Posted on 12/22/2011 6:16:06 PM PST by Morgana
This is a fast-breaking story that requires your immediate attention and action. New developments are coming out every day.
Furthermore, it’s a time-sensitive issue that could help STOP an insidious threat that would otherwise open the floodgates of abortion in the United States like never before.
Here’s what it’s all about…
As you probably know, the so-called “healthcare reform” legislation known as “ObamaCare” – which was narrowly passed by Congress (and only after intense pressure tactics from the White House) – is now facing its toughest challenge ever.
It’s being challenged in court over the constitutionality of its key provision of requiring every U.S. citizen to purchase health insurance or else face a penalty.
What’s more, from a pro-life standpoint, Obamacare is an atrocity because it requires health insurance plans to PAY FOR ABORTION! That means YOU would be paying for abortion coverage whether you want to or not every time you pay your insurance premium.
This alone is unconscionable. But as you know, the abortion industry desperately WANTS and NEEDS Obamacare because it would flood their coffers with untold millions of dollars -- paid by you and me, of course – at a time when the entire abortion industry is in danger of closing down because of the work of so many good pro-lifers like you.
It’s true. The number of abortion mills in America keeps shrinking – almost on a daily basis. They’re feeling the onslaught of heavy fines, lawsuits, new regulations, criminal investigations, as well as convictions and prison sentences for the baby butchers.
Bottom line? The abortion industry is hurting – BIG TIME.
And that’s why they NEED Obamacare. It will keep them afloat. It will be a source of unrestricted funding for abortion – the likes of which we’ve never seen. It will make the federal government’s subsidies to Planned Parenthood (a million dollars a day) look like chicken feed.
And even though the Obama Administration is quick to deny that Obamacare will force taxpayers to buy insurance policies that cover abortifacient drugs (mistakenly called “contraception”), we now know that this is patently untrue.
Consider this recent disturbing development that’s come straight out of the Obama Administration: In a little-known amendment, the Department of Health and Human Services (under the “Catholic” pro-abortion leader, Kathleen Sebelius) is now going to require Catholic hospitals, schools, and charities to buy health insurance for their employees that cover abortifacients and sterilization – even though these are repugnant to the Catholic conscience, and a clear violation of religious rights.
The Obama Administration doesn’t care. Their goal is to force abortion – in every form – down our throats, no matter what. And Obamacare is the tool they plan to use to achieve their diabolical goals. So this brings us to the current state of affairs – and the reason I’m writing to you today…
Right now, with the constitutionality of Obamacare soon to be ruled upon by the U.S. Supreme Court, we have a chance to STOP this abortion free-for-all legislation in its tracks.
How? It’s very simple: You see, right now the Supreme Court is fairly evenly-divided on Obamacare. Just one “swing vote” would make the difference between Obamacare getting the Court’s seal of approval, or being shot down entirely.
Now, it’s unfortunately true that the average U.S. citizen has little or no direct influence (other than prayer and fasting) over how the Court rules on any given case. We could write letters to the Justices until our hands fell off, and it wouldn’t do any good – because the Court does not “represent” the people like Congress does, and therefore isn’t receptive to voter input.
Therefore, in this case, we have to take stock of what influence we can exert over the Court and how it will vote on Obamacare.
Frankly, there seems to be only one way available to us right now – and that is to have Justice Elena Kagan recuse herself from the Obamacare case.
Everybody already knows where she stands and how she will vote. She’s strongly pro-abortion. After all, she’s an Obama appointee, AND she argued for Obamacare when she was the Solicitor General of the United States. Newly revealed documents even show that she was intimately involved in creating the legislation.
Simply put, she should not participate in any case if she worked on it as a lawyer.
And that’s her Achilles heel.
The way our justice system works, any judge who is pre-biased in any way on any case because of prior work on the case (particularly as a government official) is legally and ethically required to not to rule on that case. The judge must “recuse” himself (or herself) and step down, or “sit it out.”
This clearly applies to Justice Kagan when it comes to Obamacare. She should have already recused herself on this particular case because of her work on behalf of Obamacare when she was Solicitor General. But… she admitted in her Senate confirmation hearings that she wouldn’t.
After all, as we know too well, the “normal rules” don’t apply when it comes to abortion.
We call it “The Abortion Distortion” for a reason!
Pro-aborts simply do not play by the rules when something threatens abortion, even in the slightest way. Their hypocrisy and virulence abounds all the more, in fact.
Such is the case here.
Mind you, Justice Kagan has already recused herself on no less than THIRTY different cases that have come before the Supreme Court since she took her seat on the bench. And in each one, it was because she had previously argued for or against one side of the case while she was Solicitor General.
That means she did the right thing on those 30 previous cases.
However, because the Obamacare case involves abortion – and, most importantly, the “blank check” that will save the abortion industry from total financial collapse in the next few years – Justice Kagan is being told by the Obama Administration NOT to recuse herself. They need her vote on the Supreme Court. Because without her, the Court will almost surely vote against the constitutionality of Obamacare.
This would be bad news for the abortion industry and bad news for President Obama – because his Obamacare is basically the only accomplishment he has achieved since he entered the White House. And now it’s in BIG danger – right during the coming election season.
This is why the pro-life movement is now calling for Justice Kagan to do the right thing and recuse herself from the Obamacare case – just as she’s done on the previous 30 cases where she had a “pre-existing condition” biasing her.
But… surprise, surprise… the Obama Administration – in the form of the U.S. Attorney General’s office – is digging its heels in and refusing to demand that Justice Kagan recuse herself.
Attorney General Eric Holder, who is the one responsible for making sure there’s no conflict-of-interest on the Supreme Court, is completely “stonewalling” Congress on this matter.
He refuses to even take up the issue – stalling for as long as he can until it’s “too late” for Justice Kagan to recuse herself. Delay-and-stall tactics are the hallmark of someone who doesn’t have a leg to stand on.
Suffice it to say that something has to be done NOW to get Justice Kagan to recuse herself from the Obamacare case when it’s heard by the Supreme Court.
Fortunately, there IS something YOU can do!
Right now, an effort is being led by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith – a pro-life Texas Republican – to investigate Justice Kagan’s conflict-of-interest on the ObamaCare legislation.
In fact, Congressman Smith wrote to Attorney General Eric Holder to inform him of the investigation. In his letter, Smith states…
“I write to request relevant documents and witness interviews in order to properly understand U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Elena Kagan’s involvement in health care legislation or litigation while serving as United States Solicitor General.
“In recent weeks, questions have been raised about whether Justice Kagan’s prior work on what became the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) while serving as Solicitor General should disqualify her from hearing challenges to its constitutionality… All parties agree the critical question is the extent of her involvement, as Solicitor General, in formulating the Administration’s legal position on PPACA, which was signed into law by President Obama on March 23, 2010.”
Congressman Smith is being backed by at least 50 other representatives in the House – as well as by pro-life leaders around the country.
In fact, I recently signed a petition spearheaded by the Judicial Action Group – co-signed by more than 85 pro-life and citizens’ group leaders – to ensure that a proper investigation is conducted into Kagan’s qualifications (or lack thereof) to judge the Obamacare case.
Click here to read the full letter!
Likewise, I urge you to take action now and send your own e-mail to Congressman Lamar Smith so that he knows he has the full support of concerned pro-lifers like you.
You can do this quickly and easily by clicking here for the automatic e-mail we’ve already prepared for you. It takes just a few seconds, but it will be worth more than you can imagine if we’re able to get Justice Kagan to recuse herself from the Obamacare hearings when they come before the Supreme Court.
Click here to send the automatic e-mail.
I thank you, in advance, for your willingness to help with this vital and time-sensitive effort.
Wishing you a Blessed Advent,
Fr. Frank Pavone
Fr. Frank Pavone National Director, Priests for Life
American blacks are pretty much aborting their entire next generation..
BUT mexican and south american blacks are taking their place..
Wonder if Jesse or AL are learning spanish...
Ping for action later.
Making war on Christ, and the children of the church—never turns out well. They will fail and those who follow the anti-Christ will burn in the 9th level of Hell. Lets wait and see how Obama turns out —I believe his end will not be pretty—Our God is a patient god—but his wrath is everlasting. watch as those who have followed his false teaching will come to a bad end. Repent! MSM—while there is still time!
I agree with Salman: Zero’s main goal is to kill children - with a little effort to spare for the elderly and handicapped. The Catholic Church is in his sights because it’s practically the only organized and intellectually consistent opposition to him and the rest of the Death Eaters.
**The Catholic Church is in his sights because it’s practically the only organized and intellectually consistent opposition to him and the rest of the Death Eaters.**
But, the public sees the many public Catholics like Lurch Kerry, Barkin Harkin, Pig Pelosi, Dirtbin Durbin, Sicko Sebelius, Coocoo Cuomo, etc, etc, and follow their lead. Obozo likes those ‘devout’ Catholics.
I’m convinced that Obozo is like the majority of people in the USA today: Religious only when it is convenient for material gain; and that nobody is really going to hell. After all, the (public)’educated’ person KNOWS that we really just evolved from the ‘big bang’.
Now, on illegal immigration, it would seem that the RCC is in lockstep with Obummer and the Dims.
Jesus Christ said that his kingdom is not of this world. Therefore, the fall any man’s kingdom (house, city, state, or nation) is assured if it is not put in the trust of the Lord’s leadership. His kingdom cannot be destroyed, and is able to protect those that trust in him.
The faithless, unbelieving majority (included are such people attending or aligning with any ‘church’ organization that supports sin) will sell their ‘birthright’ (deny Christ) for any such material they find essential at a given momment.
God raises up nations and puts them down. Just like any other nation, the USA is constantly ‘weighed in the balance’.
It is assured that the cry of the blood of the aborted, and the abused and murdered children has the Lord’s full attention, and avenging them is equally assured.
Yes, that's true. The membership of the Catholic Church is not universally true to the Faith, and it would be astonishing if they were, people being people.
God raises up nations and puts them down.
Yep.
Say WHAT??? Except for:
In 2008, Barach Hussein Obama carried all the New England and most of thr coastal states, which have significant proportions of Roman church members.
Most of the fly-over country states, which have lower proportions of Roman church members and more Bible-based Christians, and where the political influence of the Roman church is negligible, voted against President Obama.
I chose my adjectives carefully: “organized” and “intellectually consistent.”
Many of the entities you mention are not “organized” at an institutional level above the individual congregation or facility. There’s nothing wrong with that, but it means that targeting them as opponents of the Obama agenda doesn’t have the payoff that targeting the Catholic Church has. It also means that, for example, “Bible-based churches in general” cannot make a comprehensive statement of life principles that covers the full array of assaults on human life, because the structure for consistence simply does not exist.
Tea parties, the Republican Party - any political group whether a solid institution or an ad-hoc organization - cannot be intellectually consistent in defense of life. The quest for votes requires that they leave much unstated. If Free Republic includes (and it does) supporters of euthanasia, of “assisted suicide,” of denying care to the elderly and disabled, of forced sterilization, of abortion under Condition X or for less-than-desirable Population Y, that tells us what any politics-focussed association has to work with.
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