, ready to do battle.

Could it be Satan?
Close.
It’s Cecile Richards, president of planned unparenthood.

Fr. Hollowell’s video stands on its own, but you can see Cecile’s video “I Have a Say” in which she extolls the Obama mandate forcing insurance companies to provide birth control/ abortion / sterilization right HERE
Ms. Richards is fast and loose with the fabricated statistics on birth control use. She falsely identifies congressional hearings on the constitutionality of the HHS mandate, as a hearing on “contraception”. A female, wanting to testify about what she thinks is contraception, was not admitted to the first hearing because she was off topic. Even the Politico noticed that the complaint of women not having a say in the hearings was false.

Oxford Ohio: Deer rescues woman from attacker

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Deer rescues woman from attacker | Cincinnati.com | cincinnati.com.

This story comes from one of the cities in Soutwest Ohio which Pharmer served in retail pharmacy practice.
It seems that a woman was attacked by an assailant as she left a party. As he was attempting to choke and drag her, the commotion disturbed a deer who was apparently bedded down for the night. The deer took off running, and that, in turn, scared off the attacker. The woman escaped without serious injury, and still in possession of her purse.

This particular woman has perhaps lost the taste for venison.

“Infanticidal Lefties!” We Told You So

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After-birth abortion: why should the baby live? — Giubilini and Minerva — Journal of Medical Ethics.

After about 40 years of hearing that the pro-lifers’ slippery slope arguments against abortion and euthanasia were not valid, or a departure from reality, Pharmer takes this opportunity to say We TOLD you so!.

As if this is news, the internet has taken up the above example, authored by “bioethicists” (qualified to be on Obama’s health advisory team) that infanticide of any newborn is OK, if the baby is considered inconvenient to the lifestyle of the parents.

Wesley Smith is giving the same article one more go around at Second Hand Smoke. Even he seems tired of writing about them.

What seems to be a shock in the media is just old news to pro-lifers, who knew our leftist, ideological opponents, and realized their nature from the beginning. Killing and slavery is still their thing. They have not evolved to anything higher throughout the centuries.

The question is whether those of us without this appetite for destruction are going to continue to fund the plans of these people to kill and enslave us.

Are you attending to your boycotting? Are you paying attention to the “service” projects that your kids are doing in school? Are you directing your charitable efforts towards groups aligned with your ethical beliefs?

“What a Snob!” Santorum takes on the Obama College for All, Promise.

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Pharmer’s current plan is to fund the most technical type of education possible for the kids after high school, and push them towards obtaining their continuing cultural education outside of the academic boxes filled with lefties. Most likely they will be more successful if their consciences and work ethics are not impaired by conventional university education.
This conclusion was reached after 11 years of college and graduate education, (lotsa alphabet soup) and work in research, teaching and pharmacy practice.
Pharmer’s husband obtained two associates degrees. He now teaches at a technical school in a third field, in which he is self-trained, as a master automotive technician.

Santorum is correct that the universities are not the only road to success. Curiosity and constant self instruction are the keys. Always be willing to learn something new.
He’s also very correct about the academic snobbery.

Boston Catholic Insider: Romney Lied About Catholic Hospitals Voluntarily Giving out Plan B

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Boston Catholic Insider.

Linked above is an extensive article and information from the Boston Catholic Insider on the process by which the Catholic Hospitals of Massachusetts were coerced to give out the morning after pill to rape victims.
It includes a detailed chronology of events, and is worth your time to read.
Romney appears capable of a similar kind of bait and switch that Obama has done to the Catholic Bishops with his birth control/ abortion / sterilization mandate.

Here’s an 12/2005 article from the Pilot Catholic News about Romney’s announcement that his morning after pill mandate applied to Catholic hospitals. Romney had previously stated that religious hospitals would be exempted by a 1975 law that provided protection for conscientious refusal to distribute birth control or participate in abortion. He later decided that there was no such shield, and demanded that the Catholic hospitals comply with the birth control mandate.