Posted on 12/08/2008 4:42:42 AM PST by wagglebee
Thread by markomalley.
On the past two Sundays, parishioners at the Holy Family Church in Nutley, New Jersey, have received a stark warning: If the Obama administration and Democratic Congress have their way, Catholic hospitals around the country will be forced to close.
The reason? A piece of legislation known as the Freedom Of Choice Act, or FOCA, that opponents believe will force hospitals and doctors to perform abortions even if they have moral opposition to doing so.
Since doctors at Catholic hospitals won't perform an abortion, the logic goes, the hospitals would have no choice but to shut their doors under FOCA rules.
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LONDON, January 29, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) A quarter of UK secondary school teachers have been asked for advice by students on how to obtain an abortion, a recent study has found. 24 percent of secondary school teachers said they had been asked for advice on abortion. 67 percent of those polled said they think information about abortion should be included in the national curriculum on sex education.
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Lesforlife's dear granddaughter Tuesday Fiona Whitt went to be with our Lord in Paradise yesterday.
Please remember Tuesday and her family, especially her twin sister Piper and brothers Spencer and Axel.
Thank you and God Bless.
The Italian courts have decided that Eluana will be executed regardless of anything else.
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MILAN, Italy, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- An Italian court says the government of Lombardy must provide a clinic and healthcare workers for a woman trapped in a vegetative state to end her life.
The government had refused to designate a clinic for 38-year-old Eluana Englaro, even after her father won a landmark right-to-die supreme court ruling in November. Monday's regional court decision in Milan said Lombardy "will have to indicate a health clinic" suitable to allow Englaro to die and provide healthcare workers to remove her feeding tubes, ANSA, the Italian news agency, reported.
Englaro's father, Beppino Englaro, told reporters he was "satisfied" with the regional court's decision. He had been waging a battle to find a clinic prepared to carry out the controversial ruling, which has been denounced by Catholic politicians and the Vatican.
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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- President Barack Obama has come under fire for pro-abortion nominations for various positions and now he is drawing heat for nominating a pro-abortion Deputy Attorney General. His nominee David Ogden, is drawing criticism for authoring a Supreme Court brief dismissing negative effects from an abortion.
During the campaign, Obama came under heavy criticism for a comment saying he did not want his daughters punished with a pregnancy -- intimating that abortion would be the preferred course of action.
Now, Obama has appointed a top Justice Department official who appears to feel the same way.
Thread by GonzoII.
MIAMI, Fla., January 30, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - On Tuesday, January 27, 2009, suit was filed by the Thomas More Society in Miami on behalf of Shanice Denise Osbourne, an infant girl who was allegedly murdered in July, 2006.
The case claims that Shanice was born alive and then murdered by abortion clinic owner, Belkis Gonzalez. Thirteen defendants (including Gonzalez, abortionist Dr. Pierre Jean-Jacques Renelique and their conglomerate of four South Florida abortion clinics) have been sued for unlicensed and unauthorized medical practice, botched abortions, evasive tactics, false medical records and the killing, hiding and disposing of the baby.
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They are channeling ADOLPH HITLER. The first black president and his crew are shackled to planned parenthood which is an arm of the culture of death franchise. Our tax dollars are already used for killing (unless you happen to be Geitner or Tom Daschle who are both TAX CHEATS). Democrats permitted to break laws unless they get caught and then they are admitted to the uber death cultist leaders. Under HHS, would Daschle kill young, disabled and old alike? I just can’t trust a tax cheat.
Thread by Erik Latranyi
COUPLES who have more than two children are being irresponsible by creating an unbearable burden on the environment, the governments green adviser has warned.
Jonathon Porritt, who chairs the governments Sustainable Development Commission, says curbing population growth through contraception and abortion must be at the heart of policies to fight global warming. He says political leaders and green campaigners should stop dodging the issue of environmental harm caused by an expanding population.
A report by the commission, to be published next month, will say that governments must reduce population growth through better family planning...
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VATICAN CITY Pope Benedict XVI said Sunday that euthanasia is a "false solution" to suffering, adding his voice to a bitter debate in Italy over the fate of a comatose woman whose father wants to remove her feeding tube.
During his Sunday blessing, Benedict said that love can help confront pain and that "no tear, from those who suffer and those who are with them, is lost before God."
Benedict didn't mention Eluana Englaro by name, but it was clear he was referring to her case, which has made headlines in Italy for months...
My story starts in my childhood.
I grew up with 2 alcoholics and a stepfather who sexually abused me. My parents divorced when I was 9 years old and my mother quickly remarried. The sexual abuse started within a month of their marriage. I was never raped, but it was always threatened and I lived in constant fear. What a terrible thing for a child to live through. I looked at my kids at 9 years old and wondered how anyone can do something so horrendous to a child.
I decided early on that I would not have sex until I was 18, so I could at least support the child if I became pregnant. I stuck to this promise to myself and did wait. As a child of sexual abuse, I looked for love within sex. I wasnt going from man to man, but I definitely equated love with sex. I met my husband and we became friends first, then after a period of time, lovers. We started living together and became careless one night and I ended up pregnant. I was 22 years old.
Looking back now, I cannot fathom what I was thinking, although at the time I was drinking and doing drugs to numb the pain of the childhood I had experienced and I believe this played a big factor in my decision. As an adopted child myself, I often wonder why I didnt chose this route. The sad truth is I felt scared and alone and it was easier at the time to just get rid of it.
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Thread by UCFRoadWarrior.
Michael Steele, the new chairman of the Republican National Committee wants the GOP to reach out to candidates who support gay marriage and are pro-choice. Steele told Fox's Chris Wallace that it was "important" to reach out to those voters...
Well good luck with that Mike. In a slight paraphrase of the words of Ronaldus Magnus "I didn't leave the GOP, the GOP left me"
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LOS ANGELES, February 2, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Actor Gary Graham knew that by writing about his personal experience and rejection of abortion, he would be incurring the ire of not a few among the Hollywood elite.
Yet a blog column posted last Tuesday by the seasoned actor, known most recently for his roles as Ambassador Soval in the TV series "Star Trek: Enterprise" and Capt. Ingles on "J.A.G.", took an unflinching look at truths almost entirely ignored by those in the Hollywood establishment.
"Im going to say what millions know in the front of their brains, and many, many more millions know in the depths of their hearts but wont allow themselves to think it, much less feel it," wrote Graham. "And believe me, I know Ill be hated for saying it, Ill be hated by people who dont know me, have never worked with me, have never golfed with me, had a drink with me.
"Im going to say it anyway: Abortion is murder."
Graham described the irresponsibility of his youth that made abortion the convenient option for a drug-fueled, free-love lifestyle. He confessed to having paid for multiple abortions for girlfriends, observing that abortion sure took the pressure off of me, a guy, interested in sex who had been raised in the era of, Hey, you get a girl pregnant, you marry her! But then, he says, a "spiritual awakening" brought him to a "tearful epiphany of what it meant for a man to be with a woman, what sex was really designed for by our Creator and what abortion is.
"I truly wish that I had had this conviction way back when when I was only concerned about my selfish convenience of the day," wrote Graham. "But I didnt want to know, I didnt want to think about it. It was inconvenient to think about it."
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Whatever -:)
There's nothing here about posing for cheesecake photos.
I clicked the link thinking I would find pictures of well-endowed, scantily-clad women making cheesecake . . . maybe next time.
See, that’s why I waited so long to give you the cheesecake I kept promising. I knew you’d just want more. Give ‘em a cheesecake, they’ll take a harem.
(Yeah, I know, don’t quit my day job.)
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