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Although we are a single issue organization, a word here has to be promoted to defend traditional marriage. Many of us feel it is a life issue. And if truth were to be known, it is a life issue because no life can come from any other so-called marriage.
Promoters of same-sex marriage use linguistic gymnastics to promote an evil practice. The consciences of many Americans are asleep. Moral values have all gone into the gray column. There is no black and white for many people. This absence of the ability to reason or use critical thinking has decreased in proportion to the abolishment of moral absolutes.
First blatant sex ed, which broke down the latency period which protected children. An acceptance by parents and the churches that sex ed was protective and good for their children, followed by Planned Parenthood becoming the parent in sex ed. This led to the break down of the family. The rest is history. Civil unions, portrayed as a good, were accepted by society. Now same-sex marriage is close to being legalized in many states through the legislature. And if that fails the courts are there ...
Illinois Same-Sex Marriage Bill HB 2234, winged it's way out of committee and is on second reading in the House of Reps.
The HHS regulations that codify several existing Federal statutes prohibiting discrimination against health professionals, who decline to participate in abortions or other medical procedures because of their religious or other moral objections, have been challenged in court. The suit was filed by attorney generals of eight states, Planned Parenthood of America and The National Family Planning Reproductive Health Association
The Obama Administration announced on February 27, 2009, it was reviewing a proposal to rescind the regulations, which took effect two days before his inauguration. In other words, then President Bush, had issued these regs before the Obama inauguration.
Without the regulations health care professionals would be subject to the imminent threat of being forced to perform abortions, assist in abortions, train for abortions and refer individuals for abortion, despite their religious, moral and ethical objections to the practice of abortion.
Attorneys from the Alliance Defense Fund and Center for Religious Freedom filed the motion for the following reasons. "Physicians must defend their right to practice medicine in accordance with their conscience. It's a very important principle that every physician should support." Without conscience protections, physicians or other health care professionals could be subject to government regulations that would force them to participate in the executions of death row prisoners, if the state could not find volunteers.
The current law suits support the notion that a court can demand health care professionals perform actions they believe to be evil. This issue has been blurred in the debate.
Matthew Bowman of the Alliance Defense Fund states: "When they try to strike down a regulation that implements law in place for thirty years, it affects every health care professional."
Hang on to your health! The appointment, by President Obama, of pro-abortion Catholic Kathleen Sebelius, as Secretary of Health & Human Services (HHS) was bad. But, to add insult to injury, he appointed Nancy-Ann DeParle as Head of the White House Office for Health Reform.
DeParle, who served in the Clinton Administration, as Administrator of the Federal Health Care Finance Administration, refused to approve the "Child Health Care Insurance Plan of Virginia" because it would not have funded abortions, in case of rape or incest, for un-insured low income women.
With great glee, Obama stressed that both pro-abortion women will work closely together to push the Obama Health Care Reform Plan. Boy do I feel safe. We are on a slippery slope. If HHS favors pro-abortion funding, it will be in no time at all that health care protocols and Medicare regulations will favor withdrawal or withholding of treatment, government sanctioned of course.
First the United Kingdom, soon the US. A UK bioethicist has called for using fetal organs from abortion in transplantation. Once the UK decides this is a great idea, I can assure you the US will not be far behind. We have become a utilitarian society. Our society has accepted "brain death" and organ transplantation on a grand scale. It is the rare individual who understands that the donor isn't dead, just dead enough. The concept that death can be defined on a single organ dysfunction is ludicrous. But we have been so brainwashed, that we are doing good by killing one person, who may be profoundly ill and may die, to supposedly benefit another, that the idea of fetal farming (using organs from aborted children) will easily fit America's mindset.
In the UK, professor Stuart Campbell has stated: "If they're going to be terminated, it is a shame to waste their organs." Sounds like rhetoric for left over embryos.
The use of kidneys, livers, and God knows what else, from aborted babies could possibly benefit the desperately ill, but more importantly, it would increase experimentation in order to decrease the organ shortage. Dr. Mengle, please call your office. Remember in Germany it started from small beginnings.
Although President Obama called cloning "dangerous, and profoundly wrong, and has no place in society" what did he really say? The official transcripts of his remarks on the White House web site is: "And we will insure that our government never opens the door to the use of cloning for human reproduction. It is dangerous, profoundly wrong, and has no place in our society, or any society." Whoa! What door? No door's been closed to human cloning. He simply closed the door to "the use" of human cloning for one purpose. Wide open is the door to the use of human cloning for other purposes. The door he closed, or perhaps, is slowly closing, is the door to human reproduction. What nonsense! If you allow human cloning for any purpose, you are allowing it for human reproduction. That's what we humans do.
When a man and a woman create an embryo in the normal way, that embryo has his mother's and father's genes. The child is not a reproduction of neither. It is an individual. However, a scientist clones a human embryo, he is making a genetically exact reproduction of the person cloned.
Harvard educated? Elected President? Lawyer? His statement is intellectually indefensible.
Here come the robots! Here comes the judge! Here comes President Obama and his clones. The President's order lifting the ban on funding for embryonic stem cell research (ESCR) opens the door for cloning. This places us on a very slippery slope. Researchers are already demanding Federal support for research, in which human embryos would be created for the specific purpose of research through human cloning and other methods. Nothing in the President's remarks limits the National Institute of Health (NIH) to the use of surplus embryos created in IVF clinics.
President Obama also issued a second directive which gave an absolute free-hand to science. His order instructed NIH to develop strict guidelines to govern embryonic research. These so-called strict guidelines are really merely procedural requirements.
New Jersey has already legalized cloned fetal farming. It won't be long before they legalize clones to help them with farming, no doubt.
With his executive order the door for human cloning has been opened. Just like Pandora's Box we are not sure what will fly out.
If President Obama's pen is not dripping enough blood, he probably is just sharpening it. The Dickey amendment prevents the destruction of embryos with Federal money. The Obama directive allows all stem-cell lines created to qualify for Federal funding after their creation. But, because the Dickey amendment was a stop gate, he could do no more. What does this mean? It means he must go after and remove the Dickey-Wicker amendment. This amendment is attached to appropriation bills for the Dept of Health and Human Services, and prohibits the use of Federal funds to support scientific work that involves the destruction of human embryos.
Watch and Beware. He's just starting. Watch your Congressman.
Imagine our surprise when Republican Representative Sandy Cole (R62) voted to allow the Illinois FOCA Bill out of committee. This means HB 2354 will go to the floor of the House for a vote. Horrors! Representative Cole must not have read the Republican Platform. In the Platform the Republicans protect innocent unborn human life, while the Democrats in their Platform give no protection to unborn human life. Perhaps Representative Cole thought she was a Democrat. And maybe she should be. What has she voted for?
FOCA will supercede all laws that restrict the right to abortion, including counseling and referrals. It will also invalidate:
1. All parental consent or notification laws
2. All laws restricting government funding of abortion
3. Laws prohibiting abortion in public hospitals
4. Conscience Rights laws protecting doctors, nurses, and privately funded hospitals
5. It will allow partial-birth abortion.
Representative Cole received many phone calls urging her to vote no in committee on this radical pro-abortion law. Obviously she is not listening to her constituency. Perhaps Brahms' Lullaby should be sent to her office in order to help her sleep at night. It will do the baby's no good, they won't be around. And the music is too good to waste.
Tragedy upon Tragedy, as Shakespeare would say. I wonder if President Obama would say "More upon More"? I can hardly wait to see what other executive orders he will execute in order to eliminate an unborn baby's chance at life.
March 9, 2009 President Obama, with a signature (you notice he is left handed in Latin, that's called "el sinistra") lifted the ban on embryonic stem cell research. He chose to expand Federal funding (yours and my tax dollar) for research involving the destruction of thousands of human embryos. This decision defies moral boundaries and natural law.
Almost every medical text book states human life begins at fertilization. If you don't believe that, then how do babies who are conceived in petri dishes and then implanted in someone's womb develop to birth? Using public funding to kill innocent unborn human life is criminal. It is a grave affront to human dignity and opens the door to further affronts to human dignity. The Nuremberg Trials, clearly stated that society should protect innocent human life. Just as in Nazi Germany it started with small beginnings.
Imagine our surprise that President Obama is expanding Federal funding at a time when our country is in a grave financial crisis. Looking at the issue from a purely financial point of view, it seems ludicrous. Why? Embryonic stem cell research has produced no results. In fact there is a study from Israel showing that treatments using embryonic stem cells caused cancerous tumors in patients. These results have been reported in the January issue of "Nature Biotechnology". It is simply wrong that money is being used for research that is both unethical and ineffective. Umbilical cord blood and adult stem cells have produced major cures. If research is worth it's salt we would be federally funding adult stem cell research. And the plot goes on.
Illinois Federation for Right to Life
URGENT ACTION ALERT UPDATE
March 11, 2009 The Freedom of Choice Act (HB2354) was just voted out of the Human Services Committee with a vote of 5- 2 on this morning. Now is the time to TELL YOUR REPRESENTATIVE TO VOTE NO ON HB 2354! Tell them the dangers of the Freedom Of Choice Act (FOCA) and urge them to vote "NO" on HB 2354. If Illinois should pass this bill, abortion would be enshrined as a right in Illinois. We would not be able to have any of the following protections: 1. Partial-birth abortion would be legal 2. There would be no conscience clause for health care workers in Illinois. 3. There would be no informed consent/waiting period. 4. There would be no parental involvement. 5. Taxpayers would pay for abortions. 6. Presently Illinois has a physician only for abortion law. That would be nullified, opening the doors for non-physician abortions. Click here to contact your representatives NOW!!! Click here if you do not know who your representative is. For more information, please visit: http://www.ifrl.org/foca
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