Health Care
Simmer down and pray: getting divine strategy in troubled times
One of the most important things we can do as Christians is simmer down and pray. The Lord has been speaking intensely to my heart the last couple weeks as we’ve watched the Komen drama happen, followed by the birth control mandate reactions. I don’t so much want to address the situations as what we [...]
Continue reading...Texas sonogram law legal battle ends; lifesaving law stands
11 February 2012 – 12:13 am PST
Today the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals said it will not rehear the Texas sonogram law, meaning it stands and no woman in the state of Texas will be able to get an abortion until she has a sonogram and 24 hour waiting period. On January 25, the Center for Reproductive Justice issued this press [...]
Continue reading...Organizations announce First Amendment lawsuits against Obama administration
10 February 2012 – 12:31 am PST
And the lawsuits have begun. Today, two major non-church, faith-based organizations have decided to take it to the courts. Fighting the Obama administration for its alleged violation of First Amendment rights, EWTN filed a suit today and Priests for Life issued a news release that it was filing suit as well. This morning dawned with [...]
Continue reading...The problem with making the morning-after pill as easy to get as a candy bar
10 February 2012 – 12:27 am PST
Fox News reported today that a Texas high school coach faces felony charges after giving the morning-after pill to one of her underage 16-yr-old students. There’s the first reason not to make the morning-after pill easily available to adults: Just because an adult buys it doesn’t mean an adult will take it. Shippensburg University in [...]
Continue reading...Life Links 2-9-12
10 February 2012 – 12:27 am PST
by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat At Talking Points Memo, former Planned Parenthood presidents Faye Wattleton and Gloria Feldt discuss the Komen controversy. Wattleton notes the AT&T battle, which she blames on them for going public with their defunding decision: In reference to Komen, Feldt says, “Planned Parenthood has to play really hardball or [...]
Continue reading...Breaking: Multiple lawsuits filed against contraceptive mandate; megachurch pastor vows jail
10 February 2012 – 12:27 am PST
Breaking news… EWTN has just announced it filed a lawsuit today to block the contraception mandate. From the National Catholic Register: “EWTN’s lawsuit is important because the network is not a church. They are a lay-run organization, and they have a right to live by and practice their faith and project the messages they want [...]
Continue reading...Someone call the president! Stupak says executive order bars contraceptive mandate
10 February 2012 – 12:27 am PST
Greta Van Susteren interviewed former Congressman Bart Stupak last night to get his take on the Obama administration’s new mandate forcing religious institutions to cover contraception, abortifacients, and sterilization in their employee insurance plans. Pro-lifers will have no trouble remembering Stupak as the leader of a group of pro-life Democrats who signed on to Obamacare [...]
Continue reading...Lunch Break: Scrat’s continental crack-up
10 February 2012 – 12:27 am PST
by LauraLoo Here’s one for the kids…of any age. Hilarious! Click here to view the embedded video. Email LauraLoo with your Lunch Break suggestions. HT: From my friend Miranda, who turned 11 on Sunday. Happy Birthday! <3
Continue reading...Pro-life Democrat who voted for Obamacare has regrets?
10 February 2012 – 12:27 am PST
I would have never voted for the final version of the bill if I expected the Obama Administration to force Catholic hospitals and Catholic Colleges and Universities to pay for contraception…. We worked hard to prevent abortion funding in health care and to include clear conscience protections for those with moral objections to abortion and [...]
Continue reading...When even Chris Matthews opposes Obama’s contraceptive mandate, you know it’s in trouble
10 February 2012 – 12:27 am PST
When even infamously liberal Catholic and Obama worshipper Chris “Thrill Up My Leg” Matthews has problems with the Obama administration’s mandate forcing religious institutions to cover contraception, abortifacients, and sterilization in their insurance policies, you know it’s in trouble. “It gets to that interesting point to me, which is frightening, when the state tells the [...]
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11 February 2012 – 12:13 am PST
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