The mainstream media is ignoring the death of a woman yesterday from a botched late-term abortion in Germantown, Maryland.
A 29-year old woman died yesterday as the result of fatal complications suffered during an abortion at 33 weeks. Late-term abortion practitioner LeRoy Carhart (left) performed the abortion at the Germantown Reproductive Health Center in Germantown, Maryland. Though the abortion clinic where she died is located just outside the nation’s capital, none of the top media news outlets are covering it. As the American Spectator notes: "Now that a 29-year-old woman has reportedly died as a result of Carhart’s butchery, however, it seems that no major news organization considers him newsworthy." Neither the Washington Post nor the Baltimore Sun has yet reported on this woman’s death in Maryland, despite the fact that there was an 11 a.m. press conference today in front of the Germantown clinic. The story is also being ignored by the Associated Press, USA Today, theNew York Times, and television news networks. As of 1:30 p.m. Friday, the largest organizations reporting the story were WorldNetDaily and LifeNews.com. (read full article) You probably heard from the media late last week that the Obama administration issued a new rule “accommodating” religious organizations that don’t want to be forced to cover contraceptives, sterilization surgery and possible abortion-causing drugs in their employees’ health insurance plans.
Funny thing is, the “new” rule operates almost exactly like the old one. Bruce Hausknecht and Stuart Shepard discuss the Health and Human Services mandate in the latest CitizenLink Report. Click here to watch. So what did change for faith groups? Very little: Churches that run social service programs, such as soup kitchens, may not automatically lose their exemption now for serving people who aren’t members of their denominations. But the new rule does not create a broader exemption for religious organizations or secular business owners who say the mandate violates their conscience to opt out of offering the coverage. The only organizations allowed to do that are churches just as when the rule was first issued in 2012. In the meantime, the new rule is available for public comment; please take advantage of this opportunity to make your voice heard by sending the president an email through the CitizenLink Action Center today. The legislation that would officially de-fund the Planned Parenthood abortion business by revoking its federal taxpayer funding has been reintroduced by a leading pro-life congresswoman.
Rep. Marsha Blackburn, a Tennessee Republican, is picking up the Planned parenthood de-funding mantle from former Congressman Mike Pence, who was elected as Indiana’s governor and was the prime sponsor of the bill House Republicans approved and Senate Democrats defeated. Blackburn informed LifeNews today that she has introduced the Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act (H.R. 61), which would stop the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) from providing federal family planning assistance under Title X to abortion businesses until they certify they won’t provide and refer for abortions. (read more) President Obama’s appointments last month to his Global Development Council signal his intent to prioritize abortion over necessary life-saving health issues.
Obama established the Presidents Global Development Council by Executive Order a year ago and it includes up to twelve experts from private/non-profit/academic and philanthropic sectors. Run by USAID, it will advise the president and senior administration officials on all aspects of U.S. global development policy. Nine appointees were announced in December. The majority of them are associated with organizations that promote reproductive rights and population control policy. (read more) The Obama administration released new HHS mandate rules today that attempt to expand the number of religious groups that can opt out of the pro-abortion mandate — but that leaves religiously-run companies like Hobby Lobby out in the cold. Pro-life advocates oppose the mandate because it forces religious groups to pay for birth control and drugs that may cause abortions.
Thanks to a number of decisions in court related to lawsuits filed against the mandate by dozens of religious businesses and organizations, the Obama administration is under court order to revise the mandate. But the proposed changes don’t protect everyone who wants to opt out. (read more) Conservative and religious groups panned the Obama administration's long-awaited "accommodation" meant to spare religious-affiliated groups from the so-called contraceptive mandate, calling a proposal unveiled Friday "radically inadequate."
The Department of Health and Human Services announced the broader opt-out Friday a year after Secretary Kathleen Sebelius pledged to address complaints from Catholic schools, religious-affiliated service providers and other organizations. The proposed regulations, though, did not satisfy the widespread concerns about the ObamaCare rule requiring near-universal access to contraceptive coverage for employees. Businesses like Hobby Lobby, which sued the administration over the rule, would not be affected by the change because it is not a religious employer -- though the owner of that company has objected on religious and moral grounds. Critics said Friday that all businesses should be exempt if they want, while also voicing concern that religious-affiliated groups would still be "conduits" for contraceptives. (Read more) |
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