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Posted on 11/02/2017 5:16:27 PM PDT by cpforlife.org
The Department of Health and Human Services is set to make a very public stand for unborn Americans.
In a break from previous administrations, including when George W. Bush was in office, the HHS has indicated that life begins at conception in their new strategic plan, which will cover fiscal years 2018-2022.
As the American Center for Law and Justice explains, stating this in official public policy is huge for the pro-life cause, emphasis mine.
Starting in 2010, HHS has been required to release a strategic plan every four years. This time their plan, for the first time ever, has explicitly recognized that life begins at conception. This is a major victory for the rights and dignity of the unborn.
The HHS plan goes well beyond lip service. It incorporates this scientific principle as an integral and holistic part of its healthcare mission here at home and around the globe. Specifically, the fact that life begins at conception is included in four key components of the plan.
HHS includes protecting life “beginning at conception” as a core part of its overall mission:
HHS accomplishes its mission through programs and initiatives that cover a wide spectrum of activities, serving and protecting Americans at every stage of life, beginning at conception.
HHS recognizes that respecting the “inherent dignity” of the unborn is a vital part of “global health security”:
Enhance international preparedness through medical countermeasures and community mitigation measures, respecting the inherent dignity of persons from conception to natural death.
HHS dedicates itself to protecting the right to life for all, especially those most at risk of social or economic challenges:
A core component of the HHS mission is our dedication to serve all Americans from conception to natural death, but especially those individuals and populations facing or at high risk for economic and social well-begin challenges, through effective human services.
HHS restores pro-life ethics to medical and scientific research:
The research pursued under this strategic goal is to be conducted consistent with the understanding that human subjects protection applies to all human beings from conception to natural death.
As we are well aware, the abortion industry in the United States happily dismisses scientific truth in favor of embracing a religion of choice. Unborn lives are sacrificed daily to that almighty god that makes ending such lives not only permissible but celebrated in today’s culture.
The plan unequivocally states that the department seeks to protect life, and that life encompasses “conception to natural death.”
Though such a truth should be a matter of routine, it is groundbreaking in 2017.
The plan was under a review period until October 27. Until that time, both the general public, as well as elected officials and other organizations were allowed to comment on its contents. Unsurprisingly, there was a fair amount of backlash from those who believe that the plan undermines women as a whole, especially their reproductive health rights. How dare such statements be made about conception!
Democratic Senators were less than pleased.
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THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS YOU, MR. PRESIDENT.
Who were the pro-abortion politicians of Jefferson’s day?
The quote from Jefferson is of the principle on sanctity of life, not abortion specifically.
This is great news, but it’s all easily overturned by a new administration.
Congress must enact pro-life, conservative policy across the board, but our Republican representatives and senators appear totally incapable of doing so. Why?
(FReepers know why of course. Kick the bums out!)
At one point in time people thought “life began with the quickening” The belief that the soul entered the fetus when the mother first feels it’s heartbeat.
Good news!
If the right to life is not a human right, then it is inhuman savagery.
So does this officially vacate Roe v. Wade?
It was one of Reagan’s wisest observations. Too bad he named pro-aborts Sandra Day O’Connor and Anthony Kennedy to unwind what he professed to believe
They were wrong.
Prior to "quickening" the child moving in the womb, it was not considered a person and a woman could be given a herbal tea to "bring on menses" or cause a miscarriage.
Mercy!
We are moving in the right direction.
Thank you President Trump and Vice President Pence.
Not quite. It was when the mother first feels the baby's movements (i.e., kicking) and that can be anywhere between 13 and 25 weeks gestation. The heart begins beating within three weeks of conception. We know now that the moment the ovum is fertilized by the sperm cell, a new, unique human life begins.
“We are fighting and praying together so that God may bless the Hungarian people,” said the prime minister in closing remarks. “God save Hungary! Soli Deo Gloria [Glory to God alone].”
"Last month, fellow former Soviet satellite state Poland celebrated another important date in Christian history, with the Catholic Feast of the Holy Rosary that marked the anniversary of the Battle of Lepanto where “the Christian fleet overcame the Muslim armada, saving Europe from Islamisation”."
"The anniversary was marked by the Rosary on the Borders prayer campaign that saw over a reported one million Poles pray along the country’s 2,000-mile border for the salvation of their country, the event openly supported by Poland’s prime minister, Beata Szydło."
Hungary: Governments Should Be ‘Dedicated to Christian Values’ that Made Europe Great
I wanted to know Hungary's abortion policy and checked wiki. So, they have one of the most liberal policies although it is a tougher process. The laws do state that life begins at conception but no laws have been changed since then to prevent the murder.
Until their national policy is overturned, their prayers cannot be heard.
FANTASTIC article bump!
What does it say about Washington that when I first read the headline I though it meant HHS was going to make some notion of “pro-life,” extinct?
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